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by smoe 6y ago
I have listened (so no touch or watching it) for a couple of minutes and while the patterns all sounded fine (no an expert in that genre but have been to a number of raves) in isolation many of the changes didn’t feel intentional and at tim
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by smoe 6y ago
I love my local small book stores, but I rarely explore the bookshelves on my own. I go straight to the owner and tell them what book i recently read and what aspects about I liked, which not and ask them what they recommend me reading next
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by smoe 6y ago
There was a talk I saw some years ago of someone that analyzed enterprise passwords and the most common pattern they found was: Dictionary word with first letter uppercase, followed by two-digit number, followed by exclamation mark. With t
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by smoe 6y ago
The backend team in one of my previous jobs (around 2010) had an interesting file locking mechanism. All the developer were sat around one table but you couldn’t see each other behind the dual screens. So every hour or so, somebody stood u
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by smoe 6y ago
I don’t really care what it is called and what format it comes with, but understanding the why of a task is crucial to me. There is a good chance that I over- or under-engineer otherwise. And understanding it I can often come up with simple
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by smoe 6y ago
Not GP, but besides career opportunities, the US is just not very appealing (anymore) to many. It is not even necessarily about things where you could objectively say something is better or worse, but personal preferences on how to live lif
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by smoe 6y ago
I have taken a bit of a different approach. For the the first 10 years I have been focused purely on coding while dabbling a bit in UX and Design while rejecting any management opportunities given. The last 5 have been a mix of the prior an
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by smoe 6y ago
While I do agree on the humility and lack of understanding points, my perspective is more, that the current solution is probably not the best, but what the best solution would be is pretty much unknowable for any non trivial system. Instead
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by smoe 6y ago
What has helped me most over the years is working in smaller companies, where you necessarily need to take on more responsabilities. My first job ~2005 was at a small shop with like 4-5 people and around 20 physical servers under our contro
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by smoe 6y ago
I think it is a bit less of an issue for normal cooking site, where it may say “Bob’s Spahetti Carbonara”. Whether it is authentic or not doesn’t really matter. Whereas a site like this I reckon would aim for having definite versions of rec
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by smoe 6y ago
I don’t think that the people most affected by at-will employment necessarily earn more in the US Just one a bit dated example I could find quickly. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-01-09/which-co
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by smoe 6y ago
> he is a former US President - we aught to know what he thinks Honest question: Why? It is a bit my outside perspective that the US has too big of person cult thing going. Not just in politics and independent of brand.
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by smoe 6y ago
I have seen various conventions over the years on how to order css properties that could be used for ordering tailwind style classes. E.g https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2011/concentric-css/ The problem is mo
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by smoe 6y ago
I have also seen the other extreme. Where people are overly paranoid about the app throwing any exception and try to capture everything that could possibly go wrong until the heat death of the universe. Handling every error somehow, often w
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by smoe 6y ago
I reckon part of it is that the US and other colonies were basically sandboxes where (pre-)capitalist ideas could be build from scratch and deeply enrgained in the collective mindset over time. In Europe it had to be established over a much
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by smoe 6y ago
For me one of the most important things about attending conferences is meeting people. Just for networking or some ad hoc problem solving. As well as being somewhat "away" from work. I'm curious because so far I haven't
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by smoe 6y ago
As I understand it, the issue is that many European cheeses are made of unpasteurized milk which is illegal in the US. And many small cheese makers are not willing to break practices going hundreds of years back just to get into another mar
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by smoe 6y ago
It is not the journalists that are dying, but the system that supported their work. Journalism takes a lot of resources. If you starve it of it, you kill it's integrity and end up with a least effort / highest impact product. Firi
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by smoe 6y ago
For me it is more about not leaving all the comfort zones all at once. Say if I start doing a project with 5 different technologies in the stack, I pick at least 4 that I’m solid with and maybe 1 wildcard. E.g. I got interested SvelteJS exa
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by smoe 6y ago
I do think having lines around 80 characters makes it more fluent to read code. It is not about saving keystrokes or to be able to do split screen even on smaller screens. But what has worked better for me is to have it as a soft not a hard
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm sure most website could traffic wise. But for me it is not a question whether I could, but if I should. If my goal is building a website, I don't necessarily want to experiment with different technologies if I already know Pos
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by smoe 6y ago
This has changed a lot since the internet has become so widespread, but from my past experience: What I think has helped me a lot learning English, is just how ubiquitous it is and how easy it is to find resources that align with your other
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by smoe 6y ago
1000 CHF bill are not really practical in Switzerland. Can’t remember seeing them as an option on many atms. And the only shops that will accept them are those where purchases are regularly in the several hundred francs range. But even in t
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by smoe 6y ago
We have been using RDS for production and normal Postgres during development for about 5 years and the only thing you have to watch out for we found is that RDS supports only certain extensions and they are fairly slow making new Postgres m
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by smoe 6y ago
XO was launched 2019 https://www.gearslutz.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-... Looks like the "inspiration" might have been the other way around. Don't see a problem with that, all of art is built
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by smoe 6y ago
Pretty much none of the apps, native or web I use regularly, need notifications in order to do what I want them to do. It is usually the makers of said apps that really really want notifications as a strategy to increase engagement. I’m
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by smoe 6y ago
I never worked with pure Zope, my first job in the mid 2000 was using Plone, a CMS build on top of it. Certainly overkill for simple websites, but I found it much more enjoyable than other big CMS of the time. It had some cool things, that
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by smoe 6y ago
The other comment points out Array.from, which seems pretty nifty. Have not seen it before. I would have used: for(i of Array(1000).keys()) { doSomething() } or [...Array(1000)].forEach(() => doSomething())
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by smoe 6y ago
I remembered it wrongly. It wasn't about named colors, but "web-safe colors" that can be displayed by 256 color displays directly, without having to fallback to the closest color or by using dithering. Some of them happened t
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by smoe 6y ago
When I started web dev in the early 2000s, I remember it being recommended to use the named colors because of them being more consistent accross different monitors. Not sure if this was true at all and/or only for the original 16 basic

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