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by suzzer99 4y ago
In 2000 it was a lot more obvious that dotcom prices were completely untethered from reality. Same for home prices and handing out loans like candy in 2006. This one is more of a general "Hey this market is too high", but nothing
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Or - stocks have been ridiculously overvalued for a while now and are just coming back to earth somewhat. https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett... I'm not saying I know that's what's ha
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah except having to navigate between the two can be tricky. Also that means we have multiple dynamos and multiple cognitos (in our case, test and prod), which is a pain. I use Firefox for the prod console and Chrome for the test console.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
"1500 AWS accounts" You just blew my mind. We have two accounts and it gets messy sometimes.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
The O'Reilly Cookbooks were always the best. I still have most of my dev books. I figure if I ever get a huge bookshelf they'll help fill it out, and give the kids something to talk about.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Which is why software patents are so silly. When it's all 1s and 0s under the covers, everything else just flows logically.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Until the air catches the person and slows them down much faster than the aerodynamic and much heavier (attached to the plane) tail fin.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
It's like Lassie barking at the family that Timmy has fallen down a well.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
My uncle worked for Folgers coffee in the 60s as a general office clerk. They gave everyone some kind of test designed to see if you had aptitude for programming. He scored high, so they asked him if he wanted to learn COBOL, and his career
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Google docs spell/grammar check shuts off if the word "anal" appears anywhere in a sentence. https://imgur.com/dTJmsTt For some reason "anal" and the F-bomb are the only two words I can find where i
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Did anyone else read this is 18 crabs and wonder what the heck was going on?
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I worked for a major satellite TV provider. In the early days the website was just information and directions to the nearest installers - no bill pay or buy flows. The website ran from under the boss' desk.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I've lit a pool of gasoline with a match before. Screwing around in junior high melting our plastic toys in the driveway - not something we should have been doing.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
On top of that it's even being taught to Maya schoolchildren, marking the first time a culture has ever lost their writing, then gotten it back.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
So the Maya had a full writing system since about 300 BCE. I guess we're just going to ignore that?
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I've been impressed by Docusign the few times I've had to use it. And I generally hate 95% of the software I come across. Everything seemed to snap into place, was perfectly intuitive. That stuff is easy to get wrong, as evidenced
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Sure. That still doesn't make it right, or mean that we can't even acknowledge the theft. There are plenty of cases where the US just flat out broke treaties, or bribed one chief to sell off his whole tribe's land when it was
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by suzzer99 4y ago
The point is just because someone in some position of authority (who may have been motivated by greed or fear) at one time agreed to sell off land or precious artifacts, that may not make it right to keep them.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Just like a lot of land in the United States was purchased from some Native American chief who may have been bought off, or under duress to save his tribe.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
"Neanderthals are depicted as hunched-over creatures who don’t seem to have the imagination to do anything besides stare uncomprehendingly at a rock" I'm pretty sure the illustration the author is talking about depicts a nean
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah waiting tables almost always ends well. And there's something satisfying on a primal level about feeding people and watching them leave happy and full.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Similarly I waited tables for 5 years. That experience has been a massive boost to putting myself in end users' shoes when designing systems.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah this. We use Context to apply different themes in a multi-tenant app, and we use Redux to manage global state like the header. Both are great for their purpose.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Good lesson for the upcoming IRL robot wars. Just require your enemy to have a real active weapon.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yes. Everything is guaranteed issue unless you go with one of those weird Christian health insurance things. Insurance companies can't deny coverage now because of a pre-existing condition, and they can't go back and deny claims b
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by suzzer99 4y ago
It's also the exact same model that private health insurers used before Obamacare. Do minimal underwriting unless someone gets really sick, then scrutinize the hell out of it, even offer bonuses to employees based on how many claims th
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Pretty sure online poker players did a reverse version of this after it was made illegal in the US. They have a proxy out of the US, which they log into to play from inside the US.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
What about a manual parachute pull as a backup? Not sure if the pilot was conscious in this case but I assume so.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I agree on front end unit tests. Also on the usefulness of selenium tests. The only problem is they're flaky and slow as hell. But still worth it imo.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Let's say we find a whole new edge case after this thing has been running for six months. Now we need to update the data structure and the generator code that knows how to interpret the data. So I'm not sure how much is gained.

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