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by swalsh 7y ago
I've tended to avoid Upwork, because it seems onerous on Freelancers, and also seems to result in the commoditization of freelancers. Working with that kind of talent can be burdensome. The best results require you to be ultra specif
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by swalsh 7y ago
There's something to this. I recently changed my credit card number due to some fraud activity. Since the change there has been a number of services I no longer use, but that I had completely forgot about popping up asking me to upda
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by swalsh 7y ago
I bought my house to live in, but it has gone up. Many of the stocks I've invested in I purchased because they pay dividends, and I expect they will continue to in the future. As long as that is true, I don't care if the price o
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by swalsh 7y ago
I think Linux went mainstream when the default installation of one of the distributions came with an icon that opened up "Amazon.com"
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by swalsh 7y ago
As Linux becomes more competitive with Windows from a user experience point of view, I wonder if superior support for these new crazy AMD processors might help give it a boost. I'm sure many graphics people would move (if only Linux ha
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by swalsh 7y ago
I dont know why this isn't a thing with developers, but a 1:1 is more than an opportunity to "bring up problems". Its a time when you can talk to the people who report to you and help them develop as professionals. My wife
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by swalsh 7y ago
Except, that's the norm. Word isn't going to spread that a company is normal.
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by swalsh 7y ago
How does a million dollar credit card transaction work? Is it still the $.27 + 3% deal? (or whatever it typically is now)
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by swalsh 7y ago
I BELIEVE it is related to this section: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/2e452bbf1fa092a742...
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by swalsh 7y ago
This doesn't solve the problem of "I know the enemy is in that general direction, but I cant see them" which is more or less why you might use suppressing fire.
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by swalsh 7y ago
This doesn't really seem like technology that is "needed". When you can actually see the enemy a holo sight in the hands of a trained soldier is probably more than sufficient. Whether it takes one round or 3 to stop the ene
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by swalsh 7y ago
Just some honest feedback. I have a use for Zestful, and the price is good. But playing around, it seems good at the easy stuff (but I can do the easy stuff myself) it's not so good at the hard stuff. For example the string "3&#x
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by swalsh 7y ago
" Up till a few years ago, the traditional way of managing data (in SQL-based RDBMSs) was considered a relic of the past, as these systems couldn't scale to cope with such a huge amount of data. " I must have missed the boat
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by swalsh 7y ago
Onerous contracts are literally gyms business model.
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by swalsh 7y ago
I vehemently disagree, buffets are glorious experiences. It's everything that is great about the modern world in a single place. Sure a cohesive dining experience can be nice, but a buffet offers you the ability to have it all. To e
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by swalsh 7y ago
Using github for what amounts to reporting from investigative journalism is a fascinating use case.
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by swalsh 7y ago
I literally just got on a phone call to discuss our migration away from 2.7, very timely post.
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by swalsh 7y ago
You guys may not have the best processes in place, but whoever developed that app really deserves some credit. 55 month uptime without restart. Not bad.
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by swalsh 7y ago
Ruby's super power is it's meta programming ability. So they were really just writing Ruby. If you google, I think there's a bunch of tutorials out there for creating a DSL in Ruby... but I learned from a book called "
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by swalsh 7y ago
I actually wrote a plugin for sublime, which allowed them to write the script then directly upload to our service, it also had some code snippets in it so they could right click, then quickly add and modify what they needed while they were
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by swalsh 7y ago
I've spent a long time trying to build "No Code" solutions. Probably 3 different products, 3 different companies. But once, I tried something different. I pushed back, instead I proposed we build a domain specific language
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by swalsh 7y ago
I think it's a very reasonable concern, making matters worse their one child policy has shifted the demographic towards a higher percentage of men. In Polygamous societies, civil war is very frequent (meaning men without a chance to f
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by swalsh 7y ago
The article is stating the exact opposite. In the past, this was true... but it seems like women are now starting to start participate in jobs Men have traditionally dominated.
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by swalsh 7y ago
My experience with older programmers is they are generally a bit slower. However they typically bring to the table something much more valuable. Everything that's new, has been done before... and they've seen it done before. Th
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by swalsh 7y ago
For the most part, I have never felt threatened by offshore workers. I am more productive, and my code is typically better quality. However the general quality has been improving. I can see a day where a unionized programmer is just too
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by swalsh 7y ago
I had exactly the same thought, it's kind of an interesting idea. I'm not 100% sure what the usefulness is though.
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by swalsh 7y ago
I think the Justice Democrats are working pretty hard battling the establishment. I wouldn't be surprised to see that trend continue.
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by swalsh 7y ago
I'm pretty gloomy on the future, so most of my predictions are how a world reacts to the upcoming challenges we face. 1. Distributed Internet - A combination of tech companies that have become too large, and government overreach result
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by swalsh 7y ago
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. If my dad goes before my Mom, I want to set something up to protect my Mother. She's an extremely trusting person, and generally not good at understanding the things she si

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