tedyoung

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by tedyoung 5y ago
OMG, I've been waiting for an iOS app for Zotero for so long. Yay!
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by tedyoung 5y ago
It's all those unnecessary ports I can't stand. I don't need the HDMI, SD card, network, etc. plugs. Just gimme more USB-C Gen2 and maybe some Thunderbolt. I'm fine paying the equivalent of a Caldigit TS4, I just don&#x2
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I love the Accusonus sound tools. This page doesn't have any details as to why they were acquired. Other pages ( https://therecursive.com/greece-on-the-meta-map-facebook-own... ) mention the Metaverse. I'm happy for
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Often keys are stored in some sort of secure Key Vault. This is part of the infrastructure, e.g., Azure Key Vault. Or something like https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Asking questions that elicit thinking, and not just rote answers, are what we want in learning. Not just "what's the answer to [question]", but "how did you get that?" This also works well for uncovering wrong assum
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I generally do "outside-in" development, but only after I understand what I want the software to do as visible (observable) by a user (or other system). I'll sketch the UI, find the UX flow for the "things to be done&quo
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I used Publii for my blog, but it was very constraining in terms of its styling (the templates were mediocre). And I had made changes to its defaults for styling (which ended up not being responsive), so that when upgrades came around, it m
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I run a Discord server that focuses on the tech side (Java, TDD, Hexagonal Architecture). It supplements the things I do on my Twitch live coding stream ( https://JitterTed.Stream ). We have weekly book study groups, an "offi
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Apparently journalists don’t check Grantham’s past predictions…e.g., https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-legend-who-ca... Even given the recent turmoil, being bearish like he was in June 2020 would have cost
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I believe the intent is to not be a perfectionist (like me) and, instead, publish things that might below one's level of perfection. It's likely that's more than good enough, and is ultimately better than not publishing them
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by tedyoung 5y ago
> don't see the state (especially bloated California) doing better [than Kaiser Permanente] In what sense? What do you like about KP: the doctors, nurses, etc.? The billing department? Single-payer would not take the staff away. It
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Fails to mention the trouble Lambda School got into with their deceptive practices, according to the State of California: https://dfpi.ca.gov/2021/04/26/lambda-school-reaches-settlem...
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Depends on what the course is and the content. Is it just a video? Then, no. Is it self-paced? No, he's not going to progress on his own.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Depends on the company (size, structure, etc.) whether any of those are negotiable, but certainly worth considering. Also, learning stipends for books, courses, conferences, etc. are useful.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
All names are unintuitive. The point of Design Patterns is to have a catalog of solutions with names (aka jargon) so we can have higher-level discussions. This requires those involved in the discussion to have a clear understanding of the p
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Same, though every year I'm able to part with some of the truly dead pieces of equipment at the recycling center. Those old hard drives pile up, though. But now I've got half a dozen broken laptops—which have awesome screens that
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by tedyoung 5y ago
You haven't said what you currently know, but here's some ideas: Security - even just understanding the various protocols and limitations of things like JWT would be useful. Automated Testing - I'm a Test-Driven Development a
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by tedyoung 5y ago
The Bail Project - https://bailproject.org/ Anti-Terror Police Project - https://antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Lots of journalism: Hechinger Report, Grist, ProPublica, NPR, etc. They're not perfect, but
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Agree that Heroku, while possibly more expensive, is the most straightforward to get going and maintain over time. You're paying them to figure out all the VM/container/database/etc. stuff, and that's what you want.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
That's what the "a" in "..as A 'Legal Name'" means, right? That there's not one, all-encompassing, in all legal situations, name.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Still 100% true and applicable.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Y'all did read the important bit in the Abstract, right? > if research results are selectively chosen, a review has the potential to create a convincing argument for a faulty hypothesis. Improper correlation or extrapolation of data
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Haven't finished reading it yet, but it's been enlightening and thought-provoking: "The Essence of Software" by Daniel Jackson.
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Avoid getting distracted by every new thing you read about, from frameworks to architectures. Focus first on the fundamentals of software development, which often aren't taught: 1. Break things down into small "complete" step
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by tedyoung 5y ago
I really like the idea of games for a niche audience. Does your game lend itself to being a "print & play" game? I launched a Print & Play version of my (very) niche game[0] because I didn't (yet) want to deal with th
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by tedyoung 5y ago
American Express never forgets. 20+ years after declaring bankruptcy and I'm still not able to get an AmEx card, because they have their own records. (I have an 820+ FICO score.)
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Since you're the merchant of record (as it's your Stripe account that's getting the money), how are you handling tax collection for those jurisdictions that require it?
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Another +1 from me for mkdocs and mkdocs-material (and I'm also a supporter of squidfunk). I use it for lab exercises[1] as part of my online courses (deployed onto Netlify). It just works and looks good. [1] https://moretes
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by tedyoung 5y ago
A programmable search engine for code that is limited to your trusted or preferred sites would be very useful. Minimal requirement is that it understands code and doesn't strip out operators, parens, etc. Would help if it was smart eno
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Like any business that I'd start, I'd find a niche where general-purpose search is not very helpful. For example, code search, or drug information. Fine-tune the querying, synonym detection, stop-words, stemming, etc., for that pa

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