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by tibbon 10y ago
Agreed- I've known people to send off samples for GCMS and have a pretty good idea then of what they've got in their hands. It costs money, but if you're worried about safety it is possible. (GCMS doesn't actually cost m
542.
by tibbon 10y ago
Aside from cost, is there any reasonable technical reason to not have 32/64GB options available? My desktop in 2000 had 2GB of ram, and I'm shocked that 16 years later my laptop maxes at 16GB. I remember in 2009 building a server
543.
by tibbon 10y ago
I get though that it doesn't feel like Moore's Law type growth for system speed though, which is perhaps what people are hoping for. I have a hard time imagining that the 2016 model feels 16x as fast as the 2010 model. I've
544.
by tibbon 10y ago
I think moving to fewer moving parts helps for some things. I no longer worry about magnets, hard drive heads, removable media, or even fans on some machines. So it feels overall that things are getting better, but I've been on Apple h
545.
by tibbon 10y ago
Anything pushed hard enough can be destroyed. I find the newer Macs to be pretty good partially from their light weight. I literally throw my 13" MBP around the apartment (toss it onto the couch, bed, etc) which I'd never have i
546.
by tibbon 10y ago
This is how I feel about chairs. I've had mine for 12 years now, and I'm almost certain it will last another 12. When I was working in a recording studio, we'd go through a $100-200 chair every year, and they were never all t
547.
by tibbon 10y ago
Why is Tesla one of the few car manufacturers who actually pushes real updates to their car's dashboard system (and for free, others charge absurd fees if they do give minor updates). I hope that by 2020 it is the expectation that your
548.
by tibbon 10y ago
Eh, my 2010 MBP 15" spec-wise seems around as fast as some of the new ones (has a real GPU, was able to update the memory to 16GB and throw an SSD in there). I'm still using it for Protools and it's just as good now as it was
549.
by tibbon 10y ago
And yet, people complain about how expensive an Apple computer is- when they are cheaper than ever. A fully loaded Macbook Pro with every option is still less than the entry "business model" of any of these computers in 1980
550.
by tibbon 10y ago
You make a good point- there's really only a handful of things that get duplicated. Maybe instead we should be working on just fixing up those things. Like if there was an easy way to share validation logic from the backend to the fron
551.
by tibbon 10y ago
Fair enough. I've hit a sweet spot now in having done Ruby for ~8 years, so I can get away with saying, "having someone else deal with the front end. I just want to talk about data". The new problems I'm working to learn
552.
by tibbon 10y ago
This is pretty much why I don't do front-end. I'm fully capable of it, but I just don't like keeping up with this flavor-of-the-week. It just doesn't feel like programming to me, or at least not the programming I enjoy.
553.
by tibbon 10y ago
Mine gave me a permissions error, trying `brew doctor` now. I wonder if I have something configured incorrectly from a few years ago. I do with the update announcement page said how to best update (in case there were any major changes).
554.
by tibbon 10y ago
After doing both homebrew and Postgresapp for a while, I've switched to using Docker to run it. It's really nice because then on a per-app basis I can have separate versions easily and all checked into version control.
555.
by tibbon 10y ago
I rather dislike the (frequently American) immediate viewpoint of assigning blame/responsibility in the case of a failure, and thus who can someone sue. This isn't an uncommon viewpoint at all, rather it seems to be the first that
556.
by tibbon 10y ago
I got 150 on Fast, and 120 on Speedtest. I think it just depends where the CDNs are in comparison to you.
557.
by tibbon 10y ago
Hmm, wonder if I can coax Sublime into doing that. It's a little closer to IDE-type functionality, which it's pretty weak on (refactoring is terrible for Ruby with it).
558.
by tibbon 10y ago
Oh, i like this idea. Imagine your IDE just being able to substitute method calls that are just calling single line methods, for viewing only. Or even being able to refactor them in-line, but keep them in private methods?
559.
by tibbon 10y ago
There's definitely some wood things that are somewhat different on older instruments. Old growth wood, endangered wood, etc...
560.
by tibbon 10y ago
I've been playing guitar (and other stringed && fretted instruments) for around 23 years (including a music major in college). I don't think old guitars are inherently better, and I have gotten my hands on some rather amaz
561.
by tibbon 10y ago
I kinda wanna start a Medium blog where I to tell people what it's like to be a white guy programmer, and pointing out the places where I uncomfortably recognize the benefits I gain simply from being 33, white and male... with a beard.
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by tibbon 10y ago
It's not out of bounds, but there's a time and place for it. Maybe listen for that person speaking about something that frustrates them, and then say, "That's really shitty. Do you want to tell me more about it? I also u
563.
by tibbon 10y ago
But people quickly grow tired of needing to be the token spokesperson for their group, and needing to explain the frustrations again and again (without actually perhaps seeing them changing). No one ever asks me (a white guy) what it's
564.
by tibbon 10y ago
Would perhaps the best advice there to be exercise your options at every company you work at for all that you're vested for? If you worked for 5 companies in 10 years, then you've got 50% of your options (likely) at each of those
565.
by tibbon 10y ago
So 0-249 really means, "probably at least 1, but I'm not allowed to say zero"
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by tibbon 10y ago
This confuses me too. I am allowed (as a private citizen or company who has never had an interaction with the feds) to say that I've had zero reports/requests like this right? Or is just uttering that a federal crime (did I just f
567.
by tibbon 10y ago
This is really interesting. I assumed when the Prius came out that it would be a maintenance nightmare, simply due to the fact that you've got a more complex system (electrical AND combustion) coupled together. Yet, it seems to work am
568.
by tibbon 10y ago
I've desire to want to try exactly this. No more 2-week long code reviews, where 2-3 reviewers debate (slowly) over Github about the naming of a local variable. No more drawn out A vs B problem solving. No more 2x a day sync ups. Just
569.
by tibbon 10y ago
Location: Somerville, MA / Boston, MA Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Python, JavaScript (back-end preferred) Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajem6viechn95gj/David%2
570.
by tibbon 10y ago
I wish some other companies that use massive amounts of hardware (Dropbox, Amazon, Google, Facebook, NSA) would release data like this. I love that Backblaze does it, but having an even larger sampling of data would be great.

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