toomanybeersies

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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
The interviewee addresses that: > All the stuff where incentives destroy incentive, motivation are things that you like to do in the first place... > These are, frankly, inner-city schools with low achievement. We were trying to foste
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
FYI your second example isn't actually valid ruby. You need to either wrap the arg for raise in parens: user = db.query(id) || raise("UserNotFound") Or use the `or` keyword: user = db.query(id) or raise "U
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Ironically, the NSA is probably one of the better US Gov agencies when it comes to open sourcing their software: https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
You missed the 18F Github org [1], also from the GSA. I wonder if there's a directory of government Github orgs somewhere? [1] https://github.com/18F
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
Here in Australia, only citizens can work for the Commonwealth (federal) government. The end result is that, due to a lack of competition from immigrants, the public sector is basically just a jobs program for those too incompetent to work
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
HN has had the same design for 15 years now.
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by toomanybeersies 4y ago
I wonder how many of these UIs are directly inspired by Minority Report?
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I wouldn't call pairing up with a new hire "pair programming" in the strict sense of the term. That's just regular onboarding/mentorship.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Christ almighty, that sounds more similar to one of those inane "team building" exercises that they make you do on corporate retreats rather than actual work.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> labs where they are chemicals I strongly suspect these don't meet OSHA requirements as a respirator.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Reporting your colleagues for being curt is also career suicide.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
CBDC isn't a prerequisite for that dystopian future suggested by the author. In some parts of Australia, the government has been trailing cashless benefit payments. Welfare recipients are given a special "Cashless Debit Card"
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
In my experience, code review often becomes a rubber stamping exercise. Reviewers only add trivial feedback and stop short of adding actual constructive criticism or feedback, either because they don't want to look like an arsehole, or
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> People don't pay a monthly subscription for a lawyer That's a pretty poor analogy. Some people do keep lawyers on retainer. Also, if you don't have legal representation at the point in time you're sued/charged,
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
That's how my high school (in New Zealand) did things. We were separated into 3 bands, the first band for high achieving students, the second band for average students, and the third band for learning support. From memory, there were ~
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Every time Trump talked about illegal immigration, it was a nativist dog whistle. Anti-immigration dog whistling has been a fairly standard tactic for right wing politicians since the 90s, where John Howard referred to asylum seekers as ill
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> By strengthening concrete with graphene, we could use less concrete for building, and it would cost less to manufacture and less to transport Wasn't the same thing said for asbestos cement?
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
That article makes me wonder if carbon nanomaterials are shaping up to be the next asbestos.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> And still no support for custom emoji or stickers That sounds like a feature to me.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
.docx files are just zip archives of XML files.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
There's been plenty of cases where an app/package/extension has publicly available source code which differs from what's actually distributed. However, I do see they have a section in their README regarding reproducible
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
So after a couple of years of silence, Julian Assange finally speaks out to spruik a messaging app? Colour me skeptical...
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Yes, because it required 20 years of active occupation, numerous offensives, and trillions of dollars and it's unlikely that the result will last. By that logic, the Germans lost the Franco-Prussian War because they subsequently l
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I'm not sure what it's like in the USA, but in Australia it's rare to see police on freeways, because traffic enforcement is done with cameras these days. When I drove from Melbourne to Brisbane and back, a 3,500 km round tri
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
DataDog offer memory profiling for Java, I think, but not for Ruby.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Memory profiling is hard, especially for Ruby. To echo prescriptivist's comment, neither DataDog nor New Relic's profilers offer memory profiling for Ruby applications.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I used to work on an automated testing tool for websites and mobile apps, which was built entirely using Rails (with Resque for background jobs). We had customers setting up tests which could cover thousands of pages and
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> do we jail the autocorrect developers? Google is liable for defamatory autocomplete suggestions (in Australia) [1], so that's not such a stretch of the imagination. [1] https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu&#x2
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
An eerily similar debacle in Australia was the Robodebt scheme [1]. Hundreds of thousands of people were issued debt notices for apparent overpayment of unemployment benefits, based on fundamentally incorrect assumptions when calculating pe
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Tell-tales are more like stall indicators than yaw strings.

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