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by tqwhite 5y ago
The reason it was fixable is because almost nothing worked correctly for very long once it left the factory. It was not a golden age. Our TV was out for a month once because my dad could not figure it out.
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I was a young person during the tube era. My dad was one of those guys with a bag full of tubes. The reason he was carrying them around was that NOTHING WORKED. The 'right to repair' was actually, a horrible 'burden of repair
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by tqwhite 5y ago
I have not read anything more dumb than this in a long time. The article fundamentally says, "Print debugging is not as good as magical tools will be if anyone ever makes them." What's annoying is that he's wrong. Print
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by tqwhite 6y ago
As the old guy here today, I'd like to add another note. Stop judging people. 'You' are not a good or bad anything. You do good or bad things. Some people here talk about knowing a bad programmer or project manager. You wil
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by tqwhite 6y ago
Having been a programmer for forty years, I am senior in every sense of the word. Also, I hate everything I have ever written. When I look at something I wrote three months ago, it is embarrassing. Now, today's code, that's a diff
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by tqwhite 6y ago
I have one suggestion for WFH syndrome: Be old!! I am in my sixties. Been a programmer since the seventies (last century!). I do personal projects, freelance projects and job projects. I love programming. And I would be perfectly happy for
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by tqwhite 6y ago
I wonder if Zuck included the Suppress Biden Tags feature? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/instagram-relat...
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by tqwhite 6y ago
In related news, Up is now Down.
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by tqwhite 6y ago
Oh yeh!! Also, Trac. There is literally nothing good about that issue management program except that it is free. It is impossible to understand what you are looking at. It is just awful.
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by tqwhite 6y ago
Twitter on the web. The worst program I have ever used. Jumping, twitching, changing so I can't read. It is torture.
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by tqwhite 7y ago
In my city, the programming unemployment rate is, like, 2%. If you haven't worked for awhile, it's because of your job hunting skills, not your tech stack. So, if having a job is reason you ask this, my answer is: read some books
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by tqwhite 7y ago
You're right. That was too strongly said. Some people are naive or make a mistake. However, nobody I know lacks for emphatic instruction to never, ever click a link on an email. If your bank wants you to login, use your own bookmark.
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by tqwhite 7y ago
What a load of bollocks. The arguments against come down to, 'you are an idiot who can't figure out phishing links' and, well, that's it. Something about marketing emails. Stupid. Luddite. I'm surprised they don&#x2
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by tqwhite 7y ago
Three things... 1) The purpose of talking to people is not to figure out the right answer. The purpose is to figure out the next thing we can all agree is a decent idea. 2) Almost no one has bad motivations. When I think someone is trying t
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by tqwhite 7y ago
One assumes that, now that you have told the world you got the idea there, that they will show up soon to claim your startup as their intellectual property.
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by tqwhite 7y ago
Unix time is the humber of seconds since 1970. Seconds are a physical thing. Unix time references the number of "cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom" UTC measures time. Th
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by tqwhite 8y ago
You might like this: https://jsonnet.org
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by tqwhite 8y ago
Speaking of slippery slopes. This JSON enhancement requires documentation. It turns JSON into a specification language, I guess, and it required documentation. Ick. https://jsonnet.org
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by tqwhite 8y ago
.ini files are the only good option. I did a thing that used JSON for config years ago when I was young and stupid (60). Terrible choice. Someone in this thread said that config files need the amenities of source code. I agree. However it a
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by tqwhite 8y ago
This guy mentions and then dismisses without rationale the idea that women who have ten partners might have other life experiences that make them less likely to stay married. He doesn't even consider the notion that a woman who has zer
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by tqwhite 8y ago
The article says clearly that they are trying to figure out a stored value card. If they do, the only chilling part is if the means of exchanging it was somehow unobtainable. It's worth remembering that cash is no clear panacea. German
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by tqwhite 8y ago
Misleading title alert!!! It says nothing about it's being a utopia or having stopped being one. It is an interesting article about the eventuality of a truly cash-free society and its consequences. Only the title is stupid.
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by tqwhite 9y ago
There was also a site called "A FISH, A BARREL, AND A SMOKING GUN". (I just googled it.) It was iconoclastic back when that was unusual. I liked reading it.
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by tqwhite 9y ago
Back in the day, there was something called a personal home page. These were simple html pages, sometimes with <blink> tags, where a person would present themselves to the internet. Often there would be a list of bands, or hobbies, a
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by tqwhite 10y ago
The Constitution? You do realize that it specifies a nearly impossible editing mechanism. Outdated and stupid. Doesn't include voting guarantee. Missing many important rights. Cripples America.
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by tqwhite 10y ago
Back in the day, Google didn't reference links that showed a different page to the bot from what it does to users. the WSJ presence in their search has substantially reduced the utility of Google's results. I do not understand why
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by tqwhite 10y ago
It prefers to use its own DNS server because email DNS is tough. However, it provides the information to do it. While it probably took me a couple of hours to figure it out, I now have a DNS template at my registrar that makes it nearly aut
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by tqwhite 10y ago
I've been using it for a year. Works great. One of the most thoughtfully designed and complete bits of software I've ever run into. I'm especially delighted with it's self monitoring and the status change email messages
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by tqwhite 10y ago
They are the same thing. Both should include time as well as the server address, etc.