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by twodave 6y ago
Can also relate--I've been writing software for 15 years, and for probably the first 5 years I produced more raw lines of code than the last 10. At some point we (hopefully) all learn that slogging more code at a problem has a vanishin
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by twodave 6y ago
It’s arguable whether those are actual savings or not. Those things are all corporate benefits that cost much less for a company to provide once than for each employee to provide for themselves separately. So employees will eventually start
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by twodave 6y ago
For young conservatives who had the Affordable Care Act shoved down their throats during Obama's first term (and this was the last time Democrats controlled the House, Senate and Presidency), it feels like a great loss to be back in a
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by twodave 6y ago
I agree--they should be investigated and then charged with crimes. I'd just prefer if someone's going to be silenced that it arise from a court order, not some corporation's potentially-compromised sense of morality/dece
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by twodave 6y ago
You can't really blame them, but I do wonder whether a private company ought to have so much power. Some speech (that presents a CLEAR and imminent danger) should absolutely be regulated--but as platforms grow the levers for enforcemen
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by twodave 6y ago
Wow. Reading the bit about disabling the chip security makes me wonder what the point of a chip card is in the first place? All it takes is lifting the mag strip and altering it to declare that there’s no chip.
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by twodave 6y ago
Oh man. I left a remote job in like, late 2017 because of some problems I had with their ethics. I took a job that paid less and required me to drive (not too far, and I was missing seeing people's faces a bit anyway). It was a bigger
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by twodave 6y ago
This reminds me of a piece of local history I recently learned in my hometown (Northeast FL). In the late 1800s, a number of slave families traveled down-river from Georgia after being emancipated and homesteaded in my area on the St. Johns
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by twodave 6y ago
I feel like it's easier if you add an apostrophe: Airpods' Max
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by twodave 6y ago
I enjoyed the read. Side note: is it just me or is the Keto industry in general just like 99.5% criminals? I’ve had my credit card stolen multiple times this year, and the thief has used my card to send ME keto pills I didn’t want. This ma
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by twodave 6y ago
Support for the Apple Card works this way too. It's honestly a joy.
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by twodave 6y ago
They don't mention a datacenter id in the docs, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed since the docs were written: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ids I implemented a .NET port o
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by twodave 6y ago
Hey all! I built Math Factory a while back as a favor for my wife (who home-schools our children) to help quiz the kids on basic math facts. As such, it's very basic (I think I spent more time entering problem sets than building the si
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Show HN: A Simple Math Quizzer(mathfactory.azurewebsites.net)
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by twodave 6y ago
> If youtube-dl (or any OSS project) continues to use GitHub, I hope they have a backup plan ready at all times. I mean, I guess I understand the sentiment here, but really, most projects don't run this risk. Youtube-dl, on the othe
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by twodave 6y ago
This reminds me of the episode of Mythic Quest where they decided they wanted to ban Nazis--but then they started asking, "Who else should we ban?" The committee ended up with a horrifyingly-unwieldy list of hate/predatory gr
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by twodave 6y ago
I wonder how much public opinion was impacted by Trump's tweets (one way or the other). I also wonder the magnitude of the impact of Twitter's actions. I sort of also wonder why some public figures are subject to fact checking and
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by twodave 6y ago
This is cool. I only wish they didn't skimp on the keyboard. If this were in something like a DAS Keyboard and it could also be used with another PC (as a regular keyboard), that would make this an auto-buy for me. Edit: yeah, I know,
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by twodave 6y ago
I like to joke/not really joke that (insert JetBrains product)’s main feature is converting laptop battery charge into heat and fan noise ;)
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by twodave 6y ago
Sounds more like an implementation detail to me. The notification doesn’t contain the entire message (it goes through a different channel altogether). By the time the app tries to poll to retrieve the message (I assume here that it’ll wait
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by twodave 6y ago
> Data flows downwards, actions flow upwards I know I'm nitpicking here, but I always find this phrase confusing, and I think this way of explaining unidirectional data-flow is problematic for those new to the concept. If you want t
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by twodave 6y ago
Chemex here but similar mindset. I don’t like my coffee going anyplace that I can’t easily clean between brews.
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by twodave 6y ago
This. Clear requirements/expectations in addition to concrete costs help reasonable people on both sides stay on the same page and avoid surprises.
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by twodave 6y ago
Yeah, I've got a few gallons of 30% H202 sitting in the garage (because the 3.5% household variety was out of stock on Amazon, I ordered from a lab and we dilute it ourselves). Requires wearing some protective clothing when dealing wit
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by twodave 6y ago
Another interesting way to solve the transaction problem is following more of a Unit of Work pattern. Then the transaction is more or less held until the unit is committed. Or rolled back. This is also wonderful for writing integration test
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by twodave 6y ago
No use for the name? It’s his own last name and he ran a computer consultancy from the website. It wasn’t until Nissan began targeting him that he turned it towards activism, which one might argue is of even greater use.
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by twodave 6y ago
OP's project is a little more opinionated than Dapper in that it defines repositories and whatnot. Dapper's more like just a set of query extensions that support basic object mapping. I love it personally, but I wouldn't even
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by twodave 6y ago
I sort of agree here. I tend to stay away from ORMs in general, but I'd probably use one if it actually justified itself. Most ORMs I've used basically just abstract the data layer so you don't have to write own SQL, but that
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by twodave 6y ago
This is great. I built something a bit lower-level than this targeting MySQL not long ago. This library has taught me a couple language features I didn't know, however. The SQL tag is pretty clever. I was pleasantly surprised to see tr
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by twodave 6y ago
Are Windows PC gaming and the XBOX line in such a decline that they could be described as desperate? I really doubt it, but I'm having trouble finding data to back up either argument.

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