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by ufmace 2y ago
This actually makes me really suspicious about Automattic. Companies generally don't refuse to hire outside of certain countries just to be jerks, they do it because complying with international tax obligations while paying employees i
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by ufmace 2y ago
That, and the whole thing about Matt M going on a scathing rant about how bad WPEngine supposedly is[0], supposedly because they don't support WP page revision control as well as he'd like. Seems a bit over-the-top and breathless
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by ufmace 2y ago
I run my own Wordpress server for a blog, and IMO it's basically fine if you use reasonable deployment management practices and don't install 500 random crap plugins and themes. The basic install is about as bulletproof as it gets
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by ufmace 2y ago
Thanks for the perspective. I don't own an EV, but I have taken road trips in a friend's Tesla. My impression was that the supercharger network (at least in the Northeast US) is dense and reliable enough and the route planning sof
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by ufmace 2y ago
Probably more like you own a large enough percentage of the company and have enough day-to-day control over it that actually trying to sell a significant amount of your stock could trigger other investors to panic, wondering if you have som
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by ufmace 2y ago
IMO it's very understandable to not know about this sort of thing starting out. Everybody was new once, and it's much easier to get motivated to build cool stuff than to read about all the fine details of all of the technologies w
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by ufmace 2y ago
I've never actually set up CVS myself, so I suppose I can't accurately say how easy or not easy it is. The "nobody" might deserve an asterisk - I'm sure it's not literally not a single person, but it seems to b
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by ufmace 2y ago
A quick check on the contributors page shows ~8ish heavy contributors working over the course of 6 years and 13k commits. That's a good thing to check for any project you're thinking about integrating with IMO. That said, my exper
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by ufmace 2y ago
I think a lot of people who've only learned programming in the last 10 years or so don't realize that Git, and even more so the large-scale popularity of Git, is actually pretty new. A lot of programming happened before Git was cr
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by ufmace 2y ago
The way this stuff seems to work, it doesn't make sense to go theory-first. We can spin up a bazillion theories about it, with no clue which if any are anywhere near true. We've got to just try it, gather experimental data, and se
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by ufmace 2y ago
Yup, that sounds about right. I'd also note that one of the reasons I prefer doing such things in person is (in addition to not taking up too much of the candidate's free time) that if they misinterpreted something or are going of
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by ufmace 2y ago
We have a hour total per interviewer. The basic FizzBuzz is intentionally incredibly simple, no reason anyone qualified to be a full time software engineer should take more than 10 minutes to build it in a pre-set-up environment in their la
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by ufmace 2y ago
Yup, I've developed a workflow that starts with writing a brain-dead easy fizzbuzz and gradually adds features and complexity. The way I've done it, it gives you a way to judge levels as well as basic competency. If you can't
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by ufmace 2y ago
It's pretty much the definition of a functional state that the police can gather more resources faster than any group of criminals. By the time you gather enough criminals to hold off the police for even a few minutes, most of the time
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by ufmace 2y ago
It's a good video, but I think some people may miss the point. You SHOULD be working with a good lawyer ahead of time. You should NOT be regularly suing your clients. Actually suing is expensive, time-consuming, and painful. You should
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by ufmace 2y ago
In a perfect world, studies should not only be required to include the code, any of the following should also be a reason to reject a publication: * The code can't be run outside the original researcher's undocumented special snow
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by ufmace 2y ago
Well yeah. But: 1. That's exactly why I prefer a plain old analog mattress that needs zero tech or support from anyone ever 2. Even with that being the case, for the average consumer who wants an electronic/controllable bed, it&#x
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by ufmace 2y ago
I think this goes right back to the parent's point. I presume you personally could set that up. I probably could too. But 99% of the world isn't tech experts and can't do that. Or fix it if something goes wrong. Even if you c
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by ufmace 2y ago
That probably is the better way to see it at this point. There's already enough bad actors out there that it's not really worth keeping track. I'd be willing to bet that they have comprehensively sloppy and terrible infosec p
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by ufmace 2y ago
This, I find passkeys very difficult to understand. It seems I can use my phone as my "passkey". Okay nice, that should mean I can use the same one on multiple devices, just like with a hardware Yubikey, right? Well apparently no.
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by ufmace 2y ago
AFAIK it's not at all clear that solar and wind are really cheaper when making up a substantial part of a large-scale power grid that meets our current expectations of 100% consistent and reliable power everywhere, no matter what. The
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by ufmace 2y ago
That's the thing I always wonder about these things. It's fun and easy to provide visibility into whoever called out an issue early when it does go on to cause a big failure. It gives a nice smug feeling to whoever called it out i
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't know much about Supabase honestly. On concerns about testing etc. I can see letting automated testing, keeping a clean version control history, good architecture, etc slide at an early stage in the name of building fast. To me,
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by ufmace 2y ago
The idea of PostgREST is cool, but I keep coming back to it not being very practical for most purposes. It's slick when the default query API does everything you need. But it seems inevitable that you'll eventually need to do some
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't know Python or SQLAlchemy that great, though I do have the benefit of it being cut down to a small amount of code and being told there was a bug there. That said, I didn't see the actual bug, but I did mentally flag that a
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by ufmace 2y ago
Probably true, but ffmpeg seems to have a ton of features too. It seems to me that CLI apps are inherently better at not distracting you with things you don't need. A CLI flag that you don't use is invisible outside of the man pag
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by ufmace 2y ago
Davinci Resolve is actually the first thing that came to mind on the subject of, okay it's free, that's nice, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do anything in it. I suppose it's not necessarily their fault
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by ufmace 2y ago
Nice, thanks! I tried using ffmpeg for a minor video editing task I had a few months ago - just a cut, crop, rescale, and volume adjust. I've tried a few of the mainstream GUI video editing tools, and IMO, they all have incomprehensibl
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by ufmace 2y ago
I suppose it's already covered how the title is clickbait because the doc was blocked from being shared, not from being accessed. Also not described is exactly how "out there" the content was, how many people it was attempted
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by ufmace 2y ago
Actually no, it manages the versions of the languages themselves, but doesn't interact with their package managers at all. The .tool-versions file it uses to mark the current version could be thought of as a lock file as well. It repla

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