uptownJimmy

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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
Exercise, sleep, modest portions of good food, rewarding hobbies. Not that any of it ever permanently fixes my deeper issues with anxiety or depression: I have to run/exercise every morning to feel really good and ready for the day. Bu
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
Very rough estimates say there are ~6 million Americans with Chron's or Ulcerative Colitis, none of whom have ANY business drinking ANY amount of alcohol. That's just one group. There are other groups, I'm sure, but that&#x27
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
First, we redesign the humans.
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
Sit ups can be really hard on the spine, even if done "properly". You slip a disc in your neck even slightly while working on your abs, and you won't be working on your abs or anything else for a long time. Slipped discs can
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
This is great. Except that my company started outsourcing all translations to another company, for legal/whatever reasons.
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
I had someone from Google Recruiting reach out to me Friday. I wonder if he knows about the hiring freeze.
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by uptownJimmy 5y ago
A lot of it is just old school grifting techniques adapted to the latest tech. The whole thing is still (temporarily) unregulated, and somewhat akin to the CA gold rush, where the stores that sold mining equipment made most of the money, bu
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by uptownJimmy 5y ago
My wife's mother just died of cancer after being in remission for many years. Her suffering over the last 9 months of her life was sometimes extreme, and the impact of her death on all of us has been profound. I never suspected I would
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by uptownJimmy 5y ago
Just my own one little bit of anecdata, but I credit my handful of youthful psychedelic experiences with having shown me that it was possible to feel anything BUT anxious and depressed and afraid of the world. As a young dude with a lot of
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by uptownJimmy 7y ago
I am quite curious to know what percentage of working devs ever write tests at all. Because I don't think it's the majority, based on my own professional anecdata. But I've not yet been convinced that any of the various polls
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by uptownJimmy 7y ago
Wonderful show, with wonderful hosts. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's one of the many pieces of entertainment that should be far more popular than it is, but instead most people choose whatever the heck is going on over a
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by uptownJimmy 7y ago
It's been a long time since the bank foreclosed on my boyhood farming days, and I have been as far away from tractor news as possible ever since. Is nobody else making tractors anymore? I remember John Deere tractors being the very cre
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by uptownJimmy 8y ago
One of the three is bound to disappear from their product lineup soon, right?
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by uptownJimmy 8y ago
.NET Core on Mac with Rider has been great here.
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by uptownJimmy 8y ago
I haven't run into the "too many people interviewing" problem, though I am not the interviewer. My main issue is definitely the whiteboard portion of the competition. Complaining about those whiteboard skills being of negligi
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by uptownJimmy 8y ago
Super job! As someone currently studying this stuff, this is a gold mine. It's hard to interview in this field if you didn't get a CS degree, and this sort of gesture is forever appreciated.
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by uptownJimmy 8y ago
Dapper is a great tool for getting an app started and up to speed, and even later once the app gets bigger if sometimes it makes sense to bypass the ORM and hit the DB straight-on.
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
SSMS is not fantastic, IMO. JetBrains' DataGrip is significantly better, and works with all the extant SQL implementations. We can definitely debate the SQL implementations themselves, but DataGrip makes tooling a non-issue.
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
Ha! "Out there" is just par for the course with PKD.... Read "A Scanner Darkly", if you haven't already. That's one of the supreme weird tales.
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
That MRI sushi scan trick is great.
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
I've had a few dinners at really good sushi restaurants, small spots with the traditional 2-3 chefs working behind the sushi bar. Those were some of the best meals I ever had. You would definitely be able to discern the difference. It&
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
My 5-year-old son says: "It looks cool to me!"
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
Actually, the same data indicates that jQuery is around 45% market share as the primary front-end JS tool. That's almost exactly the market share of both Angulars and React combined. And yes, this represents a steep drop-off in the num
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
"In the market share fight between React and Angular, React has won...." All the data I've seen indicate that both Angulars, combined, account for twice as many production code bases as React. I wonder where you got the idea
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
JetBrains IDE's are all better than VS. I've used both sides extensively, and it's a no-brainer. I'm a professional .NET dev, and I am now using Rider instead of VS every day, even though I still have to switch over to V
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by uptownJimmy 9y ago
I find DHH terribly unconvincing. But your point about religion seems appropriate, where Rails is concerned...
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by uptownJimmy 10y ago
Agreed. jQuery is NOT going to be coming back around for another round of dominance. It will continue to slowly fade. It was a huge step forward, but that was several steps back...
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by uptownJimmy 10y ago
I do not empathize with, nor do I agree with, people who wilfully wallow in paranoia and stupidity. Does that clarify my position sufficiently?
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by uptownJimmy 10y ago
"Until you can empathize with someone who reads infowars..." Absurdity defined.
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by uptownJimmy 10y ago
"Why deal with these issues when there are great Windows 10 options from many vendors?" Because the Win10 environment is pretty shoddy, in general. And it's not a secret, so your question is surprising. The OP talks about ran

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