uptownJimmy

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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I lol'd the minute I saw the flow chart. It's absurd. Helpful and well-intentioned, but absurd.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Goodbye, Wired. Good luck with all that.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Fantastic point. In a sea of not-fantastic points.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Jogging in the rain: that's what I thought the article was about before I clicked. I love to jog in the rain, as long as it's not too cold and not raining too hard. It's lovely.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I cannot recommend this post highly enough. I get the feeling that a LOT of non-enterprise devs could stand to reflect on it.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I disagree: Slack tends to be used by work-related groups, where people are already semi-prepared for what any one of their co-workers might post in the company Slack channel(s). Facebook is absolutely correct in keeping a very tight rein o
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I have no use for a dev stack that is tied firmly to a db that is incapable of handling relational data properly. Many, many devs agree.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I needed to read this stuff right here. I have been developing happily on a custom-built CSLA-esque .NET platform for almost two years now, and I cannot begin to explain to my OSS buddies what they should do to spin up a .NET project of the
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I think it is safe to say that fully 1/2 of Americans would seem almost alien to you if you were to interact with them in their natural habitat(s). It's true for me, and I was raised among them, before fleeing as soon as I was old
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
It befuddles me as to why the folks at Meteor chose MongoDB. I know Mongo's marketing was superb, but the product itself is/was so shoddy. Never mind the fact that you gotta have SQL for almost any robust enterprise app, which, in
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
It's webdev that doesn't support a properly robust db. When they finally fix that Achilles' heel, they might have a chance of lasting long-term. MongoDB is not gonna cut it.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
This is well-written, and seems to touch on some vital part of our current cultural dilemma: when we finally manage to make freedom and relative prosperity available to almost everybody, how do we then handle that freedom and prosperity? Ho
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Well-put, indeed, and true. Some things make us think/feel better, over time. Some things make us think/feel worse, over time. The twin tricks are: to choose the right things, and to do them over and over again. Not easy tricks to
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Anybody with any of the IBS diseases (colitis, Crohn's, etc.) is advised to be consider some moderation in their wheat consumption, I think. Having said that, it is regrettable that so many Americans have decided to "cure" a
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I must admit that I feel myself to be in the monority of middle-aged people who are aging kinda/sorta gracefully. That's not to brag, rather to point out that I know a LOT of middle-aged people who don't seem full of vitality
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
This line (paraphrased) shines with meaning in the dusky, honesty-deprived, side-show-tawdry Web of today: "...their business model is...to get as close as possible to the creepy line."
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I run 3-4 miles every morning, before work. My before-and-after is pretty drastic, which is why I run every morning. So I say without ambiguity: I defnitely get runner's high. It changes my personality and my "feeling tone" s
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Are you me? Also, Charlotte. It's like Atlanta, but better/smaller/in the foothills of NC. So like Atlanta, but better.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I've wondered to myself a few times: perhaps Meteor would be even more popular than it presently is, if it had not been chained to MongoDB from the start. Even a different NoSQL db would probably have been a more popular/respected
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Thanks for writing this. It roughly describes my own experiences. I managed to pull out of my own spiral primarily because the love of my life didn't leave my side, and because I continued to feel hope and the possibility for change. A
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Calling it sloppy assumes carelessness.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I use Parallels on my MacBook for VS and SSMS, and that is all. But it's a perfect dev setup. I adore the MS dev stack. It's insanely powerful, and quite elegant.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Parallels for Mac is rock-solid. I've been developing professionally with VS and SQL Server Management Studio on a Mac for 1.5 years now, without a hiccup. And VS is amazing.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Fantastic. I was on the fence about lookng at Python in my spare time. Now I'm bound to do it at some point. VS is amazing.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
- One can host a compiled .NET app just about anywhere, and yes, that typically costs money. But then it typically costs money to host any app, anywhere. - The OSS alternatives to .NET are not better, not objectively. Some people prefer the
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I honestly believe the burden of proof is the other way around: why would they NOT use the MS stack? Cobbling together a stack from component parts is not my idea of a productive day, though I do understand the attraction it has for some de
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
The gulf between Neil Young and anyting resembling consensual reality seems vast. Wealth sure can be isolating.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
Superb writing is ALWAYS deserving of adoration.
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by uptownJimmy 11y ago
I agree with both of you. I think the piece is brilliantly done, and the writing is just jaw-droppingly good. But I said to myself, about half-way through reading it: there's just no way a non-coder is going to "get it". But

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