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by xarope 5y ago
We joke, but actually the legacy team I took over a few years ago, used to do this (email each other stuff, and versioning/branching was basically copying folders around). I had to drag them kicking and screaming into git (and self-ho
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by xarope 5y ago
In the same vein, as an old unix dog, I'm very annoyed by golang's -help vs -h and --help. Given the pedigree of the creators, I really am quite puzzled as to why they took this approach. Is there some sort of injoke where -help
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by xarope 5y ago
I'm utterly confused by the article, so let me offer the roberebert.com version instead, which is far more succinct and readable: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everything-everywhere-all... 3.5 stars, looks pr
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by xarope 5y ago
A lot of people here have posted very good advice, so let me just make you feel a bit better; as a "senior" consultant, I once dropped a customer's production database, because production of course has a D suffix, whilst Deve
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by xarope 5y ago
I spent a lot of time having lunch by the banks of the Torrens, and rowing 4s and 8s on the river. Would be sad to see the banks overrun by buildings (ala hawaii beaches), public access or not.
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by xarope 5y ago
During COVID, as a CTO, I tell my team to DM me after stand-ups if they aren't sure about their tasks or work, or even how to get started. I'm more than happy to spend 2-3 hours on a separate remote call with an individual, where
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by xarope 5y ago
Scams are getting more and more sophisticated. We've always known that when you write a playbook, sooner or later the red team will find holes in that playbook. Perhaps that's where ML/AI comes in, since you can train them,
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by xarope 5y ago
in some kitchens I've seen, they use a brush to brush away the dirt/soil from the mushrooms. Me? I wash them!
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by xarope 5y ago
I think amsterdam/AMS was where I saw airport staff on kickboards...
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by xarope 5y ago
is this /s, in reference to latex/knuth and the precursor to yak shaving?
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by xarope 5y ago
I've been recently searching for some very specific keyword stuff, and bumping into a lot of sites which seemed like just reformatted copy-n-paste of stackoverflow and various mailing lists, adding zero value and clogging up the top 10
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by xarope 5y ago
Bruce Lee's famous quote: “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a
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by xarope 5y ago
I'm copying this template for my next CTO blog... . . . /s (/j?)
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by xarope 5y ago
I hit this recently too, where a complex query was taking ~300ms, and I decided to fold some sub queries into a CTE, and it promptly (pun intended) went down to ~30ms. Plus point, it made my query easier to understand too!
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by xarope 5y ago
White papers are to CxOs what TED talks are for the uninformed, an easy way to get someone up to speed on a highly complicated subject, and more fool them (meaning the uninformed) if they think it means they are now an expert, which sadly a
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by xarope 5y ago
The turning point for me was when I met someone at a tech conference who introduced himself as a TED talk speaker. I'm not sure I was able to walk away fast enough.
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by xarope 5y ago
many of us are still here, and wonder why these young'uns are reinventing the wheel everytime :-P Other times, I wished to go back to the simpler days of X windows, latex/postscript, instead of this newfangled another-react-framew
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by xarope 5y ago
I'm currently working on a python-based gRPC project. I use envoy to handle all the stuff you mentioned. I do like gRPC compared to REST, although I wish there were more native data types for gRPC, e.g. UUID and Decimal/Numeric
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by xarope 5y ago
Ditto. I think it's like doing gardening, or jugging, or riding a unicycle (waves at shannon). The change of mindset and switch in cognitive usage whilst still taking advantage of "success" attributes like discipline, organ
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by xarope 5y ago
Sadly I think this is a bit idealistic. Even in healthcare, doctors can't agree on abbreviations to put into a patient's records, and sadly the state of EMRs (electronic medical records) is a shambles due to this sort of data imp
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by xarope 5y ago
Personally, if I was being chased by someone/something, the last thing I would do is run across an open field. Instead, I'd seek a more complex environment. TIL, I'm a fox in skyrim... /j
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by xarope 5y ago
Is sugar bad in high doses? Yes. Is anything bad in high doses? Oxygen - check. Water - check. Let's try to be more moderate, lest one day there is a ban on poor dihydrogen monoxide...
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by xarope 5y ago
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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by xarope 5y ago
I've seen a cat hit a sliding door with its body, which was enough to push the latch up and off, and then squeeze through the gap, thus opening the door. It was such a casual gesture, that I figured I was dealing with a higher life for
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by xarope 5y ago
Can someone enlighten me on what actually happens? I run zoom (desktop client) everyday for short standups and hour+ long architecture/tech discussions and code reviews, and I've never really noticed the CPU usage? (Linux Mint 20
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by xarope 5y ago
GPD pocket 2 running mint here too (well, until the battery bloated)
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by xarope 5y ago
I wish I could get into Heat Signature. I bought a copy, but somehow it's languishing in time spent compared to previous games like FTL and Into the Breach, I feel like it's a bit more frenetic in action compared to these (noted
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by xarope 5y ago
I'll plug my current favorite, Jupiter Hell. It's nethack'ish in that it's turn based, and knowledge from previous games enhances player skills for future games (i.e. your skills improve in playing the game, versus some
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by xarope 5y ago
z80?
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by xarope 5y ago
Absolutely; we still treat knowledge-based work as if it were factory based with known inputs and outputs (someone can chime in on MBAs etc...)

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