xirdstl

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by xirdstl 11y ago
I'm fortunate in that I work from home a couple days a week regularly. Generally, people will wait until I'm in the office to schedule meetings, giving me those full glorious days to get things done.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
We also ran into this issue just last week and used the "find and replace" method. Here's one incredibly horrible solution (hack): publish your own "package" to NPM which depends on the shrinkwrapped versions of you
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by xirdstl 11y ago
Twitter as a host was a joke. The zealousness for these micro packages, though, is all too real.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I want to say "look at the Java ecosystem", but that's not hipster enough.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
BOA still offers this, and I still use it in some cases online. It's useful for subscriptions that I think I might forget to cancel before they auto renew, and similarly, for free trials that I might forget to cancel.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I don't think it's surprising. People love to find ways to be offended and express outrage on Twitter.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I've been there. If I recall correctly, I found that a "rmdir /s" from a command prompt does the trick.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
And now you each have $1000 to pay income tax on.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
The bill allows for 20%, up to $200, for "out-of-pocket-expenses". I don't think what you're suggesting would apply.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I can't help but think some of these statistics are ridiculous fear mongering, particularly the heart attacks. "Get rid of DST! If you get up an hour earlier than usual, you might die!"
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by xirdstl 11y ago
What do you do now? Part time contracting? I'm at a place where I don't really need to work full time either, but I haven't figured out a plan for getting out of it.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
It is extremely hard to believe that anything in the JavaScript ecosystem will be a standard or 'here to stay' for any timeframe greater than a year or so.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
Yes, it reeks of immaturity.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
In my experience, the interest of one or both of the parties in meeting drops quickly to ~0 if you wait any longer than 1- 2 weeks after starting messaging to arrange to meet.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I never put a lot of value in the data on LinkedIn. Where else can I get "endorsements" for random technology keywords like SOA from people who cannot possibly know what SOA means?
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by xirdstl 11y ago
This is what we use also. karma + jasmine + phantomjs. Admittedly, when we first started, I really did not understand which each of those individual pieces were.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
The article mentions that last month on NFL Network they aired a version that was constructed from their own archives.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
You could probably start a Gofundme and raise the money from angry St. Louis Rams fans.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
"Stuck with" was probably not the right wording. Where I started with Grails in an enterprise environment, Rails would have been a non-starter (or at least a much tougher sell) because operationally we were a Java shop. With Grai
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by xirdstl 11y ago
For those of us who were stuck with the JVM, fortunately there's now Grails (obviously modeled after Rails). Groovy makes programming for the JVM fun IMO. I've used Groovy/Grails for a number of web apps, both in commercial s
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by xirdstl 11y ago
He doesn't work for GitHub, but I agree with your assessment of the tone and wording of this post.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
There is at least one thread where there's already been confusion around it. At first, I thought this would be from someone who worked at GitHub, because I didn't understand why else it got upvoted.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I guess it depends who is logging issues. If I'm experiencing some bug that I need fixed and motivated enough to log an issue at all, I'm probably motivated enough to fill out a few more fields.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
For the audience of Hacker News? Maybe. "Less crazy folk" encompasses a much wider group, though, I'd wager.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
> Insolvency. If a person over the age of 40 tells you that they have never lost a job, they are pretty lucky (or lying). I know a lot of lucky people then. It's absolutely smart to be prepared in the case you lose your job, but is
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by xirdstl 11y ago
The examples are puzzling to me. Take this one: "I’m out of the office today. Check my email and let me know if there’s anything urgent." Are they proposing we should be ok with giving them our credentials?
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I suppose for me it just matters the guarantee at the time of checkout. Many conditions can change between the time I put it in my cart and when I checkout, especially around Christmas. The precision with which they can tell me when to expe
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by xirdstl 11y ago
As others have said, I think you can use another company. Also, some companies will allow you to invest any money above a certain balance. In my HSA, I can invest anything about $2000 (or maybe $2500?) into a number of different mutual fund
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by xirdstl 11y ago
That's possible in software development. I have such a job.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
I have that same experience with Amazon Prime videos. I instinctively want to blame Amazon, but who knows?

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