yebyen

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by yebyen 8y ago
Yes but how do you prosecute someone because a bomb threat was called in against them? Which part of what he was doing should he not be doing? It was all external parties that caused the kerfuffle. He's obviously a successful broadca
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by yebyen 8y ago
I never even heard of this guy until I was in a bar in Phoenix Arizona and listening to a flight attendant tell the story about how her plane was raided by SWAT armed response earlier that day, because of him. It looks like that was April
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by yebyen 8y ago
Your argument has merit, but I think we can agree to disagree. I'm okay with erasing some history sometimes. The main point I'm trying to make is that developers should not have to feel compelled by some unspoken pressure to make
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by yebyen 8y ago
+1 for feature flags. We have struggled to manage long-lived changes (our current iteration has been going on for nearly a year.) The amount of uhh "pucker" I'll feel when we release next month, and certain pieces of code ar
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by yebyen 8y ago
> I'd rather a messy story that includes details of how someone screwed up Strongly disagree. I am mostly interested in reviewing your best work, and ensuring that it is correct, as much as I enjoy hearing the story about how you g
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by yebyen 8y ago
> you also aren't recording a history of the merge conflicts you saw in the rebase This is a good point. Mistakes are made during merge conflict resolution. But if you are tracking your upstream when you develop a long-lived featu
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by yebyen 8y ago
Yes! I agree with you mostly, except that we try to keep from having junior developers for too long. Nobody is really a junior developer, and everyone should get a turn as release manager. The main benefit of this is that people can see d
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by yebyen 8y ago
One of the best things I ever did for my git usage was installing this ridiculous thing in my .gitconfig aliases: [alias] l = log --date-order --date=iso --graph --full-history --all --pretty=format:'%x08%x09%C(red)%h %C(
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by yebyen 8y ago
You're both being silly, but honestly not too silly... Many people when attempting to do TDD, will work too hard at writing a "complete test" and fail at it, because they really don't know exactly what the feature is goi
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by yebyen 8y ago
Hah, I thought I was describing two unconnected things, but it turns out 'smartercsv' (at least the prerelease from 4 days ago) is actually designed to solve the very problem that I had described having seven years ago with fast
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by yebyen 8y ago
That is true! And it's also true that some environments require full code reviews of everything that isn't already certified. Hypothetically speaking, I don't know how you get around the fact that Ruby has way more code in i
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by yebyen 8y ago
> just "require 'csv'". No gems required. Seven years ago, at the time I was starting the job I mentioned, this was not a thing. The gem was called 'fastercsv' and it was made a standard library in 1.9 – we
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by yebyen 8y ago
I read your first paragraph... but then I read the rest of what you said. Having read the whole comment, I'd say that is spot on. I knew some SQL, but didn't start with Active Record. We used SQL client libraries to connect to
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by yebyen 8y ago
> Traffic sent to 127.0.0.1 is guaranteed not to leave your machine This is definitely false, without any routing tables. Any unprivileged user can start an SSH tunnel listening on any localhost port above 1024, sending traffic out to w
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by yebyen 8y ago
Did I read correctly that YAML is a superset of JSON? > This means that, in theory at least, a YAML parser can understand JSON Does anyone have experience with this? It seems counter-intuitive at first, but Google agrees, and I don&#x27
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by yebyen 8y ago
> I started using Rails probably at 1.0 > I've been doing web development since 1994 > some CGI programs in C, CGI.pm (Perl), Struts (Java) and occasional PHP I said junior developer, didn't I? :) and also mentioned that
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by yebyen 8y ago
Ruby is a language, and maybe if you already know 10 languages then it's a very easy language to pick up, but... how do you expect to know where Ruby ends and Rails begins, if you never separate the two? I don't see this your way.
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by yebyen 8y ago
My first (Rails) job was not advertised as looking for Rails dev, and I didn't touch any Rails code for probably the entire first year. Hiring manager was looking for a Ruby developer without tons of experience, or strong opinions abo
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by yebyen 8y ago
That's fair! And I'll concede that I actually don't know anyone outside of my own working group (we had standardized on Rails), and the people that I actually met at the annual Rails Conference, who are still talking about us
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by yebyen 8y ago
As a Rails dev, I personally prefer "matured" vs "declining" – and to be fair, "mature" it's also one of those words that management would like to see associated with our choice of technology stack, too. S
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by yebyen 8y ago
This sounds like an absolutely horrifying state of affairs. I did not know what a bullet I dodged by opting for the non-touchbar 2015-Mac that still has those regular old USB-A and HDMI/Mini-DP ports. > Many Android phones support
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by yebyen 8y ago
The TX (on-chain transaction) fees have absolutely changed in the last 3-6 months. Before Jan 1, the average TX fee had peaked at about $55USD. In February you could get a transaction on the chain for about $2. Since that time, they&#x27
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by yebyen 8y ago
It has gotten better (I actually am of the impression that the transaction volume has gone down, and that's largely to credit for the fact that fees are back down, perhaps because of Lightning and/or Segwit; but regardless of the
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by yebyen 8y ago
I would never have become a Coinbase user except for all of the press when they got theirs, while I was living in NY. Centralized exchanges are not really my thing, but legal compliance is pretty alright by me, and NY is a notoriously diffi
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by yebyen 8y ago
I wonder how Reuters got all the way up to nine! > With the Square approval, DFS has now approved nine firms for virtual currency charters or licenses, while denying those applications that did not meet DFS’s standards. DFS has also gran
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by yebyen 8y ago
Apparently according to TFA this is the ninth such license that was awarded? Wikipedia page needs an update, they still only list the first five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLicense (I was only aware of the one t
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by yebyen 8y ago
Thank you. That was clear-as-mud every time I wondered what the difference was before.
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by yebyen 8y ago
Yes, but how much of that can you attribute to direct internet sales? > HBO’s direct-to-consumer subscriptions, which include HBO Now sign-ups through internet-based distributors like Amazon and DirecTV Now, have topped five million in t
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by yebyen 8y ago
Amen! I was told it would cost me another $10/mo to add HD service, and that I probably wouldn't get any new channels. And I will still be dealing with commercials. No thanks. It doesn't cost you anything extra to allow me
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by yebyen 8y ago
The TV deal is a promotional pricing structure, I have found that you can get them to offer you a new promotional rate if you threaten to send their hardware back and downgrade your service to Internet-only. (Again this may vary from regio

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