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by zeroq 2y ago
I had a very weird experience with Jellyfins team. Recently I decided to give the app a try, and it worked fine, but I have serious issues with their media scanner (nested structures, a lot of misc content like interviews, etc.). Years ago
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by zeroq 2y ago
When I worked at Big Bank we had this junior kid, who finished both law school and made a CS degree. One of the smartest guys with whom I worked. Me and other lead made a huge effort to put him on a fast track and promote him to a senior ro
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by zeroq 2y ago
Not every company is FANG. Last time, pre covid, I had an on site coding interview with BigCo. Interviewer asked to write an algorithm to find the biggest rectangle you can make from a list of lines. I immediately stood up, and went to a dr
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by zeroq 2y ago
To legally run Windows you need a licence, not an activation key. The instalation can already be downloaded for free.
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by zeroq 2y ago
Actually they don't, at least most of the time. At my last shop the entry cost for hosting a single static file was around $2500 for infra, because that was the agreed upon template for a project that was pre-approved by all neccessary
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by zeroq 2y ago
I don't blog, but blogging is something I carry on my todo list for years. Knowing how important is the cadance to keeping the public engaged I always planned to post at most one post per month, and keeping a steady backlog of articles
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by zeroq 2y ago
At one point I just realized that the work in BigCo has very little to do with actual value, and much more politics and PR. In my last workplace we had two teams working on almost identical applications - large, multistage web forms for ins
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by zeroq 2y ago
|> Your team (and manager) sees you're working That's one of the greatest corporate flaws and my biggest personal failure that I fail, and refuse, to adapt to. When I work in a team I often try to empower lacking teammates by t
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by zeroq 2y ago
15 years ago it was common to deploy web applications as live SVN repositories with a hidden path executing 'svn update' on manual http request. Not quite the 'push deploy', but that was the way apps were developed back
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by zeroq 2y ago
Reminds me an old story from Steve Yegge: I gave him the "find the phone numbers in 50,000 html files" question, and he decided to write a huge program with an ad-hoc state machine. When I asked how long it would take to write the
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by zeroq 2y ago
Reminds me of Smarty, a famous templating language written in templating language.
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by zeroq 3y ago
A side note: I use old/broken phones as dedicated tablets for stuff like Spotify or calendar.
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by zeroq 3y ago
Walking is an excelent entry point for obese people. Instead of killing yourself and getting immensly frustrated at the gym, it gives you incredible initial gains. Being really out of shape is a downward spiral - the worse it gets the harde
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by zeroq 3y ago
When 150 lines of boilerplate can land you the first page on HN, maybe it is, in fact, the end of programming?
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by zeroq 3y ago
I can't stress enough how much I admire that it is true 256 bytes, instead of usual 1k game jams, where submissions are presented as zipped, gzipped, and postfixed, and not including assets to fit the criteria. Hats off.
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by zeroq 3y ago
For anyone who says it's useless because it's only 75% correct, please consider these two points: (1) this is the first instalment, and it's already close to be a thousand times more useful for product owners and analytics th
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by zeroq 3y ago
Adobe gave up on web design products right after they bought Macromedia.
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by zeroq 3y ago
"The fantastic element that explains the appeal of games to many developers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without any ch
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by zeroq 3y ago
He's actually dead on point. Back in the day, here is Sokovia, there was a local competetitor to Facebook. They had a great start and everything went perfect for them, but it quickly turned out that the technical side was really bad. S
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by zeroq 3y ago
Yes, in Germany Euro was dubbed Teuer-o ("teuer" meaning expensive). Basically, most prices were converted 1:1 from Deutsch Mark to Euro.
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by zeroq 3y ago
The real problem, at least where I live, is the real estate market. Everyone and their mother are putting their investments in real estate leaving no money for startups and entrepreneurship.
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by zeroq 3y ago
I can add another 20 cents to the fund, and it will be bigger commitement from my side.
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by zeroq 3y ago
Looks like the same bait and switch Dr. K (Healthy Gamer) did. Put a real MD on the poster, and once they sign up hook your customers with people with 3 weeks of "professional training".
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by zeroq 3y ago
source for thar 500w avg watts in tdf? name and year?
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by zeroq 4y ago
Now that 5.0 is out let's talk about the roadmap for 6.0. I've heard it finally will be compatible with Java 1.4!
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by zeroq 4y ago
At my last workplace 1-on-1s were mostly about managers coming up with creative ways to explain why promotion or salary raise is kept getting delayed, weeks after weeks, months after months. ;)
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by zeroq 4y ago
It's an old trick. Most people will jump on a new subscription justyfing it with a low entry cost and the premise of hassle free return policy, but even if they won't like or use the service they'll be too lazy to actually ca
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by zeroq 4y ago
Is water wet?
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by zeroq 4y ago
Type checking and schema are two different things. Both your application and documentation will assume certain state to be true, but only with type checking you can actually verify if it's correct.
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by zeroq 4y ago
tl;dr figure out what you want before committing all your resources. It might be just me and a terrible string of bad luck bad I've seen so many projects that were kickstarted preemptively due to company politics or just management wan

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