EvanKnowles

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by EvanKnowles 5mo ago
Feels like a bonus to me.
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by EvanKnowles 2y ago
If I click Join I am immediately redirected to a "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access doge.gov" CloudFlare page. That's odd.
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by EvanKnowles 2y ago
"Where's my new server gone? ... oh, it's hanging out in us-east-1, damnsit."
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by EvanKnowles 2y ago
Avoid them for ethical reasons too.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
Problem is, sometimes you don't need the best-world-class coders, you need cheaper coders to align a button.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
I think a lot of devs go through a "I'll just store code in the DB and evaluate at runtime!" phase. Some of them never get through it though.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
We had this, but HR moved so slowly that the (good) guy that was fired was still there when the new guy arrived.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
That feeling when you ask a question, they go "uhhhhh", in the background you can hear mechanical keys clattering, and suddenly they can give a textbook definition. More fun is when you can google their answers and find the websit
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
"A few years back, Will added a share house as a McDonald’s restaurant. It didn’t didn’t last long before it was removed by Google, he told Crikey in a phone call this week, but it appeared to fool at least one person. “A car drove pas
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
Eventually enough content will have been produced that a human could watch an incredible series every day of their lives without anything new coming out. That's when humanity will peak and crumble happily away.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
I mean, a bunch of us here are sitting on the continent right now.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
We used to use a VCS called Borland (yeah, Delphi Borland) StarTeam, which was basically the exact same flow. Luckily for us they audited us at some point, decided we were using too many licences, and insisted we triple our monthly expense
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
My web client was behaving waaay better than my desktop client on this issue.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
It improved suddenly in the third season, I was about to give up.
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
Wait, people aren't breathing through noses?
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by EvanKnowles 3y ago
We have Popeyes in South Africa, we just don't like it.
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
The kind of houses that could be bought for that starting value in South Africa, in beautiful, safe neighourhoods, with 1gb/s internet connections...
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
I always read a dead channel as pure static.
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
When I get to actually dev, totally. I work at an insurance company, I ended up here after I got hired by contract house (from a referral from a friend, who was hired by that contract house because they picked up grads), and they posted me
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
Actively coding in Java in a large system at the moment (so we can't Kotlin), but if I were to start a greenfields I'd give serious consideration to doing it in Kotlin.
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
Illusions by Richard Bach. I notice something new everytime - a far cry from when my mom told me to read it, and I read the back and cringed. I've given away so many copies now.
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
Unrelated, your Stable Diffusion image compression article was amazing, thanks for that.
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by EvanKnowles 4y ago
I was in the Kruger this weekend, and our guide was lamenting that they've already lost over 340 rhino this year, and said poachers keep hacking their radios and finding out where the rhino are, even when they change code they speak in
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
The number of times we've had developers commit passwords that they never should have had to Git, and then "revert" it, following which we had to have the passwords changed, is annoyingly high.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
That left/right cursor key bug is the worst. I'd assumed there was just something wrong with my keyboard until my colleagues also reported seeing it.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Gods, Enterprise Architect. Such a generic UML app that tries to do so much that it's impossible to find what you want to do. And then you look for alternatives and find that it's years ahead of the rest.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Just saw this yesterday in Two Minute Papers.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Superb application of Poe's law until the end.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Such a great terrible film.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Weird, don't know if they changed something maybe, but I'm in South Africa and I can hit it.

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