Javalicious

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by Javalicious 3mo ago
Wow. This brings up some (bad) memories of working with an .epub export about 10 years ago. We had some embedded fonts to work around some poor rendering in some of the readers we tested, but some of the readers ignored the fonts altogether
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by Javalicious 2y ago
There's the States Rights GOP, and then there's the Things Trump Doesn't Like. That executive order about paper straws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14208 ) falls under the latter categor
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by Javalicious 2y ago
A few years ago we did a road trip through that part of Texas, looking at the "painted churches" ( https://thedaytripper.com/the-painted-churches-road-trip/ - there are other itineraries). This article sparked
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by Javalicious 2y ago
When I first started in the industry, I worked in the documentation department of a small company. My boss had me write Windows Help files by hand before using tools like WinHelp / HTMLHelp. Years later I did much of the same thing whe
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by Javalicious 2y ago
Yeah, I wish they would just keep the boilerplate OFL intact. I spent way too much time trying to figure out what the "real" license was, and if I could use it in my open source projects.
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by Javalicious 2y ago
If this were Max Headroom snarkily reporting news, I might be more inclined to watch.
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by Javalicious 2y ago
Yup. Which is why this question can give some good insight into how the company runs. Is it chaotic? Suffocatingly rigid? Or is there a pipeline to triage and introduce new features in a sustainable and beneficial way?
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by Javalicious 2y ago
They had these out at the local Costco last night. Just a card scanner. Honestly, it wasn't that different from the "wave your card at the person in the front" system they had before -- it didn't slow things down much.
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by Javalicious 2y ago
Hybrid app developer here (Apache Cordova). The work that I do is pretty close to web development + some hooks into native code (which is done by plugins) -- so your skills should transfer pretty readily. The only headache that Donn eludes
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by Javalicious 2y ago
Looks like they _might_ have been in the study set, but weren't separated out and focused on? At any rate, the author is hoping for the same: "In the first edition of my book Why Gender Matters, published by Doubleday in 2005, I d
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by Javalicious 2y ago
As a middle-class Gen X-er, the FAFSA gives me PTSD already. ALL the hurdles, knowing that my kid won't get any financial aid anyway. I mean, what's the point? There should be an opt-out button at the beginning: "I know I&#x2
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by Javalicious 3y ago
"Best" is probably whatever you're familiar with. If your pre-pdf content is in Word, I'd just run with it -- most 'classic' word processors can handle the export to ebook stuff just fine. I've done export
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Care to elaborate? I look at the numbers in the article and my eyes glaze over; the only thing I got out of it was that they're urging India to bump its poverty level numbers. (I am decidedly _not_ and economist)
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by Javalicious 3y ago
In this case, the push towards simplicity and sanity is just acknowledging the reality that front end dev is... not simple. From the blog post: "Sometimes, people get angry at React or other FrontEnd frameworks just because they look s
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Poops and car break-ins. Either data science people are really bored, or SF provides some interesting data points.
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Ages ago (2010-2011 I think?), I worked on a tool that exported and packaged text into .epub format. At the time one of the biggest headaches was the lack of good font rendering in ePub readers. Apple's Books app did an okay job, but s
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by Javalicious 3y ago
I'm curious as to _how_ the data was collected for this report. Did they use camera feed data? Walk-button push counts? HR rideshare incentive data? Sending out surveys? The article talked about trips -- but I didn't see any diffe
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by Javalicious 3y ago
There's a _slightly_ better one on the DOT site ( https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden... ), and that site links to a PDF with some more in depth info on the projects ( https://rail
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by Javalicious 3y ago
I resonated with Ezra Klein's "exodus shocks" concepts. With Musk at the helm of X, it just seems like there's the periodic random outrage that pushes people to at least try other alternatives (and maybe stop logging int
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Also - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blueskyweb.org Is there a way to get Mastodon linked news?
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by Javalicious 3y ago
I wish more companies would do that. Just grind down the backlog and stabilize the code base. "Move fast and ... then go back and fix things."
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Exactly this. I've got anecdata from people who have left because they can't afford housing, to retirement age people who are cashing in on their real estate and moving somewhere cheap, to conservatives moving to a more conservati
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Thanks for this (paywall and archive were acting up). The people I know who use Life360 definitely skew towards the Sky Is Falling mindset, so that puts the survey in context. Life360's income depends on that mindset. Honestly, I think
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by Javalicious 3y ago
This reads like a Zen Koan. :-) Lawns provide oxygen, filter rainwater, prevent soil erosion, and are better at absorbing / releasing heat energy than hard surfaces. But they take a lot of water to maintain -- in water-restricted areas
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Yup, and Kickstarter as well. I realize I'm a bit of a fossil, but I do feel better about giving revenue to the artist as much as possible (Bandcamp, Kickstarter, Amazon downloads). I don't get exposed to the same breadth of music
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by Javalicious 3y ago
I was going to respond to this, only to have found myself at the end of an urban legend (no, there isn't a stipulation in the US to have 1 in every 5 miles straight in the US interstate highway system in order to allow for emergency la
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by Javalicious 3y ago
Kinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now. BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.co
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by Javalicious 3y ago
I'd argue that VB6 got close. But yeah, programming isn't particularly a "the people" sort of activity.
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by Javalicious 3y ago
A little pedantic, but it's worth mentioning that the assumption here is _spoken_ languages. There's a whole set of sign languages around the world as well.
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by Javalicious 3y ago
From reading those comments, it feels like DEI is the HR equivalent of a Scrum Master. If done properly (read: people listen and they have the authority to make meaningful change), it can benefit the org and create a healthy environment. Bu

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