MisterOctober

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by MisterOctober 6y ago
At my office, we heavily lean on Postgres' JSONB capabilities, especially for archived data that is occasionally accessed, and also to handle data dumps from other services. The JSONB traversal operators are intuitive and the searchin
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by MisterOctober 6y ago
I was a young teen when it first came out -- in retrospect, I think it's cool, but at the time, everybody I knew felt like it was baldly pandering to our demographic / 'disaffected slackers' in general, and looked upon i
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
My guess based on context is that "FNP" refers to the indigenous people of Australia [maybe 'First Nations People?' -- however that term is more generally used in North America, to my knowledge], but that acronym isn&#x2
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
we have a lesson_log channel [with standard entry format] in slack -- for all Slack's shortcomings, this works great, as the whole team can see lessons learned from every department
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep, same here. I planned to buy a Tesla for environmental reasons when my current 15-year-old car gives up the ghost, but I had no clue about the sort of shenanigans described here. There is absolutely no way I'd knowingly "buy&q
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
I've worked in both open and closed office environments -- currently have my own office, and it is _much_ easier for me to be productive without distractions in this arrangement. Huge improvement in quality of work and quality of life.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
This is a huge factor. A lotta clients _really want_ to hear "AWS" or "Azure" when they ask "..and where is the infrastructure hosted"
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
yep -- Centos [which distro I favor for servers] is verrry slow with patches, upgrades, and other additions -- but it is 100% rock solid with no surprises. I use other distros for desktop and various uses, but for servers, I stick with Cen
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
what were you using before JS, and in what domain is the work? Genuinely curious
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Former musician here -- A big +1 to the suggestion about ear training; I sure wish I'd pursued it more seriously and earlier -- probably no other activity can transform one's understanding and ability to the degree ear training ca
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
I like JS. I use JS daily. JS is part of the workflow for nearly everyone I know who works with code. For me, ES6 is fantastic to use. Some of the better books on JS [I'm thinking specifically of Haverbeke's "Eloquent Jav
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Totally -- the "Bridgekeeper," that animated circle bit with Phillip Glass music in the background, "123456789101112" with Pointer Sisters, Cab Calloway, and generally more realish kids and grown-ups on the set -- as a k
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep! In fact, the orchardist Michael Phillips in "The Apple Grower" specifically recommends older, purely-mechanical tractors for small / family operations, largely for repair reasons
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
there's a lot of evils about AWS, but even their personal/developer support account has delivered good service for me -- they've really dug in and helped me on some tough questions, and not only limited to configuration. At t
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a great section describing how crows employ termite mounds to create information relay networks -- remarkable stuff
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Strongly reminds me of "A Scanner Darkly" [the movie, at least] -- where the human scanners have to watch thousands of hours of surveillance video [which they do at increased speed until they spot something notable]
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Sourcehut is one I especially enjoy using, and I really admire the grit + dedication of its developer[s]-- as I mentioned in a related thread a few weeks ago, I intend to migrate my personal projects to Sourcehut.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
This is a damn good point. Whenever my friends, or kids of my friends, start talking about taking some foodservice or other really hard, low-paying job, I roundly encourage them to avoid it if remotely practical and build marketable skills
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep, same here -- switched to DDG a couple years ago and back to FF from Chrome [except when required for the job] a few months ago. Results excellent. I understand that a lotta folks are dissatisfied with DDG's search performance, bu
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
"Turn the Ship Around!" has been awesome resource for our team, most definitely recommend
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Total agree -- I was temporarily disabled by injury earlier this year and was recently given the all-clear to start lifting again -- was feeling hopelessly atrophied + weak at first and dubious that I'd ever get back to where I was [no
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
same boat here -- migraine / cluster / photophobia sufferer and need to reduce as much as possible the volume and amplitude of light coming into my eye -- in truth, I don't think I'd be able to do my job at all without d
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
yeah, when I read this headline, my first reaction was "uh-oh" -- for years, Bricklink has been the only reasonable way to get specific [i.e., not subject to pick-a-brick selection] bulk parts / bricks -- the stuff my kid a
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep. Phoenix resident here; can confirm that expensive full-size trucks are the norm for well-heeled folk of all cultural strata in this region. I live in a fairly affluent section of the city and big, costly pickup trucks are _far_ more
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
What's the other Portland, is it Portland, Maine? Sincere question
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
nice, thanks for the tip!
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
You're right of course -- however, I don't really like going off-road in rental vehicles
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
those are literally the three things that are a major pain in the neck for me [sedan], and when I saw that tesla was developing a truck, I was like "oh sweet! Now I can hit the trails and haul garden supplies with a greater level of c
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
yepyepyep! I think literally every one of my friends and me had that poster of the white Countach from Scholastic
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Not sorry to hear this. GCP never worked reliably and was absolute hell to support for the several months I had to do. Rood giddace to rad bubbish, see ya never Cloud Print!

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