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by cpascal 6y ago
There’s some Win32 stuff you can hook into with your code for service management. These are things like service startup, shutdown, pause and resume. I can’t speak to the Win32 stuff, but .NET abstracts this and you just override a base clas
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by cpascal 6y ago
Could it be better treatment protocols?
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by cpascal 6y ago
Really fascinating looking at the block my office building is on and it looking nearly identical to today. Its an interesting thought that people have had a similar experience walking down that block for the past 70-80 years.
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by cpascal 6y ago
So for a little anecdata: My company maintains offices in NYC and Boston (among others). We chose not to renew our Boston lease and are in the middle of breaking our NYC lease. We do still intend to maintain physical offices, but they will
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by cpascal 6y ago
My left AirPod pro began rattling. It's obviously annoying/upsetting that this is an issue, but AppleCare+ support was awesome. I chatted with Apple on a Thursday and on Friday I had a new left AirPod Pro via overnight mail. No co
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by cpascal 6y ago
I live in Jersey City and in March the mayor instituted an executive order capping delivery commissions to 10%. The effect of this was every Uber Eats order had a $3 "Executive Order Surcharge" for deliveries in Jersey City. They
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by cpascal 6y ago
If this is passed, I'm waiting for the inevitable data breach of US elected officials' personal/private data.
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by cpascal 6y ago
I’ve been hoping for this too. So there’s at least two of us.
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by cpascal 6y ago
Yes that’s a solution to the problem but it shouldn’t be the solution. Why should I have to give up my coworkers, my domain specific knowledge, my job just to get paid what I’m worth?
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by cpascal 6y ago
I bemoan the fact that there are so few 16:10's on the market and nothing high resolution. 16:10 is such a great aspect-ratio and the extra vertical screen real-estate is very useful when programming. It is interesting to see some lapt
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by cpascal 6y ago
From the linked documentation: > > There are four system-wide options that manage how updates are handed: > - refresh.timer: defines the refresh frequency and schedule > - refresh.hold: delays the next refresh until the defined
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by cpascal 6y ago
For context: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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The Police Data Accessibility Project(github.com)
236 points by cpascal 6y ago|90 comments
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by cpascal 6y ago
There's a project/movement forming to gather police data and make it accessible. They are working on scrapers and filing FOIA requests for the information. They are calling for volunteers and need technical folks like us. https:&
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by cpascal 6y ago
Now that I think about it, you are right about there being more concessions. You are seeing a lot of "2-3 months free" listings now.
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by cpascal 6y ago
Anyone seeing a similar dip in the NYC metropolitan area? I've been casually watching rents and not seeing much of a dip. It seems that there are less units available as well, so perhaps that is counterbalancing a decrease in demand.
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by cpascal 6y ago
Another plus is you are not potentially leaking information about your users to a third party.
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by cpascal 6y ago
> Nearly 50 percent of people experienced time dragging during March, whereas about 24 percent perceived it to be speeding up. For me it's been a paradoxical blend of the two, months seem to drag on forever, but the week blazes by.
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by cpascal 6y ago
I am curious why you think this. This may have been true like 10 year ago, but in my experience modern .NET and especially .NET Core has great tooling. What in particular do you find lacking?
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by cpascal 6y ago
I recently went down this path. I discovered the WiX MSI toolkit and it was very smooth. If you ever find yourself needing to create an installer and haven’t used it, give it a look. It can install dependencies, customize the UI, create&#x2
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by cpascal 6y ago
This works if you stay with the company you were working for in NYC/SF and then transition to being remote.
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by cpascal 6y ago
I use namecheap which has two-factor authentication, domain locks, and support pins.
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by cpascal 6y ago
I completely agree re: Retina. All laptop manufacturers should take a cue from apple and focus on DPI rather than resolution. Ideally, DPI should be fixed across screen sizes.
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by cpascal 6y ago
If you use an email provider to host your domain's email (e.g. Fastmail, GSuite, etc.), I believe you're actually increasing your risk factor. The security of your identity will depend on your registrar, your DNS provider, and you
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by cpascal 6y ago
This doesn't always produce a new word. I got "metamucil", a brand of fiber supplement. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metamucil/eyJ3IjogIm1... edit: also got "redbull" https:&#x2
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by cpascal 6y ago
One worry about tying your identity to your own domain, is the security of your identity (aka your domain) hinges on the security of your registrar. If a bad actor can socially engineer their way into controlling your domain, your entire id
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by cpascal 6y ago
Yesterday, I priced out the 13-inch MBP and the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Ubuntu 18.04). The config was: - 32GB of RAM - 1TB SSD - 10th generation i7 - 3 year extended warranty with accident protection. With taxes, the MBP came to just
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by cpascal 6y ago
I would also be great if there was a way to export all of my OTP secrets out of the iOS version of Google Authenticator.
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by cpascal 6y ago
On a bit of a tangent here, but good commit messages are another thing I really appreciate 6 months later.
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by cpascal 6y ago
My company cannot run our infrastructure in the cloud because we do performance/availability monitoring from ~700 PoP’s around the world. Not running our infrastructure in the cloud is part of our value proposition. Our customers depen

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