cwbrandsma

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by cwbrandsma 6d ago
Because it is already supported in VS Code. I don't think this is a hot take, but I'm predicting Microsoft will gradually phase out Visual Studio in favor of VS Code.
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by cwbrandsma 3mo ago
My eye sight got MUCH worse after a covid infection. I was 20/20 or better before covid, now everything is blurry outside of a very narrow distance range, and white anything can hurt. Granted I'm over 50, so I was expecting my eye
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by cwbrandsma 6mo ago
So I was part of a company that did this. They used XML as a programming language, then built apps to manage the "code". This was all done to create mobile apps for old Windows Phone devices back in the Windows Phone 5 and 6 days
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by cwbrandsma 7mo ago
Long Covid and ME/CFS can make you fragile. At least it has for me. I never used to get emotionally overwhelmed, now I do. I don't have it as bad as she does, but I've been bedbound because of this. And being sick for months
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by cwbrandsma 7mo ago
IPOs also kill a lot of companies. Now you have a new list of investors you are obligated to attend to, and what those investors what is not always to make your company more successful, if it can make more money now.
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
* How much stress? * How many hours?
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
Braden Health | Boise (ONSITE) | Full-time We are writing and maintaining health software for rural hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia. Small team, products in active development. We are looking for a full stack developer, comfortable in b
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
AI is somehow supposed to generate $1T a year by 2028? From where? Never mind the lack of electric grid capacity to keep all of this running.
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
She wasn't even reading it, I was telling her my name, all she had to do was repeat it and she couldn't do it.
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
And you will forever have your name mispronounced by English speakers that can’t wrap their tongues around the -sma or -stra ending. Things like TerpSON, TerpSmith, Terp…. One time while voting the lady working there butchered my name 8 tim
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
* Step 2: design is "tested" with the users, later we find out the users really had no idea what was going on because they weren't really paying attention. Then the real product is delivered and they are shocked that the chan
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by cwbrandsma 1y ago
That sucks, since I developed a neurological issue from Covid I could really use a refresh of my nervous system.
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Doesn't look like they are paywalling existing feature, just some new AI back functionality. Considering how much is costs to run those sorts of features I can understand. Plus, there are lots of alternative app that are free and easy
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
The language that could have been. I did a bunch of Delphi around the Delphi 5 and 6 era. It was a nice middle ground between VB6 and C++. Unfortunately it made my startup more difficult to sell. Eventually Microsoft bought it, but there we
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
You forgot: Engineering is requesting this. So no.
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Same boat with having a chronic illness, not fatal, but no cure either. It gets tiring wading thru all the snake oil salesmen selling false hope. And it isn’t them directly, because my older family members will hear about it with “have you
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
I can easily tell the difference between the two, but I really don't care so long as the coffee is brewed well. I still like Maxwell House Black Silk, but at home I grind my own beans and brew in a French Press. What I don't like
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
it is highly regulated, but legal in some states. The inspection process for the dairies is pretty intense as well. I would not buy it to drink, but I have used it to make some really good yogurt (and I pasteurized the milk myself).
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Containers is a good example of how things can go wrong as well, especially when you aren't familiar with them, and you are looking into related technologies, like kubernetes, and suddenly you fine out you have 10 layers of terminology
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Penatrate and Patch: because if it doesn’t work the first time then throw everything away, fire the developers, hire new ones, and start over completely.
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Thank you, I was scratching my head trying to figure that out.
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Lets not forget how long it would take to spin up an enterprise database, even in memory, there are hundreds (or thousands) of tables. Also there can be multiple databases with their own schema, and each require a fair amount of data in som
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Just like every other year.
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
My designer will do that, and is pretty good. The problem is my product team, who have very little technical background. They look at the designs are start messing with everything. I have to constantly remind them of AA compliance. They fla
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by cwbrandsma 2y ago
Oh gosh, I have all of this going on right now. My CTO read about microservices and now everything has to be in a microservice. Nothing wrong with that, but for a small development team there is a lot to make that work (infrastructure as co
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by cwbrandsma 3y ago
Are you a woodworking software engineer or a musician software engineer? Actually, that is probably the same group.
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by cwbrandsma 3y ago
ah yes, the "irrational exuberance" period, as termed by Alan Greenspan, when investors were poring money into anything that was labeled a '.com'. Companies were renaming themselves to include the '.com' in the
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by cwbrandsma 3y ago
My background: i have been vaccinated 3 times, but still caught Covid on May24, 2023. I’ve spent the following 8 months recovering. I’ve been dealing with extreme fatigue, brain fog, headaches, migraines, dizziness, shaking, and more. It f
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by cwbrandsma 3y ago
at least out west they build near power generation already (usually next to hydro dams). At least that is what I remember them doing, I could be a few years out of date.
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by cwbrandsma 3y ago
Back in college I had to read "Lament for a Son", written by a college professor that lost a son in a mountain climbing accident. The "Page left deliberately blank" hit me a bit hard, just empathizing with the emptiness.

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