darkandbrooding

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by darkandbrooding 2y ago
Did you intend to reference "It's a wonderful life?" When I read your comment I imagine a tiny child in Jimmy Stewart's arms, exclaiming the joys of capitalism ;-)
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by darkandbrooding 4y ago
My employer fits your first criteria precisely. Turbo and Stimulus provide exactly as much interactivity as we need. The appearance is that we're trying to avoid Javascript. The reality is that we are (successfully) minimizing context
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
I freely admit that I pulled numbers out of a hat, just to help me visualize the problem.
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
I was curious and did some math. A five minute zoom call is not realistic; you probably need 15 minutes per person. If my math is correct, and if no one was even a minute late, it would take 225 hours to lay those people off sequentially, a
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
I recommend Godot ( https://godotengine.org/ ). It solves many of the problems you suggested.
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
You and (other person) started your lives on different dates, in different places, in unique circumstances; you are statistically unlikely to end those lives at the same time and place. If the two of you appear to be following the same path
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
Apt sidesteps this problem because Debian-based releases are not rolling releases. Unless you install a custom PPA, if you are running Ubuntu 18.04 and you "apt-get install postgres" you will always get version 10.x. The major ver
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
That is my preferred solution and I think it works great. I have persuaded a couple of coworkers to switch, but only a couple so far. Containerized Postgres is a real win, but running OpenLDAP (+ custom schema) as a containerized applicatio
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
There is one single feature of homebrew that regularly bites my coworkers. You can refer to software by name@version ("brew install postgresql@11" or "brew install postgresql@12") and there is no confusion about what you
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by darkandbrooding 5y ago
https://github.com/The-Complete-Guide-to-Rails-Performance I learned quite a bit about ruby memory mgmt from the above. Free text, pay for video tutorials IIRC. The course was authored by Nate Berkopec. https://w
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by darkandbrooding 7y ago
Just adding to the choir. This is a great tool. I prefer using open source software when possible, but I also like to pay for the tools that makes my job easier. The developer is aiming at corporate, volume licensing and I understand how a
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by darkandbrooding 7y ago
I won't presume to answer for the OP, but my (remote conference attendance) pet peeves include: I have printed out important information (but forgotten to email it); let me use the whiteboard that is mounted on the same wall as the cam
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by darkandbrooding 8y ago
Almost thirty years ago now, driving around on a hot summer day with a couple of friends. One guy puts a punk mix tape in the player, and the guy with a college music scholarship was aesthetically offended. "Anyone could make this musi
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by darkandbrooding 9y ago
A .psd file is not an end-user asset. I can think of no use case where someone would point a browser at a hosted .psd and expect that binary file to render as an inline image. A .psd file was, for a good chunk of the past twenty years, the
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by darkandbrooding 10y ago
This article is rhetorical slight of hand, written by a man who directly benefits if history takes a kinder view of the GW Bush administration. The author asserts that GW Bush is smarter than [the typical reader]. Howard Gardner describes n
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by darkandbrooding 10y ago
Interesting experiment, but two groups seems like a too small a sample. If moderation is done by humans, you could simply prove that one moderator had a worse morning than the other, or that through luck of the draw Group A went to a sympat
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by darkandbrooding 11y ago
Would you join a company in whose purpose you don't believe? I find it rare for people to take an opportunity with a company they don't feel good about, regardless of how much they might like the interviewing manager. IMO those
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by darkandbrooding 11y ago
I have also been using that app and I am very happy with the results. I had a couple of false starts, but now have gotten into a nice rhythm. The trick is to not judge or criticize yourself during data entry. Analysis is a completely separa
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by darkandbrooding 12y ago
Consider Sendmail as a cautionary tale. One more than one occasion I have seen a busy sysadmin manually edit a .cf file and forget to backport the edit to the .mc file. The next time someone regenerates the .cf from the .mc you have a vanis
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by darkandbrooding 12y ago
Please forgive me if I'm misinterpreting you, but the lament you make about open source software seems to me to be more about distributed systems. It is an interesting observation, and now that you've pointed it out I can observe
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by darkandbrooding 12y ago
I can't remember the man's name now, but I once read an interview with a NYT gossip reporter who worked up until the 1950s. He said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory), "gossip is rich people dealing with problems that mo
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by darkandbrooding 12y ago
Oh man, now you've triggered my OCD and I feel pedantic. https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
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by darkandbrooding 12y ago
In the early 2000s, the Zope community felt that Zope 2.x had grown long in the tooth, so they decided to create a new, modern code base that they called "Zope 3," initially released in 2004. Zope 3 was not backward compatible wit
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Are you making the Nagios host pull (via NRPE) or are you asking the individual hosts to push (via NSCA)? I am trying to solve a similar problem. Given a dynamic population of hosts, each of which has a variable life span, I think that aski
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educat
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
The use of [Debatably Volatile Term] (hereafter DVT) is poor branding for a project or product, unless the cultural baggage associated with DVT aligns with the purpose of the project/product. Assume that DVT has different connotative d
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
I think it's a terrible, terrible design. I was working on a new Retina Powerbook last week, and I pushed the power key within my first ten minutes. It should not be trivially easy to bring your productivity to a screeching halt. The s
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Apologies for communicating my thoughts poorly. I was confident that the integration was intentional. I had intended the trivia about gmail:chrome integration as a way to illustrate the parent's opinion that Apple controlling the user
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
Very interesting. Thanks!
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by darkandbrooding 13y ago
I have Gmail and Chrome installed on an iPad. HTTP links in Gmail open in Chrome if that browser is installed. Just FYI.

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