drspacemonkey

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by drspacemonkey 1y ago
No, I would not. ICE has already detained Canadians, and I'm not looking to try my luck. I've already cancelled a work trip to a convention in Vegas.
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by drspacemonkey 2y ago
It's called a "swing bar". It's easy to open from tho2e outside with some duct tape and a rubber band, unfortunately. Plenty of easy instructions on YouTube.
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by drspacemonkey 5y ago
First, the more difficult a task is, the more inherent difficulty there will be in "accurately" estimating the difficulty of the task. Fibonacci is used to represent the inherent lack of accuracy in more difficult tasks, since the
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by drspacemonkey 5y ago
That would be TurboLinks. It's going strong, and has seen significant improvements over time. Especially when paired with something like Stimulus and/or Reflex and/or Hotwire, you can make some _very_ snappy feeling server-si
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
For one or two standards? There's just the headache of getting approval to spend the money. But when it gets to dozens/hundreds, plus requiring vendors to have their own copies, it quickly multiplies into a massive burden. And tha
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
I'm convinced of the same thing. I once had a rather enlightening conversation with an Agile consultant who had never read the manifesto. When I showed him, he said "I'm not sure I agree with this".
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
Equifax isn't just "still around". Their stock price is up nearly 50% from the day before their data breach crash.
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
There was a Netflix documentary series on pandemic planning (in the works before COVID, but the timing was fortuitous). In it, there was a CDC/WHO expert who traveled around to various health authorities/districts/regions and
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
>work to elect officials that make the political change you want Not sure how that is supposed to apply to people like the Canadian employee referenced in the article. Canadians don't exactly have much say in American elections.
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
I've had the exact same experience. Throw in a large dose of "no repeat customers" due to us prioritizing Feature A for Potential Customer B over fixing existing gaps that affected actual customers, and it was a never-ending
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
<sarcasm>Well, then that would be the first and only time that jackass did something skeezy and illegal</sarcasm> Seriously though, that man's sense of ethics were... well, when he first found out about the GDPR, his f
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that they were _actually_ union. They may very well have been. But companies have a long, proud history of playing VERY dirty tricks in response to unionization. A former boss of mine on
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
The "uniform" thing is very true. I'm a software developer in the Pacific Northwest who loves to wear suits (they look damn good on me). I was told long ago that jeans and a hoodie are the de-facto uniform of my profession, a
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by drspacemonkey 6y ago
>On top of that, a lot of people won't want to go back to the office, not because they enjoy working from home, but because they will still be afraid of getting the virus. Being at the office probably won't feel normal anyway d
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
Aside from the incident in the linked story, fictional characters (like The Count from Sesame Street) have the blue checkmark. So it doesn't seem to me that it's there to verify "who is the owner of this account".
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
My guess is that the whole AngularJS/Angular2 fiasco really soured a lot of people on going anywhere near anything named Angular for a long time.
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
> The IOC wants to punish Russia and not the atletes, Why don't they allow for or facilitate independent doping testing then. That's exactly what they're doing. The third sentence in the article: Russian athletes wil
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
I had a similar experience. I joined a company about a month before Google launched a competing advertising product (you know, the kind of product Google never kills). The CEO got stuck in some sort of pivot loop where we'd drastically
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
I've been using a Vagrant VM and VSC remote via SSH for the last two months, and it works really, really well.
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
That's almost exactly what Vancouver does. Biggest difference is that instead of image processing on the video feed, there's sensors on the tracks at every platform.
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
>Yet for some reason people still insist that estimating non-trivial software is not only possible, but trivial. It's always maddening to get into debates about this stuff with project managers who believe this nonsense. I know the
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
Considering the posters of /r/wallstreetbets have a leader board going to see who can glitch the most leverage, it's well within the realm of possibility https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comme
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
Spent 2 years there as one of the tech expats you spoke of, and you are 100% right. The country runs on expats paid with oil money.
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
>In my opinion, the best yardstick for a health care system is how long you have to wait to be treated for cancer. By that yardstick, countries like Canada and England stack up quite poorly when compared to the USA I don't know who
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
* Accounts may have different password, lockout, and expiration policies. I've had to do that with Devise. It was easy enough to fork the `devise-security` plugin and modify the configuration settings to handle lambdas. The lambdas wer
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
>I don't like Devise either I've got my complaints about Devise, but I'll take those pains any day of the week over the alternative nightmare of "built in-house" authentication. At this point, if somebody doesn&#
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
Having been down this road before, I'd recommend Flutter over ReactNative. ReactNative feels like developing the same app 2.5 times. Once in RN proper, and then covering the same ground for large swaths of the app again for each iOS an
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
I went with an XPS13 a couple years ago. Display is great (I'd say on-par with Apple), keyboard is far superior to the new MacBooks, touchpad is about 90% compared to MacBooks, and I'm pretty sure it's thinner. For sure the s
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
Thanks, I look forward to reading it!
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by drspacemonkey 7y ago
The author kinda lost me halfway through. Was mobile or other non-web API interaction ever addressed in any meaningful way? Specifically, how much it sucks to to allow 3rd parties (or even 1st-party non-web-browser clients) access to your A

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