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by epalm 7mo ago
Aren’t these the guys that preinstalled a root certificate to MITM you ads? Not something that can be casually forgiven.
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by epalm 11mo ago
Where’s the course on managing your reaction when the client starts moving the goal posts on a project that you didn’t specify well enough (or at all), because you’re a young eager developer without any scars yet?
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by epalm 1y ago
This is interesting. I’m wondering how programmable this is. Would this project (or any similar ones) be able to POST a json payload with a field set to “now()”?
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by epalm 2y ago
About the poor memory stuff, just get it in writing. “In writing“ could mean in an email, or a chat, or more likely in an issue tracker that has an audit log. When there’s a discrepancy, just link to where it was written down.
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by epalm 2y ago
I was quoting from the article, which, admittedly, isn’t straight from the horses mouth. If there’s a discrepancy, one of them is wrong (I think I know which). > While there’s no display, the illuminated ring behind the grip does provide
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by epalm 2y ago
I like this mentality, truly, makes perfect sense. Check in often to make sure you’re building the right thing. Keep going until it’s done. However, the client is going to want to know (A) how much it’s going to cost, and (B) how long it’s
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by epalm 2y ago
> It glows purple while it's heating This is not correct, it pulses blue indicating the iron is heating, and when turned off, pulses purple while cooling.
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by epalm 2y ago
Looks nice, both the site and the app! The first thought I had though was, here's a central place where potentially hundreds, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands (or more, depending on how successful you are) of database credentials a
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by epalm 2y ago
> Anyway... we all know disabling security or not implementing it in the first place can really save you a lot of time. At least in the short run. The way I put it to my clients, and staff, is simply that security comes at the cost of co
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by epalm 2y ago
Nice roundup of tools! Just a small note, on safari mobile if I expand the Edit and then Convert sections, they open on top of each other. https://i.imgur.com/bSZdRTN.png
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by epalm 2y ago
> getting people to use even the first layer of threads is very difficult, especially non-technical people Indeed. We use Google Chat which is roughly a Slack clone in terms of structure. A discussion will start at the root level, and th
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by epalm 2y ago
> companies that offer a free service but start charging once they've locked in a client-base (I'm looking at you Heroku). I don’t know much about Heroku, or if it’s been enshittified (yet?), but a company that offers a free pr
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by epalm 2y ago
I used Kali too, for Descent and other games. The chat rooms were true communities, probably one of the first times as a kid that I connected with other like-minded people (aka nerds).
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by epalm 2y ago
This looks really nice! Something my staff would definitely appreciate, especially the ability to 'version' the text file (even if it's just different copies of yaml files in a directory). But the deployment aspect is a non-s
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by epalm 2y ago
More than that, the article says 36B last fiscal year. 25M is less than 1 tenth of 1 percent.
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by epalm 2y ago
All that text and all those still images and no gif or short video showing the pendulums swinging!? ;)
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by epalm 3y ago
Yes, this! In this day and age, if you’re applying for a remote position but you’re still fumbling around, unable to smoothly join a zoom meeting with a working microphone, it doesn’t bode well.
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by epalm 3y ago
Heh, yeah, I was a heavy Prototype user back when it wasn’t clear which one of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, dojo, or mootools would ‘win’.
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by epalm 3y ago
This reminds me of using xquery with MarkLogic circa 2010 to store the data, act as the middle tier, and generate the xhtml views, all in the same language. It had its quirks, but it was refreshing to do everything in one language.
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by epalm 3y ago
I know exactly where the expectation comes from. The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers for decades. Of course, I agree that if we want computers to “think on their own“ or otherwise “be more human“ (whatever that me
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by epalm 3y ago
My favorite part of Uplink was the module you could buy to talk to other hackers. Which of course turned out to be an actual IRC channel with actual people! I hung out in the channel for a year or two (via real IRC client, probably mIRC), a
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by epalm 3y ago
It’s not possible for everyone to know everything. Almost no one knows how to fix their <insert technology here, cars for example>, but at some point in history the opposite was true. Abstractions make technology available to the mass
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by epalm 3y ago
Maybe Google is responsible for the attack, to be able to publish this blog post! <\tinfoil-hat>
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by epalm 3y ago
Very cool, thanks. Looks like a lot of thought went into the UI, congrats on launching it!
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by epalm 3y ago
Seeing as this is for business use where money is part of the data, is there a way to export all my data at once? Not only for having a backup, but also in the future in case I no longer like the service, or I outgrow the service, or the se
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by epalm 3y ago
This is probably true, but I’d bet the ‘nothing to hide’ crowd don’t know it.
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by epalm 3y ago
My version of this is “Just go ahead and send me your browser history, I’ll wait.”
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by epalm 3y ago
If you think they meant ‘dropped as in removed’, what I think they meant was ‘dropped as in introduced’.
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by epalm 3y ago
What end-user friendliness is missing from syncthing?
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by epalm 4y ago
Yeah, I do this when querying sql databases. I limit the data to some small/local range, iteratively work on the query, and when I'm happy with the local results, I remove the filter and get the big results.

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