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by flamtap 6y ago
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. This relatively short book has made more of a difference to my personal livelihood than maybe any other pice of literature or advice. You really don’t realize how much negotiating you do in day to d
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by flamtap 6y ago
Wow! Hot take. What Azure services were you using?
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by flamtap 6y ago
>I expect our migration from 3.1=>5.0 will be a total non-event, but we don't want to risk any regressions during our current crunch phase FWIW, I just did a find/replace across 66 projects for `netcoreapp3.1` => `net5.0`
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by flamtap 6y ago
I just did a straight up find-replace for `netcoreapp3.1` -> `net5.0` across 66 projects, built and passed tests without a hitch. Zero issues so far outside of the warnings resulting from enhanced nullable reference type smarts .
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by flamtap 6y ago
Oh, rats. I was just wondering if a-Shell would get hit with this too. I get a lot of mileage out of that app.
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by flamtap 6y ago
> My guess would be it's meant to annoy you into submission No reason to believe that this is not considered to be optimal by the company.
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by flamtap 6y ago
I find myself confused by this as well, surely people who are sufficiently technically sophisticated to own bitcoin won’t fall for “I’ll send you bitcoin if you send me yours first”?
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by flamtap 6y ago
If there’s one ad I get the most, it’s the God damned YouTube premium ads. I don’t know how many times I have to say no to the prompts. I wish there were a way to say “I will delete the app before I buy this”.
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by flamtap 6y ago
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a perennial classic, though not tech focused. But that's probably okay in combination with more tech-industry focused literature.
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by flamtap 6y ago
About the purchase of large amounts of gift cards; it’s not as uncommon as you’d think. I worked at a grocery store customer service office and it wasn’t uncommon to have people buy thousands of dollars in gift cards as giveaways or prizes
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by flamtap 6y ago
almost
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by flamtap 6y ago
Yes, the popular story about the 30-odd bystanders was broadly unfounded. In fact there were two calls to the police.
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by flamtap 6y ago
In the Amazon app, a search for “shirt without stripes” now get corrected to “shirt without strips”.
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by flamtap 6y ago
Lexus also has a touchpad, and an interesting "tactile joystick" type of solution. Takes some getting used to but the tactile feedback goes a long way to reducing the need to look at the screen.
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by flamtap 7y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by flamtap 7y ago
You can also set up 1PW to use a OTP itself. I use 1PW for OTP generation and for passwords (naturally), but my 1Password account itself is protected by my password + secret key, as well as an authenticator/OTP app that is not 1PW.
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by flamtap 7y ago
I don't use 1PW for teams, but I do use it personally and use it to store all my OTPs except my OTP credential to access 1Password itself. I use a different authenticator app for that (happens to be Microsoft, but that doesn't m
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by flamtap 7y ago
As a Canadian, let me tell you that it gets even better when you eliminate the penny as well!
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Toronto Stock Exchange Markets Incident(tsx.com)
3 points by flamtap 7y ago|0 comments
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by flamtap 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I literally bought a Pi4 yesterday to set up a Pi-Hole on, and I was choked when I read this headline!
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by flamtap 7y ago
Isn't that what they've been accustomed to all this time?
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by flamtap 7y ago
I agree with this. Microservices have their place. So do monolithic, centralized services. Using both in the same system is certainly not a sin, can can certainly be correct. I'm currently reading through Juval Lowy's latest book,
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by flamtap 7y ago
Regarding item 5: I think it can be a win-win. In my country at least (Canada), some of those savings are passed on to me. I can deduct from my taxes a portion of the following: rent, phone bill, internet bill, home utilities, essentially a
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by flamtap 7y ago
And, not to be underrated: private washroom.
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by flamtap 7y ago
+1 on this. I have containers set up for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon logins (and all the apps they respectively own, that I of course do not have perfect knowledge of). It's quite clunky to set up though. To add a site to a
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by flamtap 7y ago
As a long-time ReSharper user, I’ve been meaning to give rider a close look for some time now. Unfortunately the last project I was on was heavy into WPF, and that was about the only box VS didn’t tick. Any tips, tricks, or pitfalls to avoi
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by flamtap 7y ago
It does seem to miss the "Query" part of "Language INtegrated Query". Though the methods are convenient in any case. One of the most mind-blowing moments I can remember in my career is when I realized just how powerful t
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by flamtap 7y ago
Could be as simple as a networking thing. Czech/Slovak people know Czech/Slovak people, those people get recommended, etc.
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by flamtap 7y ago
The recent video game Death Stranding touched on this theme, but regrettably didn’t go too deep into it. I would be really interested in fiction revolving around giving people work for work’s sake.
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by flamtap 7y ago
Only thing missing is a Mountie writing someone a traffic ticket.

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