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by gav 1y ago
For those that want to travel light the Panasonic MultiShape[1] is great as you can share one rechargeable base with multiple tools. It is annoying as it's not USB, but inexpensive cables are available[2] and work great. [1] https:&#x
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by gav 1y ago
The desired result is a 500 so it's possible to audit. As much as this is a pain, the alternative can be more painful. I used to have a client that would forward me an email from their security team every six weeks saying "we foun
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by gav 1y ago
It's more so that Cloudflare has a WAF product that checks a box for security and makes people who's job it is to care about boxes being checked happy. For example, I worked with a client that had a test suite of about 7000 or so
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by gav 2y ago
To paraphrase a previous employer's strategy: fixed fee projects are for ones you plan to do over and over where it makes sense to invest at getting good at them. The first one you lose a bunch of money, the second you might break even
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by gav 2y ago
One example is LookML, which used to build semantic data models in an analytic layer: https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/what-is-lookml
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by gav 2y ago
Dijkstra was talking about Dartmouth Basic in 1975: - Variables: Single letter, optional digit. - Control flow: FOR loops, GOTO for others. - Subroutines: GOSUB line, RETURN. - Parameters: Passed via global variables. - Function
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by gav 2y ago
When I had a blue collar job, my coworker used to divide jobs into "shower before work" and "shower after work". It's perhaps less relevant now that a lot of people can roll out of bed and start their remote job in
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by gav 2y ago
You need to treat any animal bite seriously. I had to convince a coworker to go to the ER to have a cat bite looked at, and she ended up spending a couple of days in the ICU with the doctor being clear that delaying treatment another few da
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by gav 2y ago
There's a risk for wooden ones that are glued, specifically bamboo, or finished with something toxic. You should probably stick to ones made from a single piece of hardwood and are unfinished. There's also a risk that any cracks w
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by gav 2y ago
I imagine that it would be along the lines of: If you are a service worker earning less than $44,725 (the Federal 12% bracket) your first $10,000 of tips are tax free. This would mean that an income of $40,000 including $10,000 tips would o
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by gav 2y ago
See Living Worlds: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/ There's a iOS and Android app: https://pixfabrik.com/livingworlds/
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by gav 2y ago
You can use MJML - https://mjml.io/ - which abstracts away a lot of the ugliness and Outlook hacks.
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by gav 2y ago
At some point there is a physical limitation, there's no passport in the world that accepts a 666-character name. The US only gives you 21 characters on the DS-11 for a surname.
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by gav 2y ago
I make heavy use of Slack's Later feature as due to timezone differences the first half of my day is significantly busier than the second. Asking people to move to email feels like a passive aggressive way to add enough friction to dis
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by gav 3y ago
In a previous role I was responsible for developing architecture that supported a bunch of different teams, so I started being pulled into a lot of meetings as the easy option for them was asking me. I ended up having 6-8 hours of meetings
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by gav 3y ago
As much as I agree that 98% of the conversation on Nextdoor is worthless, it was invaluable to me one day when a stray dog showed up on my doorstep and I had to track down their owner.
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by gav 3y ago
Recently I had to support a client who had a "no CVEs in a production deploy, ever" policy. The stack included Linux, Java, Chromium, and MySQL. It took multiple person-years of playing whack-a-mole with dependencies to get it int
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by gav 3y ago
One interesting read on the topic of near misses and High-Reliability Organizations is the paper "Going Solid", which has a great summary here: https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/888958-paper-going-solid
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by gav 3y ago
The last time I ran into a similar thing I solved this race condition by not erroring out on an invalid lookup until a reasonable number of seconds to allow the backend to catch up.
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by gav 3y ago
I assume there's some point where they will start declining transactions and it could be some fixed number or some complex calculation based on all the data the bank has about my finances. My point is that these examples are bad ones b
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by gav 3y ago
When it comes to this topic, almost all examples don't match how things work in the real world where they are eventually consistent. For example, my bank lets me go negative and then if I don't settle by the end of the day, overdr
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by gav 3y ago
Optimistic locking is a great solution to avoid holding a lock for an indeterminate period of time as you wait for a user or external system to provide updates.
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by gav 3y ago
To generalize that idea a little, I think about technical debt being the accumulation of less-than-perfect decisions, if you consider the decision you made against the best possible decision that could have been made in hindsight. Sometimes
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by gav 3y ago
Steinway & Sons piano company built a company town, which is now part of Astoria, NYC. I lived for a few years in a house that was for factory workers, streets west of me were bigger houses intended for management. https://am
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by gav 3y ago
> * If you use a rental car, Factory Reset the head unit when you leave. If I rent a car, I won't pair my phone at all, even going so far as to use a car charger instead of the provided USB ports.
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by gav 3y ago
Regus has been around for a long time, I worked out of one of their offices in the mid-90s. The great thing was that shared office space was new to most people, so when clients would visit they'd be impressed with the fancy building, t
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by gav 3y ago
I've worked with a few companies where a significant portion of the staff have been there a long time--the sort of place where you join after high school and stay until retirement and the "new guy" has been there over a decad
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by gav 3y ago
If you visit NYC, the mutton chop at Keen's is well worth trying: https://ny.eater.com/2015/1/30/7948527/the-mutton-chop-at-ke...
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by gav 3y ago
I've spent a bunch of time over the last couple of years working on learning and enablement programs. The main thing that I've learnt is that nobody likes the bulk of online learning efforts: dated videos with forced Q&A inter
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by gav 3y ago
It is a common story and sometimes those get put in the collective blender and we get apocryphal stories out of it. Here's two stories of my own: Back in the mid 90s, I built out a system that gave every school in a district their own

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