jaaames

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by jaaames 5y ago
Can't agree enough. Declarative programming makes sense for lots of things, React is a great example. With such a big dependency graph for infra, adding loops and variables and templating to be able to achieve the same thing as Pulumi
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by jaaames 6y ago
It's not. Australia calculates fully loaded car costs at $0.72AUD/km. If you add up depreciation, registration, insurance, servicing, fuel, repairs and amortize it the numbers check out.
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by jaaames 6y ago
Here is another community compiled document regarding plausible origins https://project-evidence.github.io/
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by jaaames 6y ago
"Meanwhile, 90 percent reported they have been trying to negotiate their leases, but their landlords wouldn’t budge." This is alarming. It may seem like just another statistic lost in a bigger article, but it's symptomatic of
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by jaaames 6y ago
Very few, and I don't think it's a reasonable parallel. I don't think 8 hours of cognitively demanding, yet physically sedentary work, is part of our human nature. If you frame it in the sense that we are just monkeys in shoe
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by jaaames 6y ago
I guess I'm going outside today.
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by jaaames 6y ago
What do you do when you see this lying around? http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/img/etherkiller.jpg
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by jaaames 6y ago
He's referring to https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t... rather than boolean coercion.
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by jaaames 6y ago
Whatever role you're in, don't underestimate the value of relationships, communication, and soft skills in being able to influence the impact and value of the work you can deliver. If you can persuade a product manager to drop a b
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Australian state NSW says social distancing in place until vaccine is found(abc.net.au)
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by jaaames 7y ago
I had 3 days of tired/weakness from 7-10 Jan, and a severe dry cough for about two weeks after that. I strongly suspect I caught it from a friend that had travelled all over Europe and back the previous weekend and we were in close con
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by jaaames 7y ago
I am extremely bearish on this whole global situation, but given the gravity of the situation, we're going to see the world's best institutions and minds working on vaccines and treatments with essentially unlimited funding and to
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by jaaames 7y ago
Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.
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by jaaames 7y ago
Yeah - I use this workflow and love it. cmd + esp (with caps lock remapped to escape) to toggle a full screen terminal from any application. Means don't have to cmd + tab and hunt for it, it's always one shortcut away.
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by jaaames 7y ago
https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/7520318?hl=en Locksmiths are now a restricted business as grey hat marketers figured it was an industry with a high ticket price and autonomous demand, and the search te
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by jaaames 8y ago
This could be a HN demographic thing. The comment definitely piqued my curiosity, too. Interested in others thoughts. I think the sibling commenter may have got it right with the fact people make a conscious decision to go see a movie befor
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by jaaames 8y ago
Can anyone that has been in the industry for a significant period of time comment on this feeling? I'm 5 years deep professionally, 15 years as a hobby, and no longer enjoying software, at least in it's form consumed by a customer
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by jaaames 8y ago
Try vimium, I've been using it for years - as long as the HTML is semantically correct a surprisingly amount of the web is navigable.
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by jaaames 8y ago
Keyless start cars (e.g. Volkswagen) have a way to start with a dead fob. If you hold the dead fob against the little key symbol on the steering column it'll power the fob by induction and you'll be able to start the car. You&#x27
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by jaaames 8y ago
Looks great, not having a go at you, but instantly reminded me of this https://youtu.be/8wfG8ngFvPk
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by jaaames 8y ago
Firebase has ergonomic free auth that does all this out of the box.
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by jaaames 8y ago
I'm going to do Rust.
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by jaaames 8y ago
True, but consider some folks are content with a 38 hour week, may have automated large chunks of their job, and find the demands of working for a big public sector organization far less than that of a similar role in a private sector tech
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by jaaames 8y ago
Perfect description of that color, thanks.
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by jaaames 8y ago
Thanks for the release regardless!
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by jaaames 8y ago
Yeah these guys follow quickly, I've used this multi times and can highly recommend.
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by jaaames 8y ago
Highly recommended, incredibly easy to set up and use.
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by jaaames 8y ago
Lack of Vimium stopped me from even attempting to switch back from Chrome to Firefox. Can't live without Vimium.
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by jaaames 8y ago
As long as you feed parseInt it's second radix parameter you can :p
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by jaaames 8y ago
I believe there was/is a stage 0 proposal for pattern matching in ECMAScript

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