jacobyoder

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by jacobyoder 2y ago
And github != git, which we're still wrestling with over a decade in to its life. Yet, for some people 'github===git' so that just compounds the issue.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
We just have old macs connected via HDMI to big flat panel TVs, and remote keyboard/trackpads. That's it. It's 'clunky' but has not failed in 10 years.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
In the moment, having to type anything more than half a line is still a distraction, as you can still make typos, or start watching as the starts to highlight issues as you type (which may or may not be real issues). Reducing distractions
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Perhaps it's too obvious, but if you're not using them, you wouldn't see any real life productivity gains, would you?
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Agreed. I usually document the disagreement somewhere - tickets, or email thread at very least.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
> But when the column was added, they just defaulted it all to USD. So and USD value could be CAD — you "just" needed to parse the address column to find out. I bet no one even considered the idea that someone in Canada might p
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Full snack, you say? ;)
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
The job market can remain irrational far longer than most people can stay solvent.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Again, at least part of the core issues I have is coming in to other projects where each person thinks in a 'different way'. And almost all of them are simply copy/pasting loads of tailwind extended strings of stuff, then se
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
It's adequate for some folks who work in the same codebase, and define their own style of work. It's been a real pain for me who comes in to various codebases for short periods of time and have to read/digest/learn ever
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Interesting thought. I may consider that as a fallback approach if we hit any issues. Thanks.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
at this point, it will probably have to be a rebuild of a few machines - i'm not sure we can jump from 7->9 in an automated way (is it possible?) and i'm unsure how we'd recover if there was a hiccup in that process. possi
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Only 5% of my work - I don't deal with them but a few times per year. I'm constantly confounded by how difficult they make relatively simple things, compared to other clients/projects I work with. But... this is dealing wit
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Some of us are forced by edict/policy to RHEL-only. I'm doing work for a client whose IT dept requires it, because it's all they 'support'. Their 'support' largely consists of a) giving ridiculously small
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
the longer i'm on a project, the more inclined i may be to get a debugger going, but often there's much more low hanging fruit to deal with that doesn't necessarily need a debugger to figure out.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
> CTB: one surprising commonality amongst many of the interviews thus far is the lack of use (or disdain for) debuggers. Almost everyone trots out print statements! Interesting. I came of age before debuggers were a 'thing' av
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
The few places I've worked in (some small, some largish - 2500+ people) - I've never worked anywhere more than 22 months, so ... there's not always a long time to develop relationships. But... coming in, there are already re
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
"The other is the day to day people management: making sure people are happy, understanding their hopes & desires, steering them towards growth, that sort of thing." I've not been in many companies over the years - mostly
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
But you see other people just 'get it right' the first time every time without even having to use the language. They just 'know' everything up front, or... read it in a forum 8 years ago and it's perfectly crysta
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Wow... mine is $25/year. I live in a rural county, but work across the border in a less rural county, with a much bigger library system. For $25/year I get access to probably 10x as much stuff through them. I expect it might go
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
> few even have wings of libraries named after us Public libraries? With easy access?
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Interestingly... I've never encountered the first scenario as a justification. I know it must exist, as I've read people describe it. Every time I've been in a group where nosql was desired, it was because they saw it at a
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
"this hurt in particular because our data was very much relational." Umm... why would you not choose a relational engine to start with? This isn't said with the benefit of hindsight. I worked with Lotus 123 back in the earl
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Fast to develop, not necessarily as fast as a 'written and optimized by hand' UI.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
It can be. 1. It can save a lot of repetitive boilerplate code 2. You can keep validation rules in one spot. I've been working with some toolkits like these after years of 'backend api, frontend vue/react/angular' a
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Or... you do all that sorting and searching server side as well. Which... I've got mixed feelings on this, and tend to not do it unless 1) it's an absolute must and/or 2) I'm using a toolkit that already supports it. W
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
> For me working overtime is part of the package when I get paid loads more. I've tended to think this way, but it's all relative. Plenty of people who've never had a $50k job will treat the $100k job as the baseline&#x2F
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
I never got 'overtime' when working on holidays during all my time in food service.
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
An advertised price to a purchaser is one thing. But the collection and remittance of the taxes to the specific taxing authorities is a whole other ballgame. Whether or not you see "$499 + $17 + $12 + $34" or you see "$571&q
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by jacobyoder 3y ago
Not all expenses are deductible, or 100% deductible in one year. The biggest issue we've seen in software was the 2017 tax act, affecting software R&D starting in 2022. Depending on how you classify those expenses, you could have

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