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by jbotdev 3y ago
Maybe I’m arguing semantics, but my point is “need” seems a little subjective here. You can write insecure/unsafe/unreliable code and it’ll still run and compile just fine. You probably don’t want to, but you don’t “need” every pr
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by jbotdev 3y ago
> In this session, learn some of the best practices that every C++ programmer needs to ensure successful completion of a project. I find it annoying when people say you “need” some best practice. The things you actually need are generall
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by jbotdev 3y ago
Are people afraid of speaking out against meetings or declining them? I typically am upfront about when I think a meeting is not needed or when I’m not needed, and have no problem discussing it with my coworkers directly. Larger meetings li
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I think that’s a bit extreme. What if I’m doing analytics via server-side logs rather than client-side (e.g. Google Analytics)? Are we supposed to ban server logs too? What happens when I want to actually troubleshoot issues with my site?
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Title is misleading.. You get $1k if you decide to trade it in with Apple. Technically it’s still worth more on the second-hand market.
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by jbotdev 4y ago
It’s still used by the SEC to render company filings on their EDGAR site. I can’t find the exact files/docs, but I’ve rendered filings like this using the XML and XSLT they provide: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Forget climate and respiratory issues, I’ve gone induction out of pure convenience and don’t miss gas at all. My induction cook top heats up faster, has more precise control, retains less heat on the “burner”, and is way easier to clean. Th
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by jbotdev 4y ago
The Bloomberg Terminal still has amber-on-black text as the default for a lot of its content, presumably to mimic the original amber displays they used in the 80s. The funny thing is a lot of people just associate that color scheme with the
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I think people overestimate how much CPU time a typical CRUD app spends on actual business logic, even with an interpreted language like Ruby or Python. What I’ve seen is the bottleneck is largely memory, such that you can pack a ton of the
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by jbotdev 4y ago
The article did mention that this breach did not include the “primary codebase”. Where is the rest of the code hosted? I’m guessing some private Git server (e.g. “on-prem” GitHub/GitLab Enterprise)?
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by jbotdev 4y ago
https://archive.is/oy7YN
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Technically this is talking about “private security” rather than “law enforcement. The primary goal of private security is typically the security of their clients, not enforcing the law. The article in particular talks about private securit
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Well, if the problem they’re addressing is largely petty crimes against businesses like shoplifting, you really only need private security in the business districts. Preventing crime in private homes seems like it’s a much harder task for e
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by jbotdev 4y ago
There are a few open source options out there (e.g. run IMAP backup script via cron). I personally use CubeBackup [1] on a local NAS, which covers mail/drive/photos. I then have a job that backs up that directory off-site using rc
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Hope you get your account back. I’ve been on the fence about migrating off Gmail, but after reading threads like this, I put a contingency plan in place. Backups of my Google account are done hourly, and I have a custom domain/workspac
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Elon Musk blocks critic from viewing tweets(twitter.com)
18 points by jbotdev 4y ago|0 comments
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by jbotdev 4y ago
My point is if you’re requiring smartphones, realistically you’re only going to target those two OSs. That’s independent of the fact that requiring it to rent an apartment is bad. Pick apart that last 0.1% and it’s mostly end of life device
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I agree requiring a smartphone in general is a bad idea, but realistically 99.9% of smartphones in the US have iOS or Android. Maybe outdated Android, but I think HN sometimes overestimates the prevalence and practically of alternative smar
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by jbotdev 4y ago
My point is there seems to be no ban on factory-installed alarms (source: I have purchased new cars in NYC in the past decade with working alarms).
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I’d like to add to that list: [gas/ICE] motorcycles, modified car exhausts, pretty much any small gas engine (power washers, snow blowers, generators). Leaf blowers I’m afraid are here to stay, but the electric ones make a less annoyin
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by jbotdev 4y ago
They may have banned after-market alarms, but factory-installed car alarms are standard on pretty much every new car in the past 10+ years anyway. I still hear those go off on occasion in NYC. I’m actually having trouble finding a source on
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by jbotdev 4y ago
It feels closer to writing on paper (or eink) rather than on glass. The main downside is it reduces the clarity of the screen a bit, but I find it acceptable for most media (YouTube, photos, etc.).
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I came to a similar conclusion after looking into rm2 and trying one of the similar Boox tablets. They may run android, but security and OS updates seems to be a low priority for these eink tablets. I ended up getting an iPad Air with the p
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I think this misses a much larger issue, which is that running your own datacenters (or just your own hardware) is becoming very unpopular. OpenStack could have all the features in the world, but at the end of the day you need a team to run
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I have a Sony OLED TV from 2020 with Android TV and Chromecast, and power usage on my UPS is reporting as 0W when off (probably rounding down). I never had to disable it, but I also never setup network connectivity or the Android TV feature
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Reminds me of when I was in school, and you could access blocked sites by appending a dot. Presumably their firewall had a bunch of domain block rules that didn’t take this into account, and the vendor didn’t think to check for both variati
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by jbotdev 4y ago
What would you do on one of these laptops that would take advantage of a 25Gb connection?
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I think nowadays requiring that all application developers should also do ops (DevOps?) is a bad idea. Sure they should have basic shell skills, but when you’re on Kubernetes or similar, understanding what’s underneath is not vital. Instead
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by jbotdev 4y ago
You can still use native threads, as long as you’re not expecting them to improve performance with multi-core CPU usage. The main purpose is typically to perform several I/O operations in parallel (e.g. multiple external API calls). Th
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I’ve found it interesting to see several different concurrency frameworks for Ruby over the years with mixed success (e.g. EventMachine), along with the multiple built-in primitive (fibers, threads, forks). The patterns I’ve seen most used

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