jef_leppard

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by jef_leppard 3y ago
I grew up in the 80s and it’s hard to overstate how dominant Arnold was back then. Every little boy wanted to be Commando or Conan. I also remember when he was governor (I live in cali). Those years I remember less fondly. He was not very g
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
It makes me sad seeing the narrative on forums like this and elsewhere shift to "Tech companies are all bloated and Elon is right". Anyone saying that is missing the point entirely IMO. Even if if it were 100% true and everything
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
When people say "defund the police" this is the kind of shit they are talking about. There is no reason for a police force to have access to lethal robots. None.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
> solid 10-15% of folks doing nothing Where are you getting these numbers? You got any real studies or data to back this up?
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
If you don’t want collaborative editing, don’t use it. I’m saying most users wanted it and started looking elsewhere when EN couldn’t deliver. It’s easier to add a lock on collaboration than to backfill later.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I learned three things watching EN snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: 1) There is almost never a case for a total ground up rewrite of your core product. Just don’t do it. 2) Don’t abandon the users who made you successful in the first
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Just so. Some big Grinch energy coming from one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
> Lot's of twitter employees will suffer This is the only part of this I am speaking to because the rest is exactly what is happening. Musk messed up and now a whole lot of people are put in a terrible situation going right into the
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Layoffs are part of business yes (pretty much what I said in my parent post). What I have a problem with is the way this is being done. Forcing people to quit by dropping arbitrary deadlines without any notice? Notice of 84 hour work weeks?
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I bought a System 76 laptop a few years ago and stuff like this is why I went back to Apple. I was always dealing with one weird thing or another. One day it decides it wont wake from sleep if I have it in clamshell mode, another it decides
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
This is why I tell every senior or “muggle” I know to just get an iPad for their computing needs. Sandboxed. Cheap. Backs everything up for you. Totally managed experience. I’ve switched numerous folks in that demographic over and have neve
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
> Of those Gen-Xers who have done something with their lives—Elon Musk, Dave Chapelle, J. K. Rowling, Kanye West, and Jack Dorsey I am GenX and I'd like to think I've done a lot of interesting things with my life. The folks lis
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A tale of three generals – how the Ukrainian military turned the tide(engelsbergideas.com)
3 points by jef_leppard 4y ago|0 comments
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I made the switch to vim a few years ago. You'll want to start with learning the keybindings. Every major IDE and editor out there has a "vim mode" and an "emacs mode" so pick one you like and enable it. Whenever yo
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
You sound like a fun guy. Enjoy.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Dammit. You have my upvote.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
> quite frankly it's where the PHP developers all slithered off to PHP isn't my favorite language but using phrasing like "slither" to describe an entire community of developers is frankly shitty. Every language has i
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
SQLAwesome? :)
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Someone recently observed that SQLite would be used a lot more in production if it didn't have the word "lite" in its name. I've personally been amazed by what it can do. Really great piece of tech with an unfortunate na
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
This whole thing reminds me of the time some renowned wine connoisseurs blind taste tested vintage wines and they slipped 2 buck chuck in there. A few of them picked the 2 buck chuck as their favorite. None of them called it out as inferior
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
If that’s the case that really sucks.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Well I guess we disagree then. As always with these things, it’s more nuanced. The timing of that question was the part that I think was pretty poorly thought out. That wasn’t even the point of my post though. I was expressing sympathy for
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
It was a really boneheaded question to be sure. I feel really bad for “Gary” who is getting dragged in the media left and right now however. Can you imagine? I’d be mortified.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
As I said, this particular anecdote does seem extreme. I am just making the point that at a certain scale it gets harder to do out of band tasks if you don't scale up the staffing to match it.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Yuck! There are reasons processes like that exist as annoying as they are. At a certain scale orgs have to make a queue or else nothing gets done. I work at a scale up and have seen the phenomenon with my own eyes. Easy enough when there ar
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I own a System 76 laptop (the Oryx) and ultimately bought a MacBook Air m1 to replace it. I'm not sure how many people know this, but S76 doesn't make their own hardware and instead uses repackaged Clevo laptops. These machines ar
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
IMO because the christian nationalist wing of the Republican Party needs talking points.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
> He called for cryptocurrency exchanges not to allow further sales of his stolen art as he tried to track down the buyer who ended up with one of his most prized possessions: Bored Ape #8398, a drawing of a sad monkey with a halo in a P
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Good APIs and interfaces are everything. I call it "the hotdog principle" when I am mentoring folks who are new to the concept. A good API is like a hot dog: Hot dogs are delicious. That is all you need to know about them. You don

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