jwl

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by jwl 7y ago
Yes, I don't think I have ever seen a premature optimisation actually ending up being beneficial when the time came to add new features to the project.
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by jwl 8y ago
At the end of the day, every team still needs at least one senior team lead who can decide "we do it like this" and move on. Or else you get stuck forever in which db technology is the right choice for the project.
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by jwl 8y ago
Exposure doesn't pay many bills.
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by jwl 8y ago
I have heard several guided meditations having an instruction like "let your mind do whatever it wants to do". Surprisingly it works very well to let the mind do nothing.
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by jwl 9y ago
I often try to remind myself that it is better to start somewhere, than nowhere. Just getting started is often halfway done. Even though it might turn out that you could have started somewhere else which in hindsight would have been a bette
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by jwl 9y ago
If we make a crude risk assessment, it is way more likely that her account will be randomly hacked by a botnet if she has "kitten4" as a password than someone actively stealing her purse to get her passwords. And if the notebook w
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by jwl 9y ago
While working from home can be nice and more productive if you have some well defined task that needs to be done, I still feel I need the daily social interaction with my coworkers. Slack and Skype is just not enough. I would get depressed
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by jwl 9y ago
You got to consider your most likely risk for attack. Targeted or at random by a botnet? For example, you are most likely more secure in practice by writing your own website than using Wordpress, simply because you are more likely to get hi
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by jwl 9y ago
Yes, but are hackers going after common used libraries to get more vulnerable systems to attack or are they going to spend time on some unknown homebuilt crypto? In some cases, security through obscurity works well in practice.
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by jwl 9y ago
But then again, we still got Heartbleed.
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by jwl 9y ago
I can see some logic behind number 3 of having your password in the clipboard. It could lead to users pasting their password somewhere else where it was not intended. However, if you have malware on your machine that can read your clipboard
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by jwl 9y ago
> However lately Netflix' content simply seems to lack substance to me. It feels as if it's just the superficial result of throwing a promising combination of those very specific tags/categories the services is famous for
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by jwl 10y ago
Gaming Googles image search is a popular activity on some subreddits. Basically telling people to upvote a picture of something with a misleading title. Like if you search for images of "gaming console", a picture of a potato will
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by jwl 10y ago
> In practice though, even the smallest toy project will pull out hundred tiny dependencies. I had a problem with running out of inodes on my server because of the massive number of files that end up in node_modules for even a smallish p
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by jwl 10y ago
For me it is Nectarine Demoscene Radio at https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ Something about all the blip-blops that sets the right mindset.
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by jwl 10y ago
Whether items with same sorting key will remain in the same order or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Stability
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by jwl 10y ago
I would recommend something like https://getvau.lt Generate your passwords with a simple algorithm with a servicename and a keyphrase. Works really well.
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by jwl 11y ago
Really like the intense focus music. Seems to work really well for me. However I am not a fan of the nature based ones. The nature sounds comes of as too artificial. I might consider buying something like this, but not sure if I think a mon
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by jwl 11y ago
> If the ads were not intrusive and destructive, they wouldn't take the trouble to block them. Maybe if it had been like that from the beginning, but now, I see no turning back. Adblockers started as a thing for techies and while we
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by jwl 12y ago
Did they take into account something like version control? Because, I have a hard time seeing using Word on a collaborative paper - or even just as the single writer - being very effective in terms of version control.
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by jwl 12y ago
I have fallen into this pitfall myself a couple of times. Trying to write reusable generic code on the idea that we would be able to reuse it later for a similar project, but in practice it almost never happens. New projects end up being wa
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by jwl 12y ago
Could someone please explain #Test 11. How is using %s instead of %d double as fast even though it is the same thing is being calculated? I always use %d because it seems like the prooper way to do it.
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by jwl 12y ago
It has a very feature rich library. You can build relatively big applications with lots of features in a very short time.
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by jwl 12y ago
I remember tracking the flashes these satellites made in the sky. Was quite cool as a teenager to be able to predict a flash of light at a particular time in the night sky.
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by jwl 12y ago
It is frighteningly common to neglect backups when thinking in security. I have seen a couple of examples where the technical aspects of security with good firewalls, good access control to servers and so on were in place, but backup media
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by jwl 13y ago
How could there be anything legal related to the method of file transfer?
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by jwl 13y ago
Would have been cooler to play a sample by each band instead of "Burzum - Lost Wisdom" everytime.
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by jwl 13y ago
It seems like a missed opportunity to push for innovation. Changing tyres on normal cars is also a slow process and back in the earlier days of racing it was as well. Now all four tyres can be changed in just around 2 seconds due to great t
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by jwl 13y ago
Yes, there is plenty of brilliant technical innovations going on in Formula 1. The passive DRS that Lotus has experimenting with or the way the Red Bull uses a special material on the side skirts that bends when heated up by the exhaust air
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by jwl 13y ago
As developers we might need to work on not taking bugs and criticism of our code too personal. I know I feel that way sometimes, when bugs or bad design is found in my work it is easy to get defensive and take it is a personal attack - whic

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