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by mercantile 1mo ago
Not even a vague attempt to consider alternative possibilities, like how tuition costs go up every year while the marginal benefit of a higher ed degree continues to drift, and that kids are reconsidering going into deep, lifelong, undischa
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by mercantile 1mo ago
The Ruby/Rails community is going to be fundamentally better off with people like this self-selecting out of it. DHH has been acting as a lightning rod for a few years now, but just remember that before him, guys like this were constan
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by mercantile 1y ago
I sincerely hope that having produced a comment like that, you are not using ad blockers of any kind in any browser, including the reduced functionality Chrome uBlock Origin on manifest V3. For me, ads broke the informal social contract b
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by mercantile 3y ago
They've tried this twice already, although neither bill went through: https://scocablog.com/exit-taxes-in-california-not-so-fast/ Especially egregious was a 10-year look back so even if you left years before the t
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by mercantile 5y ago
From Wiki originally: > the annual risk of a given person being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, which means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few ten
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by mercantile 5y ago
Real UUIDs in the DB are definitely the right answer. I couldn't help but think the article has the right idea but reaches the wrong conclusion — it is possible to use user-specified IDs, but make sure you're taking them as UUID a
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by mercantile 5y ago
Is anyone able to get a little more specific about the kinds of "creators" he's talking about and what they do exactly which drive these abuse problems? I read the article, but felt like there wasn't quite enough informa
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by mercantile 5y ago
That seems to be right, but your parent's point still stands — the house may have burned down during an eight year absence, but it really doesn't seem to have "vanished". The title and lead into the story have been heavi
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by mercantile 5y ago
Exactly this. Multiple requests with the same idempotency key are still different requests, and you want to be able to track them independently. Also worth noting that a header named 'Request-Id' is already a widespread convention
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by mercantile 5y ago
I agree — the 12" is still Apple's best ever form factor. I even considered buying another one as the line was winding down. (Though was glad I didn't after the M1 came out.) But to be fair, the comment you're replying t
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by mercantile 5y ago
Similar situation here. I use 1Password every day, but I only trust it to autofill simple login forms. Where something more complex is happening, I tend to copy information over field by field. This was trained into me over the years as I s
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by mercantile 6y ago
If you don't know COBOL, Wikipedia has a pretty excellent overview of a lot of its basic syntax here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Features It's very verbose, and includes a lot of opaque language that
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by mercantile 7y ago
And not to mention that like everywhere else in San Francisco, there will likely be in no enforcement of these traffic rules whatsoever, so in practice private vehicles will still he allowed too. Also, traffic on all cross streets is still
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by mercantile 7y ago
I think you're missing that most of the homeless presence is in specific areas, like downtown, where there are not many free restrooms. Private businesses see a lot of abuse of their restrooms — from people using them and not paying fo
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by mercantile 7y ago
Agreed with this. Comcast is a terrible company in pretty much every way, shape, and form, but xfinitywifi has been useful to me many times now as a usable fallback when nothing else is available. Better OS-level tools to manage these conne
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by mercantile 9y ago
> If your career consists of Ruby->Node.js->Go then static binaries are radical new technology. Rather than offer what amounts to nothing more than an ad hominem, perhaps you’d care to explain why whatever you’re using is superio
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Using atomic transactions in Postgres to power an idempotent API(brandur.org)
15 points by mercantile 9y ago|0 comments
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The noisy death of email marketing(brandur.org)
3 points by mercantile 9y ago|0 comments
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A king-to-be's ransom: prospects for the world's biggest IPO(economist.com)
2 points by mercantile 9y ago|0 comments
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by mercantile 9y ago
Thanks for the response. > You have to remember that most people there have started at the same place you're at right now. You even said it in your post. So this is the part I disagree with. Everyone gets nervous doing public spea
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by mercantile 9y ago
Going to Toastmasters seems to be the universal Internet standard advice for improving public speaking, but I'm not so sure about it. I'm coming from a similar place of intense public speaking anxiety as the parent poster, and so
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Production minimalism: maintaining fewer moving parts, and retiring things(brandur.org)
6 points by mercantile 9y ago|0 comments
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The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge(aviationintel.com)
71 points by mercantile 9y ago|17 comments
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The Future of User Interfaces(brandur.org)
7 points by mercantile 10y ago|0 comments