mseebach

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Converting legacy code to a modern language(ma.rtinseeba.ch)
2 points by mseebach 6y ago|0 comments
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Wire transfer fees are a set amount, usually around $40, not a percentage of the total amount transferred. You can do the math to figure out at what dollar threshold sending wire transfers through your bank becomes cheaper than using T
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by mseebach 8y ago
This has happened very rarely to me, but when it has, the head purser would usually be carrying the manifest or an iPad and clearly referencing it. That takes the creepiness out of it. It's a nice, but ultimately not terribly important
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think there are two nuances missing here: First, it's easier to ask forgiveness -- this is a descriptive statement, it doesn't say better . Second, this is predicated on getting forgiveness. If what you do isn't relati
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by mseebach 8y ago
If you "predict" that it might not make a bestseller list, it's not a particular leap to predict that it wouldn't make it past a publisher, either? I am making no attempt to quantify this, I simply have no data, but it s
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by mseebach 8y ago
That is a bad look for Marriott, for sure, but if you disqualify establishments for unfairly firing a low-level employee, you should get used to travelling a lot less. This particular situation just happened to be well publicised.
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by mseebach 8y ago
There's already a very easy and commonly deployed way to save on a concierge: don't have one.
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by mseebach 8y ago
> It's one thing to trust Amazon or Google, but now you also have to trust the hotel and its staff, the physical security of the device, and all the previous guests of the room. You already had to do the physical trust thing. These
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by mseebach 8y ago
The good thing about places like that is (a) they don't actually care about the money, it's a rounding error. For some smaller firms paying someone for three weeks of not working (regardless of fault) could actually be a problem.
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by mseebach 8y ago
In which case the correct answer is to sit tight for a bit until you understand the deeper problem. And then you fix the deeper problem, and then you fix the process.
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by mseebach 8y ago
In theory. In practice, the code will often have corner case behaviours that eludes any of the tests, yet are still important. As an aside, as I understand it, refactoring was popularised as a response basically to this conundrum - it'
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by mseebach 8y ago
The bit about the manager and director is in the main article. There's nothing about pay, but they're presented as entirely sympathetic and angry about the system on his behalf. As for "fishy", I find it very strange tha
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by mseebach 8y ago
He elaborates a bit in the comments - it seems he's entitled to the money, but couldn't be bothered: "So I had to do an appeal, and go through a long process that I did not care much to go through. I had a mind in quitting af
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by mseebach 8y ago
So, this is about legalisation - I can totally see medical rescheduling working (and nobody seems to have countered Sajid Javid's announcement yesterday). It's a step in the right direction, but it's still a while to go to un
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yeah, well it's either that, or the significantly simpler explanation that involves very simple electoral maths: the tories are going to get exactly 0 voters to cross over on this policy, but tons of core tory voters might stay home on
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by mseebach 8y ago
And, pertinent to the name, such a bottle will often have a handle built in. https://siestaspirits.com/products/jim-beam-kentucky-straigh...
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by mseebach 8y ago
> FileVault use largely happens on more or less insecure computers, so it is an interesting case. That's not a good idea, an encrypted filesystem is only as secure as the computer you decrypt it on. Yes, of course, if you're ca
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by mseebach 8y ago
If you decrypt an encrypted filesystem on an untrusted computer, it's game over already then. And assume that your passphrase is compromised as well.
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by mseebach 8y ago
That's not what's being contended. If you claim something about your product, that claim should be true, including it's geographical origin. But that doesn't answer the question: does Cheddar cheese made in the village o
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by mseebach 8y ago
The French has always had an oddly low confidence in the power of the quality of their products. The AOC is not a magic incantation, the "proper" Camenbert has indeed as described survived being mass produced across the world. Now
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by mseebach 8y ago
It would be quite useful in a general sense to develop a technique to transfer modest amounts of data over a voice call - location, obviously for 911, but also for plenty of other applications where installing an app (never mind developing
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by mseebach 8y ago
You don't come off as someone who is even remotely interested in being convinced of anything. Celebrating your downvotes and declaring "the truth hurts" does not invite debate. I'm away from my computer, but if I recall
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yes, you're basically wrong about those things, some more than others, but on the balance, wrong. You're not displaying any willingness to study the basics of the 350 years of scholarship that supports the position that you so str
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by mseebach 8y ago
For the record, I caught and appreciated the sarcasm -- but it's very difficult to pull off in writing.
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by mseebach 8y ago
I you're taking "fear" slightly too literally for the purposes of this idea. In a way, in the extreme, it is literal: in a healthy democracy, the citizens are so comfortable in their sovereignty that they would be willing a
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's common, to the point of being an age-old popular culture trope, for people turning 30 to be very nostalgic about their late teens/early 20s. You changed. So did I. The world did too, for sure, but the 17 year olds of today
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, that is indeed not what I meant to say. I meant to say that you're wrong. The fact that capitalism had lifted billions out of poverty is uncontroversial, very broadly accepted (and there is plenty of evidence). Of course you can di
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by mseebach 8y ago
And sometimes you're just wrong. You seem to have a profound misunderstanding of the mechanisms by which capitalism lifts people out of poverty. It has nothing to do with what capital "wants".
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by mseebach 8y ago
Meaning is incredibly fickle, certainly not an inherent quality of pretty much any work. The work you do today seems to enable a range of businesses to get on with doing whatever it is they do by letting them leverage some incredibly powerf
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by mseebach 8y ago
A spill of diesel is less immediately dangerous than a spill of the same amount of gasoline, but will still burn if it has a wick (you don't want your clothes soaked in diesel). But it's quite rare, I believe, as fuel tanks are we

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