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by nonconvergent 6y ago
The main problem I run into with git is communicating with my teams about editing history and how they shouldn't. Particularly on teams that like to keep main clean and avoid reverts and merge commits in favor of rebasing. Thankfully m
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by nonconvergent 6y ago
Because they still benefit. They benefit when people consume their products and they benefit when they're given a forum within the community.
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by nonconvergent 6y ago
False. School shootings are also protested: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/opponents-protest-wake-...
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by nonconvergent 6y ago
Tu quoque. Police already publish arrest records, mug shots, and they're covered by the media as well. Criminal charges are public records and covered by FOIA requests.
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
So it's automation testing as a platform?
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Don't banks require "savers" as their source of capital for lending?
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Colleague #437: "So whoever first set this up has left, so I'll just follow the documentation they left to figure out what they did... Oh. ...eh, I got a deadline."
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
A VPN isn't itself secure. It's only a secure tunnel. If the VPN's exit is insecure, then you're insecure. DNS-Over-HTTPS hasn't reached ubiquity yet but VPNs are very useful but are having a reckoning with serversi
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
or you can say something equivalent yet unambiguous A good commit message isn't about convention, and no convention makes a commit message good. When I review a commit, I need only the information I won't get from the diff that I
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Yes. That's how time and tense works.
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
The CEO of SpaceX did commit a couple crimes in the same podcast. Uber's autonomous car fatally collided with a woman, raising questions of negligence and liability in automation. Uber acquired some of Alphabet/Waymo's trade
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Let's keep in mind that this is an end user application for pixel artwork. You and I might care that it's Rust. End Users will not. It could be written in Malbolge or BF for all an end user cares about. Namespace collision is gonn
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Already a thing: https://namelix.com/app/?keywords=poop+scoop Highlights for a "poop+scoop" related startup include: Flingo, Trash.ly, Fastpoop, Stinkere, Guunk, and Spoop
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Apparently there is already one for Rust too. https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxRust
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
I care. Also it's a potential legal issue for any given project if there's a registered trademark involved. Plus first result for "rx rust" lead me to https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxRust
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
What is a subscription if not a repeated entry cost for new content?
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
which is why you want more tracing and less logging. log messages are always an art and I myself am a poor artist when it come to predicting what is both necessary and useful enough to log without overall increasing the log noise. Tracing w
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
That's why I get paid the medium bucks.
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
If you need it for work and are not an independent contractor then should pay for it. BYODTEI BYOD are a cost cutting measure by the office, but if you buy a second device then the cost isn't cut, it's transfered. To you. So congr
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by nonconvergent 7y ago
Venmo is Paypal. Alternatives are provided without context as why you'd seek one out beyond mostly similar transaction fees.
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
I was not referring to that. I was referring to the matter that they weren't ready to jump TO JDK 8 when JDK 7 was EOL, nor the next year, nor the next year after that. What did they do with security updates when they were available fo
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
Java 8 is EOL in January for public support/security patches. Java 7 was EOL in 2015. What have you been doing for 3 years? I could guess, because I've been at companies doing the same. Active development and support on the produc
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
The type of status/error matters. It's how your communicate, server to client. Think about your normal interactions with problem solving as a team. What's more useful, a teammate who tells you when there's a problem what
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
There's nothing clever about returning the wrong error. That's anti-clever.
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
Wouldn't that be more of an issue of not having an SLA between SaaS and client? If the silly non-automated dashboard is part of the SLA, then it costs someone money/liability/trust to not maintain it, otherwise "who care
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by nonconvergent 8y ago
That's what contributors are for. OSS has always been dependent on localization support from contributors, especially for documentation.
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by nonconvergent 9y ago
Ditto on the CS Degree. Closest thing I learned to the above skills that was part of the curriculum was Waterfall, UML, and making ERDs. Had to teach myself git.
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by nonconvergent 9y ago
Yeah, it just explains Dijkstra's and not very well. A big point is that Dijkstra's like many MST producing algorithms gives you A minimum spanning tree, not necessarily THE minimum spanning tree. And why does the price of 2 drink
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by nonconvergent 9y ago
lolwut? Selection + Collaborative Filtering factored against a huge dataset...Amazon's standardizing automatic curation. You just want a native advertisement and Top 10 lists.
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by nonconvergent 9y ago
Senator Isakson gave a townhall Monday. One of the questions was a rambling explainer that could be best summarized is "Net neutrality is about not censoring the internet so do you support it?" to which of course responded "I

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