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by pandler 8mo ago
Thanks for keeping that service up and running! I think it’s been about 10 years since I found it and it’s been my go-to reference ever since. I’ll often get laughs from people when I share it as reference.
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by pandler 1y ago
I’ve been building my wife a budget tracking dashboard for reporting on PPC ad campaigns. At any given time, she’s working with any number of clients (directly or subcontracted, solo or as part of a team) who each have multiple, simultaneou
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by pandler 1y ago
In addition to not enjoying it, I also don’t learn anything, and I think that makes it difficult to sustain anything in the middle of the spectrum between “I won’t even look at the code; vibes only” and advanced autocomplete. My experience
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by pandler 4y ago
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Django, the python web framework, even though I don’t use it anymore. https://www.djangoproject.com/ When I was still learning to code, I spent hours and hours and hours poking
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by pandler 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated to the point you’re making, something seems off about the results in that Glassdoor link. Searching “computer science” in the jobs tab treats that as a keyword and shows results for a variety of job titles related to comp
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by pandler 6y ago
> The work has received funding from the National Geographic Society and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, as better understanding adaptations to high altitude life is “potentially relevant in treating a number of human diseases th
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by pandler 6y ago
Agreed. With the very little context from the source article (admittedly), it feels like piling on to the whole Epic controversy.
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by pandler 6y ago
I agree, but I try to stick to downgrading the comment/argument instead of the people themselves, because I’ve found it to be a pretty ubiquitous line of thought since I started noticing it.
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by pandler 6y ago
> I would argue most relationships with coworkers aren't genuine. You might have a different metric for this, but mine is that when you change jobs, these relationships evaporate. True, my relationship with my coworkers is scoped to
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by pandler 6y ago
Giving OP the benefit of the doubt here, it seems like a straw man example off the top of their head, just to throw some ideas out there.
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by pandler 6y ago
FYI your link is broken. Agreed, the only mention of using different technology has come up in the current project is in discussions of Typescript vs plain JavaScript. That’s been the only bring-your-own-technology for the most part, since
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by pandler 6y ago
We make heavy use of peer dependencies, so microfrontends rarely end up actually bundling their own dependencies. Build tools like rollup help with that. It’s not a silver bullet and requires A bit of overhead. I’m interested too to hear ho
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by pandler 6y ago
Cool to see more news from Mumbai. I've been following a close friend of mine (also in Mumbai) on various social media as he works on his goal of fabricating "100,000 M-19 Face Shields for India" in his maker space. https:&#
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by pandler 7y ago
> Nobody has any idea, they're just making it up as they go along. Ha! I came here to say this, and I'm glad you share my opinion. I realize that you're speaking specifically about software estimates, so please excuse me w
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by pandler 7y ago
> I think the old way is simpler in the sense of building on fewer concepts, and therefore allowing an easier learning curve I would disagree with that premise. From my own experience and from having mentored developers on class componen
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by pandler 7y ago
> I find that writing _something_ can help me to get a feel for a problem. Start, then sitting back and thinking about it, helps me to move towards a better solution faster. That summarizes the struggle that I have with TDD. I guess you
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by pandler 7y ago
I have a beard precisely because it’s trivial for me to maintain. I trim it down to 3/8 inch maybe once every two weeks, and clean up my neck in 30 seconds with the trimmer about once a week. Yeah sure it’s not a flowing 5 inch beard,
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by pandler 7y ago
I’m sure it’s nothing like the south east, but it gets pretty hot, mostly in July and August. Living in a hotter but drier climate now (which is on the whole more comfortable than back in NH), I realize that the humidity played an important
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by pandler 7y ago
For the lazy, the selling price listed in there is about $385,000 USD.
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by pandler 7y ago
And I also just verified by checking myself against some known Jira dashboards and searching for some of the search queries he provided... I'm not sure what there isn't to trust when he tells you exactly how to verify the informat
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by pandler 7y ago
Also agree! I learned a lot about how Python works from digging through the inner guts of the Django ORM. I’ve been pleasantly surprised, getting back into Django after about 5 years, that the codebase is just as comprehensible as I remembe
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by pandler 7y ago
After reading the article, better phrasing would be “I miss what Facebook used to be”. It may be addictive and pervasive now, but the feeling is that it no longer fills the niche it used to.
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by pandler 7y ago
I think this is an incomplete picture. Guessing at their motivations, DRM also serves to reduce opportunities for casual copyright violation when you have to jump through illegal (which is part of the scheme) hoops to circumvent it.
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by pandler 8y ago
What are centaur shopping models?
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by pandler 8y ago
The distinction is that teaching how to build a car from scratch (builder) doesn’t teach you how to drive it any better (programmer). The proposal is to teach programming with “assume you have a car/compiler/filesystem” instead of
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by pandler 8y ago
Maybe that’s exactly the issue. Statistically no one will leave behind such a legacy as Pythagoras, but we judge ourselves by the success of those who have anyway.
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by pandler 8y ago
That’s not the implication. For me personally, it started with a friend who would bum me cigarettes here and there, and I would partake for the sake of stepping outside with him. What seemed like an innocuous “just one cigarette” here and t
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by pandler 8y ago
I've started keeping a log of all information I provide to a company: addresses, phone numbers, names, social security number, etc... I started doing it just to keep track of everywhere I need to update next time I change address, phon
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by pandler 8y ago
Where’s a reasonable cut off point? Surely you don’t want someone uploading a copy of War and Peace as their name.
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by pandler 8y ago
You can get short term insurance. I’m not too familiar, but I have a few friends who just quit their jobs and move out to where I am to take some time exploring and find new jobs here, and they both have temporary insurance. I don’t know wh

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