philderbeast

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by philderbeast 3y ago
you can have seperation of data and UI and still send the whole page. The vast majority of the time, the browswer is infact going to be the only client. once you reach the point where its not, then build the api to suit the new client rathe
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by philderbeast 3y ago
The intellectual exploration is understanding that we have a better understanding of medicine, and ADHD is just like other conditions we can now treat. but sure, lets ignore over a century of research and progress because someone wants to a
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by philderbeast 3y ago
"All of your colleagues have done something dumb. Don't be afraid to tell us when you make a mistake. We all remember our first screw up and will be happy to help." Never have truer words been spoken. As I tell all the new ju
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by philderbeast 3y ago
a requirement that is solved by setting the length on your input field? or have we forgotten that plain hold HTML can validate much of this for us with no JS of any type required?
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by philderbeast 3y ago
"A "this doesn't look like an email-address" unfortunately this also needs to be done server side, unless your trusting the client to send you information that is what your expecting? client side validation makes for a g
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by philderbeast 3y ago
to be clear when I say no response, I am talking they got consistent updates that essentially said "we have no update on this issue", not them simply never putting anything on them. also like it or not, by paying for support peopl
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by philderbeast 3y ago
except it didn't in practice because the little guy has no ability to enforce even these poisonous licences. in reality your licence is only as strong as your ability to enforce it.
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by philderbeast 3y ago
It's a shame your number one reason is customer support, when at least in my experience it has been woefully lacking. Despite having a reasonably large contract with them at work, we had multiple support tickets go without response for
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by philderbeast 4y ago
none whatsoever. the linking is done simply by looking up who the plane is registered to, and that is also public information. you can of course always go the other way, look who owns a plane, and the go to flight information from there. th
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by philderbeast 4y ago
sounds like you need to go talk to the FAA since they are the ones originally publishing this info rather then a twitter account that is just consuming the info.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
Saying no is just as important as saying yes. There is no value in reinventing the wheel, and not doing so gives you time to do other things that will give you value so someone should always be asking the question of if something should be
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by philderbeast 4y ago
the study provides an interesting read, thanks for the link. It is interesting when you look at the reading results, in particular the only significant difference in reading speed was for people that typed using 2 spaces at the end of a sen
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by philderbeast 4y ago
If the speed users grasp the information presented is most important, is there any objective measurement that 1 vs 2 spaces actually makes a difference. I would suggest rather then some arcane spacing convention, the simplicity and clarity
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by philderbeast 4y ago
There is no objectivly better here though, its entirely subjective. The fact that the rest of society has moved on is a fairly clear indication that this subjective premise that 2 spaces is in some way better, shows it clearly does not sh
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by philderbeast 4y ago
sounds like your stuck in the past, two spaces after a paragraph has been a dead convention for years by this point.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
the difference is that is not the steam market place, all of that helps people complete with there games, but not steam as a market place.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
The problem is these clients have no idea what they are doing, they should be working out if something will be ready before booking. If they are coming to you telling you the deadline and asking if you can meet it you know your going to hav
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by philderbeast 4y ago
the programmers sleep at night because doing this is the only thing that lets them feed there families. like it or not, there are always people who will see this as the lesser evil because of their personal circumstances don't give the
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by philderbeast 4y ago
If you work for a company, in any field, and they don't supply the tools for you to do your job, they are doing them selves a disservice. If you want your employees to be productive, you provide them tools to achieve that, otherwise yo
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by philderbeast 4y ago
if a company wont pay for an IDE for there developers then I certainly won't be paying for it out of my pocket. if they can't justify paying ~$100 for my ide of choice, then they are costing them selves far more in lost productivi
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by philderbeast 4y ago
AWS not offering multiple 2FA keys is one of my biggest annoyances, its a service that I feel much have 2FA due to its ability to run up extreme bills, but I also cant setup a backup key in case of loss or failure.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
that poor stream deck looks well loved, hopefully it doesn't die on you from getting dirt/water/god knows what else on it in the hands of children :)
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by philderbeast 4y ago
"an intruder with a statistical 30-40% chance of being armed" add gun control into the mix and this chance goes WAY down. "If you startle them they could open fire sending a stray bullet into your kids room" As could you
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by philderbeast 4y ago
Except most mass shootings are not done by criminals, they are done by people that walked down to the shops and bought them selves an assault rifle to commit these acts with. Not to mention making these kind of things makes the criminals th
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by philderbeast 4y ago
only under very very very specific circumstances, that require you to take action rather then them being able to revoke it at will.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
"then there is less incentive for investor/landlord to build housing, which makes housing scarcer and drives prices up." This doesn't ring true, it just moves the incentive to people to build housing to live in them selv
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by philderbeast 4y ago
github (and other providers) have no obligation to host your content though, so the "restore the challanged material" part has no effect in a lot of cases and the material stays down regardless of sending a counter notice.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
if its not US based the DMCA doesn't apply (since its US law) so even if they did, providers in other countries so not need to honour it.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
Or you could use a sane, unambiguous date format regardless of where you are in the world like 22 Feb 2022.
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by philderbeast 4y ago
which only makes it confusing for the rest of the world

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