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by s_m 5y ago
I find GCP to be easier to use, but that's just me. If you're already productive with AWS I don't think there's much point in trying to get ramped up on Google's PaaS
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by s_m 5y ago
Of course, the person in the hero image for that article has his UK flag upside down.
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by s_m 5y ago
I loved Foobar2000 back in my Windows days. iTunes just wasn't as fun an experience.
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by s_m 5y ago
Fix in one place, and it's fixed everywhere. Allegedly.
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by s_m 5y ago
"week year" was the cause of a big Twitter outage during the time I worked there. In the immediate aftermath there was a "see? this is why we need a monorepo" exhortation from leadership.
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by s_m 5y ago
My definition of "having fun" while coding is to feel like I'm not struggling to manifest whatever idea it is I have. To that end, right now I find writing for Google Cloud to be fun; it requires almost no backend expertise t
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by s_m 5y ago
what do you think "public" means
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by s_m 5y ago
This is gold. Valhalla's reverbs are the best around.
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by s_m 5y ago
Scala's community has a reputation for toxicity. I don't write Scala, so I don't know how deserved this is, but nevertheless the reputation exists.
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by s_m 5y ago
My understanding is that in Japan, engineers generally make a lot less money than they do in the USA, and that American companies with engineering offices in Japan tend to pay better. - https://unseenjapan.com/japan-programm
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by s_m 5y ago
Twilio is famously good at SMS/MMS (disclosure: I work there)
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by s_m 5y ago
In the late 00's, SVN was the dominant version control system, but it had lots of pain points (eg reliant on remote server, lots of crappy little .svn directories, branching was difficult, very difficult to make a git repo for small pr
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by s_m 5y ago
That's exactly what came to my mind too. I think the sqlite folks have similar struggles.
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by s_m 6y ago
FYI if you set PayPal as your payment method, you can cancel your subscription in a couple clicks. Obviously it'd be preferable to NOT have a ridiculously difficult cancellation process, but that's one way to make it easier.
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by s_m 6y ago
I was hardly using it, though I definitely took advantage of the crypto thing when I had the opportunity.
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by s_m 6y ago
It's just Twitter engineers goofing.
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by s_m 6y ago
My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128
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by s_m 6y ago
Yeah but what's its Weissman score?
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by s_m 6y ago
Lately I've enjoyed bypassing the NYT paywall using the `Lynx` CLI browser.
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by s_m 6y ago
This would be a reasonable analogy if proceeds from the sales of these sets funded ongoing piracy.
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by s_m 6y ago
I downloaded a .syx and loaded it into Dexed. About half the patches don't make any sound, but the ones that remain are pretty good. Various classic FM sounds in the Sonic the Hedgehog vein.
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by s_m 6y ago
The last band name generator I'll ever use. Bravo.
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by s_m 6y ago
If I were well known as a master bullshitter, I would simply convince the world that being a master bullshitter was a sign of intelligence.
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by s_m 6y ago
Yes please.
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by s_m 6y ago
He doesn't explain why he can't afford to pay his staff to work more than the unemployment benefits. He doesn't explain why he doesn't pay these chefs more than $26/hour. He doesn't even say "I can't
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by s_m 6y ago
> I’d have to offer my cooks $25.40 an hour to match what the government is paying them not to work. So… why doesn't he offer them $25.40 an hour?
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by s_m 6y ago
I am kind of amazed the author didn't mention Parse once.
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by s_m 7y ago
People are already not adopting Web Components ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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by s_m 7y ago
"powered by the sun" buddy everything is powered by the sun
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by s_m 7y ago
No mention of "Theranos" even once in that article.

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