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by tomg 4y ago
Goodbye Hacker News. A bunch of extremely well-paid SWEs complain about donating two bucks to a completely free encyclopedia representing hundreds of thousands of volunteer human hours of effort; replacing (sorry, “disrupting”) extremely
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by tomg 4y ago
> For example, if someone asked: "can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?" "Can we do _________?" is the worst question to ask me as an engineer. Like, yes, we probably _can_ do literally almost anything, with enough hours a
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by tomg 4y ago
Just another anecdote: They’re the only airline to lose my luggage, and their complete lack of giving a fuck or competence in returning it was a tremendous and expensive pain in the ass. Only through pulling a personal favor with a friend i
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by tomg 4y ago
> Reflame will eventually try to build versions of, with a focus on speed similar to what we've done with deployment Nice! The time I wait during builds tend to break my mental flow. Best of luck!
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by tomg 4y ago
Very impressive! I am curious about who your intended user is. I’m just thinking about how most FE build pipelines I’ve used have a bunch of “checks” like linters, running various tests, maybe reaching out to some other services when the bu
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by tomg 4y ago
> Why does this happen? No idea, but it's not lost on me that a lot of these things are backed by huge companies with giant piles of money who are using them as marketing. Your whole post is spot-on :) My two cents on the answer to
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by tomg 4y ago
I’ve bounced around between frontend and backend and devops, plus some iOS and one Android project. I’ve hopped in and out of various languages/frameworks. For the past year or so I’ve been using elixir which is my first big functional
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by tomg 4y ago
I feel strongly that you’re likely to get another 10 years out of it if you keep up with regular maintenance. My non-Prius Toyota is 17 years old. The outside looks like a war zone from being a city car but the interior is in great shape an
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by tomg 4y ago
I don’t mean this to sound snarky but I fear it might. Earnestly: If a job looks interesting, why not just email and ask? If the position actually excites you, surely it’s worth a couple minutes of your time?
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by tomg 4y ago
> Not to detract from you comment, but you don't have to have a disability. Some people simply cannot do on-call, disability or not. Imagine being a single parent; or needing to support elderly or disabled family.
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by tomg 4y ago
Eurorack got hit hard. Lots of module makers are tiny shops, some just one person selling a few pieces at a time.
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by tomg 4y ago
Embrace the Absurd.
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by tomg 5y ago
I would add to the reasons for "Use wired headphones or speakers" is that many (all? not sure) combination "bluetooth headphones with mic" hardware will bottleneck at the bluetooth link. You end up sounding like you&#x27
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by tomg 5y ago
> One of the most interesting things about software dev (I'm in my 50's) is that you never run out of puzzles or problems to solve. It took me until recently to realize I needed to find new problems to work on to avoid burnout.
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by tomg 6y ago
window.navigator.hardwareConcurrency [edit: well this is more of a 'how' than a 'why']
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by tomg 6y ago
window.history.length would be my guess.
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by tomg 6y ago
A play at Patreon, it seems.
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by tomg 6y ago
> Browsers save the icons in a cache so they don't have to request them over and over. This cache isn't emptied when users clear their browser cache or cookies, or when they switch to a private browsing mode. I wonder why all m
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by tomg 6y ago
Oh whoops I've been wrong this whole time, my bad!
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by tomg 6y ago
> Won says her tenant owes her more than $80,000 in back rent.
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by tomg 6y ago
More Beeple art: https://www.instagram.com/beeple_crap/
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by tomg 6y ago
How to find this on your own macOS drives: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135565/how-do-i-ge...
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by tomg 6y ago
> By being extremely frugal. Did you read the part of the article where the owner does not live in the house. The owner lives in a "cheap studio apartment nearby with their two young daughters". That is how! You’re referring to
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by tomg 6y ago
I don’t understand how a waiter and a home-care provider can afford to buy a rental property that is apparently worth charging $80,000/yr in rent. I’m in the wrong business! [edit: to be clear, this is tongue in cheek, though the circu
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by tomg 6y ago
A bit off-topic but I received an email from a government agency today that pretty printed my ZIP code as "12,345", I'm assuming because they store ZIP as a number. Made me wonder what would happen if I used a full 9 digit Z
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by tomg 6y ago
> Maybe developers stop learning because they realize that that to learn how to do the same thing with 167 technologies is not a real development. Yes! A few months back I was feeling quite burnt out over this feeling. Taking a step back
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by tomg 6y ago
It's my understanding that if a US company wants to hire someone outside of the US to work remotely from outside of the US; they must treat the employee as an independent contractor. Additionally, the US company would have to abide by
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Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor(politico.com)
11 points by tomg 6y ago|2 comments
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by tomg 6y ago
Easy to say; hard to do.
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by tomg 6y ago
A successful (above water) landlord, by definition, must extract more value from their tenants than the landlord contributes.

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