urthen

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by urthen 6y ago
In my personal experience I'd say there still is a widespread mindset in our industry that all "real" web development needs to be done in Java. I'd also say that whenever someone says that they usually mean "I'
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by urthen 6y ago
I wrote a quick Node Proof of Concept for a high-throughput data processing pipeline before the "real" team came in and rewrote it in Java. Not only did the "real" team try and gaslight me into thinking my implementation
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by urthen 6y ago
I don't know what companies you've been working for, but even if you do zero product research and development, a company as tech-focused as Uber is still going to need a substantial engineering department just to keep the lights
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by urthen 6y ago
I've done coding interviews for nearly 10 years now where I present a coding problem, but I never expect syntax correctness. I'll explicitly say I don't care if the function signatures are right or you remember the exact meth
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by urthen 6y ago
Unless Cryptocurrency is as easy and safe to get & spend as traditional currency, "everybody uses cryptocurrency" ain't gonna happen. If someone steals from my online bank, I'm insured against loss. If someone steals
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by urthen 6y ago
Yeah I've probably wasted 100 hours on Factorio. The other 900 hours were great though! :D
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by urthen 7y ago
We don't know how bad this will be which is exactly why we're acting like it's going to be bad - assuming that it'll be fine is irresponsible at a time like this. And the worst part is, assuming it works and the epidem
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by urthen 7y ago
Good. Failing businesses should fail. That's Capitalism. And that's exactly why we need social safety nets for their employees.
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by urthen 7y ago
Bahahaha that's about as likely as pigs flying. "You were instructed to keep the store open, but were unable to perform your job-required duties because you got arrested attempting to do so, therefore you are fired. Request to pay
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by urthen 7y ago
| If regulatory hurdles can be cleared, he said in a Thursday interview, the vaccine could start to become available in November. So, possibly faster than some estimates, but it's not exactly tomorrow. The headline heavily implies it&#
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by urthen 7y ago
The problem is so many software patents just cover "do a thing on a computer," which becomes so broad nobody else can ever do that thing without infringing on the patent. Even if I have an objectively different, even better, way o
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by urthen 7y ago
Why would the author include that when it's not in their best interests? In the disclosures they clearly state they are financially biased towards TSLA's failure. It's little more than a hit piece intended to influence their
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by urthen 7y ago
The application clearly states that it sends an opt-out notification anonymously after opt-out. I think they're doing better than most in terms of transparency. Is there room for improvement? Sure. But I don't think attacking peop
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by urthen 7y ago
Like I said - if it matters to you, don't use it. I've never had a problem with people that have extremely strict views of privacy. In fact I usually think they're right. But it's incredibly impractical, and most people
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by urthen 7y ago
Don't use Atom then? Seems pretty obvious if you care that much. I respect your privacy views and even share many/most of them (if not so strictly), and appreciate that you are probably just trying to bring this to people's a
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by urthen 7y ago
It performs an auto-update check. You know it's just performing an auto-update check. While there's not no argument to be made here, it's not like it's secretly collecting a bunch of data and reporting it before lett
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by urthen 7y ago
I love Factorio, but this is a rather expensive offering compared to other, more mature Factorio hosts. Quick search reveals other hosts offering 50+ slots for the same price or cheaper than this site's 1-4 slot option, with better con
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by urthen 7y ago
Absolutely "They". They they they they they. English already has a perfectly good gender-neutral pronoun. I explicitly list my pronouns as "He/his or they/their" because I think the neopronouns are ultimately a
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by urthen 7y ago
Key word there being "might." It could also be that the new thing is way better than the old thing. Being traditional does not make something right. After all, slavery has been around for probably tens thousands of years, and only
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by urthen 7y ago
People are not reacting the way they are because he has the wrong skin color; or, for that matter, any trait beyond his own direct control. He's being treated the way he is because his actions and comments are insensitive at best and
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by urthen 7y ago
I'm a primarily React-based developer, but have taken to using Svelte on side projects. Don't get me wrong, I still like React, but Svelte is phenomenally easy to get started and wrap your head around. I've started suggesting
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by urthen 7y ago
Well I'm golly sure glad you were around to alert people of this! Renters being priced out just need to buy the multi-million dollar properties they could barely afford to rent in the first place! Who would have thought of this one wei
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by urthen 7y ago
Not to mention that even assuming it works as described; it puts the onus on the user to explicitly turn it off and if they don't it may be recording.
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by urthen 7y ago
Cute story, but I detect a certain bitterness and refusal to accept the "future" of software engineering is actually the "now." People didn't think up microservices yesterday, they aren't some hot new fad that&
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by urthen 7y ago
Honestly, I consider this on the same level of malicious behavior as if a site added a bitcoin mining script on their page to "share" some of my CPU. By your own admission, opt out is two clicks away, and even that requires you to
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by urthen 14y ago
My first target market will not necessarily be for software, but for subscriptions to content. I'm thinking webcomics, small online news outlets, professional blogs, etc. Anywhere that is traditionally supported by advertising.
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by urthen 14y ago
Yeah, I had the same problem. Not being able to have the same level of control in Heroku was... unfortunate. Even after temporary local fixes were resolved I still couldn't push my app. Hopefully we can all take this as a learning experienc
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by urthen 14y ago
It's always nice to hear about someone doing some real, hands-on good. Keep it up!
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by urthen 14y ago
Just finished the minimum viable prototype for a identity and permissions brokering network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLU1TJmMSjo&feature=plcp I'll be initially offering services such as single sign on and aggregated micropaymen
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by urthen 14y ago
Hey, this looks fun! If only I had time to actually work on the movie I wanted to make :-)

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