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I’ll second this, it’s absolutely a game changer. I’ve used handlebar mounted mirrors and the like but I’ll never willingly go back. I tend to prefer helmet mounted and I glue them…

This reminds me of an oft recommended book "Digital Apollo". One of the driving topics is the human interaction component and the difference in designing a fully automated system v…

Daniel's Jewelers | ERP Systems Analyst | REMOTE | Full-time | $40-70/hr Hey HN! We're a jewelry retailer (~100 mall locations) going through the classic digital transformation sto…

They were highly patent encumbered for a while. I think much of that is expired but the manufacturing base hasn’t caught up yet. The pricing is pretty expensive even in bulk. $50 f…

The good 'ole days. You're paying the tax at some point, but if that's at the start of the project it might be high enough to stop it in its tracks. A mature Rails or Django projec…

Absolutely. The answer is better integration boundaries but then you’re paying the abstraction cost which might be higher. It’s particularly difficult when the system under test in…

These printers also have an expansion network card. A decade ago I worked on a project to deploy a couple hundred of these to a restaurant chain as part of a POC for an online orde…

One especially frustrating version of this is a log or the like reporting a time as UTC but it’s not. So close.

I’ve left positions for similar reasons. Another strain of this is forcing some COTS application to work via a million hacks and integrations (usually via consulting resources) whe…

Did you like the outcome and did it feel sustainable? I'm so conditioned to providing buffered estimates, especially for highly-dependent systems, I would really struggle to not ac…

They’re a fairly common design pattern https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_breaker_design_patte... . However, they certainly aren’t implemented with the frequency they should b…

As a a weasel word, I hear it mentioned whenever why's writing comes up the absolute sea-change it caused in the types of writing that followed it. I know it absolutely changed the…

I interpreted the comment to be about the number of customers in a store as opposed to stock levels. Anecdotally, Traders Joes does seem to have a higher base level of customers at…

I had a coworker a couple years ago who brought in his own chair (a Herman Miller Aeron). When we came in after a weekend it had been removed and replaced with a cheap, office spec…

True unfortunately. My organization is very much an in person organization that has gone remote with some processes that were still mediated by paper forms. The previous advice for…

Yes, and this surprises me each time it happens. As a for instance, I was the operations lead a couple years ago for a large, customer-facing financial product rollout. The timelin…

This is the approach I use. For the AWS specific workflows e.g. SNS inbound to S3 bucket, processed and put in another bucket getting the structure of a heterogeneous set of events…

While not universally true, a manual process does typically require a process to fix mistakes. This is true of software as well but the perceived lack of errors in software process…

Fuji also have one of the most edible cores from a taste perspective. Great for an end of hike treat.

I've had some applications down today. The initial reports are date related issues with the New Year. I suspect that's incorrect given it's Jan 4, but an anecdote nonetheless.

As a note, for older Canon DSLRs that aren't supported you can pick up a cheap capture card on ebay for $15 and an AC adapter for a similar price. Using Magic Lantern you can get c…

There has been a big shift to ship-from-store to make up for limited warehouse capacity to meet increased demand. The options for delays for store picks up are much the same: emplo…

Would this influence future employment decisions?