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canadev

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    An interesting article. Something interesting maybe none or few you will likely experience: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous meetings, presumably any 12…

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    Comment #28193056

    Lots of development practices come back again. E.g. techniques for optimizing code for computers sometimes make a resurgence for mobile phones a decade later.

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    Comment #28160683

    I suppose that is likely true. I just put myself in the poster's situation and started breathing real shallow, haha.

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    Comment #28160494

    This is a good endorsement! It's kind of crazy how hard it was for him to get out of there though; I would have expected his flatmate to take care of it straight away.

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    Comment #27728704

    Rather than a tool like Copilot, which does look very interesting, I'd be curious to see the effect of using evergreen (self-updating) off-the-shelf free open-source components. Im…

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    Comment #27715604

    Yeah! I've uh, ... never copied a bit of code into my repo verbatim, right? yeah right. I wish. (Not saying every dev does this)

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    Comment #24333191

    have you a link handy?

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    Comment #23703035

    Sometimes coding is hard in and of itself.

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    Comment #23703026

    I agree, and I'm glad I don't work at a place where coding is considered easy work.

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    Comment #23702431

    This book looks interesting. I'd like some advice on whether it will be useful for me. I've been a professional dev for over ten years and I have a CompSci degree from a respected …

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    Comment #21041860

    After reading this article I was all set to look into the ReMarkable as a big e-reader. Then I read this thread and I'm glad that I don't! I have no use for writing in a tablet. Ca…

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    Comment #20917242

    I found it: https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/2259 demo@firefly / demo I'd strongly suggest putting that on the demo page itself.

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    Comment #20917199

    Thanks for the link. What's the username and password for the demo site?

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    Comment #20375569

    personally, I feel like rm -f is dangerous, and never would recommend using it.

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    Comment #19196547

    Interesting note about Lambda Labs, all of the press links on https://lambdalabs.com/?ref=blog are about a ~"privacy violating Google Glass app" that recognizes faces and geotags p…

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    Comment #19143381

    We definitely weren't deliberately executing commands in parallel and I think it's pretty rare that we have network issues.

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    Comment #19143239

    Modules in 1.11 have some rough edges. Internally we have written a merge driver which is imperfect for handling version conflicts, and a couple of my coworkers keep having to dele…

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    Comment #19122081

    it's like getting your kids vaccinated