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> It would be a mistake to insist that all of those spreadsheets should have started life as something else, just in case maintenance should someday become necessary. The problem c…

Not the OP, but when I was doing CGI scripts Perl 5 wasn't released yet. And even when it was it took a long while for people and systems to migrate. Quite a bit of the early web a…

> CGI scripts went out of fashion for several reasons that fall into the categories "too complex to maintain" or "there's this new thing called PHP...". This is how I remember it a…

The article describes disagreeable people as "selfish, combative, and manipulative." And "Does being disagreeable-that is, behaving in aggressive, selfish, and manipulative ways-he…

Wow! Lots of memories flooding back. I (Xamot) remember your nickname. E2 was definitely an interesting place, bringing together people from many walks of life. I meet many people,…

It really depends on what those experiences were at the same employer. I'm not the OP and not in the same boat. But I've been at the same employer for more than 30 years.

This is pretty nice. I really like the sounds, presets, and minimalistic look & feel.

I thought this was a very interesting pod cast about pet food. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/v4h9wo5/pet-food-ho... TL;DL: Feeding pets the animal byproducts of our own …

Wonderful comment. Mirrors a lot of what I've experienced directly or indirectly in the industry. I'd add that mid-sized and up companies are usually not homogeneous. There are usu…

I am a US citizen with a bunch of civil engineer friends who are Professional Engineers (the capital letter, licensed kind). For a good number of years I had a roommate whose job w…

When I first started using jq, all of the examples I was following used the short-form. It took me a while to figure out how to use the functions and do some advanced transforms be…

I feel like you could replace "ERP implementation" with "business transformation project involving vendor software" and have a new Law. The same with the parent commenter's thought…

JDBC is the low level connection standard. Everything I am aware of is built ontop of JDBC. Many people use the JPA libraries like Hibernate and EclipseLink. Another popular ORM is…

I like to provide people the NIST Blockchain Overview pdf. Particularly the decision flowchart. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf

Similar story for me. Pretty much the only time I am disappointed with Docker Swarm is during monthly host OS patching and the networking gets messed up and we have to restart daem…

Thanks for writing this. It echos a lot my own experiences.

I would argue that many people try to commoditize developers through scrum (edit: and call it Agile). Agile is just a set of principles. Which pretty much state the opposite, "Indi…

I really like this idea and I really like Clojure. Though I'm curious about performance. And do you know if anyone is doing something similar with Racket? (Looks like there is a Co…

I'm another person in their 40s that (tries to) primarily listens to Indie. What are you tips for discovering music? I primarily am using Pandora and it really depends how much tim…

> ...but then forget that they've now created a copy of their entire system With persistent data structures you don't have a whole copy of the entire system. The two views of your …

> Who are they selling to on workdays anyway? Jobless people? There are a whole lot of people in the world who's jobs are not "9-5" office jobs. Also on any given day there are a b…

I got that it is building a binary and basically placing it in a local repo. I also get that it is looking for a binary from a GitHub Release first, which is mildly better. I still…

Using source repositories as packages sounds like an awful idea. Not only do you have to deal with runtime dependencies, but also compile, test, and other dependencies. What happen…

Nice. A few tricks with dual I haven't come across before. When you get into examples using tables it would be nice if you provided the table definitions and some sample data. PS: …

How does Phoenix compare to WebMachine (Erlang) and Liberator (Clojure)? Specifically does it have similar decision graph tracing. Is some form of hypermedia supported or built in?…