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macca321

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About macca321

mcintyre321 (at) gmail com

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    Comment #38966092

    Yes, real developers know the quirks of ie6 Vs Firefox 3

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    Comment #37594742

    About 15 years ago I implemented "cache namespacing" for memcached, where you build a final cache key for a stored item (e.g. "profile_page") by doing an initial multiget cache que…

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    Comment #37581874

    It'd be very interesting to know Hashi's internal strategy around this. - Maybe do nothing, and as long as OpenTofu doesn't attempt to extend Terraform they are in not that differe…

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    Comment #37417895

    You can exfiltrate secrets that aren't in the state, but are in accessible resources during a plan using an http data source with the secret encoded into the url

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    Comment #37098527

    I wonder if a non commercial Terraform Cloud "offering" like https://github.com/leg100/otf is "competing" with Hashicorp...

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    Comment #26489779

    In the long run, I wonder if all video will be signed via blockchain-or-other-trusted-3rd-party. You'd need everything from the camera to the the editing software to support it tho…

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    Comment #26152797

    I would really like a client-side js library that lets you sync localstorage to consumer cloud storage (onedrive/gdrive etc)

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    Comment #26015237

    The thing people like about Facebook is looking at other peoples photos, safe in the knowledge that they don't know you are looking at their photos.

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    Comment #25926041

    It would be a lot harder in the Culture to get someone to be your human footstool.

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    Comment #25902998

    I use it because my mum, who has Parkinsons, can work her Facebook Portal.

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    Comment #25622664

    I think a process like this works well for enabling the success of the kind of people who like the sound of a process like this.

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    Comment #25185085

    In a polyglot shop, it can actually be quite handy that HCL is it's own relatively simple language.

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    Comment #25159844

    Better to return a union of custom result types. Save exceptions for when stuff goes really wrong.

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    Comment #25122184

    What action am I meant to take in response to these stories? Put £5k aside to buy shares?

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    Comment #25051894

    I don't like it either, but one advantage is that the settings can be live updated when the config files change

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    Comment #24727642

    Teeth are a luxury.

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    Comment #24514327

    Lobby government for green energy

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    Comment #24446045

    Mortgage repayments are much cheaper than renting, at least where I am in London

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    Comment #24429885

    This is an article from 2008 by the person who invented REST.

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    Comment #24339533

    Probably for the API access to Zendaya's Insta and Twitter accounts

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    Comment #24303605

    You should see the crazy Psion devices my dad used to spend £500 on in the 90s. There's a market

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    Comment #24252288

    Or, "how to stifle innovation with bureaucracy".

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    Comment #24131284

    This is a SAAS product if ever there was one

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    Comment #23943218

    The title is correct, but the article misses the most important thing. The reason you should not divide them is that delivery of a non trivial feature requires change at each layer…