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The Ruby/Rails community is going to be fundamentally better off with people like this self-selecting out of it. DHH has been acting as a lightning rod for a few years now, but jus…

I sincerely hope that having produced a comment like that, you are not using ad blockers of any kind in any browser, including the reduced functionality Chrome uBlock Origin on man…

They've tried this twice already, although neither bill went through: https://scocablog.com/exit-taxes-in-california-not-so-fast/ Especially egregious was a 10-year look back so ev…

From Wiki originally: > the annual risk of a given person being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, which means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (…

Real UUIDs in the DB are definitely the right answer. I couldn't help but think the article has the right idea but reaches the wrong conclusion — it is possible to use user-specifi…

Is anyone able to get a little more specific about the kinds of "creators" he's talking about and what they do exactly which drive these abuse problems? I read the article, but fel…

That seems to be right, but your parent's point still stands — the house may have burned down during an eight year absence, but it really doesn't seem to have "vanished". The title…

Exactly this. Multiple requests with the same idempotency key are still different requests, and you want to be able to track them independently. Also worth noting that a header nam…

I agree — the 12" is still Apple's best ever form factor. I even considered buying another one as the line was winding down. (Though was glad I didn't after the M1 came out.) But t…

Similar situation here. I use 1Password every day, but I only trust it to autofill simple login forms. Where something more complex is happening, I tend to copy information over fi…

If you don't know COBOL, Wikipedia has a pretty excellent overview of a lot of its basic syntax here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Features It's very verbose, and includes a…

And not to mention that like everywhere else in San Francisco, there will likely be in no enforcement of these traffic rules whatsoever, so in practice private vehicles will still …

I think you're missing that most of the homeless presence is in specific areas, like downtown, where there are not many free restrooms. Private businesses see a lot of abuse of the…

Agreed with this. Comcast is a terrible company in pretty much every way, shape, and form, but xfinitywifi has been useful to me many times now as a usable fallback when nothing el…

> If your career consists of Ruby->Node.js->Go then static binaries are radical new technology. Rather than offer what amounts to nothing more than an ad hominem, perhaps you’d car…

Thanks for the response. > You have to remember that most people there have started at the same place you're at right now. You even said it in your post. So this is the part I disa…

Going to Toastmasters seems to be the universal Internet standard advice for improving public speaking, but I'm not so sure about it. I'm coming from a similar place of intense pub…