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rpwilcox

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About rpwilcox

Python, Ruby, Objective-C, C++ hacker/consultant.

http://www.flavors.me/rwilcox has links to my twitter (@rwilcox), github (/rwilcox).

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    To jog people's memory about Sky: yes this is the app created by former Shortcuts/Workflow.app people

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    Comment #43953848

    I use a USB-C hub with DisplayLink to drive my setup. This means MacOS thinks I'm recording the screen. I'm a bit worried Team's solution will use those APIs will be used (ie I'll …

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    Comment #37497504

    oh and use File -> Workspace -> the workspace you want. Vs having the list of workspaces on the left with the current one highlighted-with-a-border

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    Comment #37496782

    Ummm how do you know what Slack workspace you're in? Use case: I'm in #general. Can I ask a clarifying question about $DAYJOB's (currently private) Q4 plans... or did I accidentall…

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    Comment #33610555

    This is very cool. Two things I wish: * can it be a sidebar, instead or in addition to this popup? Then it could be up all the time, or how wide I want * I wish it did tabs across …

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    Comment #30429593

    coooool thank you!

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    Comment #30428675

    I am interested to see how this compares to https://highlightsapp.net/ but it looks neat, especially if it starts at a place of integration with other platforms.

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    Comment #29892157

    Kodak was a wild place: trying to use a different calendar system internally (the International Fixed Calendar), the nuke reactor in the basement... just wild stuff.

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    Comment #28981969

    What was the worst was the constant rejection, honestly. (I interviewed a _lot_ so it does track that I'd get 1-3 "thank you for your consideration but..." emails a day. But that d…

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    Comment #28980941

    I'm going to do a blog post on my job search in the next month or so, but for me it's been a _grind_ (that finally ended up with something, thankfully). But sneak preview: * 100 ap…

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    Comment #28907158

    Yes thank you. I know what I'm going to say goes against the millennial / Protestant Work Ethic hustle pr0n... but not _everything_ needs to be monetized. (Given a comfortable base…

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    Comment #19899993

    Rash, the Racket Shell, does something similar to this: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html

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    Comment #17187364

    I bet it was a small business where someone ("Todd Packer") did all that stuff once, when it was 3-8 people, a garage, and a bunch of leased equipment. Now they're 50-100 people, T…

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    Comment #16358842

    If by "modern devops" you mean "they say it's appropriate in a Cloud Native environment" here's some I like or are on my reading list: * Seeking SRE * Database Reliability Engineer…

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    > Any job where a person can argue a clear, direct, measurable link between their work and profit is a job that can be paid based on financial results And anyone who can't will be,…

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    Comment #15076392

    I'd venture less into Common Lisp territory and more into Racket, myself...

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    Comment #13329877

    I would ask the inverse: anyone around here have a pension account? When I joined my current company I was given an option to join the pension (maybe the last year it was offered t…

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    Comment #13271478

    http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code is also an interesting site for similar problems

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    Comment #13266486

    I think you're somewhat right. Anecdote != data of course, but here's mine. Grew up in a rural area, of about 3K people. Lot of farmers, and this was the '90s so lot of broke farme…

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    This is very interesting. Thanks for this data. I've been using the StackOverflow Careers RSS feeds for a small script I've been writing, which gives a good view of Now... maybe I …

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