jamiepenney

For children, it works better in the water as you're trying to get flouride to the developing adult teeth rather than their baby teeth.

This has come up in the local papers a few times here in Wellington, New Zealand. The prevailing theory is that it's a diesel generator on a ship in the harbour.

The Chinese had a problem with almost exactly that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal they added melamine to milk to raise the apparent protein levels, so they could water down the milk.

We used to have issues sending password reset emails to users with Outlook hosted email - Outlook would return a 250 status code, then silently discard the email. It never turned up, not even in the spam filter.

I've been getting up earlier so I have some time before my kid wakes up. He's adjusted to my earlier schedule now so all that's happened is I'm doing his breakfast at 6:30 instead of 7. Hard to keep quiet in a 2 bedroom house where the shower is right next to his room unfortunately.

I do the same thing. There's a particular way of speaking in the North of New Zealand that is associated with poor Maori - when I'm talking to my dad's family, I switch back to talking like that. I mask it in almost all other situations, but it's caught a few friends out at times. One told me it was like talking to a completely different person.

My dad is a tradesperson, and his influence is the one thing I have never been able to completely hide, even in professional settings. It's gotten me a bit of grief over the years, as my response to stress is often to start swearing like a builder.

On one hand, I like being able to code-switch easily. On the other hand, I feel like the only reason I can do it is because I had to, and the inability to completely mask my lower class upbringing has negatively impacted my opportunities at times.

At this point, I just try to own it. If I don't, it's just persisting the negative stereotypes of people of Maori descent never making something of themselves. Gotta start breaking those biases down somehow.

Not to be that guy, but I've become a lot more comfortable with not knowing what the hell I am doing since I had a kid. Most people are winging it, you just don't get to see their failures.

Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.

> Also, trying to get three or more people to agree on a time and place for lunch is less fun than herding cats.

I built a lunch voting website for our Friday company lunch for this very reason. We would spend up to an hour hashing it out on Slack each week, now everyone puts in their votes and it either picks a random one, or if there's a majority it picks that. No more arguments, although there's significantly more horse trading!

I've often felt a bit abnormal for doing this. I guess I only ever see each person in one mode, so I had no idea if other people do it or not. Nice to know at least some other people do.

I love the veiled language in that article - "a new generation of proto-programmers emerge to correct the market" - you mean you hope a bunch of cheap new blood comes in because you wont pay market rates? Yeah, ok.

How big is the VPS you're running it on? I've got a 1GB Digital Ocean box for my side projects already, wondering if I should just spin up another one of those with Dokku instead.

What are you using to run the VM? I've always had issues integrating the host and guest VM nicely in Windows - getting copy-paste working properly, resizing the window, etc.

I've had this conversation with friends before. Some people can't see outside their own risk profile.

> Do I have to think about every possible way that people can perceive my actions, in order to make sure I stay the way I see myself - which is fundamentally on the basis that I am a good person?

This is the money quote for me. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get this through to people: No, I'm not a criminal now. I don't plan to become a criminal in the future. I control my own actions, but I don't control the how my actions are perceived by other people.

Should I be arrested because some combination of my purchases today and words written when I was 17 point to me committing a terrorist act? More to the point, should I have to worry about what someone is going to think if a computer flags my metadata as "worth investigation" and they start trawling through the entirety of my online life? What effect does that have on general conversation on the internet?

I think the thing I'm most afraid of is how do I explain this to my kids? In 10 years when they start forging their own life online, how do I sit down and explain that everything they do is monitored, and they need to be careful about everything they say and do on the internet? How do I explain that it didn't used to be like that, but we failed to stop it? It sounds melodramatic to type it out, but we've had an unprecedented amount of freedom to communicate with people around the world, and now that's being taken away.

Looks like Raspian have updated their bash package with the fix, so my Raspberry Pi is safe.

That got my name wrong. Damn.

It all seems overwhelming when you look at the whole of the industry like that, but it's a lot easier if you pick a niche for now. If you like backend work, just ignore Javascript for now. If you need it for a job, you'll be able to pick it up, I promise. You sound a lot like me at 17, although to be fair to you there weren't so many technologies at the time. I started with C/C++ and Win32, played with MFC, learnt OpenGL and tried to write a game engine with a friend, got into Java at Uni, did language parsing and C# WinForms at my first job, moved to a SaaS company having done no real web development before, now I work for another web startup where I need to know a whole chunk of those techs you listed.

I tell people I probably won't be working in tech when I'm 40. If you think that's where you'll end up, plan for it. My plan is to buy a business with my wife in her field and do some contracting on the side. No idea if that will work out or not, but that's a 10 year plan. Just having a plan can help with the anxiety.

Until they get big enough to put them in. I've run through this cycle before with ISPs here in New Zealand - they're great while they're small, then once they hit a double digit percentage of the market, they shit all over you - raise fees, cut service centres (or outsource them), and add fixed term contracts and other bollocks.

I never thought of contacting customer support to try and restore my old account. I lost all of my playlists when they "helpfully" suggested that I delete my "unused" channel. The popup said this would have no effect on my youtube experience.

But it did. It deleted all the playlists I had created, and I couldnt re-create them without linking a Google+ account to my youtube account and creating a public channel. I didn't do that because that account is the one I don't associate with my real name. It was a very frustrating user experience, and has added to my list of reasons to get away from google services.

The last time I logged in to Youtube, it told me my channel was unnecessary as it was empty, and that I could delete it without impacting my level of service. What they didn't say was, this also deletes your playlists. And you can't create new playlists without creating a new channel, which must be created with a Google+ account.

I'm about done with Google, just starting to move my stuff off it now.

Except for the "we made a mistake, now we are retrofitting the law so that we did not make a mistake" laws that have been passed over the last few years. The Search and Surveillance Bill, as well as the upcoming changes to the GCSB spring to mind.

At least these are just the government covering it's own ass, rather than out and out corruption.

I've got my web browser on a second portrait monitor as well, it's pretty common for people to overlook width < 1024px configurations when designing their websites.

This story sounds familiar...

Our quiz team is a pretty good source of friends. People bring in their own friends and workmates so we get to meet quite a few new people.

I'm guessing New Zealand must be in the same position - I've seen plenty of screenshots showing me where the unsub link is, but it is just plain text for me. I had to call MS and cancel over the phone, which took a lot longer than it really should.

I have a Filco Majestouch with browns at work, and one with blues at home. I mostly prefer the blues, but they are obscenely loud so just aren't that practical for an office environment. The browns are not much louder than a normal keyboard unless you are really pounding away on them.

If you are already using a Kinesis, you won't get much out of a Majestouch - They're as straight as an arrow.

Yeah, especially when you take into account that some of them are using a proper ORM and others are just using straight SQL queries. Sinatra looks twice as fast as Rails at DB based pages, but if they through in ActiveRecord in the Sinatra app it might be even closer.

I think the point was that it wasn't an NHibernate problem, it was a SQL Server problem. The first link when you google that error message gives a good troubleshooting process, and the guy gave no indication that he had searched first. But it agree that it was an over the top response.