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Little trinkets that we’d hold while waiting for the effect while silently repeating to ourselves that this would remind us we’re just high.
Be damned if you lost that thing though.
Mine was a toy kitten holding a cheeseburger.
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Some people don’t like that either though. :/
So important... i can’t tell you how many times I’ve come across a database backup process that either the cron had been failing for months, that wasnt backing up all the data, or was simply corrupted.
Not only verify your backups, but make sure you know you’re restore process too!
You’ve got to trust that our banking systems do this thoroughly though ... amirite?!1!!
Native applications don’t benefit from smaller responses of just the data they need to render a view?
I am confused.
I haven’t talked to you in years. I wrote some DM plugins back in the day.
Hope you’re doing well!
Are you working on any interesting open source projects?
Reads nicer sometimes, sure.
- build views without being blocked waiting for a new rest endpoint
- get exactly what the UI needs to render
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Although to negate my own first point, nb4 being blocked on waiting for new mutations and queries :P
Not sure if the upside is as strong but it’s definitely skyrocketed multiples times in the past few weeks without any of the “hassle” of bitcoin trading.
Every time I see a comment about an open source phone I am curious if the poster of the comment is actually going to fine comb the code base.
I’d be pissed for an hour but at the end of the day my phone, laptop, watch, TV and car all syncing my music and crap with no effort is too appealing to scoff at.
Hell if I found out they had a meat locker of dead kittens hidden in the basement of 1 Infinite Loop Id probably stay loyal.
I’d normally say eventually it’d bite you if you fall into the habit and do it on a public repo by accident but it looks like it can bite you on a private one too.
Manage your secrets. Use something like Vault[1] or Pass[2] they’re free and awesome projects.
I keep all of my secrets even non-prod ones in one of these two because if you think about it, even your “non-prod” github credentials are kinda prod since you have access to code.
1- https://www.vaultproject.io/
2- https://www.passwordstore.org/
Also when it comes to AWS secrets, give your developers read only access, make them turn on MFA and assume a role that scopes permissions to the work they need to do.
Leaking AWS secrets is really asking for it. The amount of bots that consistently scan public git repos and then use the credentials to spin up massive instances to mine crypto currency is impressive. I’ve seen it do upwards of $10000 in AWS usage within five minutes of the commit containing the credentials.
Yeah? Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t google much.
I go straight to BBC or the Guardian for news.
I get my tech news from email lists or HN.
When I’m curious about random stuff, I’ll end up on Wikipedia.
What i use google for is getting to a deep link in a site i know i want to go to:
* shortcuts to amazon
* shortcuts to stackoverflow
* probably specific porn term
When I use google I’m usually looking for a specific answer to something that I’m not sure where to find it.
The two most recent example are:
- safety rating and electric range of the Volvo T8
- a recipe for chicken tortilla soup
And here is where i get to “maybe”.
I want an answer to those questions. What do i get? 40 paragraphs of SEO unique content around some experience someone had as a child with their grandma and then a recipe for chicken tortilla soup buried in there somewhere.
I’ve started and worked for a few big content sites and i know the SEO game well.
Websites that want to show up in google can’t just focus on what their core competency is, they also have to be content site and have writers.
It kinda sucks because I just hit the back button when I’m expecting a succinct answer and I’m confronted with a novel (and i think that’s still a big penalty to them) and try to find the quickest answer without reading a life story or opinions on a car.
How many times have you had that happen when you're driving and you see someone hesitantly about to jaywalk?
Also, as a cyclist, when a cyclist doesn't ride on the road and follow the laws it drives me nuts. Are you a vehicle or a pedestrian? Please don't be both.
Title should be NO_TITLE because “doofus driving truck backs into something” isn’t news.
I had a rails/ar based report that I "fixed" at my last job that when it ran it generated 1100 reads (not even N+1, a lot of other crazy aggregates, etc).
It was complicated, but I got it into one query, subquery and a partition.
Went from 45s of app time to process to a <1s query!
I’m going have to get that one though. I can’t seem to focus/finish when reading educational books on my kindle or in PDF form.
I like the “turn thousands of lines of code into queries”... I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen application code doing something a query could do either to appease an ORM or because a backend engineer wasn’t fluent in intermediate SQL.
What will happen to the minds and psyche of future generalizations when they look up and see nothing?
I wish more local municipalities would enforce restrictions against unnecessarily keeping lights on.
The closest (to me) and only city I know of that does proactively enforce light restrictions is Cave Creek[1]
[1] Pages 14-21: http://www.cavecreek.org/DocumentCenter/View/995
Some good related light pollution links:
- http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/darkskies
- http://www.darksky.org/5-appalling-facts-about-light-polluti...