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After trying many different tools and being disappointed by either bank integration or being locked into a proprietary budget format I settled on using a spreadsheet.

The template from https://themeasureofaplan.com/budget-tracking-tool/ has everything I need and a perfect level of flexibility to customize it for your needs.

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Going on ten years of blogging. This is one consistent habit that continues to pay dividends. Only wish I had even more time for writing.

Parents do talk about how hard it is – but if you do not have kids it’s hard to fully comprehend the message.

Growth hormones are banned on Canadian dairy farms.

I'm not even sure what you mean. RPC is fundamentally different than REST and I don't know how you can layer on over top of the other?

What's the state of vim plugins for VS Code?

I would love to use it for Go programming but I'm so used to vim key bindings that it's hard to switch. I can use IntelliJ because their vim plugin is pretty good; anything of similar quality for VS Code?

For anyone interested I posted a review of the Data Science Specialization that I paid for and completed:

http://sookocheff.com/post/datascience/datasciencespecializa...

Recently moving from Python to Java. `pip` doesn't even come close to Maven. Dependency management used to be something I needed to manage much more closely in Python. With Maven, it just works.

I'm also a fan of C# but deploying .NET has been a sticking point. I'm hopeful that Microsoft's open source efforts fix this.

Microsoft now employs 118,584 people with many of them working in research laboratories. Had Gates pursued academia he could have at best accomplished a fraction of what he has.

With Kafka specifically the consumers of messages use standard TCP to receive messages by pulling them from Kafka. Kafka is not a push system. Consumers can come and go in and ad-hoc fashion.

Another shameless plug: At my previous job I wrote a basic PyPI server running on App Engine with packages stored in Cloud Storage.

You get the benefits and drawbacks of Google Cloud Platform.

https://github.com/vendasta/cloudpypi/tree/master

This has been my experience exactly. It was such a problem that it really turned me off of trying to use Haskell for a serious project.

Is this Jetpacks? Our test team has been using it at work. I would consider offering corporate plans if possible.

Research can (and arguably should) exist outside of a corporate vision.

The articles entire point is that price does not indicate quality. You are agreeing with the author.

It is not meaningless if you are using the exact same wine in both tests as the author points out.

It seems like I am in the minority here but I see nothing wrong with making a required government process more efficient. The companies in question would have to provide this information anyways and streamlining the process seems logical.

I understand your point but no fine should be levied? This kind of behaviour should be discouraged and a fine is entirely appropriate to discourage it.

I don't understand. Where would you use this instead of Lua?

Tesla had 10 years of losses. I wouldn't qualify the current Model S's minor financial success as 'easy'.

They can always say no.

Author here. I've used the stock Mail App for months and I've been trying to use Reminders for at least as long. The Apple software just isn't as good.

For a lot of users e-mail, calendar and social are the killer features of a phone.

Guilty ... a free phone is a free phone.

That's how I understand it. The founders get acquisition money and get to keep the (slightly different) product and users. How often does a deal like that come along?

If you can hire Guido you are not a startup.

I had the same reaction. I guess that may be a reason why they are forced to shut down.

I agree. I don't want to buy a bag full of coins to defeat a monster. I want to play the game in full from the outset.

Boring != bad.