SnorkelTan

They should remove unlimited voice calls and make everyone using the phone network pay by the minute. It would eliminate robodialing instantly.

I take my dad to the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto to watch old movies. Comparing movies of today to those movies, smoking is definitely not prominently featured in movies of today.

Some municipalities have been able to levy taxes on computer hardware and fund their public services.

The vested shares are unlikely to be worth anything, so they are essentially just working for a salary.

My thought is they got on the phone with someone and got their IP ranges white listed with the major captcha providers.

Were you Senior? I look at those situations as eat what you kill. Like I would ask my manager to put me in touch with arch or up level engineers to tell me where the focus is and find tickets to work on myself.

I'm not a webdev, but I suspect an overwhelming majority of their traffic is on mobile devices. So that's where a majority of eng time is probably spent. Not that it shouldn't be fixed.

Why not just use http retry-after? then you can use middleware/proxy to control this behavior. Downside here is that system operation becomes more opauqe and fragmented across systems.

I remember the original post the author is referring to. I was captivated by it and thought it was cool. When I ran the original mentioned in the post, it detected my one of my alt's that I forgot about. OP's newer implementation using different methodologies did not detect the alt. For reference, the alt was created in 2010 and the last post was in 2012. Perhaps my writing style has changed?

I can’t imagine getting Medicaid to cover the biologic that I take that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription to be anything other than a nightmare.

I take a biologic that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription. $1k a month is honestly easier and I can afford it. I enjoy the luxury of being able to afford to not have to navigate the stupid “oh, so you’re poor” patchwork bullshit that exists. My roommate is not such a person.

What would you recommend for a backend developer looking to make the switch from rest crud apps to ml platforms?

I quit my job as a dev to care for my father who has dementia. Using COBRA and paying for the identical health insurance I had from my employer is $1,000/mo. I have no dependents. California minimum wage annual income is ~$32k. Almost half the income of someone who works a shit job. I'd say that almost 50% of minimum wage just for the privilege of going to a doctor when I have a problem is rightfully a pretty big deal.

Stack overflow was an invaluable resource for me as a developer. I got a wealth of knowledge about a bunch of thorny problems I was encountering with out paying anything. The people who answered the questions I had were able to help far more people than they ever could have individually without SO. I’m having a hard time being upset about his financial windfall. It’s really only a bait and switch for people who answered questions with some other unstated expectation than helping others or receiving help.

Are there any command line tools that will help me with the drudgery of diving into an existing Java project using gradle and say something like “please update the dependencies of this package to this version using the existing project conventions in the entire project”? And give a changeset I can start validating and reviewing?

Most of my experiments have been IntelliJ plugins. I like what they have to offer but feel like they are quite far away from the unified understanding of the specific very complicated codebase I have to work in.