lost_my_pwd

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/tautologistics; my proof: https://keybase.io/tautologistics/sigs/gQpu-dSxHQJmlOrQ_UUOV6kXcJm227LSuqeZLhU9kuU ]

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Comment · 1 year ago

A few more more, depending on the nature of the project and one's goals:

  how do I report bugs
  how do I build from source
  how can I help/contribute

Comment · 3 years ago

I think they are referring to this: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev

Appears to be a derogatory term that, by diminishing the efforts and abilities of others, is used to make one feel better about one's self.

Comment · 5 years ago

Long ago I was reading about Ernest Hemingway's approach to dealing with writer's block and one thing he said has stuck with me and proved quite successful for both "coder's block" and remembering where I left off from the last coding session:

  I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day…

Comment · 5 years ago

Give AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice

Comment · 7 years ago

Oh it can get even more ridiculous... yesterday I got yet another $300 bill for an ER visit from October 2017. Now I have figure out whether it will cost me more in lost billable hours than to just pay this bill, knowing that contacting my $1700/mo insurance company to help sort things out will prove to be fruitless.

Comment · 7 years ago

Way down at the end of the page an "oh, by the way..." disclosure:

  After the program graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000, capped at $30,000 total paid back to Modern Labor.

There is also the implication that a potential starting salary is $91,476:

  $91,476 The salary of an entry-level front-end developer (Source: PayScale, 2019)

Assuming that was somehow true...

  %15 * $92K * 2yr - ($2K/mo * 5mo) = $17.6K total cost of tuition

Looking around, ~$11.4K is the average tuition for a coding school, so this proposition works out to be a rather high interest loan (that can't be paid off early):

  $17.6K - $11.4K = $6.2K in interest
  $6.2K / $17.6K / 2yr = 17.6% APR

Comment · 7 years ago

Any thoughts about making the client-side "seed" saveable?

Would love to be able to save/replay/share sections that I really enjoyed (e.g. bookmark the seed(s) + offset/range).

Comment · 7 years ago

Caution: this just hung Firefox for a ~30s and then my MBP rebooted.

Comment · 7 years ago

Humans are not always the consumer of error output. Distinct error codes simplify parsing and eliminate ambiguity.

It also makes it easier for developers look up a specific error in the documentation, assuming it's been documented.

Comment · 8 years ago

There's a good Planet Money podcast all about the Jones Act: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/05/488869138/epis...

Comment · 8 years ago

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Comment · 8 years ago

"But according to Troy Mursch, a security expert who spends much of his time tracking Coinhive and other instances of “cryptojacking,” killing the key doesn’t do anything to stop Coinhive’s code from continuing to mine Monero on a hacked site. Once a key is invalidated, Mursch said, Coinhive keeps 100 percent of the cryptocurrency mined by sites tied to that account from then on."

This is where I think Coinhive ethically crosses the line; perhaps legally, too. The mining scripts should stop when contacting Coinhive and determining that the specified key/ID has been disabled due to complaints or fraud.

Comment · 8 years ago

Which reminds me of Runaway (1984): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

Comment · 8 years ago

That same type of "content transposition" tool would also be a way to ensure obfuscation of content source if applied to copied text.

Comment · 9 years ago

In the US in the 70s-80s this used to be a thing:

http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-ai...

There were actually a few no-brand brands from supermarket chains like this that I can recall.