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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:05AM (#39824187)
meh
Re:Amazon's Silent Sacking
on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:05AM (#38880542)
What did you learn?
Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:37AM (#35386971)
Does chatGPT now have a Reddit plugin?
Re:Stanford President and Law-School Dean Apologize to Judge Duncan
on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:51PM (#35122523)
Many would agree, but it's not relevant to the free speech debate
It's the same logic as those who made the "this guy kinda sucks though" argument based on George Floyd's criminal history to deflect from what the issue really was about - policing practices.
Re:Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:12AM (#34062632)
Maybe the company won the deal because the CTO and CPO said "yep - we can do that in 12 weeks" whereas the competitor said "we need to confer with our building teams to estimate the full project timeline" and promptly lost the deal...
Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:46PM (#32099967)
Joking aside, Something I find fascinating about ancient wisdom literature that has been in circulation for centuries - honed and refined generation after generation, is how succinctly key concepts are boiled down in ways that can be easily grasped/remembered. (In this case, avoiding conflict of interest/segregation of duties.)
Re:Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:24AM (#31908080)
I've hired a lot of people over the course of my career, and questions like this would be a major red flag. I'd pass on the candidate.
Completely fine to ask how performance is measured and/or how performance reviews are handled, but the nature of these questions is off-putting. Is a candidate trying to figure out how they can get away with being a low performer? How would their poor judgment in asking questions like this show up elsewhere? Likely a high-maintenance individual.
And, the caveats at the end of the comment indicate the author knows these questions would not make you look good to the hiring team. If the company hired you anyway, probably wouldn't be a good place to work.
Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:03PM (#29789634)
Former Enron employee here - I have some swag I was given when I first started (lunch kit, values booklet, etc. Also have some golf shirts and baseball caps.
Worth anything?
Re:Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: What's the Difference?
on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:05PM (#29273712)
Now hearing about "data lake houses"....
Re:How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)
on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:01PM (#28959684)
Related - cool "circular economy" company in Vancouver that collects chopsticks from restaurants and, using a similar process, makes some pretty amazing stuff: https://chopvalue.com/
Re:Plotly.py 5.0
on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:51PM (#27587097)
Awesome - thanks!
Re:Plotly.py 5.0
on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:51PM (#27586096)
Love the Icicle charts.
Anyone know if they will become available in Ploty.js?
Re:Plotly.py 5.0
on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:11PM (#27581902)
Plotly is fantastic - great to see another release. Have been using it to integrate charts into Oracle Application Express (APEX), which works really well, and provides for much more interactive data visualizations over the built-in APEX charts.
Re:Minimum Viable Self
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:43PM (#27564301)
I feel there are people who have found healthy balance between not using Twitter at all and "focus everything through the lens of the twitterverse".
Re:Minimum Viable Self
on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:16PM (#27556547)
>>I simply don't inhabit it, and I don't feel that I'm missing out.
I've wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on? For example, if you were active on twitter or LinkedIn and carefully cultivated those profiles, who knows what life changing connections you may have made? (I've seen several people comment on getting jobs, business partners, fellow hobbyists, etc. on twitter.)
*edit: missed a word
Re:Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other R...
on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:38PM (#27398808)
So you'd ban MS Access? Why do people use it as opposed to an "IT Sanctioned" tool? If you IT dept does not have time to provide the tools people need to do their jobs, and you take away one of their tools, what/who fills the productivity gap?
Re:Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other R...
on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:03PM (#27374586)
Yes this happens...sometimes. And, other times, (as reflected in comments ITT), there are many cases where a low-code solution built by a non-dev have brought huge benefit. (I've seen this myself - see below - MS Access apps that saved hours and hours of work, but which IT had not time to look at.) I've also seen the sentiment in your comment lead to an outright ban by IT dept. of all low-code tools, for no other reason than the "slippery slope fallacy" that "if we allow this, we could potentially have a big mess to sort out one day". And in doing so, summarily kill a ton of innovation and productivity.
One anecdote I remember - a regulatory change created a major issue for a billing department. They went to IT to get their help to address it, and were told "sorry, no time to even talk to you right now. Come back in six months. Actually, make that 8 months." So, a tech. savvy person in the billing dept. built something in MS Access that solved the problem. They were thrilled. When IT heard about it, they tried to get the guy fired. Billing Dept. manager had to go to bat to make sure that didn't happen.
Re:I Used to Be a Human Being – How we are all becoming information ad...
on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:45PM (#27272110)
How is Catholics & Protestants killing each other for hundreds of years in Europe related to easy access to the vernacular English Bible?
Re:Inside a viral website
on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:50PM (#26651379)
Thank goodness for creative people who think of new and ingenious ways to use tools differently than originally intended. It's the heart of innovation.
Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refl...
on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:09PM (#26624959)
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. ~Hold's Law
;-)
Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:46PM (#26534869)
Even better: I optimized SQL queries for Nameless Corp to improve admin interface load times by 20%, which boosted profits by 20%.
Re:What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:07AM (#26528037)
Didn't he specifically address this, in the section where he brought up "salami slicing"?
Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:45PM (#26441878)
Also a Canadian. Likely most people don't care about it because they don't really know about it, and the additional price that goes to subsidizing farmers is also not material for many people. Also, many who live near the border make a bi-monthly trek into the US (pre-covid) to buy milk, eggs, and gasoline.
re: >> "I don't actually know anyone who cares about it" see: https://imgur.com/gallery/BTOog
Re:Excel Never Dies
on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:57PM (#26389950)
>> "Then, like a lot of Microsoft products, leaves you hanging when it's time to get serious."
This is like a moving company saying their small moving vans "left them hanging" once they outgrew them and started doing national vs. local moves. A tool that proves useful at one stage is not useless because it can't be as useful at ALL stages.
The great thing about Excel as it enables you to do the one thing that kills most start-ups, projects, etc., which is simple to start.
Re:Excel Never Dies
on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:42PM (#26389730)
For me it's SQL and then simply visualizing.
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into res...
on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:07PM (#26042795)
"Can I smoke while I pray" vs. "Can I pray while I smoke"
Re:Doubting Thomas
on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:47PM (#25616865)
>>Browne, who counselled with intimations of Ecclesiastes that “it is a vanity to waste our dayes in the blinde pursuit of knowledge” is an antidote to all this—to doomsayers and optimists and all those who prey on the human need to understand. He knew very little. We should all be so wise.
Hmm...that hit home. Too much reading, not enough doing.
Re:Systems design explains the world: volume 1
on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:50AM (#25557046)
One thing that changes the calculus, (at least for business applications), is the advent of "low code" platforms, which significantly change the economics.
If you've ever used one, you can see how quickly (and iteratively, which is key) you can spin up new functionality.