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To clarify and define the time period: beta as in Beta Max video cassette tapes.
Re:JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:08PM (#32693175)
CIO - Cache Invalidation Officer
Re:Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch on Saturday June 04, 2022 @07:45AM (#31619233)
Try looking in Polish shop for that kind of bread.
Re:The Cube Rule (2017) on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:07AM (#30800669)
It is a kind of bread from Vienna.
Re:The Big TDD Misunderstanding on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:01PM (#30757506)
A database is not simply a bag of bits. It has behaviour which matters to the rest of the program.
Is there a course to go from SRE to SERE?
Re:What does it mean to listen on a port? on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:56PM (#30325604)
The Phoenix Project is a book about agile project management. It's written in a similar style.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...

Re:Cocktail party ideas on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:04AM (#30191002)
Related to "why don't you just..." to solve any seemingly trivial problem, which isn't.
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:54PM (#30028223)
Oh, I had that problem.

Settings, Audio, uncheck Automatically adjust microphone volume.

My knowledge basically ends at knowing of the concept, so can you elaborate how/why it is different in different orbits?
Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:49PM (#29971550)
This sounds interesting, can you expand on that a bit please?
Re:How and why the Relational Model works for databases on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:56AM (#29967835)
For one thing DynamoDB is Amazon scale whereas Mongo is merely web-scale.
Re:Why Emacs: Redux on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:19PM (#29258325)
Are we talking the 1980s word processor WordStar??
Re:Spiders are much smarter than you think on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:04PM (#29141206)
Then, allow me to recommend it :)
Up until the mid 90s, the culture of and on the Internet was academic, and any commercial activity was fairly harshly frowned upon.

This slowly faded as more people and companies got connected, but until then it was definitely a thing.

Re:Org Mode 9.5 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:34PM (#28711001)
Check out https://github.com/jplindstrom/emacs-org-transform-tree-tabl... if you want to turn the org tree with the properties into a CSV file so you can collaborate with your non-nerd colleagues.
Re:Domain-Driven Design on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:58AM (#28672325)
Invariant: doesn't vary. Things that always are (or should be) true.
Re:Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:09PM (#27667253)
When I visited the exhibition in Kalmar Castle in Sweden at some undefined time ago it was calm and quiet and people sat on the floor or on little chairs.

I quite enjoyed it, would recommend.

Re:TDD from the Factorio Team on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:47AM (#27549726)
A brittle test suite during refactoring is usually caused by too much mocking.

Look at the concept of sociable tests.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

Re:Don't Feed the Thought Leaders on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:36AM (#27471509)
I have now added this book to my Amazon wish list.
Re:Tips for Interviewing over Zoom on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:52AM (#27413149)
What are you talking about?

People are probably taking time off out of their workday for the interview. They might very well have other meetings, especially is they are in a senior position.

Taking their current job responsibilities seriously is a good sign for when they'll later work for your company.

Re:The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:12AM (#24907052)
Yep, same in Sweden.
It's like having 12345 as the code on your luggage.
Re:They're Made Out of Meat (1991) on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:23PM (#24740804)
That one's full. But good news, we can fit you in on Ark Ship B!
Re:Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:25PM (#24608321)
Or human readable. This is what I usually use:

    du -sh * | sort -h
Re:On Browser Tabs on Saturday September 19, 2020 @09:36AM (#24527327)
Is it just me or is Tree Style Tabs fairly buggy when it comes to focusing tabs after closing one? It seems half random to me.

It's also fragile at browser startup, sometimes the list is empty or the tabs are in a flat list. When I switch to bookmarks and then back, it's fixed.

So, generally very fragile. Which is annoying since the CONCEPT is so essential.

Re:Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:25PM (#24463695)
If one user submits a support ticket you can count on there being ten others that had the same problem but didn't bother.
Re:Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:55PM (#24463463)
It depends. Mostly on what kind of users you might have.

If the underlying model is very powerful but so complicated that it's very difficult to convey it to anyone, is it of any use? "Financially lucrative" in that case is simply a proxy for "can I get anyone go understand what is even going on?"

I've built an online pub quiz, and I'm doing as much hallway usability testing (in the Zoom hallway) as I can. Early on, every single one ended up with me changing things from being more flexible and powerful to being simpler. Either the underlying model, or just what is being presented/allowed in the user interface at any given time.

There is just no point in trying to provide lots of options instead of a well thought out middle-of-the-road path of obvious next steps if no-one will be able to get around to doing what they came for. People can't become power users if they aren't users.

UX design is so hard, but luckily it's also very interesting :)

Re:Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:02PM (#24425860)
Where do you put the elements? Next to the <template> or inside it?
Re:Growing a Language (1998) [video] on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:53AM (#24389785)
Because that does not illustrate the concept of building a language as clearly and succinctly.

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