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Re:The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) on Monday March 24, 2025 @11:58PM (#43468004)
This is the key. Ask all the developers for a ranked top-3 list of who they would most prefer to go to for help with a programming problem. Put that data together and you know who your best are.

Before the inevitable protest: I believe the ability and willingness to communicate with other developers is a vital skill in this business.

A nice layout. For fun I attempted to actually print (to PDF) and boy was that messed up badly! Guessing that's not the type of "print" you had in mind. :)
I had no idea this existed. Me likey. Now if I can just get this as an RSS feed....
It can put encrypted backups on almost any cloud service, pCloud in my case.
Re:Goodbye Non-Kiss Appliances on Sunday February 04, 2024 @10:35AM (#39251007)
Maybe a decent short-throw projector?
Re:.NET 7 is Available Today on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:03PM (#33527093)
We're in the process of migration a large MVC application from Framework 4.8 to .NET 6. It's been....painful. Hopefully at least for a while updating to new LTS versions will be less so.
Re:Coding as a greybeard on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:30AM (#32318222)
For me, the TRS-80 Model I (4k). I later "graduated" to the TI-99/4A (16k) and Commodore VIC-20 (5k).
Re:So, how can we lower gas prices? on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:15PM (#31831343)
By removing the incentive to plow the current massive profits into stock buybacks and dividends instead of refining capacity?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/energy/gas-prices-oil-product...

Typically wherever you buy it they will have small Styrofoam coolers next to it. It typically comes sealed in thin plastic bags. Get it home, put on a glove, and throw it in your freezer. Any glove is fine as long as you're not standing there with it in your hand. There are several grocery stores that have it available here.
Re:Things I wish I’d known about CSS on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:01AM (#23870539)
We use WKHTMLTOPDF (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/). In our case it's in the Rotativa package (.NET MVC). There are a few caveats; it uses an older headless WebKit engine that doesn't support everything. We use the QT Web Browser (http://www.qtweb.net) to test/debug when needed. We do design pages to be specific "paper" sizes and lean on SVG a lot for anything fancy. We have some JS that breaks long tables into multiple tables, etc. But the resulting output looks flawless.
Re:CSS grid garden on Monday December 24, 2018 @05:03PM (#18754516)
We just finished deploying a major contract where the military is a primary customer. They still have many machines running IE 11. I used CSS Grid and it's working well. IE 11 supports the initial version of the spec and has the -ms prefixes, but works. There are some things you can't do (like areas), but it largely works with that syntax, if you design with column/row in mind.

See this for details on the IE 10/11 implementation:

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...

Re:A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:43PM (#18749910)
I don't know about other areas, but here in the middle of Oklahoma the Dollar Generals have been a real positive. There's a lot of rural areas where a Walmart came in, then folded later. It left a 1-2 hour drive to get buy any kind of "real" food. The DG stores here have been expanding to include an actual grocery section, including fresh produce and (limited) fresh meat. More is available frozen. They have excellent prices on canned goods. Are they as good as a full grocery store? No, but they're a _lot_ better than the gas station/convenience store and its endless supply of deep-fried burritos...and also the only alternative.
Re:Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:08PM (#4784556)
Ditto, hope the men in suits don't come down.
Re:Ask HN: Why don't you work less? on Monday November 12, 2012 @10:01AM (#4773053)
Insurance. At least, until 2014.