This reminds me of a time when I had become jaded as a camera store employee. I got in the habit of telling people that the cameras they were hoping to buy were essentially landfill filler. This website would have been…
A few years ago I made the decision to go back to school (for two years) to be a web dev. It cost me approximately $25k. Immediately after graduation I added $25k to my yearly income. There is a ton of work for web…
This probably applies more to homes with an East to West facing pitch, but I find it really odd that it isn't standard issue to have a track system that moves the solar panels from one side of the roof to the other. A…
As someone who developed parnosmia later in life (I can only smell certain things), I found this article very interesting. Living without the ability to smell is somewhat more isolating than one would think. That, and I…
We definitely need to give Swiffer an honorable mention. Dust in your house? Why not clean it up and create an enormous pile of trash at the same time!!!
I always appreciate commit messages that are informative and well structured. That said, I'm not a fan of specific formats for commits. The commit messages in a project are where a lot of that project's collective…
This whole article seems like an offhand way to get people to stockpile aquarium antibiotics. This guy is obviously on Big Aquarium Pharma's payrol.
“It’s like salmon,” he said. “They’ll return to the place where they were spawned.”
Mark my words, someone is going to memorize the entire thing and use it as a party trick.
The company I work for pays for Ag-Grid, which makes me sad. Overall I find it has been fairly difficult to work with, and there are a lot of breaking changes when upgrading from older versions. I think we could get…
Anyone have comments on how this might stack up against AG-Grid?
"Start with a phone screen interview" I have to disagree with this point. Phone and screen interviews are awkwardly paced and some individuals simply don't come across well in this type of setting. If the qualifications…
I feel like this essentially exists for the sole purpose of generating a large training set for some sort of drawing analysis. I wonder if google has some new use case where they want to be able to quickly tag human…
Semantic pedantics and the developers who love them
I've witnessed this first hand. After having a sleep study and finding that I have mild OSA my ENT suggested removing my tonsils, uvula, and part of my palate to open up my airway. I told him that sounded like the…
There is a secondary solution to CPAP machines that may apply to some people who find their breathing/sleep improves with sleeping position. About a year ago I got a Mandibular Advancement Device from a TMJ specialist…
Wait, dogs can get cancer? Fuck. That is super depressing.
As far as I know I made it up. It's the term I typically use to give potential employers (and other devs) a general sense of where my competencies are.
The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, database, anything on the front-end that isn't CSS), and a…
What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? Start an economical catastrophe. We need to immediately, and meaningfully, move away from oil, gas, and other carbon heavy industries in any way that we presently have…
Ooh, what about a laser on the space side of the debris that heats it, causing the release of gases that propel it towards earth? You would have to be able dynamically re-target the debris for uniform acceleration while…
I'm guessing this thing is going to run all the time and send Apple a continuous stream of what music is actually playing around people, so they can use the data to better market music. Having song identification built…
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make to OP. Think about the future and opt out! It's a super tough sell for most people though, so the majority is likely going to just opt in, or remain opted in by default. Which…
I think it's important to take time and think about some of the potential outcomes of bulk data collection. Take this for example: there is currently a trend in the insurance industry to require an activity tracking…
Off topic: Do you have any good general learning resources for someone who is relatively new, but getting increasingly more involved in GIS? I'm a web dev, but a lot of the applications I work on involve maps (mostly…
This reminds me of a time when I had become jaded as a camera store employee. I got in the habit of telling people that the cameras they were hoping to buy were essentially landfill filler. This website would have been…
A few years ago I made the decision to go back to school (for two years) to be a web dev. It cost me approximately $25k. Immediately after graduation I added $25k to my yearly income. There is a ton of work for web…
This probably applies more to homes with an East to West facing pitch, but I find it really odd that it isn't standard issue to have a track system that moves the solar panels from one side of the roof to the other. A…
As someone who developed parnosmia later in life (I can only smell certain things), I found this article very interesting. Living without the ability to smell is somewhat more isolating than one would think. That, and I…
We definitely need to give Swiffer an honorable mention. Dust in your house? Why not clean it up and create an enormous pile of trash at the same time!!!
I always appreciate commit messages that are informative and well structured. That said, I'm not a fan of specific formats for commits. The commit messages in a project are where a lot of that project's collective…
This whole article seems like an offhand way to get people to stockpile aquarium antibiotics. This guy is obviously on Big Aquarium Pharma's payrol.
“It’s like salmon,” he said. “They’ll return to the place where they were spawned.”
Mark my words, someone is going to memorize the entire thing and use it as a party trick.
The company I work for pays for Ag-Grid, which makes me sad. Overall I find it has been fairly difficult to work with, and there are a lot of breaking changes when upgrading from older versions. I think we could get…
Anyone have comments on how this might stack up against AG-Grid?
"Start with a phone screen interview" I have to disagree with this point. Phone and screen interviews are awkwardly paced and some individuals simply don't come across well in this type of setting. If the qualifications…
I feel like this essentially exists for the sole purpose of generating a large training set for some sort of drawing analysis. I wonder if google has some new use case where they want to be able to quickly tag human…
Semantic pedantics and the developers who love them
I've witnessed this first hand. After having a sleep study and finding that I have mild OSA my ENT suggested removing my tonsils, uvula, and part of my palate to open up my airway. I told him that sounded like the…
There is a secondary solution to CPAP machines that may apply to some people who find their breathing/sleep improves with sleeping position. About a year ago I got a Mandibular Advancement Device from a TMJ specialist…
Wait, dogs can get cancer? Fuck. That is super depressing.
As far as I know I made it up. It's the term I typically use to give potential employers (and other devs) a general sense of where my competencies are.
The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, database, anything on the front-end that isn't CSS), and a…
What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? Start an economical catastrophe. We need to immediately, and meaningfully, move away from oil, gas, and other carbon heavy industries in any way that we presently have…
Ooh, what about a laser on the space side of the debris that heats it, causing the release of gases that propel it towards earth? You would have to be able dynamically re-target the debris for uniform acceleration while…
I'm guessing this thing is going to run all the time and send Apple a continuous stream of what music is actually playing around people, so they can use the data to better market music. Having song identification built…
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make to OP. Think about the future and opt out! It's a super tough sell for most people though, so the majority is likely going to just opt in, or remain opted in by default. Which…
I think it's important to take time and think about some of the potential outcomes of bulk data collection. Take this for example: there is currently a trend in the insurance industry to require an activity tracking…
Off topic: Do you have any good general learning resources for someone who is relatively new, but getting increasingly more involved in GIS? I'm a web dev, but a lot of the applications I work on involve maps (mostly…