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systematical··on GitHub Package Registry
How did this launch without composer support?
systematical··on We Can Do Better Than SQL
I happen to like SQL and found it pretty easy to learn. Tons of resources out there. And now with Postgres ad MySQL adding JSON storage we're getting all the benefits of NoSQL in SQL.
systematical··on Paying for Open Source Contributions
This is awesome. If my employer did this I'd probably take a lot of that money and donate to other OSS and charity since I'd neebed working on OSS regardless.
systematical··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Thanks. I skimmed right past it I guess.
systematical··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Okay understood. But does refrigerating them make them last longer? I'm nomading through South America and of course the eggs were not refrigerated. Didn't worry me much, but I still put them in the refrigerator with the assumption that a cold dark environment will make the last longer. no?
systematical··on A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
We all killed IE6 eventually, the big shops and the little shops. Big shops had their banners, us little ones had their banter. Telling those in accounting, marketing, support, and sales to use FireFox, Chrome, or whatever instead of IE6 so we didn't have to #%$& with debugging IE6 on extranets.

Man those were rough days.

systematical··on Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
What if the server is a VPS?
systematical··on Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
This. People seek things that "understand" them. Misery loves company.
systematical··on Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)
had no idea rice had high arsenic content. Its a stable of my diet, I eat it probably 2 or 3 times a week.
systematical··on Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability
We're going to be too late. This doesn't mean stop trying, but it does mean accept it and begin exploring climate engineering and carbon capture. When I say the latter, I literally mean remove the stuff out of the atmosphere and some progress has been made. For the former: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-planet-warms-scientists...
systematical··on Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban
Funny yet /r/NHLStreams persists. The internet is a funny place.
systematical··on Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
I assume last pass will be hacked someday. And when it is that person will have my Reddit, Hacker news, amazon etc.. But not my email or financials. I store super important items to human memory only. For many accounts like my github they will have to defeat two factor authentication. I hope people keep polling password managers for exploits to make it more secure. I know it's not perfect. I understand the risk-reward.
systematical··on Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout
Pretty much what we do except our sprints are two weeks with two of those days devoted to planning. If it's a bigger project then planning may be a sprint task of is own.

We release on Tuesdays so every other Friday and Monday end up being pretty light assuming the Thursday QA went well.

systematical··on Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
Reference is from interviews, alluded to on his policy page "A Universal Basic Income at this level would permanently grow the economy by 12.56 to 13.10 percent—or about $2.5 trillion by 2025—and it would increase the labor force by 4.5 to 4.7 million people. Putting money into people’s hands and keeping it there would be a perpetual boost and support to job growth and the economy."
systematical··on Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
He proposes a value-added tax to raise much of the money. Next, you can't receive both social security and the UBI. Other social welfare programs can't be utilized a long with the UBI either. If for instance you're receiving $400 in food stamps, you only get $600 in UBI. With that said, yes, he is relying on this boosting the economy (tax revenue) to pay for the rest.
systematical··on Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
Four years ago no one was talking about universal healthcare. You could say the same thing about plenty of other pieces of controversial legislation that ended up passing eventually.
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It's incredibly annoying.
systematical··on Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
Right and it's great for travel too. I love it.
systematical··on Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
Since stopping use of plastic bags I've found that loading and unloading the car is easier. I put items that I am not worried about getting damaged (cans, milk etc) in my 50 Liter back pack. Everything else generally fits in just two reusable bags that I bought from Amazon. I also have a set of re-usable bags for vegetables.

I'ts way easier bringing a backpack plus two bags in from the car.

systematical··on Remote Work Is the Future
Works well nearly as well as in person. But I do notice how its easier to explain things to non-technical departments when I am onsite.

Call-centers are another industry that can be entirely remote.

systematical··on Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
Yeah, thats easy to digest.
systematical··on Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
How is looking at the final letter of a string faster than starting with the first?
systematical··on Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission
Agreed. If my company ever exits and thats a big if. I doubt I get much. 100k would be amazing, but I am likely sacrificing 20k per year to work here at this point. The reason I stick around here is I can work full remote and have been able to travel the world much more. But after four years, I'd trade that in for a really nice pension or matching 401k in a heart beat.
systematical··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
This doesn't really solve the problem. But it does make it a pain in the butt for me to just create an anonymous account to bitch about random stuff on, which I've tried over TOR before and they don't make it easy. If I am highly motivated to create fake account, I'll create a fake account through a burner or more some service like twilio.
systematical··on Ask HN: Best way to turn a simple static website interactive with PHP?
jquery and turbolinks. If you want to go further than that I'd look at VueJS, which doesn't require your site be an SPA but gives you DOM bindings. Sound like you're just looking for the former though.
systematical··on PBS Launching Streaming Service on Amazon Prime
As long as this doesn't effect the free streams of News Hour to youtube or accessing FrontLine off their website for free.
systematical··on Thinkpad X210
acer aspire v17 nitro. ubuntu 18. Has both SDD and HDD. Four years old now, holding out till thanksgiving deals to go to a smaller laptop with longer battery.
systematical··on Thinkpad X210
What I wouldn't do for 4 hour battery life.
systematical··on Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?
I write verbose readme files with examples of how to use my libraries because it's what I expect of other engineers. I do the same for private repos.
systematical··on DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
Finally. I've been saying this for years, as I'm sure others have.
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