alelefant

What are your companies reasons for avoiding cloud?

It was a joke.

That seems like a fire hazard.

You are obviously free to dislike C#, but it seems silly to say they should stop adding features or should remove features.

Did we really need all those features?

If you don't need them, don't use them. I've found the new features to be great. nameof, string interpolation, property initializers, exception filters, static imports, null propagator. And if you haven't used the language in awhile going back to 5.0 the async await features are fantastic. 7.1 introduced async Main which we've started using in console apps. I use all of these features every day.

I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features

Why, exactly?

In the two years I've been a home owner and on Nextdoor, the only feature I've noticed they introduced was ads.

As someone who cooks a lot, I was curious what /ck/ could have to offer. I hadn't been to 4chan in years. I'm not sure how this board has tremendous amounts of useful information.

The quote about death seems very similar to David Eagleman's book "Forty Tales from the Afterlives".

Here's an excerpt that you might find interesting: http://www.eagleman.com/sum/excerpt

I just recently started using Vue for a small project at work and agree with a lot of what you said.

When you refer to the debug tools, are you referring to the Chrome extension or something else?

I didn't realize someone on the Internet named 'gjjrfcbugxbhf' held the keys to the definition of friendship.

The big difference is if you have a substantial income you can afford to play the long game and throw money into the market. If you're living paycheck to paycheck as very few people who contribute content to this site do, it's a much different story. They need the money to be liquid, and they can't afford to take a 10% loss and wait for a rebound.

Every month when the "Who is hiring" thread is posted I search for "WI" hoping to see more Wisconsin based companies posting here. Hope you can find someone soon!

I think it's funny that you proved exactly what the poster above you was saying. You don't like Prime simply because of selection.

I think that joke is made in every state.

Your speculation != evidence

If you're able to inspect the network packets and the page is over HTTP, then KeePass doesn't even matter at that point. It's game over right there.

I disagree with the declaration of open faced sandwiches not being a sandwich. You're telling me smørrebrød isn't a sandwich? I realize it's not American, but it's a sandwich, baby.

Well played.

I'm sorry, but this has to be said. This guy loves exclamation points! Almost every paragraph features one. It reminds me of a great Seinfeld episode:

Jake: Well, maybe I don't use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.

Elaine: You don't think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.

Jake: Hey, I just chalked down the message. I didn't know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.

Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.

Jake: Ok, I'm excited. I just don't happen to like exclamation points.

Are you using the same Calendar as I am? https://www.google.com/calendar/. I don't see this 4 week view you speak of!

In his diary regarding selling out of (illegal) mushrooms he writes: "...but at least now I was all digital, no physical risk anymore."

Given the revelations from the last few years, how many of you would agree that carrying out an illegal plan like this is safer online?

Someone was the lead designer for a one page website with a handful of words on the page?

Jon Skeet's answer about "string vs String" on Stack Overflow was particularly interesting: http://stackoverflow.com/a/215422/190750.

I'm completely amazed that people do this to figure out when to sleep. My intent is not to sound rude; I'm a big believer of "do what works" in my personal life and at work. For me it's always so simple: if the following day is a work day, I need to make sure I get at least 7 hours of sleep so that determines how late I can stay up. If it's the weekend, I go to sleep when my body says it needs a break.

I'm from Madison, WI where there's a well known company in town called Epic. If someone says they are moving to Madison to work for a tech company, everyone assumes it's Epic. I've never worked there and none of my immediate friends have either, but I could see them being greatly impacted by a move like this from Salesforce.

Anytime I visit the doctor, they always have Epic up on the computer. Granted, I know I'm living in the city where it's made, but it's used across the country. I even had a friend who moved out West and planned on just finding a random job, and it ended up being Epic to help install the software at health clinics in Washington.

I don't know their full stack of offerings, but I used some of their treatment billing software when I worked at a health care insurance company during my college summer vacation. It worked just fine, but certainly had an old software feel to it. I don't know if they offer any cloud offerings right now (their website sure doesn't make me think they do), but if they do I find it hard to imagine it's anywhere near as powerful as something that Salesforce could offer right out of the gate. I work with Salesforce every day where I work now and I have to admit it's very well done, although they certainly fall short in some areas.

I don't particularly care about Salesforce or Epic so long as my data is safe, but I'm interested to see how it plays out since it impacts my community.

Okay between this and the lobster story you guys and gals are really starting to make me feel bad about the seafood Christmas my family does ever year (we're each responsible for a different seafood dish). I'll surely bring this up at the dinner table and I can tell ya right now, grandma isn't going to agree! :)

Back on topic though, this was another good read. The debate about how to cook it was hilarious:

He insisted that there was an art to cooking octopus correctly. His includes a Neapolitan trick: a wine cork in the cooking liquid. Éric Ripert and Harold McGee dismiss this step as mere legend—to which Pasternack gleefully responds, “Éric Ripert is full of shit!”

You make a great point, yet I'm still able to identify with what the author was saying.

I oddly think about this a lot without really recognizing it. It may sound silly, but to me what makes the difference is the event itself. Being a tourist at a museum, natural landmark and so can feel so much different than being a tourist at a local watering hole. Taking a natural landmark as an example, I view it as if the locals can't claim it as their own and it's meant to be shared and interpreted by the world. Museums are practically enablers for tourism so locals can't be upset about that.

But, when it comes to a local food or drink joint, tucked away in a neighborhood of sub-cultures, I can't help but feel as if I'm intruding. To focus on the experience at a place known as being "best authentic food X in city Y" or "great neighborhood bar, one of the best in city Y" is to focus on the brick and mortar, the customers, the employees. Given just the right media attention or online review a place can become a tourist petri dish and the atmosphere can be entirely thrown off. Although, there sits the problem as without at least some attention I wouldn't have known about it.

That probably comes across as selfish, but it's not about me. There's many cases where a place becomes successful, patronage changes, ownership ends up changing hands a year or two later, and the place isn't what it used to be. I think there is something to be said for protecting local sub-cultures which is what I viewed the authors point to be.

I actually found his talks of Maine and travel in general very interesting. I really liked this from one of the footnotes:

"To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing."

I was thinking the exact same thing. I think using "headings" would have fixed the issue for my brain.

Good point, the title of the article should be modified to include the year. Recent events make it sound like the story is changing.

Would you be as happy if your revenue wasn't increasing like it is? Imagine 10 to 15 years of stagnant growth. Would the fact that you've decided that path be enough to make you happy?