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Thanks for this. I will be thinking about “we can create a permission working group” for a long time.

Does anyone happen to have an explainer article handy or some background on the boom in “decompilations?” There’s this and I also saw something about Cool Boarders 2…

Why this method of uprezzing? Why now?

Mind sharing where you went for your lathe cuts (assuming you are happy with how they turned out/sound)?

Good thing there are filters!

They employ a lot of software developers and it’s a very unique campus. I considered it well worth the click.

This comment introduced me to pachinkremental. Thank you / goddamn you.

I consider you a pretty big name in our little corner of the world, so that number seemed pretty low to me! Expected 5 figures at least!!

Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.

It appears to contain a bunch of other conferences. NDC, ElixirConf, etc.

Lexington is the home of the University of Kentucky. Lexmark shuttering their plant wouldn’t be _good_ for the economy, but Lexington is first and foremost a “college town.”

They have much less content, but if you value quality over quantity, I don't think that's an issue.

When I look at the Apple TV+ catalog, I can see myself giving an honest shake to _most_ of their content. I simply can't say the same for other services. I understand why they are flooding the zone if they have the resources, but there's a finite amount of content one human can watch.

If Apple releases 50 shows and 80% are up my alley, I get the same amount of enjoyable content as Netflix releasing 400 shows but only 10% are worth my time.

My favorite CS story in a long time. Up there with the 500-mile email.

There are musicians that would love to use hardware-based emulation for recording and would happily settle for current software-based solutions for live performance. Many professional musicians already do this. Musicians such as Floating Points have studios filled to the brim with large, rare, expensive synthesizers[1] with which they don't travel. Existing VSTs and reproductions get you 90% of the way there, but MAME emulation may be able to bring higher-quality emulation to a wider set of musicians.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iX1rnW9WQ

Having to quote escape a “timestamp” field at least once a week, I was _extremely_ surprised to see it excluded from this list.

+1 for the orchestration horror stories podcast.

If one of your concerns is that you end up washing your headphones, you’re right - I don’t think you’re ready for wireless earbuds.

I think OP implied a better solution when mentioning interviews that mimic the job: present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem. I have done a few of these and they have been much more enlightening experiences than any paired programming boilerplate live coding exercise. Even in situations in which my proposed solution weren’t up to snuff to land the job, the conversation with the team about my solution felt like an actual representation of what it would be like to be a member of the team.

Stayed at a hotel with a faucet with some of the features you described - button-push and straightforward temperature control - and it was one of the best shower experiences I’ve ever had. Would be putting one of these in my own master bathroom if it wasn’t so expensive.

https://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-showerselect-the...

my understanding was they are non-replaceable batteries, period. Apple doesn't replace the batteries on AirPods, just recycles the AirPod and provides a new one.

Mind sharing which book/article you're referencing? Sounds interesting.

In addition to everyone's replacement suggestions, I feel like it's worth noting that Access still exists and is part of some Office365 distributions.

For small-ish companies that aren't very technical, I would think the Office suite still has a strong attach rate. Regardless of whether or not Access is the best tool for the job, inertia is powerful.

To be fair, Grantland was an ESPN subsidiary. I believe this model can be a success, but the definition of "success" for The Athletic and for ESPN are probably very different.

There's a slideshow that includes pictures of the pods. They just chose to start with a nondescript picture of Tim Cook instead of pod guts.

THIS COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS as well, although relatively minor ones compared to the article.

mbeaty_1 above me has a point, but I think Snowmobile & Snowball both tie into the naming for AWS Glacier.

I would probably get some blank stares and get asked why I sent two random files and not a .docx...

helpful tip to build upon #1: you can pass a valid port number to the SimpleHTTPServer command to open that port instead of 8000.

Really wanted to love it, but I'm used to listening to podcasts at 1.5x speed. If they manage to do some download/buffering magic I would re-download in a heartbeat.

Not all of these are "software engineering," but many of them often tie to the soft skills side of things or general development rigor.

Regular listens - shows to which I subscribe, in rough order of how excited I am to see them show up in my podcast app:

Not So Standard Deviations [0]

Immutable [1]

ShopTalk [2]

Talk Python to Me [3]

The Versioning Show [4]

Data Skeptic [5]

Occasional listens - not subscribed but regularly check for interesting guests:

Data Stories [6]

Partially Derivative [7]

I tried Software Engineering Daily last year and wasn't a big fan - based on the following here I'll have to give it another shot.

0 - https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast

1 - https://spec.fm/podcasts/immutable

2 - http://shoptalkshow.com/

3 - https://talkpython.fm/

4 - https://www.sitepoint.com/tag/versioning-show-episodes/

5 - http://dataskeptic.com/

6 - https://datastori.es/

7 - http://partiallyderivative.com/

They already have one! It's called Activision.