sivanmz

I was working on our ant build last night

It’s been my experience as of recently. I point it at an issue tracker and ask it to investigate, write a test to reproduce the problem and plan a fix together. There’s lots of hand holding from me but it saves me a lot of work and I’ve been surprised by its comfort with legacy code bases. For now I feel empowered, and I’m actually working more intensively, but I was wondering to myself if I’m going run out of work this year. Interestingly, our metrics show that output is slowed by increased workload on reviewers.

Also relied on government subsidies until recently.

I worked with XSLT almost from the beginning of my career and it was a blessing in disguise. Shoutout to Michael Kay.

I had a good experience with the Java Lanterna library

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna

I read the comments first

Often, the clients of legacy code are old too, and are hard coded to access it.

I've done this, but on a private branch, with a single merge to trunk in the end. Starting with complex integration tests, new interfaces were gradually defined and made the code testable, giving me the needed confidence.

I’ve been using an air quality monitor and a few HEPA air purifiers around the house for years. It’s affordable and effective.

I don’t even read Bloomberg and NYT links anymore, just head straight to the discussion and see if this is something I need to get bothered about.

That’s an exaggeration. Oakland is actually a nice place.

My observation is that, in the eyes of progressives, working class folks and politicians, the city government and services are first a source of jobs, and services are secondary.

California protections against balance/surprise medical billing are not enforceable when an employee is covered by a "self-insured" or "self-funded" employer plan. California doesn't regulate that plan, and also cannot intervene in the billing between the provider, patient and insurance. Most medium to large employers are using such plans which means that employees are not protected from such billing.

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/110-health/60-resou...

"Does the New Law Apply to Everyone? The new law applies to people with health insurance policies or plans regulated by the California Department of Insurance or the California Department Managed Health Care that were issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2017. It does not apply to Medi-Cal plans, Medicare plans or “self-insured plans.”"

These laws don't apply to employees covered by employer self-funded plans, which are predominant. California can't enforce them in most cases.

Maybe the author of Socket.io and Zeit.co just happens to work on integration problems?

You should try it.

I switched interest based ads off on Google a few times, and also tried using YouTube while logged out. It’s pure trash.

When you opt out of interest based ads you actually opt in to their inventory of worst content imaginable. There’s no middle ground.

His systems thinking book will stay with me forever. RIP Gerald.

I'm hopeful that some of this will fade once the Java 9 module system becomes available.

If I write testable code, coverage comes naturally and I don't worry about it.

I do think it's misguided to focus on coverage.

To me unit testing is a development tool. I write my class inside a test suite and extract it when ready.

I wanted to join their previous Line effort, but re-read my insurance policy and found it falls under prohibited commercial driving. The terms now encompass any participation in online ride-coordinating services. Government needs to step in because individually the insurers have no incentive to allow this.

It's always at the "bottom", but the bottom changes, which requires changing the grip to reach the control, which triggers another rotation and so on.

I guess any sort of trouble with the iPhone is an extremely minor thing in the grand scheme of things.

What to do about it? I can't presume to know what they tested and rejected, but screen orientation control needs to be independent of screen orientation.

No, the point is precisely that the bottom of the screen also changes with the orientation.

I wish something was done about rotation lock for reading in bed. Activating it from Control Center, which itself changes orientation, is maddening.

First time I tried chess on my phone. Fat finger is a usability problem with irreversible consequences. I had to abandon a game.

Maybe drag and drop is not the best interaction model here.

Ugh. There was a time AdBlock made pleas for donations for this mom and pop operation that won't sell out, and I donated.

Oakland police is severely understaffed, by about a half of what a city of this size would require.

Witnesses calling the police can't reliably locate the source of the gunfire. Wind, hills and buildings carry, echo and deflect the source beyond any hope. That's why a triangulating system like this is essential.

One persistent source of ambiguity is the arrow from the controller to the view. I've seen so many implementations that take this to mean that in response to a user action the controller modifies the model and updates the view, rather than letting the view observe the model.

My understanding of that arrow is that the controller may send messages to the view.

The Angular cross-compiling insanity and eventual switch to TypeScript is the likely catalyst. Still, I hope to see a technical discussion of why the VM had to go.

Looking forward to better interop with JS, but can't help feeling a bit sad.

I didn't really get oop until I learned Smalltalk, working through this book, and subsequently through the Seaside one, was a revelation.

It ruined things for me, most everyday tools and languages look messy and inelegant next to Smalltalk.

Why does it need to upload all my data and track my location on their server?