1. MassiveOwl Mar 4, 2025 parent

   I use recover when i'm unsure on how reliable some legacy code is so that we can emit our telemetry and then exit gracefully.
2. MassiveOwl Jul 24, 2023 parent

   I never reveal it at work, there are morons out there that have opinions like "I'm starsign x, and if you're y, then we won't get along". It's so frustrating
3. MassiveOwl Apr 11, 2022 parent

   Has anyone tried buying art from Etsy recently? It's very difficult to find something that is actually original. Etsy is full of super hero Chinese knockoff poor quality shite
4. MassiveOwl Jan 14, 2020 parent

   Be careful with OKCupid. I'd been using it on and off for a while and recently I got a notification saying that my email address on my account had been changed, then 2 minutes later, that my password had. You don't need to confirm anything to change the email on your account! Not even click an email link!

   I was panicking

   I was still receiving phone notifications despite not being to log into the app. I could see that messages were being sent and received but couldn't access my account. I believe that others are being scammed using my account

   I quickly changed all other passwords and contacted OKC immediately. It's been a week now with no response. OKC have lost a paying customer for life

5. MassiveOwl Dec 19, 2019 parent

   Weird, I write in Go, and based on the number of posts about Rust, i'd assumed that it was gaining traction
6. MassiveOwl Nov 22, 2019 parent

   If it's really made out of stainless, with those angles wouldn't it fail on pedestrian collision tests?
7. MassiveOwl Nov 20, 2019 parent

   Ha! I help out the NHS and they're amazed that we are able to autopopulate forms using ActiveDirectory. They're used to paper...
8. MassiveOwl Sep 30, 2019 parent

   I write primarily in Go, I have to admit that I can't stand the name of it. When doing a search I constantly have to write "go golang" in my searches to get relevant results. It's too generically named, like naming something "The"
9. MassiveOwl Jul 15, 2019 parent

   I'd be interested in your take on this as someone slightly older than the cliched tech employee.

   To be honest, i'm never usually that impressed with people that are in their mid-20s and working as developers. They can typically produce good output, but in my experience they are unable to state 'why' something works well. They're following best practices laid down by people in their 40s/50s years ago. I think they have the energy to not give up and trawl the forums till they get the answer, not necessarily finding the answer by considering the principles underlying the task

10. MassiveOwl Jul 10, 2019 parent

    This is a good point, one of the reasons to use it is for reminders "Hey Google, remind me to visit x at place y"
11. MassiveOwl Jul 5, 2019 parent

    I find it difficult to read articles like this, the content itself is very interesting to me, but it's wrapped in creative writing bullshit like this:

    "I’d step off the bus, route through the CL3 barista in my clanking heels, clutch the hot compostable coffee cup to warm both my hands while I walked to my desk, voicing the american greeting of ’heyhowreyouimgood’ to anyone caught in the path of my morning march."

12. MassiveOwl May 21, 2019 parent

    As a cyclist and a motorcyclist, I love the idea of Glass. Being able to have a HUD that shows your speed and basic directions is a brilliant tool. You don't have many options for mounting your phone on the handlebar, and doing so requires you to look down, something car driver don't have to suffer from
13. MassiveOwl Jan 29, 2019 parent

    I know an analyst at SnapChat, it's not a well managed company at all apparently. The way it was described to me was that a manager of a very popular lemonade stand suddenly is put in charge of Pepsi. They have very talented engineers, and analysts, but the glue to connect the employees - management, is so lacking that it's a shit show

    Due to a lack of overall direction and a common goal, teams are isolated in their own silos (which they're good at), but there's no cohesion. At the moment the company is reactive to competitors, not innovative and a leader in the space like what you could argue they were a few years ago

14. MassiveOwl Jan 22, 2019 parent

    Seriously don't. I have a 2013 MBP that's my own, then a 2018 MBP that's my work machine. I alternate between working on both and I can't stand the '18's keyboard, it feels similar to typing on mouse buttons, tactile but doesn't register well

    Zero difference in the track pad that i've noticed either. This is 3500 GBP machine that is basically just pretty looking and sleek. I do enjoy the touchbar though, although I never expected to - some things are easily done on it, such as changing the colour of terminal windows, or having Spotify constantly live on it (which is great!)

15. MassiveOwl Jan 17, 2019 parent

    I was a SQL/Tableau analyst and a SF Admin before I turn to software engineering. SF is truly a fantastic piece of shit to do any proper development for. I am so glad i've stepped away from it. It has been built with the idea to sell to managers that will not be handling the implementations, and with the idea that non-programming staff can configure it. The front end is decent and most people can make it do... something. But custom integrations are just a pain. Salesforce impose lots of fair usage policies on upserts for example.

    I was at a Money Transfer company and we couldn't move our Transaction Monitoring staff over to SF without hitting limits

16. MassiveOwl Jan 15, 2019 parent

    In response to this the British police have recently changed the law allowing them to chase and hit motorcyclists with their cars. Last year, the gangs would ride scooters without wearing a helmet. This would mean that the police weren't authorised to chase them, as chasing them could cause them to drive dangerously and harm themselves

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