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  1. ShakyJake

    Scraping data from news/social media sites?

    Are you looking to scrape the HTML?
  2. ShakyJake

    Guild Wars 2

    GW2's item progression is horizontal. However, the depth to be found is in the build system and excellent combat mechanics. The game is legit fun once you get to 80 and spec into one of the elite specializations. Also, I returned to the game in 2019 or so and the account and characters I had...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    These are junior developers, but I'm the new guy. However, I've been working with this particular frontend framework (Angular) for over five years so I feel I have a pretty good handle on how things should be done. They've been blindly copy/pasting code they find throughout other parts of the...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Got feedback on a pull request of mine today where the reviewing developers lost their minds because I decided to refactor some code they had written originally. But I'm sorry, my feeling is that this is agile software development, and some rework inevitably occurs. But it wasn't like I...
  5. ShakyJake

    Computer Issues

    It does
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    Computer Issues

    It's locked down - I can't do firmware updates.
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    Computer Issues

    I have a REALLY strange problem with my work laptop. I do software development, and how I usually work is I build a VMware virtual machine that runs Windows along with all my development tools. That way, if something happens to the host OS I always have a copy of the VMware image that I can...
  8. ShakyJake

    The Rehearsal

    What surprises me the most is how fucking weird some people are.
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    The Orville

    I'm with Ted Danson that I would've opted to wipe out the Kaylons. They are WAY too big of a threat.
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    The Orville

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    Investing General Discussion

    I tend to look at DIA, SPY, and QQQ on FinViz and examine the relative vs average volume indicators. Anyway, my point is the market is up, sure, but it's not like buyers are swarming in.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Market is up, but volume is really low.
  13. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    MFE stands for "micro front end". It's where the client UI is split into vertical slices of functionality. I think the idea behind it is that it allows for greater flexibility for development. One team could be working on feature A, another on feature B independently and are able to deploy...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This is so weird. Apparently, our client has mandated that our application be "MFE compliant". I've read a little about MFEs, but it's a relatively new concept and there's no real standards in place. Looking at how poorly constructed the current monolithic app is, I shudder to think what the...
  15. ShakyJake

    Investing General Discussion

    Could be if the market thinks the Fed will pivot.
  16. ShakyJake

    Investing General Discussion

    Assuming inflation doesn't decline dramatically in the future, I think paying off a mortgage early doesn't makes much sense.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Gold and uranium mining ETFs.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I just need to send some BTC for a subscription. Not planning on accumulating for now.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    What's a recommended crypto exchange service that's not Coinbase?
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    Warframe

    Right, but there's no incentive for doing this other than just to do it. There's no sense of, "oh man, I can't wait to get X in order to do Y". It ultimately all feels meaningless.
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    Warframe

    I played Warframe with friends and we always get burned out after a couple months. Yes, the gameplay is super fun but the game is hyper grindy. And what I realized is, what's the carrot to keep grinding? I spent a good amount of time leveling Mesa Prime (which means running Hydron 1000 times)...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    All the frameworks have the concept of "state".
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    The Orville

    Yeah I'm getting a bit tired of Moclun stories.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Please do Hoag's Object.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    React, Svelte, Angular, and VueJs are all client-side JavaScript frameworks. That's the stuff that runs directly in your browser. Bootstrap (or any other CSS framework) simply supplies you with CSS classes that you can apply to buttons, inputs, etc. to get that slick look. With the...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Right, you'll have some kind of backend API running on a server. You could go the cloud route with Azure or AWS. In fact, that might be a worthy option since you'll learn how the cloud systems work. Most everything is moving in that direction now so definitely shouldn't be ignored. And they...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Most people use a CSS framework like Bootstrap, Material, Bulma, etc. Unless you're an artist I highly doubt you'll want to be styling your own stuff anyway. I dunno, if you don't know any of this then you're in for a lot of learning. Is Swift really all that great? I always heard it was...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Is it true that if you add up all matter and energy, both positive and negative, the sum is zero?
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    The Orville

    What is with the women in this show having skinny ass legs? It's disturbing.
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    For All Mankind

    Where will they go in season 4? Proxima Centauri?
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    Guild Wars 2

    Yeah, DX11 is on. Without the Radeon "Adrenaline" software installed the game is reasonably smooth, although there is an occasional stutter that's annoying. There's this Vulkan patch thing similar to d912y that actually makes the game silky smooth, but occasionally causes massive visual...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I believe it does, but I'm pretty sure I had disabled everything at one point with no affect. It's possible I missed this one, though. Like I mentioned above, I'm pretty sure I disabled everything when I was trying to figure out WTF is going on. Also, I have a 165Hz monitor so I'm running the...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I unexpectantly won a bid on a used Radeon 6700 XT. Got it for $375 which appears to be a pretty good deal...for now. Anyway, I eagerly installed the latest AMD drivers for the card and was greeted by some real shit performance. After some experimenting it appears the Adrenaline software is...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Does anyone here have a paid Finviz account? I have a question.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Why not simply wait until it begins to trend upward again? I ain't buying shit until then.
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    Investing General Discussion

    You know?
  37. ShakyJake

    Barry

    Uh, the motorbike scene was funny as shit. Easily makes up for any lack of "haha"s in the other episodes.
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    Black Adam (2021)

    Captain Marvel is the one that would show up. Is he in this movie? Trailer was extremely mediocre.
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    For All Mankind

    This series makes me sad. Most definitely what "could have been" alternate history.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Check out the courses on Udemy. They are often on sale for 10-20 bucks. I'm certain there are many courses on Azure. I bought a couple that were exam focused and learned a lot just from those.