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If you’re in RoR land, there’s always the Faker gem to get you started. Or keep it simple - find lists of names on Wikipedia or something, shuffle and combine.
If you’re in RoR land, there’s always the Faker gem to get you started. Or keep it simple - find lists of names on Wikipedia or something, shuffle and combine.
Honestly, along those lines, I don’t think we (Americans) will get anything until we get rid of the electoral college and the Senate.
I feel a repressed memory or two stirring 😐
I’ve seen some active instances die due to admin neglect (not paying the bills, for instance), and I’ve wondered how those communities have fared since, since they’d have to start over elsewhere, and without all the content and history from their origin server. Same goes with user accounts too.
Just read a thing about how persistent usernames may work better than actual ID. Of course, I don’t have a link, and I’m not finding anything on Google right now, but as someone who uses the same handle across multiple services, which makes my activity traceable, but not necessarily to my real identity, I definitely think there’s something to that.
I would love to see the test suite
Questionable! There was the whole thing when Jessica Walter spoke out about Jeffery Tambor that was very disappointing.
This thread is really alarming if you’re like me and got Patrick Bateman confused with Jason Bateman
From the welcome page
my secret mission with Perchance is to get people interested in coding with a smooth, fun learning-curve
Seems like it worked!
I do web dev on a daily basis, and I tend to think of HTML as “formatted” data.
A database has data in it, but it’s in a format of columns and rows, like a spreadsheet.
My application fetches that raw data and uses code to manipulate it - it can inspect it, rewrite it, combine it with other data from other places, validate it against rules - all sorts of stuff.
Since my app is a web app, all that code is designed to use the data formatted in columns and rows from the database, and use it to generate new data in HTML format to send to the browser.
Technically, writing HTML for a browser is a form of programming - it’s a set of instructions that tell the browser how to display the data in the HTML. It’s not considered programming in a professional* sense, though, as HTML doesn’t get, send, change, or process data. Its purpose is as a format for data to be sent and read by something else (the browser).
*professional as in job titles that affect your salary
Seconded. I’m a dude in my mid 30s and I love those movies
Just mix them together.
I hate that thing
That is literally what it is :D
Gandhi. Seriously. Sleeping habits aside, dude was pro-apartheid.
I call this my “rule of three” - I wait until I’ve seen “something” three times before deciding on an abstraction. Two isn’t enough to get an idea of all the potential angles, and if you don’t touch it a third time, it’s probably not important enough to warrant the effort and risk of a refactor
You don’t have super powers, you’re not having a “spiritual crisis,” you have ADHD and you’re losing your shit. See a doctor. Medicine is good.
That’s it. That would basically rewrite the last 18 years of my life (not that it’s been bad, but I lost out on doing cool stuff in my 20s to figuring out I had, and how to deal with, my mental illness)
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Not enough people consider the origin of these words, trying to use them divorced from the thing that actually makes it a pejorative. Growing up, “gay” was another one people tried to use as an insult “non-homophobically”
It’s poisonous for a reason
Works great for db:seed, too