Apache POI has sensible naming conventions:
HSSF (Horrible Spreadsheet Format) - .xls
XSSF (XML Spreadsheet Format) -.xlsx
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/apache_poi/apache_poi_overview.htm
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git pull && pray
seems like it should be
pray && git pull -- divine intervention is too late if git pull failed.♡ 0 ↻ 0
Finally, folk talking about stuff and no need for spoiler alerts. https://x.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1152369256069074946
Fancy conference room table with cup holder https://x.com/mistersql/status/1179116564022472706/photo/1
#python What is false but hard for a lint tool to realize?
if False:
# linter's hate this, it is essentially commented out code.
if http://DateTime.Now > DateTime.Maximum:
I used to use this idiom all the time in C#, but too long to type in python:
Remember asking in math class, when will we ever use this? It was so you'll understand this joke 20 years later.
ref: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/065008 https://twitter.com/terrible_coder/status/1178743112027529216
"Baltimore City Chief Information Officer Frank Johnson...was previously a VP of sales for Intel with no IT operations experience."
you: <gasp> That's awful
me: I'm qualified to be a CIO!*
* and so are you! https://x.com/bcduggan/status/1178800192264556549
Well, I've never heard of a laptop drive failing, you? https://x.com/bcduggan/status/1178800192264556549
Come one, just be honest and update your resume to point to your personal website via the wayback machine.
"Let's do DDD and use the language of the customer, not our own ad hoc software driven set of bad names."
...
"Oh, client uses the non-domain language of the app they've been using for 20 years"
When you're watching Blade Runner, someone is going to say, "Computers can't enhance and zoom in on grainy photos, the information just isn't there!" And now someone is going to say, "Well, actually..." https://x.com/hackermaderas/status/1168471671520411649
Fed gov't hacking/cybersecurity contest-- Wow, looks like this will be an annaul thing
https://www.cisa.gov/presidentscup https://x.com/apporima/status/1177980234584514562
The Vatican (or orgs with the Vatican in their name) now register their copyrights - https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=vatican&Search_Code=NALL&PID=JMH5NUe2H-5i5SGyqTELAbiznzoL3&SEQ=20190928114959&CNT=25&HIST=1 which would have helped them in US courts, once the US came into existence of course. https://x.com/Cyber_Cox/status/1177971362008317952
Federal Gov't ran a coding contest and I missed it - https://www.cio.gov/programs-and-events/codechallenge/ https://x.com/jmillerWFED/status/1177684110250258433
Code of Conduct file for non-open source code... that should be a HR concern, but HR's manual probably hasn't caught up with using Jira & Git to harass staff.
got 4 folders named *_noise in outlook. There should be money in solving this problem.
Kluge Prize! Finally, I can get some recognition for my code.
...uh nope, not that sort of kluge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kluge_Prize
tired: chrome plugin to file copyright on each of my tweets
wired: chrome plugin to file lawsuits for uses of my tweets
Yes tweets can be copyrighted individually, but heck does even the above joke meet the minimal creativity requirement?
https://copyrightalliance.org/ca_faq_post/tweet-protected-copyright/♡ 0 ↻ 0
nose quietly skips tests in files that are executable
WSL mounts /c/ with all files marked as executable
Use --exe to search for tests in executable files
#python
Instead of story points, estimate a task in how many new hidden .folder .hidden_config.cfg files are going to show up in your root directory while working on it.
I'm about to see if ubuntu VM in hyper-v would be faster than this Windows Linux Subsystem. Feels freakishly slow for even small tasks. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1177299477465640960
Ok, it is a known issue that WSL has 20x worse IO, somewhat improved if you can get Windows Defender to exclude WSL.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/a23nul/very_slow_performance_is_this_normal_for_wsl/♡ 0 ↻ 0
pipenv still can't deal with "black" because it is in "beta"
(no, don't tell me to use --pre and install betas for all my dependencies)
for black, at the moment, I'm going to fall back to pip install
Why is compiling/installing python 3.7 so slow?
Now that I don't have a mac, Timesnapper, my time tracking screen recorder, is available on mac : http://www.timesnapper.com/
When the robots become sentient, they're going to be pissed about this sort of discrimination. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1177273034161491973/photo/1
There is a "Matthew Martin" series of juvenile chapter books, fortunately, not especially successful. https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Elses-Parents-Matthew-Martin/dp/0698116879/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%22matthew+martin%22&qid=1569460879&sr=8-1 https://x.com/McJesse/status/1176984289667215360
#mssql Customer Experience Improvement crash dumps can contain data from any table. Might be a problem if you aren't authorized to give Microsoft that data. https://x.com/SlavaSQL/status/1177000781377093634
My phone is in the shop for battery replacement. No 2nd factor for ID, no late-night working tonight. See 2 factor improves work-life balance.
But an automated broken process takes so much less time (assuming that time spent automating is less than the time spent doing the pointless thing) Convincing people that a broken thing isn't valuable is hard. E.g. cascading through too many envs, dev->test->uat->stag->pre-prod-> https://twitter.com/RealAlanCrouch/status/1176188555288334336
I said something like this in an interview. I wasn't hired. https://x.com/olafurw/status/1175856705747464197
More specifically I said, the O notation number for an algorithm doesn't matter because
1- perf rarely matters
2- when it does you have to profile
3- it is something stupid like the OS doing culture checks on strings, not your choice of algorithm♡ 5 ↻ 0
Why couldn't the Hulk login?
PASSWORD REQUIRES AT LEAST ONE LOWERCASE LETTER!
Amtrak to downgrade foodservice & call it an improvement. Roughly, you will get the option to buy the 1st class airplane-style meal. So if you pay $$$$ for a sleeper, you will get subpar food. Those sleepers aren't cheap in terms of $ or points.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/the-end-of-an-american-tradition-the-amtrak-dining-car/2019/09/21/d63cca3a-d888-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
They could just raise prices on the food, bring back non-disposable eating gear (it is all plastics & disposable now), and put some more contemporary options on the menu--although Amtrak deserves credit for making sure that there is at least one option that covers healthy eating)
♡ 0 ↻ 0The reasoning must be that this will drive away customers, ... oh, this is like a backdoor way of canceling a long haul train, just make it so unpleasant no one rides. Then you save on variable costs. Why not do something to increase ridership?
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If odds are good we are actually living in a simulation... odds are better that we are living in a more common sort of computing.
We are probably an easter egg in an email client, or a linter or a mobile game that someone forked & forgot about & left running on the cloud
Any DMV area landlords here? Where do you post your ads to rent your place out?
We've tried Trulia, HotPads & Zillo
Watch out for demons https://x.com/mistersql/status/1175145894578204672/photo/1
Not sure I can pass this ethics quiz "So the H street trolley is going down the road out of control. You have a lever to change the path. If if you pull it, 5 contractors will die. If you don't pull it, 5 civil servants will die. Do you pull the lever?"
By dint of persuasion, all my views and opinions will soon be yours, but are not those of my employer or my employer's clients. This says something about how persuadable those folk are.
"Introduction of Ethics" sort of implies there was no sense of ethics a priori.
Finally, a libertarian I agree with. High time we let Florida sink beneath the seas. God I hated living there. Redwood forests may have existence value, but Florida has non-existence value- the joy of knowing it has sunk beneath the waves to never be seen again. https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1175071784279973888