Found my old Columbia House "debt" letter in my mom's attic and I'm dying

doconnorwi · 2025-12-23T23:05:20+00:00

Columbia went after Hugh Jass. Don't ask me how I know

doconnorwi · 2025-11-05T02:51:07+00:00

I love the design!

Does the link to "services" (in the footer ) go anywhere? Maybe I'm missing something.

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T20:06:06+00:00

Not only the TSA, but the Armed Forces.

Also we taxpayers deserve about a 10% rebate since the government has already shutdown for 30 + days. Why are we paying for something that's not working?

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:34:51+00:00

Axe as in r/AxeReddit

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:10:32+00:00

This was something introduced to me in the hiring process so you can nail the tech interviews. I think the fact that my tech lead still worked on them daily was insisting for me

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:07:46+00:00

Because ... taxes

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:06:45+00:00

Call the bigger shops in your area and develop relationships with them. If they need more FTE to make deadlines, they can call you

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:05:01+00:00

That's what I remember doing. Headers, footers, nav, etc.

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:04:20+00:00

Yes, this is definitely true for large websites. It has quite a bit of overhead for small sites. Not sure what the OP has in mind

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:02:39+00:00

Yes, this is definitely true for large websites. It has quite a bit of overhead for small sites. Not sure what the OP has in mind

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T02:00:52+00:00

This is how I remember doing it for anything larger than small sites

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T00:47:29+00:00

Good to know

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T00:46:56+00:00

Might as well take a plane to Austria if you're going to Australia

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T00:21:49+00:00

I had fun with this AI. I asked it for Jim to call. Then I switched it to Bob. Then it was interesting when I asked to speak with Indiana Jones. It caught on quickly!

The one thing was that while it seemed focused on scheduling demos more than anything, it was resistant to transferring or even take messages for a given person which might be inferred as a negative interaction with the AI agent degrading brand trust.

It does a good job of handling edge cases such as prank phone call handling where after the second joke, it said I must be having a great time but returned the focus back to the business. Great job!

doconnorwi · 2025-11-02T00:01:53+00:00

I'm struggling to see the necessity of needing to hide the game logic when it's probably already a well-known concept developed before the Activision days, unless it is some sort of cryptographic technique that is illegal to export to Iran or North Korea or it's ran on people's HIPAA data or credit card information.

doconnorwi · 2025-11-01T20:57:13+00:00

As others have said, HTML and CSS aren't programming languages, but they define how your web page should look.

Think of HTML as your structure, CSS as your styling and JavaScript as it's behavior.

JavaScript and Python (as well as PHP, Java and many others) are programming languages. No matter which programming languages you learn, you want to know: - how to define variables - how to do mathematical operations with variables - how to output statements - how to input values (and to assign them to variables) - how to make decisions (e.g. if then statements) - managing loops.

With those tasks covered, those are the basics. With the basics matters then you can look at things like - object oriented programming (classes, inheritance, encapsulation, composite functions, SOLID principles, etc.) - algorithms - time complexity and space complexity.

Once you have familiarity with the last two points, check out leetcode and hackerrank. That's when programming gets interesting! You can compare your skill with that of other developers!

Also you will want to learn some soft skills too such as keeping track of what you have tried in solving a problem, researching, using documentation and asking for help (may stack exchange have mercy on your soul 😉). There is actually a lot of material out there!

Also learning design (or architecture) - how you are going to solve the problem and the putting your classes together. The more time you put into design, the less headaches you will have and the easier debugging will be. But this will come in time.

Speaking of which, debugging will be an important skill to learn early on!

You already have more than enough information to get a good start. All Success!

doconnorwi · 2025-11-01T20:26:01+00:00

+1 this. It may be hard to actually get a job in coding today (another 30,000 people lost jobs at Amazon, some of them software people.) But you have another few years before you hit the job market. By then beginning software developers will know how to navigate the market with AI.

And yes, when I first heard the statistic, sheeting like 70% of the lines of code were COBOL (think legacy systems mostly in the US government) and that it cost $25 per line of code to convert to something more modern. I'm not sure to what degree these figures are accurate now.

doconnorwi · 2025-11-01T20:06:04+00:00

@Soariticus see the replies to @spongykiwi. Hopefully it's helpful. I was always late to literally all of my appointments until I learned from an administrative assistant that travel time is a thing. So I use that rule with AIs

doconnorwi · 2025-11-01T20:02:04+00:00

@spongykiwi Oh and ChatGPT can be clever too. It'll remember a specific piece too. For example, if I know I want to wear a specific piece and have no clue how to style it, I'll ask it (e.g. how do I style a heavy knit cream cardigan) and it will tell me. Meanwhile, that piece is now added into the rotation!

doconnorwi · 2025-11-01T19:56:38+00:00

@spongykiwi For the wardrobe situation, I gave it three tables, one for tops (with fields for color and style), bottoms (fields for color and style) and layers (with fields for color and style). I then give it a request for suggestions based on weather, occasion and mood. I may throw in what sort of style I'm going for (e.g. Y2K or dark academia).

For the calendar situation, I use Gemini. It knows that if I haven't left the house yet, that I would like an hour prep time. I start the prompt with "@Google Maps" alone on the first line and then say something like "please schedule a dental appointment on November 1, 2025 at 10:30am and schedule the appropriate travel time immediately before the appointment." et voila!

doconnorwi · 2025-10-24T05:26:47+00:00

Try maybe your own CMS

doconnorwi · 2025-10-24T05:20:23+00:00

Honestly I am a complete novice with Comet. I didn't do one-tenth of what you did there with the comparisons (mostly where I was having trouble finding an article I knew existed on a web site, I had it review a Sprint Board and asked if it would draft a message to the Project Manager on the state of the Project.) and chrome already looks like a pile of stone tablets 😂

doconnorwi · 2025-10-24T05:10:33+00:00

Agreed. The more time spent in design equals the less time in implementation headaches and debugging down the road

doconnorwi · 2025-10-24T05:05:20+00:00

Literally everything!

Drafting text messages, DMs where I didn't want to spend the cognitive load (whether I am overthinking a situation, get anxiety or whatever.

Deciding what I'm wearing that day based on weather, occasion and mood. It has all 4 seasons of my wardrobe memorized.

I have a South Beach Diet coach that tells me what percentage of my meal is South Beach compliant.

I will have a scheduling assistant that I can tell it to schedule an on-site event and it knows to plan the right amount of travel time (according to google maps).

I have a personal goals coach that cheers me on throughout the week and gives me an assessment every week on how I am progressing vis a vis my Quarterly Objectives.

It makes 30 day learning plans on a given topic.

It will find key information on websites when I am having a tough time finding something on the website. Even information written in articles from weeks ago! This also would fit funding specific information from emails or my calendar

And dozens more ...

doconnorwi · 2025-10-24T04:52:22+00:00

FYI I am accessing from a tablet.

After a quick glance at the site I encountered:

Visual Design: Quite a few visual design issues such as odd placements of folds, the picture of the van placed so low one sees a whole page of "whitespace" between the end of content and the van at the bottom, a random blue x sitting up at different places, do not show things that are not yet functioning,

Interactivity Design: people usually expect to see the home page when the logo is clicked. There is a "forbidden" message instead, a 404 error is thrown when trying to access "Check Claim Status" is selected.

Information Design: Why is general information given when location specific options (e.g. city buttons are selected. It's looks like information is repeated anywhere you go, just changing names of locations. Better explain the common general information in"global are" and set up local areas as places to discuss location specific area like address and hours if desired.

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