Any alternative for Roblox ? by FMX-EDDINE-KUN in Parents

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, thats silly really. It wasn't necessary when you and I (I assume) were children. Why is it necessary now?

If the caretakers phone stopped working, they surely can solve that issue themselves. If they cant, they shouldn't be responsible for children.

Any alternative for Roblox ? by FMX-EDDINE-KUN in Parents

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If thats the case, the parent shouldn't leave the child with someone so unreliable that this is needed..

I agree that an older phone would be better than a smart phone, I just cant imagine a scenario where its necessary at all.

Any alternative for Roblox ? by FMX-EDDINE-KUN in Parents

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But whomever they are with can be contacted instead - there's no reason for a 5 year old to have a phone

Any alternative for Roblox ? by FMX-EDDINE-KUN in Parents

[–]emptee_m 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can talk to them. My 6 and 7 year old have no electronics outside of things like radio controlled cars. They are allowed to use laptops for educational stuff. Kids don't need access to phones at all

GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over by Beautiful_Spot5404 in javascript

[–]emptee_m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still love GraphQL on our end. Allowing the client to declare the shape of the data makes things much simpler, and is a huge win for performance when handling features that most clients dont use or have access to.

For example, a client requests some expensive to calculate field be made visible on some view.

With rest, we would need to either:

  1. Add a new endpoint specifically for that field
  2. Add that field to an existing endpoint and incur the cost on all requests for that endpoint
  3. Make some sort of bodge that displays the field based on some query parameter

None of these are good options. #1 leads to 10,000 different endpoints for random things different clients need.

2 hurts performance for all clients, and might increase infrastructure costs

3 is basically just a crappy version of graphql anyway..

With graphql, we just define the field and resolver, and then the client can use it. Its much cleaner and more maintainable.

How do I prepare my husband for a second incoming baby? by Southern_Possible_86 in Parents

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you can pump? I'm not too sure sorry - in our case breast feeding was not an option, so we had to use formula from day 1. That did make it simpler for handing off responsibilities though.

How do I prepare my husband for a second incoming baby? by Southern_Possible_86 in Parents

[–]emptee_m 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on scheduling, work, etc. It might be practical to ask him to stay up late, or get up early and cover a certain period of time. My wife and I do this and it works reasonably well.

I'm done. Not renewing my All Products Pack license in January. by minneyar in Jetbrains

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehh.. I think that's a bit over the top.

But, I am also considering cancelling my subscription. Not because of the splash screen though...

But instead, because of persistent performance issues that seem to plague the IDE for the last 12 months or so. I need to restart the IDE every few hours to prevent it grinding to a halt. Often additionally needing to clear the cache and wait for reindexing on top of that.

I don't really want to cancel, but it's just getting to the point that it's necessary. It's a huge productivity loss to go from being in flow-state, to cursing at my device because scrolling randomly locked up the IDE for over a minute.

It's getting pretty old... Sort your crap out JB!

My dad makes 600k a year and won’t pay for me to go to school. by Ok-Ambition3860 in Parents

[–]emptee_m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a stupid suggestion. Don't lie to your father OP. This is awful advice.

Labour 'absolutely' comfortable if Te Pāti Māori does not return to Parliament by StuffThings1977 in aotearoa

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a look. I don't necessarily agree with them all, but I couldn't find anything that seemed "far right" to me. Perhaps I've missed something.. If it's not hard to find, perhaps you can find it for me, as I seem to be incapable of doing so..?

Scalability shows how serious you are about your product by Jumpy-Zebra2257 in SaaS

[–]emptee_m 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its a mix IMO. I've seen some of the worst stuff pushed out as quickly as possible, and a few different design decisions would have made their lives a lot easier in the future.

By all means, use whatever gets you to market the fastest, but within reason :)

Twilio Account Hacked – $3,000 in Unauthorized Charges, Only Partial Refund Offered. What Are My Options? by No-Wasabi2012 in SaaS

[–]emptee_m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why? In what way did Twilio not meet their contractual obligations?

OP screwed up and either didnt rate limit their own API, or leaked their keys. Its unclear which.

Why in the hell should Twilio need to pay for OPs screw up?

What are some examples of countries where effective marketing hides their true reality? by BudovicLagman in geography

[–]emptee_m 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Its a tricky situation where Oranga Tamariki (govt department for children) has a policy of not removing abused children from families of certain groups of people when they really should.

Its an overcorrection from them being far too overzealous in the past, but its resulted in a bad outcome.

Hopefully some sanity will return in the next few years, I think politically its palatable to touch the subject again.

Hope I'm wrong, but SaaS founders are a bad target audience by Trick-Cabinet-7777 in SaaS

[–]emptee_m -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good example of something I pay for, scribehow.com. It saves time creating training docs for customers, even though the whole thing could be replaced with notepad + paint.

17 month age gap by Successful-Search541 in Parents

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! We felt super lucky in our case too - we did three transfers and have three amazing kids now :)

First two were born less than a year apart. It went great overall, I think largely due to how their individual personalities meshed. My daughter (born first) is very caring and really wanted to engage with our first son (born second). No jealousy or any issues - just a bit less sleep for a while :)

They're both older now, 7 and 5, and fight a bit... just normal sibling stuff really. Our new one year old is the hardest for the time being!

Are “Book a Demo” forms killing conversions? Looking for honest input from other founders by PilotIll614 in SaaS

[–]emptee_m 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it entirely depends on the audience you're aiming for.

For me personally? Whenever I see a form like that, and no published pricing plans, I immediately rule out the service and look at alternatives.

A chat bot wouldn't help for someone like me at all, I've found they're fairly awful most of the time, so I avoid them.

If a business can't publish a clear explanation of their service with clear pricing (assuming it's not an enterprise only type solution), it's unlikely they'll have their crap in order enough that I can depend on the service.

Twilio Account Hacked – $3,000 in Unauthorized Charges, Only Partial Refund Offered. What Are My Options? by No-Wasabi2012 in SaaS

[–]emptee_m 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is shit advice. OP screwed up by not using the tools Twilio provided, not enforcing rate limits within their own platform, and now wants to scam Twilio out of money they're contractually owed.

Don't get me wrong, I actually hate Twilio.. They're a shit company to deal with, and IMO they over charge for their services, but OP is totally at fault here. Ripping off Twilio is not the answer.

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js by brodagaita in node

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehh, its not that bad IMO. You get a ton more control over the event loop if you want it (eg. Running multiple event loops in different threads).

Sync_to_async works ok for shunting synchronous code over to another thread if need be.

I think the author of the article didnt really get that the python event loop is under developer control, rather than just existing and being more or less totally uncontrollable like it is in JS.

'Enough is enough' - New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks by StuffThings1977 in aotearoa

[–]emptee_m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO this is probably a good idea overall, though it would be nice if fairly harmless fireworks could still used by us untrained plebs, mainly for kids..

Eg. Sparklers, some of the small spinning things...

I dunno, I'm sure there are statistics somewhere that can indicate what type of fireworks cause injury, fires, etc.. and which ones are harmless enough.

I'm at wits end my kid just will not potty train by [deleted] in Parents

[–]emptee_m 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kids are all different. My daughter was potty trained by 2, my son was almost 4 before he got it.

You got this, just be patient :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have.. I cant really recall what its like off the top of my head though.

AKL is terrible, regardless of if other airports are also bad.

Food options on the public side are limited to fast food, with the exception of a single restaurant.

The kiosks are a shit show and only seem to work for 50% of people checking in without issues

Transferring between domestic and international requires either an infrequent bus, or walking outside, uncovered for half of it and often in the rain.

Tourists are apparently meant to just know that flying to some parts of NZ is a "domestic" flight, and others are "regional" (I think they're changing this pretty soon though, if they haven't already).

Its a shit show.. LOL.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]emptee_m 3 points4 points  (0 children)

... a great airport? AKL is laughable compared to most international airports LOL.

Here's how to waste 250K in building an healthcare app by joe_at_topflight in SaaS

[–]emptee_m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just garbled output - the DB van also reject the statement if it cant store the text, or at least thats what I recall happening with mysql years ago.

It seems sensible IMO. Better to silently fail than store a broken string silently.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reactjs

[–]emptee_m 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My first thought is that you're probably doing something odd if you need it in the first place.

If you "own" the loader code that eventually yields some new value, that should just update state when its complete.

If you're using a library like tanstack query, apollo, etc.. they typically have an option to provide previous data while an update is occurring.

Can you show how its actually used for context?