If you are rendering a public service, absolutely. Unless doctors can just start letting patients die on their tables because they don't like their patient's politics.
What's wrong with a doctor refusing to treat a patient they don't like?
Readit NewsSo you are okay with, say, the individuals of a fire department deciding not to put out a fire because they don't like someone? This is a public service we are talking about here.
Should individuals be forced to perform their duties against their wills?
bigmanwalter commented on What I learned getting acquired by Google shreyans.org/google... · Posted by u/shreyans
Gyms yes, pianos - only really big/fancy ones like MV, Zurich, London, etc
Even some smaller ones too. The Google Montreal office has an excellent music room!
I've always been satisfied with my grocery-bought olive oil, but also curious as to what "good" olive oil actually tastes like. Is there a brand or vendor in the US that sells such a product?
I'm a fan of PDO olive oil from regions in Greece that are known for their olive oil. Anything from Crete, Messinia, or Kalamata is usually top quality.
Since it's PDO, it's guaranteed to be a single cultivation, and from a region that takes its quality seriously.
bigmanwalter commented on Choosing the Right Rust Web Framework: An Overview shuttle.rs/blog/2023/08/2... · Posted by u/thecupisblue
A critical question first: why do I ever need Rust for web development?
Typically a critical question at HN will get downvotes because it is not encouraging or constructive or whatever, but that's OK as I really want to know the answer here. I understand Rust is cool for system programming, but I don't feel Rust is good for _everything_
Assuming you have some cash to make web related products, are you going to use Rust web framework at all? I know I won't.
Rust is good for writing performant code, incorporates a lot of the latest programming language research, and gives great error messages.
You don't need it. But if you prefer using it, it's nice to have a web development framework.
All this to get a feature that was already prevalent 15 years ago in oldschool PHP applications.
bigmanwalter commented on Generate invoices from the command line github.com/maaslalani/inv... · Posted by u/ingve
That's a good point. I definitely want to support different formats will probably need to support a --format and --template flag as well.
This is great stuff! To use this in Canada, we have a few extra requirements as well. Firstly, we have to separate our tax onto two lines, one for Federal tax (called GST) and one for Provincial tax (has a different name in each province) and we are also legally required to include our Federal and Provincial tax registration numbers on the same line as the amount of tax being charged.
Even trickier is that some line items could also be tax-exempt.
A config option such as the following would help for that:
--tax 0.05 "GST" --label="GST #12345679" \
--tax 0.09975 "QST" --label="QST #55592929"
--item ... --tax_exempt (or --tax_exempt="GST" in case it's only exempt from one of the sales taxes)I used to host a Janus server, which is similar.
https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/
Was fairly straightforward to setup. Eventually I replaced it with Twilio as it was easier to scale across regions.
bigmanwalter commented on Automate your Python project with Makefile (2021) antonz.org/makefile-autom... · Posted by u/asicsp
I did spend quite a bit of time researching approaches, but I didn't come across this particular idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Note: in my case, I have a directory structure that's a few levels deep, with an non-prescriptive set of directories (one subdirectory per category, with no limit on the set of categories). Maybe Make handles directories better than I realized (I'd always seen it recommended to use a Makefile in each directory--something I want to avoid).
Definitely avoid makefiles per directory, see Recursive Make Considered Harmful https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/
The approach being recommended in the sibling comment to this is quite nice!
> Google is the opposite: it's like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD's, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground. While the company is hush-hush to the outside world, it's 100% open on the inside. Everyone knows what everyone is doing, everyone is working on pet projects. Every once in a while, a manager skims over the bubbling activity, looking for products to "reap" from the creative harvest. The programmers completely drive the company, it's really amazing. I kept waiting for people to walk up to me and ask me if I had declared my major yet. They not only encourage personal experimentation and innovation, they demand it. Every programmer is required to spend 20% of their time working on random personal projects. If you get overloaded by a crisis, then that 20% personal time accrues anyway. Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think.
I've heard people refer to 20% projects now as "120% projects".