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Re: Postfix Templates - Help | JetBrains Rider

Ricardo Diaz — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:47:16 -0000

Hello!

Is there any way to create a postfix method that works just like SomeClass.var?

So I could do ISomeInterface.fake and it would dump out var someInterface = A.Fake<isomeinterface>;?

I looked at Source Templates, but we can't do that on types.

Thanks!

Re: Saying you’re an idea person but not an execution person tells me you’re not going to succeed

Ricardo Diaz — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:14:02 -0000

I think I’ve shared this one before but Derek Sivers agrees with you 😀

https://sivers.org/multiply

Re: Why I look to Warren Buffett for inspiration more than Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc.

Ricardo Diaz — Tue, 09 May 2017 12:02:30 -0000

I think the thing that comes across SO clearly in how he talks, is gratitude. He's so grateful for all he has, it's hard not to admire and like him.

He also comes off as such a straight shooter...

Re: How to change Windows 10 network type from Public to Private

Ricardo Diaz — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:37:53 -0000

Easiest way in an Elevated Powershell command prompt:
Get-NetConnectionProfile | %{ Set-NetConnectionProfile -NetworkCategory Private }

Re: What book format do you prefer and why?

Ricardo Diaz — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:54:50 -0000

This is a generational thing and it makes me insane. It's the one place where even sane minded Gen-X'ers lose their damned minds :) Give up on the physical books already, the waste, the cost, the space.

Unless it's an actual antique, does the world need the 23,452,128th copy of 50 Shades of Grey?

There MAY be a feature missing here though, not sure what it is. Ease of sharing? Shelf showing off? Book smell? Who knows...

Re: Corporations think they need a bigger boat, but what they really need is to build the shark

Ricardo Diaz — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:12:24 -0000

BTW, this is exactly what the record companies did NOT do and now they kow tow to Apple, Spotify, etc.

What's stunning to me is TV and movies are going down the same road, protectionism vs. innovation.

Re: The #1 use of the Apple Watch for me, and it’s not what you think

Ricardo Diaz — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 08:38:12 -0000

So I'm exactly the same way with mine on this part "...(though that’s only when I use Apple Maps, which I only do when I quickly need to click on an address in my calendar and start driving…otherwise it’s Waze for me.)"

It's why I give Waze only 4 stars. They seriously need to add the turning thing to the watch, it's IMMENSELY helpful.

I find the watch pretty useful for letting me use the phone LESS. It lets me decide if I even want to get it out of my pocket to respond to that Text/Slack/Messenger message and do quick replies if I need to.

When do your charge your watch though if not at night?

Re: Chocolatey Gallery | RabbitMQ 3.6.10

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:29:57 -0000

3.4.4 is available, any reason we can't get it? Happy to submit a pull request if the code is somewhere I can help btw :)

Re: My Serial verdict

Ricardo Diaz — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:37:14 -0000

So, all of that is good conjecture, but the one thing that sticks in my mind is the legal defense fund folks. The one where she said she's never run into the charismatic psychopath even after 20 years of doing it.

Also, 100% agree with you that Jay is actually involved.

The other possibility is he was the accomplice for someone else that we have no idea about. Someone that wanted her gone for some reason.

Sadly, we'll never know, unless the new evidence comes in, most likely DNA evidence.

I dunno if I'd call it the greatest podcast evah, but I certainly did enjoy it...

Re: Some things I’m trying to do differently after reading The 4-Hour Work Week

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:15:22 -0000

Yep, I do use it and I go back and look at it every couple weeks to get an idea of where my time is spent.

I like that you can set goals and such, categorize things into fairly large buckets like Unproductive, Neutral, Productive, etc.

It's good for looking back and seeing how much time you waste on Facebook, email, etc :)

Obviously, it doesn't help for meeting time wasting, but maybe you can run Solitaire during meetings and mark the time as unproductive :D

Re: Some things I’m trying to do differently after reading The 4-Hour Work Week

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:15:21 -0000

Sorry, totally late to this, but I ended up in a link swirl in Hilimire's blog here :)

Rescue Time (https://www.rescuetime.com/) is a great app. It's exactly what Jeff described he DOESN'T want down there, but it's awesome that it's automated, runs in the background and gives good detail.

Re: And so the standing desk experiment has ended

Ricardo Diaz — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:53:25 -0000

I will say one more thing though :) How many hours do you figure you spend at work at your desk and chair?

30 hours a week? 1500 hours a year? So suddenly, spending $1 an hour for the first year (and free after that) doesn't sound so expensive given the amount of time you spend there... :)

BTW, Geek Desk = $750, Good Chair $750 to $900.

This is one of a few things that I think folks try to cheap out on and don't realize that although the price sounds expensive (and it is) you have to compare it to the time spent.

1) Desk and Chair
2) Bed (Another 2000 hour a year spent on this, Spend the money on the $2000 mattress)
3) Universal Remote (You spend 15? hours a week with the remote in your hand, but spending $100 for a decent universal is too much?)

And just to get Richard Guy to chime in, that's still WAY less than a 15" Mac Book Pro Retina that is sitting on your $40 Ikea desk.

Re: And so the standing desk experiment has ended

Ricardo Diaz — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:36:36 -0000

It's cheaper than a good Herman Miller chair ;)

But I hear you, it's expensive, no doubt.

Re: And so the standing desk experiment has ended

Ricardo Diaz — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:58:14 -0000

Dude, have both! http://geekdesk.com

It's not the cheapest thing in the world, but it also transitions from standing to sitting. Because yeah, standing all the time is not ideal, but I bet I stand 2 to 4 hours a day at work.

Really helps with back issues, fatigue, etc.

Re: More on why personal offices generally suck

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:52:12 -0000

I tend to agree with open office space being good for collaboration, witness the scrum room, which I'm in all day, every day :)

However, one of the most productive places I worked and it had one of the best cultures I've ever been a part of, had offices.

Maybe the difference was EVERYONE had an office. You could choose to share, but you didn't have to.

They subscribed to the Peopleware philosophy (http://www.amazon.com/Peopl...

Peopleware is pretty kick ass if you haven't read it, you really should.

Maybe a little dated, but easy read and I think it will resonate.

Re: I’ll paypal $5 to the first person who can tell me how to do this in gmail…

Ricardo Diaz — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:54:17 -0000

I think you may be out of luck here.

The search you want is "-is:important"

That returns all items that are NOT important. Then, you'd create a filter from that and have it skip the inbox.

However, when I try to create a filter using this, Gmail throws up a warning stating that it's not a good idea to use this (and a couple other searches) as they will never match incoming mail.

Re: Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

Ricardo Diaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:41:52 -0000

Make sure you watch the Twilight one...my wife loves Twilight, so for me, that one was REALLY funny..."Dude, you slapped a fiiisshh"

Re: More and more people are cutting the cable cord…

Ricardo Diaz — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:29:43 -0000

Yeah, that's why I cut Dish down to the absolute minimum, so I could get locals easily and then pay for HBO.

I got them down to 21 a month, and if I decide I don't want a DVR, I could probably get it lower.

Re: More and more people are cutting the cable cord…

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:07:48 -0000

The way we find the good stuff is the content producers, like Louis C.K. sell it to us directly :)

We do need a way to find new stuff, but that's what Social Media is for, amirite? :D

Re: More and more people are cutting the cable cord…

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:16:34 -0000

Jeff,

I have subscriptions to Netflix and Hulu and a decent down on my DSL. With that, my DVR sat dormant for almost 6 months, literally unplugged from the wall.

When I wanted to see True Blood, I paid them their 16 extra a month for HBO and I watch it on HBO Go on my XBox :)

Now, this DOES mean I still have dish, but I talked them down to only 21 a month for basic service and the DVR. Since I basically don't use the DVR, I could probably cut it down to 15 a month for dish plus any premiums.

If I was willing to live without paid for HBO, I could of been rid of dish/cable EXCEPT for this past week.

Good luck seeing the Olympics on anything but a computer. You have to go to other countries sites to get them, NBC has a block on it.

But, seriously, besides the Olympics, there's been nothing I couldn't see, legally, and pay very little to the gigantic middle men known as Cable/Dish providers.

Re: We all have a superpower

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:55:40 -0000

Love this story. I really like how you keep finding entrepreneurs who just need that little bump to move forward.

You are empowering them and giving them the ability to leap and I love it :)

I hope you're somehow keeping in touch with these guys to see how it goes.

Re: What we can learn from Louis C.K.’s experiment

Ricardo Diaz — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:02:54 -0000

If a product is provided easily and at a reasonable price, like this is, piracy will not matter.

To see the future, look at a gaming platform like Steam:http://store.steampowered.com/

They offer big budget and indie games at a reasonable price. Most of the piracy doesn't matter because it's so easy and quick to get this game off Steam, and I get a good working copy, there's no way I'd pirate it.

This article talks about pricing from a software perspective, http://www.codinghorror.com... , but I think it will soon apply to all mediums.

If you offered me for sale, new movies, 1080p 5.1 channel audio, easy download for rental for $2 and sale for $10, you'd get a hell of a lot more business from me.

But when you rent for $5-8 and still charge $15-30 for digital download, I'm going to the torrents. They're annoying as all get out, but the price differential makes up for it.

My classic example for this is ringtones. You can buy a full song on iTunes for .99 cents, but people will then go out and pay $2.99 for the ringtone of it. People will pay for convenience, but not through the nose.

That's what Louis C.K. and Radiohead offered, convenience that happened to put more money in their pockets.

I believe more don't do it because they are probably being strong armed by the current distribution system into NOT doing it. Either through FUD tactics or straight up arrangements in contracts. And, they're also making enough money, and don't care about it as a cause to bother...

Re: Innovators vs Copiers

Ricardo Diaz — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:51:22 -0000

I'm not sure about other industries, but patent trolls are HORRIBLE for the software industry.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoin...

Basically, the US Patent office has no clue what to actually patent. They even gave out a patent for toast a few years back.

The patent system, at least in regards to software, needs to be dismantled.

You will rarely find a software creator that is for the patent system...

Re: A few weeks with the Jawbone UP

Ricardo Diaz — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:19:35 -0000

Why did you pick the Up?

Does it compare to the http://www.fitbit.com/ ?

Re: 7 reasons you might want a Windows 7 phone

Ricardo Diaz — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:51:53 -0000

Necro comment!

Starting from the top of your reasons NOT to use Windows Phone 7:

* Evernote app is there, Pandora is not, but you have last.fm and Slacker Radio.

* Copy/Paste is there now

* Not sure about Google Voice

* No idea about ESPN podcast

* Email is now threaded in Mango

So only 2 things keeping you from dumping that old school iPhone ;)