AndrewSChapman

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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
I think the supposition is that if Google and FB have to pay for news articles from proper news outlets with proper journalists, they may decide not do. At the same time, people will not change their habits of getting their news from socia
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
This is really interesting - thanks!
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Tech Stack for “Failing Fast”
3 points by AndrewSChapman 6y ago|9 comments
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Agree with everything you've said. Additionally, consistent rendering. If you've ever tried to send an email campaign and had to support all the old (and sometimes surprisingly new) Outlook clients and Lotus notes, you'll k
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Completely agree.
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Just to add a counter point of view, I've been a Scaleway customer for about two years now. No problems with my VPS or customer service what so ever.
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
I'm not even a C# coder and I can't understand the complaints about this. If you want to code fast and fancy free, use Python or PHP. If you want to use enterprise patterns that will make your code clean, testable and nicely mod
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Agree 100%. There are probably better alternatives if you're needing to improve scalability.
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
I'm not so sure this is true. Here in the UK the deaths are climbing back up again as the second wave comes in. Yesterday we had 241 Covid-19 fatalities, a number not seen since the start of June. Additionally, the way the UK is count
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Indeed. And let's not forget the Palm Treo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo Was out well before the iPhone, sold Internationally, had installable 3rd party apps (proper apps, not just "web" apps
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
This looks great - nice work!
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Ever since Facebook bought Oculus I've really hoped something like this would spring up. I really really want it to succeed and would be happy to back it on Kickstarter or similar. How do we ensure that these projects don't end up
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
What kills me is that I was unaware of just how badly Mozilla was struggling. As an avid Firefox user, I would have paid a monthly subscription to help keep the Mozilla dream and values alive. A world with just Google/Chrome is too de
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by AndrewSChapman 7y ago
I'm curious. A question for the author: What is it that you're aiming to improve over Vue + Typescript? Vue is opinionated and comes with single file components, a router, a store etc.
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by AndrewSChapman 7y ago
If you don't unit test from day 1 then there's a strong probability that you wont be writing your code in a way that you can unit test later. e.g. mockable dependencies. I'm included to say go with TDD right from the start
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As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?(bu.edu)
2 points by AndrewSChapman 8y ago|0 comments
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
If you haven't tried Kotlin, you really should. It's a highly expressive, null safe language with all the goodies you'd want without the bloat of Java. For web services, Kotlin + Vert.x + Postgres is a beautiful and highly
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
Meh, using shouldn't wouldn't have the same rhetorical impact. It's similar to the phrase "Can't complain.". Sure you could say "Shouldn't complain".. but it doesn't work.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
If they changed it would be suicide. Their whole raison d'être is around privacy and no censorship.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that ju
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
This seems legit: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employee-morale-dro... I think if the WSJ posted factually incorrect information, Facebook would have reacted and asked for a redaction and probably an apology.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I deleted my Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts just this weekend. It's not that I don't like the service Facebook provides (I liked Insta in particular), but I don't want to be a part of the data harvesting, privacy
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
In Australia Cadbury decided to remove palm oil from their plain dairy milk blocks in reaction to outrage caused by talk-back radio. Sadly the outrage wasn't about environmental devestation, but palm oil related health concerns.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
It is absolutely feasible. I do it. My wife does it. There are alternatives for almost everything, you just have to look and spend a bit of time researching. Sometimes you have to order products on the Internet instead of getting them in
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I've seen some programmers code using voice. This is really handy for people without functiong hands or fingers. They tend to use voice recognition software like Dragon and various plugins. I'd say from a programming language po
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
How about instead of "the whole point of JWT is to completely avoid server-side state management" we think of it as "the whole point of JWT is to reduce the overheads of server-side state management". In my answer above,
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I'm not 100% sold. I think JWT's are fine in some situations as long as you know the limitations. Regarding session invalidation, I would handle this in two ways. 1. Support a "Log everyone out" function by storing a si
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
It sounds a lot like a blockchain: "Your log is immutable and message order is preserved - every message+previous_hash is signed" which means no deletions, ever.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I've read several articles along these lines now I tend to think the arguments are pretty weak. In this media rich age, the data size argument is a bit silly. The "you're going to hit the database anyway" argument whilst
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
Listing FreeBSD, D, Java, C++, and SQL databases as "harmful stuff", and suggesting "hierarchical file systems" and "textual interfaces" as not harmful. What the actual hell?

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