GlennS

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by GlennS 6y ago
One of the reasons why I left the UK to move to Australia: an escape from months of cloudy gloom. It really makes the winter a lot less tiresome when you can walk to and from work under bright blue skies and feel the warmth of the Sun.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I played and enjoyed Witcher 1, but it's long and grindy. I wouldn't recommend it now unless you have a lot of time to kill.
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by GlennS 6y ago
You have to deal with the world as it is, not as you wish it was. (Unless you have a realistic plan to change it.)
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by GlennS 6y ago
This seems incorrect, and maybe wishful thinking?. There have been many brutal societies (and colonies, empires and so on) that lasted for centuries. Certainly a lot of military "interventions" in the past couple of decades have b
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by GlennS 6y ago
I'm still confused. When do you generate your diff then? I think migrations ought to be done by the developer at the same time that they write their other code changes, because they have all the context at that time. However, it doesn&
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by GlennS 6y ago
I believe it and it makes sense, but I've never encountered it myself. Sounds like your definition of "small scale" encompasses every project I've ever worked on. :D
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by GlennS 6y ago
The difference is that - if I understood right - you're generating your diff just before you actually do the migration. By comparison, the incremental migration scripts are written at the same time as the feature (I like to do them as
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by GlennS 6y ago
If you think New Zealand's approach is infeasible, perhaps instead take inspiration from some of the countries with land borders that are doing well?
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by GlennS 6y ago
I've never worked on anything that separated data migrations from schema migrations, so I suspect I'm not quite understanding you, but... Your data migration is just part of your chain of incremental patches? For my example you ju
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by GlennS 6y ago
All these systems are patch based systems (for an alternative approach see the comment in this thread from the Migra developer). However, he is suggesting the patches should be written in SQL. By default in Django the patches are written in
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by GlennS 6y ago
I've done automated diff-based migrations before using SQLDelta. It caused me a lot of trouble and I think it's a bad approach. These diff tools just don't have the information they need to solve the data problems that are th
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by GlennS 6y ago
At this point (and for a few of months now), surely you don't need to know the R0 value? Why not just look at other countries, see which have had the best outcomes, and copy them?
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by GlennS 6y ago
It's an incorporeal ghost knight.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I personally avoid gold because I think the price is distorted by the nutters. But I don't really have any evidence to support my position. Do the nutters have enough money to move the price?
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by GlennS 6y ago
Ah, thank you. I do have astigmatism and my glasses do correct for it. That explains it then.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I get these sunstars (I hadn't heard that name before) in my normal vision at night. I see them on all the street lights and car headlights. Is that normal or does it indicate some sort of problem? If I were to ask an optician about it
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by GlennS 6y ago
Software people didn't invent the idea of doing quick, cheap iterations. It predates software really. We have embraced it strongly as an industry though. Except for the C++ people of course.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I would bet that male nurses do pretty well with dating.
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by GlennS 6y ago
> In comparison to most governments in the world Technically probably correct, but it seems like the wrong comparison? Compare them to the G20 or OECD or similar. The Australian Liberal Party are pretty practical, they keep their nutters
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Is it costly for them? I assumed they thought it was good, cheap PR.
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I think communication overhead works against this, because it is a very big overhead for programming. If one or two people can build a feature all the way through, getting help and advice from the experts in each area as necessary, then you
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by GlennS 6y ago
Somewhat surprised Microsoft haven't done something about this since they bought LinkedIn. It surely doesn't reflect well on their brand. Are people at Microsoft OK with working alongside people who do this scummy stuff?
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by GlennS 6y ago
I guess it's a problem that can be overcome with type inference then? (I don't have to declare types on queries, updates, or views, just on the base tables.)
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by GlennS 6y ago
Can confirm: I'm not allowed to give blood in Australia because of the small risk (with a potentially very bad downside if it manifests) that I'm infected with mad cow disease, due to living up in the UK in the 90s. They still let
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by GlennS 6y ago
I didn't notice that. I was grouping it together with the Times/Economist/whoever else rankings. It does make my criticism irrelevant in this case, good point.
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I would like to be able to explain the cost part better. It may just be personal bias of course. 1. There's no guarantee the correct theoretical model of your program fits the type system of your programming language. 2. Sometimes ther
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by GlennS 6y ago
People who like static typing seem to really like static typing. I'm honestly not convinced it helps that much. And it seems to cost a lot to me. I like database and API schemas though. And I like clojure.spec and function preconditi
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by GlennS 6y ago
Do people in general take these ratings seriously? They seem clearly bogus in that they're by English-speaking press and happen to rate all the English-speaking universities top. And if they're dumb in that way, probably they&#x27
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by GlennS 6y ago
Yes, in specific fields like finance. But, usually better to weight technology quite low when picking what to work on. Product and company culture has much bigger impacts on your quality of life in my opinion. I don't want to work with
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by GlennS 6y ago
Not convinced. It's not exclusionary for people with good colour vision to want to use it effectively. It is exclusionary not to provide good alternatives for people who don't have good colour vision (or various other disabiliti

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