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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
Postgres FTS with trigrams (pg_trigram extension) works really well for many search applications. Most of the effort would be tuning the FTS dictionary.
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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
If you are in IT then I would not worry to much about the job issue to much past the first job, there is still plenty of demand for skilled IT workers despite the record net migration of the last few years. However, make sure you are comfor
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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
I love what react does on the front end for Complex UI, but man does the tooling suck, and why the hell does it need 2mb of libs for a 'basic' app.... seriously, I get that Rails is moving into it's maturity and is avoiding b
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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
Welcome to the world of professional programming. Situation normal at many many companies. The best advice I can give is DO NOT start a stop the world rewrite! and to look at the SOLID pattern and implement it using the STABLE strategy. -Sm
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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
I know 1st world companies with millions of dollars in revenue who quickly switched away from Google Maps, at some expense, to alternate map providers after Google hiked up its prices for Premium customers a few years ago. There where so ma
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by JaggedNZ 8y ago
3 or 4 pages should be about right IMHO, most tech hiring managers don't want to read your complete life story, just figure out if you look like you have the right skill sets and experience. At a quick glance your current CV is light o
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by JaggedNZ 9y ago
It's still not as fun as a real turtle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot) ) But there is a decent turtle lib for python, used in the Rasberry Pi book my son has and a few online tutorials like: https:&#
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by JaggedNZ 9y ago
Checkout https://github.com/BleepLabs/Nebulophone It's not to hard to build and not a bad place to start. The code could be better, some variables are poorly named and has some minor bugs (off-by-one on the wave
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by JaggedNZ 9y ago
My biggest pet hate is borders inside borders and text inside tight borders. This dark pattern is used on mandatory health warnings on cigarette packaging in my country (and many others) I don't think this was an accident... In a more
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by JaggedNZ 9y ago
I don't get why people are picking on this statement when most of the "good" examples given have plenty of contrast and he then goes into many techniques to maintain good contrast. Ironically the contrast rebellion site uses
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by JaggedNZ 10y ago
> going after immorality is the best option IMO Now there is an ironic typo/autocorrect, I think the word you where looking for is immortality, unless of course you are making a scathing criticism that the pursuit of self preservati
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by JaggedNZ 10y ago
I'm a relatively new owner of an OX CNC (Ooznest kitset). I also researched a bunch of other options before purchasing, including the Shapeoko 2 & 3. I've spent ~$1200USD (incl. shipping literally across the globe), Those in t
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by JaggedNZ 10y ago
-lead in electrical solder wire As pointed out by other contributors, lead in electrical solder is not a big risk with appropriate handling (i.e. wash your hands) I've been soldering as a hobbyist since my teens and hand had lead blood
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by JaggedNZ 15y ago
If it is OSM data then it is a stale cut that is several years out-of-date, more likely it's data pulled from the same origin's as OSM, but with none of OSM's improvements. Map styling is pretty ugly IMHO too. If Apple is going to get seri