JonAtkinson

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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
I'd be interested to better understand the timeline around this statement: "Metaserver was stuck on a deprecated legacy framework that unsurprisingly had poor performance and caused maintenance headaches due to esoteric bugs. For
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed using simpleisbetterthancomplex over the years. I run a Django development agency, and I've passed around links to your tutorials more times than I can reliably estimate; hundreds of time
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
I guess investors suffer from FOMO just like the rest of us.
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
I live in Blackpool. On Sunday, I was walking north from North Pier, slightly below the sea wall; with the sound of the waves rolling over the vast beach (rated as "Excellent"). There was pure January light reflecting from those i
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
Yes. It's section 8.2 onwards of this document: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
The majority of apps need a very small subset of database features; they need somewhere to park strings and numbers in a reliable way, and retrieve them (sometimes in order). The Django ORM supports this across all of the backends it suppor
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER, Remote, GMT+\-2 We are a digital agency business, with a strong engineer-first culture. We do things properly, not quickly. We are seeking a freelance software engineer with a strong record delivering Android apps. We ar
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
`import asyncio` is a standard part of Python. `aiohttp` is a a 3rd party package if you want a more succinct expression of the same functionality.
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
There are no winners or losers here, just unexpected feedback in an unexpected forum. Best to move on from it. To your broader point about reviewing libraries; it is an interesting area. I feel that a lot of people (myself included) will as
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GitHub Marketplace Endgame(jonatkinson.co.uk)
1 points by JonAtkinson 6y ago|0 comments
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
Wayland remains very immature, and it still has significant shortcomings in hardware support. It's a beta-level technology at best, while Xorg has 20 years of stability behind it. It isn't responsible to suggest it as an alternati
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
This is wonderful. I’m thinking of doing something similar. Please could you email me? Detail in my profile.
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
This seems very useful; a universal solution at the OS level makes it easier to firm the habit of using PTT rather than relying on each individual app to offer (and then need to configure) PTT. On a related note, I started using Nvidia&#x27
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by JonAtkinson 6y ago
There are .msix releases on their Github page. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
There are. Awareness is growing and all organisations which are serious will have a plan in place and facilities available. Should someone present at almost any shelter now their case will be assessed on whether violence occurred rather tha
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
That is a pretty flippant comparison. I’m the trustee of a regional women’s shelter; we run a small building of 8 apartments which we offer to women and children as short-medium term refuges at no cost. The people who arrive with us are exp
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
I read that paragraph as they have moved on from “scummy Etherium ... nonsense”. We always need convenient monikers for concepts and while “dapp” isn’t the most elegant, it is no worse than “cloud”. The fact that people are putting their cr
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Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux(github.com)
222 points by JonAtkinson 7y ago|80 comments
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Ah. I don’t have Apple News installed. I get prompts to install it occasionally which I decline. I didn’t realise it was the default handler for RSS feeds.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Aside: it’s incredible that you can’t tap an RSS link (or long press and share) to open it in Podcasts in iOS.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
There has been huge advances in this area recently. Real-time ray-tracing and lighting is Nvidia’s primary marketing push right now with their RTX cards. Unity/Unreal/Blender can all produce very high fidelity real time lighting w
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
That sounds like a really positive change in your life. I hope you continue to feel good.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
I think I broke through. But I haven’t done DMT before or since, so I can’t be sure. I definitely went somewhere far away in my perception, I felt like I had travelled a long distance. I was alone and I didn’t note the time though, so it’s
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
I’m afraid there was no secret. I went to a drug dealer I knew and asked him to source some for me. It wasn’t expensive, but I needed to wait a few weeks.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
I used another psychedelic (DMT) to self treat my alcoholism. While it is early days still, I am almost 600 days sober. The drug allowed to me introspect and access my mind in a way which was previously blocked. From the perspective it unlo
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Off-topic: I absolutely love the design choices made by the author of this site. It's the basic browser stylesheet with some nice refinements. A real triumph of minimalism and incredibly readable.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
It is the EU's job to do both, but neither is done to the exclusion of the other. We are lucky to have such a privacy-focused federal body which can bring about change effectively. I'm thrilled at the passing of GDPR, for example.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
I imagine that is due to the combination of easily available firearms in the US and the ethically dubious position of a lot of SV companies. I work in the UK and I have only worked in one office with a security desk. Most are very relaxed.
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
The idea that there is a joined-up strategy at a national level to ‘buy our garbage’ is weak. These countries have immature regulatory and inspection regimes and garbage is being bought and dumped by for-profit entities because they can get
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Please don’t presume to know my position on this. I never said whether I do or I don’t find this objectionable. I asked you to expand on your comment, that is all.

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