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541.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Then how did Bench collapse? How many of those startups have enough customers to be profitable? How could I, as a business owner, decide based solely on their HN advertisements?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
15 years ago, a Polish driver named "Prawo Jazdy" was causing a real nuisance to the Irish police, seemingly all over the country. Turns out they couldn't parse the document and they were looking for a man named "Driver&
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
This thread is full of accounting service founders promoting their product, often with a discount for Bench refugees. Why are there so many of those accounting startups and how do they manage to survive in such a crowded market? Or are they
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
So you run a bookkeeping company, yet your wife is using a competitor?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I never charge my phone overnight. My charger is on my desk. I'll typically do a slow charge, but I'll do a fast charge in some circumstances (e.g. when I'm going somewhere soon but my battery is low).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
European governments can. The US government could, but the Visa/MC lobbyists are so nice and friendly.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Creating a new thread is equally simple in Java: var thread = new Thread(() -> { // Thread code }); thread.start(); // ... thread.join();
548.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Christmas Day is a traditional Ruby release day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ruby#Table_of_versi...
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Get a real computer.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
They have been removing features every release for the past few years. Code that was working fine on 3.10 may break on 3.13 just because it was using a feature they didn't like.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
A look at OP’s posting history suggests he posts a lot of advertising.
552.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
It could 429 it for conditional requests as well: > Unconditional requests: at most once per 24 hour period. > Conditional requests: at most once per 60 minute period. (Source: calling `curl hxxps://rachelbythebay[.]com&#x2F
553.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
554.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
If you choose not to pay Apple for the privilege of macOS development, you will need to teach users increasingly more arcane tricks to get the app running. As of the latest macOS release, the old trick of "right click -> open"
555.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
sbuild is written in Perl, so it’s not surprising that new code for it is written in Perl.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
There are no Windows-specific issues in venv + pip. Windows can be more painful if you need to compile C extensions, but you usually don't, since most commonly used packages have had binary wheels for Windows on PyPI for many years.
557.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
It is not interesting or relevant in any way, I doubt any mobile network still supports WAP.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> you can arrange for the CI system to build from a random path each time Or you can end up having to use the magic path for all builds. At work, we have a subst’d drive. The way we set it up means that some <evil crap> requires it
559.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
I think SUBST can break when you run as administrator (elevating your own privileges).
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
SUBST is all fine, up until the point some tool explodes when it sees that normalizePath("P:\\whatever") == "C:\\code\\whatever", and it ends up with two paths to one file, or no way to build a relative path. I’ve seen t
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Automattic is basically Matt Mullenweg, Inc. — not much difference there.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
For using packages, venv + requirements.txt works, but is a bit clunky and confusing. Virtual environments are very easy to break by moving them or by updating your OS (and getting a new Python with it). Poetry is one alternative, but there
563.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Time was spent, but on what? Creating 15+ different, competing tools? That won’t improve things. Blessing one tool and adopting something equivalent to node_modules could, but the core team is not interested in improving things this way.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Java, C#, JavaScript (node) all disagree. If the Python core team wanted good packaging, they could have done it ages ago. Sure, a good solution might not be applicable for past Python versions, but they aren’t doing anything to make it any
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
setup.py allowed arbitrary things, but at least it always went through setuptools (or closely related predecessors, such as distribute or distlib). There is now pyproject.toml, but at the same time, there are tons of build backends that can
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
People made money off 3D thanks to 3D cinemas. 3D glasses are cheap, often disposable. VR headsets are expensive and clunky, I doubt we're going to see VR cinemas with comparable capacity.
567.
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Going to the check-in counter at Ryanair costs "€/£55 (for flights from Spain €/£ 30)". https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/help-centre/fees
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> I am pretty sure [working around checked exceptions] will never be a part of the JDK, because it is arguably bad for large and serious programs. And yet so many programming languages, including JVM languages like Scala or Kotlin, just
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
A trusted third party has a copy of the physical key to my flat. I handed them over once and they still work. I can print out the passwords and 2FA keys required to recover the most basic services (such as primary email and password manager
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
BLE seems to be a different way to authenticate than QR codes. Desktop computers may often not have Bluetooth chips.

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