OliverGilan

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by OliverGilan 4y ago
I really like EdgeDB so far. Only played around with it for side projects up to this point but with 2.0 and the introduction of Object Level Security I will definiteyl use it in production. The EdgeQL is the first graph-based query language
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
I live in East Village right on the border with the LES. There's certainly development happening and new buildings coming up but when I walk around EV/LES it sometimes feels like I see more 2-3 story buildings than otherwise. Ther
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
I’d love to learn more about how you do this. Do you have any helpful resources that I can look at to understand the process of creating a DSL with TS + Pulumi?
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
Starting a new project and trying to decide between Go and F# of all things. Go seems fast and very widely used which means resources and help is widely available and it’ll be easier to find contributors. Meanwhile coming from the C# world
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
As someone who grew up in the 2000s I still don’t get it. I grew up in a time when this was totally fine and normal. I cannot imagine being so restricted as a child.
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
It always amazes me how anyone can be technologically literate and still think world governments should be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this. I agree OP, most people in government are probably not inherently e
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by OliverGilan 4y ago
This is true and I bring this up as well BUT consider this: probably less than 23% of US citizens make 90% of the important decisions for this country (the power law still holds) and if all of those people are on Twitter then OP's poin
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Second this question. Never heard of IBM being exceptional for k8s. Curious to know what makes OP say it’s so good.
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Funny but Azure Repos actually has had this feature for a while. When I first joined Microsoft I was shocked that all our teams used Azure Repos instead of GitHub considering we own GitHub but as I've used Repos more and more I've
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
This is colossally bad advice when literally a fundamental part of the playbook to defeating alcoholism is getting it out of the house... Getting it out of the house and blocking domains are extremely valid tactics for getting over an addic
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Not Microsoft
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Software Crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by OliverGilan 5y ago|0 comments
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
I wonder if this uses pretty much the exact same code as the desktop version. It seems to me that one of the big benefits of using Electron would be to have one codebase deployable as a desktop app and a website with very little change for
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Ask HN: What's the fastest way to become employable in tech
25 points by OliverGilan 5y ago|77 comments
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
I graduated University in December, a semester early, with the intention of using that second semester off for traveling. Obviously, with COVID that didn’t happen so I instead decided to move my start date up at Big Tech Co. to February. No
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
I wear glasses and masks are basically untenable. I have yet to wear a mask and not fog up my glasses. Maybe I'm just an idiot, I don't know, but being able to see properly is far more valuable to me than not getting COVID (in it&
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Super interesting to learn this. I find that people often assume the things that don't make sense in today's world simply never made sense but often that's not the case! You're right, overdraft fees DO make sense in the
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Are you upset about movie trailers? I'll be honest I haven't been to the theatres in quite a while so I don't know if they actually show ads now but back when I was younger all "ads" before a move were just trailers
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
Except we aren't running out of forests any time soon [1] and they're actually growing back to levels we haven't seen in decades. [1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offse...
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
OP was talking about real world use case. Why does crypto have to be more beneficial than credit cards to count as a real world use case? There are people in the US who cannot get a credit card easily.
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
In theory, I love the idea of web builders such as this. I think creating simple CRUD apps is still surprisingly difficult but this tool seems to strike the right balance between complexity and simplicity. At least from the marketing it app
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by OliverGilan 5y ago
i think there are some rather great comments/examples of Dark Patterns in this thread and I just want to remind everyone to also submit those as public comment to the FTC! Just posting it on HN won't get it in front of the people
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I really don’t understand this attack on Bitcoin. It seems to be all the rage nowadays to lament the effects of Bitcoin’s electricity usage on the environment but a couple things seem true to me. 1) Any civilization sufficiently progressing
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
When will these be available as NFT?
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Ask HN: How Do You Write Documentation
42 points by OliverGilan 6y ago|18 comments
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Doesn’t relativity tell us it doesn’t matter?
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the goals of vertical farming. It’s not to save space, we have more than enough of that. It’s to stop produce from being shipped hundreds of miles on trucks which greatly increases greenhouse emis
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
Just looked it up. I don't know how I've never come across this. Reading the docs quickly it seems like this is cheaper and easier/more intuitive to set up than any other auth service. Will definitely be trying it with my nex
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
I literally was embarrassed. I didn't want to work for a company that selected talent like that.
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by OliverGilan 6y ago
About a year and half ago I was applying for a software engineering internship at Goldman Sachs and they made me take a Pymetrics test. One of the tasks was to press the spacebar as many times as possible in 30 seconds. I didn't do the

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