TimMurnaghan

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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
I get the motivation of what you're saying - but I'm going more towards splitting the back end from knowing too much. Do authentication in a proxy layer (can deploy as a sidecar if suitably containerized) and then have a bearer to
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
It still looks wrong. There's still some of the floating/stuck-on head feeling about it. Or is that just because we already know it's fake from the headline? (... and the way that the flag moves is totally wrong .../s).
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
What grinds my gears is hard-coded magic timeout numbers. Somehow microservice people seem to think that these are good (e.g. for circuit breakers) without seeming to realize the unexpected consequences of composing like this. Your timeout
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
See Gramsci's work on hegemony. Or (slightly easier) Tressel's "Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" which makes exactly the point about how the poor become convinced that it's better to give more things to the rich.
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
Anybody know a good way to get your data out of fitbit? I've got a year's worth of decent data and it's obviously at risk if google shutter it. Also I don't want them to have it - so I guess I'm in the market for so
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
> people in those countries tend to (strictly speaking incorrectly) refer to the timezone as GMT all year round. Not really. I've found that mistake much more common in Americans. Calling the time in London GMT got baked in to some
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
Yep. Reads like an american (got the exchange rates the wrong way up), so should have said get reasonable amounts of holiday.
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
This model assumes hiigh availability of spaces - and that's not what I see very often outside the wide open spaces of America. A better model would include time to find a free parking space. Searching and queuing time can quickly domi
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
It is an interesting piece of history. This dates back from when MS thought that all networking should be peer-to-peer (and that 640K was a lot of memory). IBM knew better and built domain controllers into OS/2. As an anecdote - I work
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
Nice to see wavelets in here - but it's a shame that he seems to be encouraging people to actually use Haar wavelets. They're fine for teaching - but there are usually better choices in real life. Daubechies are a good default
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
We're still waiting for an explanation of what Godot is ...
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
I'd look at any long term medication as a factor. PPIs can definitely affect magnesium. https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/proton-pump-inhibitors... On the other hand if your heartburn causes reflux then the PP
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
This became obvious a few years ago. I went to a startup pitch event (actually to get pointers on how to write my own) and was genuinely horrified at what all of the ad-tech guys were up to. There is no reason to assume any moderation or m
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
> Look at Material’s Updates No! If you're thinking about your enterprise application like an android app then you're starting in the wrong place.
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Absolutely. My characterization of Mongo is that it's the back end choice of front end developers. The only possible justification for it could be time to MVP (and that's being kind). It's bad for all of the reasons that back
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
The original VIX used to to be that. But for some time now (approx 2009) it's been a synthetic variance swap made up of a weighted sum of the "bunch of options" (weighted by square of the strike). The huge advantage that this
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Don't forget the Americans with the Patriot act
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Kew is awesome (and a nice river trip), but it's a shame that after the first 5 clicks I've got a symposium and some more questions. Anybody got a summary?
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
If you're using a small subset why on earth is it the right language? I had the misfortune to try to mentor a new quant who felt they had to write C++ "for speed" . But refused to use the STL as they were going to use a subse
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
nhanq is a one day old account posting fake news. Let's hope that the trolls don't take hold here on HN too. There are many valid criticisms of these kind of surveys, but crime, which is the hook that the anti-migrant posters like
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Funny how it's just become the first european city to top the economist liveability index. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45174600
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
There always are people who vehemently disagree. Read Tim Geithner's memoir "Stress test" and his fights with the "fundamentalists". Luckily he won enough of the arguments and the bail outs meant that the US recover
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
What about the question of no-shows? If your assistant can make bookings easily - you can make a load and then choose where you actually go later. That's actually one reason why restaurants like phone booking - because if you've
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Do people actually like Material for browsers on desktops? I tried it - as it would be great to have an opinionated design language with good framework implementations but it seems to make the same mistake as Windows 8 in trying to treat ev
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
... wiring the organoids to robots ... = daleks
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Too much from the latimes today. Which is a shame as they are particularly crappy at GDPR. I know it's hard for US-ians to care, but if a large proportion of the articles are inaccessible it will damage hacker news. Better not to put t
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Bloomerg also use the keyboard as a "non-tariff barrier". As a systems integrator trying to work with their systems in the 90s they insisted that we buy a batch of a specific pantone gold colour for our keycaps. So for people look
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by TimMurnaghan 8y ago
Not really that much in the article except for some OK advice on sizes and superscripts. Overall I was left with an impression of how American it looked. It was like a plastic woodgrain dashboard. I guess that shows how much design aestheti
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by TimMurnaghan 9y ago
And subject to gaming. Morning Star might be a nice cooperative environment - but when corporates try "360 review" it can get nasty. I've seen investment banks where people treat their colleagues as competitors for the bonus
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by TimMurnaghan 9y ago
> DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages. Intended by whom? A lone voice (however correct), a standards body, or an industry consortium? This article should really carry

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