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Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
252 points by Townley 4y ago|550 comments
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by Townley 4y ago
I grew up in NYC but moved to DC years ago and enjoy it a lot. Cost of living is noticeably lower, still no need for a car (though having one isn’t prohibitively expensive like in NYC), and it’s got a better vibe than people give it credit
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by Townley 5y ago
It's interesting that this phenomenon is much more prevalent in game development, as opposed to (for example) web development: some people build their own web development frameworks, but it seems like every game dev tries to make an en
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by Townley 5y ago
I developed almost exclusively in django for many years before moving to react or vue for frontends. The switch from django templates was painful and a tremendous learning curve, so I get the value proposition of drop-in interactivity tools
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by Townley 5y ago
It’s surprising to me that stenography-esque chording hasn’t had a breakthrough moment among programmers. Most programmers love trading hotkey/shortcut recommendations, and software from vim to blender to photoshop show users have a de
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How to Clear Woods for Free (Without a Back Hoe)(farmfreshforlife.com)
1 points by Townley 5y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 5y ago
In the case of a username/email + password login, the password is sent to Facebook. Code on their end uses a one-way encryption to turn it into a unique value that's compared against a value they stored in the database when you se
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Before you answer, consider the opposite(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Townley 5y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 5y ago
Sometimes, though thankfully less frequently (and for a less-disastrous definition of "serious") than I used to. Luckily, a good CI/CD pipeline makes reversions just as easy as deployments. So even when you have errors, it&#x
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by Townley 6y ago
Mortality rate is the ratio of deaths to individuals in a specific population. So there's the mortality rate for the overall population (what GP is referencing) vs mortality rate among people who've had COVID (what I believe you&#
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by Townley 6y ago
Downsides (see: tremendous complexity) being generally understood, I'll list some of the upsides I personally feel compared to your described setup: - If you wanted to scale up or down the number of container processes running on your
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by Townley 6y ago
Tangential to this article, but can I just say that this is HN at its best. Random, curious, snippets of learning on topics that I can’t imagine hearing about anywhere else. It’s a pure love of knowledge that leads thousands of people to sp
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by Townley 6y ago
Also a big django fan taking the plunge (we've started using FastAPI in production at work, and really love it!) An admin interface would be wonderful, but given such a heavy API focus, I find Insomnia or Postman to work well enough fo
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by Townley 6y ago
Dunno what search backend you’re using, but if it’s ElasticSearch this can be done pretty quickly with a Gaussian decay filter. That takes in lat/lng directly, and adjusts the ordering of results. That’d also give the nifty feature of
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Ask HN: How much do social networks spend on hosting and storage per user?
7 points by Townley 6y ago|6 comments
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by Townley 6y ago
Huh, good to know. Does this issue apply to f-strings or are you talking about format methods? I did a brief look through issues and MyPy seems to support f-strings fine, but I’d 100% believe that there are still kinks to work out
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by Townley 6y ago
Personally I love poetry, if for no reason other than making publishing a breeze. If I can’t use it for some reason, I like managing virtual envs with pyenv (not to be confused with pipenv. You’re better off for having missed the controvers
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by Townley 6y ago
Disclaimer that basically everything below is a personal opinion: - MyPy is a great (fine, decent) library for typing, but even without it, the type hints in newer python versions and typing standard library are super powerful. Not “rust” l
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by Townley 6y ago
I use managed k8s, but have sympathy for the bare metal folks. Wiring servers together using kubeadm is so simple and powerful that the missing pieces of the puzzle (networking and storage, for example) feel frustratingly close. In an ideal
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KFC deploys autonomous 5G ‘food trucks’ in China(soyacincau.com)
1 points by Townley 6y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 6y ago
One reason JS makes sense (in; for example, robotics): For all of JS’ problems, it handles async wonderfully. I can think of plenty of actions in robotics that boil down to “do these 3 things concurrently and then do thing #4 when they all
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by Townley 6y ago
For me, the main place the issue above rears it’s head is in data retrieved from an API. A strongly-typed language would fail loudly and predictably if a blob of JSON didn’t match the expected format. In some situations, that’s preferable t
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by Townley 6y ago
Agreed. Though maybe it's just a heavy lean into "This thing will drive itself in a few years"
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by Townley 6y ago
What version do you have installed? The latest version for me is 129.0 which came out 4 days ago, and I don’t see a button after tapping the mic
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The internet should be more like Wikipedia(builtin.com)
2 points by Townley 6y ago|0 comments
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XMLHttpRequest Capitalization(twitter.com)
1 points by Townley 6y ago|0 comments
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by Townley 6y ago
If you don’t mind sharing (I imagine it only increases business) what market is this that has plentiful, cookie cutter houses being declined? As someone in a big city, daydreaming about picking the family up to a bigger living arrangement,
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by Townley 6y ago
If you have a DB cluster running on multiple EC2 instances, you can definitely do that. There are advantages/disadvantages compared to just paying for RDS (eg managing backups, system complexity, and failover) but if you already have t
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by Townley 6y ago
Docker volumes are great. I've also run databases in docker without issue. But they're different from kubernetes "persistent volumes" and "persistent volume claims" The issues come when you move into high avail
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The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Townley 6y ago|0 comments

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