UglyToad

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by UglyToad 7y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure that's universally true or even true for a majority. Though I might just be in a bubble. I care deeply about what a job would be asking me to build and I will absolutely leave money on the table if the product is
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Green New Deal for Nottingham Wins Top Guardian Award(theguardian.com)
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Thank you for your detailed response and the great article. I'm interested in whether the focus on tooling as one of the priorities ended up informing elements of the language design. To take an example mentioned elsewhere, autocomplet
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I can certainly see this is the case for new languages intended to introduce new and paradigm shifting concepts. To move the goalposts somewhat I primarily had languages like say Python, Elm, maybe Rust or Go, in mind. I haven't done P
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I think part of my question was related to your part 1. Are people genuinely remembering the entire API surface of their application, their language's standard library and all 3rd party dependencies for their code when using a text-mod
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I can certainly see why you'd not take the time to/need to do it if the purpose of the language is to explore concepts in language design. But it seems to be missing from a lot of languages that launch with the intention of being
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by UglyToad 7y ago
An interesting article. I was minded to write an Ask HN related to this. Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language; autocomplete, good IDE integration, intellisense, au
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Glad it's not just me. While in general the advice on duplication is reasonable I think it tends to get taken too far and the example is a poor one. Presumably for now Mexico applies a different sales tax % but there are so many unknow
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I hadn't seen this before but my god it's bang on every problem I experienced in my jobs and pretty much exactly what caused my burnout. I keep saying to people who ask what I'm doing next (currently taking a break) that my p
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by UglyToad 7y ago
This is quite an interesting piece as a survey of some of the Left and its relation to the climate crisis https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4404-eco-fascisms-and-eco-s...
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by UglyToad 7y ago
My view of Microsoft, and I'd be interested to hear if it's bullshit from people who have worked there, is there isn't such an entity. The dev tools and .NET team actually like Linux, the Windows team hate those guys, the Off
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by UglyToad 7y ago
As far as I'm aware PDF is an open standard? Happy to be corrected if wrong but the standard (2.0) is now published by ISO, which annoyingly enough means they charge for it which at least Adobe weren't (<2.0).
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In my opinion the best book on this topic which should be required reading for pretty much everyone is Flat Earth News by Nick Davies [0]. The book is nowhere near as sensationalist as the title implies. While focused on the UK I think the
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by UglyToad 7y ago
This was really nicely done and a really good initiative. I got in to software development by teaching myself Python (badly) and PHP (badly), and it's probably quicker to list the things I do know than the cavernous gaps in my knowledg
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by UglyToad 7y ago
That's a fair point and a flaw in my response. It's more based off the UK too where job security was higher and previously unemployment benefit was more generous and more widely available. There's still a difference here, fro
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by UglyToad 7y ago
As a white man I feel you're being extremely sensitive here. You've taken a small part of the article seemingly out of context. The author is talking about well meaning but ultimately useless advice from those with the financial m
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by UglyToad 7y ago
From what I understand of the story it started with an email sent to internal activists explaining why there were some performance issues with internal campaign tools. The attack was just a DDoS but once it hits the press it takes on a life
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Yours is one of the few reasonable responses so far (an influx of 'people are lobsters' believers at the moment maybe). This also correlates with what has happened here in England. Because public health/sexual health is funde
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by UglyToad 7y ago
It was a while ago now (I can't remember the last time I ssh-ed into the box) but I set up my blog using this guide [0]. I just logged into Digital Ocean to check, I'm running a single 512 MB memory droplet with a 20GB disk for $6
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I'm biased but I'd go with .NET if you actually want to get the thing built. Obviously use a new stack if you want to use it as a learning experience. With .NET Core and Postgres you can get something stood up within a few days an
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Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy Cuts Car Use(forbes.com)
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by UglyToad 7y ago
That's a good point. I guess in addition poly-drug use is made more likely by criminalisation but doesn't necessarily cease with legalisation.
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You might be interested to learn that heroin is actually quite a safe drug and safer to self-administer than paracetamol [0]. While you're right that the state has a duty to protect its citizens the war on drugs, all drugs, has the opp
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Despite what seems like quite a lot of political overlap with the author I have to disagree with basically the entire article. It approaches the problem from entirely the wrong end. Code is code and we shouldn't be adding ever more lic
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Of course. Most of the current API focuses on data extraction because that was my area of work when I started the project but I think creation is the more common problem so its good to hear as many use cases as possible.
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by UglyToad 7y ago
A large chunk of PdfPig started as a port of PdfBox (Java) , so it might be worth considering containerising or in some other way wrapping the PdfBox functionality to get Apache 2 licensed PDF merging [0] if this works for your scenario. It
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Thank you for the response. Yeah HTML to PDF is a tricky one, presumably wkhtmltopdf/pechkin doesn't work out because of licensing / interop issues? Other than that the only other one I'm aware of is Aspose which is expe
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The slow death of lead (1999)(independent.co.uk)
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I'm currently building an open source (not copyleft) PDF library for.NET standard [0] and I'd be interested to hear more what you need on the document generation side. The current generation API for my library is extremely limited
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I'm currently on my first break after 6 years with no job lined up and I'm not sure I want to go back to software. Unfortunately I don't have any answers but as the other responses point out software is a gilded cage because

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