UglyToad

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by UglyToad 5y ago
Depends what you're after. The only correct advice for "what to do a project in" if you're looking to ship and/or make money is "use what you know" so any advice beyond that is heavily contextual. There is
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Perceived cool factor, I think. Both .NET/C# and Java are the core of Dark Matter Development [0]. They're what a huge chunk of developers and enterprise actually use but they're not cool and they don't get blogged about
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Work and Success (2019)(ericlippert.com)
2 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages(eurasianet.org)
183 points by UglyToad 5y ago|343 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I can certainly understand your view despite my almost pathological hatred of landlordism. I just think a once in a century pandemic is the type of event where it's useful for the government to step in and safeguard essentials for the
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Just to voice an opinion opposite what seems to be the prevailing one in this thread. So what. They bought a spare house and wanted to farm people for what they felt was a safe 8% while doing minimal work themselves. The situation changed.
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I'd go a step further. In my experience writing C# I don't really need to type. Like I'll just sit on CTRL + Space and the arrow keys most of the time. To be controversial, a language that rewards typing speed seems to me l
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Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages(eurasianet.org)
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Partly the question which caused me to brush off my trends site [0] and add support for'#' and '+' tokens in the search. Looks like somewhat of an increase but a very spiky baseline. https://hn-trends.eliot-jo
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YouTube blocks Eurasianet after Turkmenistan state media complaints(rferl.org)
20 points by UglyToad 5y ago|3 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Yeah this is the problem more generally with the legal system both in my home country of England but especially in the US. As one hn user put it so perfectly recently "the process is the punishment". I think a lot of people in the
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Exactly this, I think music helps with energy/motivation to smash through a well understood but fairly uninteresting task, which outside of the HN Elite is most of our day to days. For understanding a new concept or problem the finding
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by UglyToad 5y ago
> the very choice of using Electron itself is usually an act of not caring. Hmm, not sure I buy this, sure it's not as fast as going native on every platform. But let's be honest the alternative isn't 3-4 native applicatio
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think this is the crux of the matter. Since Task and the TPL predated async, iirc, people get befuddled by the parallelism Vs concurrency (if that's the correct term) parts of the Task API. Certainly the async story is a lot more com
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by UglyToad 5y ago
It tells us there's an effectively unbounded amount of possible things to read on the internet and a lot of it is crap, debunked, hidden behind interstitials, paywalled, sales/marketing content dressed up as blogs or otherwise not
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I genuinely have forgotten now but I think you're right that milk is still pints. I just think of them as "the little one, the normal one and the big one" which I think are 1/2/4 pints respectively. I think where st
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Very much a generational thing. I'm early 30s and think in miles for distance/speed, pints for beer, feet for height and metric for everything else. This has always been a niche issue for the baby boomer generation, I don't k
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I wonder if something like 'progressive' energy pricing might be a solution here. It's kind of a weird idea but effectively some baseline 'required for living' amount of energy is free and then scales some non-linea
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This looks like the published study: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about...
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I'd say it's about what static languages don't let you do that dynamic ones do. For example I just found a bug in some scheduling code I wrote where a date value could be null but I was treating it as non null. I change the t
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by UglyToad 5y ago
For sure you can offer a good approximation through SQL but I'm unlucky enough that I've needed to support dynamic sorting and query builders against tables at least 4 times for different datasets in the past years. I'm parti
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by UglyToad 5y ago
The main place I've run into this is a table with sorting, pagination and filtering while lazy loading data and I encounter this need a lot. With some runtime query builder most databases will have decent performance for the space betw
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think this (original quote) is why I regard an organisation being "metrics driven" and associated working process as a bad sign. Reducing a development team's understanding of their target market to "line goes up"
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think it's the amount of prefix that gets me with forty. Plus fifth / fourth versus fifty / forty
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This reminds me when I was learning to code I was working through the Project Euler problems in python, one of them has you write code to do something with the English words for numbers. I wrote my code and was fairly confident it was corre
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by UglyToad 5y ago
The roosters here start at between 3 and 4am and have episodes of crowing through till 6-7pm, I detest these creatures. Best I can tell it's a method of communicating/monitoring out of line of sight or in foliage since they seem t
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I've become slightly fascinated by Edinburgh of the Seven Seas [0], the most remote permanent settlement on earth. Who lives there? What do they do? What is life like? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_o
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I'm reacting from a place of emotion here but your suggested approach just doesn't scale for an open-source project. Nothing is more soul-destroying than an ever growing backlog. If people don't care enough to follow up with
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Yeah, sadly I think you're right. Ultimately this is somewhere standardization would really help. If rather than a fuelling pump there was some kind of (strong!) robotic assembly/arm that just retrieves the battery from behind the
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This is a good point but they seem like slightly separate concerns in a sense. My limited understanding is that truck drivers tend to rest where they hit their legal limit which will often be a lay-by rather than a proper truck stop. Perhap

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