UglyToad

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by UglyToad 6y ago
Yes, I've felt this for years. By the end of the typical day I have absolutely no energy for anything. It seems to have been getting worse as well, the scope of my life becomes surviving the workday and nothing beyond that; no energy t
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by UglyToad 6y ago
This is great, I was literally banging my head against a wall last night trying to determine how the length of the ECS was determined. What a lucky coincidence! I'm trying to build a small C# library to support reading image types to l
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by UglyToad 6y ago
Exactly, and the other thing I think is missing from the belief money is always more valuable than time is there is a scaling limit to money in most cases. In your example you go from x to 4x but taking a developer in London with say a new-
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by UglyToad 6y ago
On the hunt for file formats to pass I ended up implementing a parser for the CIF format https://github.com/EliotJones/BioCif It's great that these projects to create open data stores exist.
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by UglyToad 6y ago
As little as possible. I think there's an extent to which the trend for 'memory hacking' is a little harmful. The field of modern software is too broad to possibly remember much of it so it's better to learn how to find
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by UglyToad 6y ago
This list almost perfectly matches my frustrations when learning a new language, and to be honest it's why I don't bother anymore. I started off in Python and have looked at Ruby, Pony, Rust, JavaScript, etc so I'm aware ther
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by UglyToad 6y ago
I've not actually used it yet because I haven't really needed to but I hear a lot of good things about Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/ Windows search still sucks and is broken so it seems like a good alter
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Britain's Electricity Generation Dashboard(electricinsights.co.uk)
2 points by UglyToad 6y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 6y ago
Sure, I guess by first step I was referring to the first thing when I sit down to start coding. There's all the stuff that comes before actually doing that, generally, though not always, the feature is driven by some front-end requirem
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by UglyToad 6y ago
There's no silver bullet I guess but I think the trap that one could fall into here is to think of "the" frontend. There's a bunch of additional consumers of the data model even for a single web-app. Auditing, security,
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by UglyToad 6y ago
If I understand it correctly this was a newer feature, from what I remember when it was first released it was schemaless?
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by UglyToad 6y ago
Always interesting to read how others work. I'm a backend dev who does quite a bit of frontend though I deeply dislike the current state of frontend (bring back Webforms) For me it all starts with the database, always. Code, ux, networ
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by UglyToad 6y ago
The problem however is it shows us that unprecedented shutting down of the economy has an effect below that needed to tackle climate change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-co2-isnt-fall... The figure I
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by UglyToad 6y ago
This hits on an important point I don't see discussed much and certainly not addressed as important. Debugging is (one of) the most important UX aspects of your code. Similar to code being read a lot more than written, you should prior
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by UglyToad 7y ago
As everyone has already mentioned it's natural to feel like this and it's just a case of practice. A concrete suggestion that came to mind is isolate the simplest unit of functionality the project implements and try to implement i
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Congratulations to the team on the release. I was reflecting on the Open Source UI debate recently because I was helping a family member do some document layout stuff in Scribus. Certainly these tools can have a daunting UI but the existenc
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by UglyToad 7y ago
The open source project I work on [0] returns the letters, their positions and other associated information. We provide support for retrieving words as well as a bunch of different algorithms for document layout analysis [1]. But like the o
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Getting Started with .NET and C# at the Command-line(jeffreyfritz.com)
2 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 7y ago
This doesn't go into much numerical information which is buried in reports but it's a good high level summary https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-logistic...
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests(theatlantic.com)
11 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I've pushed an update that allows you to display multiple trends on the same plot now, if you wanted to take a look.
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Is something like Nancy [0] close to what you're after? I've not used it myself because I prefer the structure of the full approach but from my extremely brief interaction with Express in Node it seems similar? [0]: https:/&
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Yeah, peaks in story count nowadays are relatively smaller than peaks from 2007-2009ish. You can use the "Display as % of stories" button which is right of the "Group data by" drop-down to show the data as a % of daily&#
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Thanks, yeah this functionality doesn't exist at the moment (aggregation happens server side so the actual stories aren't available client side). You can however get the full data for a trend from the API endpoint (the front end d
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by UglyToad 7y ago
It should be back now, though you might be running into the same SSL issue ColinWright was elsewhere in the thread.
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by UglyToad 7y ago
I definitely want to but I'm not sure what the situation would be with copyright (or indeed if I'm allowed to use the posts for indexing in the way I have). I'll email HN and see what they say.
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by UglyToad 7y ago
That is odd sorry about that, you can email it to me "elioty at hotmail dot co dot uk" or stick it in a github issue: https://github.com/EliotJones/HnTrends
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Yeah it's annoying, I think I'll add a toggle "Display data for incomplete period" or similar so the user can switch between views (for something like "coronavirus" the data from the first few days of the month
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by UglyToad 7y ago
That's a good idea. It's currently on the box I run my blog off so shouldn't be costing my anything at all (given I am paying for the blog hosting anyway) but it would be interesting to try.
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by UglyToad 7y ago
Good spot, I'll fix it.

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