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by abraae 8y ago
I would hate to see the day HN allowed any way to bold sections of text. It's way more restful purveying a page of uniformly restrained text.
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by abraae 8y ago
Would the coverage include YC companies?
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by abraae 8y ago
You reckon? HN gives off almost a courteous Victorian gentlemen's club vibe it seems to me. Blatant astroturfers are given the silent treatment or shown the door.
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by abraae 8y ago
This is so fundamental (and has many years/decades still left) that I would go back to one of the sources e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-8th-Edi...
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by abraae 8y ago
Good stuff! Especially the ORM. And work on your logs. Tweak the info/error/debug levels so that the log files read nice. Too often we find that a common error/exception will spew hundreds of lines of shite into the log files
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by abraae 8y ago
If by REST you mean full on HATEOAS then I definitely would not use that as an interview test. Advocates tend to be religious in their intensity, yet few real world APIs are full REST in that sense. Discussions around HATEOAS could be enlig
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by abraae 8y ago
This is interesting but I don't know how practical it is. The key takeaway is... > The single most important thing is to test your equipment before taking it to Antarctica. This is obvious, but many people don't do it and their
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by abraae 8y ago
I love this counter-intuitive thinking. A while ago at dinner a friend said she was trying to do the right thing environmentally, but it was just too complex. (The case in point was her wanting an EV but hearing that while the car would be
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by abraae 8y ago
If you're a smaller organisation, then spending too much time on "what if my private network is not private" will also cause you to struggle. For most people, in most practical scenarios, you have to hang your hat on somethin
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by abraae 8y ago
Slippery slope! We're locked into this segmentation as well. There's no end to the rule making. Our current position (which changes it seems every few weeks) is: Rubbish stuff - 10 minutes per day - most youtube videos, especially
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by abraae 8y ago
Thank you for that explanation. Living on rain water, I have always thought those situations were barking mad, now I get it.
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by abraae 8y ago
..or perhaps "We change pricing whenever we feel that we can charge you more, whether because our increasingly dominant position in the market is subduing competitors, or because, though our service is getting worse as we squeeze the p
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by abraae 8y ago
Living out of the sticks, the tool that brings me joy is the one that's already lying around in my workshop, and that I don't need to drive into town to buy on that once-in-a-year occasion that I need it. Personally I try and buy
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by abraae 8y ago
Not the OP but to me, as best as I can tell from some self-analyzing, as you get older your brain just doesn't fizz and spark like it did way back when. It works in a different way - more pattern recognition, less raw grunt. Could be b
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by abraae 8y ago
It's a reasonable conclusion too, when revoking tokens because of a hack/leakage. In these situations human reaction times are involved, which will be at least minutes and maybe hours or days. Having tokens with an expiry of e.g 1
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by abraae 8y ago
That is a cool idea! If people are piecing together the infrastructure for their lives, the best and most resilient technologies probably involve wiring together with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers existing stuff - basic things that we
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by abraae 8y ago
Agree, and maybe we should start installing more, smaller, less safe nuclear reactors (hence cheaper and more widespread), to the point where people are ok with the occasional failure and even with occasional loss of life resulting. The vas
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by abraae 8y ago
Reddit may be coming to it's golden age.
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by abraae 8y ago
I've learned the most from shifting levels of abstraction, rather than between programming languages. When I started at Oracle, on the first day my head near exploded as everyone communicated in ER diagrams instead of pseudo code or mo
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by abraae 8y ago
Heating's optional around here but we use LPG (propane) for cooking. Cooking's the last big hurdle, wife refuses to consider a wood burner.
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by abraae 8y ago
Yep thanks for that, they're popular here as well (as well as simple variants like a big coil of black plastic irrigation pipe lying on the ground). In my case I'm trying to put all my investment into a heap of solar panels, as th
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by abraae 8y ago
Or an ordinary (and cheap) lead acid car battery. These are designed for very high, short term loads, perfect for this application.
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by abraae 8y ago
Kudos to the author! The best thing about this project is that it does not require any tricky mechanical modifications to the fridge itself. Mucking around with wires, inverters, and panels is scalable - I could build this myself using part
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by abraae 8y ago
Yep, and a quick way to search with/without blacklisted sites included. I'd pay for that.
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by abraae 8y ago
I've been duck shooting and felt shot from shooters on the opposite side of the lake pattering down onto me and around me. I can't imagine a shotgun itself would present any real risk to those below, compared to the enormous disto
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Is this any way to shut down an API?
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by abraae 8y ago
As someone who just wants to pop a shiny bit of plastic into my cool looking machine and have a cup of coffee pop out... I just hear "bah blah blah". (That's not actually me - I use a Rancilio Silvia, buy my beans in a brown
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by abraae 8y ago
I can't even imagine how one would legally define the concept of "meaningful r&d". Since many SV companies started out literally in a garage, it would be a very low barrier to clear.
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by abraae 8y ago
Ha, fair enough. I would like to argue but the relevant comment has been flagged, so I don't have the material to make a case, and I gracefully concede this point. However while we're being HN etiquette pedants, the original comme
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by abraae 8y ago
You're on the right side of this argument but that doesn't mean you shouldn't answer the question.

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