adamauckland

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by adamauckland 4y ago
Yep, walked out of a tech lead role at a large corporate to start a new business with my wife, two weeks after the birth of our first child. We wanted to work on wildlife/animal tracking and identification through technology. It was ve
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Can you give an example of any other domain where the entire domain is changed every decade? Space exploration comes to mind, but again, still based on physics and chemistry. The problem with the digital domain is we're literally just
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by adamauckland 4y ago
You're absolutely right, they're pretty much not verified unless there's a dispute and someone says "That's not my signature"
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by adamauckland 4y ago
I'm guessing something to do with Murphy's law
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Click on your account dropdown in the top header, choose Private Session. Now nothing you listen to will affect your recommendations. Come on, guys, I'd expect better from HN than complaining about features which already exist. https
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Yes, if you want multiple accounts you pay for multiple accounts. It's a solved problem you just have to pay the $9 a month. I have two children, myself. I just installed second account on an old phone which has no SIM card in it, it h
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Can't really complain if they offer Spotify Family which gives you 6 separate premium accounts, I think it's only double the cost of a normal Spotify account.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
How dangerous though? As someone who has persistent back pain, Ibuprofen seems a lot safer than Codamol
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Ibuprofen has a really high LD50, at higher dosages it becomes anti-inflammatory.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
I don't know what VA is but in the UK they will attempt to maintain any addictions so the withdrawal does not affect the patient. For example, if you're a smoker I guess they give you nicotine patches or something.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Companies do new stuff all the time which has no domain expertise, the experts are already employed in other places, hiring takes months, they might just be doing a spike to see if it's worth investing in. When GDPR came out, some comp
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Yeah, that's true, the one time in 25 years.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Long time ago we ran several large insurance websites, fairly standard SQL Server backend. Once day I got into work and a slightly panicky dev said "We need to change the primary key on all the tables" It was using an int and at t
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by adamauckland 4y ago
I don't know if you're being deliberately obtuse or argumentative. It's not about transitioning between skillsets now, it's about future proofing. I went from doing corporate enterprise applications on Windows NT to embe
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by adamauckland 5y ago
I was going to question whether you agreed in "free speech" because our U.S. counterparts are always up in arms about that, but then I see you're from Stockholm so no worries!
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by adamauckland 5y ago
It could, but depending on how you use it, you're changing scoping.
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Layout is the structure of the page, grids, master breakpoints etc. eg. .grid .row .column .banner Styling is setting colors/fonts/padding etc on a specific component. eg. .sign-up-form .delete-button .accept-button
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by adamauckland 5y ago
This is the problem with moving rural. Unless you own a lot of it, you're still just penned in, and now there's no local amenities or support. I moved into the countryside 12 years ago from a large town where I never had to drive,
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by adamauckland 5y ago
What about all the people with other responsibilities like single parents or caregivers or people with disabilities who can't commit to a regular 9-5 job? They're not getting high paid gig jobs, just flexible hours.
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by adamauckland 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny for jokes, but we all know you don't get paid for hours which you can't bill, so...
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Yeah, exactly right, we found it was a few iterations before we had the Base Event Schema defined with enough data for every event. Of course, with all these articles they miss out that you're not supposed to just do Event Sourcing, it
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by adamauckland 5y ago
For a start, you're going to have to define your schema. Does one tree have one row or is it one case has one row? By updating at row level, you've instantly lost the ability to tell the user what time this data changed, unless yo
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by adamauckland 5y ago
You nailed it! Those missing events will slot into place as offline devices come online. It works for any model where the use case doesn't really matter about up-to-the-minute accuracy, but for case generation and collation over time,
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Where did I say multiple inspectors are inspecting a tree? There might indeed be multiple people dealing with a tree. The tree owner, an inspector, a tree surgeon, the local authorities (if the trees are protected). Synchronising data at ro
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Exactly, part of the problem, tags go on at birth, so at what point do you stick the expensive tags on?
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Yeah, we've tried drones. Problem is identification. E-tags on animals require a proximity of below a metre and stock are jittery around flying robots. Like you said, it's actually easier to get a quadbike and go look.
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Event Sourcing is absolutely brilliant if you want to build an offline first/distributed system which will become eventually consistent. A good example would be a tree inspection application where jobs can be pushed out to mobile inspe
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by adamauckland 5y ago
Yes, Correlation ID/Activity ID/Request ID, you need something that ties the event together. I think Event Sourcing is an amazing model for certain scenarios. Often, a hybrid approach can be better.
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by adamauckland 5y ago
yes, they are very similar. I'm not sure if Rails has quite the level of auto-generating admin system, though.
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by adamauckland 5y ago
So I actually started a business back in 2012 specifically for animal tracking on farms (cows and sheep). We tried BLE, image detection, loads of different approaches which worked at "prototype scale", the problems were: 1. Farms

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