adamckay

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by adamckay 3y ago
Great. And when there's a thread about Go I'm sure someone will tell us they don't use it and a different language is 100x better, too.
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by adamckay 3y ago
> My history was mostly JQuery where needed (which was all the time before JS got its act together). htmx should remind you of those times. I certainly has for me - it's just (fundamentally) a fancy and clever wrapper around jQuery
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by adamckay 3y ago
It's not a company - it's an open source project. It's not a startup accelerator - it's a part of GitHub's efforts to support open source projects with funding and mentorship.
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by adamckay 3y ago
> And obviously, I'm under no obligation to not voice my concern about that. Except... You are... The guidelines [1] of the site outline that most discussion of politics is off-topic as it most often doesn't gratify one's
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by adamckay 3y ago
> It's sort of like saying, instead of taking cars from your corporate fleet to a repair shop when they break, repair them yourself! Just hire some mechanics, build or rent a garage and equipment, and voila! And also, why are you bu
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by adamckay 3y ago
This will be useful, and definitely handy when sharing random scripts with a defined structure for its requirements. I've struggled to give scripts to non-developers to run recently and between getting them to configure a virtualenv an
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by adamckay 3y ago
> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful. A ribbon [1] or armband [2] is a really common and subtle way of symbolising mourning, I'm quite surprised people aren't more aware of this practise. 1 -
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by adamckay 3y ago
There's a feature where you can post to groups anonymously, still using your real account, rather than creating a new account with fake data to make you appear anonymous.
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by adamckay 3y ago
There's no such thing as Scottish pounds or English pounds, the UK uses pound sterling (internationally abbreviated to GBP). There are English banknotes and Scottish banknotes, but they're the same currency.
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by adamckay 3y ago
No it's not, Scottish bank notes aren't of a different currency - they're still pound sterling. The reason they're typically not accepted in English shops (at least, those not on the Scottish border) is most often becaus
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by adamckay 3y ago
> otherwise your company has no real future That's not necessarily as bad as it sounds, though. If the future where your company can exist is long enough for you to learn some valuable things and make decent money, it's obvious
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by adamckay 3y ago
Elon himself didn't like that an account was tweeting the location of his private jet, generating bad publicity, going so far as paying for the owner of the account to stop. Trivial, yes, but does show how it can be an annoyance even t
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by adamckay 3y ago
You have to decide whether the complexity and cost of a fully redundant system is worth it and consider it against what your SLA is, especially if your redundancy increases the risk of something going wrong because of that extra complexity.
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by adamckay 3y ago
Because Postgres is another thing you have to run, maintain and monitor, and you have to make a judgement whether that extra complexity is worth it - for a lot of simple projects, it's not. SQLite is a library you use in your applicati
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by adamckay 3y ago
Assuming you're talking about users of your web app, rather than database users. Using the WAL mode [1] you can have truly concurrent reads alongside writes. You can't do truly concurrent writes, however, but the database driver y
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by adamckay 3y ago
> I could go on and on, but I think I've made my point. Indeed. Thank you.
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by adamckay 3y ago
> Security scanners should adopt LESS heuristics and focus more on VALIDATING their perceived findings Aren't you saying the same thing? In the context of the blog post I understood it to mean that an automated scanner, on retrievin
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by adamckay 3y ago
But the next largest legitimate repo is going to be something like 20M commits shy of that, so it seems like it's excellent that GH engineers only just started to care. It's entirely possible that such a load test has been conside
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by adamckay 3y ago
It's this kind of attitude that's why we can't have nice things, though. A service is offered for free, with no documented limits or restrictions, so you push the service to its breaking point... Just to see what happens?
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by adamckay 3y ago
> GitHub would be just as likely to benefit from hiring the author as they would from banning For what purpose? Creating an infinite loop that updates a file and commits it is hardly worthy of a job offer.
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by adamckay 3y ago
But isn't this an example of even AWS developers using cloud services wrong? They used a serverless approach (which should have excellent scalability -- it's one of the most common marketing lines of it!) then had to switch archit
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by adamckay 3y ago
That would be negated by the first sentence - "I stay out of discussions" - if force is being used it's no longer a discussion.
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by adamckay 3y ago
As the saying goes, "safety regulation is written in blood" and I expect this to be somewhat modified. It's complicated somewhat if the submarine is launched and operated in international waters, however.
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by adamckay 3y ago
At a previous job I worked on a web-based file sharing app, and to share individual files we used a generic share icon from the font awesome project with appropriate labels. We got a bug report from someone in the company that the share ico
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by adamckay 3y ago
Out of interest I looked up your Reddit profile and read those comments, and whilst I (personally) think it's slightly harsh that you were banned rather than warned it's not particularly surprising... On the thread announcing PHP
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by adamckay 3y ago
https://archive.ph/HI8dn
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by adamckay 3y ago
> What annoys me is that I'm actually seeking a job now and that I can't find one that fits my needs, despite being way past those Kinderkrankheiten (child diseases), because those jobs nowadays require you to be an AWS zealot,
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by adamckay 3y ago
It's an option as a tiny USB adapter you plug in, versus being built-in to the laptop.
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by adamckay 3y ago
I'd agree that CBV's can be difficult to reason with (though I personally still use them for most views) but the following two websites have massively helped me make sense of them. The only thing missing really is the actual flo
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by adamckay 3y ago
It's worthwhile pointing out his wasn't a genuine AMA - it was a "ask me anything we have a pre-written answer for" [1]. It's an obvious thing to do because the whole situation has been received badly by the communi

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