ahallan

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by ahallan 8d ago
Decided to remove the 'full-stops'
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by ahallan 12d ago
Thanks for the feedback. It's far from ready yet but this feedback has given me some impetus to refine the end product.
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by ahallan 13d ago
https://elizabethlineguide.com/ Description on the tin. I found it hard to get fares and timetables for the Elizabeth Line in London between X and Y quickly hence I built this as an experiment using AI tooling.
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by ahallan 13d ago
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Yes considering / implemented both of those, but will likely put it behind a paid service (need to pay for it somehow).
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by ahallan 13d ago
http://schoolholidays.deals/ A UK-based flight deals service aimed specifically at parents who can only travel during term-time. Having this issue myself now with two children whereby flight prices double going into school
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Show HN: Elizabeth Line Guide (London) – Live departures, timetables, fares(elizabethlineguide.com)
2 points by ahallan 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Askbyemail.com – Send an email, get an AI answer or summary (no signup)(askbyemail.com)
1 points by ahallan 4mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Sunny Hours – an iPhone weather app with a sunshine heatmap(apps.apple.com)
1 points by ahallan 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ahallan 3y ago
I've used it at work to speed up some standard Python code (without any c-bound library usage). It sped up the code by 5 times. I've deployed used the pypy:3.9 image on docker. One thing I did notice is that it was significantly f
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by ahallan 6y ago
I did try PyCharm a few times, but it seemed too complicated - and this was after using Visual Studio for 15 years! The debugging support in VS Code is fairly good, so it's just the refactoring I'm missing. I'll give PyCharm
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by ahallan 6y ago
I moved/was pushed over to Python around a year ago, after writing C# for 15 years. My Python setup is as follows: * vscode * pylance * black formatter * flake8 * python typing annotations used as much as possible This seems to wo
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by ahallan 6y ago
I agree. I only generally use Fargate with containers, and control with cron or with always on APIs, with Cloudwatch for monitoring, and it’s seems like a good midpoint between ec2 and serverless. The APIs cost a bit more a month (they’re o
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by ahallan 8y ago
Are people that callous? I work for a large corporate, and I can honestly say that I think no-one would make such a decision. Perhaps I am naive.
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by ahallan 8y ago
I've tried to grapple with this notion over the last 10+ years. When I entered finance (I work for a derivatives trading desk), it was just as Facebook etc were just starting and were becoming the 'cool' places to work. Howev