alexchamberlain

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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
If you have a single deployable(1), I think you need to have a person/team responsible for the whole. They need to be trusted to work on any of the code to make the whole build, without overstepping into micromanaging the whole code ba
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
The licence seems messed up. You can opt to use an MIT licence, but only if you're noncommercial or you pay. The MIT licence explicitly states that the software is provided free of charge, and can be sublicensed, so anyone with an MIT
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I wonder what proportion of children are still watching mainstream TV? My son (4) mainly watches Disney+ and Netflix.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I'd have thought that the phone itself isn't connected to the Internet? Rather it would be connected to a series of secure routers/switches, which themselves would have rather limited Internet connectivity as well (preferring
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think it's misleading to say iteration or full rewrites are the only 2 options. The most impactful, yet successful, projects I've worked on rewrite a part of a system. ie replace a custom search index by Solr, but leave the data
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Dobble (The Mathematics Of) (2018)(petercollingridge.co.uk)
71 points by alexchamberlain 2y ago|8 comments
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
FWIW, domestic ISPs in the UK are lagging on IPv6; I'm with Vrigin Media and, afaict, there is no immediate plan to deploy it either.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or... Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
But do the root name servers _have_ to respect the ICANN zone file?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Yeah, you kind of can’t test any of it until you test all of it…
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I've read both the Paxos and Raft papers a few times, and hacked on some implementations, but never quite got one over the line to working... Raft strikes me as a particular set of decisions made within a Paxos framework, such as havin
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I use Docker Desktop on both my macbooks, despite shunning IDEs in favour of a decent text editor and the command line. I use it for 2 reasons: to manage the Linux VM, and to twiddle the occasional setting. For running the containers themse
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Jumping on the bandwagon of other ideas... I wonder if it would be quicker to filter pit the internal headers when you write the request to the network (buffer)? ie something like `request_headers.filter(not_is_internal).for_each(...)`; tha
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
As long as it's done in the right way, I think a supplier raising safety concerns should be a reason to do _more_ business with them, not less.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
So it hits the Internet once between Akamai and Google I guess?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think the GP's point was that all modern languages (and some of the older ones) have this problem - in fact, JS is infamous for it. Therefore, I don't think it's really a pro or a con on its own - only in the context of you
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
To be clear, is the National Address Gazetteer open? As far as I can tell, it isn't, but I don't know if that's because they're trying to obfuscate it.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Though tbf (assuming they haven't changed it since I left), Royal Mail's responsibility stopped at the post room. The individual residences were delivered by UoW staff using a pigeon hole type system; anything larger than a letter
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Children act more like separate processes than threads - it would be a miracle if we could read their minds or put them to sleep for a bit.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I don't mind adding things to my home screen, but I want to try it first.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Mentorship remotely is really tough; nothing quite replaces sitting next to someone, discussing the code and working on a solution together.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I don't like that the homepage says "free, free, free", then reveals that it's charging recruiters. This is perfectly reasonable way to monetise, but it's not a free platform - it's a platform that charges the
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
That reasoning leads me to conclude the function should be short lived or the memory in use by all child functions, rather than it has to be a leaf function?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
Why does it have to be a leaf function?
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
There are 3 axes of risk: probability that something goes wrong, the impact of something going wrong and the time to remediation when something goes wrong. You're arguing that on shoring QA would reduce the probability of something goi
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think various auditing standards are forcing it, regardless of whether you think its a good thing or not.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I wrote a series of backend, internal GraphQL APIs. I think the argument of "make the exact queries it needs and load the exact data it needs" actually applies _more_ to internal APIs than to frontends, where I personally prefer a
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
There are some suggestions on https://stackoverflow.com/q/1321878/961353 for disabling the favicon request completely.
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by alexchamberlain 2y ago
I think the idea is that it's a separate flags repo?

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