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by arooaroo 11mo ago
I put my phone’s brightness down to minimum at night. Nonetheless I use HN purposely as a dim light when the phone’s torch would be too bright and a beige glow does the job splendidly. (Typically, when I’m moving around the house late at ni
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by arooaroo 3y ago
Amen. This is an issue at the company I work at. Common typos when looking up has keys will return nil - this has a tendency to silently keep working and blow up with a runtime error further down the chain. I am trying to insist on using .
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by arooaroo 4y ago
A couple of things jump out: 1. Dahl had already made changes to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The early editions had African pygmies as his free labour. I don’t think the world was “woke” back then. 2. This is being done by a corp
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by arooaroo 4y ago
This is known as the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by arooaroo 4y ago
I’m on fibre. Last month I had a lot of video calls on zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams and even WebEx. Google was by far the most reliable and MS Teams was frequently a complete mess with participants unable to converse and merely an observer.
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by arooaroo 4y ago
I immediately like this project for being “framework independent” rather than agnostic. It’s odd how computing has fashioned a completely different sense for “agnostic” despite perfectly adequate and well understood words already existing.
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by arooaroo 4y ago
Manning also have a book on Lucene, the library that powers Solr and ElasticSearch. IIRC the book covered how Lucene actually works under-the-good and would therefore act as a good reference on the subject in general.
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by arooaroo 4y ago
Anyone have recommendations on storing crypto outside of coinbase? I’ve used them to buy a small amount and they make it pretty easy, but concerned that they are not necessarily the best place to store once acquired. TIA
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by arooaroo 4y ago
Keeping the temperature of the bedroom cold made a big difference for me. I’ve been listening to audiobooks and podcasts for years and that helped better than not, but turning the radiator off and ensuring the bedroom was cold meant the vas
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by arooaroo 4y ago
This is bring back a lot of memories - in a former life I took care of digital products for dictionaries at Pearson Longman, and one of my favourite projects was developing a generic dictionaries platform for iOS apps, that allowed me to pr
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by arooaroo 4y ago
And it’s not exactly a UX paradise if one is a premium customer either. I really find the UI hard work on desktop and mobile. If and when Apple Music introduces a Duo equivalent tariff I will jump ship, for many reasons but a significant on
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by arooaroo 4y ago
Dart is also a Google conceived language but it’s not exactly what I’d call popular despite only hearing positive things about the language itself. Unlike Swift or Kotlin that are heavily entwined with the main mobile platforms, nobody need
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by arooaroo 4y ago
I was a happy client of Maslins when I switched from sole trader to limited company. I was doing freelance software development so the switch was a doddle. You get a FreeAgent account as part of the deal and they have access to it to overse
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Large values for CSS border-radius cause Firefox to crash(twitter.com)
2 points by arooaroo 5y ago|0 comments
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by arooaroo 5y ago
My local Sainsbury’s supermarket used to have a cardboard cutout police officer in the window as a crime prevention tool. I seem to recall it being fairly common at the time. Clearly we humans are easily nudged with these visual cues.
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by arooaroo 5y ago
+1 I’m keen on finding engaging maths content for my 8yo.
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by arooaroo 5y ago
Writer Ben Macintyre has written extensively, and lucidly, about deception campaigns of WWI. Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and Double Cross all capture the efforts made by the British and its allies. No individual operation swung it bu
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by arooaroo 5y ago
Reminds me of Flight of the Conchords’ Hurt Feeling song in which they are trying to portray themselves as rappers: “Some people think rappers are invincible. We’re vincable.” https://youtu.be/EuJzSTNDUGI
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by arooaroo 6y ago
IntelliJ is great, PyCharm is good. But RubyMine is the one I’ve used daily for years and it’s a bit of a dog’s dinner and I think getting progressively worse over the years. I’ve been summarising issues lately: - https://andyrob
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by arooaroo 6y ago
I recall (albeit vaguely) reading an interesting book "Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress" by Michael Drummond. My recollection of the genesis of DirectX was in f
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RubyMine: More Distractions (Part 2)(andyroberts-uk.medium.com)
1 points by arooaroo 6y ago|0 comments
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RubyMine IDE: code insights or distractions? Part 1(andyroberts-uk.medium.com)
1 points by arooaroo 6y ago|0 comments
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by arooaroo 6y ago
I’ve mentioned this previously but it’s on topic and still amazes me, so I’ll just copy & paste: I know someone who works at one of the London airports and is responsible for keeping the runway operational. One of the jobs is keeping th
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by arooaroo 6y ago
That was a delightful thread.
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by arooaroo 6y ago
There’s a good BBC podcast about this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84 (Seems to be present on all major podcast platforms too.)
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by arooaroo 6y ago
The problem is that a lot of the investment comes from the large automotive manufacturers. Despite the fans and media interest in the drivers' championship, what really counts within the sport is the constructors' championship (th
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by arooaroo 6y ago
On paper it looks like Mercedes are dominant and have been since the V6 engine era. For sure the first couple of years they had a massive lead. But the stats disguise the fight; the fact that Mercedes have won didn't mean their positio
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by arooaroo 6y ago
I wish I still had the ability to block out ~3 hrs per day on race weekend. Alas those days are long gone. A few years back, the free-to-air channel, Channel 4, lost the exclusive rights to broadcast the live events. Sky bought them up. Now
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by arooaroo 6y ago
People who are not normally interested in F1 are finding the Netflix series Drive to Survive a more accessible version to spectate. It's not just highlights in chronological order, but a distillation of the main themes of the season, e
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by arooaroo 6y ago
Lol. Couldn't resist https://i.redd.it/efmm0153po551.png

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