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by asadjb 10y ago
I have a different POV on this given I currently live in Dubai, UAE. They have a 74KM automated rail system (Dubai Metro) and most of it is built on raised towers. This proposed system from what I understand is going to cross mostly empty d
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by asadjb 10y ago
While true, I'm not sure there is any competing laptop that offers the same kind of experience. Yes, as a developer I hate it. But if I'm considering something for my parents or friends who are technically illiterate, and I have t
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by asadjb 10y ago
Just curious but why is it a bad idea?
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by asadjb 10y ago
But would that matter, given more and more of our machines are running on a hypervisor of some sort? I know it's almost mandatory for the base machine running on actual hardware, but given that most of the servers we use now are just
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by asadjb 10y ago
While I have never used LaTex before, the package situation that you talk about isn't anything new. It's just another twist on "Not Invented Here". Writing new code that does exactly what you want is usually easier tha
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by asadjb 10y ago
That rings so true. But on the flip side, it might be that because Netflix has a chaos monkey and all it's services need to be resilient to failures, accidental downtime isn't that big of an issue to them. Their developers can s
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by asadjb 10y ago
True. I'm not saying that this system works. I'm just saying that we can't just outright reject every system, just by saying "freedom of speech" and the related arguments that are used to reject any such efforts.
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by asadjb 10y ago
"I don't think the internet reflects more than the real world offers. It is challenging as a parent (and a school, employer, etc) to govern (!) or monitor how people use your internet access. Certainly much harder than preventing
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by asadjb 10y ago
I run a local dnsmasq server, and just have the resolver for the 'dev' TLD point to that. This way, any .dev URL always points to my local machine. I just configure it in Nginx and I'm good to go.
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by asadjb 10y ago
At work we use NoSQL for stats collection and aggregations. Our reason for choosing MongoDB is that we can have a rich document structure with multiple levels of nested documents. And with the rich update queries that MongoDB provides, we a
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by asadjb 10y ago
Thanks. You're right, creating a web site dedicated to the book seems like a good idea. I might even try that for this one.
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by asadjb 10y ago
Thanks. That's what I thought as well. Writing a book on a technology without any experience in it probably isn't the best idea. :) But maybe I can pick up something I find interesting, learn it and create a few projects with it,
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Ask HN: Do I need to be an expert on some technology to write a book on it?
4 points by asadjb 10y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: I published a book on Django
4 points by asadjb 10y ago|3 comments
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by asadjb 10y ago
I had a similar problem to yours where I would eventually forget to use the application, or just not remember to check it after finishing my current task. That lead to some fun times. My solution; at least for my work todo list, was to crea
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by asadjb 10y ago
Writing something myself is an idea I have brewing in the back of my mind. But it's not something I have any clear ideas about. I have no idea how it should work, only a vague idea that it should be as seamless to my daily routine as T
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by asadjb 10y ago
This first few sentences of this article describe almost exactly how I've been feeling lately: For a long time, I resisted to-do lists. I wanted the flexibility. I felt that if I kept a list, it would tie me down to a particular se
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by asadjb 10y ago
Here's a link to the paper the article talks about ("Fast String Searching", by Andrew Hume and Daniel Sunday): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13....
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by asadjb 10y ago
Having both freelanced and currently working full time, I feel that feedback is a significant benefit of working full time. As joshyeager says in this thread, "Yes, feedback is essential for growth. Without it, you can't grow any
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by asadjb 10y ago
I think the point the parent is trying to make is that no one would do that anyway, and mentioning it in the article as something that makes your application slow is pointless.
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by asadjb 10y ago
100% this. What I thought would be a quick few hours a week thing turned into taking up all of my free time over the weekends. And writing the first draft isn't even the most difficult part. In the review stage, you'll be revisiti
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by asadjb 10y ago
I just published a book with Packt ( https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/django-project-blue... ) and I'd like to add that what happens in the review process mostly depends on the author. The way it worked for
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by asadjb 10y ago
500 Miles story: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by asadjb 11y ago
I agree completely with this. After fighting over code formatting for so long (often starting those fights myself), I have thankfully come to realize that what format you use almost never matters, only that you use some standardized forma
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Show HN: Pleasant Fish, a platform to get feedback from co-workers(pleasantfish.com)
8 points by asadjb 11y ago|3 comments
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Dropletconn: CLI utility to quickly connect to your Digital Ocean droplets(github.com)
3 points by asadjb 11y ago|0 comments
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by asadjb 12y ago
I got my start into programming with VB6 (or maybe it was 5). After reading through a Windows programming book for C++, which I understood nothing from, I almost gave up. Until my father got me a wonderful tutorial Visual Basic 5/6 for
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by asadjb 12y ago
This is precisely why I love vim. It's like *nix. Small parts come together to make the whole a lot more better. I struggled quite a bit with vim. But once I read this stackoverflow answer, it all made sense! http://stackove
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by asadjb 12y ago
I'd love for this to become common, since I have worn glasses for near sightedness since childhood. However, the biggest problem I see with this is that it is customized on a per user basis. So, while I can use my phone just fine, you
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by asadjb 12y ago
It seems like an excellent marketing idea. It might be playing on the fears and insecurities of freshmen, but all in all I think it's a great idea that; if it works like shown in the ad, has great potential. To me, it seems like a good

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