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by beachy 4y ago
In my mother's apartment building there a guy who uses his kayak in the swimming pool to practice his rolls etc. You can imagine the angst when parents bring little Johnny down for his swim. Or when tenants have a rowdy party around th
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by beachy 4y ago
Github does plenty of stuff that you can't do. e.g. the contributions graph as just one example that comes to mind. That's not unfair, and not the basis for a lawsuit, it's just business. > Copilot is not only making money
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by beachy 4y ago
Ditto, I've been purging my old tech books but I just couldn't let the Zaks book go.
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by beachy 4y ago
It's been said that the "GitHub generation" of developers cares more about the practical aspects of openness than rigid definitions. I'm not of that generation, but I enjoy watching these battles from the sidelines. Don&
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by beachy 4y ago
This article could have been immeasurably better with some actual examples. Not hand waving about large industry initiatives but actual examples of how this vendor helped their customers and what the resulting DSL looked like. Perhaps I am
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by beachy 4y ago
I hate it that words become unacceptable just over time and we all have to adapt our language. What could be more reasonable than describing someone as retarded? The word means "delayed or held back in terms of progress or development&
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by beachy 4y ago
Yes they are. Any information that can be used to identify a person by definition is PII. Once all the PII is removed, by definition the dataset is anonymized.
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by beachy 4y ago
I am extremely lacking in willpower, but I was able to greatly reduce my drinking thanks to health issues and having a young child. I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. Turns out that for me (and, my cardiologist said, for most people)
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by beachy 4y ago
> And so, a long drawn-out stalemate in Ukraine is maybe the best course, for everyone except Russia and Ukraine. Imperialist thinking. Why should Ukrainians accept having their country invaded? Why should they just put up with it becaus
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by beachy 4y ago
That's a truly realpolitik analysis, but it still may leave Putin in great danger. The US has apparently warned Putin of the retaliation that awaits if he goes nuclear. Sinking the black sea fleet has been mentioned as a possibility. T
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by beachy 4y ago
Whatever the merits of your sugggestion, verifying that a company was "actually and actively be trying to make money" would be wide open to abuse and practically speaking, impossible.
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by beachy 4y ago
Energy comes out of the ground. Exploiting something that's already there with very little value add. You can't buy energy from just anyone. Building airpods is an industrial process. All value add. You can do it anywhere, one fac
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by beachy 4y ago
Isn't everyone doing their own moderation exactly the same as no moderation?
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by beachy 4y ago
Inferior perhaps but adequate for purpose e.g building houses. In that sense fast growing trees are superior.
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by beachy 4y ago
> Whoever wrote and shipped the new Notepad should feel ashamed at their failure as a professional software engineer. Steady on old chap. Who's to say the hapless developer isn't embarrassed about things themselves, but is prev
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by beachy 4y ago
I was primarily concerned with losing access to email and getting locked out of all my downstream accounts. Not so much an aversion to all things Google. So I still have gmail and still use Google docs. But for any important signups or comm
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by beachy 4y ago
Yeah, I've always had issues with that saying. Pedantically, any time in the past is better than now. Unless it was a drought at that time I guess.
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by beachy 4y ago
I believe it was cheaper back then. Doesn't seem to be now :)
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by beachy 4y ago
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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by beachy 4y ago
I switched my primary email to Fastmail a few months ago. My requirements were simply: - must work well - must be a paid service with proper support from a vendor focused on email (i.e. not consumer gmail) - must allow custom domains (so I
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by beachy 4y ago
Just speculating but perhaps true competition wasn't introduced? Are there 3 or 4 genuine competitors, who aren't just retail frontages for the same back end company? (that's the way telcos and power companies here can be str
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by beachy 4y ago
> If for decades people have shown to pay £X for private travel in a car, why would business charge less than X? Because of the invisible hand of the market, thanks to the magic of competition.
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by beachy 4y ago
And with such speed. I don't think I've ever seen a web page render in 150ms to here over my wireless internet connection. Even a full load of this HN page takes 800ms+, and I think of HN as the benchmark for fast loading.
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by beachy 4y ago
> The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only and there has been no determination of liability. Not only not going to jail, but didn't even acknowledge any wrongdoing.
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by beachy 4y ago
I wasn't saying microservices are bad (personally I love them, maybe too much:). Just that making technology decisions based on someone's else's anecdotes, in the absence of any technical understanding, is a bad way to go.
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by beachy 4y ago
I'm not goingto click that link, but this comment answers the first question I had in my mind.
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by beachy 4y ago
> When I was contractor I saw terrible decisions made by CTO and CIO in several companies because they didn't have any technical taste and ran everything by numbers and processes. So true. CTO being so far upstream, mistakes made he
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by beachy 4y ago
> Unfortunately, business-class accommodations have advantages of quality, stability, and maintenance that will be unmatched by consumer-grade equivalents. Your Internet connection is designed to watch Netflix and play video games. Our h
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by beachy 4y ago
Yep. views in RDBMS are much underrated, IMO just because they are old tech. It should be possible to use views to: 1) normalise the database (fold these ugly add-on tables as columns in the parent table, with suitable null constraints, the
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by beachy 4y ago
Plenty of good suggestions in here about e.g. tests, source control etc. You will need them all. But I would start by choosing how and whether to fix up the crown jewels, the database. You say that instead of adding columns, team has been a

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