birdstheword5

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by birdstheword5 3y ago
> Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crud, and that explains almost everything > In professional settings, approximately all of my time goes into solving problems introduced by people that are just indescribably bad Translation
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by birdstheword5 3y ago
I haven't noticed that myself but it's been 5 years since I've been there (Zürich) - how recently did you move there and which canton are you in? I do agree that most UK shops (Waitrose/ Sainsbury's like you mention
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by birdstheword5 3y ago
In the UK, ordnance survey does this. It's better than osm for most things, and worse for others
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by birdstheword5 3y ago
You're right. But I think it can really vary based on which community you ask in. I think most people dislike how hostile the main stack overflow site is to beginners, who despite being the ones who need the most help, are the most lik
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by birdstheword5 3y ago
I'm glad its a tossup for other people! I've been debating it with myself for a long time. I agree very much with your "cartographic control" point. I should have been more specific when talking about performance. For a
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Ask HN: Using Vector tiles vs. raster tiles for web mapping?
2 points by birdstheword5 3y ago|3 comments
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by birdstheword5 3y ago
I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
It sounds mean to say it, but it's 100% true. I moved away from using python wherever I can. I've had colleagues struggle for days to install well used packages like pandas and numpy in conda.
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
I second this - there's been a bit of budget cutting at my current company but really nothing has changed. Not sure why we're so unaffected here (touch wood). Perhaps there is less work on "bubbles"
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
> Often I think new software is designed around looking impressive and fast to upper level management Bingo, and it also impresses the upper level management at customer companies - i.e. the ones who make the decision to buy the software
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
No, usually linq is used in combination with an OEM (e.g. entity Framework) to avoid writing raw sql. From the parent comment, I thought he meant something more like sqlx for rust
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Hello! I've been looking for a library like this for C# and another for Python - I'm not sure which terms to Google to find them!
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
I watched a dude in front of me at work make a whole PowerPoint using chatgpt, then used it to reply to all his emails - then back to copy pasting from chatgpt into some word doc
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Raster tiles are smaller in terms of amount data sent over the wire and work better for users with less powerful computers/ mobile Really if you aren't interacting with the data on the client I would stick with good old rasters -
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Interesting. How would you compare the developer experience between the two approaches? And what was your use case?
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
My concerns about serverless aren't to do with them not scaling - quite the opposite! I'm worried that we'll sacrifice developer experience in the name of "scaleability" of Functions without any real benefit. Our cu
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
This is one of my concerns as well - apparently azure functions allows you to debug your function from within vscode. I see lots of issues with this in that 1. you are limited to vscode as your editor and 2. you can only interact with Azure
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Sadly, I think you are completely correct, and this exact sequence of events will go down. I don't think they're an idiot or malicious - I think they're clever and mean well, but perhaps they're blinded by their enthusia
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Thank you for this - implicit state is something I never even thought of - that could be a serious problem
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Some api routes do caching - right now this is using Asp.net core's in memory cache. He recommended redis to replace this. I feel that it's a bit overkill
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Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
109 points by birdstheword5 4y ago|147 comments
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
I work in the UK (not in London) for an American company, they absolutely love us because they get the same work for about a third of the price.
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by birdstheword5 4y ago
Spatialite is such an amazing and little talked about tool. I think most people go straight for its bigger cousin POSTGIS which is the correct decision 99% of the time. However there are situations where you don't want a full blown dat
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by birdstheword5 5y ago
So it's not standard nor cross platform, but I consider Glib to be the defacto standard data structures library. Have you tried it out?
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by birdstheword5 5y ago
Arcmap is flexible in that it comes with arcpy. How flexible depends on how much you pay. Unfortunately, arcpy is unreliable for some use cases. My colleagues and I found it to be the only python module ever that could result in different r
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by birdstheword5 5y ago
I've met several people who learned Python and refuse to learn any other language. I wonder if this mentality exists for other languages