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by bruce_one 9y ago
> Indeed Digital Finance Analytics estimated in a October 2017 report that 910,000 households are now estimated to be in mortgage stress where net income does not covering ongoing costs. This has skyrocketed up 50% in less than a year an
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by bruce_one 9y ago
Unrelated, but any interest in making the Android app available via a non-Play-Store medium?
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by bruce_one 9y ago
In Australia, Girl Guides is a female only organisation whilst Scouts allows any gender.
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that U
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by bruce_one 9y ago
The CTE in the final query seems like it should be replaced with a subquery (or view?) because the CTE is an optimisation fence, so it's going to seq scan email every time, even if there's a where condition which could use the mes
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I think Seatfrog are now gamifying the last-minute-upgrade trick. http://seatfrog.com/
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I learnt a lot of Postgres-ing while working on a project that was a SPA front-end, and then a fairly basic (unto itself) Node application using [Massive.js]( https://massive-js.readthedocs.io/en/v2/ ) which exposes
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by bruce_one 9y ago
The little bit of nim I've done used musl rather than glibc. I think it's moderately flexible to what is used because it transpiles to c first (afaik?)
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Ora2pg: Moves Oracle and MySQL Database to PostgreSQL(ora2pg.darold.net)
3 points by bruce_one 9y ago|0 comments
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I know some cafes (and markets etc) near where I live have started pushing [food miles]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_miles ) as a bit of a differentiator (in a similar vein to being 100% organic; eg showing the fo
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Why Windows power users break Linux(freedompenguin.com)
3 points by bruce_one 9y ago|1 comments
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by bruce_one 9y ago
Ooh, this might mean some vim-fugitive beauty is on the horizon :-) The vim-fugitive Gdiff is a really nice interface (imo) and a stash equivalent would be amazing :-)
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5 ways to motivate technical employees(opensource.com)
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by bruce_one 9y ago
People don't know to look for what they don't know. It's a bit of an issue for something offering unique or novel features, because there's the risk no one will ever find them. I'd possibly think that most people al
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I somehow fluked my way onto a pro-bono project at my previous employer which was a UI/design-ish project. (To claim/highlight the volunteer-ness, I'll highlight that I worked many optional (read: unpaid) hours... :-p ) Now I
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by bruce_one 9y ago
> The recent announcement of a German facility run on AWS to accommodate European data will not be affected but the ability to transfer data from the Dropbox data center at a terabyte per second should speed up the process of migration.
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by bruce_one 9y ago
"We're coming to Denver" (Dumb Ways to Die campaign) -- I really enjoyed that campaign, and heaps of my friends discussed it (so that alone means it was at least somewhat successful, imo), so it's cool to see the concept
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Amazon is coming to Australia with 'low prices, vast selection, fast delivery'(smh.com.au)
1 points by bruce_one 9y ago|1 comments
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by bruce_one 9y ago
This repo implies the Vivaldi source can be compiled: https://github.com/ograycode/vivaldi-source
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I reckon last time I lost mine was a filesystem corruption (after a hard lockup), not sure how I'm going to put out that fire?
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by bruce_one 9y ago
Last time my .zsh_history was randomly emptied on me I was so so stranded - I felt helpless. I've now doubled-down on it and actually store lots of todo notes or receipt numbers or random snippets like that in my shell history as comme
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by bruce_one 9y ago
I wonder whether this could be used as a simple way to get an Android env for Qt development? Last time I did Qt dev for mobile the biggest headaches were trying to get the Android SDK and NDK configured and setup in a way that actually wor
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by bruce_one 10y ago
These numbers seem to imply slightly over 10%; I wouldn't call that all-caps very... http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/Markets-and-statistics/Prod...
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by bruce_one 10y ago
In a similar vein to "focus on one db and truly exploid its features" (vs an orm); I think targeting a systemd-aimed architecture/deployment can actually be quite neat and powerful. (I don't use it on desktop, but server
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by bruce_one 10y ago
It's alright, I have no interest in an argument :-) I like Javascript, and that's enough for me - and I (in _most_ situations) find dynamic typing more of a benefit than hindrance; but I don't mean to purport that my perspect
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by bruce_one 10y ago
There are many popular dynamically typed languages. Why is it suddenly a foregone conclusion that seasoned Javascript developers all want compiled statically typed languages?
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by bruce_one 10y ago
Is [Compose](www.compose.com) comparable? They have a HA postgres offering (not sure about multi-az) and I thought I'd heard good things about them in the past?
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by bruce_one 10y ago
Apple prices? At least in Australia, they're way cheaper than Apple. Was looking recently and prices went: Razer Blade Stealth < XPS 13 < Apple
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User table mutations(hackernoon.com)
3 points by bruce_one 10y ago|0 comments
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by bruce_one 10y ago
The desktop version doesn't (iirc) but they have a mobile website version, but you have to raise a support ticket manually to get access (or else you get an indistinguishable "permission denied"-like error). It's an odd

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