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by buttscicles 6y ago
Hi, I'm building this! Thanks for sharing. It's pretty basic right at the moment and we've a lot left to build (largely a reading list only, we've got more in the works) – but here's my profile as a preview, since o
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by buttscicles 7y ago
I need to get around to writing more blog posts, as I always say: https://joealcorn.co.uk
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by buttscicles 7y ago
Maybe not VCs, but no doubt highly influenced by existing power structures nonetheless. Not everybody can afford to start a business for whatever reason (money, time, opportunity)
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by buttscicles 7y ago
Professional software development is very much a team sport, even when it comes down to the code. If you're not writing the code with the humans reading it in mind then in most cases I would say your priorities are off.
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by buttscicles 7y ago
I've seen registrars selling certain desirable domains at a premium. What if a non-profit's domain is suddenly considered premium and they want to charge thousands of dollars to renew? It becomes a ransom that you must pay in orde
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by buttscicles 7y ago
I imagine this would lead to Google having copies of my passport or other photo ID on top of everything else they've got on me
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Engineers Don't Solve Problems(logicmag.io)
1 points by buttscicles 7y ago|0 comments
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Chatter: A statically generated comment box(joealcorn.co.uk)
2 points by buttscicles 7y ago|0 comments
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by buttscicles 8y ago
What about formal education is teaching it so well then? And what do you mean by "it"? Coding, software development, computer science?
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by buttscicles 8y ago
Seems to be back online.
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Sponsoring open source as a vector for spam(joealcorn.co.uk)
2 points by buttscicles 8y ago|0 comments
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by buttscicles 8y ago
This comment comes across as though you simply don't care
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by buttscicles 8y ago
But the headline doesn't claim it's a recent development...
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by buttscicles 8y ago
I think this is true of django in general.
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Having your smartphone nearby takes a toll on your thinking(hbr.org)
3 points by buttscicles 8y ago|1 comments
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by buttscicles 9y ago
Yeah, people seem to have missed the forest for the trees here. Being able to iterate on billing easily seems the killer feature here, to me. I would like to see exactly how it works.
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by buttscicles 9y ago
That might not be as easy as you expect. Here's a relevant passage from sleep scientist Matthew Walker's book 'Why we sleep' (which I highly recommend): "Although every human being displays an unyielding twenty-four
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by buttscicles 9y ago
Also Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Sites and apps with lots of user generated text
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Sure-footed refactoring(joealcorn.co.uk)
1 points by buttscicles 9y ago|0 comments
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by buttscicles 9y ago
If multiple services are coupled to the same database schema then any changes to the schema must be coordinated between all services, so you've got something of a distributed monolith instead of a set of independent microservices. This
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by buttscicles 9y ago
I wrote laboratory[1] after reading a blog post by github[2] and deciding it'd be useful in Python. Other than riding on the coattails on the popularity of the blog post and the original ruby library, I posted it to hacker news where i
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by buttscicles 9y ago
Valve did the same thing when they first brought steam to Linux. https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/17/scary_code
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by buttscicles 9y ago
Which is why they aren't doing that... "Although we feel confident about our data and the positive impact this change will have, we want to try it out with a small group of people before we make a decision to launch to everyone&qu
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by buttscicles 9y ago
Slow software is frustrating. A text editor is a tool, it should help and not hinder.
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by buttscicles 9y ago
> this idea that TDD is a panacea where no bugs ever survive I don't think I've heard many people claim that. Rather the point I've seen made is that it not only ensures you've got tests, doing them up front encourage
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by buttscicles 10y ago
I once worked at a startup that took payments on behalf of charities. Due to the pick-your-price nature of donations there'd be a lot of users who've bought or stolen credit card information testing to see which ones are still act
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Introducing Instagram Stories(blog.instagram.com)
84 points by buttscicles 10y ago|96 comments
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by buttscicles 11y ago
This was my thought as well, and it's also a bit more awkward if your function signatures differ. Luckily they aren't mutually exclusive and it should be easy to implement a decorator version.
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Show HN: Laboratory, a Python port of GitHub's Scientist library for refactoring(github.com)
153 points by buttscicles 11y ago|13 comments
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by buttscicles 11y ago
This is false, this feature definitely exists.

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