chris_j

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by chris_j 5y ago
What would you recommend using instead of git? (Myself, I've been heard complaining that git is overly complex, but the source code control systems that I used to use before git include Subversion, CVS and various Rational products and
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by chris_j 5y ago
It sounds like have come to the conclusion that you can either be taken seriously or you can be open and friendly, as though those two things are in conflict with each other and you need to choose between them. If you _have_ come to this co
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by chris_j 5y ago
Many thanks. Like the answer to an NP problem it's obvious once you say it but I couldn't for the life of me figure it out.
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by chris_j 5y ago
Ok, I'll bite: What does YCPEATT stand for?
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by chris_j 5y ago
Many thanks. I hadn't realised how good the Algolia search on HN is. I'm still not confident that I've found the one but maybe I've narrowed it down a bit!
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by chris_j 5y ago
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane. The premise of this book is that you can change your psychology to become more of a people person, by cultivating confidence, warmth and the ability to focus. It was recommended by someone on Hacker N
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by chris_j 5y ago
I forget where I read it but I heard that this has been a big problem in Microsoft: it's politically easier for a team to get approval to write a whole new feature (to replace an existing one) than it is for an existing team to get app
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by chris_j 5y ago
I haven't used Windows for many years at this point but, back when I did, my taskbar lived on the left (and was set to auto-hide). If I was still on Windows now then losing the ability to move it would be very jarring for me.
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by chris_j 5y ago
That's really fantastic - good work. I'm glad to hear that my experiences with Duolingo aren't the only ones possible.
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by chris_j 5y ago
What results do you find you get from using Duolingo every day for 959 days? Do you find that it's working for you, in terms of gaining better language proficiency? I ask because I personally became disillusioned with Duolingo's s
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by chris_j 5y ago
> I was referring to your (seemingly snarky, and I apologize if I mistook your intent) comment that you hoped I wasn't suggesting to a shared database between services. Apologies, I did write a snarky comment and I'm very sorry
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by chris_j 5y ago
I'm not quite clear what you mean by "sharing a single queue between services". If you mean having multiple different services reading from the same queue then no, I wouldn't do that. If you mean having a sending service
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by chris_j 5y ago
Use the database directly? I hope you're not suggesting sharing a database between services...
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by chris_j 5y ago
A commit message should ideally describe the intent of the commit. You can read the diff to discover how it was accomplished. They serve different purposes.
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by chris_j 5y ago
I've heard it said that Roman empire finally ended in 1283 with the Norman conquest of Gwynedd, since that would mark the end of the period of uninterrupted Roman rule (assuming one believes that the rule of the Welsh princes descended
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by chris_j 5y ago
I used to use mocks an awful lot more than I do nowadays. I learned to do that style of testing from the book Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (the "GOOS" book, which is still well worth a read, even if you don&#x
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by chris_j 5y ago
Understand the importance of having good visibility of your system. Implement good logging and collect metrics, for example the four golden signals of throughput, latency, saturation and error rate. The Google SRE book gives a good introduc
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by chris_j 5y ago
Many thanks. I feel like I ought to have been able to figure that one out...
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by chris_j 5y ago
Pardon my ignorance; what does RH mean in this context?
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by chris_j 5y ago
I have a Trello board with a "To read" column (along with various other columns for items in my TODO list). If I find an interesting page that I don't have time to read right now, it goes into that column. The crucial thing f
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by chris_j 5y ago
Apologies, I only looked at a few examples. So what do you mean by "retro characteristics" and what do you mean by "a classical style"?
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by chris_j 5y ago
Would it be possible to define what you mean by "retro characteristics"? From some of the examples that you give, it looks like you are talking about modern recreations of classic computers. Is that correct?
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by chris_j 5y ago
It would be helpful if you could give some concrete examples of the sorts of situations where you want to improve your writing or speaking skills. Are you wanting to communicate more effectively at work, in your personal life, or somewhere
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by chris_j 5y ago
As others have pointed out, Slashdot is a classic site. It has been around for decades at this point and it used to fulfil the role that Hacker News does for me today: it was where I would go to see news about tech. It makes me sad to see t
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by chris_j 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker who ironically first encountered the use of English as a lingua franca when I moved to London for the first time. London turned out to be a much more cosmopolitan place than anywhere that I'd lived bef
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by chris_j 5y ago
If Wikipedia is to be believed [0], India ranks third in the list of countries ranked by number of English speakers and it's only fair to regard Indian English as a form of the language that is at least as valid as those from other cou
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by chris_j 5y ago
> That's interesting. I'm a portuguese language native, and I can relate, but not because we talk like this in portuguese: The chap in question was from Portugal. If I understand correctly from your website, you're from Br
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by chris_j 5y ago
I (native English speaker) have noticed this a lot. The example that I remember most vividly is receiving advice while trying to cook food on a barbecue: A Portuguese speaking friend suggested that I "move the burgers to the periphery
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by chris_j 5y ago
I probably shouldn't be surprised to hear that because my experiences are similar and I understand that this is the case for most people. My advice would be to work on projects that you are intrinsically motivated to work on. Don'
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by chris_j 5y ago
Lombok has @Value classes, which I use a lot. Is there something about them that does not guide you to creating immutable data structures?

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