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by chrisbuc 5y ago
Quick thought in pricing - totally scared me when I saw 1399 per user until I went off to google and saw that that's only about £13 GBP / $18 USD. Might be worth adding a note saying "approx $18 USD" line to the pricing
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
Amusing read from way back - guy outsourced his own job and watched cat videos. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
There was one in our local newspaper last year at Folkestone (UK) https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/floating-ship-a...
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
I'm just starting a new side project, and have looked at Keycloak and fusionauth. Fusionauth has a free offering (ie, self hosted), and takes a minute to install and run. I like it a lot and am going forward with it for testing. You wo
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
I think the headline writer should be rightly proud of that one. Made me smile, anyway :D
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
With "Stop trying to make hard work easy" [1] on the HN front page, it reminded me of this that I refer people back to regularly. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23154519
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The Interruptible Programmer (2010)(stevestreeting.com)
96 points by chrisbuc 6y ago|65 comments
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20200505113005/https://www.wbalt...
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by chrisbuc 6y ago
These are what I call CV projects. Technology is chosen because it looks good on someone's CV rather than the suitability of the technology to the given problem
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by chrisbuc 8y ago
From the ICO: (the UK regulator) How should we provide the data to individuals? If an individual makes a request electronically, you should provide the information in a commonly used electronic format, unless the individual requests otherwi
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by chrisbuc 8y ago
Fair enough (y)
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by chrisbuc 8y ago
Ok - found it... but now I'm confused. This music Gnossienne No. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUAF3abGY2M is the same as the royalty free one called 'Turin'. So is it that the Turin version is a royalty
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by chrisbuc 8y ago
Sad music -> Turin What film have I watched with that in?!!!! It's going to be on my mind all night now... (aargh!)
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by chrisbuc 8y ago
There have been a few posts on this thread about not for profits. Anyone interested in not-for-profit startups should look at https://www.nominettrust.org.uk/ whose strapline is 'We transform lives with tech"
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by chrisbuc 10y ago
Arrow buttons. I pretty much only use arrow buttons to scroll screens of text into my eyeline. I get really annoyed when arrow buttons are overloaded to tab between screen elements instead of scrolling (my online banking site, I'm look
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
What I like about Koding is that you get a real VM in the cloud to play with (the catch being that it shuts down automatically 20 mins after you stop using it). That makes it great for dev workflows.
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Koding gives away 4gb per developer(koding.com)
3 points by chrisbuc 13y ago|2 comments
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Why do you need to learn JavaScript to use Dart? You need to understand the DOM and the browser APIs (presented through Dart libraries), and HTML, CSS, but you very much don't need to know a jot of JavaScript to build and deploy Dart
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
> The devs still at the core need to understand JavaScript it seems like. No, that's not the case. You need to understand the browser DOM, and the various APIs available to you, but these are presented by Dart libraries. If you ha
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Dart is also supported by other popular editors IntelliJ and Webstorm http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/dart-support.html Netbeans https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/dart_and
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
The "Alpha" mouseover notes of the Latin translator "This language is still in early stages of development..." Really? I thought it had been around for a while... :)
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Don't forget that Dart is not just a language, it's also a tool ecosystem, with a virtual machine that is already faster than V8 in some key benchmarks. This session from I/O by Kasper Lund and Lars Bak is well worth a watch:
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
"Dart feels like exactly the type of service that Google will just drop in the future" The difference is that Dart is not a service, and cannot just be turned off. It's an open-source language, and "at worst" could
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Try http://tldr.io/discover - it uses a chrome extension and lets users summarize content (the content also has a nice HN rollover that shows you the summaries of stories). The web page has the summarized links organized b
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Google's Chief Architect, Yonatan Zunger in this post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YonatanZunger/posts/huwQsphBron notes his suspicions that the second slide ( http://www.washingtonpost.
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2006: Secret NSA spy room in AT&T switching centre.(wired.com)
4 points by chrisbuc 13y ago|1 comments
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
"Direct access" is a phrase from the original report in The Guardian: "The National Security Agency had obtained direct access..." - first sentence of the report. http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013&#
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
Seriously? Many of the enterprise devs I know do make large individual contributions in their own (side) projects, or in smaller projects within the organization. Part of enterprise dev is that you are developing within a series of constra
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by chrisbuc 13y ago
"too busy to learn in their free time" Somehow, despite having kids, I manage to learn new technologies, even insofar as I was able to write a book about it (Dart in Action). The only reason I had time to do that is because I try to keep m
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by chrisbuc 14y ago
Yes, to clarify, you have sandboxed access to filesystem, also access to usb, bluetooth, serial...

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