cjsuk

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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   This is the warning I got when I borrowed someone’s three volumes of Feynman’s lectures in physics except with pages of calculus. It was a wise warning.
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   At least all the minor iteration results in products that work rather than broken piles of unicorn shit.
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Yes see thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Same here on Route53.
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Thanks for the clarification - much appreciated!
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Won't this also cache a bad record for longer like NXDOMAIN which is what we're getting?
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   We're seeing this as well. Edit: it has now taken out our CI infrastructure and dev environments as it's caching NXDOMAIN records.
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   by cjsuk 9y ago

   Sorry to be clear I didn't think you were, just sympathising with your point about hams who want everything TH.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    It's insane if you're paying for mobile data.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    It's really fine for casual documentation. I wouldn't write a book or a paper in it though.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting read. I'm a ham as well. I think the through hole stuff is dead. It's difficult and expensive to get a lot of parts now and my huge stockpile is dwindling. I prototype with strips of FR4
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Not the worst idea. However not the best. Something between that and markdown.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    I would but hardly anything works in it which is the problem.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    As someone who has used both and DigitalOcean, Lightsail performance is absolutely terrible compared to the above. It feels like you have perpetually run out of CPU credits.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    I agree. Back in the dark ages, when the battle of www vs Gopher was still on, I sided heavily on the side of Gopher because it didn't get in the way of the content. Gopher was a means to navigate the maze of content and most of the co
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    That's rather cool. I am slightly obsessed with current loop designs myself. It's amazing that you can deliver sensor power and the data in an analogue or digital form over two wires over huge distances without degraded performanc
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Exactly this. The first step for me is usually to redraw out the messed up crap the last person drafted as things that look like the design patterns. Even Tektronix and HP can produce some dire schematics so when you've got your head i
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    PowerShell is one of the few bits of software which has actually made me throw a computer in anger. The idea has potential but the implementation is just bad. It's slow (I have to wait 5-10 second and before it responds on an i7?!?), i
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Got a 2013 MBP (also i7, 16Gb RAM) and iTunes flies on it. It's perfectly usable on my i5 T440 with 8Gb of RAM on windows 10 as well. The only thing that pisses me off about it is the ellipsis next to the track names on the song list.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    These classes all sling value objects around. That's a separate thing.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    That just gets the legal guys on the case.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    I do believe that's actually a personality cult disguised as a software engineering blog
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    This is when I tend to find a new company to work for :)
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Call order and count assertions are important in non-idempotent calls (message delivery for example) and complex integration tests. While I respect your opinion, it misses three realities. Firstly you can't generalise most complex syst
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    We do use mocks like that. How else do you test that a complex piece of logic doesn't try and perform the same operation twice, such as a trivial case of sending only one message to a queue? Without the assertion, you are left with an
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    This is only complex now. It used to be this complex to get GCC up off the ground. Now we just apt-get or yum install it. In time this will be the status quo for this and then you will just be able to type "make test" and it'
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Fortunately that excuse is no longer valid as they have GPO templates, MSI packages, the lot: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7358568
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    Everything starts with a hello world. It says your toolchain is at least working well enough to do some work.
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    by cjsuk 9y ago

    It probably would but it won't happen. It's difficult getting anything like that through the layers of purchasing hell. If they provided a web site with pictures of boxes of software for min $2000 that never arrived and didn'