coffeedoughnuts

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by coffeedoughnuts 6mo ago
Just to add a little bit of context, when I hit the same problem today the flow offered me the option to scan my driving license or 'national id card' (whatever that is - we don't have those in the UK) So despite the claims i
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by coffeedoughnuts 2y ago
Some people discussing how Trump/US could intervene to calm this situation - why would they? Presumably part of the US state would very much like access to this data, and with the security services of the US and the UK sharing lots of
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by coffeedoughnuts 3y ago
My point was that it seems you are critiquing the design of the page as if it's purpose is to display sales data, and I was suggesting that it's purpose is not to display sales data, but actually to simply advertise Stripe. When j
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by coffeedoughnuts 3y ago
The design isn't crashing their browser, the implementation of the design is. You could argue that the design is simply not implementable with current technology to serve the widest array of users (this is doubtful), and possibly Strip
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by coffeedoughnuts 3y ago
with respect, I disagree that the function here is to show information. the (primary) function here is to advertise Stripe, and they obviously believe the aesthetic will increase the chance that viewers of the advert with share it with thei
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by coffeedoughnuts 3y ago
ApplePay in-the-web has existed since the inception of the feature. I'm not sure how the App Store is relevant here?
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by coffeedoughnuts 4y ago
If I’m going to need to install and open specific software just to use Teams, then it’s probably going to be the Teams app itself. The purpose of having it browser based is that I can have it quickly open in a tab in the window I’m already
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by coffeedoughnuts 4y ago
We use Teams for group calls at work, but Slack for all other messaging. This is because Slack's video calling feature has always been a pain, particularly for our Linux team members. It could have improved, but we moved to Teams for c
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by coffeedoughnuts 5y ago
There's no indication anywhere that this works for UK customers - other than some logos part way down the page for Ocado, Waitrose and Sainsbury's (all UK only AFAIK) and there's no context to the logos... Does this work in t
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by coffeedoughnuts 5y ago
> Using a normal restful HTTP api has none of these issues I don't think a normal HTTP api provides anything to help with cache invalidation after a write operation, does it?
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
Ok, but you do need to be accountable for your opinions. If you’re talking about the need for redemption that I 100% agree that people change and need the opportunity afforded to them to be able to change. But if Person A asks Person B for
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
that would require a coherent definition of what "wokeness" is. From my perspective it's a catch-all term which in most contexts could be replaced with "the left" or "social-justice-warriors" or "youn
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
In what way is 'cancel culture' different from 'the opinions of, and respect held by, other people'? If you do something, or say something, and when I hear about it I feel less respect for you then I had done previously
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
Not sure if this is true wherever you're from, but here in the UK unions are very commonplace all over different industries and have been a recognised part of society for quite some time now. The same with our laws on racial discrimina
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
> you can never be sensitive enough > just a complaint about “the culture” > this is dumb ... is this really the place to grind the diversity and unionization axe > race to the bottom for wokeness It's a workplace dispute t
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by coffeedoughnuts 6y ago
That looks very appealing - I'm an Apple Music subscriber, so having the option to play in Apple Music alongside Spotify would be handy - is the project Open Source?
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Show HN: React hooks for iframe two-way messaging, shared state(github.com)
2 points by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago|0 comments
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by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago
If anyone is interested in a more in depth view of this story, Nick Wallis is a freelance journalist who has been covering this for years. He crowdfunded full-time coverage of the trial and posts over here: https://www.postoffice
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by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago
I didn’t say all ice cream vans or hand car washes are run by slaves. I said that they carry modern slavery risks in our country at the moment. There is plenty of data to support the claim that hand car wash businesses carry this risk; ther
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by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago
ice cream vans (and hand car washes) carry modern slavery risks in the UK - this company still have an ice cream van parked every day next to the park near my house: https://thebristolcable.org/2019/05/ice-cream-bo
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by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago
I can confidently believe that this album was never meant for ‘real’ release and therefore that this is not a stunt. While the archive has some gems and recordings that many in the Radiohead fan community have heard whisper of but certainly
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by coffeedoughnuts 7y ago
I used to work for a major vfx house who did much work on Netflix original shows there will be a certain amount of sharing needed between vendors, and so Netflix will need to have some vfx expertise in-house to coordinate that (similar to h
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by coffeedoughnuts 8y ago
I found myself constantly copy-pasting the same utilities to make `history`, `react-router` and `qs` all talk to each other so that I could store state in the url (something I think not enough web apps do); so finally took the time to put a
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Show HN: Pram – utilities for dealing with and keeping state in url query params(github.com)
2 points by coffeedoughnuts 8y ago|1 comments
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by coffeedoughnuts 8y ago
We’re based in Bristol, UK and are exclusively Clojure on the backend and starting to use Datomic in production this year. There are a few other clojure focussed companies in Bristol too.
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by coffeedoughnuts 8y ago
I worked at Double Negative (the VFX company mentioned) during the production of Interstellar and had the pleasure of sitting in on an in-house lecture he did for the artists and R&D teams - incredibly good teaching skills. He was able
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by coffeedoughnuts 8y ago
> Most cities require you to show ID to use internet. Complete nonsense; aside from cities in the UK not having any powers to control a thing like that (they are no way near as devolved as big cities in the US, for example) there is no l
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by coffeedoughnuts 9y ago
"That bit"? That was their whole comment! I'm afraid you accused me of 'trotting out a line' when in fact the 'overall sentiment' was implied entirely by yourself. My advice for next time - less pouncing o
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by coffeedoughnuts 9y ago
well if we're talking about straw men, I didn't actually say it needed to fund a political ideology of any kind. Or say anything about it being compulsory, though in fact I do think it should be. Moreover, my comment was on the sl
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by coffeedoughnuts 9y ago
Is it sad? I'm quite proud to pay taxes of many different kinds, and I think that the (admittedly quite imperfect) tax system is necessary to a functioning society. I'd also mention that it's been part of British society sinc

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