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by collyw 6y ago
It seems completely wrong that they are trialling experimental vaccines on children, where the risk is almost certainly greater than from covid. Absolutely disgusting.
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by collyw 6y ago
Can we have the same for covid. For young healthy people this virus is not something that justifies the media hysteria. I believe that for under 30's you have more chance of an adverse reaction to the vaccine than to the virus.
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by collyw 6y ago
Marketing companies would be my opinion. Fake meat has been around for years, but has become trendy again in the last couple of years. (Maybe it's better now, but that is subjective).
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by collyw 6y ago
It wasn't really as simple as that though. I set up a couple of apps on their free tier, and there is a Heroku way of doing this that was quite different from having access to a VM and installing and configuring things manually, which
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by collyw 6y ago
They really are a new church, telling us what is acceptable to think, censoring bad sounding names from us, all for our own "safety".
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by collyw 6y ago
Just what we need, another JS framework.
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by collyw 6y ago
I read the headline, and my first thought was "I wonder if they are happier for it?" thinking that they probably would be. I have spend a fair bit of my life in countries where I don't speak the language particularly well. I
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by collyw 6y ago
I keep hearing that you can specify the only fields that you need, but to be honest that isn't a problem we have. I have only taken a cursory glance, but adding a schema in at the request level, which then needs translated to a Mongo q
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by collyw 6y ago
It's actually a decent hiring process providing the new hires are made aware of it in advance.
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by collyw 6y ago
Basically doubling the complexity of an app. If you need a fair amount of front end interaction, fair enough, but many apps would be a lot simpler with Django templates and a bit of jQuery.
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by collyw 6y ago
You can use different template engines fairly easily.
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by collyw 6y ago
The official Django tutorial is pretty good. Two Scoops is good for going from beginner / intermediate to intermediate / advanced knowledge, with best practices in mind.
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by collyw 6y ago
Adding an extra layer doesn't make things simpler. It may make it easier to do a second time, but the initial set up is just the same.
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by collyw 6y ago
Do you have any good examples of Graphql increasing complexity (as opposed to REST)? A dev at my work is pushing for it, and I am against it because it's another tech that isn't really solving any problems that we currently have (
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by collyw 6y ago
It's coercion into taking a rushed vaccine that hasn't undergone long term testing, and for which vaccine manufacturers are off the hook in terms of liability (in the UK at least). It's against the Nuremberg code. Just like w
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by collyw 6y ago
Flu testing has basically stopped. Many countries are recording every death within 20 days of a positive test as a covid death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOcGm5xiA This shows overall deaths in a number of countries
737.
by collyw 6y ago
Just like covid numbers are never put in perspective with deaths from other causes.
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by collyw 6y ago
Am I the only person that finds testing rushed vaccines on adolescents who are at practically no risk from covid wrong?
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by collyw 6y ago
Is this with the PCR tests with a false positive rate of between 0.8 and 4%? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
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by collyw 6y ago
I am sure many people are like me in that there are constant meetings, questions and other interruptions to the point that you never actually get into the "zone".
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by collyw 6y ago
I got asked a python question that involved a couple of list comprehensions. I did it and got asked how to do it without an intermediate variable. It involved nesting the list comprehensions, and I nearly didn't get it, not because I d
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by collyw 6y ago
>But it’s helpful to filter out the number of non-programmers who apply for programmer jobs. I keep hearing about these people, but I have never met one in 20 years.
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by collyw 6y ago
Disagree. The guy who built the system I am now maintaining reinvented the wheel many times. So now we have a lot of undocumented buggy code. Most people aren't programming the linux kernel, they are writing a variation on web based CR
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by collyw 6y ago
Exactly. If I have a new problem to solve, I may have an idea how to solve it, but I might as well see how others have solved it as there may be a better solution.
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by collyw 6y ago
That's very reasonable. Everyone wants a miniature throwaway app, including project setup and test usually. Then you get a problem when one library you wanted to use doesn't install easily, or you have some random problem that tak
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by collyw 6y ago
Rereading your comment, do you mean just using a hashmap / dictionary, or do you mean writing your own hashing functions? The first is invaluable, but I have never had the need for the second (pretty sure you could define your own hash
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by collyw 6y ago
That's maybe a good thing. Surgery is a fairly drastic solution. I get the impression that a fair amount is psychosomatic - a lot of people mention Sarno's book. Personally a 10 day Vispassana meditation retreat has given me the b
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by collyw 6y ago
All of Europe at present.
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by collyw 6y ago
The majority of work these days are web apps, and the bottlenecks are usually database query and IO issues. Many can be solved with an appropriate index. If you have a slow Django app, I would guess than 9 out of 10 times it is someone who
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by collyw 6y ago
Whiteboard has actually become less common in the last ten years in my opinion (20 years in the industry). It's moved towards take home exercises, which are a more realistic gauge of what you are doing, but are just such a time sink. T

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