danjac

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by danjac 6y ago
Depends what you want to do, and why you're doing it. Very often when I make something in Flask, I end up with so many dependencies it might as well be Django (but without the cohesion). On the other hand, Django might be overkill in s
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by danjac 6y ago
I'd be happy (if I were job-hunting) to be able to try out a different language/platform every so often. Now and again I'll play with, say, Ruby or Elixir or whatever. But I know that I'll never get a job working with th
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by danjac 6y ago
As well as some 48% of voters in the Brexit vote. They are talking nonsense. Furthermore however much the Brexit fanatics may wish otherwise, the British Isles are still part of the continental landmass of Europe.
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by danjac 6y ago
OK, here's one British person who refers to themselves as European. As that's probably not enough for you to win Today's Dumbest Comment on Hacker News, here's one of the above actors who definitely considers herself Eur
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by danjac 6y ago
Django, Hotwire/Turbo+Stimulus, Tailwind, Postgres. The codebase is small, easy to reason about, and maintainable, it's easy to build an accessible site on top of semantic HTML, and it's fast and responsive enough for my need
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by danjac 6y ago
While RDD is a thing, the root cause is the stakeholders' requirements for more sophisticated and complex sites (whether smoother page transitions, more intricate effects, incessant demands to spy on every user interaction etc). It bec
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by danjac 6y ago
Because they're a business that will charge as much as they can absolutely get away with and will do their best to make the project and maintenance costs as bloated as possible. The question is why there aren't people in the gover
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by danjac 6y ago
gov.uk is such a glaring exception to government sites around the world I can only imagine there was some massive screw up where the developers were allowed to go off and build a fast, accessible and responsive site on their own without the
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by danjac 6y ago
> When I grew up in the 80s/90s, American shows were better than local ones because European actors were very bad at acting. I think this was mainly because they were being trained at schools that still trained for stage plays, with
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by danjac 6y ago
That conveniently ignores the fact that public attitudes are not in any way shaped, whether by corporations or politicians. If a leader believes that public transit is in the long term best interest for America, then they can work to change
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by danjac 6y ago
Yes: https://github.com/danjac/audiotrails
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by danjac 6y ago
I built a side project recently using Django/Hotwire. There's some JS, sure, but it's used where appropriate (media API stuff basically). Lighthouse gives 100% accessibility and best practices scores and performance comes in
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by danjac 6y ago
If it forces us to download a native app because the website is unusable, that's a "win" in their eyes.
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by danjac 6y ago
In theory yes, you're supposed to migrate away from the legacy codebase. In practice I've never, ever, ever seen that happen: it's too much upfront cost to start over, especially when you have real customers and real data on
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by danjac 6y ago
" beatiful, integrated kmail and their whole PIM suite" Is that the one that used a MySQL database on the desktop? The disaster known as akonadi? That would frequently lock up requiring restarts? When I used KDE back in the day on
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by danjac 6y ago
“Continuous integration and testing practices" are not exactly a great burden, and you don't know when the thing you are working on is going to snowball and become the thing you need to nurture and grow. Even if you pivot, you wil
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by danjac 6y ago
It's kind of like trying to save time on a marathon by not stopping to tie your shoelaces. I mean it takes maybe a day or two at most to set up a CI/CD pipeline with Github actions or something similar. It takes maybe a day to set
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by danjac 6y ago
Hiring is just like any other kind of marketing: an employer is going to paint a rosy picture to get you to join, and you are going to paint a rosy picture to get hired. At the end of the day ignore the rosy picture and look at the fundamen
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by danjac 6y ago
Odd that there's no mention of PHP: many developers who used Perl/CGI back in the early days of server side development moved to PHP and PHP was much easier for beginners, especially if you wanted to incrementally move from a stat
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by danjac 6y ago
Isn't this the intro to Snowpiercer?
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by danjac 6y ago
I think the term for this is Sprachbund[1] - where a number of languages in close geographical proximity pick up each others' grammatical and other traits despite belonging to different families. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by danjac 6y ago
> Isn't Finnish the language with 50 noun declensions or something mad like that? I think you mean cases? These are mostly simple suffixes you attach on the end of the noun/adjective: for example talo (house), talossa (in t
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by danjac 6y ago
The hardest things I found in Russian were the mobile stress - the way the stress on the noun or verb moves around depending on tense/case etc - and the sheer amount of irregularity in the inflections. The vocabulary is smaller though
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by danjac 6y ago
It's good for clicks - the thick-as-pigshit expat Leave voter sawing the branch underneath themselves. In reality most Brits in Europe did not vote Leave, but of course the media have to two-sides everything for "balance".
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by danjac 6y ago
It's not so much angry toddlers, who at least can be placated with ice cream and a Pixar movie. It's more government officials and contractors with their reputation and money on the line. In the case of government officials, it&#x
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by danjac 6y ago
Sure, but people like that are expensive and make too much trouble. How about we give you a 23-year old recent grad instead?
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by danjac 6y ago
It's more in common with Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up parliament, or the failed Beer Hall putsch in 1923. Both were attempted but poorly organized coups to overthrow the government of the day. Yes it failed, yes it was poorly or
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by danjac 6y ago
Oh dear. You do realize the Scots mostly don't live alone in little cabins in the mountains like in the movies, don't you? Most of the population lives in the (densely populated) Central Belt: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by danjac 6y ago
There's reasons beyond just legality. If you are in a company which has a culture of firing people at any moment for no (obvious)reason, you're going to see high turnover and low morale as nobody wants to work with an axe over the
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by danjac 6y ago
I'd agree on the architecture astronauts, but it would still be useful to see some good open source code bases using Svelte beyond the "todo list" level. For example: - has a test suite - integration with some backend framewo

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