danjac

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by danjac 6y ago
Getting Flask/Pyramid + SQLAlchemy + pytest to play nicely with sessions, transactions and rollbacks has often been the one thing that made me go "screw it" and start over with Django.
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by danjac 6y ago
The cognates are difficult, true - there are quite a few old Indo-European words if you know where to look ( kulta - gold, kuningas - king, ranta from Swedish strand , i.e. shore). That said, once you've built up a core vocabular
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by danjac 6y ago
My experience of startups isn't that the code is terrible because they were in a hurry, it's because they were inexperienced or learning to code on the job. Experienced coders might cut corners but they'll make good foundatio
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by danjac 6y ago
It's not that difficult. Grammar is logical, few exceptions, not many hard sounds to learn for English speakers. I found it easier than Russian for example (took the YKI test for citizenship some years ago).
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by danjac 6y ago
Alternatively, learn to write code well in a paid job, and start a company when you know how to do things right.
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by danjac 6y ago
No - bad coding practices for a company are like bad personal health practices like eating junk food and sitting on the couch all day. It won't hurt too much when you're young, but you sure pay for it later.
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by danjac 6y ago
If you are having to take customers with whom you share the same investor, it's probably a sign that you are not doing well enough to find customers on your own. Plus I don't think YC derives much benefit if its companies survive
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by danjac 6y ago
Not only horrible unhealthy lifestyles, but horrible unhealthy codebases.
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by danjac 6y ago
How many potential customers did you talk to before starting development?
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by danjac 6y ago
Cloudflare customers may not, but what about board members, investors and shareholders? They might not be too happy with a CEO who shows such bad judgement.
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by danjac 6y ago
As I'm guessing you are American: The US constitution itself is very resistant to change. It's doable, but very difficult in an era of deep polarization and partisanship. For example, many think the electoral college is undemocrat
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by danjac 6y ago
So you have an ideal of how you want society to be. Being serious, how are you going to get the land you need? It's not like any country is just going to give you a spare island or two, especially if the island has enough viable resour
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by danjac 6y ago
No country is perfect, and the reason why there are good and not so good policies are due to compromises that need to be made. Low taxation for example is great, but not if it means slashing your education budget or having the streets full
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by danjac 6y ago
That would require a completely different political system. There have always been two mainstream parties, which in non-First Past the Post countries would be coalitions of smaller parties. These coalitions break up and shift alignments ove
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by danjac 6y ago
I'm really liking turbolinks+stimulus. While I'd probably still reach for Vue for more intricate work there is a lot of mileage you can get out of turbolinks with a small set of stimulus controllers. It's not just for Rails e
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by danjac 6y ago
> It just takes years and lots of room to do basically nothing, and if something meaningfully shifts, you need a while to get back up to speed. If true, that's a damning indictment of the industry and the whole SPA pattern.
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by danjac 6y ago
What's the reason for no release/ETA?
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by danjac 6y ago
Didn't No Man's Sky go down that route?
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by danjac 6y ago
That's modern English though, when the word "Viking" was re-introduced as part of the general romantic revival and where much of the popular ideas of Vikings - horned helmets, dragon ships, beserkers etc - were either invente
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by danjac 6y ago
If every dev is allowed to spin up their own service, what happens when the dev leaves? Or the service goes down while the dev is on vacation? What if the service becomes a single point of failure other devs' services rely on?
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by danjac 6y ago
The Exxon Valdez comes to mind - the company blamed the drunk captain, but this was just part of huge systemic failures and negligence.
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by danjac 6y ago
The problem isn't the developers, it's the industry. If developers are having to learn the latest frameworks to climb the career ladder, it's because companies have built all these sites with crazy inverted-pyramid tech stack
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by danjac 6y ago
Then we have Doctor Who, which has been going since 1963 (albeit with a long hiatus - at least on broadcast TV - from 1989 to 2005).
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by danjac 6y ago
> The Advant Guarde died in the 1960s with Warhol. News to Andy Warhol I'm sure, who lived until 1987.
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by danjac 6y ago
It never ceases to amaze how one of the world's oldest and proudest democracies is absolutely useless at the basic table-stakes competency of a democracy, running a free and fair election. I guess Americans just love their broken legac
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by danjac 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years there will be a lot of suspiciously-cinema-shaped gyms and family play centers everywhere.
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by danjac 6y ago
I recommend the latest season of Patrick Wyman's Tides of History podcast [1] for an overview of the latest discoveries in archeology and related fields. [1] https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
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by danjac 6y ago
I've used turbolinks with django. It just required a small middleware: https://gitlab.com/danjac/localhub/-/blob/master/localhub/mi...
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by danjac 6y ago
Does the Starship design include adequate radiation shielding for the long trip in deep space?
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by danjac 6y ago
Out of interest, what was their tech stack based on?

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