danpalmer

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1. 3631.▲
   by danpalmer 6y ago

   I don't think you overreacted, the "Just to be clear" and other wording seems like gaslighting to me, assuming that the author knows about this alternative but knowing that is unlikely. A much better way to phrase this questi
2. 3632.▲
   by danpalmer 6y ago

   As an engineer doing APIs for a company that is involved in online retail, and having built shipping integrations and exported this sort of data in APIs... This is a pretty good schema. I was expecting something a little more naive, but the
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   That's true, it would solve some of these problems. I do think the ultimate solution needs an awareness of both the diff and the migration plan though, to be able to test for things like whether changes can be made without downtime in
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   Looks like a solid basic implementation, along the same lines as Django migrations or Alembic in the Python world. I always find these tools a bit lacking though. Over the long term, things that I find mattering are: - Correctness of change
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   For most companies this is a bit ridiculous. The UK government runs on Google Apps. Many schools and universities use Google Apps. Many large companies are on GCP. Unless you're a Google competitor there's likely no reason to excl
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   If you're starting a new team today, or a hobby project, or you have very little movement cost and low risk choosing a new service, then maybe you read this page, see a thing that this solves that has frustrated you about a previous to
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   I'm a big fan of this but I often find it in tension with necessary flexibility. The more flexibility I add to my scripts, the less useful they are for this purpose. I usually come down on: things where the output is shared should prob
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   This is a bit of an over-used joke. Given this is explicitly being launched under "Area 120", "Google's workshop for experimental products", I think it's fair to let them ship things, try things out, see what w
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   by danpalmer 6y ago

   There’s some good stuff here but I can’t help but feel it’s 10x more effort than I want to put in post meeting. If a 1 hour meeting takes 2 hours to write up the notes for, perhaps there was a better way to spend that 3 hours to get the sam
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Sure, but most people have food prep facilities at home, particularly for those who can't afford to eat out as much, so bringing in food in a lunch box is accessible to most.
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    The sandwiches are twice the price of a supermarket sandwich, and for many (especially students working at Pret) the idea of buying lunch out rather than making it at home and bringing it in may be a luxury. If you're on £16k a year, s
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I also use "Bedtime", haven't set it up in the Health app, worked just fine.
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Well I guess that answers it, SQLite is the database of all databases. > https://github.com/cmu-db/dbdb.io/blob/master/dbdb/settings....
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    > The most recent Debian General Resolution on init support said something like "we chose systemd but compatibility with other inits is important" It actually said "Systemd but we support exploring alternatives". I re
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Great thanks, never heard the term before so I'm guessing it's a US term. This is what I understand a Chartered Engineer as in the UK, but that would normally be abbreviated to CEng.
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    What's a "PE"?
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    So using it without paying is a sales pitch? Is that news? Spotify's free plan is the same, YouTube Music costs money. I don't think it's fair to criticise a paid product for asking for you to pay for it.
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    How is it a "sales pitch"? I've had it since release and haven't seen anything in it for sale?
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    REST is fundamentally about how do to useful communication between networked services. I'd recommend reading the paper for anyone doing anything related to that. I happen to use GraphQL at work, but that doesn't stop me from learn
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I’d highly recommend reading Roy Fielding’s dissertation paper where he introduced REST. For anyone who hasn’t read it, it will fundamentally change how you think about REST and APIs for network services, and you’ll create much better APIs
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I think these volumes are relatively small. Bear in mind that this is tokens, not API calls. Depending on how much input text or output text there is a single call could easily be using 100s of tokens.
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    That's not quite true. One got put in prison for "fraud".
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Most interviews do not have enough time to assess for culture fit (from the candidate), so ask for time. Any company that has a good culture will be happy to give you an hour to ask questions, maybe more. This might be only at the offer sta
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I can imagine a test _suite_ taking hours, but each test should be a small fraction of that surely? And each assertion fails just the test that it's in as tests need to be isolated to be effective?
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but assuming you require all tests to pass there should be no more code coverage by using "soft assertions", because no assertions have thrown in your tests. The code re-use benefits don'
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Some types, yes, although the service is at such a high level that they are usually accommodating far beyond what you'd expect. The restaurant might have a 7 course tasting menu with fixed items on it for example, but if you say you&#x
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Hey! Thanks for reaching out in HN comments! Unfortunately I'm not sure I have them any more I'm afraid, I've been dealing with a lot of images. I was very diligent about submitting the crash reports, so you should have 10-20
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I have a feeling Retrobatch could export Automator actions if it wanted to. I think they’re distributed as part of an application? Unfortunately I think Automator is on the way out. I suspect we’ll see Shortcuts for Mac fairly soon, so it m
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    I just used this to build a really neat little workflow. Wasn’t sure if it would work but the results were amazing. The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in
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    by danpalmer 6y ago

    Looking at relatively current top baby names... Elijah, Mason, Logan, Harper, Jackson, Ethan, Avery, Madison, Carter, Wyatt, Jayden... These are just a few from the top ~20 boys and girls names. I've heard all of these in a US media co