darrenf

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by darrenf 5y ago
Wow. I have no idea how I missed that. Mea culpa. Albeit those numbers are still radically different to the poster I replied to.
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Iirc, a 2018 stackoverflow survey of what devs use had 50% on windows, 40% on Linux and 10% on mac. You needn't rely on your memory, the survey is still available [0]. FWIW, it doesn't seem to contain a question about the O
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by darrenf 5y ago
Can you elaborate on exactly what's horrendous/dreadful about it, rather than who submitted it?
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by darrenf 5y ago
What bugs are you referring to? > You'd be no better off with a Sony Headphone that screams in your ear that a device connected, the device is turned on and the battery is almost empty. I have the WF-1000XM4s. On the iOS headphone
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Not even naming of things is consistent (why shorten "array" into "arr" but not minute into "min"). I don't believe it shortens "array" to "arr", does it? "Dep" and &qu
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by darrenf 5y ago
Two letters in the Latin alphabet, I assume - does that assist those who primarily read Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Thai, Tamil, … ? Localisation basically never has a simple “we should just…” solution.
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by darrenf 5y ago
Yes, I mistyped on my phone. Edited, thanks!
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by darrenf 5y ago
For longer than I can recall I've had a `post_json` alias like this: curl -H'Content-Type: application/json' -d @- << 'JSON' Invoke with post_json <url> Then just paste or write JS
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by darrenf 5y ago
It used to be possible to buy a Quest 2 without the requirement of a Facebook account, but that freedom came at a premium cost.
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by darrenf 5y ago
47, lived in Surrey my whole life, never heard of it.
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by darrenf 5y ago
HSBC and Barclaycard I agree, but your MBNA experience is the opposite of mine - they closed my Visa and, I thought, completely went to Mastercard! Regarding the overall proportion, when the Amazon announcement was originally made Which? li
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by darrenf 5y ago
Those are debit cards, are they not? Which Amazon were still going to accept.
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by darrenf 5y ago
> visa has ~ 80% market share in UK What is this statistic measuring? Number of adults who have some form of Visa card? Number of transactions in total? Online transactions? Debit and credit cards combined? If you're able to provide
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by darrenf 5y ago
> How are you going to make money? > We're working on a big, parallel product that we will be announcing soon. This product will be responsible for generating revenue. Stay tuned! From https://docs.deta.sh/doc
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by darrenf 5y ago
The "open era" in tennis refers to the opposite situation: where the grand slam tournaments are open to professionals . Amateurs were always allowed in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tennis#Open_Er
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by darrenf 5y ago
XML::Twig feels pretty Perl-y and the code isn't significantly different to your example: use XML::Twig; my $twig = XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { 'items/item[@color="orange"
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by darrenf 5y ago
The second character of the shebang #!
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by darrenf 5y ago
A lot of this ground was covered when PDL - the Perl Data Language, born 1996 - was submitted to HN in its own right last summer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439638
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by darrenf 5y ago
“Not Invented Here” is how I’ve always known it.
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by darrenf 5y ago
Beeminder[0] is another. I particularly like that they keep a list of competitors in this space[1] - active, up and coming, dormant or dead. OP, perhaps you could think about asking Beeminder to add you to their list :) [0] https:/&#x
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by darrenf 5y ago
I don’t know that it was a favourite, but there was certainly a famous incident in 1968 where a pilot decided to buzz Tower Bridge as a protest against the MoD not recognising the RAF’s 50th anniversary: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by darrenf 5y ago
> No business is interested in having to suddenly comply with such regulations Just to pick up on this clause - it really needn't have been sudden. The regulation was adopted just over 2 years before enforcement kicked in[0], and
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by darrenf 5y ago
And Colombia's league basically runs all year (Jan/Feb to Dec). MLS in the USA runs March-Oct.
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by darrenf 5y ago
> I wrote a small script to convert CSVs to JSON strictly to use jq on the output Note that you can use jq to consume simple CSVs (and produce them) without anything else. There’s an entry in the cookbook wiki https://github
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by darrenf 5y ago
I'm surprised, hours later, that no-one has pointed out my error here! So I'll do it myself - upon revisiting it, I realised my input files weren't CSVs with the number of fields required for `cut` to do the intended thing. H
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by darrenf 5y ago
Almost, but not quite :) $ ls | grep '.csv$' | xargs cat | grep 'cake' | cut -d, -f2,3 cake cake cake $ grep cake *.csv | cut -d, -f2,3 bar.csv:cake foo.csv:cake quux.csv:cake `grep -
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by darrenf 5y ago
If we're talking about bash, I think it's a mistake to refer to any of this as "glob expansion", a term which doesn't appear in the bash man page. Rather, it differentiates between multiple types of expansion and th
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by darrenf 5y ago
The idea that “a month” has a constant number of seconds (edit: exactly 1/12th of a year) seems peculiar, so I’d argue the function needs to be more complicated.
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by darrenf 5y ago
This seems to be explicitly covered in the post, here: > We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take
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