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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Yes that would be awesome! We try and play games during our team happy hours, but the friction of finding a site, getting everybody to sign up, and dealing with "this doesn't work on my machine" issues is often off-putting. H
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
> Close connections at work have stayed relatively strong, perhaps even strengthening as we shore them up with recurring 1:1s and social team meetings. Peripheral connections have gone down the toilet. Team and role homophily run rampant
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Well yes, but that doesn't solve the parsing problem right? My point is that some YAML or JSON documents conform to a specification which can be codified as a set of rules, which combined with the data form facts. I'm asking if th
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Are there any examples of "programs as databases" being applied to structured text like JSON or YAML? Something like a generic system which takes a set of rules/facts and the source data, and transforms these into a queryable
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Why not? I mean, it shouldn’t be _the_ deciding factor but it certainly should contribute greatly to the decision. Tools get popular for a reason. You get community support and a test-of-time guarantee that whatever you invest in today is m
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Yeah this stood out to me too! It costs nothing to add more silkscreen to the PCB and it serves as an excellent learning tool.
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Yeah, more teams need to do this and consider performance on low-end devices to be a feature. When Android Kit Kat was under development, the team used nerfed Nexus 4's to simulate a low end Android phone. https://en.wikiped
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
If the API provider supplies an OpenAPI definition, you can give API Sprout a try. It’ll parse the definition and spin up a mock server returning the example data you want. You can also modify the OpenAPI definition manually if you need dif
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Ask HN: Knowing a bit about everything or everything about a bit?
8 points by disposedtrolley 6y ago|3 comments
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
I haven't watched Helvetica, but the same director also made Objectified which is fascinating look into the industrial design of everyday products. https://www.hustwit.com/objectified
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
There's a Future of Coding podcast episode where Katherine Ye (one of Penrose's authors) is interviewed. https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/034 Worth a listen to!
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
> Why was Solitaire bundled even with the NT (i.e. enterprise/business) versions of Windows? I mean, everybody knows you’re supposed to sneak in a game or two in between spreadsheets.
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
> stupid non-uninstallable games icons in start menu You can remove them now. At least I was able to in the Windows 10 v.2004 update. Why Candy Crush is included with Windows 10 Pro however is beyond me.
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
DevonThink doesn’t really do it for me. I’ve been using it for the past few months and find it immensely useful for organising documents and other media, but it’s a very average note taking experience. There are too many things like folder
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Agreed, but the intention appears to serve as a launchpad for digging into the rules yourself. Links to original sources would make this much easier of course. Thanks for the link to Ganssle’s blog. I’ll be sure to have a read today.
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
With the exception of some of the rules under the Hardware section, this is some great succinct advice on software development in general :)
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
When I worked on full-stack projects, I'd always start by understanding what the frontend needed to display but not necessarily how , which translated well into a database schema and some type definitions. I would then mock these ou
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
I remember seeing this on GitHub [1] when it was a JavaScript implementation. It'll be interesting to see how it's been ported over to C! [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
On top of the suggestions in the article, I would wholeheartedly recommend having a look at Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style [1] for a practical guide on writing well. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show&#x2F
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by disposedtrolley 6y ago
Yeah this seems likely. I think Qantas were retiring most of their 747's.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
You can buy reusable metal filters for the Aeropress. I use this one with mine and can get a decent espresso shot from it: https://fellowproducts.com/products/prismo
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
This is fantastic! I've often come across book recommendations in HN comments and then struggled to remember where it was posted when it came time to purchase a book on topic X. This also seems useful at aggregating different perspecti
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I have a soft spot for VBA. Programming macros in Excel was my introduction to programming; it made me realise how simple it can be to automate a repetitive process and save yourself literally hours a day with just a small investment of tim
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I don’t have much experience in iOS/Swift, but would SwiftUI address the declarative part? From what I’ve seen you can supply state to a view and it’ll take care of the rendering for you.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Not for writing code, but I do enjoy pen and paper for sketching out high level designs and data flows. I’ve started writing on an A5 sized notebook too - I find the size constraints help with focused thinking.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
We're currently building a GitHub integration which receives webhooks and kicks off a bunch of processing actions based on the event type. Your suggestion sounds like a great way to add some observability to the service -- thanks!
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
That’s a fantastic idea. In my last job I started a weekly newsletter of curated tech articles, but this crowdsourced approach sounds far more sustainable. > My manager had a game-changing suggestion, too: give phonetool icons for people
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
WiFi is much more convenient if you live in an apartment, or if you're renting and can't tear down the walls to run ethernet.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
On a side note, that quote by Fitche is the perfect summary of refactoring spaghetti code: > you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place, without thereby, although perhaps imperceptibly to you, altering something througho
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I didn't realise they'd shut! I visited maybe mid-November last year and really enjoyed the atmosphere. They had this bizarre glowing pool for the entrance where you need to hop over some rocks to get in.

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