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by heurisko 5y ago
Certainly, in my example above I would have to recalculate the UTC value using the new Europe/London timezone to ensure the correct time is used. The point being, the wall time is an ambiguous time: its point on the timeline can change
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by heurisko 5y ago
In the UK we banned letting agent (broker) fees charged to the prospective tenant for exactly this reason. Tenants can't "shop around" for a different letting agent that won't charge them £250 for a £50 credit check. Lan
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by heurisko 5y ago
I often refer to this article https://phili.pe/posts/timestamps-and-time-zones-in-postgres... regarding timestamp and timestamptz >> Because the vast majority of our use cases for storing timestamps is to represe
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by heurisko 5y ago
I think this is an OK idea. But I think it would have been better to post on mailing lists and contact people to get "buy in" rather than just opening up PRs. I also find the "respect" wording of the PRs a little presump
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by heurisko 5y ago
I don't think this is an example of entitled users. I think rather it is rather an example of an external company (Muse group) not understanding the community behind the piece of software they have taken over.
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I think there are also qualitative reasons why outsourcing didn't prove as successful as many companies thought. One being, that business requirements are often complex, and contain ambiguity, which requires communication between devel
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by heurisko 5y ago
I don't know if anyone felt the same way, but I felt I "knew" how to use git before I read tutorials about how to use git. Sometimes I felt tutorials were making it seem harder, more mystical, than it really was, or relied on
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by heurisko 5y ago
I am inclined to prefer the scenario where plastic is more readily decomposed, rather the situation where we are in now, where plastic is entering the food chain and organisms, including ourselves. Other than climate change, I think plastic
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by heurisko 5y ago
In my experience, in practice a software engineer salary in England is usually advertised in the range, or just below, other middle-class jobs, such as a solicitor.
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In my mind, I compare Jeff Bezos with Bill Gates. I have often disliked the practices of Microsoft, and don't think creating benevolent billionaires is the best way to solve the world's problems, but I have to credit the fact that
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by heurisko 5y ago
Until then, it would be helpful if projects prompted during installation to setup authentication (and didn't continue without) and were bound to localhost. I wonder why MySQL and postgresql databases don't show up on these lists.
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by heurisko 5y ago
Joseph Stiglitz has written some interesting books on corporate behaviour in developing countries, such as "Globalization and its Discontents". The argument is, is that poorer countries, especially those with natural resources, wo
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by heurisko 5y ago
I have heard it mentioned before, but I wonder how long Copilot is banned from companies due to licensing issues. I'm not a lawyer, but I can see the risk if code seems to be substantially copied from copyleft corpuses of code. I'
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by heurisko 5y ago
Docker should at least add a warning message that they are editing IP table rules. I remember experimenting with docker running on a VM, and being confused for a long time why my ufw rules didn't seem to be working, until I found out t
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by heurisko 5y ago
This reminds me of plummeting reviews after Chrome recently introduced tab groups. I hope they revert both highly unpopular decisions. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ch...
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by heurisko 5y ago
I have worked with "10x programmers", who have become "10x" by becoming specialists in their domain. I have also worked with people who are "10x programmers" who have a natural affinity solving problems using p
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by heurisko 5y ago
A well written and interesting article, but I strongly disagree with > There are many reasons why, when it comes to SaaS startups, having a SPA front end that's powered by a REST API is better than having a monolith where the front
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by heurisko 5y ago
If the OP meant "multiple layers of unnecessary abstraction" I would agree with them. However "clean code" connotes to me the techniques advocated in "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin, which amongst other things
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by heurisko 5y ago
> A world where some websites still don't work properly across web browsers. The situation today is vastly better than in the days of IE6. > A world where clean code destroys performance Clean code does not mean code that is not
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by heurisko 5y ago
On the subject of user interface messes, I recently switched away from Chrome on Android to Firefox, solely because of the "tab groups" feature. I usually can live with UI changes, but reading the reviews of Chrome on the Google s
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by heurisko 5y ago
They are being pressured to withdraw their custom, based on, arguably, unfounded accusations of GB News spreading hate. A viewpoint that many don't share. One of the advertisers, COOP, recognise this is an issue, so they have a policy
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by heurisko 5y ago
Is your criticism about GB News, that you think "woke" debates are trivial, e.g. "Baa Baa Green Sheep and Banning Christmas"? Because it seems there is more to it than that, as some people, after all, want to bankrupt th
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by heurisko 5y ago
I have watched a bit of GB News, it was fairly unremarkable. I have seen a strong response to them by a group "Stop Funding Hate" who have put pressure on advertisers to boycott the channel. Given how little time the channel has b
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by heurisko 5y ago
Thanks for Vagrant. I've used it quite a bit. I think it's underestimated how many large businesses there are that still manage their servers like "pets", rather than "cattle". In my career, Vagrant has provide
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by heurisko 5y ago
You can push for Linux with paid support, from a vendor like RedHat. Being Linux-based does not preclude support.
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There isn't the same motivation if you already speak the lingua franca. My experience learning a foreign language as a native English speaker, is that people in the target country are sometimes puzzled as to why you want to learn it. T
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I wouldn't find them "pretty much incomprehensible", although there might be one or two variations in accent or words that we might trip over once or twice. It would be much different experience from speaking with someone wit
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> And there are dialects that are pretty much incomprehensible to people who grew up in the mainstream dialect (true of many other languages as well) I think there are differences in accent, but I don't recognise anywhere as being &
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by heurisko 5y ago
The link is now 404, new link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57176858
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> The American format is designed to reflect how we normally pronounce dates or write them out in long form (eg "September 11th, 2001"). In the UK at least, we don't write or say dates in that order. With the exception of

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