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by hitgeek 9y ago
yes, npm5 is the first version I've had to rollback. its strange that the lockfile was supposed to fix problems with un-repeatable installs, but I had several issues fixed by simply deleting the lock file and re-installing.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
theres an app for that. https://nugget.one
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by hitgeek 9y ago
this is really bad for npm. I think they hold some responsibility in allowing an obviously malicious package to impersonate popular packages. I would like to see an official response with action plan. I recall this attack vector being discu
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by hitgeek 9y ago
c#. asp.net core mvc.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
ask them to do a small sample project. something that takes maybe 4 hours, and demonstrates the type of skills you are looking for. give them about a week.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
"We knew we wanted to build a single page application (SPA) in order to have more control over the user experience of our website, making it as smooth as possible. On top of this, it also helps speed our website up since there’s no lon
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by hitgeek 9y ago
nothing much new here. mongodb marketing/PR was a problem, advertising a general purpose RDMS alternative without the technology to support it. users were also a problem, using a technology without understanding the architecture and tr
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by hitgeek 9y ago
thanks for reminding me about team services. I've been looking for low cost CI solutions for .net core. I'm going to give it a try.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
i'm going to give this a try, thanks!
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by hitgeek 9y ago
How does the author of the text claim to "not receive any royalties and have no economic interest in the text"
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by hitgeek 10y ago
this project has been around for a long time. I always take a look at it when I need a reference system for thinking about data models or ux related issues for health record type projects. looks like it got a major facelift since the last t
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by hitgeek 10y ago
venues need to just formalize the unofficial auction + lottery system that already exists in various secondary markets. some tickets are sold via auction, others are offered at a set price to those who win a lottery. The only difference is
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by hitgeek 10y ago
from the authors blog "Folks have been asking me if I knew of any good examples of a J2EE web application that utilizes the following technologies: Angular JS, Bootstrap, Spring 4, Spring Security 4 and Hibernate 5.2.4, and after searc
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by hitgeek 10y ago
at the time these versions of mongodb were released, it was only a few years old, and DID require considerable domain knowledge to run in production. This does not seem unreasonable for new immature technologies. unfortunately, I don't
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by hitgeek 10y ago
at v2.6 the product was only about 4 years old and underwent a lot of change during that time. (For comparison Postgres version 3 was released in 1991) I think the main guilty parties at mongodb were/are in marketing. technically sophi
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by hitgeek 10y ago
what is the compatibility store for third party components/themes based on bootstrap. one of the things I love about bootstrap is being able to google "bootstrap <some component>" and get something that works and looks
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by hitgeek 10y ago
good detailed write up. There were probably opportunities for the author to architect the system in ways that were better suited to node (given that was the chosen platform), but the architecture choices were not unreasonable by design. The
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by hitgeek 10y ago
anyone interested in this sort of thing should take a look at https://nugget.one/
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by hitgeek 10y ago
I want to like MD because there are some great tool kits out there, but the animations come off as unnecessary, and often result in slowness and flicker on first loads from my experience.
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by hitgeek 10y ago
is the author really just comparing single-core to multi-core? I didn't read any specs on the machine that ran the benchmarks, but assuming its multi-core, are the Haskell tests using all the cores, while node is only using 1? node is
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by hitgeek 10y ago
having worked in data entry on a green screen app, as well as the .Net, Windows Form "upgrade", I agree with this sentiment. the green screen app was highly optimized for efficient and accurate data entry without use of a mouse. T
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by hitgeek 10y ago
I was caught in an email storm like this one time. Someone at a large insurance company accidentally sent an email containing a few patient names/dobs to a group-email mailing list of at least 1000+ outside emails. It took about 2 mon
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by hitgeek 10y ago
i'm mostly a web developer with C# and JS. I've tried to learn Swift, Xamarin and React Native multiple times over the last 2 years. With both Xamarin and React Native there was a honeymoon period where everything seemed so easy a
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Ask HN: Why have OS updates become so aggressive?
31 points by hitgeek 10y ago|41 comments
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by hitgeek 10y ago
your comments say you want to learn to make small games as a hobby. Look for resources that teach you how to make small games and don't worry about learning a programming language. You will learn programming as you go, and gradually fi
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by hitgeek 10y ago
I'm also happy with normal callbacks, and have no plans on adopting promises or async/await. the flow control library "async" provides all the tools to keep code readable.
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by hitgeek 10y ago
My journey into programming is exactly the same. My first real desktop application written in VB .Net has been used once a month for 6 years, and is still going strong, even after I've left the company.
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by hitgeek 10y ago
in case anyone else didn't notice this at the top of the page "Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data"
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by hitgeek 11y ago
I keep the Uber app in a travel folder on my iPhone. The small form of the new logo looked a lot like an app that was in the process of updating. For a few days I thought some app was stuck updating, and was about to uninstall it, until I r
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by hitgeek 11y ago
in my experience, node definitely starts to seem complicated (in comparison to other languages) when doing operations that require multiple callbacks. its sometimes hard to tell where errors are occurring. async helps, but when doing a seri

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