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by iamphilrae 5y ago
Ditto for me except swap RoR for PHP monoliths. Gone are the days where my only cognitive overhead was deciding between Less or Sass and CodeIgniter or “the fancy new” Laravel. Likewise I got fed up of where dev was going in the workplace,
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
My hatred is due to the fact that if you image search for something, e.g. a product, click on what you think is the product’s site, however you end up on someone’s Pinterest board. From there, there’s no way to get back to the original site
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
And that’s when you become a master of your tools and can wield immense power with them! But in all seriousness, PHP is a good language, and coupled with a modern framework like Laravel, it’s great to use. I’ve used it since 2002, and have
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
If it is what you/your team are most confident in and it is suitable to solve the problem (i.e a typical MVC web application), then yes, it is a very sensible choice. If your confidence lies elsewhere, then no, choose that instead. End
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
Hey all. This is my first iteration of a simple news aggregator for the Cannabis industry, with a focus on it being mobile (or narrow browser window) -friendly. I'm pulling in articles from a number of sources, with more being added by
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Show HN: 420 Broadcast – A realtime Cannabis Industry news feed(420broadcast.com)
1 points by iamphilrae 5y ago|1 comments
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British firm claims quantum-computing breakthrough(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by iamphilrae 5y ago|0 comments
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
True, but the other direction is simply the rubber necking as it’s single lane on the approach. Plus in the direction you are stating, there’s a clear backlog from directly next to the henge - 20mph traffic until the instant people are past
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
I have driven past this stretch of road a hundred times, and it’s painful. 15-20mph for a good 10 mile stretch all because of people “rubber necking” to see the henge. As soon as you’re past it, instantly back up to 60mph. But you know what
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
As an urban car owner with a car that has a 300 mile range, when I am running low on “energy”, I will drive the car to a dedicate place where more “energy” is put into the car. ICE or EV, it makes no difference to me, energy goes in at an e
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
Please add an ATOM that connects to anything which allows for a decent Gantt chart. As an architect-come-product-manager, I really need visibility of a gantt to see where we are in a delivery cycle, against what your other ATOMs provide (is
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
Sounds like your company and the company I work for operate in similar areas. We focus on the indoor routing and positioning aspects, but are quite constrained by the effort of converting a floor plan or PDF of a CAD into a map. May be wort
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by iamphilrae 5y ago
So often one key point that is missed - use the right format for the right image type. In general, for photographs use JPEG, for illustrations use PNG or SVG.
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by iamphilrae 6y ago
I run a number of news website scrapers for various projects. Originally I ran them all on AWS EC2 instances and racked up sizeable bills. Recently though, I pulled an unused Raspberry Pi from my desk drawer, installed them all onto the Pi,
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
In my opinion, we need a mix of both. Trying to interact with an entertainment unit with some type of abstracted/bastardised joystick or touch pad is just plain awful. Whereas interacting using touchscreen is just so much simpler, plus
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
Audio CDs can survive a bit of degradation to the odd data bits here or there; the music will just skip the millisecond of missing data and your ears won’t notice. Likewise with vinyl. Data discs on the other hand have the issue that if a s
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
When using the screen for navigation, clarity and contrast of the map being shown is of upt-most importance, especially with the "glancing" nature one would view the map. A high-density screen could help aid this.
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
£35,000... so yeah, it did
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
Exactly that my point. My car is brand new, the model is brand new, yet it’s screen looks like it’s out the bargain basement of an LCD factory. In 5 to 10 year’s time when I replace the car, it’ll look even worse!
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
Seriously... it’s just some extra pixels?! The have picked cheap components, plain and simple.
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
My brand new Toyota C-HR comes with an entertainment screen that is not Retina display. Technology that has been out for half a decade and is found in the dirt cheapest of smart phones. It honestly doesn’t surprise me that the rest of their
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Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast(css-tricks.com)
2 points by iamphilrae 7y ago|0 comments
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
I bought a falafel wrap from a basic market stall the other day in London and they didn’t take cash at all. Makes sense- less germs, less chance of robbery, easier accounts, better chance of adhering to tax laws, and better convenience to m
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
I remember mentioning this in a comment thread on Instagram. One response came from someone in the UK who said something along the lines of... “It has been scientifically proven that our water contains high concentrations of cocaine, heroin
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
I’ve just flown London to Aberdeen (UK) and back with no need for ID. You certainly can still do this internally. An exception may be if your terminal is mixed in with international flights, then you’ll be lumped in with them at security.
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by iamphilrae 7y ago
Here’s a source from Nasa: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-... And a quote: “Using historical electricity production data and mortality and emission factors from the peer-reviewed scien
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
I actually used it considerably for my news site bookmarks on my bookmarks bar. It was great for just catching up on the day’s headline. It’s a feature I sorely miss.
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
So your experience invalidates mine? I have endlessly seen website media folders throughout my 14 year career filled with PNG photographs uploaded by unknowing content editors through a CMS. This isn’t their fault, they’re writers and know
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
Even lower hanging fruit than optimising compression, is actually choosing the right image format in the first place. Put simply (very simply I may add), if it’s an illustration, use PNG, if it’s a photo, use JPEG. Once we’re over that hurd
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
My guess it is dumped back into the sea which will cause a seriously high salt concentrations close to the dumping site. However it’s net effect on salivation levels in the oceans overall will be neutral since all the fresh water produced w

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