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by jayflux 9y ago
BBC (TV & Radio) | Full-stack Engineer | Onsite | London UK Stack: Fairly modern, NodeJS, React, Redux, Express BBC is one of the UK’s most well-known and loved brands. The TV & Radio product teams build some of the most used produc
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> Given this goal, you might be surprised to learn that Finda is built with Electron, a framework that’s often decried for being the opposite of fast. I thought the criticism was more about its memory usage, not that it wasn’t fast.
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> zheap will prevent bloat (a) by allowing in-place updates in common cases and (b) by reusing space as soon as a transaction that has performed a delete or non-in-place update has committed I’m not going to pretend to understand all of
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Can Mozilla/5.0 be eliminated these days?
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That’s not a datatype... That’s an iterater returned by calling .split_whitespace() on a string. Basically the same as calling .split(‘ ‘) on a string in JavaScript You can find a list of Rusts primitive types here: https://doc.r
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My guess is that they are separate services which have always been that way and people can choose not to use them from the beginning. Amp is different in that it sits in front of a lot of websites which used to work directly, it’s apples an
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I think some people in this thread are confusing support and getting new features. Just because windows 8 doesn’t receive office 2019 doesn’t make it any less supported as an OS. This decision seems pretty normal to me. I can imagine if you
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I’ve had the Tom Tom app for many years now (iOS) and have always had free updates. I’m guessing it’s harder to support dedicated devices that will eventually be hard to maintain than it is to just update an app on Android iOS so this news
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Chromium adds support for initiator blackboxing(jason-williams.co.uk)
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if anyone found this interesting, i recommend reading http://lisperator.net/pltut/ It called "How to implement a programming language" its in JS and its made by the guy who's behind uglifyJS
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Yes and no, I think Google’s DNS over HTTPS service is run on 8.8.8.8 the same IP for their main dns service, so you should always know where it is. Edit: Looks like it’s changed and it’s now a url, so you’re right it is a bit chicken and e
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Rust Enhanced reaches 50k downloads(jason-williams.co.uk)
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Is that really good PR? Or just news that hasn't hit the mainstream because they don't understand it or doesn't affect them much.
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That result doesn’t surprise me at all, not everyone is working on a huge project and most of those frameworks are overkill for small tasks, sometimes pure js (with the odd library here and there) is all you need.
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Pleasantly surprised to see this work smoothly on my iPhone 6s
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As these announcements get a lot of attention from non-rust devs it might be worth linking to what ? Actually does somewhere in that.
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This is moving a lot faster than you think, we may be thinking more in years than generations.
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Rust Enhanced – The Official Rust Package for Sublime Text 3(github.com)
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Rust Enhanced – The Official Rust Package for Sublime Text 3(github.com)
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Yes and no, it’s common that when migrating to a new stack in order to not break older pages they are converted to static pages. They probably weren’t static at the time.
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Is this site using tables for layout? Is that part of the gag?
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Responsive Design Begins with the URL (2014)(smashingmagazine.com)
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I may be in the minority here, but I used delicious as a "bookmarking in the cloud" feature because it was around before synced bookmarks were a thing. I was changing machines quite a lot and so didn't want to use the browser
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My only take away from this article was PostgreSQL doesn't use a bug tracker. I didn't even know there are large projects out there not using some tracking system for bugs/issues
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Well to be fair half of those were on their way out long before WhatsApp came on the scene. Facebook replaced most of them. I knew a large community of music producers who only used aim to send tracks to one another, Dropbox and soundcloud
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.txt Tld?
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>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section, and "Supply-and-demand" at the eighth. I'm no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea
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Why is it so hard to swat a fly?(bbc.co.uk)
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Bbc news should still work well in lynx, or at least it did last time I checked.
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I get the point this guy is making, but if you need something parallel for a cpu bound task, throwing more hardware at the problem isn't the most efficient solution if you can just use more cores. For example adding another quad core w

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