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by jwdunne 8y ago
Asks me to sign up or login with an annoying pop over every time I navigate. It isn't making me want to sign up if it's going to prevent me reading public threads. Quota prevented me from reading the rest of a post yesterday too.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I've had a hard time with GEB too. Tried a few times. I felt ashamed because my progress was more in the tens than over a hundred. Writing style is important for me too. I can complete a narrative, story-style book in 2 days. I can&#x2
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Same deal in the UK. Some people turn their nose up at it, along with their fellow German brethren Lidl. I don't see why. Some of the food outright beats the food from Tesco, where it can sometimes be twice as expensive.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend an online hang out?
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I'm not sure but perhaps ReasonML is worth a look at? I don't know if you can specify property names with quotes. Lists are also homogenous but that'd be the case with most functional languages with a static type system. You
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by jwdunne 8y ago
These rules only apply for higher-cost products and / or enterprise clients (in which the latter implies the former, anyway). Your sales team can only spend as long on the customer as the ROI of having salespeople allows. If you'r
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Oddly, GDPR gives 3 reasons why you would need a DPO: 1. you're a public authority (NHS practices are an example) 2. Large scale processing 3. Large scale processing of sensitive data They don't specify what large scale means. The
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by jwdunne 8y ago
It's not defined. It was left intentionally ambiguous in the GDPR so member states have some flexibility in definition. I've got a call with a lawyer on Monday to clarify some bits of the GDPR. Number one Q for me is "how far
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by jwdunne 8y ago
You don't need a DPO. I work with healthcare businesses and some of them don't even need a DPO. You only need a DPO if you are a public authority, if you do large scale processing or large scale processing of sensitive data (ambig
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I agree. When you learn React, small examples typically follow folder-by-type but, in larger apps, it becomes apparent this doesn't work. If you take the recommended path, i.e add redux iff you need it, you've already settled away
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Oh I didn't realise you were the author of mastering Emacs! I've learned a lot from your writings over the years. Thank you for that :) Yes, the `find ... | xargs` pattern is exactly what I meant. This is awesome, thank you :)
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I use zsh and shell mode in Emacs. Knowing how to use a standalone shell, I've found, is synergistic with heavy Emacs use. For one, and the most annoying, if a package update goes wrong, you're 'glove' is back to factory
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I've just subscribed. No shame in my eyes, the more the merrier. Things like this help me keep afloat of what's going on. Thank you for the great resource :)
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've had many a struggle with this. On the flip side, I have found libraries that are unmaintained and are pleasant enough to understand. I've forked those and used them, happy that: 1. I can quickly fix any bugs that I face 2. So
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Actually, I think there is at least one area where Haskell and java compete where other languages don't: design by committee. It's often joked that it IS possible to design by committee. The result is Haskell. Otherwise, you get J
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I noticed this experience a few weeks ago. I was having big trouble getting to sleep and my partner's snoring was agitating me. I decided to relax and meditate. I noticed myself trying to "cure" my agitation. I decided to acc
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Oh no I agree. It's far more painful than it needs to be. I've found productivity boosts in shortening the feedback loop. A tighter feedback loop makes it easier to get into flow. But days of effort to get a simple thing working d
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I feel your pain. Tried moving away from bower + simple gulp concat to pure NPM and webpack on an old angular 1.x app. Ouch. Webpack as of now reserved to just vendor. Porting the whole app over will take a significant amount of work. I don
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by jwdunne 9y ago
What about your team?
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by jwdunne 9y ago
You're not counting the fact that a refresh may require developers to get back to the app state right before refresh.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Ugh. A colleague was struggling with a webpack set up. He was waiting like 30 minutes to rebuild a CSS change. Meanwhile, I'm using Sass on 2 projects, with around 100ms build times inc. live reload. Clearly there's reason for the
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've left one unsigned and another had the strip wear off to the point the card says "VOID VOID VOID". Never once stopped me using them. I'm glad for it because my signature isn't exactly consistent. In fact, I don&
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Ruby has a great gem too. I used it to migrate a client's membership data from an excel spreadsheet to a SQL data model. This sheet was formatted like: MEMBERS ...rows... ADMINS ...rows... EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ...rows... You could whip
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I remember a great comment on HN once about this very subject. They said it's like taking a 1000 people, having them flip a coin and eliminating anyone with tails. Once you're down to ten people, you ask them how they did it, what
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Thats an awesome attention to detail. It looks like a lot of work on top of writing a book. It feels like a great debt is owed for the amount of work that's gone into something I can essentially enjoy for free. When it's finished,
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Funnily enough, I chose a Rails e-commerce solution, Solidus. I added the same feature, 0 configuration, similar if not less code required. Unfortunately I'm the only one who knows Ruby but I have every faith that my colleagues can pic
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I recently gave Sylius, based on Symfony, a spin. I wanted to add a field to a product, editable in the admin area. The additional code and the extensions were ok. Some of the config changes are understandable but I thought it a bit much wh
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yes. We've had clients that have literally taken courses on how to dodge invoices for as long as possible. Well past our 30 day terms.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Only had one lucid dream and it was pretty disappointing. I woke and my light was on. I remembered that I'd definitely turned my light off - hey, this must be a lucid dream! So I looked at my hand for a few seconds and everything turne
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yeah, a friend told me about that a while ago. He was pretty freaked out and worried it might be some kind of psychosis! Don't think you have to worry. I haven't had any issues with my mental health for 8 years, beyond maybe perio

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