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by keithnz 7y ago
I must say, in general, I'm pretty impressed with the prime minister. We shut down the entire country as soon as we have seen 2 cases of community transmission ( the rest of the cases are direct contact tracing from people travelling
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All of New Zealand must prepare to go in self-isolation now(rnz.co.nz)
2 points by keithnz 7y ago|1 comments
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by keithnz 7y ago
Out of interest In the US, how much help is testing now other than to sample the population to get an idea of the spread? Would it not be more interesting to know how well people are self isolating? Finding out where the message isn't
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by keithnz 7y ago
why are you comparing California to the total population of china? China is regional too.
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by keithnz 7y ago
while this is cool..... these are usually put in a "who's hiring" post. Except for YC companies, and those you can't comment on, they are link only
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by keithnz 7y ago
Checkout Adams (tailwinds author) reasoning https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
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by keithnz 7y ago
I haven't found it very limiting, however, because it is very well defined, in Vue3 they are looking to actually use this to make massive optimizations in rendering that you simply can't make when you use javascript anyway you lik
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by keithnz 7y ago
you can use the composition api already in Vue2, which is what I have been doing, and I'm using typescript for everything. There is a chance the api may change, but it seems pretty stable. I combo this with using tailwindcss and I th
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by keithnz 7y ago
one nice thing on stackoverflow is you can see your "Impact". For instance mine is... IMPACT ~3.9m people reached looking at their stats, a very small percentage are answering most of the questions.
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by keithnz 7y ago
that's F#s problem. C# is a good language, and while F# has some great things ( discriminated unions, computational expressions, pipline) that make for better ways to create software..... they aren't so much better that it justif
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by keithnz 7y ago
I've been trying to use it seriously for a bit....and while a lot is improved... so many of the features are half baked and awkward to use. It's definitely no tmux. It could be a lot better, but a lot of improvements are on the
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Ask HN: How is the CoronaVirus global shutdown impacting your business?
4 points by keithnz 7y ago|2 comments
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by keithnz 7y ago
you are a cog in a economic system, you just ( as many here have ) fit into a spot in the machine that generates wealth at good levels. Your personal principles don't really make any difference. It's a system. There are a numbe
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by keithnz 7y ago
from what I've seen, lots of people in many different countries saw it coming.
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by keithnz 7y ago
agile went wrong as soon as it went "agile". The manifesto was a nice idea in principle, I think it would've been better for all the "agile" methods to not have come under a single umbrella term that made it so any
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by keithnz 7y ago
yes, I was working in the airline industry at the time (the logistics side) and there was a bunch of stuff, across multiple vendors, that had to change or it would've broke. It would've effectively grounded airlines
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by keithnz 7y ago
In New Zealand we got rid of software patents
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by keithnz 7y ago
maybe go back and read it in full where it talks about that?
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by keithnz 7y ago
part of our code base is a bunch of webforms, it really does work quite well and surprisingly easy to work with in many cases. Would've been interesting if they had kept innovating around the concept.
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by keithnz 7y ago
There is no clear source of truth for C. Depending on what you want to do there is quite different approaches. C for embedded systems tends to look quite different from C for systems programming. For instance MISRA is a C coding standar
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by keithnz 7y ago
We started with gitflow, but our team ended up going with a Release based branching system as the constant integration of various features ended up giving less control on what to deploy and when. Most common scenario... Devs create feature
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by keithnz 7y ago
I'd be interested to see what would happen in the tech world if there was a UBI. How many more startups would there be if people could survive on a UBI.... it's essentially like having an unlimited runway to get startups off the
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by keithnz 7y ago
I like that Piketty is super aggressive with some of the ideas and I generally support the idea that a baseline is set for everyone that is some kind of equalizer (even though it will never be perfect) that covers income/health/ed
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by keithnz 7y ago
I have tried a bunch of things, but I've ended up just using markdown files structured into folders on a cloud drive. I use whatever editor I fancy at the time and use git to version/back it up. All the things I thought would be
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by keithnz 7y ago
More importantly, I think it should be open source so various people can help build up components that work well together.
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by keithnz 7y ago
it was something to do very simple things to enhance websites usability. I don't really remember anyone particularly liking it. It was something you tended to learn as little of in a very reluctant way. More exciting was things like
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by keithnz 7y ago
having done both vue and react on various things for the last few years, we ended up choosing vue for all future developments. But React is definitely way more popular ( and more marketable) they both can be used for large and small develo
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by keithnz 7y ago
well, 40 is a hard cut off into gr(a|e)ybeard society. So, at the moment you are a "wannabe" ;) I think anyone who is pushing 2 decades ish or more of writing quite diverse software is likely a gr(e|a)ybeard. I started programm
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by keithnz 7y ago
in the .net world I use IdentitySever 4 and have connected various other things into that environment without too much trouble. But the lingo/jargon of the identity world felt like a bit of a brick wall when trying to work out how thi
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by keithnz 7y ago
ooo, nefrums got pushed down today.... so I expect he will do another run pretty soon, he usually live streams it on twitch. Given his last run, and all the mistakes he made, he should be able to get sub 2 hours

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