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by neillyons 6y ago
> Testing proves only the presence of errors not their absence. I've never thought of it that way, but that totally makes sense.
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by neillyons 6y ago
ha, that video is amazing!
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by neillyons 6y ago
The restrictions in the UK are to try and prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed. COVID is maxing out capacity which is having a knock on effect where normal treatments are having to be delayed. Eg cancer treatment for a young
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by neillyons 6y ago
I don't want anything to do with cryptocurrencies but listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating. The way that guy thinks is just impressive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1b_S6Qp2
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by neillyons 6y ago
Tesla. Acceleration of their cars and autopilot actually being impressive. I would also add to this electric bikes.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Well deserved. I love PyCharm Professional Edition. I remember I got their "startup discount" which is 50% for one year, even though I was just starting a limited company to freelance. https://www.jetbrains.com/sto
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by neillyons 6y ago
Almost all my apps get deployed to Heroku, both professionally and side projects and I opt to use the Heroku Stack instead of deploying my own docker image on Heroku. Even though I use docker locally. One of the main reasons is that Heroku&
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by neillyons 6y ago
That is super interesting. I programmed in Python 2 for a good six years and didn't know it had a long type! >>> type(1) <type 'int'> >>> type(11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
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by neillyons 6y ago
Not typical computer science courses, but the following video series really improved my understanding of how computers work. - Build an 8-bit computer from scratch video series - https://eater.net/8bit - CPython internals:
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by neillyons 6y ago
Slight tangent, but I recently realised that the built in integer type in Python and Erlang support arbitrary-precision arithmetic while the built in integer types in Go don't. In Go each integer type has a maximum value. eg int32 has
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Use Python's type annotations for runtime type checking with typeguard(typeguard.readthedocs.io)
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Free version is good too. The differences are listed here https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/#chooseYourEdition
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by neillyons 6y ago
As a Python developer it has to be PyCharm Professional Edition. I am a more effective developer because of it.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Not baked in but you can use AlpineJS with LiveView as they both don't use a virtual DOM. You can do optimistic UI and interactions that don't warrant a round trip to the server like toggling a drop down. See the blog posts below.
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It is useful for scamming people.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Just bought the audiobook. About to give it a listen now. Thanks.
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This sounds quite interesting. Any books you could recommend on the "pilot error" topic.
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by neillyons 6y ago
I've been thinking the exact same thing.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Not really a skill but fell running is pretty great. Especially if you can join a club. It is good to have a thing to do that exercises the body instead of the mind.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Good advice but there is more than one way to succeed. I'll link to the Zoo analogy which explains this further https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940
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by neillyons 6y ago
After going through Ben Eater's 8bit computer video course on YouTube. He builds a computer on breadboards. It is amazing.
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"Can I borrow your charger my brain is dead" lol
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by neillyons 6y ago
Agree. Also it seems that some people think TDD is about "do you write tests at all" while others think "do you write tests before the implementation".
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> * Writing test first is simply unnatural. Way more developers need exploratory session to even discover what are they supposed to do. Fully agree with this. It has been my experience. To quote Mat Ryer from Go Programming Blueprints &g
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by neillyons 6y ago
Agree. This article misses the use case of people using third party apps with migrations. For example. The Wagtail content management team can create migrations that can be applied to MySQL and Postgres databases. Not sure if that is possib
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by neillyons 6y ago
You can use Uvicorn to run ASGI apps. You can also use it together with Gunicorn https://www.uvicorn.org/#running-with-gunicorn .
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by neillyons 6y ago
Ah ha, This probably explains why my internet stopped working for a bit. I had the 1.1.1.1 app from Cloudflare installed on my phone.
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by neillyons 6y ago
Wow. I have the same problem. I just got my left AirPod Pro replaced at the Apple Store last wednesday because of rattling. (It appears to only happen in noise canceling mode. When noise canceling is off it doesn't rattle). A couple da
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by neillyons 6y ago
I was thinking recently all these layers of abstraction is crazy. I would be simpler to write a Python web server using micro python and deploy to a server farm of esp32 micro controllers. No idea if this is possible.
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webpack

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