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by nirse 6y ago
Actually, there's a lot in this new release that I like (my high light is when navigating back, actually going back to where you were on that previous page, without the page jumping around as things are re-rendered on my somewhat slow
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by nirse 6y ago
That is absolutely true, and probably equally true for any other web application that was wasn't maintained for 10-15 years. But this is article is talking about the ability to run older applications, not about safety concerns about do
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by nirse 6y ago
I had to get a Rails project from 2008 back up and running not so long ago, wasn't much more trouble than compiling ruby 1.8.7 (or was it 1.9.3?) and installing some gems. Admittedly, there were only a few dependencies in the project o
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(one of the) longest musical performance(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nirse 6y ago
I guess in this case it's a little different though, as the question is about either buying something now (which isn't really needed as you say), or being in a position that you need to buy a semi-experimental machine that could p
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by nirse 6y ago
My wife recently upgraded from a 2015 (14?) 8GB MBA to a 16GB Pro (don't know processor, 2 USB-C ports) and had a OMG experience, mostly when running R stats analyses.
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by nirse 7y ago
> It's not really acceptable I think using these kind of terms is unwise in these troubled days, unless you are a professional in the relavant field, and if you are, Hackernews isn't the platform for the discussion. An epidemio
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by nirse 7y ago
well, that's their 'intention'. I don't even know what that means for a business. Very little or simply nothing at all?
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by nirse 7y ago
I have never heard of a 'cause-and-desist' letter before. Odd spelling mistake for such a document.
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by nirse 7y ago
Just wanted to point out that Scotland has a baby-box scheme inspired on the Finnish: https://www.mygov.scot/baby-box/ It was introduced after our wee one was born, though, so can't comment on the content, but fri
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by nirse 7y ago
Also working with both, I often find that Azure's docs mainly focus on basic tasks and leave out the more advanced, which makes them good but incomplete. AWS, on the other hand, I have found to be more complete, documenting more featur
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by nirse 7y ago
It seems to me that whoever wrote that article thinks in absolutes...
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by nirse 7y ago
Sorry, no trolling here. The times I've tried to fix the setups I've lost my patience with it and IIRC got things back working by deleting conda and installing packages through manually homebrew (all Macs). But it wasn't on m
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by nirse 7y ago
I've had to 'debug' quite a few (ana)conda setups, mostly ones that were used for scientific work, where the whole python setup got so messed up that nothing was quite working anymore, both system and conda pythons. I advise
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by nirse 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/1987/ (edit: this is for anyone who mentions conda in here)
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by nirse 7y ago
Something better than ruby? No such thing ;-)
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by nirse 8y ago
It's not that it can't be done, it's just that sometimes it is nice to have a tool that helps you think about the code. Unit tested code isn't better in any way, it's just a style of writing code that can produce go
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by nirse 8y ago
1partCarbon | Senior Web Dev | Edinburgh, UK | Fulltime For the past 6 years, 1partCarbon has been successfully designing and building an extensive variety of software systems and apps for our clients. As a senior software engineer, you wil
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by nirse 8y ago
I really think it is about the kind of dev you want to be. Judging from your question you're early in your carreer / a student: so in order to choose between these two (I'd recommend both, by the way, or as many languages as