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by nlnn 4y ago
Many people use "considered" to actually mean "seriously considered acting upon", rather than "idly considered hypothetically" in this context. Plus when screening many applicants with few differentiators, this
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by nlnn 4y ago
It's always been a pet peeve of mine that legal recognition of relationships is a thing (I understand there's tradition, and that it helps with a lot of common situations especially where children, inheritance, power of attorney e
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by nlnn 4y ago
I can't find the quote, but I reminded of something from an early electronic music pioneer. They talked about how electronic music would lower the barrier to making music, and remove all that tedious time spent on the mechanics of play
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by nlnn 4y ago
The capabilites of the language and the libraries available for it can sometimes be a good reason for dealing with multiple languages. E.g. if you end up having a requirement to add some machine learning to your application, you might be be
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by nlnn 4y ago
A pricing problem would be where media/subscription costs are higher than people are willing/able to pay. A service problem would be where the service or app is too complex or time consuming to use, or has a lot of friction during
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by nlnn 4y ago
I tried searching, but what is a gentleman layoff?
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by nlnn 4y ago
Yes and no. No because for things I care about a lot, and want to ensure long term support/service/updates (e.g. password manager, email host). Having a subscription model also means I generally know the cost of keeping up to date
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by nlnn 4y ago
Not sure if it's what you're after, but for short stays in nice places in the UK, I'd highly recommend https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/ . They basically restore, manage, and rent out old properties in the UK
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by nlnn 4y ago
Same here. I first saw it on an episode of the UK TV show GamesMaster ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFR2e92MlQ ), and was blown away by the graphics at the time. Being a big fan of Dune at the time, I had to go out and b
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by nlnn 4y ago
As a primarily backend person, it's always interesting to read about this sort of thing as an outsider with little appreciation for the nuances/challenges people face using these frameworks. I keep hoping things will settle a bit
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by nlnn 4y ago
I remember being at University with one of the founders (maybe late founder?). I recall him working on audioscrobbler as a 3rd year project, and was quite impressed with it, mostly by the fact that it actually worked and recommended me some
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by nlnn 4y ago
Indeed - there are a couple of good diagrams that attempt to illustrate what each term encompasses, e.g.: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/British_...
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by nlnn 4y ago
I once took a year of oud lessons, and the nuances in microtonality really blew me away. There were all sorts of things in the aural traditions, like scale X having a fractionally sharper 3rd ascending than scale Y, but with both notated in
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by nlnn 4y ago
I paid for Pinboard for life very early on, and remember getting an email a while back encouraging everyone to pay for a subcription instead so that development could continue. I wonder if that didn't work out somehow, and revenue wasn
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by nlnn 4y ago
I don't develop in JS so can't comment on DX there, but I've found the DX to be pretty good when using protobuf in other languages. That's mostly been down to having IDE autocompletion for data structures and fields once
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by nlnn 4y ago
I found it useful to learn just because there's so much existing code that's been written in it. Means I can at least dig through some old codebases and understand what's going on. Lots of higher level languages also have C b
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by nlnn 4y ago
Unofficially maybe? There's a 3rd party duckdb_fdw plugin for postgres that allows querying DuckDB from Postgres: https://github.com/alitrack/duckdb_fdw
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by nlnn 4y ago
I currently switch between Go, Rust, Python, Java and Kotlin pretty regularly. One minor thing that helped a lot was to have custom IDE settings for each (different code fonts, different background colours, etc.). I found it helped get into
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by nlnn 4y ago
Looking back at it, I have plenty of good relationships that don't involve debts, maybe because I've avoided any that did. I've always been very uncomfortable about being in debt to anyone for anything unasked for, that just
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by nlnn 4y ago
Obviously it's not quite the same thing, but reminds me of an old neighbour we had. She used to love baking, and would bring round cakes/pastries/bread for us all the time. It was really nice at first, but also made us feel v
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Ask HN: Is there a scam behind these [ruby|orange]institute.com survey emails?
1 points by nlnn 4y ago|1 comments
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by nlnn 4y ago
That's a great point, I hadn't even thought about B&W previews, but definitely something I'll keep an eye out for.
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by nlnn 4y ago
I've seen one company that does this conversion and sells converter camera ( https://maxmax.com/ ), but would probably like to keep things simple to start with.
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by nlnn 4y ago
Will take a look at that too, thanks. I'm a hopeless fiddler/tweaker, so the fewer choices I get to make, and the more I can just concentrate on composition etc. the better.
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by nlnn 4y ago
Thanks for this, that gives me quite a few things to go off and start reading about. Good to know dpreview.com is reputable too - I had a brief look there but was quite overwhelmed with the amount of info, will dig back in. That's a gr
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Ask HN: Advice on camera for black and white only photography?
11 points by nlnn 4y ago|19 comments
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by nlnn 4y ago
Any tips on making sure that Slack isn't the place for important decisions? We're facing this problem at the moment, with Slack being heavily used for almost everything. Main difficulty is changing culture around its use - there a
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by nlnn 4y ago
I've had a lot of fun doing this with the "did you have an accident that wasn't your fault?" spam callers. I always try to come up with a plausible accident that slowly descends into something, well, not so plausible. My
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by nlnn 4y ago
Yeah, I think some of the problems are when both or needed on the same data, or when the use case changes over time. E.g. our customers are stored in Postgres, so let's also log their actions there linked to the user table. 5 years on
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by nlnn 4y ago
I've found it's not just scale, but also down to query patterns across the data being stored. I'm with you on using an RDBMS for almost everything, but worked on quite a few projects where alternatives were needed. One involv

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