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by osrec 5y ago
Just store the time stamp and time zone separately and update the time stamp to reflect any changes to a time zone's offset (if that actually happens)... It takes a bit of housekeeping, but isn't especially difficult.
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Alexa tells girl to put coin in plug socket(bbc.co.uk)
74 points by osrec 5y ago|7 comments
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by osrec 5y ago
I thought you were kidding about Quirks.cpp, but it is indeed true. I can imagine a few nightmarish scenarios where a quirk that was originally a fix becomes a bug when a company decides to alter its website. Worse still, the new code will
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by osrec 5y ago
Purely out of interest, I'd like to know more about your streaming architecture. I assume postgres just holds the meta data, and the actual video content is stored elsewhere? What strategies have you employed to scale the streaming par
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by osrec 5y ago
Well, perhaps, but it's unnecessarily inefficient.
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by osrec 5y ago
I think you've sufficiently and comprehensively put it into meaningful words above! The truth is, those who care to use the language properly know this already. Those who wish to dismiss it always will, and this happens to be an easy a
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by osrec 5y ago
Looks like someone forgot to delete a DNS entry after decommissioning a server. Bad on behalf of gov.uk, however you'd think AWS would at least auto-delete the CNAME (charts.dft.gov.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) after the serv
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by osrec 5y ago
Yes, but not always monthly. Sometimes we have 1, 3 or 5 year contracts as well.
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by osrec 5y ago
I would guess that a lot of the slowness is not from PHP itself, but the way your specific projects are using it. With the vanilla PHP project, the slow down may be caused by poor design decisions from other developers. With Drupal, the cod
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by osrec 5y ago
It's so nice to see a comment giving PHP the praise it deserves. Honestly, PHP is a good, if not great, language to use for building solid web apps fast. People seem to love to hate it because it's the "cool" thing to do
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by osrec 5y ago
We have a standard "fremium" model, and then do custom deployments for larger clients. 95% of our revenue now comes from the larger clients.
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by osrec 5y ago
I had an idea cooking away in the back of my mind for a few years, but never really managed to build it, as my job demanded too much of my time.
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by osrec 5y ago
I quit my investment banking job in 2017 and set up my own SaaS. Very tough for the first two years, making little to no money (but I had a good amount of savings). Four years since quitting, I'm better off (many times over), both fina
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by osrec 5y ago
What was the super easy method that didn't require FTP, SCP or a manual upload from ten years ago? From what I remember, everything always had a few steps... Perhaps you're suffering from "rosy retrospection"?!
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by osrec 5y ago
In my experience, you should only apply Hanlon's razor in the first instance, but not thereafter!
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by osrec 5y ago
It's okay, but by its very nature, it's not as flexible as code. Often I see an argument describing low-code tools as "Pareto efficient", but even that turns out to be a false economy once your use case becomes a little
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by osrec 5y ago
I understand your point of view, but I'm the sort of person that responds poorly to someone asserting too much authority. I've had issues with bad interviews before, where I've been rejected by someone, but then got the same
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by osrec 5y ago
Not quite. Confidence is a big part of interviewing, and having someone turn the screw on you on some esoteric topic doesn't really help build your knowledge or your confidence.
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by osrec 5y ago
> I can steer conversation towards stuff I care about, and if they insist on being annoying, just thank them for their time and leave. I like this approach. Stops you from being painted into a corner, and if you are, you can still leave
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by osrec 5y ago
Used it a bit at university to compute some complex integrals if I was stuck or feeling lazy. That was 11 years ago. Don't think I've even visited the website in the past 6 years.
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by osrec 5y ago
It's not uncommon for human tragedies to serve as a backdrop for significant scientific progress. Wars and pandemics seem to be the testbeds for medicine, where people are desperate enough to try anything, and legislation is relaxed a
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by osrec 5y ago
I don't care about the negativity around PHP (often from JS developers, which has its own quirks and pitfalls). PHP is a language that gets stuff done, and if you're a good PHP developer, you can put together some beautiful code w
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by osrec 5y ago
I tried building an AI/OCR style receipt digitisation system into my SaaS ( https://usebx.com ). Let me tell you, it was not easy at all. So much so, that I doubt the problem can be solved efficiently at scale without using h
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by osrec 5y ago
Damn the need for recurring revenue. It makes us make bad things that eat away at our own resources. I wished there was an alternative payment model, where everything is perhaps paid off over time. If the product fails during the specified
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by osrec 5y ago
I'm not certain you'll get a comforting resolution to this niggling question that we all probably have. The rather uncomfortable truth is that there may not be a point. But this, in some ways, makes it strangely comforting also, b
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by osrec 5y ago
Looks like they've reverted the remote download code in the main Swoole repo. Apparently all this commotion is as a result of an argument between the founder of Swoole and Bruce. I hope they can work things out :(
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by osrec 5y ago
That paper by Daugman was the basis for my undergrad thesis, so when I saw the title, that's what my mind immediately jumped to! Lo and behold, I open the comments and find a link to the paper. Not only that, but it's still stored
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by osrec 5y ago
It's an event loop based server for PHP. Similar in some ways to nodejs, but (in my experience) much more performant.
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by osrec 5y ago
I know Bruce from the early days of Swoole. He's a good guy, and technically pretty proficient. I believe he also maintains the English Swoole docs. He's probably the right guy to fork this, as he's been close to the code fro
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by osrec 5y ago
Dramatic, perhaps, but probably close to the truth. Our sense of familiarity with our world is probably nothing more than us being blissfully ignorant of its true complexity.

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