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by osrec 7y ago
Unlike many members of my family who can fall asleep regardless of the circumstances, I need to feel sleepy/tired to sleep. I'm fairly fit, so getting to that state with a job that involves me sitting at a desk can be a challenge.
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by osrec 7y ago
Not sure I agree with this. Here's why: new tech stacks crop up every few months, and they're all competing for the same developer brain space. If PHP wasn't easy, I'm certain the interest in it would have evaporated to
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by osrec 7y ago
While your observation is true to some degree, I do remember ASP, Cold fusion, CGI and a few other more obscure technologies way back when. Perhaps I was quite late to the party though - I only started programming in 1999 (got a computer fo
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by osrec 7y ago
While this discussion boils down to the efficiency of the underlying regex engines for PHP and Rust, it does highlight (to me) why PHP is so popular: in the hands of average programmers, PHP is quick to write and fast (enough) to execute. I
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by osrec 7y ago
All you need is some guy to talk loudly on the phone next to you all day and you'll soon come to abhor open offices. Not to mention the scrutiny of others - keeping an eye on how you work, how much you work, when you arrive, when you l
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by osrec 7y ago
It's actually pretty smart, especially if, for example, an insurance industry incumbent invests in a promising insure-tech business to further bolster their own future position in the industry.
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by osrec 7y ago
Sometimes you can be checkmated in your job and personal life. It's not that easy to quit a 150k job and find another when you've got a family and a mortgage. In those situations, your only option is to follow orders. In my experi
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by osrec 7y ago
Property is not a great option in the UK currently due to rather high stamp duty (i.e. property tax, payable by the buyer) - if stamp duty were lower, I would probably put my money in more property. Equities were a reasonable second choice
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by osrec 7y ago
Yes, long term 7% is the quoted number, however that can be over a couple of decades (maybe more) and you may need to endure a recession or two. With a bit of active management, I manage to achieve 6-8% each year, but I avoid large negative
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by osrec 7y ago
I've done ok trading stocks and FX, probably enough to live off. There is a caveat however; you need to have a sizeable portfolio to begin with. Otherwise, the risks you'll need to take are simply too large. If you think you'
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by osrec 7y ago
When I said session info, I meant only the session ID - I was not suggesting storing other session info locally as well :)
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by osrec 7y ago
I know what you're saying, but it's 2019 and JavaScript is everywhere. I think most sites rely on at least some JavaScript to provide a reasonable experience for users. Do you have any examples of popular web apps that don't
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by osrec 7y ago
Could we just avoid cookies altogether, and store session info in local storage? Sure it takes a bit of JS to pass the data as part of a request, but at least you're not prone to CSRF issues. I'm not sure there are many use cases
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Fake news: BBC and tech firms join forces to fight disinformation(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by osrec 7y ago|1 comments
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by osrec 7y ago
I like markdown, but also like asciidoc for when you need your documents to be a bit smarter.
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I'm sick of Chrome eating all my RAM(techradar.com)
3 points by osrec 7y ago|0 comments
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by osrec 7y ago
Interesting. Anyone have any experience of using tsvx in the wild?
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by osrec 7y ago
I disagree, but regardless, this sounds more like a comment for Reddit instead of HN. Better yet, rather than criticising my interpretation, you could go find examples of better comments and enjoy reading them at your leisure. Or you could
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by osrec 7y ago
How is it not patronising?! The person is telling me that they disagree with my viewpoint - and rather than then explaining why they disagree, they decide to explain to me that I can edit Wikipedia! To me, that is patronising. While their l
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by osrec 7y ago
Educating is a great thing. Patronising not so much. If the OP's comment is for the good of the wider community, it should probably not contain a friendly yet subtle insult to the tune of "rather than just criticising, get off you
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by osrec 7y ago
While my comment may fit well on article's talk page, I don't think it's off topic here. A few upvotes agree. I contribute to Wikipedia already by improving maths articles, so I know the process. Your comment appears to have
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by osrec 7y ago
The examples section on the Wikipedia page feels rather poor. The first example is a photo from the back (where the wall cannot actually be seen) and needs to be supplemented with a picture from the front, so you can actually see what the s
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by osrec 7y ago
Well, it's an option, but I would probably just go with the iframe approach as it seems like less hassle + cleaner!
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by osrec 7y ago
Interesting, but who is responsible for the compilation? The plugin developer? The app developer? The realms approach feels a bit cleaner to me... I would think it's also easier to debug than trying to debug compiled code.
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by osrec 7y ago
That's great! Thanks for sharing :)
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by osrec 7y ago
This is one of the cleverest things I've seen in JS in a while. In a nutshell, they use a same origin iframe to ensure the plugin gets its own copy of globals (so it can't mess up the globals your app uses), coupled with a proxy o
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by osrec 7y ago
The Hindi example on your front page is translated in a grammatically incorrect manner. Instead of saying "Lang me aapka swaagat hai", you've got "me aapka swaagat hai Lang". It's like saying "Lang Welcome
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by osrec 7y ago
Stress is such a stupid thing. Here in London, you're almost celebrated for having a stressful job. Neither does it improve productivity in the long term, nor does it support a healthy life. I wished more managers would understand that
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by osrec 7y ago
Interesting - I think the world was not ready for a video dating site back then. This could probably work quite well now (thanks to the change in peoples' attitude towards creating online video content, brought about by YouTube itself)
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by osrec 7y ago
Genuine question: you prefer Google gatekeeping your payments with every app, rather than you gatekeeping your payments with each app? Does privacy not concern you?

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