osrec

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by osrec 8y ago
What does TC stand for?
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by osrec 8y ago
A good friend of mine from university is a Googler. He is a nice guy, but incredibly political and technically not very capable. A master of making himself look good, schmoozing and talking the talk. He has done rather well at Google. Yet a
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UK plan to fight antibiotic resistance(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by osrec 8y ago|0 comments
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by osrec 8y ago
Would you mind sharing the list of sites you block? It would probably be a good starting point for others wanting to do something similar. Thanks!
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by osrec 8y ago
I switched my family to elementaryOS and Google docs. It was more than enough for their needs. I can't remember the last time anyone in my family used Windows or MacOS, and I don't think they miss either.
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by osrec 8y ago
You're on fire, but this isn't Reddit :D (then again, who thought we'd have a political article on the front page of HN!)
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by osrec 8y ago
Are you referring to this: https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-explain-cheese-submar... ?
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by osrec 8y ago
I dog food the project management module of an app we built (it's a glorified list with time and completion tracking) - https://usebx.com/app
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by osrec 8y ago
For anyone with an interest in maths, do give https://youtu.be/uMN5t3tzchI a watch
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by osrec 8y ago
Ah, well that's certainly true. I'm from the UK, and it's been more or less impossible for young people to buy their first home before they're 30.
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by osrec 8y ago
Not sure I understand the above - would you ELI5 please?
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by osrec 8y ago
Summary: the anxiety is driven by pressure to do well in life, amplified by technology constantly reminding kids of this.
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by osrec 8y ago
I've always found Lubuntu snappier. Also, multiple monitors work beautifully on Lubuntu - I unfortunately had issues with Xubuntu.
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by osrec 8y ago
For anyone who just wants a system that works, and doesn't require whizzy animations all over the place, try Lubuntu. I've been using it for a while and it simply gets out of your way and just let's you get on with things. Be
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by osrec 8y ago
I think Stripe's API is great, but the support has certainly suffered in comparison to the early days. More automated, unhelpful emails than I'd like. Maybe it's inevitable that support and general helpfulness suffer when you
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by osrec 8y ago
Hell yes! Just don't try and be the guy making 3 page info sites for your local gardener/bakery/whatever. There's simply no money in that, as they can do that themselves for free with an online website builder, so the va
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Samsung adds rival Apple's iTunes to smart TVs(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by osrec 8y ago|0 comments
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by osrec 8y ago
One download folder, one temp folder, one repos folder, one apps folder. Everything I care about is a git repo in the repos folder, replicated in 2 other locations. Everything else, I don't mind losing (temp and download are pretty tra
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by osrec 8y ago
On the backend it's an async version of PHP (much like nodejs), and on the front end, vanilla js. We didn't use react or Vue as they can be rather restrictive (especially if you want animations), so we wrote our own little framewo
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by osrec 8y ago
Thank you :) Not currently, but it's not a bad idea to write something. As soon as I get a spare few hours, I will put something together. Feel free to drop me an email (see profile) and I'll notify you when it's done.
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by osrec 8y ago
Try https://usebx.com/app - we built it 2 years ago. It's a PWA, and our users find it better than many native alternatives. I think it's all in the execution really.
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by osrec 8y ago
How I understand it: The world around us is some sort of "projection" of stuff at the very edges of our universe, and that stuff is inherently fragile and unstable. Yet our world/reality/spacetime is not fragile and unst
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by osrec 8y ago
Yeah that wouldn't surprise me. I can imagine they've got some smart heuristics built in too to come up with suboptimal routes that are good enough.
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by osrec 8y ago
The article appears to be a gross oversimplification. As is stands, it's a lot of words to convey the fact that "Google uses Dijkstra's algorithm to calculate the shortest distance"
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by osrec 8y ago
yEd is really great! I stumbled upon it while googling about 7 years ago, and it was awesome even then (and it comfortably beat visio). What's even more cool is their (newish) online version, which means you can do all the diagramming
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by osrec 8y ago
Facebook described in 50 years: a network where real world relationships were gamified and users competed for popularity. The network eventually died because the relationships it represented became meaningless in the eyes of its users, and
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by osrec 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of Professor Neutron (Bob Newhart) in the Big Bang Theory!
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by osrec 8y ago
Or if they know it's close, then it might spur them on to vote for their desired result...
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by osrec 8y ago
FYI, the learning curve is a little steep due to lack of docs, but a friend of mine has started to put together https://swoole.co.uk , which tries to bridge the gaps. Also, I believe swoole is used extensively by tencent/wec
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by osrec 8y ago
I think the standard PHP model (one process per request), while still popular, is being replaced with fairly robust event loops. I've been using Swoole ( https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src ) in my company for abou

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