outsideoflife

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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I'm coming from Python.
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
VirtualBox> Ubuntu >Atom I know HN love to hate Atom, but it works tolerably out of the box on Python, SQL, XML, JSON, Markdown, HTML which covers most of my day job work. I always have Notepad++ installed on Windows for quick edits,
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Ditto with Trello, and not just for software. I love the 'email to board' feature where I can forward supplier quotes/docs straight to the board from my inbox, so I can find them later! I hope Atlassian look after it
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Flask for speed of development, not sure I would be so keen if I needed auth, and would look at Django REST
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Ask HN: Learning Kotlin if you don't know Java
10 points by outsideoflife 9y ago|8 comments
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UK government should stop trying to break end-to-end encryption(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by outsideoflife 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: UK Tech conferences
1 points by outsideoflife 9y ago|0 comments
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> Irrespective of your job, it will become important for everyone to learn how to code It strikes me that the person who wrote that is used to associating with technical people, and might spend a little more time in the real world. I wor
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I use LibreOffice calc every time I need to export an Excel spreadsheet as csv, because you can specify double quoted fields and you can specify UTF-8 encoding. I think this is a major use for LibreOffice, moving enterprise data into a web
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
This really is good. I might use some of this at our company. I love the stuff about not replying while emotional!
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
It is totally normal at my company. 'Can't you just do it in Excel'. They have shown an alarming tendency to be totally willing to waste my time.
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I do actually, that is a good call
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Work wont buy me Visio or 365. Is it any good?
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Ask HN: Flow chart tool for MS Office
1 points by outsideoflife 9y ago|7 comments
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
This is an excellent point However there are a couple of things to say 1) If the game rules changed you would stop training for hits you were not expecting to take and concentrate on other factors. 2) I wonder how much of this training is n
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> are still at a high risk for CTE. This is a very good point. I am concerned as the Rugby players have become bigger and faster (which I put down to not so much sports science as sports chemistry) in the last 10 years and the impacts ar
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> And they can run. It is not uncommon in 2017 to see 300+ pound linemen that can run quite fast. Michael Oher, the subject of the Michael Lewis book _The Blind Side_[2] is 6'4", has an actual weight of 320+ pounds, and is desc
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> Rugby is recreation. Riding in a car is a necessary part of daily life. Regardless of risk, one can be given up much more easily. Exercise is a necessary part of a healthy life. If Rugby motivates you to stay fit, then maybe it improve
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> Especially not one with a scrum. Interesting as the scrum is not a concern to me for head injuries (just spinal compression!). It is on the whole a pushing movement, not an impact.
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Facebook and Twitter threatened with sanctions in UK 'fake news' inquiry(theguardian.com)
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I stopped playing Rugby when before I was 18, and the final year of that was where it became serious. I have mild lasting damage to my spine which is painful rather than incapacitating and suffered one serious concussion. I also suffered so
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
This is interesting to me. I had to deal recently with a service desk in America, and they were as unhelpful as any other. But they dressed up all of their comments with a dose of 'Thank you for calling sir, is there anything else I ca
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
This was such a beautifully written reply I thought it deserved a response! 1) Shakespeare did it for extremely gallant reasons though, he preserved the meter and make his text beautiful! 3) How about 'get in touch with'? This lea
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
When I worked for a multi-national silicon valley based company we got so sick of the creeping Americanisms (to be fair their jargon was worse, they even had a company glossary for it) that we started a game. We had a tally chart on the wal
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
For my American cousins I thought I would mention a little more about Rugby Union. Concussion is less of a problem in Rugby than in American football, and this is not an accident. Rugby is addressing this in several ways. 1) Years of rule c
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
In the UK there is an equivalent 'inheritance tax'. It is a grossly unfair tax in that it fails to tax the most wealthy. For instance the Grosvenor Estate of the Duke of Westminster recently passed an estimated $59bn company and $
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Because some businesses generate very large volumes of documents that have to be stored
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Isn't dropbox doing it partially to aid a future migration to Python 3? > In which case it seems prudent to avoid the said amount of work by picking another programming language for one's large-scale code base When I first saw
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Still on windows 7 at work, so doesn't help. Ubuntu runs beautifully under Virtualbox, but this is not true of all Linux distro's. I have had problems with Mint for instance. In fact Ubuntu is so good in Virtualbox that I even ge

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