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by pbowyer 8y ago
> My latest line of thinking is that I need a way to show the user interface, and then the data flow and logic all the way back through the system (usually a back-end DB or a customer legacy system). Yes, this. It's what I've w
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I have wanted this for years . Think structured notes. If I'm jotting down a review of a restaurant in Evernote, let me give it a star rating and locate it on a map. Let me give places I visit the same. Let me choose what widgets show
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by pbowyer 8y ago
Dropbox Paper is fantastic, and my favourite shared writing environment (visually so much nicer than Google Docs) I'm up to 7000 words in one document. The feature I'm missing in Dropbox Paper is around organising my notes and res
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I have a Mac, but I use Windows and Android in equal parts.
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> Then stagnated while tons of competitors blossomed. Which competitors have blossomed and are also cross-platform? I can think of OneNote, but the 'clip from web' feature in Evernote is superior IMO. But I hate Evernote's
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by pbowyer 8y ago
A real-life situation I ran into: 3) Take a copy of the data store offline, and later merge it back into the online database Manually resolving conflicts is fine. The alternative is to rebuild a system on Couchbase/pouchdb, or rewrite
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I had to find out: this is Douglas Crockford on it: https://youtu.be/DxnYQRuLX7Q?t=2734
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by pbowyer 8y ago
RIP Jerry, I learned a lot from you. Jerry's blog: http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/ Jerry's books: https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg
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Gerald M. Weinberg has died(facebook.com)
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Secure, remote login from any device with Cloudflare Access(cloudflare.com)
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Ask HN: How do you protect against data corruption?
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by pbowyer 8y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a VoIP softphone with good Opus support? (Windows) Jitsi is the best I've found to date, as it lets me adjust: * Sampling rate * Encoder average bitrate (kbps) * Use DTX * Use inband F
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I use Doctrine2 in a number of applications. I have a love/hate relationship with it (mostly through fitting it to legacy database schemas) but it's not slow to put/retrieve data from the database. What's slower is the o
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by pbowyer 8y ago
This. I am building an app and the listing screen is taking 4-5 seconds to fetch and display the database records. Why? The SQL query is complicated (7 joins due to filtering and permission restrictions), and on its own takes 1.7s to run. T
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by pbowyer 8y ago
There is an excellent write-up of this at https://medium.com/@garius/the-weatherman-the-man-who-decide...
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I find it difficult because of understanding how to get it to fit with an existing directory layout. And maybe existing scripts in the build. But yes, setting up the tooling is overwhelming. create-react-app says in the README: "If you
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by pbowyer 8y ago
I was going to disagree but... > It also doesn't help that CSS's basic premise is flawed, and the fake narrative behind CSS's origin and role is insulting to any thinking person: that instead of typed markup attributes for
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by pbowyer 8y ago
Yes this. That to get cracking functionality you have to include React, in order to include AirBnB's superb one [1]. 1. http://airbnb.io/react-dates/
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by pbowyer 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, this is exactly what I am considering doing at the moment. Any thoughts on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17213264 ?
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> What does "an entire framework" mean? Because you can just make React the little news and weather widget in the corner of your app / website, as the only React component. Same with Vue. Is there a step-by-step tutorial f
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The Cult of the Complex(alistapart.com)
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Ask HN: Techie-focused mobile phone reviews?
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> It's already so complicated to run even git / vagrant on a windows machine, that I'm wondering how are people developing with it. I find Git fine, but the Vagrant/Virtualbox ecosystem... I dread every Windows update
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Oracle Mission Control team laid off(twitter.com)
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> The problem is, it's not cool to talk about how our infrastructure is built on very straightforward LXC containers, managed by HAProxy, connected to a cluster of MySQL servers. The tech isn't bleeding edge enough to hear abou
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by pbowyer 8y ago
Thank you! Be warned, the O'Reilly print quality is miles apart between the two. Their print-on-demand text quality and the binding are real let-downs.
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by pbowyer 8y ago
It's the best written computer-related book I've read. On a par with Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions". Very highly recommended.
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> Forums can foster very long running discussions This. This is the element the 'modern web' has forgotten in its rush to 'new', 'realtime' and 'current' content. Just because a conversation happen
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by pbowyer 8y ago
> But at a time when every engineer wanted to work on AI, self-driving cars or cryptocurrencies, a SaaS startup with modest, sporadic growth wasn’t very attractive. Were they looking to hire in the SF/SV area only? I enjoy these kin
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Unroll.Me stops serving the EU(gdpr-eu.unroll.me)
5 points by pbowyer 8y ago|1 comments

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