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by pbowyer 10y ago
> At Standard Chartered we even went so far as to add relations as a datatype to our Haskell-like language. It's a charm; and comparable for me to my experience first going from C-style arrays only to eg Python's dicts. Have yo
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by pbowyer 10y ago
Financial companies have a large incentive to leave if the passport scheme, which allows them to sell their services in the EU, isn't retained in its current form. Other companies - if you do business with the EU, and the trade agreeme
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by pbowyer 10y ago
When you are self-employed and run a successful company, is there a way to immigrate on that basis? Or do you have to find another company to work for, who will sponsor your visa application. UK citizen, looking for a way out after yesterda
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by pbowyer 10y ago
Also, their focus is more on what they can do with the code, not the code as an end in itself. When discussing pull requests and changes, having less ego involved makes a big difference.
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by pbowyer 10y ago
Congratulations Linode! I've had better support from your staff than Rackspace and thanks for the RAM doubling - will make my life much easier.
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by pbowyer 10y ago
> WordPress done the right way uses plugins sparingly to get the job done, outside of obvious ones like Advanced Custom Fields Pro and Post 2 Post Links. We don't give credit to how good some plugins are, either. In my current web a
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by pbowyer 10y ago
> I don't understand why those who spend most of their time writing web apps / CRUD apps focus so much on the tools they use to do it. Because writing web apps / CRUD apps is soul-destroying, boring, and always perceived b
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by pbowyer 10y ago
I now install AppNeta TraceView [0] whenever I launch a site. The free plan is fine for initial profiling and it's useful to see what matters under a production load. And the paid plan has proved itself. NewRelic is similar, but I find
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by pbowyer 10y ago
Drat, the best calendar app I've used on Android (except for the 46 notifications it gave for Easter Monday, and 58 for the last English Bank Holiday). I will miss it.
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by pbowyer 10y ago
> Imagine if instead of having files/folders to (teach,confuse) Grandma, we simply had a time-based system of references. If Time was a principle unit of information that a user was required to understand as an abstract concept, I f
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by pbowyer 10y ago
I feel the problem is people go to extremes: either all handmade SQL or all ORM. Mixing both is pragmatic. Take today's example, using the Doctrine2 ORM. I needed something simple: For every user, find the number of articles belonging
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by pbowyer 10y ago
Previously posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658356 , with great comments
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I'm off-grid and I'm not crazy(youtube.com)
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Mixpanel introduces JQL(mixpanel.com)
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Oh. My. Word. This is awesome - both the UI and how it works/what it does. Well done! Having this embedded inside JetBrains IDEs would be fab (no idea if possible via a plugin). And a slightly-jealous programmer Q about step 10 of the
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> Hopeflly PDFBox is more stable than Apache Tika. I've had a few issues with Tika (at least one of which turned out to be a PDFBox issue). The mailing lists and bug trackers have been very helpful - down to people fixing bugs or
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by pbowyer 11y ago
All the graph database traversals I've seen are fairly simple (Friend of a friend, Movies starring X). Are they a good choice for turn-by-turn navigation, and answering questions (given a traffic dataset) like: "What has been the
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Thanks for mentioning dyplr. I've been struggling with pandas (can a library be more convoluted?) and will definitely give R a go.
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by pbowyer 11y ago
The announcement blog post doesn't give much detail; here is what they said in the email: "It is important to note that any agreements in place as of March 1st, 2016 will remain unaffected by pricing changes for six months per you
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HashiCorp Atlas loses free tier(hashicorp.com)
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Do we need Control Groups (cgroups) for the Web?(igvita.com)
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Not my call :) But I think the network effect of Slack has got too big for a move - it's become the GitHub of chat systems.
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> 8000 people? Is it like a forum with many threads and topics going on or is it really like an IRC chat room with 8000 people in it? I'm a member of the UX Slack ( https://www.designerhangout.co/ ) who have ~6k membe
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BrewDog Open-sources its beer recipes [pdf](6303ffd34a16b1ca5276-a9447b7dfa4ae38e337b359963d557c4.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com)
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Word Embedding as a Learning to Rank Problem(deliprao.com)
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Cyclone Power: A Schoell Cycle Engine(cyclonepower.com)
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Rapid Assessment of Disaster Population Displacement Using Mobile Phone Data(currents.plos.org)
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Simon Wardley puts it very well in his Pioneers / Settlers / Town Planners model: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow... If you spot that new frontier do share - it's what a
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The Netflix Recommender System(dl.acm.org)
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> The accountant I work with charges more than average (from what I can tell - I pay £1k per year all-in, more or less, rarely have to lift a finger) There's accountants and accountants, and £1k for an accountant who knows their stu

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