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Hoefler and Co.'s New Typewriter-Inspired Font Is Crafted for Coders(wired.com)
3 points by pbowyer 11y ago|1 comments
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What to do about Amazon and Gaming(blog.gardeviance.org)
1 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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Goguesstimate: Go package for generating Guesstimate models(github.com)
2 points by pbowyer 11y ago|1 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
A fantastic post. If only to find someone else talking about the downsides of hypermodularization. > Unfortunately, the spirit and praise of the web in Remy’s post isn’t shared by many of these articles. To the contrary, the web developm
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Do you know of a dataset showing station locations and distance by rail from neighbouring/other stations? I need to map stations and distance from ${CITY} (London in this case) but haven't found the data yet.
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by pbowyer 11y ago
You'd be fined, sat on with a ton of bricks and spend thousands on accountants' fees as they decided to 'investigate' you.
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Eigenwords: Spectral Word Embeddings(jmlr.org)
4 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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Master the JavaScript Interview: What Is a Closure?(medium.com)
1 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> And it shouldn't be. If it is, people submit stupid bugs. I strongly disagree. You're conflating easy to enter a bug with a pleasure to use. There's no reason to throw both out. Also, you're thinking of a public tra
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> The GitHub issue tracker does need to change. Does anyone like any bugtracker? That's a serious question. I've never used one that was a joy to use as a submitter (GH's issue tracker is one of the better ones, as it&#x
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JQuery 3.0 Beta Released(blog.jquery.com)
4 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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Should We Limit Web Development to JavaScript?(elevatesoft.com)
4 points by pbowyer 11y ago|5 comments
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Implications of use of multiple controls in an A/B test(blog.twitter.com)
4 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> There's a great place next to Euston station that sells Nihari What's the name of this place? I need to try it!
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> I live in the PHP world, and it seems that every hot new framework wants to do its own SQL re-hash. They always seem created by programmers who either hate SQL and want to avoid it as much as possible in favor of OO paradigms, or have
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Thanks and ouch, what a palava. Their CoC is actually one of the better ones I've seen (and I object to them on principle - if the community isn't strong enough to keep and want a good and healthy environment, there's a bigge
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> with the recent political drama and institution of a code of conduct getting in the way of FreeBSD's meritocratic approach. I missed this - any link you'd recommend to catch up on what happened?
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Motorway removed to bring back the original water – BICYCLE DUTCH(bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
1 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Can anyone help me out with how the run-up height is ~17x greater than the wave height? This is because the wave hits the shore and the volume of water in the wave gets squished thin, making it temporarily higher?
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> But clearly, that was unacceptable. They continued to shoehorn in irrelevant crap that nobody wanted. It will be interesting to see if the SaaS subscription/rental model changes this. Or if they feel as beholden to adding features
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Great advice, thanks. I am one of those developers who chases after "a 5-nines available strategy with sub-milisecond RTO and RPO" - because that's what the suits want, and I get treated like an idiot in meetings where I say
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Have you done a write-up of how you've managed to keep a real-time sync of assets/database? Or are you hosting static websites?
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by pbowyer 11y ago
What's the current status for Database failover? MySQL in my case - to mirror that is what's been holding me back. What happens with 1/10 second's database records not replicated? That could be a successful transaction o
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Link to original thread, which has been getting comments up until today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686
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by pbowyer 11y ago
I know. I didn't mind when the first outage happened in London (24th?) - these things happen. But now... this is getting beyond a joke. I'm going to have to consider moving, which as I host for friends is not as straightforward as
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is: https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/ Thank you so much for providing
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Igor the Assassin(pookey.co.uk)
1 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> I honestly don't understand why Ruby developers are all so excited about Elixir/Phoenix. Perhaps the history of Ruby uptake explains it? My feeling is many of these 'Ruby' developers started as Rails developers. Rai
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by pbowyer 11y ago
From 15 years' experience, here's some questions to ask yourself: Do you want well-written code and an extensible CMS, or do you want a great experience for non-technical users? Is the usage going to be simple, or do you need work
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Street pastors calm down drunken aggro after closing time(new.spectator.co.uk)
18 points by pbowyer 11y ago|6 comments

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