pbowyer

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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   > I also didn’t like that it parsed and transformed your JavaScript behind the scenes for various reasons. [1] If your data's smaller e.g. you do most of the filtering on the backend but want to transform it to display multiple ways
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   Ask HN: Rusty at math, best applied books and materials to relearn?

   8 points by pbowyer 4y ago|2 comments
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   Programming with union, intersection, and negation types(arxiv.org)

   35 points by pbowyer 4y ago|16 comments
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Because they're not meant to be pregnant and their parents will get mad? And the decision between a risky abortion or my life turning upside down looks very different in that situation?
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Is an agile coach a PM? Or do they function more like a (lifestyle, executive) coach does?
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Thanks, I'll look for that next time. The problem with Excel and these CSV files was it mangled the date column, which I only found out about after a bunch had been fully edited. I used modern CSV to rescue this and so have been suspic
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Happy paying Modern CSV user here and I say Yes please to item 4. I recently was given a pile of hand-edited CSV files (a one off data transfer between two systems). The original export was missing one column, so being able to merge that in
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Hey Mark! Same here up to now but Trooli are just starting to install cable in our area. Having looked at their service, T&Cs and reviews I'm going to wait and see as none inspire confidence, but seeing as Virgin missed out our are
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   by pbowyer 4y ago

   Or it goes: 1. I sign up for niche but well-made service 2. I pay $50/year or whatever. I'm fine with that because I'm going to rely on this. 3. Not enough other people do. The service wants to make more money and pivots to e
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    Wax: The Word Processor for the Web(waxjs.net)

    2 points by pbowyer 4y ago|0 comments
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    UpCloud (more expensive, were v fast IO when I started using them, not benchmarked for a couple of years) Vultr (have had reliability issues; again no recent data)
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    Bringing Page Transitions to the Web(youtube.com)

    2 points by pbowyer 4y ago|0 comments
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    Not surprised. Congratulations Ben!
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    Last time I looked NewRelic's PHP experience wasn't quite there. Blackfire has been advertising an APM for ages but when I checked in April it still wasn't released to everyone. The one which never seems to appear on Google w
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    https://tideways.com/ however does and is a _fantastic_ alternative to NewRelic for PHP codebases. I've no link to it other than as a satisfied customer. It's saved me loads of time, usually in crisis moments when
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    For PHP https://platform.sh has got a lot of traction, but it's notc cheap especially for small apps. If you hadn't wanted the Docker-based backing I would suggest trying one of the services that automates setting up y
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    > I'm not just talking about direct cost, but even 1vCPU != 1vCPU. And the vCPUs change at providers too. It used to be that AWS Lightsail was consistently the poorest performing vCPU in our tests, but yesterday their 4vCPU instance
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    Also https://maps.nls.uk/ is a great place to explore old maps
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    I find the posts are usually better quality than the standard HN submission, but even more the comments on HN are better. A complete generalisation, but those replying to data tools posts are more thoughtful in their comments and exhibit le
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    > Second, there are callbacks! The second argument in DataFrame.filter/2 takes a callback function against the dataframe. There’s some cool stuff we can do with that, and I think callbacks against the dataframe are a natural way to
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    Actual is going open-source(actualbudget.com)

    811 points by pbowyer 4y ago|318 comments
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    A couple of years ago I inherited an old, badly written web app doing up to 800 queries per page. It was slow and hammering the server. Being read-heavy the app was an ideal candidate for output caching. But - there were no hooks in the adm
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    That's the easiest way, but it loses the visibility and ease for supporters that GitHub's built-in feature has.
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    by pbowyer 4y ago

    Your reminder that if you live in Europe and want to stay on the right side of your tax authority then what Caleb did is likely breaking the law in your country without some extra steps. Why? If you offer incentives in return for sponsorshi
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    Two I like are the Pilot G4 range, and the Uni Pin fineliner range. They punch above their weight and if you damage the tip you haven't spent too much. The 0.3mm has become my new goto: https://uniball.co.uk/brands&#x2F
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    There's also https://danube.cloud/ which I think is a fork of SmartOS
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    I thought that - like numpy - pytorch was a thin wrapper over a C++ library. So why the slowdown?
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    > Typical practice is to find images whose inclusion causes high variation in final accuracy (under k-fold validation, aka removing/adding the image causes a big difference) How do you identify these images? It sounds like I'd
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    Looking for Swift, Android and Typescript developers to help with camera-preview, an open source cross-platform embedded camera for Capacitor and Ionic. I recently got involved and my goal is to add frame processing so you can run object de
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    by pbowyer 5y ago

    Redis Stack sounds like it provides the same features that ArangoDB does. Anyone done a comparison?