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   The House That Vanished(bbc.co.uk)

   154 points by philbo 5y ago|159 comments
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   by philbo 5y ago

   If you go to `/integrations` you should be able to connect Gitlab there?
3. 153.▲
   by philbo 5y ago

   One difference is that we don't try to replace those products, instead we integrate with them so you can e.g. search Qatalog to find stuff in Google Drive/Slack/Github/wherever.
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   Show HN: Qatalog.com – Rethinking a Platform for Work(qatalog.com)

   35 points by philbo 5y ago|10 comments
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   by philbo 5y ago

   Wrote a stored procedure that joined with our `sessions` table. Worked fine in local dev and staging of course. And it was fine in prod too for 6 weeks or so because the other end of the join didn't have any rows yet. Eventually some c
6. 156.▲
   by philbo 5y ago

   Will you be implementing `/classic`?
7. 157.▲
   by philbo 6y ago

   Esq should not be combined with Mr though, it's either/or.
8. 158.▲
   by philbo 6y ago

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lxyzc/horizon-20122...
9. 159.▲
   by philbo 6y ago

   Goldfinger Thunderball Diamonds Are Forever Live And Let Die
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    ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world’s first debris removal mission(esa.int)

    1 points by philbo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 6y ago

    Tangential, but one of my stock interview questions is to ask candidates how they decide whether to use a new dependency in production code. The vast majority of people say GitHub stars and leave it at that. Occasionally they also mention c
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    NASA Live: New Science Results from NASA’s Sofia(youtube.com)

    1 points by philbo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 7y ago

    Shameless self-promotion: I wrote a JSON parser for node.js that specifically solves this problem of parsing deeply-nested and/or huge JSON payloads. https://www.npmjs.com/package/bfj It's entirely asynchrono
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    by philbo 7y ago

    I really appreciate the clarity and communication style of these Rust release notes. As an enthusiastic Rust user who is perhaps not as academic/intellectual as most of the Rust community, I often find Rust-related reading material qui
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    Interactive bulk editing with vim macros(philbooth.me)

    2 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 8y ago

    For node.js, I wrote a lib that can selectively parse JSON subtrees: https://gitlab.com/philbooth/bfj The specific function of interest here is `bfj.match`, which takes a readable stream and a selector as arguments: h
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    by philbo 8y ago

    http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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    Lun-class ekranoplan(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    Back-off and retry using JavaScript arrays and promises(philbooth.me)

    1 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 8y ago

    I'm not the inventor of anything but I'm going to call it and say that microformats and microdata are dead.
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    by philbo 8y ago

    Admittedly it's a very small sample size, but fwiw history directly contradicts this assertion.
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    by philbo 8y ago

    Recondite
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    by philbo 8y ago

    I don't think GitHub stars a reliable indicator of community size. They are often an indicator of how much effort someone has put into promoting the library on social media. Some people have starred thousands of repos that they only ev
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    The unexpected origins of music's most well-used terms(bbc.co.uk)

    2 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 8y ago

    Build a simple landing page for each idea. Put a sign-up button on each page. Have it open a form that accepts email addresses as a way to register interest/receive updates. See which idea is more popular.
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    Automating MySQL EXPLAIN checks(philbooth.me)

    1 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    Refactoring with Rust macros(philbooth.me)

    2 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 8y ago

    http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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    SafeKeeper: protecting web passwords using trusted execution environments(blog.acolyer.org)

    2 points by philbo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philbo 8y ago

    A use case I had for proxies was a circular array type: https://github.com/philbooth/hoopy If the index overflows in either direction, loop back round to the start/end of the array. I wanted a circular array to us