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by porker 7y ago
> This was a literate program What language and/or system were you writing in? I discovered literate programming in 2003 and was excited by it (still am). But it never took off and the tooling was poor (Leo, the Literate Programming
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by porker 7y ago
> it was hard to find good [key job roles] who were able to work together and effectively run their shit Having had to interact with sysadmins and others, first at at a university and then in business, "work together" is too fr
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by porker 7y ago
> $30k is peanuts. That's one month's wages for a senior dev. Only in very unusual places in the world, with unusual employers. > My shitty laptop costs pretty close to 3k with all the mods I have on it. If it's "s
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Easy File Uploading with JavaScript – FilePond(pqina.nl)
2 points by porker 8y ago|0 comments
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by porker 8y ago
This. The best benchmarking for search engines is: 1. Does it return relevant results? 2. Can it handle complex queries? 2) is only required in specific use-cases, but when it's needed it's _really needed_. 1) is the
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by porker 8y ago
The Colossus is "Fireproof" according to the marketing website [1]. It appears to contain Lithium batteries, so how hot do you think it can get before it stops working? 1. https://www.shark-robotics.com/en/rob
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by porker 8y ago
Awesome thank you, I didn't know this!
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by porker 8y ago
> Ajax, selectors and CSS transitions are the Nickelback of creative possibility. And the jQuery Ajax methods are super-handy. POST with the fetch API is long-winded; while the jQuery promise-handling sucks, it was enough to make me use
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Lorri, your project's nix-env(tweag.io)
1 points by porker 8y ago|0 comments
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by porker 8y ago
I've talked with your sales teams a couple of times about tag-based purging, which is the one Varnish/Fastly feature I cannot live without. I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not
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by porker 8y ago
Ahh SUSE... the one I wanted to use 2001-2005 but didn't because it was a big greedy commercial company behind it. The idiocies of youth. Now I kinda wish I'd made that commitment. Must check it out again.
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by porker 8y ago
I happen to like VCL and what you can do with it. I would rather Fastly got coverage for what's possible, rather than Cloudflare Workers getting all the blog articles. But without a cheap/free tier for smaller projects (and all my
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by porker 8y ago
Because once getting started ~20 years ago (first with FreeBSD, then dabbled in Slackware, then Debian => Linux) re-learning the location of config files is not a priority and indeed I would avoid like the plague. Remembering slight synt
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by porker 8y ago
> - Fastly: the most technically advanced CDN, but also one of the most expensive ones (there is a reason why StackExchange and Reddit moved from Cloudflare to Fastly) Especially with the crazy SSL pricing. I appreciate there are technic
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by porker 8y ago
How about for lower frequencies: motorways, busy roads (no individual car noises; a solid background roar)? They make having the window open here a nightmare.
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by porker 8y ago
> Just because you (the person before you, actually) are a reclusive jerk, doesn’t mean everyone else also hates people and chitchat. Downvoted for tone. You do not need to name call here on HN.
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by porker 8y ago
> Mathematica is literally the worst PL I've ever used Have you used Maple? I had to for a General Relativity course, and far preferred Mathematica and its syntax.
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by porker 8y ago
If only the mic was my problem and not the network! On cable here (Virgin, UK) and impossible to get VoIP to work well (lack of delay, crisp audio etc). Have tried half a dozen service providers and a range of codecs (including Opus). When
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by porker 8y ago
> But working (and billing) in weekly Sprints seems to work very well once you've convinced your client that the framework is the right way to do it. Client want a quote, but we tell them we can't really give them any sort of e
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by porker 8y ago
> Are you not maybe specifying too much too early on? > Back when I did some freelancing gigs, the general advice I got was to spec a high level, general proposal which included all the client's requirements. Broadly. Then decide
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by porker 8y ago
> What is your change request process? I have done everything from formal documentation of changes, requiring pricing and sign-off for every variation, to vaguer schemes. The change request system sucks; it loses sight of why we're
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by porker 8y ago
> I went from hourly, to per project, to weekly billings I have tried all three, read all the HN favourites on why value pricing is the way; tried charging for roadmapping; and yet I come back to the most stressful of day-rate (hourly by
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by porker 8y ago
I've looked for this and never found the right search term. Nice! Likewise, I can't identify the search terms to find a library for extracting data from a text corpus - e.g. to identify addresses, dates, names, phone numbers. Does
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Uncovering PHP Bugs with Template – Vimeo Engineering Blog(medium.com)
2 points by porker 8y ago|0 comments
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by porker 8y ago
> Really genuinely interested in understanding why you found the reading experience wonderful! (no snark intended =) The print-style layout isn't good. It's the way the comments/links are embedded in the document as I read
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by porker 8y ago
What a wonderful reading experience, and commenting/exploration process.
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by porker 8y ago
Have people listening recommendations to hear music without equal temperament? Having played the violin for over 30 years - and sung a bit of barbershop - this is the first time I've come across it, and I'd like to hear the differ
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by porker 8y ago
> One solution is to have a generic reference property paired with another indicating which table to reference > You can still benefit from indexes for joins in the same way that you would with actual foreign key constraints, but the
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by porker 8y ago
Postgres is powerful, I want a row in a table to have a relationship to one or more rows in _any other table_ in the database, and Postgres can't help with that. That to me is a compelling reason to use something other than Postgres.
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by porker 8y ago
> Once Microsoft is able to push a real CRM competitor to Salesforce Given how Salesforce is squeezing every last cent out of users (new or long-time) that day can't come soon enough. I like Salesforce (the product) and enjoy workin

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