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   by pvorb 6y ago

   I don't think it's unreasonable to fear nuclear accidents, as history has shown us.
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   I'm not sure about those milk bottles, but in Germany the "Mehrwegpfandsystem" typically gets 40 to 50 cycles from a glass bottle and up to 25 cycles out of a PET bottle. Unfortunately, this system has been on the decline in
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   But there's only one competitor. That's far from being a healthy market which offers much choice.
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   Today, starting faster than Ubuntu's calculator is not that hard. I bet this also became a snap app.
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   Developers Are Irresponsible and Childish(innoq.com)

   3 points by pvorb 6y ago|0 comments
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   It's black on white for me.
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   I'm using this in practice and it has served me well for years.
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   Yeah, I'm using Java, so in practice this means I extended my JDBC DataSource. On every call to getConnection() it sets the schema.
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   by pvorb 6y ago

   My strategy is using a separate, but equivalent schema for every tenant and setting the tenant context with every request before running queries.
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    Prince Philip Movement(en.wikipedia.org)

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

    The problem is there aren't many guides for learning "vanilla" JavaScript that aim at newcomers. MDN is a good reference, but I can't think of something more directed tutorial.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Oh yeah, this took me several missed calls until I figured it out. I wonder how that UI element emerged.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Edge used to be an alternative on Windows at least, but now it's also based on Chromium. :-( I'd always prefer Firefox, but if you want to avoid Google money, you're basically up to Microsoft or Apple. The latter tying you to
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    But this ties me to use private mode everytime I visit an important site. This is not what I want.
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    Improving URL Security with Identicons(vorba.ch)

    3 points by pvorb 6y ago|0 comments
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Put in a typo somewhere and it will appear even more likely to be written by a human.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    I think some of the reasons why there are so many note taking apps are that it's easy to start with, everybody has a use case for it (easy dogfooding) and you don't need a business idea. If you need an idea for your startup, it&#x
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Another downside is that rendering larger documents to PDF will become incredibly slow. We have documented a REST API with AsciiDoc via Spring RestDocs and the build takes like 10 minutes for the PDF only. That doesn't include generati
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    You aren't referring to this gem, right? ;-) https://github.com/aaronjanse/asciidots
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Those colorful upscaled images of ClearType text are not that helpful. I wrote a tool several years ago to illustrate the effect of subpixel font rendering: https://github.com/pvorb/subpixel-illustrator
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Also: Modern languages tend to have a lot of features that will put people off, because it's too much to learn in class probably at 2 hours per week.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    I think the C++ version shouldn't matter that much. High School is for getting people hooked on programming. I learned Borland Delphi in High School and a bit of PHP and C. I later studied CS where these languages were mostly irrelevan
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Yes! Segoe UI looks brilliant. I'm not sure how it looks on paper, though.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    I think there's a chance that if a document is set in Times New Roman, the author focussed on the content rather than the presentation, which usually is a good thing.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Why would you want to provision your own k8s cluster, if you can use EKS, AKS or similar?
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    I think you can swap the fn and ctrl key in the BIOS under sth like Config -> Keyboard/Mouse -> Fn and Ctrl Key swap. While I don't have the exact model, I think this has been possible for all ThinkPads for some time.
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    Sharding Your Data with PostgreSQL 11(pgdash.io)

    2 points by pvorb 6y ago|0 comments
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    Microsoft also offers Timescale on Azure, but only the Apache-licensed parts.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    I was going to say something similar. A lot of the drawbacks from flash sites also apply to current SPAs. I know you can get usable and SEO friendly SPAs, but it's so much work compared to plain HTML files or templating in the backend.
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    by pvorb 6y ago

    This sounds a lot like TDD, but with comments instead of tests. It's an interesting technique I never heard of. Do you ever get back to code you wrote and find a lot of misleading comments that you simply forgot to delete/update?