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by rahoulb 3y ago
Take a look in a lot of boardrooms. If typing weren't such an important part of my job, I probably would too. There have been times when I've not been writing much code and then I rarely touched a computer. For calls, meetings,
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by rahoulb 3y ago
It depends entirely on your audience. If you're dealing with a hundred people in an office, then the vast majority can probably deal with a high-density UI. Because they are there for work and the UI - and more importantly the concept
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by rahoulb 3y ago
With Ruby I feel (feel being the operative word) like I’m free to get the computer to do what I want and create something that looks good and makes me happy. But in other languages I immediately feel cramped and constrained - and the code l
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I don’t mean it as a separation, it’s an emotional response to how I do things. In fact my blog is called The Art && Science of Ruby
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I always said "Python is like writing maths, ruby is like writing english"
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by rahoulb 3y ago
In general I would agree but the hardest part of any success is getting the word out there. Especially for double-sided markets like food delivery where you have a chicken and egg problem - why providers sign up when there aren’t users and
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I've been waiting for years for that (or at the very least being able to manage the watch from an iPad, as I tend to carry that around with me). The only other thing the watch is missing is the ability to connect to bluetooth in my car
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by rahoulb 3y ago
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents Section 20
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by rahoulb 3y ago
IANAL but that's why law has to be interpreted by judges rather than being a book of absolute rules. Lots of codified laws are bent or modified by prevailing social attitudes, customs or precedent, so you could argue "I looked at
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I just want to add my voice to the many thanking antirez for Redis. Back when I discovered it (probably through Resque), my mantra was "NoSQL is fraud" as I was yet to find a NoSQL database that I trusted with my data (yes, I know
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by rahoulb 3y ago
I think there's something about sounds that you learn early on in language acquisition - maybe your brain develops differently. 'th' is the obvious one that non-english speakers struggle with. I remember a dutch guy laughing
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I have a 2015 27" i5 iMac and I use OCLP to run Ventura on it. Everything is fine - apart from some very occasional graphics glitches (transparency effects and so on). A bigger issue is every time there is an official OS update, Bluet
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by rahoulb 4y ago
That's what I have been doing, but I wondered if there was something I'm missing with the submodules
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by rahoulb 4y ago
This is timely, as I used submodules years ago and got very confused with them. But now I have an Ask HN: I'm building a ruby gem (package) that will be shared across a few of my applications. The apps are separate and proprietary, bu
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I like that it doesn’t have many zombies. We’ve all seen loads of them and their rarity means it’s a genuine scare when they appear. (I’ve not played the game though but I’m going to get it now)
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Not least - the Agile Manifesto states "favour people over processes" - by definition, there isn't a fixed process that you should be following as it will change whenever people are added to or leave the team. This is the ex
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by rahoulb 4y ago
However with a native app, you've chosen to install it, so you're at least partially interested in its notifications. With a website, you may just have browsed to it and have no intention of ever returning again. So the point
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Somewhat off-topic but as someone who used to be a very heavy iPad user (the M1 Mac has kind of obsoleted it), I think of the share sheet as the equivalent of a Unix pipe. It takes your current view or output and makes it available to anoth
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by rahoulb 4y ago
While ChatGPT is limited to 2022, Bing feeds in up to date search results. Ben Thompson (of Stratechery) asked Bing if he (Ben) thought there was a recession and it paraphrased an article Ben had published the day before. (From Ben’s subseq
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by rahoulb 4y ago
The copy/paste the icon file dates back to pre-OSX MacOS. There were many theming utilities for MacOS that made the process easier and a lot of them came over to OSX/macOS, but they seem to have died out now.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Blowing the smoke away is a great touch. I miss that kind of thing - the closest we get nowadays is when things bounce or shake a little bit as you interact with them. I guess this is what Gruber was talking about recently - stuff that woul
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by rahoulb 4y ago
It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time when iTunes was a great piece of software. It used to have two jobs - play your music and manage your music - and it had a good UI for both tasks. iTunes had a "brushed metal" i
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by rahoulb 4y ago
There's a difference between a hardware or other catastrophic failure giving you serious downtime and wanting to deploy a new version several times per week.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
The apps that I build (and use dokku to deploy - thank you josegonzalez, it's a great tool) are critical to their users. While ten, twenty, thirty seconds isn't much in the grand scheme of things, if it happens just as someone is
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I know a lot of non-technical people who use Webkit-Chrome on their iPhones because they (have to?) use Blink-Chrome on their computers. Currently they just accept that "iPhone" browsers don't behave exactly like computer bro
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Not just data scientists. My friend runs a successful market research agency and she says she gets called in when management have decided they need to make a change but need evidence to sell it to the shareholders and staff.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
For some thieves the data is important. But for most, the hardware is what they are after as they can get a quick couple of hundred quid for it.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Activation Lock started on iPhones and the purpose was to discourage theft, as people were having them ripped out of their hands and then sold on.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I love Hotwire and it's reinvigorated my love of Rails.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
> certain professionals sacrifice aspects of their lives in order to facilitate treatment and professional isolation for such individuals in an effort to keep them off the street and out of interactions with regular society. That was lit

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