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by rahoulb 5y ago
Apple Health and many fitness tracker apps can estimate your Vo2Max score based on your height, weight and how your heart rate varies during brisk walks and runs. It's not incredibly accurate but Vo2Max is regarded as an important indi
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by rahoulb 5y ago
For this niche it is specifically document management - CAD drawings, PDFs and MS Office files.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I've always felt one of the fallacies of the startup culture that we surround ourselves in is that winning involves "taking over the world". There are so many "niche" businesses out there - that will be enough to br
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Did Uber struggle as a result of this? I know they struggled as a result of Travis in general, but do they have trouble hiring? Has their development pace really slowed down (Kotlin aside)? Is their product suffering as a result?
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I would second this - it works really well in VSCode and it's something I would happily pay for.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Andrew Gray. I've not spoken to him for a long time; I'm guessing his plans got put on hold by the pandemic.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I was talking to a guy who's planning to launch a series of hyper-local political parties in the UK (starting in Harrogate). He told me about how things work in Taiwan - using a bit of software called Polis - designed to find consensus
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by rahoulb 5y ago
> the granddaddy of OOP languages: Java I disagree with this statement. Java just happened to become popular due to its C style syntax and various accidents of history. Smalltalk is the true grand daddy of OOP languages and none of the i
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I do all my audio editing on the iPad. And I generate artwork (generally by mangling stock photos) on there. I also do a little bit of video editing but not enough to count it as a common use case. It has a great screen, it's very fa
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by rahoulb 6y ago
One of the things I've learnt is the size of your audience doesn't matter - at least not initially. What is much more important is that the messaging you use cuts through the noise. That means they read the half sentence of your
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I invested years of my time into delphi and that was pretty much devalued because of choices Borland made.
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The war without end: Mac vs. PC(kensegall.com)
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Plus for the most part you can distinguish between mobile (07) and non-mobile (everything else) numbers (although VOIP numbers mess with that a bit).
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I literally just switched from a 2012 Mac Mini to a stop-gap 2018 model (waiting for Docker on the M1 before I move to that). That’s almost 9 years on one machine and I didn’t have to switch; I just wanted to dabble in the latest iOS dev
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Interesting article. I’m from an Indian family but I’ve lived almost my whole life in what was Danelaw so the Viking side of history is much more apparent to me. Nice to know that the football chant of “Ingerland” is historically correct th
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Thats because Microsoft hired Anders Hjeilsberg, architect of Delphi, to create the .net platform and the C# language. And in the process signing the death warrant for Borland (who created Delphi). The rumour was Microsoft's own staff
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by rahoulb 6y ago
My take on this (which I've not really thought through). With O-O programming - the code itself is fine. You're breaking it up into smaller objects, each well defined, each with self-contained state. Nice and easy. The problem i
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Is the REPL the same environment as your running code? If your environment has stuff added dynamically (for example every Rails app) you need to attach to the live environment - an OO version of gdb. And once you’re doing that, you’ve basic
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Personally I would say Ruby is the closest. But without the live IDE thing, you lose many of the great things about Smalltalk. I spend a lot of time on the Ruby Docs, looking up which methods an object has. "Traditional" IDEs giv
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Philosophy-wise, "The Art and Science of Smalltalk" by Simon Lewis is very good.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
My guess is this is exactly what the "deal/no-deal" divergence talks are about. Today, the UK and EU GDPR rules are in alignment. But on the 2nd January, there's nothing to stop the UK from throwing them away.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Absolutely this. Facebook literally knows who your friends are. If your friend is interested in something there’s a good chance you are too.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
The number of times I've had non-tech people complain about how their phone is listening to them and then showing them adverts about stuff they've been talking about has gone through the roof in the last 18 months (generally as so
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Cheers - I'll check it out
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Well that's the thing that gets me. My Mac notification bar is full of notifications from web sites and pages I've long forgotten. Yet my iPad, also using Safari, isn't allowed to receive them.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I love iPads and have had one since they first came out. My primary "front-end" machine is a 12.9" Pro at the moment - I do dev work using Blink as a Mosh terminal to a Linux box, I do sketches, I communicate with clients on
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Very few people can control the ball whilst turning as he does at the beginning. And he beats six players, some of the best in the world. As you get to higher and higher levels of football the quality of the defending increases so being abl
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Absolutely this. One of my friends runs a market research firm that works for big retailers. She says 90% of their work is about producing evidence for the decisions that have already been taken - so they can be implemented without causing
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by rahoulb 6y ago
So that's a normal Pi in a case then?
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by rahoulb 6y ago
As an aside, I once said to my uncle "there's no way I could drive in India, it's so chaotic". To which he replied "there's no way I could drive in England, there are too many rules"

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