robertlagrant

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by robertlagrant 5d ago
I used to absolutely love this game. I'm going to give it a try soon. Can't wait.
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
Why?
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by robertlagrant 7d ago
Can you explain why it doesn't matter that they're easy to switch away from?
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by robertlagrant 8d ago
Given they seem to mostly offer services that are about as easy to switch away from as you could hope for, compared to, say, companies who write loads of CF that only runs on AWS, and I can't imagine why this keeps on being said for Cl
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by robertlagrant 8d ago
As I understand it you can make a tunnel, but it's under a domain you control and it's a few clicks in the dashboard to set up, and then a something to run in CLI. That's what my homelab uses. This is just a single CLI comman
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by robertlagrant 9d ago
I'd recommend this. As kids my brother and I could never complete a game on the BBC Micro called Imogen[0]. It was amazing for the time in that your character could transform into three modes (wizard / cat / monkey) and on on
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by robertlagrant 10d ago
Before uv came along, pipenv, Poetry, and (much older) Conda all were trying to solve this problem. It's a huge problem for Python that not all languages experience, because Python packages can contain all sorts. At one point if you wa
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by robertlagrant 10d ago
> they used to be under $150 if memory serves True in more ways than one!
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by robertlagrant 12d ago
This reminds me of d2lang's sketch mode[0], which I really like. Amazing if you want to publish a diagram for comment but have it not look so official someone can steal it and promise it to a customer with your name attached. Naming no
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by robertlagrant 12d ago
For anyone confused, British people would generally use tonnes (or tons, but maybe not know the difference exactly) and miles.
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
> I suspect that the number of people that use and know Groovy is steadily declining One big surprise for me at a genomics/bioinformatics company was that of the three main technologies for orchestating bioinformatics workflows, Sna
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
Plot twist: that's what happened in this case.
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
It's not hero worship to think he knew what a customer was. It's pretty basic, and given he won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he probably knew more than the basics.
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by robertlagrant 14d ago
Friedman was a very smart man. I think he knew what a customer is.
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by robertlagrant 14d ago
> What's more, they're a publicly traded company. That means their primary product is no longer what they sell. Their primary product is stock dividends. That is their primary business now. Whether you're buying a service
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by robertlagrant 15d ago
I might have to have another look. It always felt a bit magical, but maybe it's not so magical any more.
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by robertlagrant 16d ago
Hello! As I'm on Android, thank you for your service.
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by robertlagrant 16d ago
It can be the case that people don't want to accidentally mis-state the problem, or get into a debate about the problem because they know people will chime in about nonessentials. I would recommend "Have we written down the proble
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by robertlagrant 16d ago
I think people do say a hash table is O(1). It's the average time complexity (for some value of average) though, not the worst case.
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by robertlagrant 16d ago
You always still needed a specialist per-platform even if most of the code was RN or KMM[0]. But I agree - a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea. [0] I always thought the best answer was something like KMM to do all the bac
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by robertlagrant 16d ago
The criticism of Cloudflare here is reasonable, I think. I really like the CF building blocks - they're neat and conceptually useful and quite unusual. I think they could have a better developer experience though (though it probably is
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by robertlagrant 18d ago
What I always liked about mobile app development, or Docker-based development is that it increases the value of the garage programmer - they can now produce a complete shrink-wrapped piece of working software ready to go.
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by robertlagrant 23d ago
That aligns with your goals of analysing problems, admitting fault and surfacing that through use of clear and concise language. Not just simply wrong — this screams finessed, nuanced, polished communication after an understandable mistake
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by robertlagrant 23d ago
I think moving the error around is a good idea. E.g. integer division would end up with five cases: Int / 0 -> DivisionByZeroError PositiveInt / PositiveInt -> PositiveFloat PositiveInt / NegativeInt -> Neg
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by robertlagrant 23d ago
That sounds like Cloudflare indeed (or an API copy of same!)
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
What we need is a numeric type that cannot be zero.
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
I spend more time writing tests than writing code. Saying "You don't need to write code any more, only think, design, and write 'verification'" is interesting of course, but compacts a smaller percentage of the tota
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
It's the second worst.
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Fixes to Windows Phone(101fixes.blogspot.com)
1 points by robertlagrant 1mo ago|1 comments
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
I wrote these ideas - only 55 in the end, not 101 - on Windows Phone long ago, back when Blackberries were still around and Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 were the grand strategy. I dig them out for you now.

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