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by simonbarker87 2y ago
One of the reasons I stopped iOS development was because of how clunky, slow, opaque and buggy Xcode is. I’m amazed people have the patience to work with it especially when coupled with Swift being so picky with terrible error messages and
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Yes I’d imagine the reason it still hasn’t been fixed after nearly a decade is management/politics etc. But it taking more than just 6 months will be technical. As a result it’s a job that falls into the area of being canned because it
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Excellent bit of pragmatism and as a user of this service I’m happy with the trade off. People wondering why it’s not a simple switch and “there must be something else going on here” have clearly never worked with layers of legacy systems w
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
My neighbours kid took the 11+ two years ago to go to a state funded selective school in Warwickshire. 4 of my friends went to a grammar school (slate funded) in the 2000s and that school still exists in the same form it did back then. Most
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I have some friends who teach in Cov, there are some particularly bad schools in the city sadly. Sorry to hear you went through one of them. The effective postcode lottery of schools has an awful affect on how the part of our lives plays ou
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
No they weren’t. There are still many (163 according to a very quick google search) selective schools in the UK with entrance based on taking the 11+ exam. Edit to clarify they are state funded and not private.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Use Your Head by Tony Buzan is totally worth a read and is how I learned mind mapping 22 years ago. I can still remember the rough layout and shape of many of the mind maps I made for GCSE and A-level revision. I’m 100% certain that reading
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Nice example of using AI for something but (like most “mind map” tools) the output isn’t a mind map, it’s a spider diagram. The point of a mind map is to label the line and not the node. This helps the brain form a visual and spacial connec
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Came here to say this. Also, most mind map implementations are actually spider diagrams which (while useful) are not mind maps, the point of a mind map is the label the line and not the node.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I wonder if this means the “podcast sponsored by Squarespace gravy train” for the last decade might end? I hope not as they sponsored a few I like but I think Linode stopped sponsoring podcasts when they got acquired.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I’ve said for the past decade that the device that had the most net positive impact on my life is my Kindle. I went from reading a couple of books a year to 30+. It brings me knowledge, calm, joy, adventure and growth with basically 0 downs
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I find that if I explain what I want and if I were speaking to a first day on the job junior then it produces code like that of a mid career dev. As always, the requirements planning and communication is the hardest part of coding.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Perhaps they still study those letters due to the ambiguity in understanding of what those people meant? We also don’t know that they understood each other as effectively as they would have if they communicated verbally in person. It is far
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
For the vast majority of human existence the majority of communication was done verbally and in person. We’ve never communicated this much with text and most of that increase has probably come in the past, what, 20 years? I think rather tha
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I thought the same, so many Show HN landing pages leave me wondering what it is the product does. Not this one, clear and concise.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Of course, and nothing in my comment suggests otherwise. You’ve highlighted tools and techniques that can be used to solve problems and puzzles. I don’t enjoy drawing for the sake of it but I’m happy to draw a sketch for a home layout or wo
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
They’re not though because they are totally out of context, there are no real stakes and ultimately you aren’t building anything. If you like solving puzzles then LC is your jam. Puzzles aren’t the same as Problems. The point of a puzzle is
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
For her passing to make the front page of HN when she has no presence in the tech world really speaks to her impact. I imagine very few people would reach that level. Wonderful actress, she was the best character in Downton.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Seveneves is my favourite book, it’s excellent and, unlike most people, not only do I like the last third it’s actually my favourite part. The world building, the reimagining, the what-if is incredible to me. If you don’t like the last thir
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
> For a lot of elective procedures, the price is even low enough that it'd pay you to fly to the UK and stay in a hotel to get things done here if the recovery isn't too long. But please don’t do this. Our system is better than
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Agree, retargeting was a waste of money - it essentially just annoyed people.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Anecdotally for the three ecom businesses I’ve run/worked at it’s been our only method of profitable marketing. As usual it’s the extreme ends of the spectrum that ruin for everyone.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
If that’s where this all shakes out to it will have the affect of creating retail monopolies worse than even in the pre internet days as marketing will be simply too expensive for many online small businesses. 90% of Shopify stores would be
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
The vast majority of websites just want to know where their visitors are coming from and, if they are selling a product, some aggregate level of demographic knowledge to tailor their marketing efforts. They really don’t care about an indivi
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I guess I could have done but the server was initially set up to respond with JSON and then the pages aspect got added in later and it felt easier to boot in htmx and bolt in the partials system and keep the json endpoints that are still ne
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I’ve been using htmx for over a year now for our internal management application (order monitoring, partner management, CAD model uploading and management type stuff) and I continue to be delighted at how quickly I can add features and iter
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
And the tickets are valid for 12 months. So you can visit one day and if you run out of time or want to go back and dive into more detail on something you can use the same tickets to come back with in in a year and go round again.
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
I think part of the issue stems from html being seen as the boring and needed stepping stone to the “fun stuff” and people writing it off as “not a programming language” When people realise how much functionality you can get for free using
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Not really a problem in the UK
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by simonbarker87 2y ago
Hence why a house number and postcode constitutes a complete address in the UK, we’ve sort of already got What Three Words with “a number and 5-7 characters” - not quite as catchy though

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