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On Writing Well(syften.com)
4 points by tpaschalis 6y ago|2 comments
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Cucu: A compiler you can understand (1/3)(zserge.com)
2 points by tpaschalis 6y ago|0 comments
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
https://tpaschalis.github.io Probably only worth it for reading specific posts such as how I'm using vim as an IDE [1], how database schemas and event sourcing are a great pair [2], or just my 'du-jour' weekend pr
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
- Invite team members to show off their house/workplace or pets - Order coffee/breakfast/donuts for each other, or have a secret-santa-like event - Try taking coffee/lunch breaks together. It will help the team to vent a
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Highly recommended as well. Kudos to Martin; not only is it excellently written and dense in information, each chapter has a fantastic reference section which can lead you to more interesting resources, papers and books.
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
An excellent article on type-driven design and development was posted on HN [1][2], as darkkindness put it "Encode invariants in your data, don't enforce invariants on your data" [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
I've worked with Laravel in the past few months. Having never worked with PHP, I went from eew PHP?! to a delightful, fast-paced development model. It shows that good documentation and listening to your user-base will get an Open Sou
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Tell Don't Ask (1997)(pragprog.com)
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
About last year, this [1] article on the Amb operator was featured in HN, so back then, I grabbed the Rosettacode Go example and wrote a blogpost[2], going through such an example. Feel free to check it out! [1] http://www.random
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
It's satisfying because it's also surprisingly hard! Like Mark Twain once said "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one."
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Cocktail Similarity(observablehq.com)
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Thanks! Yes, HTTPS is not supported right now, as I'm experimenting with various caching/routing. Once I'm done toying around, it will be the default option.
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Also, if you are set on using a geocode system, geohashes and plus codes are open-source, public-domain algorithms, unlike w3w, to avoid issues like [1] which was being discussed on HN yesterday. [1] https://justpaste.it/39h
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
I agree that it's something easy, with already-available libraries. Nevertheless, I hope some people would find it useful, and enable me and others to use it quickly and build something on top of geohash , instead of messing around to
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Sorry for the late response! I did reimplement it in Go, and I'm going to upload on Github once I'm done toying with deployment. It was pretty straightforward and there are already a couple of dozen libraries out there, in any lan
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Hey, thanks for your comment! I coded the geohash implementation from scratch, and it was really easy! The main reason I did it (other than a fun weekend project) was to make other people interested in it, and enable them to build something
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Show HN: An API to encode and decode coordinates using Geohash(geohash.world)
40 points by tpaschalis 7y ago|20 comments
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
I'm dropping a link [1] for the same post, but on the author's actual webpage; this mirror seems to have stopped updating circa 2016. He's got some pretty neat stuff in there! [1] https://www.spinellis.gr/blog
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
I think that the main bottlenecks for a competing geocode system is being open-source, simple to understand, and having an available API to start off quickly. Geohash [1] is public-domain, features variable-precision encoding of coordinates
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Registration for Hacktoberfest 2019 is open(hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com)
1 points by tpaschalis 7y ago|0 comments
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Regarding point #2, have you checked external triggers [0] in the documentation? When starting off, it was easier for me to just push an empty/pointless commit to get the whole process running, but setting up the webhook should also be
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Sorry in advance for the shameless plug. If anyone is looking for such a get-started-right-now post, I've written one with a sample build-and-upload-to-s3 workflow [0]. It is indeed simple to get started, and I'm personally quite
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Also, Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams. Bold prediction : Skype has less than five years of life left.
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Hey Matt. Nice work with osdev.org, I'll be checking it out. Allow me to offer my point of view on your question. I initially started out this blog to improve my writing skills; I don't have any tracking, ads, analytics. I don&#x2
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Hey! Yes, I have seen die.net, and it was a source of inspiration. I wanted to build something original, use Python, learn about astronomy, and maybe help someone else with their ideas!
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
I recently posted one of my silly side-projects to HN and it reached the front-page; I'm not really into analytics and user tracking, but I was curious about how much traffic was generated. So, I just awk/grep'ed Apache'
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Really good stuff in there. I suggest watching that Adam Savage video, it's only 14 minutes long and he's captivating . Even if you're in a hurry, a couple of minutes will make the point about passion 'click'. Anot
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Spreadsheets are awesome , and I think that another thing people are dismissing is grep, awk and friends. I get it that both spreadsheets and unix tools might not be trendy, but they fulfill the Taco Bell Programming idea [1]; they provide
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
As smackay mentions, there are different 'definitions' of twilight [1], I went with the 'civil' one, which is the most widespread. The page could be modified to present a gradient, since it only requires calculating the
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by tpaschalis 7y ago
Modifying the Python code for this would be trivial. I need to think about how to best serve each 'session' though, or transfer the image generation to the client-side. Nice plan for a weekend!

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