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by twodave 4y ago
I think it’s fair to assume both exist. The (small) company I work for sold to PE in 2019. They basically dumped a bunch of money in to help us scale up quickly. It hasn’t all been great, but revenue continues to grow and we have (many) mor
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by twodave 4y ago
Is the answer to convert the letters to integers, then compare that list of integer strings before/after alphabetizing it? I haven’t studied leetcode (never needed to), but this is the first thing that occurred to me…
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by twodave 4y ago
Software engineering in general does not test well. It is, like many trades, best learned by modeling. This isn’t really conducive to large classrooms/numbers of students. In the end copying is perhaps exactly the best way to learn goo
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by twodave 4y ago
Amazon built the original. I think these copycats have sprung up as a result of a patent expiration the early 2000s.
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by twodave 4y ago
I read the title as “VR bookshelf” and imagined someone scanning in an entire book and representing it in the ‘verse in some way. Not to derail from the content here too much, but I think this other idea could actually be pulled off pretty
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by twodave 4y ago
If you don’t mind going with Bluetooth headphones, there are many watches out there that’ll store mp3s and playlists on them. Kill several birds with one stone and get a nice Garmin that’ll also track vitals, map your hike, and measure your
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by twodave 5y ago
I actually got into programming on my graphing calculator in high school in the early 2000s. Most of our tests from algebra up thru calculus were simply "apply the correct formula to the problem". I would simply program the calcul
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by twodave 5y ago
So, sure--there are people who will drill you down into an abyss of perceived inadequacy because of something totally unrelated. It may be that they don't like you. It could also be that they're just having difficulty communicatin
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by twodave 5y ago
Fine, but that applies to even data structures and other domain types, which even in a more classically-OO language you wouldn’t pipe through a DI framework. I think DI as a code organization concept is great, but if I have to write a facto
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by twodave 5y ago
I came here to ask a similar question. I’ve spent most of my career writing C# where DI is prevalent. Over the Christmas holiday I picked up golang a bit. When I went to learn about DI for golang it seemed very counter to the principles of
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by twodave 5y ago
It reminds me of the BS that the shopify app puts me through every time I make an order. I'm already paying for the service--there should be an easy way to opt out of ALL ratings/reviews/feedback/telemetry if I don'
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by twodave 5y ago
I'm working on Nap[1], a fast, file-based framework for defining and running HTTP integration tests via the CLI. The ultimate goal is to embed Nap into the SDLC--tests that are defined during development and then run during CI/CD.
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by twodave 5y ago
I think it just depends on the receiver of the gift. My daughter LOVES figurines and her and her friends will get together and role play with their different animals. It’s very much an experience. But I’d never buy something like that for m
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by twodave 5y ago
I tested into the gifted program in elementary school, and honestly it was refreshing in that it gave me something else to do. I didn’t have great instruction or curriculum. But I was given freedom. I’m sure lots of kids need these rich cur
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by twodave 5y ago
Or at least if they're going to end support for a device, give us one last update to open up the bootloader so we can make some use for the thing other than as a paperweight.
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by twodave 5y ago
I think we have all seen what happens when a platform has no moderation whatsoever. And a good many of us feel like it goes too far on the platforms that do. Where’s the middle ground? Is there one? Maybe social media is just a bad idea—who
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by twodave 5y ago
First, thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts. Blackbox integration tests are definitely the ultimate goal here. I think tool works as a request library on teams where the typical QA is comfortable with terminal/yaml. Where
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Show HN: Nap – A File-Based HTTP Execution Framework(github.com)
5 points by twodave 5y ago|3 comments
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by twodave 5y ago
So, this is an idea I've been scratching at during the holiday week. It's my first project in Go, so be gentle. The code hasn't quite caught up with the documentation, but I think I'm far enough where I'd like some
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by twodave 5y ago
I noticed it right away. I am naturally a very accurate speller, though. I think it has to do with the ability to more or less visualize words. My wife can't visualize them. She struggles with spelling and wouldn't have noticed th
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by twodave 5y ago
Our production infrastructure is on Azure and we're seeing basically no impact from this event. I'm not sure what constitutes a major outage but we've had a few others this year that were much worse than this in terms of busi
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by twodave 5y ago
I had the 8440 as a kid[1]. I loved that set. [1] http://www.technicopedia.com/8440.html
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by twodave 5y ago
This. If the business can't sustain itself because of labor costs it's not just those unfilled positions that suffer. If this happens too much you end up with demand for those ancillary jobs that folks are willing to do for market
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by twodave 5y ago
Or, in other words, businesses are losing their viability resulting in lost jobs as they shut down.
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by twodave 5y ago
I’ve seen multiple dev shops migrate from monolith to “microservices” without changing their data store, and the sad state that results is basically what this article is presenting as a positive. It’s anything but. It is incredibly difficul
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by twodave 5y ago
Awesome project Jacques! I saw a comment of yours on an article a day or two ago and was hoping to see this pop up soon. I've found the most difficult thing about riding an e-bike is the other motorists have no idea how to react to you
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by twodave 5y ago
Indeed. And as a software engineer I find there are many parallels with this to writing code.
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by twodave 5y ago
Wanting to write about a subject you're not fully prepared to write about isn't dishonest, it's just premature. I think the difference that this has from dishonesty is dishonesty can be cured by... simply being honest. These
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by twodave 5y ago
I don't know that I agree that was the point. Writer's block doesn't have much in common with writing tactfully. That said, I can appreciate the article as an honest viewpoint and still disagree with (parts of) it myself.
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by twodave 5y ago
IMO this article comes off a little strong. It's not all that uncommon for a topic to be difficult to write about for a variety of reasons besides dishonesty. I can think of several off hand: - Lack of experience (you're blocked b

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