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by vosper 6y ago
If you just want to see the plane, and not have an epileptic episode, then don't watch "the best part" video, watch the "XB-1 up close" clip from further down the page instead: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by vosper 6y ago
The solution to this might one day be Starlink and Wifi calling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
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by vosper 6y ago
> developers started feeling this part of the work wasn't very important, and gradually moved to spending more time on delivering regular features from the Sprint, neglecting the bugs. Do your developers maybe have too much autonomy
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by vosper 6y ago
Hopefully GH will apply this to Github Actions, which seem like an exploit vector just sitting there. GH Actions are: - complex enough to develop that third-party solutions are attractive, especially for simple-seeming tasks (I have just be
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by vosper 6y ago
> One bad bit and you can end up taking the opposite action of the one you should have performed. And bit flips do happen https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-broccoli--syncing-faste... https://lobste.rs&
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by vosper 6y ago
> Why reinvent the wheel? Because sometimes it's fun, and when you're doing it for personal projects it's up to you what route you want to go down. Wordpress or Ghost would be valid choices, too. I imagine there are people
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by vosper 6y ago
> I made a long loop in the mud that went around all these trees. I'd pull water out of the well using a rope & pulley & pour it down the loop. The water would wind its way until it reached all the two dozen trees. About an
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by vosper 6y ago
People who are downvoting the parent comment: I’d love to know why? I won’t claim expertise here, but it doesn’t strike me as clearly incorrect.
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by vosper 6y ago
> It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: [...] a Minimap Do people actually find the Minimap useful for coding? If so, how? And why is it better/different than just a scrollbar, or searching? I&#x27
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by vosper 6y ago
Thanks, I've long since forgotten most of my Econ courses from uni :)
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by vosper 6y ago
A fair few of the these lists (which are fascinating, by the way - just pick one at random) are ultimately about respecting people and culture. Being bothered to correctly handle calendars or naming conventions (and lots of other things) th
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by vosper 6y ago
This is cool. I think it would be helpful if the input was in terms of units of currency, rather than Big Macs. Like: I want to charge €10 a month for my product in the EU. Use the Big Mac pricing model to tell me what that is in Brazil. Ac
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by vosper 6y ago
I really like how Ian McCollum (host of Forgotten Weapons) discusses guns without glorifying them. He doesn’t seem to be a war or gun nut, and he doesn’t seem interested (or at least he presents no obvious interest) in violence, death, or d
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by vosper 6y ago
I've never worked anywhere that OKRs are actually taken seriously or followed through. They'll get rolled out with a big hype, people will fill them out with varying degrees of diligence and understanding of how OKRs are supposed
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by vosper 6y ago
> We investigated using Prisma v2 as a way of auto-creating a GraphQL API that directly interfaces with a PostgreSQL database, but we immediately pivoted to other solutions as soon as we discovered that the Prisma Client is really spinni
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by vosper 6y ago
Thanks, this really helped me understand how row level security can be implemented effectively to partition tenants. It probably seems an obvious idea to many, but I appreciate it nonetheless
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by vosper 6y ago
I guess if these kind of fires are “the new normal” for California [0] (and also probably Australia) we should expect that to carry over to how it is covered in the media, too. Reporting will become increasingly localised to the areas affec
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by vosper 6y ago
Pretty much just a rehash of the various other articles on this topic, several of which have already been discussed here. See this from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291443
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m not saying that specific section of the book is wrong, but you should be aware that both the book and author have come in for some pretty serious criticism, including misrepresenting research https://guzey.com/books&#x2F
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by vosper 6y ago
It’s really out of hand. HN seemingly can’t help itself bikeshedding the naming of things, but you’d hope people would check to see all the other similar comments before posting their own not-so-unique take as a top-level comment... Easy, a
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by vosper 6y ago
> Is it because we're currently maxing out the hydro-electric potential of the earth so there's no more gains to be had I'm sure this is not the case, but there are often environmental and political concerns around hydro.
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by vosper 6y ago
From my experience, if you want standard charting (bar, line, pie, etc...) you’re better off using either a different library like Highcharts, or something higher-level that’s built on top of D3
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by vosper 6y ago
I've seen a theory that companies are trying to get IPO'd now, in anticipation of a weaker market in the future. I think this theory tends to be based on the idea that the current state of the stock market does not reflect reality
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by vosper 6y ago
> Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply Ok, go on > create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some ini
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by vosper 6y ago
>> nothing about that dump is an "oasis” > I can confirm that, even if a smell lingers, it is far more palatableand less intense and all encompassing than it once was Sounds like you’re in agreement with the statement that it’
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by vosper 6y ago
A fair portion of this reads like someone recapitulating TechCrunch hype/gossip articles from the early/mid 2010s. “Hyper-orgiastic” Silicon Valley? Maybe for some people, but not for most.
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by vosper 6y ago
Thanks, this makes sense. Do you have any idea what the factor’s cut is? It can’t be too much, because otherwise the freelancer would wait for direct payment - unless they are really tight for money - so my gut feeling is somewhere between
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by vosper 6y ago
5 years of experience in any frontend framework, including Drupal, is enough time to learn how to stand something up pretty quickly. I’ve been doing web apps for 15 years: the frameworks are not that complicated. And if we’re picking Drup
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by vosper 6y ago
I don't think this comment is fair - acemarke does show up in virtually every Redux discussion on HN, but I've found his comments to be reasonable and helpful. I don't think labeling them as spam is justified. He makes an eff
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by vosper 6y ago
Genuine question: What technologies / techniques are you using while your competitors flounder around with GraphQL?

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