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by vosper 7y ago
> WebEx and GoToMeeting are OK, I guess, and I've heard good things about BlueJeans. GoToMeeting has had a banner up for the past few days asking people not to dial in on time for their meetings, because they can't handle the c
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by vosper 7y ago
As someone who has a codebase with a number of custom D3-based visualations: complex D3 could be your future maintenance headache (unless you have someone who really understands D3). It's so different from other parts of web developmen
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by vosper 7y ago
> There's no reason they can't have PWAs work well in Safari other than they want you to port your app to the App Store and get locked into their native APIs. Is it possible they also want you to port your app to the App Store
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by vosper 7y ago
> The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. > Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "L
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by vosper 7y ago
It appears that Artifact is not dead: > "We ran an experiment, we got a negative result, and now we need to see if we’ve learned anything from that, so let’s try again. And that’s what [the Artifact team] have been doing and that’s
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by vosper 7y ago
A Long Way Gone [0] is an amazing (and harrowing) first-person account of a child soldier in Sierra Leone. It's not too long of a book, and I highly recommend it. [0] https://smile.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldi
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by vosper 7y ago
> There is some pretty interesting things happening in Chinese universe that are hidden for language barrier. Are there any other things you can point to that you think are overlooked?
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by vosper 7y ago
I don't really understand your point. You and the person you replied to are both agreeing that cursors are useful for large datasets. Whatever defines "large" isn't that interesting and is dependent on context: got a res
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by vosper 7y ago
> it was causing (inadvertently) massive slowdowns periodically due to a naive approach to scanning a system for installed applications. > Turns out, it's running a node.js server and the whole UI is rendered in HTML/CSS&#x2
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by vosper 7y ago
Since CRISPR-Cas9 was discovered one of the leading figures, Jennifer Doudna, has been active in the discussion of the ethical implications, though we’re yet to see many applications of the technology.
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by vosper 7y ago
I enjoyed the brief period I spent playing with Svelte. I ran into some bugs with the built-in animation support when changing states (there's built in animation support for changing states!) that I couldn't resolve, and which wer
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by vosper 7y ago
> most arguments centered around the microcircuitry of the inferior olive If, like me, you wondered how a poor fruit has microcircuitry, well, I think they're actually talking about the Inferior Olivary Nucleus. Per Wikipedia: >
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by vosper 7y ago
I personally find Next easier to use than Gatsby, but I don't think I could really make a strong technical argument for choosing Next. It might just be familiarity and personal preference at this point. I think it might be easier to us
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by vosper 7y ago
It makes sense to also post your role if you're posting your meeting hours here. Because if you're a VP or senior director then yeah, your life is probably meetings and that's normal. If you're an engineering team lead s
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by vosper 7y ago
> Memcached doesn't pander or resort to marketing to achieve a userbase (compare to redis/labs) I think this is pretty unfair to Redis. Redis has a lot more features (tell me which ones you think are pandering, and to whom?), i
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by vosper 7y ago
With the exception of rare uses of git blame (hate that name) to figure out who made a change so I can ask them if they happen to remember about it (and if it was more than a year so my expectation is “I don’t remember” which is fair enough
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by vosper 7y ago
What? I never said anything about bulbs. A Hue Bridge is not a bulb at all. And “dumb” bulbs still exist, you can buy them, most people aren’t really complaining when they don’t last forever, and frankly they’ve got nothing at all to do wit
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by vosper 7y ago
Hah, yah you might have nailed it there
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by vosper 7y ago
I don't think DevOps was really supposed to mean "developers should also do operations" (though, that's a lot of what has actually happened, and you're right that with Cloud Stuff and other third-party solutions lik
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by vosper 7y ago
A Hue Bridge is not like a hammer. Your analogy is cute and appealing, but not actually analogous (the biggest problem with analogies...) > Philips has the resources to keep this up and running. See how your analogy doesn't work? A
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by vosper 7y ago
> There's no need for tags, complicated release schedules or processes following this model and it scales from a team of 1 to a team of 1000, I've seen it done. How do you roll back in a process like this? I was imagining that
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by vosper 7y ago
We use Highcharts at work, and have for years. It's a really good library, definitely worth the money. We had a recent adventure with building new charts in Victory, but performance was not good and we came back to Highcharts and remov
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by vosper 7y ago
> Not nearly as big of a deal as writing the mountains of boilerplate to get a new GraphQL query up and running This is the thing Hasura (and Postgraphile) is trying to make go away. From my limited experience with Hasura, it works prett
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by vosper 7y ago
FWIW, I went the other way, mostly because I found the GraphQL queries that I wrote in Hasura to be much nicer to read than the equivalents that I got with Postgraphile.
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by vosper 7y ago
What kind of performance improvements have you achieved through GC tuning? I'm surprised it's significant enough to start there. Might be something I should look more closely at. Also, have you looked at Shenandoah or ZGC?
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by vosper 7y ago
True, you could dedicate CSS classes like that. I’m really talking about separation of concerns: CSS is for styling, not communicating user intentions to external systems. A data attribute is better, and you could program the selector-creat
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by vosper 7y ago
How does the point and click UI generate event targets? At my work we use Pendo which sounds very similar to Freshpaint. Pendo’s UI generates CSS selectors. Problem is that we use CSS modules and our class names include a hash, so they chan
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by vosper 7y ago
You can contribute some money to pay for the specialist's time: both BioJulia and BioPython (through its supporting foundation) have support / sponsorship links.
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by vosper 7y ago
The Omega Tau podcast did an interesting episode about weather modeling at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e...
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by vosper 7y ago
Buy 2x 32gb USB drives (2 for redundancy). Probably cost you $15 USD. Chuck your 20gb of images on there, then forget about ‘em?

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