AndrewSChapman

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by AndrewSChapman 25d ago
Thanks a bingo.
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by AndrewSChapman 2y ago
This. High level OKRs should be set by the company to steer the ship, and engineering OKRs should align with the company OKRs. Thus, the roadmap is defined by the OKRs - I believe that's the whole point.
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by AndrewSChapman 2y ago
A better version of this article: https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/oldweb
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by AndrewSChapman 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I think Vertx would be a better choice? https://vertx.io/ It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
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by AndrewSChapman 3y ago
Personally I think that anyone who believes that they're going to die before climate change kicks them in the nuts are in for an almighty shock (unless you're 80). My prediction is that we have at best 10 years of anything resembl
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by AndrewSChapman 3y ago
Really? You're looking at the graph, showing a clear and frankly ominous anomaly, especially in the context of the clear wording around "the oceans should be warmest in March, not August", and this is your response? Well don
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by AndrewSChapman 3y ago
Agree! I am in the UK and have an electric bike, but I only use it for trips where I know I can safely store the bike and where I know the roads intimately. The UK needs to solve this, in addition to improving the safety of roads. There&
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
IndexDb is not a relational data store. It's much closer to Mongo than it it to Sqlite. If you want relational tables, joins, aggregations etc, you want something like this (or the original Web SQL that was deprecated). There is defin
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
- The use of AI will become mainstream with your average person using it directly - it becomes the first truly revolutionary technology change since smart phones were invented. Serious social questions start being raised. - The war in Ukra
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
Agree.
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
This is great for when you have to send someone a link to something but you don't really want them to open it.
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
The closest experience I've had to VB in a more modern context is B4J: https://www.b4x.com/b4j.html Visual designer, integrated IDE and debugger, basic language, very similar philosophy, cross platform (thanks to using
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
"4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent com
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by AndrewSChapman 4y ago
What I love about computing and programming is the ability to create something that really helps people, or that they find fun and enjoyable. The problem is that over time, the opportunities to do this have become harder and harder to find.
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
"just have money" - this is my new mantra.
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
Just wanted to add that Eleven (VR table tennis) is absolutely brilliant for exercise. After an hour of eTT and you will be sweating and have increased your step count a lot. Moreover, the better you get at it, the more energy you can put
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
There are plenty of excellent engineers at Bumble. It is not easy to get a job there.
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm no DDD expert by any stretch. I think the main topic and real difficultly of DDD is figuring out specifically where and how to separate out different contexts (the so-called 'bounded context' in D
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
DDD doesn't prescribe any structure really, other than saying you should separate out different contexts and use unified terminology throughout the business, which I don't think anyone would argue against. Are you talking about de
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
Would certainly be interesting to see the comparison in terms of computing power and power usage between a small pi cluster and a single XEON server. I imagine such a thing would draw at least 200W? And pi's maybe 5 watts? So in theo
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
Something I'd like to know, if you're moving off AWS and using your own raspberry pi cluster, what would you do to provide a performant MySQL DB for example? I can't imagine that trying to run a high performance mysql instan
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
Genuinely curious, how would you network from the 40 pin connector in theory? Is it still ethernet?
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
I'm thinking there should never be a conflict of interest between a person and commercial enterprise. If you allow prisons to enforce slavery, then you create a financial incentive to get more prisoners and to keep people in prison fo
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by AndrewSChapman 5y ago
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/job-market-soften...
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
I'm not shilling Nano. I don't use it. It just happens to be the one cryptocurrency I know that has energy efficiency on its side. Why are you so sensitive to me mentioning it?
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Bitcoin is hugely problematic from an energy consumption point of view. Do we actually need it? Is there any mainstream use of it outside of speculation and gambling? Largely it seems to be a tool to make money, exploited by the rich and
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
Personally I find VueJS a joy to work with on the FE. It eschews some of the complexities that come with React and gives you a comprehensive and simple state based component rendering framework. Vue's cli tool means that you don't
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
100 times yes - agreed.
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
You're 100% correct, as it stands there's not a great outcome. What we need is for social media to have to pay for the information they profit from, whilst at the same time ensuring that official media outlets have to produce qua
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by AndrewSChapman 6y ago
I think the supposition is that if Google and FB have to pay for news articles from proper news outlets with proper journalists, they may decide not do. At the same time, people will not change their habits of getting their news from socia

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