ElliotH

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by ElliotH 1y ago
There is some change ringing in the USA, just not very much of it. There are towers around.. https://www.nagcr.org/towers-and-bands There's even a few change ringing towers dotted around parts of Africa, Australia, som
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by ElliotH 1y ago
I love seeing a change ringing article on HN, especially with well labelled diagrams! The move to a framework system where we can all ring what we like and just describe it within an agreed upon nomenclature is a great improvement rather th
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by ElliotH 2y ago
This is good news. The dart language has been getting more complicated without corresponding quality of life improvements. A first class record object without messing around with macros would be a great start.
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by ElliotH 3y ago
If you target SDK < 31 then you’ll see reduced availability on the store. That means users with phones running Android higher than your maximum targeted version won’t be able to newly acquire it. Existing users are unaffected. If you tar
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by ElliotH 3y ago
At Google there’s not really such a thing as code that never changes. Your dependencies will shift beneath you, even if it’s just the compiler itself. More likely though the libraries you use have been updated, a robot or two have come thro
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by ElliotH 4y ago
In the UK it seems a clear upgrade. I can be sitting on a train downloading Netflix shows between stops before we go underground. Speed tests often higher than I get at home over VDSL. Couldn't do that on 4G.
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by ElliotH 4y ago
I wonder if this has the same downsides as golden and screenshot type tests, where you end up over-asserting resulting in tests that break for unrelated changes? Obviously that’s a risk for hand written tests too but it’s easier (today… who
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by ElliotH 4y ago
I lived in a house with one of these in Bermuda. Lesson learned that it’s not a good idea to use up your water pressure while the power is out as then your pump doesn’t work. Otherwise seemed to work great.
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by ElliotH 5y ago
I didn’t write Java professionally before joining Google. I interviewed in Python, there’s a much wider gap between those two languages than between C# and Java. I’ve also worked with people who used to write C# since it’s kinda common in l
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by ElliotH 5y ago
I’ve personally appreciated people willing to talk about the topic of death and the person who died. As opposed to those seeking to provide distraction. In particular I couldn’t stand anyone seeking to give a positive spin on it to “cheer m
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by ElliotH 5y ago
I’ve used such a Cisco system. Compared to regular video calls the latency and quality was light years ahead, much more natural conversations were possible. By which I mean it was possible to laugh, interject, and generally have a realistic
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by ElliotH 6y ago
Depends what you mean by sustainable. Pinboard has taken care of my bookmarks since 2011, it’s still here in 2021. Nothing I put up on my VPS in 2011 still exists.
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by ElliotH 6y ago
Here: https://policies.google.com/privacy you scroll to the bottom and press Privacy.
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by ElliotH 6y ago
How do the estimates work? Are my guesses shared anywhere?
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by ElliotH 6y ago
My experience of Ruby, which is admittedly a few years old, is that people did use multiple Ruby environments through e.g rbenv to manage different sets of gem versions, which is what "virtual envs" are the equivalent of. Now, I d
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by ElliotH 6y ago
I'm really hoping this will make AngularDart a lot nicer to write. Inputs might have a null value and it's very easy to forget to account for it, will be great to catch that at compile time.
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by ElliotH 6y ago
What everyone else said, but also the presence of false positives means there'll be appeals. So you have a choice or ignoring the appeals and being accused of censoring people, or processing them - and that tends to need a person.
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by ElliotH 6y ago
I struggle to see how comparing people who like particular technical products to supporters of dictatorships shows any of the "utmost respect" to any commenters that you claim at the start of your comment.
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by ElliotH 6y ago
The reinsurance industry quite frequently handles claims like wildfire and hurricanes without needing federal government help.
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by ElliotH 7y ago
I tried this. It’s junk. So much slower than a boarding pass scan. I’ve seen good setups for this like at the UK border. This is not the same. Almost everyone got rejected and got looked at by staff, especially black people who the machine
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Using persona profiles to test accessibility(accessibility.blog.gov.uk)
5 points by ElliotH 8y ago|0 comments
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by ElliotH 8y ago
I love playing The Resistance with friends. It’s great because you’re talking the entire time. It provides a good balance between logical problem solving and persuading people around to your (potentially nefarious) way of thinking. New to m
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by ElliotH 8y ago
Happy Christmas from Bermuda!
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by ElliotH 8y ago
Surely as developers we should be able to reduce or explain our use of jargon for the person we're speaking to, rather than the rest of the world having to learn our industry-specific language?
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Altair: Declarative statistical visualization library for Python(github.com)
4 points by ElliotH 9y ago|0 comments
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by ElliotH 10y ago
Absolutely. To clarify, by 'of this type' I meant change ringing bells - I'm sure there are plenty of people making bells - equipped to kit out a tower with a new frame of full circle bells must be less common.
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by ElliotH 10y ago
Interesting, there seem to be a couple of change ringing towers with Ejisbouts bells in the US. Thanks for sharing!
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by ElliotH 10y ago
I believe this will leave only Taylor ( http://www.taylorbells.co.uk/web/ ) casting bells of this sort in the UK, possibly anywhere.
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by ElliotH 10y ago
Read the (Important Disclosure) pdf at the bottom of http://investor.neuromama.com/ - It's amazingly crazy.
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by ElliotH 10y ago
I followed the section called "Getting Started with F# 4.1 on .NET Core" in the post. Worked well for me. YMMV ofc.

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