WilliamMayor

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by WilliamMayor 3y ago
I'll try I suppose. But if it's not accessible then I don't see how I can :)
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by WilliamMayor 3y ago
This looks really great! I've suggested it to some people in my team. Can I ask, how accessible is it? Is the knowledge base accessible to people using a screen reader for instance? Thanks!
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by WilliamMayor 4y ago
I completely agree, the start stop thing never worked for me. I also didn't like the idea of those apps that track what applications you have open, seemed really creepy. I built a tool to extract the calendar data (mentioned in abother
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by WilliamMayor 4y ago
I've built https://billabl.co with this idea in mind. It's early days and I'm just hacking on it as a side project. I use the event title for the project name, or sometimes the client name (depending on how busy I
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by WilliamMayor 5y ago
Discourse[1] is the only one I'm aware of. It's open source and pretty easy to self-host. I'd be interested in any alternatives that people rate highly. In particular I have a client who wants forums and live chat in the same
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by WilliamMayor 5y ago
This looks like a fantastic product, nice one! I've been shopping around for logging solutions like this for years. I can't find anything that meets our requirements: We're a small team of devs working on various projects for
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by WilliamMayor 7y ago
That gitlab link was a good read, thanks! One of the points was that migrations should always be reversible. I’ve struggled with this in the past when it comes to migrations that change or drop data. How do you write a downgrade script that
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by WilliamMayor 7y ago
Thanks! I kinda suspected this would be the answer really. I'll have to be more proactive about communicating these things. I'm generally on top of other communications. Setting myself a 4 week advance notice period seems like a g
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Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you let your clients know when you go on holiday?
4 points by WilliamMayor 7y ago|2 comments
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by WilliamMayor 7y ago
Also, where is the data kept? Is this GDPR safe? I'm in the UK and I'd like to keep this company/user data somewhere safe :)
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by WilliamMayor 7y ago
I've had this exact idea floating around in my head for a while now. Really excited that you've gone and built it :) As with any social network, the hard part is getting lots of people to use it. There's no benefit to me if I
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by WilliamMayor 8y ago
Ha! Cheers! I’ve not checked on my phone for a while, that’s definately not right.
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by WilliamMayor 8y ago
I found the context switch trigger too hard a problem to solve. The real problem for me was that I found any app that tried to watch me work just too creepy. So then any simple app required lots of manual effort. I built myself a solution t
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by WilliamMayor 8y ago
It tickled me that Westminster University has a policy of not allowing people to speak who are intolerant of free speech. Presumably no representative of the university can ever speak. That must be hard for them.
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by WilliamMayor 8y ago
The right to erasure is not absolute, it only applies in certain circumstances. Here's the UK ICO's advice on it: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... In the list of "When does
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by WilliamMayor 9y ago
I made vantage years ago, to scratch an itch I had with using Docker for dev work. I have a bunch of bash scripts in my repo for; spinning up the dev server, running DB migrations, running tests then deploying, etc. etc. vantage manages the
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Show HN: Vantage, run scripts inside easily swappable environments(github.com)
2 points by WilliamMayor 9y ago|1 comments
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by WilliamMayor 11y ago
I really like using a calendar for this. I use Google Calendar and iCloud in Sunrise, on my MacBook, iPhone, and iPad. Events get a title that provide the project. They then get more detailed in the description. I also have a Google Apps Sc
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by WilliamMayor 11y ago
I know it doesn't matter but it strangely bothers me that the example code defines a function's keyword arguments as kawargs.
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by WilliamMayor 12y ago
A copyright notice like this on a webpage does not serve to assert your claim to the copyrights of the page. You get those automatically. They serve to assist third parties that are trying to find the copyright holder. If I find an awesome
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by WilliamMayor 12y ago
I've been thinking of learning how to make iOS apps, it's on the to-do list. I was thinking that I should learn Swift seeing as it's the new shiny. Should I? Would I be better served learning Obj-C first?
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by WilliamMayor 12y ago
I usually think of free speech in this context to mean freedom from state intervention. The state shouldn't be allowed to treat you differently from others because of what you say. Here we're talking about how the public's tr
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
I remember hacking print "Hello world!" into print "Hello World!" and crossing my fingers, pressing the button, and being amazed that it worked! I was convinced that somehow it would be more complicated
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
I've had this conversation with a friend of mine the other day and he raised an interesting point. When the NHS was first being proposed the doctors at the time were strongly against it. The Health Secretary (Bevan I think) just flat r
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
I disagree with very little of what she said. OK, so she doesn't know how to code, she admitted that, and she doesn't know a great deal about technology. She confuses graphic design and coding at one point. Here is an MP on Questi
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
I don't think fascism is a type of socialism. I couldn't find the word fascism in the socialism Wiki page.
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
As an international student in the UK he probably wouldn't qualify for a student loan[1]. He'll be paying the £9,000 out of his own pocket somehow. [1] http://www.studylondon.ac.uk/application-advice/faqs&#x2F
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
An interesting direction for Tesco, I wonder how they'll do. I'm certainly not going to buy one, not after the fiasco with their password security ( http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-secur
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by WilliamMayor 13y ago
I think it also means that gossip spreads really far and you never know where all those feathers end up. Even if you could take back what you say, it's hard to find where the gossip has spread to. I'm reminded of the Friends episode where R