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by amarraja 5mo ago
Is this new? A freind's BMW i3 had one of these many years ago. (Defnitely pre covid) edit: the frist generation was 2013
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by amarraja 4y ago
Not sure if electron is the issue, I believe vscode is based on it (I may be mistaken). Really wish they would sort Teams out. I like the concepts and product, but when in a video chat I have to close most apps. I tried opening a JIRA ticke
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by amarraja 4y ago
I skim most Show HN posts and think "that's cool", but never look at it again. Seeing this, I thought that's cool and it's something I really want to start using! Thanks!
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by amarraja 5y ago
> <edit> I've reconsidered. It's really insulting. In the most objective way possible, if I was a FOSS author, I'd find this comment insulting Pour a beer down your sink for every dev who has abandoned a project - mo
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by amarraja 6y ago
Yep exactly this. We've gotten into messes before when people are working on - or think they are - the same branch. Some os think they are the same, others different. Also just finished migrating something that ran on IIS to linux, an
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by amarraja 6y ago
Just want to throw a small one in there: branch names are all lower case. Prevents strange issues when you use a case insensitive file system like on OSX or Windows
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by amarraja 6y ago
I never had strong feelings about systemd, and the first time I used it I did prefer the service files to sysvinit scripts. The real wow moment came when discovering socket activation which allowed systemd to take care of zero downtime depl
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by amarraja 6y ago
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" At the top of the script is the closest I fount to `set -e`
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by amarraja 7y ago
Some of these strips are far too close to home to be funny
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by amarraja 8y ago
Not OP, but during a recent hiring process we asked for backend engineers (e.g. java/golang/databases etc). Half of the CVs we received were for Angular/React developers. I'm unsure how this could happen with any sane ve
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by amarraja 8y ago
I knew the design looked familiar. If anyone uses Solr, this does the same for its debug output https://explain.solr.pl/
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by amarraja 8y ago
I've just compared TablePlus to PGAdmin (the new web one), on a fast query which returns 1000 rows. The responsiveness of TP is really noticable
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by amarraja 8y ago
> There usually is a tradeoff when something is forced into something alien. Exactly! My thoughts whenever I see people using nosql databases.
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by amarraja 8y ago
That's most of the internet for me (off black text on off white backgrounds). Firefox reader mode is my saviour.
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by amarraja 8y ago
Hopefully they're learning this lesson. I can just see it now. A company's app is dying from all the timeouts to a slack webhook, however they can't deploy because slack is down.
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by amarraja 8y ago
Spare a thought for the chatops crowd who may be blissfully unaware that their own infrastructure is down
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by amarraja 8y ago
They are useful if you only use them for simple things. Any queries which are non-trivial or aren't cleanly expressed in your object model can lead to absolutely monstrous queries. I once saw a 1000 line query - which unsurprisingly ti
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by amarraja 8y ago
I remember watching the "screencasts" (they were gifs back in those days), of Nat working on Beagle [1]. Sadly it's a dead project now, however, it shaped my attitude as a developer - how can I write software that _helps_ peo
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by amarraja 8y ago
I for one am quite happy about this. Github innovation seems to have stalled, now with Nat/Scott Gu at the helm there could be exciting times to come.
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by amarraja 8y ago
Being able to say "ok google, take me to a gas* station" without having to touch my phone whilst driving. * I'm English, and we tend to say "petrol station", sadly even Google's AI is not there yet
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by amarraja 8y ago
I've used this in the past https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper There is also a wrapper to expose it as a rest api. Looks like it is not maintained, but easy enough to write your own https://github.co
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by amarraja 8y ago
I read Programming Elixir in a weekend(ish) including doing most of the exercises. Was quite eye-opening to the world of functional concurrency.
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by amarraja 8y ago
To keep up to date with the latest Javascript frameworks
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by amarraja 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but.... > Find a way to say "yes", which satisfies their need to hear you say "yes" This is the best skill to train if you're going to be working with enterprise clients.
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by amarraja 9y ago
A mishmash of stuff I have copied from various public "dotfiles" repos. Quite a few gems in here: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
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by amarraja 9y ago
Pascal, VB, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Golang, Elixir. I'd put SQL in there somewhere, but it spans the whole time, and I'm also biased since I believe it's the most important language any app developer should know.
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by amarraja 9y ago
We had a small bespoke customer support system we wrote back in 2000 or so. The system would allow an operator to type the message body, and would automatically generate the mail text e.g. "Dear {customer name}, {body}, Regards {operat
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by amarraja 9y ago
It depends on the global reach of your website, but please remember S3 is not a CDN. If you host your files in the US, clients in Europe will see a significant latency, for example. If possible place a CDN in front of your bucket.
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by amarraja 9y ago
Thanks, first I've read that and it certainly put a smile on my face. One of the first articles I remember reading on HN was about an SR-71 [1], and it seems it's by the same pilot because Walter is his crewmate. [1] http:/&
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by amarraja 9y ago
Clicked through expecting to learn something new, but instead unearthed an old memory - thanks OP!! When I was about 7 I used to help my dad in his shop. He had a fairly basic till (this was the 80's), which he would let me punch the n

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