dchesterton

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by dchesterton 4y ago
That’s not accurate on quite a few counts. - University is definitely not free, at least in England. Fees are £9k per year. Interest rates are high and you don’t have to pay it back unless you earn over a certain amount so in reality, it’s
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by dchesterton 5y ago
A well-designed home automation system will still work with manual controls and/or if the system is offline. I have smart devices everywhere yet I can still adjust the thermostat manually, turn on lights using a normal switch, set the
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by dchesterton 9y ago
I've been using Apple Maps in the UK for the past year after buying a car with CarPlay. I also used it in hire cars in a couple of other European countries. It's pretty good. Traffic is accurate, although it is be a little slower
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by dchesterton 9y ago
I think the author was suggesting that many web apps are moving towards having a large frontend built in React/Vue. Therefore they don't need such a heavy framework as Rails on the backend and they can use something more lightweig
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by dchesterton 10y ago
I'm not so sure. My bank would accept an address change over the phone for 'telephone banking' customers, which is no more secure than an in-app chat. Even if they required me to upload proof via the in-app chat, that would s
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by dchesterton 10y ago
I've recently moved home and these are the steps I had to take to change my address with my current bank and Monzo. My bank: I look on their website which says I can phone up and do it over the phone. I phone up, go through the automat
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by dchesterton 10y ago
Yep, exactly. We're currently running the exact same code on both AWS Lambda and IronWorker, all that differs is a simple handler file. We're looking to add support for Microsoft's new Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functio
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by dchesterton 10y ago
I traveled through Baku airport in Azerbaijan last summer which had body and luggage scanners at the entrance to the terminal. I wonder how long before this becomes the norm?
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by dchesterton 11y ago
We're doing the same. I re-wrote our code over the weekend from sending solely through Mandrill, to splitting our traffic 50/50 between SendGrid and SparkPost. I'm going to implement a similar strategy for some other external
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by dchesterton 11y ago
Browsers are adding support now: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ . Upcoming Chrome releases will have 90%+ compatibility if you only care about bleeding edge browsers.
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by dchesterton 11y ago
This could theoretically be achieved by either means. The question was specifically why a vertical landing is favoured over a cushioned inflatable landing. Musk has stated in the past that they're looking to eventually use this tech to
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by dchesterton 11y ago
They want to use this tech to eventually land rockets on other planets so the rocket needs to be able to land upright. Short term it might be easier to land on inflatables but they're looking at the bigger picture.
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by dchesterton 11y ago
I find external dependencies much more reliable in the PHP world than JS. Most packages try to follow semver. Composer is one of the best dependency manager tools I've used and you can easily lock down dependency versions so you can in
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by dchesterton 11y ago
> Oracle, Microsoft, Autodesk, MathWorks, Native Instruments These companies were generally fulfilling a niche which required a certain amount of complexity at the core of the application. They were also difficult to replace as they fulf
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by dchesterton 11y ago
Precisely. Just because a language lacks certain features available in other languages doesn't mean it's not 'good'. Things that are 'good' for me: Good concurrency primitives, single binary deployment with no
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by dchesterton 11y ago
Yeah, we connect with other services so we need the ability to programmatically re-schedule a function to run in ~5 minutes if it failed the first time.
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by dchesterton 11y ago
We're using IronWorker and Lambda for a current project. Our (Go) code can run on either and we've designed the app to easily swap out the backend in case of service failure. Pros of IronWorker: More language support, better loggi