dominicr

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by dominicr 3y ago
I used to code ColdFusion, it was great! Really easy to understand and easy to build custom web sites. I saw it more as a framework than a launguage and it tried to push what a framework could do, making it's own browser widgets. Being
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by dominicr 3y ago
One of the many reasons we moved our young children from the UK to Scandinavia was to improve their childhood by reducing hazards & risks whilst also being in an environment that was more acceptable of those risks. (The paper distinguis
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by dominicr 6y ago
Rate-limiting is a real problem for it, and one reason it might not be feasible as a product as some APIs still rate-limit based on IP, so for those there would have to be some randomisation of IPs used. I'm hesitant to share it as I k
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by dominicr 6y ago
I had a need for an API middleman, recording and replaying API messages between an application and provider APIs, without setting up a local proxy. So I decided to built something myself instead of another product. As with many side project
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by dominicr 7y ago
In the UK the kitchen was a larger, family space until after WW1, when they started building more apartments in London. The art deco 1920s/30s vision of the kitchen was that is was secondary to the other functions of the house and that
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by dominicr 7y ago
The worrying possibility is the other way round: an impressionable mind that can be shaped into action by some of the more extreme ideologies of the world.
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by dominicr 7y ago
This not a theoretical argument. Trump regularly makes stuff up on the fly when there are multiple records proving the opposite. The White House has to make up 'alternate facts' on a pretty much daily basis to keep up. The results
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by dominicr 7y ago
I don’t think I can downvote replies to my own comment on HN. But I’ll take the internet crown anyway, thank you! Edit: just tried it, I can downvote your original comment but not your replies to mine.
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by dominicr 7y ago
There’s nothing to be gained here so I’ll apply the principle of conservation of energy and move on. When two arseholes blow hard all you get is a smelly room.
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by dominicr 7y ago
You come across as somebody who's trying to fallaciously prove how smart they are, so can dismiss any argument you think isn't worthy of your esteemed intellect. It's not a good look. Your username adds to the suspicion that
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by dominicr 7y ago
It's partially related to the work needed to obtain them. There's very little edible meat in each one and the processes to obtain that seem to be largely manual.
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by dominicr 7y ago
It might be worth considering in this discussion that there are different levels of what we refer to as an environment and levels of cause & effect. Variations in local climate, populations booms & busts, freak weather events: these
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by dominicr 7y ago
Yes, but it is much, much, much faster now than any previous time. Plus we have the knowledge of its effects upon us directly and the ecosystem that we rely on to survive, combined with the technological knowledge & wealth in order to r
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by dominicr 7y ago
> Climate change are now a multi-billion dollar industry ... They have zero interest in changing opinion or even questioning if this is all correct. I don't understand this argument as the fossil fuel industry is worth many trillion
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by dominicr 7y ago
A lot of people are going to read only the headline and shout "MIT says global warming isn't true" into their science denial bubbles! From my reading of this, the study does not say that sea-level rise won't happen, it&#
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by dominicr 7y ago
That text is all over the place. They go from not hiring someone because they play basketball, to having wrestling as a meditation tool. I'm not going to make assumptions about their wrestling motivations but he openly admits they wer
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by dominicr 7y ago
The MP who said this, Nicky Morgan, has a less than stellar reputation. Sounds like the comment was purely a case of throwing out a buzzword as a terrible answer to a good question. The minute any implementation of this hit the real world i
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by dominicr 7y ago
I agree that this isn't common and the use of a memified word was not useful. I think the mental image of "brogrammers" is often literally coding jocks, which is inaccurate. It is often badly used to equate to a homogenous an
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by dominicr 7y ago
I'm no expert and I've mostly been in Europe with marginal time in the US, so I don't know the frequency of occurrence. I think what's slightly more common is homogenous teams within companies that form an overwhelming c
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by dominicr 7y ago
I think the point is that companies shouldn't be frat houses full of brogrammers. If you want to hang out with your friends and wrestle to decide coding patterns, then that's all well and good. But the second that it becomes a com
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by dominicr 7y ago
Ah, but in Norway slices of bread must be eaten individually. So if you did this you'd need to peel them apart, which ends up with one slice having more of the topping than the other. Especially so with the pate toppings.
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by dominicr 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici... Sort the table by Renewables as a percentage of generation. There are countries with flourishing economies running with a majority of renewable power gene
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by dominicr 7y ago
> All lifeforms are selfish. This is such a crude, reductionist view that falls very short of reality. You know, it might just be you and minority that think this way. Luckily reality shows time and time again that people in general (def
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by dominicr 7y ago
Your comment lacks value for at least 3 reasons: 1. A lot of the discussion at the moment is about action within the USA, Europe, Brazil and China. These are not poor countries. Brazil isn't doing great but is a significant economy. Ch
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by dominicr 7y ago
> especially since the impact doesn't concern me much at all. Yes, it usually boils down to selfishness.
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by dominicr 7y ago
> The rise may be unprecedented, the level isn't. So you admit the there is a problem ;) The level hasn't been this high for over 400,000 years. How many homo sapiens were around then to adapt to that? The unprecedented rise is
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by dominicr 7y ago
> In the interest of our descendants, we had better develop technology to deal with a tougher climate, rather than cut down on emissions Or do both. Let's make the world less hostile to live in for billions of people, whilst also pr
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by dominicr 7y ago
Best version I've heard of this was "This music is great. Would you like to dance?" Most questionable was "Trust me, I'm a gynaecologist".
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by dominicr 7y ago
For basic JS functions, I much prefer to write my own than rely on someone else's. A low number of dependencies is a factor for me when choosing a package (if there are options). Quite a few packages cover basic functions, such as typ
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by dominicr 7y ago
Indeed. Whilst travelling I've met people quite a few people who had no idea how differently other people lived around the world until they saw it themselves. That knowledge of "other" is typically of great benefit to someone

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