fiznool

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by fiznool 2y ago
$24k over 40 months is $600/month. Am I missing something?
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by fiznool 3y ago
You might be interested in the ‘testing trophy’ as an alternative to the traditional pyramid. https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-tests
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by fiznool 3y ago
After reading this (very entertaining) article, I think I can guess why the fuse on his machine was missing. This is exactly what I would do, if I was met with this monstrosity!
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by fiznool 3y ago
Synology has a good suite of products here that run on their NAS devices. Moments is a Google Photos clone - not quite as good, but definitely good enough.
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by fiznool 3y ago
The term you are looking for is ‘Purchasing Power Parity’. https://www.oecd.org/sdd/purchasingpowerparities-frequentlya...
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by fiznool 3y ago
243MB for an app that allows you to write text posts and attach media? Shouldn’t this be an order of magnitude smaller?
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by fiznool 3y ago
Try having kids. The amount of crap you will end up with, like it or not, will make you rethink your position in the world, and your house’s storage capabilities.
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by fiznool 3y ago
My box of wires in the attic is often the butt of my wife’s jokes, but every once in a while I find that satellite coax connector I’ve been saving, or the scart cable that is the only thing standing between old vhs tapes and nostalgia.
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by fiznool 4y ago
> I even had a boss that almost fired me for putting Lorem Ipsum in the content before it was sent to the client Next time use ChatGPT.
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by fiznool 4y ago
A couple I’ve used: - Vonage: https://www.vonage.co.uk/communications-apis/sms/ - CM: https://www.cm.com/en-gb/sms/
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by fiznool 4y ago
I’m looking forward to picking up a second hand M1 Max mbp now that these new models are out. M1 is more than fast enough for me, and I’m specifically looking for a native 3 external monitor setup, without any DisplayLink shenanigans!
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by fiznool 4y ago
Not tried, but also researched thoroughly. The main difference as a ‘Merchant of Record’ is that they are effectively resellers of your product, and pay you a (majority) cut on all sales. As you mention, one of the big attractions for me is
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by fiznool 4y ago
On the specific point about getting a US bank account in the EU. I’m in the UK and have used Wise [1] (née Transferwise) to set up a ‘virtual’ US bank account. You get a US account number to send to your client / plug into Stripe, and
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by fiznool 4y ago
I’ve been a freelancer / consultant in the UK since 2013. Here’s the approach I took. Initially, I stuck with the ‘permanent’ day job and start freelancing part time, in the evenings. This allowed me to focus on building a network of c
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by fiznool 4y ago
I much prefer the SE form factor to the notched design, but the latter boasts a significantly better camera system. If they put the dual lens setup from the 12/13 in a new SE then I’d buy it in a heartbeat. Kids are only little once -
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by fiznool 4y ago
This is probably an unpopular opinion but as a contractor, I’m not expecting to be fully integrated into a company, nor lauded for my efforts. As a contractor, I understand that I am plugging a gap at short notice, on a temporary basis. I a
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by fiznool 4y ago
Where do you typically migrate to? Or does it depend on the project?
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by fiznool 4y ago
As per the article there are 32 fuses, meaning they can support 32 ‘irreversible’ firmware updates. There have already been 13. What happens when update #33 is needed? Or are they banking on the switch being superseded by that point?
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by fiznool 4y ago
Awesome job. I guess the API spec file is key to this! I see from the repo that you use swagger. Best of luck with the project - as others have noted, this is a space ripe for improvement given the success of the closed source incumbent tha
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by fiznool 4y ago
Not the OP but just wanted to weigh in on the PHP point. Just because it isn’t the coolest/hottest language around, doesn’t make PHP any less suitable for a project like this. Laravel in particular has been a game changer for modern PH
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by fiznool 4y ago
I was about to ask how you manage to support so many different language bindings, then I noticed that you’ve built an ‘SDK generator’ [1]. Very cool! I’ve not come across this concept before - how does it work? [1] https://github
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by fiznool 5y ago
> A consultant is independent, for example; a contractor is not. The difference is that the client tells a contractor what to do, while a consultant tells the client what they should do. As someone who has worked as an ‘Independent’ for
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by fiznool 5y ago
I guess the main issue here is the lack of Google Play Services, which may mean that you can’t reliably implement certain features or reproduce conditions that your end users will face. Perhaps it doesn’t matter for a dev-only phone, but if
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by fiznool 5y ago
This was my biggest concern too, that my £300 dock would be rendered instantly obsolete. It’s nice that I could still plug these new pros into a dock with a single usb-c cable and have charging, multiple displays and usb connectivity all wi
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by fiznool 5y ago
One of the nice things about a pull-based model (polling) is that you are in control of throughput. Need to process events more slowly? Increase the polling interval. It’s impossible to achieve the same thing with push-based (webhooks), you
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by fiznool 5y ago
A few years ago I settled on a subscription to Digitally Imported [1], which is a music streaming service specialising in electronic/dance/ambient music. Most of the tracks are without lyrics which is important for me, as I can’t
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by fiznool 5y ago
I haven’t seen any comparisons yet to the competition. How does copilot compare to the likes of kite and tab9? https://www.kite.com/ https://www.tabnine.com/
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by fiznool 5y ago
We are using it quite lightly at the moment, only a few jobs per second, and with the worker running in the same thread as the publisher. The scheduled jobs feature is nice too, replacing the need for a recurring crib job. So far our experi
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by fiznool 5y ago
Mimestream looks very impressive! I will be sure to give it a try.
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by fiznool 5y ago
We’ve seen success in our current node.js application using pgboss [1] for job queueing. Since the primary database is Postgres, it’s nice to not introduce another dependency into the system, and take advantage of the infrastructure that we

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