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by iamdanfox 8y ago
This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos for a few weeks now and it made upgrading to Gradle 5.0 a zer
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by iamdanfox 8y ago
We require all teams to use semver and usually define the Conjure API in the same repo as the server that implements it (so they are versioned together). Most of the time teams want to preserve wire-format back compat (i.e. only add optiona
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Introducing Conjure, Palantir’s Toolchain for HTTP/JSON APIs(medium.com)
61 points by iamdanfox 8y ago|10 comments
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by iamdanfox 10y ago
It's definitely not as elegant as Scala or Haskell, but I think their justification is very reasonable. The current implementation is maximally compatible with existing usages of tagged unions (e.g. Redux actions), because it allows y
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I usually want to keep an eye on my Selenium tests so I can debug them if they get stuck. When I don't have enough space to leave the selenium VNC window open, I put it underneath a semi-transparent terminal window which allows me to
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
Nicely comprehensive blog post, Zorium looks like it is the result of a lot of hard work! Since this looks like a serious library (rather than a personal dev exercise), I'm curious about why you decided not to go with React: 1. The Rea
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
There are a few interesting answers in the 'Startup Traction' topic on Quora [1]. Lots of them mention having a great product that solves a real problem, having a content-rich blog to drive traffic, inviting friends and some PR. (
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
Someone got a Linux image that could run `ls` down to 6.12MB by intercepting file accesses and deleting anything unused... See "How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8%" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438323 )
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
There's a gem right at the end from 1878: "Oldest known publication of a recording of recognizable phrases in the English language (“Brown University”; “How do you do?”)"
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I was expecting the patent [1] to describe some kind of Amazon Echo, stuffed into a teddy bear with responses and a personality. Instead, it seems to turn the toy into a glorified TV remote that sends "media device commands to a media
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I tried the name `~SnapSwap` to actually get into this app. (I found this from a 'Popular Gateways' page [1].) The blank input field isn't a super friendly way to show people your product if they haven't encountered Ripp
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
This is familiar to programmers who are used to pointers or references. (Java's `final` does the same thing). To prevent changes to an object's properties, you could use `Object.freeze()` instead [1]. NB, this is shallow, so a chi
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Animals, plotted by Intelligence and Tastiness(mdaniels.com)
1 points by iamdanfox 11y ago|1 comments
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
A women-in-business non-profit found that Fortune 500 companies with most women board members consistently outperformed those with fewest [1]. Market forces should therefore cause the numbers of women board members to increase accordingly,
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I would hesitate to make primary schools kids learn 'coding' because personally, I find the underlying problem solving more inspiring than learning syntax. FIRST Lego League [1] offers a compelling alternative though. I competed
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
Otto Lindberg did exactly this to for a whole town in the 1930s! Amazingly, the fake town (called 'Agloe') "became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy again" [1] [1] http://www.npr.or
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I bet there would be a psychological impact. People would curtail their usage and frantically switch antennas on and off, resulting in an overall poor experience. Perhaps having a big allowance in mind just encourages people to use their da
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
I often have to manually disconnect from a slow wifi connection and switch to 4G. Project Fi doing it automatically looks great! Those tariffs seem pretty steep though - I'm getting 3GB of 4G data for £15 a month [1]. Is $50/mo
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by iamdanfox 11y ago
Will this be the first spacecraft mounted laser weapon? > "we plan to install a full-scale version on the ISS, incorporating a three-meter telescope and a laser with 10,000 fibers, giving it the ability to deorbit debris with a rang
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Having used both, I personally prefer Strava. I've found it far better at motivating me to run. You can compare your performance against other runners along pre-defined segments (e.g. some hill you regularly run). The two people I&#
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Experiments with Rust and Emscripten(github.com)
3 points by iamdanfox 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
From http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook/specs/ Supported scaled resolutions: - 1440x900 - 1280x800 - 1024x640 I think the screen will probably be ok.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Android compatibility looks feasible since the kit will be open source [1]. That should open up the ResearchKit demographic quite a bit! [1]: https://developer.apple.com/researchkit/
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Google Web Fonts on GitHub(github.com)
68 points by iamdanfox 12y ago|7 comments
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
It seems you can bypass the WSJ paywall by Googling the article name: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Google+confirms+plans+to+o...
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I've greatly enjoyed writing CoffeeScript, but am concerned that over the long term, it will fall behind javascript in terms of feature support. The [Babel][1] transpiler (formerly 6to5) and tooling like Facebook's typechecker, [f
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you meant by 'architecture', but Paul Graham [1] describes writing the first version of HN in a dialect of Lisp called 'Arc' [2]. An old version of the code appears to be available on Gi
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Completely agree - speeding up only really works with certain accents and presenting styles.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
If you have to watch a video though, try increasing the playback speed (it's in the little settings gear on the YouTube player). I normally listen for a few minutes at double speed, then drop down to 1.5 if necessary.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I've been trying this philosophy out on a little GitHub Pages editor app [1]. Everything happens client side apart from a tiny bit of OAuth handled by heroku! 1: http://github.com/iamdanfox/ghupdate/

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