jamesRaybould

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by jamesRaybould 6y ago
Has anyone tried to do a GDPR request yet to either see what data they actually hold, or to test the right to erasure?
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by jamesRaybould 8y ago
I'm fond of "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, and its kind of prequel "A Deepness in the Sky", they both contain some great ideas and I love the fact they have some very alien aliens! Oh and if you haven'
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by jamesRaybould 10y ago
Working in a team where the senior engineer let me fail. We were working on a fairly large new system and I had an idea about how I wanted to do something. We discussed the pros and cons and afterwards he sat down and said to me "If yo
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by jamesRaybould 10y ago
We use a few languages in our apps but for the ruby apps we use rerun in our docker-compose files ( https://github.com/alexch/rerun ) like so: `rerun --background -- "foreman start"` It is super simple and work
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by jamesRaybould 11y ago
https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/#create-an-issue gives a bit of list of things that can be set, when using it as a link title isn't required. I can't for the life of me remember where I first saw
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by jamesRaybould 11y ago
I don't think so, it seems like its just a link to what you can see within the UI anyway and simply pre selects it for you. But I am by no means an expert on it and it is pretty simple to experiment with if you want to give it a try
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by jamesRaybould 11y ago
Admittedly we use it on private repos so we haven't seen an issue with it, but there isn't anything from stopping you putting the link in other places
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by jamesRaybould 11y ago
There is already a way of doing this using the URL like: https://github.com/jamesRaybould/go-mssqldb/issues/new?body=... You can then add it as a simple href to the readme.md. It also means that you can have
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by jamesRaybould 11y ago
We are looking at using Docker to help make our dev environments a little bit more sane. We deploy to Heroku so we use the Heroku docker image to give us (what is hopefully) as close to production environment in dev as possible. I have got
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by jamesRaybould 12y ago
I guess this would be the docker image in question? https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/microsoft/aspnet/
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by jamesRaybould 12y ago
I love my fitbit and wear it pretty much religiously, it tracks how much I move in a day and how much I sleep, but 2 things irk me about it. It is constantly broadcasting my location via bluetooth LE. You have to have an internet connection
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by jamesRaybould 12y ago
I've been using OSM with first Cloudmade and then Mapquest for an internal project at work and my experience is mixed. The most notable difference in terms of quality that I have personally noticed is that the geocoding on the OSM side
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by jamesRaybould 12y ago
I agree that insulating against human fault is always a good thing to do but at some point you must trust your team to do the right thing. In fact in using a 3rd party you are trusting that said 3rd party also has a form of human fault tole
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by jamesRaybould 12y ago
Surely its not about outsourcing a status page but just making sure that it is on completely different infrastructure?
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by jamesRaybould 13y ago
Having a quick poke around and I notice that they are storing all exceptions in an SQL database. I've been looking at storing all the errors we get in our various applications in a central repository and was wondering what the general
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by jamesRaybould 13y ago
I don't suppose you have a jsperf link to contrast and compare? I'm assuming swapping between the 2 isn't all that straightforward?
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by jamesRaybould 13y ago
That looks a hell of a lot like underscore.js templates ( http://underscorejs.org/#template ) to me. What would be the advantage if I was to make the swap?
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by jamesRaybould 13y ago
If you dig back to the last tech radar ( http://thoughtworks.fileburst.com/assets/technology-radar-oc... ) you'll find the narrative for why Backbone.js was moved to the 'hold' category.
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by jamesRaybould 13y ago
I'm also curious how they got the wifi scanning working on iOS, last time I looked at doing it myself Apple had moved/removed the private library in iOS5.
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by jamesRaybould 14y ago
I had a similar problem until today when I saw in the release notes you can turn off the gravatar icons that appear in each of the commits. Doing this I found that the entire interface was much more responsive.
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
Thanks for that its really appreciated!
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
I'm in the middle of a short build (~5 days) mobile app that is using app cache and annoyingly I can't see to get it working on iOS, all the standard web browsers seem fine but iOS is being a PITA. I don't suppose you have any top tips? Tha
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Ask HN: How do you do change management
1 points by jamesRaybould 15y ago|1 comments
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
It appears that you spelt minutes wrong. Just take a look at the massive fire sale that revolved around the HP Touchpad and I think thats the kind of interest this will receive.
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
Seems like perfect work fodder for me - If I manage to remember in the morning I'll be looking to sign up.
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
This riles me every time I hear about it. I remember just watching one of the parliamentary committees on BBC Parliament and thinking why the hell are these people in charge of the biggest IT project in Britain. I often wonder why open-sour
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
I'm glad there are other developers out there who have decided that they want to look smart. My usual work attire is: shirt, jumper, smart trousers, and smart shoes while the rest of the team tend to turn up in t-shirts, jeans and trainers.
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
Yet again proving we live in 'rip off Britain'
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
As part of my degree I had to work in a team developing on some ancient Dell PDA that ran a crippled version of Java 1.4 so I can feel your pain. My favourite bit was having to pull out the SD card from my machine, insert it into the devic
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by jamesRaybould 15y ago
As a fairly recent graduate (just over a year now) I'd like to say, please stop giving us things to distract us in lectures.

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