jamougha

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by jamougha 7y ago
Namespaces are horrible in Python because the Python XML libraries are deficient. They're generally fine in e.g. Java. (Unless you're trying to represent QName typed data, but that's very niche.)
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by jamougha 7y ago
Kubernetes used to be hard to set up from scratch. Recently we had to set up a new cluster and it just worked with very little faff.
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by jamougha 8y ago
I can read Scala fine but I'd like fast compilation and good IDE support.
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by jamougha 8y ago
The tests are ineffective. That's because, as the article notes, unit tests - tests of single functions, with dependencies mocked - give very little confidence that code actually works. Problems usually appear in the relationships betw
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by jamougha 8y ago
We have a new guy at work who loves unit tests. Yammers about them constantly. If he's working on a feature that needs changes to classes A, B and C then his workflow is: make all the changes to class A, along with lots of unit tests.
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by jamougha 8y ago
My company tried using Swarm 2-3 years ago and ran into the problem that it didn't actually work. Containers would just go missing from the network. Consequently we switched to Kubernetes. I imagine it does work now but it seems to be
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by jamougha 8y ago
CO2 emissions from international flights will be capped at 2020 levels by international agreement so supersonic flight will have no net effect on emissions. https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Pages/A39_C
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by jamougha 8y ago
Ocaml has a GIL. I've worked with people trying to build a distributed system in a language with a GIL and do not recommend it.
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by jamougha 8y ago
In principle yes, it was intended for general business reporting. Essentially each filing (called an instance) consists of a series of 'facts', each of which reports a single value and some metadata, and footnotes, which are XHTML
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by jamougha 8y ago
Storing large objects in database rows impacts performance and scalability but this shouldn't be a problem unless your files are extraordinarily large.
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by jamougha 8y ago
There's a fairly large ecosystem of tools for creating and processing financial data in XBRL which doesn't exist for SQLite. All the Big 4 handle XBRL already - I know because I write the software they use. It's quite straigh