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by joaodlf 5mo ago
Not necessarily trading blows, but LIDL is huge in all sorts of figures. From revenue to employment numbers.
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by joaodlf 3y ago
Maybe this is just a symptom of working in a field with plenty of work opportunities, or the fact that I am not American, but the idea of a company demanding that I relocate in order to be closer to an office is comical at best. I can'
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by joaodlf 3y ago
> Djangos ORM isn't highly opinionated. That's just wrong. It's a fully featured ORM... Including migrations, query API (which is HIGHLY opinionated, it looks nothing like SQL), supports async (via asgiref!), custom model
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by joaodlf 3y ago
I don't think it is farfetched to say that, for the good and bad, modern software development is moving away from a single project having to handle "1200 tables". As we see the growth of "services" (gasp, microservi
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by joaodlf 3y ago
> I swear the majority of these opinion posts against ORMs are from people who must have worked in a badly implemented project that left them with a bad experience and they blamed the pattern rather than the technology. Fair. But you the
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by joaodlf 3y ago
First of all, thank you for SQLAlchemy! If I ever had to make a final choice in how I would interact with a database for a very large project that involves a considerable dev team, I would always bet on SQLAlchemy. Not that I would necessar
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by joaodlf 3y ago
> This is just reimplementing Djangos ORM, bud badly. I guess this is a good thing, as "reimplementing" Django's ORM is the opposite of what I wanted to do here :) > ORM queries compose. That's why [Python] program
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by joaodlf 3y ago
This is also why I really like Peewee in Python. If I am not going to write SQL, at least give me an API that looks and feels like it. When I look at Peewee code, I can often see the end result query.
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by joaodlf 3y ago
When it comes to migrations, I've been fine with https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate There are a multitude of extra things to consider, but none of those things are, in my opinion, imperative to having succe
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Python: Just Write SQL(joaodlf.com)
223 points by joaodlf 3y ago|277 comments
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by joaodlf 4y ago
There isn't that much to elaborate on. Commercial heat pumps just aren't good for the average UK house. They would be "alright" if the costs weren't prohibitive. I don't know the specifics of your parents. A &q
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by joaodlf 4y ago
Heat pumps take much longer to heat the system, to get it to the desired temperature. Combine that with a property that is not insulated to very high standard, and you get a heating system that is incapable of keeping you warm. Of course, y
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by joaodlf 4y ago
The costs are totally prohibitive, though. We're talking tens of thousands of pounds, whatever direction you decide to take. You could spend 10s of thousands of pounds in a "properly sized" heat pump system. Or you could spen
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by joaodlf 4y ago
> The load also depends on unique characteristics of the home like the amount of insulation or the type of windows and doors. A home built in 1850 with no insulation requires more energy than a brand new home. The load is just a technica
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by joaodlf 4y ago
Oh boy. Years ago I visited my home country with my partner. She used to prefer going to dentist there, old habits I guess. On this particular trip I agreed to a check up as well - It had been a while since I had my teeth checked, why not?
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by joaodlf 4y ago
Yep, the one with the handy digital display.
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by joaodlf 4y ago
An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a
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by joaodlf 4y ago
See, the thing with DDD is that it is VERY complex. I mean, "the" book on it (Evans) is beefy. Putting all those ideals in practice is hard, especially when so many of the ideas are not necessarily to do with the act of software d
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by joaodlf 4y ago
Yep. This is exactly how I feel. Django is great to get projects going, but eventually you just end up fighting it a lot. I even recommend people not to install too many flask extensions, just use Django if that is how you like your develop
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by joaodlf 4y ago
This is probably quite unpopular, seeing as the FastAPI docs have been so praised in the past... but I really dislike how FastAPI is documented, which has really put me off of the project. The FastAPI docs read like a full project, a very d
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On Google(joaodlf.com)
2 points by joaodlf 4y ago|0 comments
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by joaodlf 4y ago
I love coming in to the office. Granted, I live a 20 min walk away. The walk in is through a beautiful county park, surrounded by nature. Most of my colleagues who live further away have stopped coming in. Understandable, I wouldn't wa
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by joaodlf 5y ago
Hobbies that translate to your profession (like keyboards to programmers or headphones/amps to audio professionals) can very much become placebo. Unless you are financially crippling yourself over the "hobby", it's OK. I
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by joaodlf 5y ago
Brown switches? MX Brown switches? Might as well not even put "rabbit hole" in that sentence... I kid, I kid, it's all down to preference... That said, you can get yourself a single mechanical keyboard and call it a day, unti
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by joaodlf 5y ago
I sometimes really question if I'm back on reddit while reading some of these replies... You're in HN, talking about MS and acquisitions, telling them to learn to compete? Am I on the right website or has my browser been hijacked?
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by joaodlf 5y ago
This sounds a bit like "ms should just make better games". Games are hard. Extremely hard. If Microsoft managed to incorporate the Battle net portfolio into their gamepass, there is some argument to be made about how much better t
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by joaodlf 5y ago
I'd buy shares right now if they had gotten rid of Kotick.
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by joaodlf 6y ago
Tech, more than likely, contributes towards personal experience. I can safely say this about Portugal: this is a country where companies do not want to invest in a tech department. There is a culture of outsourcing all tech related work. Th
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by joaodlf 6y ago
> The problem in Spain is how prevalent these attitudes are, in a macro context where good opportunities have been scarce for decades This really nails it. I'm originally from Portugal (now living and working in the UK). Staying lat
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by joaodlf 6y ago
Certain types of product have become directly linked to a product name, yes. Google is smart enough to know this, though. If I google for my non VC funded product name, which is unique, why should the first result be for a direct competitor

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