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by jscn 7y ago
Sounds very reminiscent of The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth[0]. Will check it out, thanks! [0] http://paulkingsnorth.net/books/the-wake/
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by jscn 9y ago
Genuinely would like to know how anyone has managed to do both of: > write as many end-to-end and integration tests as you can and > make sure your tests run fast enough to run the full set of tests after every commit
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by jscn 10y ago
Even better when they both leave and you inherit responsibility for the project!
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by jscn 11y ago
Thanks, prawn, I believe I've reproduced the issue and we're looking into it.
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by jscn 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback, gealian! I've let our data team know about the problem.
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by jscn 11y ago
I'm a developer at Infoxchange, and we're actually looking for a senior dev to join our Melbourne team. Development of the Ask Izzy app was a collaboration between our team here and REA group, which goes to show the kind of thing
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by jscn 11y ago
...and off-by-one errors.
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by jscn 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback, definitely not intentional :) A lot of effort and consultation with a number of groups (including end users) went into choosing the name. Turns out, naming things is surprisingly hard!
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by jscn 11y ago
Great stuff! You're right about the data quality, it's a huge job and we have a fantastic team of people who work to keep the data up to date. Another big challenge is trying to provide useful results in areas (especially remote a
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by jscn 11y ago
Just to expand on that a bit, the data is currently limited to our in-house database of services in Australia. We are looking into including additional (Australian) data sources in the future (for instance, there are some open data sets whi
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by jscn 11y ago
No plans to expand outside of Australia that I'm aware of. Another commenter mentioned ( https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11029770 ) a similar product for the SF area: http://linkyeg.ca/
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by jscn 11y ago
Hey jacalata, thanks for pointing this out. I've reproduced the issue as best I can, and AFAICT you should see a link on that page which says "Change you answers". Clicking it should display a list of the answers you've
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by jscn 12y ago
It's worth noting that much of what Irvine lays out in this book is closer to Epicureanism than Stoicism, per say. For a better treatment of Stoicism, I'd recommend The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot.
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by jscn 12y ago
If you want to understand Meditations and Marcus Aurelius, you should read The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot. For instance, there are good reasons for his writing in Greek, for the format of the book, for the repetitiveness, etc.
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by jscn 12y ago
Thirded. Ever since Google Reader shut down, I've stopped using RSS. I much prefer to get newsletters in my inbox now.
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by jscn 12y ago
Tests generated by GUI systems are extremely fragile and you wouldn't them hanging around your codebase. OTOH, often a video recording is a great way to demonstrate a bug without having to (be able to) write an automated test, and pret
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by jscn 12y ago
FYI: I got a 403 error when I tried to sign up (CSRF verification failed). You should probably override the default template for that error page, too. Nice to see you're using Django, though!
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by jscn 12y ago
I'd love to know a little more about what you were doing and where in Australia.
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by jscn 13y ago
In my experience, fat models are the most common approach to organising code in Django projects. As another comment stated, it's better than having fat views, but it's not ideal.
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by jscn 13y ago
Which, if you're following the SRP, is the right thing to do, no?
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by jscn 13y ago
This is a really interesting point. It does seem like a lot of OOP/patterns books seem to talk about desktop apps that are quite different to your typical web app, which could be characterised (perhaps uncharitably) as CRUD with a bit
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by jscn 13y ago
> the government doesn't like to get the public riled up by terrorist threats I'm quite sure that's exactly what the government likes to do. That's the very reason that "terrorism" is in the headlines as muc
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Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web(trsst.com)
1 points by jscn 13y ago|0 comments
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by jscn 13y ago
I don't know what your email said, but mine said it was $9 if you sign up this month, otherwise $50.
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by jscn 13y ago
There's definitely a learning curve, but CBVs will give you much DRYer views. Being able to use mixins is a godsend.
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by jscn 14y ago
Cannot agree enough with this.
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by jscn 14y ago
Just wanted to say, NewsBlur and Pinboard are both big inspirations for me. It's awesome to see people making money off of open source software.
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by jscn 14y ago
There are more recent translations, but they're not in the public domain. Take a look on Amazon if you're keen.
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15 things I learned from "Shipping Greatness" (agiletesting.blogspot.com.au)
3 points by jscn 14y ago|0 comments
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by jscn 14y ago
It seems "easy" but meaningful whitespace is a cluster-fck. Tell that to everyone using Python. If your editor can't handle meaningful whitespace transparently, it sounds like you need a better editor.

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