kylemuir

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by kylemuir 3y ago
Thank you! Paywalls be damned.
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by kylemuir 5y ago
I imagine Microsoft announcing a data centre here played a significant role - AWS wouldn't want to be the cloud service with _less_ regions than Microsoft. There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I
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by kylemuir 5y ago
Depends how much you care about the equality and how strict. by default == will do type coercion so you can get weird results where things like [] == 0 are true. More equality fun in JS can be seen here: https://dorey.github.io&#
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by kylemuir 5y ago
I'm not suggesting it's a good fit for everyone or non-techies but I do think it would work well for the average HN reader
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by kylemuir 5y ago
I've been using Linux Mint for years now and really enjoy it. It looks good, works with most things out of the box and I've had minimal issues with it. It's a bloated distro since it tries to cater to most set ups and ships w
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by kylemuir 6y ago
This is true now but it wasn't when I started doing dot net development ~10 years ago. If it wasn't for my employer covering the costs I wouldn't have been able to do it. There were free editions but they were crippled versio
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by kylemuir 6y ago
You're replying to Tobi the CEO and founder of Shopify who recently and very publically posted about 40 hour work weeks and how Shopify lives and breathes work life balance which multiple employees confirmed. I don't know him from
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by kylemuir 6y ago
Also a kiwi. Everyone is hesitant and it's natural to be. By locking down we are guaranteeing that people's businesses will fold and a large number of people will lose their jobs / livelihoods. No leader wants to do that unle
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by kylemuir 7y ago
When I was big into running I wanted a smart watch that could play my music and connect to my headphones without needing to take my bulky phone with me Other reasons for wanting spotify is a remote control. When I had my pebble and my phone
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by kylemuir 8y ago
This was a bit jarring to me: Apple takes a big stance on privacy as a fundamental human right but feel free to spy on what your kids are up to?
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by kylemuir 8y ago
When those fixed rates end and they have to refix a ton of overleveraged people will force mortgagee sales. In Auckland there's been talk of that for at least 5-6 years. For example, people I personally know only earn $80-90k/yr a
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by kylemuir 8y ago
Speaking from a city (Auckland) where house prices have sky rocketed this hasn't happened yet. Prices in the area I live in use to be $100k-ish for a 3 bdrm home 10 years ago. Now they're $760k and I live >30 miles from the CBD
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by kylemuir 8y ago
Maybe but in some cases I find it extremely difficult to separate the art from the artists. An example is the lostprophets. I use to like a couple of their songs but after finding out what the lead singer did I'll likely never listen t
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by kylemuir 9y ago
> Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name I don't understand this. Why hard delete packages at all? Soft deleting feels
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by kylemuir 9y ago
> The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI. Even in this example, drunk drivers who kill aren't executed. I definitely agree the punishment on this particular individual should be stronger bu
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by kylemuir 9y ago
Strongly echo this sentiment. Last time I used TFS was probably in 2011 so things might have changed significantly since then but off the top of my head things I use to hate but now don't need to worry about since using git over TFS: -
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by kylemuir 9y ago
Really? What driver support on a desktop were you experiencing? I've run Linux mint on my desktop at home for a few years now and have had zero problems at all (Intel i5, Nvidia gfx, wired connection). The last time I had driver issues
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by kylemuir 9y ago
> A furlong is the distance one can sprint before running out of breath That doesn't seem very logical at all, that's entirely subjective. I'm fairly certain a top sprinter would easily be able to sprint much further than
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by kylemuir 9y ago
Good luck with the wedding! :)
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by kylemuir 10y ago
I'm currently running Linux Mint on my home PC and I installed it and then tweaked from there (granted, I use English so no need to tweak the inputs). It's been very smooth - smoothest experience so far and I'd definitely rec
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by kylemuir 10y ago
If you dont mind me asking: how old were you when she was born?
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by kylemuir 10y ago
Still wouldn't stop Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man :)
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by kylemuir 10y ago
Definitely agree - my pet peeve (although I haven't seen it for a while) is introducting circular references by adding compiled dlls from /bin/debug as references instead of adding a project reference. I use to see it a lot a
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by kylemuir 10y ago
Thankfully, it also has the same "Alt-Enter" to revert said LINQ query :)
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by kylemuir 10y ago
Had this very conversation today - I still like jQuery as previously it was extremely useful for projects (circa 2011). I haven't really used it in the last 4 years as most of my projects have had frameworks in place. I definitely thin
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by kylemuir 10y ago
I dunno. I've tried mocking frameworks and found that when the interface they were mocking changed I spent more time trying to fix for the arrange step of the test than adding tests that added huge value. Rolling my own might take fra
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by kylemuir 10y ago
What are peoples thoughts on handrolling mocks\stubs? I tend to do that the most and would love a compelling reason as to why I should switch my behaviour.
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OneDrive free storage limits reduced(support.office.com)
1 points by kylemuir 10y ago|0 comments
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by kylemuir 10y ago
That particular flag wasn't released until version 1.3 so by opting in rather than out it wasn't released as a breaking change. When it was released and we tried to use it, it broke our site entirely due to third-party libraries w
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by kylemuir 11y ago
Honestly, I feel that everything in moderation is a good rule to follow. I spend a more than I perhaps should but I enjoy my life. As long as I am putting money away into savings each month and not going backwards I see it as a win. Going t

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