loopbit

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by loopbit 4y ago
OP was probably thinking of Finland.
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by loopbit 4y ago
Back in the ancient times of the early 2000's I had to deal with a massive, legacy java codebade. I found a small free library called MaintainJ that used aspect-oriented programming as you used the app. It was great to make sense of ho
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by loopbit 4y ago
Changed Europe? Changed the UK and very little else... I mean, it's a cool bit of engineering and it took ages to build. But for most people in Europe means nothing. > "It put international rail travel back in the game" Ye
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by loopbit 6y ago
Depends, code that was not written with testing in mind can be very difficult to cover without some major refactoring. Adding the first tests can be a slow and painful process. Now, once you have those few tests? Yep! Add a few tests along
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by loopbit 6y ago
I'm of the same opinion. I love getting feedback, better if it's constructive, but all kind of honest feedback is useful and welcome. And it doesn't always come from people with more experience, sometimes a greenhorn will see
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by loopbit 6y ago
Management and engineering are two different careers, so I wouldn't call it "upgrading". Having the technical chops definitely helps as a manager. And knowing what the managers expect and be able to talk their language helps
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by loopbit 6y ago
Not sure what to tell you... If I remember correctly, the last time I restarted Firefox was to update it, around the 5th of May (I have version 76.0). Generally speaking I don't restart it (or the laptop) except for that. No addons oth
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by loopbit 6y ago
Another one, not mentioned here but one of my favorites: Psephophorus Terrypratchetti.
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by loopbit 6y ago
Yep, my todo lists are all trees. Even when I'm writing a document, I first put the table of contents as a tree and then fill in the different sections :) I have one exception, though. Mind-mapping. I will use mind mapping tools for to
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by loopbit 6y ago
Really? I have, right now, 290 opened tabs dangling from the hacker news homepage and about 20 other "root" tabs with more trees. All in all, ~450 opened tabs in 6 different containers. Firefox is using ~8% of CPU and 670MB of RAM
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by loopbit 6y ago
Have you ever used a complex database in a formal, by-the-book, third normal form? The number of tables explodes, the number of joins become a pain and every single data change requires careful planning. As for the "many database syste
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by loopbit 6y ago
The Netherlands are the biggest re-exporter of fruits and vegs. In terms of both quantity and value, they are behind Spain: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/2135083/netherlands-world...
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by loopbit 6y ago
> "science-education-ism". My phrase - I don't know of a real one... anyone? Ever since I first read it in "The Science of Discworld" I've called that "Lies-to-children" ( https://en.wiki
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by loopbit 7y ago
> As someone who's only touched Ruby for a few years Well... Gemfile.lock has nothing to do with rails and all to do with Bundler, but if you've never used Bundler for dependency management it's possible that it's new
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by loopbit 7y ago
I used NN3 and 4 back in the day (and still do, kinda, Firefox is still my main browser), but man, writing CSS for Netscape was a nightmare! I still remember that weird bug that forced everyone to create a single, empty, invisible DIV at th
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by loopbit 7y ago
For amazon.com, there were a few from Anker (one was mentioned in another comment) that looked interesting... As I said, no luck finding them in europe. I ended up going with this one: https://thepihut.com/products/anid
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by loopbit 7y ago
I ended up going with this one: https://thepihut.com/products/anidees-6-port-smart-ic-usb-ch... Have had it for a couple of months now with no issues.
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by loopbit 7y ago
Not only for macs... I have 4 raspberry pi4 powered through an USB hub and spent quite a bit of time looking for one that had at least 4 ports and that every port could deliver a minimum of 5V-3A. The US amazon had a few, but trying to find
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Awesome Lists(github.com)
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by loopbit 7y ago
I remember when the anti-glare was the default and you had to pay a few quid more for the glossy. Then they changed so the default was glossy and anti-glare was more expensive (but, IIRC, had more resolution). The retina display is the firs
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by loopbit 7y ago
Probably through the votes the different parties got in the general elections of 1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Spanish_general_election
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by loopbit 7y ago
Leukaemia survivor here... It might be a stupid question and everyone is different, but have you tried fresh fruit and ginger ale? I went through six months where that was all I could eat/drink. Another patient in the ward suggested gi
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by loopbit 7y ago
I completely agree with you. The thing is, I might be able to see this "working" in very simple and limited processes[0]... But going back to your example of the nasty bug in complex software, I believe the post's idea is tha
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by loopbit 7y ago
A bit late to the discussion, but does it really change that much if, instead of "my country", I say "Spain"? In this case Spain hasn't done anything wrong (the data gathering for the id cards was done before enteri
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by loopbit 7y ago
Maybe that data doesn't exist in your country. In mine, the police has the picture and fingerprints of everyone older than 12 years old and any younger person that needed an ID card for whatever reason, travelling being just one. Maybe
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by loopbit 7y ago
I'm also multilingual and can confirm that at least some aspects of the languages mentioned that I know, are accurate. For a few years I was also a language teacher and this article explains one of the things students have problems und
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by loopbit 7y ago
Reading the comments about vi... Am I the only one that knows/uses ZZ to save and quit?
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by loopbit 7y ago
GoCD?
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by loopbit 7y ago
That's a decent mid-level developer salary in many parts of western europe.
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by loopbit 7y ago
No, I'm not fresh out of school and I wasn't unemployed (...well, see below). I have about 20 years of experience and have worked in 5 countries. However, my situation was... well, not unique (unfortunately), but challenging: - Ye

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