mellett68

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by mellett68 7y ago
Interesting to read this. The reason I didn't get on with macOS is the extra modifier keys. It was a relief when I didn't have to use a mac for work anymore.
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by mellett68 7y ago
My experience of Arch is that it's fun as a home computer tinkering exercise but I don't trust it for my work computer since I can't resist a version number bump and the amount of time spent faffing around would be a nightmar
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by mellett68 7y ago
I agree. I couldn't see it surviving many pretty routine - well, routine for me - crashes.
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by mellett68 7y ago
When I had a mac for work I always used to chuckle at the inevitable "reinstall OS X" advice from the apple support forums.
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by mellett68 8y ago
It's fun when people complain about having to handle personal data properly and not to collect more than they need. Bad luck, be responsible.
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by mellett68 8y ago
In my experience microservices have been prescribed as a sales bullet point instead of a software architecture decision. Every time it's resulted in insane low traffic bottlenecks all over the place as services chatter away or separate
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by mellett68 8y ago
Very useful, I find that discovering domain knowledge can be a painful process when trying to build a relationship with a new client. Hopefully this will help
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by mellett68 8y ago
Thanks, I was just wondering since I don't really see the point in rewriting between dynamic languages. Aside from a few things being easier in each (async being an example) they're basically the same to me.
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by mellett68 8y ago
Were there any tech reasons for switching from ruby to node?
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by mellett68 8y ago
I found the background colour a bit easier on the eyes personally. The font is a bit ugly though.
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by mellett68 8y ago
We did this for a project a few years ago and it was alright. In the end we decided against doing it again purely because the DOM became so extreme with one-rule classes that it became a nightmare to read the templates. So much noise. For b
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by mellett68 8y ago
I found that for the time I was on the bike I just didn't have opportunity to graze! So those long rides were really helping twice.
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by mellett68 8y ago
Web workers and service workers do different things
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by mellett68 8y ago
Vacation / Sick time is a bit different than needing to run errands till 10am, either shifting the working day round a bit or spreading the time out over the next days or week etc. Doesn't hurt to check in when you're availab
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by mellett68 8y ago
I have been keeping one day a week for the manager's schedule- style calls and appointments. The rest of the week is divided in to half-day blocks which from my own experience is the minimum useful time to switch context and complete o
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by mellett68 9y ago
Really this is my main complaint with most languages/tools when it comes to runtime errors. This is especially painful when you introduce frameworks and things that create so much misdirection that the call stack can be enormous.
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by mellett68 10y ago
I think about it often, but I assume it's some kind of burnout. None of my hobbies would translate into even my current pay level. There's that nagging idea of the 'real programmer' who is getting paid big money to solve
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by mellett68 10y ago
It's not a problem, unless you go to higher education looking for CS and end up with that instead.
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by mellett68 11y ago
I agree from my experience with Ghost but attribute it to being a young platform.
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by mellett68 11y ago
Ghost is open source. http://github.com/tryghost/ghost
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by mellett68 11y ago
I'd argue that's still a bit of a pain compared to a fulltext search in the browser. I can already search the rest of the repo and issues that way, so why not the wiki? Good tip though.
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by mellett68 11y ago
I originally wanted to go into Electronics Engineering but I didn't take A-level maths which was a hard requirement (no surprise really, I just hadn't thought that far ahead) so fell back to Computer Science. With things like the
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by mellett68 11y ago
Legal issues aside, github already offers social features, what features would you offer that would enhance that existing functionality?