nicwest

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by nicwest 2y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/karmn.bsky.social/post/3lcuc4dqudc2... It's hard for me to read this any other way.
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by nicwest 3y ago
then when they back down we could have "UK threats to end end-to-end encryption end"
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by nicwest 5y ago
your website appears to have a bunch of meta data on it from something called soapbox. If I link to your website in slack it comes up with a "That looks like a Soapbox link. Would you like to install the Soapbox app" message. I as
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by nicwest 6y ago
There was an awesome project a while back to recreate a new buckling spring keyboard: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79141.0 https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/
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by nicwest 6y ago
Have you tried the trackballs formerly known as "Clearly Superior" now "Xtrac" apparently[1]. I like the physical scroll wheel and dedicated middle mouse button, the internals are mechanical not optical (I have had probl
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by nicwest 6y ago
Consumer centric API design https://github.com/tlhunter/consumer-centric-api-design
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by nicwest 6y ago
I think it's interesting that out of all the news articles about famous people that have died, Ursla le Guin is the one that turns up in this list.
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by nicwest 6y ago
Go helped me learn about designing good interfaces, and how to write tests using dependency injection rather than just patching stuff out.
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by nicwest 6y ago
I found that learning and writing some Clojure and Go made me think better about the code I was writing in my main language (python). I enjoyed working through Clojure for the brave and true: https://www.braveclojure.com/clo
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Ask HN: Any Literature on “Pace Layering”?
2 points by nicwest 6y ago|0 comments
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by nicwest 6y ago
I'm investigating the way that encounter difficulty is estimated in Dungeons and Dragons. I've felt for a long time that the influence the number of opposing monsters have is somewhat exaggerated.
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by nicwest 7y ago
- Post-mortem - Incident report - Scheduled down time
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by nicwest 7y ago
Also I imagine that depth would be a significant factor
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by nicwest 7y ago
Mileage may vary depending on language support, but vim does have a go to definition feature[1][2]. I believe there is also out box error checking for some languages, and if that is not enough for you (and at the risk of offending a large n
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by nicwest 7y ago
> Are taxes and maintenance costs shared proportionally? Day-to-day maintenance (replacing lightbulbs, shelf falling down etc) is your responsibility. Plus you get to decorate however you want (at your cost). All other taxes and maintena
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by nicwest 8y ago
I recently bought a 3D printer and have enjoyed programing objects in cljoure with scad-clj. https://github.com/farrellm/scad-clj This is biggest project I know of that uses it: https://github.com/adere
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by nicwest 8y ago
Unmortgage | London, United Kingdom | Frontend, Backend & Data Engineers | Full-time | Onsite | https://unmortgage.com Millions of people are stuck in the rent trap, with no way to own a home. At Unmortgage we are reinventin
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by nicwest 8y ago
I think this was the company that became pebble (correct me if I'm wrong). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290884
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by nicwest 8y ago
> Git doesn't include better built-in support for issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases I feel like a lot of these features could be handled with git-notes[1]. For example git-appraise[2] uses the git-notes feature fo
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by nicwest 9y ago
so while it's not exactly the all in one service you describe, you can do something similar already: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ to design your layout, then http://builder.swillkb.com/ to de
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by nicwest 9y ago
Clojure! the thing I like most about a lot of the libraries is how they seem to blend so seamlessly. I don't know if it's an artefact of just being a lisp or just a lot of the developers sharing a mindset, but the whole experienc
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by nicwest 9y ago
There is a decent interview with Jamie Cudmore on the rugby dungeon where he talks pretty candidly about concussion issues: https://www.acast.com/therugbydungeon/ep-22jamiecudmore
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by nicwest 9y ago
a lot of custom keyboards use a amtel avr controller which is easily flashable with custom firmware. I think I can see a teensy like board in the picture. here is an (the) example in c: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmwa
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Ask HN: How do you do quality control/assurance
6 points by nicwest 9y ago|0 comments
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by nicwest 10y ago
could someone explain to me why >>> ranges = [range(i) for i in range(5)] >>> [*item for item in ranges] [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3] would be better than: >>> ranges = [range(i) for i in
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by nicwest 10y ago
I bought one of the blackberry only models from their show HN post way back when [1]. Glad to see they made it this far. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579
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by nicwest 10y ago
How did it go?
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by nicwest 10y ago
I was a long time tmux user while on mac. Since I've swapped to arch and i3 I don't use tmux at all, and just use the WM. I basically live in terminals nowadays and I've not really missed tmux. The thing I really do miss is v
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by nicwest 10y ago
game doesn't seem to require flash, but the ads(?) do, and if you don't have flash, it blocks on the ad page seemingly indefinitely. FF 49.0.1 arch linux
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by nicwest 10y ago
The Clean Code Talks - "Global State and Singletons": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FRm3VPhseI

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