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Ask HN: Best Productivity Techniques for Developers?
1 points by nullbytesmatter 4y ago|0 comments
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
Affordable, meaning reasonable pricing. Ie, not like Palo Alto's 3 million for 1200 square feet.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
All of the above? If I could tack on more: affordable land (1~10 acres), good hospital(s) within a reasonable drive.
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Ask HN: Best Place to Live in the USA?
6 points by nullbytesmatter 4y ago|10 comments
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I was wrong, it took around 5 days, but it finished!
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
What cul option? Cursor line highlighting? I also recommend putting synmaxcol to something low, like 80-128.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I managed to "dedupe and merge" by importing the CSV into sqlite and add an index on a column, and then scanning the index by distinct values and doing an index lookup for each key and merging the rows. Not ideal at all, but it se
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I have a Librem 15v4 by Purism. It's no longer sold, but it's a nice laptop. It's the only Purism laptop with a 4K screen. For some reason, you can only find FHD screens these days. System76 has some decent laptop options for
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I have tried something similar, writing each entry to a trie on the filesystem and store each duplicate row on the filesystem. The problem was this created a heck of a mess and was taking too long, but it seems like it's feasible.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
Your script parses the entire CSV and then dedupes in memory. This would require ~3TB+ RAM.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
Interesting idea to do two passes and build a merge list ahead of time. I am not sure if there's enough memory to build up such a list but it's worth a try. Edit: I tried, and OOM'd by the OS. Apparently 64GB of RAM isn'
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Ask HN: How to Deal with CSVs?
3 points by nullbytesmatter 4y ago|16 comments
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
This reads like a manic episode.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
There were many factors. Rails itself isn't too bad to upgrade, but the problem boiled down to various Rails engines (active admin, etc). There came a point where I sat down and had to decide if it was worth de-tangling the mess and po
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
Great question-- and may be worth a detailed/thought out blog post some day! To future proof the service I wanted to use tech that was based on the fundamentals. This boiled down to no special tooling, no special build process, etc. Fu
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I have been running a product since 2015 and I feel the author's pain. The original tech I used was Ruby on Rails, and it was great (back in Rails 5). However, with Rails 7 and all the other changes since 2015, the debt was pretty over
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
Having separate data and code never causes problems either? Just because you bundle them together, doesn't mean the data and code are together during development. They get bundled together in the build process. It's not as bad as
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
There are plenty of good reasons to roll your own solution. A blog is about as risk-free of a situation as you will get when it comes to rolling your own. It's not like the author is rolling their own encryption library.
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by nullbytesmatter 4y ago
I have been using the same distro/tiling wm setup since 2015. A bare bones debian netinstall with dwm and xorg.
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
Yet, in many countries nursing homes are not even a thing and somehow people survive.
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
Post was emotionally charged but left me thinking, “If you cared so much about her why did you stick her in a nursing home?”
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
Honest question, why use a company product over free tools like zap or even burp for this?
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
My biggest gripe with Rails has been the lack of real concurrency without a large number of cores and threads (where each worker consumes an entire rails app worth of memory). It doesn't take long before you're chugging on 12+ gb
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
I always store the secret key for TOTP before I use the QR code. I have a command line app I wrote that can generate OTP codes using the same secret key, so as a back up I can always generate codes with my desktop or phone.
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
A lot of people say the same things about Rails. It makes you productive, it's incredibly easy to do things, things just work, etc. I have used Rails for most of my career and for a number of side ventures. I have to say I have had a l
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
Has been five years and never happened. I don't optimize for problems I don't have. I do daily backups and have the ability to deploy a "new" server if need be. It's a little bit of manual work but would be trivial.
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
I run a solo SaaS product with 15,000+ users. I use the "arcane/wizardry" techniques still. I simply run "make deploy" and a new production build is made and rsync'd to production. Then the script executes a &q
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by nullbytesmatter 5y ago
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Ask HN: As a solo developer, how can I find a solid accountant?
8 points by nullbytesmatter 5y ago|7 comments