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by xadoc 4mo ago
In case you don't know: "Tower Hamlets residents visit for just £1 Local residents within the borough of Tower Hamlets can visit the Tower of London for only £1.00." It's worth a visit being a tourist or a local.
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by xadoc 3y ago
"The United Nations Population Division defines sub-replacement fertility as any rate below approximately 2.1 children born per woman of childbearing age, but the threshold can be as high as 3.4 in some developing countries because of
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by xadoc 3y ago
How do you get the audio from Youtube?
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by xadoc 6y ago
HN crowd might diss this product but if you consider all those execs and managers in medium/large corporations that rely on personal assistants to get their email and meetings sorted out this might be very successful. Seems to be the p
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by xadoc 6y ago
If the code has tests, I would start by looking at those tests. If it has no tests, then I would slowly try to build tests to document the functionality that I need. In your case being Angular that might be having simple html pages with the
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by xadoc 6y ago
The abstraction is there because in many static languages you will immediately have two implementations, the infrastructure one (database, API call, 3rd party) and the tests.
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by xadoc 6y ago
Don't Make Me Think (200 pages) Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (235 pages)
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by xadoc 6y ago
Some more Curated lists: Jeff Atwood more comprehensive list https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo... Steve Yegge https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-great-books D
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by xadoc 6y ago
Overtime I've built my own list of lists. Books lists for Hacker News: https://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news http://ramiro.org/vis&#x
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by xadoc 7y ago
There is no proof immunity will happen, the UK Gov is thinking in economic terms and worried about GDP. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/13/coronaviru...
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by xadoc 7y ago
Dapper for C# made by StackOverflow team https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
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by xadoc 7y ago
Is it still water resistant?
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by xadoc 8y ago
Maybe the Phat Glider or Boomberang I from John Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKicjvC6Uo
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by xadoc 8y ago
Dr Dobb's Jolt Awards. There are still many technical books being published would be nice to have some curation.
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by xadoc 8y ago
I think you're confusing it with Kazaa.
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by xadoc 8y ago
Jetbrains was using a package provided by Microsoft and blogged that they would soon have to disable debugging of CoreCLR Read “The Bad News” https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu..
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by xadoc 8y ago
Read the blogpost. What do you use and recommend to write React Native? Nuclide, VS Code, Vim, Atom, Intellij?
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by xadoc 9y ago
The series moved to a channel called "Getting Real" where Jason Fried also publishes videos about design decisions. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdx5Dk3EWTe2i8YDA7bfl6g/vid...
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by xadoc 9y ago
I have not, thanks for sharing it is nice that also collects links from Reddit. Other similar websites Most mentioned in StackOverflow http://dev-books.com/ Most mentioned in Hacker News http://hackernewsbooks.co
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Ask HN: Dr. Dobb's Jolt Awards current alternative for technical books?
23 points by xadoc 9y ago|4 comments
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by xadoc 10y ago
It means nothing. Had a permanent position in a big Portuguese company and everyone in the whole team was working 12 hours plus per day. Is uncommon to have people in Portugal working less than 40 hours. Tried to find a study to put some nu
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by xadoc 10y ago
Lisbon is definitely a nice place to live, but not so much to work. Otherwise why the significant emigration rate of tech workers/skilled workers? Pay is low and the hours are long. VC money in Portugal is very limited and bureaucracy
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by xadoc 13y ago
there is a 250-400 km range for FlightRadar, it does not cover oceans very well. http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works "Flightradar24 has a network of more than 3,000 ADS-B receivers around the world that receives
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by xadoc 13y ago
I have been using Catch on Android for years now, I am going to try Google Keep but what other similar alternatives are there?
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by xadoc 13y ago
That is my point exactly to them, but it seems tougher to leave family and friends when you live comfortably and still save some cash. Here is a sample of excuses my Portuguese friends (SW Engineer related) gave me to not even consider job
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by xadoc 13y ago
I believe the reason why Portuguese developers are not flooding UK (I don't completely agree, I see them coming more and more but slowly) is that any reasonably good developer in Portugal still can find work in consulting and state rel
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by xadoc 14y ago
This format reminds me of the screencasts in youtube with no sound or some hard electro where people don't explain what it's going on in their heads. I find it frustrating and missing the point of actually communicating something. You are j