amarraja

3개월 전discuss

Is this new? A freind's BMW i3 had one of these many years ago. (Defnitely pre covid)

edit: the frist generation was 2013

amarraja

4년 전discuss

Not sure if electron is the issue, I believe vscode is based on it (I may be mistaken). Really wish they would sort Teams out.

I like the concepts and product, but when in a video chat I have to close most apps. I tried opening a JIRA ticket whilst on a video call the other day... my quads still have the scars

amarraja

4년 전discuss

I skim most Show HN posts and think "that's cool", but never look at it again.

Seeing this, I thought that's cool and it's something I really want to start using! Thanks!

amarraja

5년 전discuss

> <edit> I've reconsidered. It's really insulting.

In the most objective way possible, if I was a FOSS author, I'd find this comment insulting

Pour a beer down your sink for every dev who has abandoned a project - mostly in free time - due to demanding and entitled users

amarraja

6년 전discuss

Yep exactly this. We've gotten into messes before when people are working on - or think they are - the same branch. Some os think they are the same, others different.

Also just finished migrating something that ran on IIS to linux, and got the casing pains once again.

If the universe were to be reinvented, I ask please make everything case sensitive by default

amarraja

6년 전discuss

Just want to throw a small one in there: branch names are all lower case.

Prevents strange issues when you use a case insensitive file system like on OSX or Windows

amarraja

6년 전discuss

I never had strong feelings about systemd, and the first time I used it I did prefer the service files to sysvinit scripts.

The real wow moment came when discovering socket activation which allowed systemd to take care of zero downtime deployments of web applications - for me that was reason enough to support the project.

Nowadays I'll use a container orchestrator to achieve the same thing, bit it was a good couple of years whilst it lasted.

amarraja

6년 전discuss

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

At the top of the script is the closest I fount to `set -e`

amarraja

7년 전discuss

Some of these strips are far too close to home to be funny

amarraja

7년 전discuss

Not OP, but during a recent hiring process we asked for backend engineers (e.g. java/golang/databases etc). Half of the CVs we received were for Angular/React developers.

I'm unsure how this could happen with any sane vetting process.

amarraja

7년 전discuss

I knew the design looked familiar. If anyone uses Solr, this does the same for its debug output

https://explain.solr.pl/

amarraja

7년 전discuss

I've just compared TablePlus to PGAdmin (the new web one), on a fast query which returns 1000 rows. The responsiveness of TP is really noticable

amarraja

7년 전discuss

> There usually is a tradeoff when something is forced into something alien.

Exactly! My thoughts whenever I see people using nosql databases.

amarraja

8년 전discuss

That's most of the internet for me (off black text on off white backgrounds). Firefox reader mode is my saviour.

amarraja

8년 전discuss

Hopefully they're learning this lesson.

I can just see it now. A company's app is dying from all the timeouts to a slack webhook, however they can't deploy because slack is down.

amarraja

8년 전discuss

Spare a thought for the chatops crowd who may be blissfully unaware that their own infrastructure is down

amarraja

8년 전discuss

They are useful if you only use them for simple things. Any queries which are non-trivial or aren't cleanly expressed in your object model can lead to absolutely monstrous queries.

I once saw a 1000 line query - which unsurprisingly timed out - generated for getting a single user record from the database! There were several lookups to rate limit failed login attempts etc, however this should be a couple of lines of efficient sql if hand rolled.

I can tolerate something like Rails' ActiveRecord if used with restraint. E.g.

    user.addresses << Address.new(blah)

Is very useful, it doesn't get in the way and does all the boring stuff for me. People just need to learn this isn't the only way to access the database, and you can drop to sql if you need to.

Fortunately I started developing at a time where there were no ORMs, but I fear there is a new generation of devs who see SQL as some esoteric ASM for databases.

Also, I disagree with database portability as an argument for ORMs. All abstractions are leaky, and trying to unify everything will stop you taking full advantage of your data-store of choice

amarraja

8년 전discuss

I remember watching the "screencasts" (they were gifs back in those days), of Nat working on Beagle [1]. Sadly it's a dead project now, however, it shaped my attitude as a developer - how can I write software that _helps_ people.

I am really excited to see what Nat and team bring to the table

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software)

amarraja

8년 전discuss

I for one am quite happy about this. Github innovation seems to have stalled, now with Nat/Scott Gu at the helm there could be exciting times to come.

amarraja

8년 전discuss

Being able to say "ok google, take me to a gas* station" without having to touch my phone whilst driving.

* I'm English, and we tend to say "petrol station", sadly even Google's AI is not there yet

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