alexdrans | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer?
Try DEF CON radio - https://somafm.com/defcon/
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alexdrans | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use MS Excel for?
Personal finance!
alexdrans | 7 years ago | on: The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
I personally use 50/10/50/25 on off on off.
alexdrans | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some APIs you wish existed?
Exhaustive GTIN barcode API, with at least a title, description and image. Deduped!
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was your most productive (day|week|month|year) ever?
I'm giving up coffee for lent, you just made me miss it a lot more :(
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: 2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added
17 and 2
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Canadian software engineers paid peanuts
Same in the UK but more severe.
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: The reason Facebook won’t ever change
Haha, you first.
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: PSA: You have 28 days to respond to NPM package takeovers, or you'll lose them
Yeah wtf, this is wrong. They should require explicitly permission before transferring ownership.
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
Already running on ECS, so sounds like k8s will be a breeze!
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
If you had just convinced your CEO you need to hire a contractor to implement k8s on EC2 for your startup, what would you do now?
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: When will we reach the limits of scientific or industrial progress?
Humans will reach their natural limits, but machines will take us higher.
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Feather: Open-source icons
The whole page is 58KB
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: YC-backed Muzmatch definitely doesn’t want to be Tinder for Muslims
Congratulations Ryan!
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one
Hi, would you please consider paramaterising the input in the URL so that I can use it with Chrome's Omnibar?
alexdrans | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can you explain how a database index works in an interview?
ugh, this new breed of programmers-but-not-computer-scientists make me shudder
alexdrans | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about testing/TDD?
Sorry I can't contribute more, this needs to be a quick message; but I recommend that you take a look at substack/tape⁰ for testing in JS; browser and server side. It forces you to write 'simple' tests; the likes of Mocha give you too much fluff, and use globals (i.e. magic).
alexdrans | 9 years ago | on: Only 4% of Uber drivers remain on the platform a year later, says report
Weird. I ask the same in London, and they all love it; working on their own time, no boss, secondary job et cetera. Not a shill.
alexdrans | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What printer do you use?
I don't print that often, and very, very rarely do I need to print in colour if so, so I have the Samsung ML-1660. A few years old, but the line of products I would definitely recommend. There are colour versions too.
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