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alexdrans

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alexdrans··on Ask HN: With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer?

Try DEF CON radio - https://somafm.com/defcon/

alexdrans··on Ask HN: What do you use MS Excel for?

Personal finance!

alexdrans··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··on Ask HN: What are some APIs you wish existed?

Exhaustive GTIN barcode API, with at least a title, description and image. Deduped!

alexdrans··on The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017

Investment doesn't buy you all the 'Living Space' you may want

alexdrans··on The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017

Endure the bubble, until you can conquer Australia and relieve the pressure

alexdrans··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··on 2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added

17 and 2

alexdrans··on Canadian software engineers paid peanuts

Same in the UK but more severe.

alexdrans··on The reason Facebook won’t ever change

Haha, you first.

alexdrans··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··on Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service

Already running on ECS, so sounds like k8s will be a breeze!

alexdrans··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··on Freelancer.com has ruined my life

Don't the Chinese have a saying which means 'Pay low price, expect to get screwed over'? Bangladesh is even worse than India.

alexdrans··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··on Feather: Open-source icons

The whole page is 58KB

alexdrans··on YC-backed Muzmatch definitely doesn’t want to be Tinder for Muslims

Congratulations Ryan!

alexdrans··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··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··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).

[0] https://github.com/substack/tape

alexdrans··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··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.