Newky

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Trinity College Dublin Graduate. Currently a software engineer at Demonware.

A constant lurker on Hacker News. I am passionate about Linux, open source movement, Python and good development. Have a niggling affection for the JavaScript world also.

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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
It was tied to the beginning of Covid lockdowns as well. Chess has had a very strong year in terms of numbers coming to the game. Queen's Gambit seems to have exploded that again.
Comment · 6 years ago
Not arguing that this could be used in an abusive relationship, but if we work on the basis that someone could install a similar program on their partner's phone that's not Google. There are a lot of pro's for the tracked person with the Google implementation.

Google email you quite frequently (I believe monthly?) to tell you that you are sharing your location and with whom. You can disable it at any time. Obviously disabling such a feature in an abusive relationship may not be an option.

Comment · 6 years ago
I think you are misunderstanding. The secret does not need to be hardcoded in the python file. If it's read in from an environment variable or some other external source, it will also be in the pyc
Comment · 9 years ago
This release is amazing, I was slowly moving everything to Chrome from Firefox over the last year-ish.

This really changes Firefox. Everything is incredibly snappy, at times more responsive that chrome.

The small amount of addons I use are now available.

Can't wait to get this by default in Ubuntu.

Comment · 9 years ago
The DUP are the unionist party in the north of Ireland. They are against a united Ireland and were leave campaigners.
Comment · 10 years ago
Enjoyed the article. For once, this article showed some flaws in the original process/idea, and showed very nicely how an original seed idea turned into something different, and more involved/interesting.

Clearly a lot of work and sweat went into getting the results you did, and the final output looks very polished.

Congrats for having the courage to post this.

Comment · 11 years ago
So from what I understand, this means that when I roam in the United Kingdom on an Irish sim, I get no extra roaming charges, which is great.

Does anyone know if this has any effect on calls/texts to other countries?

Comment · 11 years ago
I recently did this manually by piping responses to a temp file called before and after, and then using vimdiff as my differ which proved quite effective.

This tool looks great, but would not have worked with my particular use case, which was doing some migration of user data, and diffing the user accounts to make sure that they had changed in the expected way.

It might be an idea to add the ability to query the same host twice, but have a user input trigger when to test each host.

Comment · 11 years ago
I quite like this style of video, I have only watched the first ~15 minutes, but I find it a much more engaging way to jump right into code like this, or learn some Go while I watch.

I would love to see some popular figures in the open source world, talk us through a pull request etc. I would be surprised if it didn't drive a few more contributors to the project and if nothing else would be a powerful introduction to the project.

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