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Comment · 6 months 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.
Comment · 3 years 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 higher mortality rates. Taken globally, the total fertility rate at replacement was 2.33 children per woman in 2003"
Comment · 3 years ago
How do you get the audio from Youtube?
Comment · 6 years 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 perfect use case for them "It also syncs with your calendar and displays your upcoming meetings in a menu. (You can tap one to jump in.)"
Comment · 6 years 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 smallest module that you need.
How to find things? If you're on Windows try AstroGrep http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/ to quickly search and jump around in the code or in any system I use VS Code for a similar functionality. Also learn to use command line find/grep.
The book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" also helped me be more comfortable navigating and changing large code bases, in a long term view I recommend this book to every developer https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-...
Lastly, I would raise this because the company might not be aware they are buying a low quality framework that maybe ticks all the boxes in the contract but is in effect impossible to use by their current developers (you), it might be there's other people with more experience in said niche that might be able to help. In the private community maybe some people would be able to accept a short contract to help train you.
Comment · 6 years 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.
Comment · 6 years ago
Don't Make Me Think (200 pages)
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (235 pages)
Comment · 6 years 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
Dan Luu
http://danluu.com/programming-books/
Marty Jacobs
https://zeroequalsfalse.com/posts/programming-books-you-wish...
BGO Software
https://www.bgosoftware.com/blog/8-most-influential-books-on...
Aggregated lists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/books
Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it's related books:
Comment · 6 years 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/hn-most-linked-books/
https://mapfilterfold.com/?genre=programming
Most mentioned in Stackoverflow:
https://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/all
Other aggregated lists:
http://developeronfire.com/book-recommendations
https://medium.com/@YogevSitton/the-ultimate-reading-list-fo...
Curated lists:
Jeff Atwood https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...
Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/11/22/reading-list-fog-c...
DHH David Heinemeier Hansson https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming-boo...
Jason Roell https://jasonroell.com/2015/03/16/12-most-infuential-books-e...
John Sonmez https://simpleprogrammer.com/the-ultimate-list-of-programmin...
Khalil Stemmler https://medium.freecodecamp.org/9-books-for-junior-developer...
Comment · 6 years 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...
Comment · 7 years ago
Dapper for C# made by StackOverflow team
Comment · 7 years ago
Is it still water resistant?
Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe the Phat Glider or Boomberang I from John Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKicjvC6Uo
Comment · 8 years ago
Dr Dobb's Jolt Awards. There are still many technical books being published would be nice to have some curation.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think you're confusing it with Kazaa.