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There is some change ringing in the USA, just not very much of it. There are towers around.. https://www.nagcr.org/towers-and-bands There's even a few change ringing towers dotted …

I love seeing a change ringing article on HN, especially with well labelled diagrams! The move to a framework system where we can all ring what we like and just describe it within …

This is good news. The dart language has been getting more complicated without corresponding quality of life improvements. A first class record object without messing around with m…

If you target SDK If you target SDK Both have extensions available to Nov 1. Wear has different thresholds. Hopefully https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thre..…

At Google there’s not really such a thing as code that never changes. Your dependencies will shift beneath you, even if it’s just the compiler itself. More likely though the librar…

In the UK it seems a clear upgrade. I can be sitting on a train downloading Netflix shows between stops before we go underground. Speed tests often higher than I get at home over V…

I wonder if this has the same downsides as golden and screenshot type tests, where you end up over-asserting resulting in tests that break for unrelated changes? Obviously that’s a…

I lived in a house with one of these in Bermuda. Lesson learned that it’s not a good idea to use up your water pressure while the power is out as then your pump doesn’t work. Other…

I didn’t write Java professionally before joining Google. I interviewed in Python, there’s a much wider gap between those two languages than between C# and Java. I’ve also worked w…

I’ve personally appreciated people willing to talk about the topic of death and the person who died. As opposed to those seeking to provide distraction. In particular I couldn’t st…

I’ve used such a Cisco system. Compared to regular video calls the latency and quality was light years ahead, much more natural conversations were possible. By which I mean it was …

Depends what you mean by sustainable. Pinboard has taken care of my bookmarks since 2011, it’s still here in 2021. Nothing I put up on my VPS in 2011 still exists.

Here: https://policies.google.com/privacy you scroll to the bottom and press Privacy.

How do the estimates work? Are my guesses shared anywhere?

My experience of Ruby, which is admittedly a few years old, is that people did use multiple Ruby environments through e.g rbenv to manage different sets of gem versions, which is w…

I'm really hoping this will make AngularDart a lot nicer to write. Inputs might have a null value and it's very easy to forget to account for it, will be great to catch that at com…

What everyone else said, but also the presence of false positives means there'll be appeals. So you have a choice or ignoring the appeals and being accused of censoring people, or …

I struggle to see how comparing people who like particular technical products to supporters of dictatorships shows any of the "utmost respect" to any commenters that you claim at t…

The reinsurance industry quite frequently handles claims like wildfire and hurricanes without needing federal government help.

I tried this. It’s junk. So much slower than a boarding pass scan. I’ve seen good setups for this like at the UK border. This is not the same. Almost everyone got rejected and got …

I love playing The Resistance with friends. It’s great because you’re talking the entire time. It provides a good balance between logical problem solving and persuading people arou…

Happy Christmas from Bermuda!

Surely as developers we should be able to reduce or explain our use of jargon for the person we're speaking to, rather than the rest of the world having to learn our industry-speci…