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> Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crud, and that explains almost everything > In professional settings, approximately all of my time goes into solving problems introduced by p…

I haven't noticed that myself but it's been 5 years since I've been there (Zürich) - how recently did you move there and which canton are you in? I do agree that most UK shops (Wai…

In the UK, ordnance survey does this. It's better than osm for most things, and worse for others

You're right. But I think it can really vary based on which community you ask in. I think most people dislike how hostile the main stack overflow site is to beginners, who despite …

I'm glad its a tossup for other people! I've been debating it with myself for a long time. I agree very much with your "cartographic control" point. I should have been more specifi…

I’ve seen people mentioning on HN and elsewhere that raster tiles are now an outdated approach and that everything should be vector tiles. I'm talking only about displaying vector …

I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?

It sounds mean to say it, but it's 100% true. I moved away from using python wherever I can. I've had colleagues struggle for days to install well used packages like pandas and num…

I second this - there's been a bit of budget cutting at my current company but really nothing has changed. Not sure why we're so unaffected here (touch wood). Perhaps there is less…

> Often I think new software is designed around looking impressive and fast to upper level management Bingo, and it also impresses the upper level management at customer companies …

No, usually linq is used in combination with an OEM (e.g. entity Framework) to avoid writing raw sql. From the parent comment, I thought he meant something more like sqlx for rust

Hello! I've been looking for a library like this for C# and another for Python - I'm not sure which terms to Google to find them!

I watched a dude in front of me at work make a whole PowerPoint using chatgpt, then used it to reply to all his emails - then back to copy pasting from chatgpt into some word doc

Raster tiles are smaller in terms of amount data sent over the wire and work better for users with less powerful computers/ mobile Really if you aren't interacting with the data on…

Interesting. How would you compare the developer experience between the two approaches? And what was your use case?

My concerns about serverless aren't to do with them not scaling - quite the opposite! I'm worried that we'll sacrifice developer experience in the name of "scaleability" of Functio…

This is one of my concerns as well - apparently azure functions allows you to debug your function from within vscode. I see lots of issues with this in that 1. you are limited to v…

Sadly, I think you are completely correct, and this exact sequence of events will go down. I don't think they're an idiot or malicious - I think they're clever and mean well, but p…

Thank you for this - implicit state is something I never even thought of - that could be a serious problem

Some api routes do caching - right now this is using Asp.net core's in memory cache. He recommended redis to replace this. I feel that it's a bit overkill

An Azure Cloud Architect has joined our company. They are recommending that all our web apps that are currently deployed in Azure App Services/ VMs should be (gradually) split up i…

I work in the UK (not in London) for an American company, they absolutely love us because they get the same work for about a third of the price.

Spatialite is such an amazing and little talked about tool. I think most people go straight for its bigger cousin POSTGIS which is the correct decision 99% of the time. However the…

So it's not standard nor cross platform, but I consider Glib to be the defacto standard data structures library. Have you tried it out?