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Not necessarily trading blows, but LIDL is huge in all sorts of figures. From revenue to employment numbers.

Maybe this is just a symptom of working in a field with plenty of work opportunities, or the fact that I am not American, but the idea of a company demanding that I relocate in ord…

> Djangos ORM isn't highly opinionated. That's just wrong. It's a fully featured ORM... Including migrations, query API (which is HIGHLY opinionated, it looks nothing like SQL), su…

I don't think it is farfetched to say that, for the good and bad, modern software development is moving away from a single project having to handle "1200 tables". As we see the gro…

> I swear the majority of these opinion posts against ORMs are from people who must have worked in a badly implemented project that left them with a bad experience and they blamed …

First of all, thank you for SQLAlchemy! If I ever had to make a final choice in how I would interact with a database for a very large project that involves a considerable dev team,…

> This is just reimplementing Djangos ORM, bud badly. I guess this is a good thing, as "reimplementing" Django's ORM is the opposite of what I wanted to do here :) > ORM queries co…

This is also why I really like Peewee in Python. If I am not going to write SQL, at least give me an API that looks and feels like it. When I look at Peewee code, I can often see t…

When it comes to migrations, I've been fine with https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate There are a multitude of extra things to consider, but none of those things are, in my op…

There isn't that much to elaborate on. Commercial heat pumps just aren't good for the average UK house. They would be "alright" if the costs weren't prohibitive. I don't know the s…

Heat pumps take much longer to heat the system, to get it to the desired temperature. Combine that with a property that is not insulated to very high standard, and you get a heatin…

The costs are totally prohibitive, though. We're talking tens of thousands of pounds, whatever direction you decide to take. You could spend 10s of thousands of pounds in a "proper…

> The load also depends on unique characteristics of the home like the amount of insulation or the type of windows and doors. A home built in 1850 with no insulation requires more …

Oh boy. Years ago I visited my home country with my partner. She used to prefer going to dentist there, old habits I guess. On this particular trip I agreed to a check up as well -…

Yep, the one with the handy digital display.

An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can …

See, the thing with DDD is that it is VERY complex. I mean, "the" book on it (Evans) is beefy. Putting all those ideals in practice is hard, especially when so many of the ideas ar…

Yep. This is exactly how I feel. Django is great to get projects going, but eventually you just end up fighting it a lot. I even recommend people not to install too many flask exte…

This is probably quite unpopular, seeing as the FastAPI docs have been so praised in the past... but I really dislike how FastAPI is documented, which has really put me off of the …

I love coming in to the office. Granted, I live a 20 min walk away. The walk in is through a beautiful county park, surrounded by nature. Most of my colleagues who live further awa…

Hobbies that translate to your profession (like keyboards to programmers or headphones/amps to audio professionals) can very much become placebo. Unless you are financially crippli…

Brown switches? MX Brown switches? Might as well not even put "rabbit hole" in that sentence... I kid, I kid, it's all down to preference... That said, you can get yourself a singl…

I sometimes really question if I'm back on reddit while reading some of these replies... You're in HN, talking about MS and acquisitions, telling them to learn to compete? Am I on …