Viewing profile — pskinner
pskinner
HN member- Joined
- Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 6:18 AM UTC
- HN karma
- 57
- Public activity
- 37 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About pskinner
No profile information was provided.
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #39749102
Here you go: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asbestos-properti...
-
comment
Comment #38105155
*graphql
-
comment
Comment #35985955
HL7v2 is just the schema - the mechanism for sending these messages is normally something called MLLP which is just a simple framing protocol and has no built in security. It is po…
-
comment
Comment #33755065
King of the who?
-
comment
Comment #32244321
Well that's just not true.
-
comment
Comment #31523851
Comic chat
-
comment
Comment #29984040
This is because RoR projects do not do unit testing, they do integration testing with a real DB. This approach is terrible and causes the poor performance. There are whole sets of …
-
comment
Comment #28257565
Funny because my anecdote is that any devs I've worked with who only use an IDE are average to flat out bad at software development.
- story
-
comment
Comment #26768100
Disasters like powershell returning a 0 exit code even if there is an error? Its a pile of trash that doesn't add anything new other than a big shiny MS logo.
-
comment
Comment #26762972
Powershell is a horror you mean, it's got the verbosity of objective c with the consistency that comes with all Microsoft designed products. Just use a proper scripting language.
-
comment
Comment #26678676
Shut up and take my money
-
comment
Comment #26573988
We did and so this didn't cause us a major issue today. At my lost job we had the same. And the one before that. This mitigation of a risk that affects business continuity is somet…
- story
-
comment
Comment #26405463
A lot of this is not true. The majority of women accused (in the UK) were accused by other women, not these all powerful male brewers - around 500 people (men included) were found …
-
comment
Comment #26291238
The engine being totaled was your fault, always change the timing belt on or before its due to be changed.
-
comment
Comment #25664624
So I'd recommend Ny-Ålesund (but be prepared for a very long and uncomfortable boat trip if you go there and back in a day) plus the Soviet ghost town Piramida - remember to take y…
-
comment
Comment #25655672
Svalbard is a fantastic place to visit, especially if you want to get away from everything - it's like having a weight lifted from you as soon as you leave the area of paved road i…
-
comment
Comment #25539812
It doesn't work because your changes conflict? How would anything else handle out of order modifications to files that cannot be resolved automatically? There will always been a re…
-
comment
Comment #25512192
From my own experiences, the new assassin's creed game, Valhalla, was much buggier when it came out - hundreds of game breaking quest bugs and things as basic as saved games not wo…
-
comment
Comment #25157622
JSON schema to provide documentation across system and runtime validation of both types and business rules. Much more effective.
-
comment
Comment #24985374
Why would it be based in that? The USA is not the centre of the universe.
-
comment
Comment #24795202
Being able to drive safely is not the same skill as being able to construct a system that can drive safely.
-
comment
Comment #24567269
Hooray.
-
comment
Comment #24417696
Reminds me of the old ActiveX days - I wrote a whole WYSIWYG website editor using the ActiveX component that let you read/write files. I mean that was fun for a young budding devel…