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Re:Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:18PM (#19411545)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
Re:When you code, write down everything on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:37AM (#18831172)
No - because your thoughts are not translatable into code.

I tend to draw various diagrams or graphs when working on something and it would be inconvenient to digitize them. Sure, once you have some final "thing" you can add it do the documentation.

Re:Java: "+=" applied to String operands can provoke side effects on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:29PM (#17249710)
If you upgrade to 9 and then to 12 then you'll need to do this dance twice..
Re:GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe on Saturday May 26, 2018 @11:38AM (#17162597)
There are tons of pages which have this text:

"If want to agree to processing your data by Company then click Accept or close this window with the [X] button."

Which is ridiculous.

Re:Japan's secret spy agency on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:02PM (#17139655)
You might enjoy this: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.102203,19.5471605,203m/data=...
Re:Zuckerberg apologises to European Parliament for 'harm' on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:30PM (#17128258)
The last few minutes are interesting and might answer your doubts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2-2Wk90pw&t=2h15s
Re:Ask HN: How do you handle long-running workflows at your company? on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:53PM (#17070146)
In my case it was waiting until tax information becomes available in another system (IIRC up to several months, but usually few days). Sometimes it was required for a person to actually travel somewhere to get the data via paper forms. Usually human input was needed for some steps but sometimes it was able to complete automatically.

Most waiting (hours-days) happened because the work was waiting in a queue for a user to take care of it.

Re:How long does it take to linear search 200MB in memory? on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:18PM (#16945622)
Elasticsearch + Kibana/Grafana. The next version will opensource XPack[1] which has some support for alerting[2]. You can also use Grafana with ES and setup alerts there (I think)

[1] https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open

[2] https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/alerting

Re:JDK 10: General Availability on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:32AM (#16636598)
Does it actually help? After 10 years of java I don't really remember any case where defining local variable as final would catch an error. Though maybe these cases are easy to forget.
Re:Ask HN: How do you document your applications? on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:57AM (#13704177)
It's all cool until someone else has to touch this "code that actually does things".

Ask HN: How do you document your applications?

Posted by mabn on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm wondering what are others using to store documentation of their (non-public) services. Github wiki looks nice, but including charts/diagrams is a pain. It has the advantage of keeping docs close to the code, but searching wikis does not work.Confluence kind of works (and has gliffy integration!), but its search is also terrible.I'm referring to documents like: architecture overview, what is...

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Re:MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:26PM (#13594029)
What if I want filtering by several criteria (on a table with 1k columns) and simple aggregations, but I don't need full-text search* ? I'm still looking :(

* I only want starts-with and contains on strings.