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Re:What were the best books you read this year? on Thursday November 28, 2024 @04:51PM (#42268762)
Empire World An amazing read that really opened my eye to the legacy of empire

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empireworld-British-Imperialism-Sha...

Re:Why Are There So Many Colourful Houses in Bristol? on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:20AM (#37855019)
I've always enjoyed going to the MLops meetup (https://www.meetup.com/mlops-community-bristol), always very good talks on a wide range of subjects.

There is also PyData Bristol (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-bristol/)

Re:Don't write bugs on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:22AM (#28770528)
During the early part of my career I decided to just not write bugs. Was the best decision I made, I've saved myself countless hours
Re:Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:31PM (#28201876)
Sounds like you've got a bit of burnout. I felt like this a while back, I got though it by working for a company I really felt I had an impact and enjoyed the work culture.

I'd counter argue that leaving London doesn't have to mean the end of a career. Have you tried looking at other places in the UK to live/work? I'm a bit bias but Bristol is a fantastic city to live in and the tech scene is really well developed. Lots of start ups, mid sized and large companies. Plenty of banks/fin tech companies are based here too.

One of the things that have helped me get though burnout was to do other things outside of work. Be that go for food, cinema or even visiting tourist sites.

Re:Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine? on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:10PM (#24632362)
I always use Cookpad, Waitrose has a good site too

https://cookpad.com

https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes.html

Same from the UK
Re:Twitter is down on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:28AM (#16858619)
Down for me as well, Bristol UK
Re:Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:40AM (#16282586)
I worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution.

That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appealing.

Re:Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:36AM (#16014641)
Password manager!
Re:Headless mode in Firefox on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:48AM (#15132524)
:D
Re:Headless mode in Firefox on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:15AM (#15132284)
Well why do you want to do that, if you are finding the tests are too slow it maybe worth writing some tests with jasmine that can be run in node without a browser.

That's what we currently do, karma and browser testing are useful but sometimes you can get away with not using them.

One thing we are trying is using JSDom to run browser based tests in node

Re:Headless mode in Firefox on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:12AM (#15132266)
Well currently we run the karma tests on CI with chrome headless so this allows us to do the same with firefox
Re:Headless mode in Firefox on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:36AM (#15132007)
For all of you old fogies working on angular 1 apps and are running browser tests with karma you can run your tests in firefox with headless mode with a customer launcher. Add the snippet below to your karma conf

``` browsers: ['FirefoxHeadless'], customLaunchers: { FirefoxHeadless: { base: 'Firefox', flags: [ '-headless', ], }, }, ```

Note you need to be running the beta version of firefox, I needed to download it from here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

Yeah like the look of this, makes me wonder if one day I can code on a chromebook
Re:Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @01:47PM (#14704607)
Me too! Just to keep it good humored. If you put a smiley in an issue or a slack message it helps keep the recipient happy
Re:Running feature specs with Capybara and Chrome headless on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:09AM (#14701726)
Just this morning my team migrated from phantomJS to chrome headless for our Karma plus Jasmine tests. Did a bit of researching before the move and we found tests ran faster plus chrome used less memory than phantomJS. ~ 2000 specs compiling html and stuff
Re:Will London Fall? on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:18PM (#14089560)
sure but the types of jobs on offer in London may not be on offer elsewhere.
Re:Will London Fall? on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:08PM (#14089428)
No, London will still be London. Why do people think that suddenly you might have to apply for a visa people will stop wanting to come and live in London?
Is it technically feasible to have a back door and still be `end to end` encrypted ?
Re:Ask HN: Where are you located? on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:48AM (#13820555)
I've lived in a few places but was born and bred in the south west everywhere else I've lived never seems as good (or as laid back)
Re:Ask HN: Where are you located? on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:01AM (#13819908)
Bristol UK, in the house!

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