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I stepped thru getting some Ubuntu systems using 1.1.1.1 for DNS but retaining DHCP otherwise. Looks like this is tricky to do but some new features came in with a netplan package update that allows this to be done easily in 19.04:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1001241/can-netplan-configur...

Different strokes for different folks - and he is certainly different. I have fantasised for years about doing my dev work away from a desk. So maybe it’s just me but I find his ‘walking desk’ fascinating and thought provoking.

Blocked in NZ. Ironic.

Why do US airlines overbook flights? Is it the same sort of thinking?

Those colour names in the Atlassian palette are hilarious.

And state actors are proving themselves to not be gentlemen at all.

I don’t inherently disagree with you but you’re not recognising that as tech evolves, you’re asking people to span an extraordinary amount of complexity. In fact, the premise of the article is that front end development is now essentially two different roles.

Technology evolves. As it evolves, it becomes more sophisticated and the roles themselves become more specialised.

Twenty years ago you could have a designer writing simple HTML/CSS pages and then a Java developer filling in the functionality with JSP pages.

Today, the advent of sophisticated frameworks like React, and the browser becoming a highly capable development platform, it makes perfect sense to identify a separation of design-oriented UI/UX developer roles who are presentation experts and more engineering-oriented devs who focus on immutable state stores, app architecture, API design, implementation performance, testing, etc.

We really need good names for these two roles.

Isn’t there a Grid polyfill somewhere too?

If you don't draw the line at dictatorships that grind up American journalists - where do you draw the line?

I haven’t seem the film, but I will try to find it.

It’s good that some historical remnant - the control tower -remains. In NE Australia, there were a huge number of airfields that many hundreds of B-25s and other aircraft flew out from on missions to distant Pacific islands and back again. There is almost nothing remaining of that history as landing strips became roads or crops were grown over them.

“Transpiling is a code smell” - what is the thinking behind this statement?

Agreed. For a long termer, you need to make a 5-6 month full time investment in learning the language. From then on, being immersed means you’re gradually improving and your options and understanding of the everyday expands considerably.

From the article:

Australia’s population has grown by 45% since 1991. No other country even comes close.

and redux-saga?

Is it possible to use Redux without an eject?

Edge needs to add display: contents support before I’d consider suggesting it to anyone.

Using Brave for a bit will give you some perspective on what sort of things (e.g. location) are being requested whenever you hit a Google-related page.

There is nothing like masOS. But there certainly are alternatives to MacOS. One of which starts with L.

Is it reasonable to expect a web developer to be able to configure nginx? To be honest, I guess maybe not. But the person in question was maintaining how https slowed all sites down and so should be avoided. When I questioned him about the new handshaking in TLS1.3, it became evident he didn’t know what I was referring to.

Looks like your Dad got exposure to IBM equipment and realised that being a programmer could be a good job. I did my undergrad in the early 80s and the Uni had a CDC which was old then. First assignment in Pascal was writing it on a punchcard machine and handing the card batch over. But it was more an exercise in showing new students what had come before. I was fortunate to get a job working in COBOL on HP, which led to Unix exposure. Working on an IBM 370 would mean you were unlikely to move out of COBOL/Fortan for a while. Web dev is an awesome beast compared to what existed in the 80s but the complexity has gone up incredibly. Resultantly, there are a lot of people who struggle to understand the fundamentals. I met a supposed web dev the other day who didn’t know what TLS was, let alone the difference between 1.2 and 1.3

How does leanpub allow a book description with such awful spelling and grammar?

It can be simply achieved via income tax change. There’s already a tax rebate depending on the degree of ‘remoteness’. But it’s a political hot potato because the majority of the population lives in three cities.

To clarify, there is actually a significant drought occurring at present.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-07-29/the-big-dry-see-...

There’s not actually that much of a safety net. And the figures quoted below are largely unchanged 4 yrs later.

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/miserly-newstart-keeps-unempl...

I think the real issue with sustained high levels of immigration is that most immigrants end up living in one of two major cities, Sydney or Melbourne. Melbourne is on track to have a London-sized population by mid-century - but that’s of course based on estimates. Which as the article points out, were completely wrong by three decades in 2005.

It should be a pandicorn.

You need to have a look at Darktable.

If you read the original article, it gives you the impression that it's tiles only. But as you point out it's a lot of different parts of the Maps service going up by usually an order of magnitude at least.

I run a geocoding service for Australia specifically (https://geocodeplus.com.au) and a lot of people I talk to are completely unaware that they're going to see a x10 change in what their forward/reverse geocoding is going to cost them.

Really!?

Just about to chime in about Vernor Vinge myself - awesome conceptuals and well written