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ElliotH commented on A revolution in English bell ringing harpers.org/archive/2025/... · Posted by u/ascertain

riazrizvi · 3 months ago

Bell ringing is English?? I grew up in England and assumed all churches everywhere did it. I guess I just never noticed its absence in the USA, despite living here for over 20 years.

ElliotH · 3 months ago

There is some change ringing in the USA, just not very much of it. There are towers around.. https://www.nagcr.org/towers-and-bands

There's even a few change ringing towers dotted around parts of Africa, Australia, some of Europe. Just few and far between.

But when compared to England, where practically every town can be relied upon to have at least a 6 bell tower where change ringing can happen, it's no comparison.

ElliotH commented on A revolution in English bell ringing harpers.org/archive/2025/... · Posted by u/ascertain

ElliotH · 3 months ago

I love seeing a change ringing article on HN, especially with well labelled diagrams!

The move to a framework system where we can all ring what we like and just describe it within an agreed upon nomenclature is a great improvement rather than the legacy Decisions. Having strict rules always seemed quite dated to me - the ringing police after all do not show up if you ring a "banned" performance. But agreeing on names makes communication possible - a good role for a central body.

Jump changes are fun too, but I don't think I agree with the article that allowing them has really led to a revolution. The top performances on BellBoard are of commonly rung non-jump methods. In fact I don't think I've seen a jump method be featured at all. Philip himself doesn't seemed to have published a performance of "Jump" anything since 2013. For many I think it remains an interesting novelty.

ElliotH commented on An update on Dart macros and data serialization medium.com/dartlang/an-up... · Posted by u/oltmang

ElliotH · a year ago

This is good news. The dart language has been getting more complicated without corresponding quality of life improvements. A first class record object without messing around with macros would be a great start.

ElliotH commented on Prisoners of Google Android development solutional.ee/blog/2023-0... · Posted by u/jarm0

wouldbecouldbe · 2 years ago

I’m still working on the updates. Was quite a lot of libraries to update for us. And only got the warnings last weekend.

Anyone knows the impact of not updating on time? Google’s message seems conflicting.

ElliotH · 2 years ago

If you target SDK < 31 then you’ll see reduced availability on the store. That means users with phones running Android higher than your maximum targeted version won’t be able to newly acquire it. Existing users are unaffected.

If you target SDK < 33 then you need to update to SDK 33 because you won’t be able to make releases with the old target SDK anymore. (Existing bundles are fine). If you miss the deadline it doesn’t introduce further enforcement than that but it might mean if you had an urgent update you’d need to update the target SDK at that time. So sooner is better.

Both have extensions available to Nov 1.

Wear has different thresholds.

Hopefully https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thre... helps clarify too.

ElliotH commented on Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale testing.googleblog.com/20... · Posted by u/gslin

userbinator · 3 years ago

would be built and deployed constantly

That's an enormously stupid waste of resources.

Do you really have an entire application binary that is only deployed and run once a year?

I have ones which are run when the need arises. It could be a year, it could be ten. But I know they work and I don't need to touch them, nor would I want to delete them.

ElliotH · 3 years ago

At Google there’s not really such a thing as code that never changes. Your dependencies will shift beneath you, even if it’s just the compiler itself. More likely though the libraries you use have been updated, a robot or two have come through and applied automated fixes etc etc.

So if we’re using it once a year, (we do have tools like that, maybe not strictly annually but certainly rarely) then you do indeed want it to be automatically built on some kind of recurring basis so it’s ready to go when you need it. And the tooling makes it (relatively) easy to have that happen.

ElliotH commented on Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? · Posted by u/apitman

ElliotH · 3 years ago

In the UK it seems a clear upgrade. I can be sitting on a train downloading Netflix shows between stops before we go underground. Speed tests often higher than I get at home over VDSL. Couldn't do that on 4G.

ElliotH commented on “Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session blog.janestreet.com/the-j... · Posted by u/jsomers

ElliotH · 3 years ago

I wonder if this has the same downsides as golden and screenshot type tests, where you end up over-asserting resulting in tests that break for unrelated changes?

Obviously that’s a risk for hand written tests too but it’s easier (today… who knows what copilot like systems will offer soon!) for a human to reason about what’s relevant.

ElliotH commented on Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs (2016) bbc.com/news/magazine-382... · Posted by u/thunderbong

ElliotH · 4 years ago

I lived in a house with one of these in Bermuda. Lesson learned that it’s not a good idea to use up your water pressure while the power is out as then your pump doesn’t work. Otherwise seemed to work great.

ElliotH commented on .NET Myths Dispelled blog.devgenius.io/6-net-m... · Posted by u/geekydev

Volrath89 · 4 years ago

I've been a .NET dev for almost 8 years now and I agree with the general positivity sentiment in the comments, but...

As many senior devs I also want to retire early from tech. But unlike many, even if I spend hundreds of hours in leetcode, mock interviews, etc. I'm not sure if my work experience would be even considered for an interview at FAANG. Of course I could interview at Microsoft, but it's the only one. Google, Amazon, Facebook, they don't use/hire C# devs at all.

I'm guessing the only path is to learn some Java and sell myself as a C#/Java dev in order to be able to at least get an interview. Any former dotnet dev here that has successfully transitioned into a FAANG position that wants to share advices/experience?

ElliotH · 4 years ago

I didn’t write Java professionally before joining Google. I interviewed in Python, there’s a much wider gap between those two languages than between C# and Java. I’ve also worked with people who used to write C# since it’s kinda common in line of business finance stuff.

Forget the hundreds of hours in leetcode. If you actually want to work for one of those companies, get in touch with a recruiter and see if there’s a role that suits. Ask for prep time later if you need it.

ElliotH commented on Ask HN: What can you do to help the grieving? · Posted by u/saadalem

ElliotH · 4 years ago

I’ve personally appreciated people willing to talk about the topic of death and the person who died. As opposed to those seeking to provide distraction. In particular I couldn’t stand anyone seeking to give a positive spin on it to “cheer me up”. It’s a bad thing. Just marking it and being with the person is enough.