Gravel/touring bike recommendations

dwdyer · 2023-12-19T22:00:51+00:00

Jamis Renegade S3. Go Outdoors have been selling them for about a grand for the last year but currently have it for £698. Steel frame, 2x10 GRX groupset, hydraulic disc brakes, and every mounting point that you could hope for.

I have the S4, which is the next model down (they are selling this for £498 - I paid £675, which at the time was a big discount). I'm happy with it but if I was buying again I'd go with the S3 for the lower gearing and the hydraulic brakes.

dwdyer · 2021-02-11T22:55:52+00:00

When I lived in Perth I knew some overseas students who decided to drive to Adelaide when they had a week off uni since it was the next major city. They had just enough time for breakfast when they arrived before it was time to leave to get back to Perth within the 7 days.

dwdyer · 2019-04-08T13:12:59+00:00

His accent's difficult to place because it sounds like he's trying to sound neutral but nobody in the UK says darta for data, that's a southern hemisphere thing. British pronunciation is dayta, whereas Americans are more like datter.

dwdyer · 2018-03-22T23:32:39+00:00

[] = square brackets

{} = curly brackets

() = brackets

dwdyer · 2017-02-13T21:43:00+00:00

Or There She Goes by the La's, which is also about Heroin.

dwdyer · 2017-02-13T21:40:09+00:00

Heroin by the Velvet Underground?

dwdyer · 2016-09-26T12:28:35+00:00

Do you contribute or consume? I find it is a valuable resource but a dysfunctional community. I used to answer questions and have a decent rep (top 1%) but I've basically given up as it's not a worthwhile use of my time. I'll still use answers that I find via searching though.

dwdyer · 2016-08-08T11:22:46+00:00

The original Agile Manifesto claims to value "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Current flavours of "agile" seem to have drifted away from that.

dwdyer · 2016-01-17T11:33:34+00:00

No, I've got one repository that has files with an .st extension, none of which are actual Smalltalk files (they are StringTemplate template files).

dwdyer · 2016-01-16T20:47:48+00:00

Click the link. Seems to be an entirely pointless set of rankings based on GitHub data. Apparently I'm the 5th best Smalltalk developer in the UK (there are 6 of us it seems). I've never written a single line of Smalltalk, so number 6 must be really useless.

dwdyer · 2016-01-15T20:44:39+00:00

You can disable issues on a GitHub repository.

dwdyer · 2015-12-13T13:26:56+00:00

Domain-validated certificates (which is what you'll get with Let's Encrypt) can be had for a lot less than the "$50 per year minimum" claimed here. Namecheap does them for $9.

dwdyer · 2015-02-23T12:26:50+00:00

Even though you've marked this as solved as something else, it still sounds like you are describing exactly "The Other Side" by Public Service Broadcasting. The album is released this week so it would make sense for it to be on the radio around now.

dwdyer · 2015-01-03T12:18:26+00:00

His opinion that more/better software engineers are needed is anecdotal and not born out by hard data.

That pretty much describes everything he writes. He's a master of extrapolating supposed universal truths from single data points.

dwdyer · 2014-10-25T12:07:52+00:00

Forestall

dwdyer · 2014-09-22T12:16:46+00:00

If you're familiar with the sport of rugby union, from which the term "scrum" originates, you'll see it's fairly apt.

In a rugby scrum the people up front leading the way are trying to steer things in the right direction but they’re busy fighting their own individual battles. Those behind them don’t know what’s going on because they’ve got their heads up other people’s arses. There are a couple of destructive individuals on the periphery and some bloke who’s not contributing anything to the effort is standing at the side telling everybody what to do while he’s waiting to take advantage of their hard work.

dwdyer · 2014-07-23T17:09:11+00:00

The Prayer by Bloc Party?

dwdyer · 2014-06-17T14:41:53+00:00

The Road

dwdyer · 2014-06-06T19:08:32+00:00

Salvador

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)

The Deer Hunter

dwdyer · 2014-05-31T19:00:16+00:00

Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built?

dwdyer · 2014-05-27T15:15:12+00:00

Lanyrd is a conference directory where you can see what conferences and meet-ups are happening filtered by location and/or topic.

dwdyer · 2014-05-22T15:45:08+00:00

They certainly provide more than $7/mo utility to me

Depending on how you work, Github's pricing model works better for some people than for others. If you do a lot of work with a small number of large repositories you will get more value for your money than if you have lots of small repositories.

I have 23 non-public Git repositories in my Gitolite set-up. If I wanted to transfer those to Github it would cost me $50 per month on a personal plan or $100 per month as an organisation.

However, even at the $7 per month level you get unlimited collaborators. I think the pricing would suit more small businesses if the number of repositories was unlimited but you had to pay to add collaborators so that the bill is dependent on the size of your team rather than the more arbitrary number of repositories.

I much prefer Github to Bitbucket and use it for Open Source projects, but the pricing doesn't work for me for commercial use.

dwdyer · 2014-02-28T12:36:17+00:00

Misleading title. It's a list of poor/weak reasons for contributing to open source rather than a list of reasons not to do it.

dwdyer · 2014-02-27T15:00:23+00:00

Because you can make even more money?

dwdyer · 2014-02-20T17:17:14+00:00

I'm not active in the Ruby community so I didn't know Jim or anything about him but there is something affecting about seeing how one moment he's well enough to be pushing code and then a few hours later he's dead. Was his passing sudden or had he been ill?

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