AJRF

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by AJRF 8y ago
What an amazing sounding game. I've looked at gameplay videos of EVE before and it looks so boring, but the stories that come out of it are so evidently not boring. Strange dichotomy.
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by AJRF 8y ago
You can make your pocket RSS feed public and then write a python script to download all the urls returned by the data dump of the feed. I did something like this for a side project, you can check out he code: https://github.com&#
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by AJRF 8y ago
Bit of an aside, but; I recently was talking to a engineering lead at Rolls Royce and asked why it seems like Silicon Valley is coming in and eating car manufacturers lunch on autopilot/auto-assist/driver-assist and he said they a
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by AJRF 8y ago
I came across this recently which was amazing. It's iOS specific but the features might let you filter by features you need; http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/
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by AJRF 8y ago
“Did partners get access to messages? Yes.” That’s all the article needed to be.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Do people generally agree that Java Optional == Scala Maybe / Haskell's Maybe? Java's Optional seems fundamentally flawed in that Java allows any reference to hold a null value and Optional can still throw a NPE when calling
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Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere(ben-evans.com)
4 points by AJRF 8y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
"I’ve been thinking about 12 Monkeys a lot lately. It seems, these days, as though the human race has passed a Rubicon and is now on a straight path toward the end of days, or at least the end of the social order as we know it." T
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by AJRF 8y ago
tig (That's git backwards) It's a luxury and you don't need it if you use something like fugitive in vim, but its a lovely little tool. https://github.com/jonas/tig Think SourceTree but on the command li
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by AJRF 8y ago
Local as in administered locally and not nationally. Its astounding you didn't infer that.
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by AJRF 8y ago
I use a T420 at home with an i7 2nd Gen (Power hunry) @ 2.3Ghz + 16GB Ram and a 250gb SSD. Its old, but its at the inflection point where its more cost effective for me to do some cloud compute the few times a year I need it rather than spe
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by AJRF 8y ago
I assume modern journalism is just the pursuit of the ability to conflate as many big tech names into one headline as possible. Jackpot for the Guardian here!
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by AJRF 8y ago
Is there any way for EU citizens to hammer Google with GDPR over this? Isn't one of the stipulations of GDPR that a company must disclose privacy violations of this nature?
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by AJRF 8y ago
You can meditate, you can chug red bull or coffee, you can use pomodoro's or live your life in a GTD system, but nothing will compare to the productivity increase of getting a good nights sleep.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Just to comment; I deleted the comment because I don't want to waste any time on arguing against that particular line of insanity. I wasted my time writing it, but I realise its not worth engaging or even having it open to engaging wit
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by AJRF 8y ago
Honestly couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m not trying to improve anything, I’m stating experience. The clues in the word anecdotally. It’s a shame HN always devolves into contrarian and counter-contrarian tit for tats like this
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by AJRF 8y ago
I was providing localised anecdata about the people I specifically work with. I don't think its against site rules to state personal experiences, actually it's the basis of healthy debate. If I said something along the lines of &q
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by AJRF 8y ago
Oh that looks like an interesting read, i've previously missed that post. I'll check both out, going to give that presentation style a try. Cheers for the links.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Thank you very much Tomas!
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by AJRF 8y ago
Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides? I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior
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by AJRF 8y ago
Drafts[1] for iOS is the note app of your dreams. It does exactly what you mention. It is expected that it will be released in Beta for macOS in the next few months. [1] - https://getdrafts.com/
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by AJRF 8y ago
Bit of an aside here so sorry, but did any successful clones of Google Reader live longer than a week? If so could someone point me towards it?
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by AJRF 8y ago
Agree about the overloud music, but I find J&TJ's coffee absolutely the best you can get on the high street. Fantastic stuff, but totally agree with your point about the music. I would love to be able to post up there and work, but
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by AJRF 8y ago
I’ve worked for a company that IPO’d and those people who made a ton of money tried to stay on for a while to maintain a normal life but most people just rested and vested. IPO day had a bunch of people walking around in a daze because they
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Meeting smells and how to avoid them(engineering.autotrader.co.uk)
2 points by AJRF 8y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
I thought Flat White was a London thing. I know it originated from Australia, but its well known as being the overpriced banker/technology worker/lawyer/well paid person drink in London. https://www.amazon.co.uk&#x
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by AJRF 8y ago
Do american coffee chains do things like cappuchino, latte, flat white, etc? Or is it mostly black filter coffee?
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by AJRF 8y ago
In the parlance of newspeak i've never seen it used any other way. Its misleading.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Aside; This was the OCR engine included with DEVON(think/note) applications. Thankfully the OCR engine processed documents offline, in a seemingly prescient move, adherence to the rule of processing and storing as little data as needed
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by AJRF 8y ago
Finishing things. I've started countless projects all with a wave of optimism on how its going to be different this time, how this will be the side project that earns me enough recurring revenue to leave my job and start making things

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