DoubleGlazing

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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
A few years ago I left the company I was was working for. We had an internal doc wiki that hardly anyone used. I was one of the ones who did and I would document code changes and things like how to setup a dev environment and to list known
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I was hired by a company that made client on-boarding software for investment banks. It did all the Dodd-Frank, EMIR and KYC stuff. It was built around SQL Server and table and column names were quite long e.g. CustomerReferenceForGovernmen
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
If they get such a law enacted, then people who really care about end to end encryption will simply "opt out". There are so many open source crypto tools out there with no backdoors that anyone savvy enough to find them and use th
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
My son is a Lego obsessive, but he doesn't really go in for the more technical stuff like Mindstorms or Technic - he thinks it is overpriced and prefers to use Scratch and an Arduion to make machines and the like. The irony is that he
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I should have got MIG then. A nice weld is beautiful to look at, but my needs are more practical. Still, I'll give it a go. My son wants to build a "mecha arm" with all sorts of spy features. This might be a good excuse to le
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Two different countries. There was a big hoo-ha in 1916 about all that. But this isn't slander. The Indo didn't lie they grossly exaggerated the truth in a gory manner. Yes, the daughter was distraught - why wouldn't she be i
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Not great, but others are having it much worse. For me it's the fact that all our normal stress relief outlets are shut that is the big issue. The children can't go to scouts, my daughter can't do her ballet classes and my so
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
The father of one of my neighbours recently died in a house fire. It was a tragic accident, nothing sinister. The whole family could be described as boringly average with nothing of note about them. The family refused all requests for inter
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I have a fairly basic stick welder which I have used on a few occasions to do a few basic repairs and and make some metal supports for storage boxes. I don't have a particular need for a TIG welder, but I bought it so I suppose I shoul
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I managed to plant vegetables and keep them alive and growing well in to June. I make the same attempt every year, so this is a record for me. On a more serious note, I had plans when the lockdown began. I wanted to build some kind of a &qu
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, the article isn't very clear. One of the reasons why we have front end apps pulling from an API is because it allows for interoperability. The same API that serves data to the web browser can serve tha
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
This lustrates a problem I've encountered on a few recent projects - we are suffering an embarrassment of riches when it comes to front end technology. I found myself slipping in the architect role on a few recent projects with various
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
In a perfect world the EU/US (and others with big tech presences) would have laws that state companies based in their jurisdictions can only operate in other countries where they aren't required to change their policies or practic
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
One point often overlook with phone cameras is that although they can take great pictures, the image quality degrades over time as the glass is rubbed/scratched etc. When I first got my Huawei P20 Pro, I was seriously impressed with ju
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I think this is a subject most editors fail to address. A single line of code should be written to file as a single line - no matter how long. However, the editor you are using should be able to gracefully word wrap it depending on your set
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
That's why I miss pre-Google search engines such as AltaVista and alltheweb. "If you searched for "some obscure string of words" you would only get results that matches that exact string. I really don't like how Goo
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I have a friend who used to be a purser for one of the big cruise lines. They had a leak which ruined a huge amount of carpet in a dining room. They carried spare carpet on board and replaced it... and then dumped the old carpet off the sid
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
They sometimes refer to their referral bonus system as a game or challenge, that says it all really.
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
When I opened my Revolut account I took advantage of their referral scheme. I would get €15 for every customer I referred to them and who used their debit card. The new customers would also get €15. I got five people to sign up, the max. We
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
The secondhand market for Lego can be crazy. A few years back The S*n would occasionally run promotions where they would give away free mini-figs. There was nothing particularly rare about them, and the packs were specially branded for the
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
> 1. Why do tech workers need a union? In my experience the normal dynamics of employer-employee relationships are broken in the tech sector. In most cases where employees have a grief with an employer it's usually due to a lack of
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I always read things I'm about to sign, even if it annoys the staff. It's too much of a risk to just agree and hope all will be Okay. I'll not sign stuff that has clauses about binding arbitration or mandatory data sharing wi
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I have a five year old HP laptop. It was an Elite model, top of the line when I bought it with an i7 processor and SSD. 14 months after I bought it the hinge failed and the screen part physically detached from the base, with only the data&#
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
That office was brutally loud. 100 people in a low ceiling office. The a/c was bad, but the plotters the engineering guys used were particularly brutal. We also had dot matrix printers churning out triplicate documents. They were lucky
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
Nothing. Head if IT had words with her and she acknowledged What she did. HR also offered her a free hearing assesment. It was a semi-state co so they actually cared for their staff.
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I was an admin for a company that had lots of open plan offices. In one of these offices a specific row of computers kept failing. Although they were cheap (Compaq Evos with NT4), they were pretty damn reliable throughout the rest of the co
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I've had the same happen to Wifi plugs bought as recently as three years ago. They all seem to use different (buggy) apps and route the signal to the plug through some obscure website (usually in China). Of course these sites and domai
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
Someone once taught me a phrase I often use "Lowest common denominator coding." What it means is that you should code to the most common abilities held by the group of coders you are working with. In practice what that means is wh
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
I think it's more to do with the demand for talent. The people with their sights on mega success need talented tech people to bring those ideas to reality. Problem is their ain't enough of those people to go around, so as a result
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by DoubleGlazing 7y ago
Be good at selling yourself and your ideas. Try to hide your failures. Go after smaller niche VCs who don't have the resources to do proper due diligence. Play to investors greed and ego. Manipulate figures. Claim you are speaking with

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