LandR

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by LandR 6y ago
I'm in Scotland, my salary is about £45-£48k. I take home about £31k. The median salary here is about £21k nationwide. I bought my home for £170k, now worth about £230k. it's a decent sized apartment in a nice area in the city whe
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by LandR 6y ago
> Also I am probably unique but I prefer keeping my work and home lives very seperate and wouldn't be that keen to work with someone who was so publicly looking to blur that boundary. I don't understand what you mean here? You
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by LandR 6y ago
I had a long conversation about this with a friend. I think his biggest crime here was that he made some women feel they were special, when really they were just another one night stand... It seems he had a lot of female fans that wanted to
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by LandR 6y ago
Depends on the language. When programming in Clojure I use recursion a LOT.
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by LandR 6y ago
> Lots of engineer types freeze when they have to make a presentation. I've seen one place that wanted developers to do a full presentation with slides and all to a group of people. The topic of the presentation was completely up t
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by LandR 6y ago
If I set my layout to US then @ and " swap. So " is Shift+' and @ is shift+2 In UK keyboard layout, @ is shift+', and " is shift+2 (which is what is shown on my keyboard keys).
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by LandR 6y ago
> It takes 5 seconds and is mildly uncomfortable. This is good to know, I've heard people say you don't want to get tested as it's rather painful.
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by LandR 6y ago
>You don’t need to take a shower, just sanitize your hands. This is basically my routine, if I've been out and touching things other people are likely touching then I get in, take my shoes off and go straight to bathroom and wash my
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by LandR 6y ago
I was on a call and the client said they wanted something added to a UI. So I very quickly used MS Paint to mock it up... Just so I could clarify that is what they wanted.I shared my screen and someone said "great, you've done it!
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by LandR 6y ago
I've had this game sitting in my backlog for months. I've got a few days off work this week so need to give it a shot. I was never sure looking at videos and screenshots what sort of game it actually is.
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by LandR 6y ago
This doesn't work for me bar.foo@gmail.com gets rejected as email address doesn't exist when my gmail is bar@gmail.com
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by LandR 6y ago
> I know it's an anecdote but a very attractive women once told me the only difference between attractive and not is effort. I think this is nonsense. I'm like a 2/10 looks wise on a good day. No amount of effort is gettin
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by LandR 6y ago
IIRC our solution was around 450 projects. Visual Studio just woudn't open the whole solution. So you had to work in individual projects at a time, slowly going through and changing stuff project by project. VS wouldn't even build
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by LandR 6y ago
I'm working on code that was built three years ago, It would be considered it legacy code as soon as it was deployed the quality is so low.
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by LandR 6y ago
I've worked in a C# code base where compiling the solution took 40 minutes.
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by LandR 6y ago
I hatE Teams. Search is broken in it and if you scroll back a few days on a conversation it just stops loading messages... It's just awful.
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by LandR 6y ago
I run with lein test-refresh on my clojure code, as soon as I change code in either my src folder or my test folder, the tests are run. It's instant. There's no waiting on the startup time here at all, sometimes its so fast I don&
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by LandR 6y ago
You can use C# on the front end now with Blazor. It's pretty new though so I don't know how good it is yet.
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by LandR 6y ago
Hasn't Musk been saying this for a while, one of his pitches for why you should buy a Model 3 was that it would soon be able to operate as an independant taxi... At this point I just ignore what Musk says about Tesla autopilot. I don&#
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by LandR 6y ago
Scotland last week was back to being below our 5 year average for deaths.
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by LandR 6y ago
I believe Formula 1 has been carbon neutral for quite a while.
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by LandR 6y ago
I've done a lot of track days. You realise how big the skill gap is between an average person like me and a proper fast driver. I've occasionally gone into a corner way faster than I should with my abilities, frightened myself, bu
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by LandR 6y ago
Justst be aware the Netflix series sometimes show things out of context, or just straight up wrong, chronologically wrong etc to make it more entertaining.
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by LandR 6y ago
This is almost blub by definition.
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by LandR 6y ago
Ive worked places where compiling the C# solution on my dev machine took 30-40 mins and the build server took an hour plus... I haven't seen anything else ever be that bad.
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by LandR 6y ago
Languages I would prefer to work in than Go: Clojure C# F# Rust Scala Ruby Kotlin
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by LandR 6y ago
I sometimes wonder if Go is a long running by joke by Google. Like someone internal at Google said people will use and adopt en masse anything they make, regardless of how good it is. Someone else said no way, a bet was made, and Golang was
568.
by LandR 6y ago
As far as I can see, there is nothing wrong with its UX. It works, you can upvote / downvote. It's simple, doesn't need tonnes of JS to run. It's fast. What do you think needs updating? The only possible thing I would th
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by LandR 6y ago
I've never been in a casino playing cash poker games that would allow someone to sit with an app on their phone calculating odds. Most wouldn't allow you to be using your phone at all if you are in the hand, some wouldn't all
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by LandR 6y ago
Is the aim of this to help people cheat when playing online poker for real money on sites like 888 poker etc? If so I think that's a pretty awful service.

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