UglyToad

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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   A relevant article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision...
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Just as a counter to this, while I agree such substitutes are a poor facsimile to real meat I'm incredibly grateful for them. I'm vegetarian for moral reasons but my problem is I don't really like vegetables and have constant
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   French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport(france24.com)

   250 points by UglyToad 7y ago|204 comments
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   I agree, today marks my last day in employment with no job lined up due to burnout. A large part of what makes software development so unpleasant is Atlassian tools and they culture they foster. Ultimately the wider problem is business leve
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   There's an extent to which this whole discussion feels 'close but no potato'. While we generally agree that open source software is good for business, consumers, society and developers and as open source developers we enjoy d
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   Does Code Quality Affect Pull Request Acceptance?(arxiv.org)

   1 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   A cynic might point out that Bolsonaro was far more palatable to American finance and government than the alternative. He is to some degree America's monster and has caused a thawing of US-Brazil relations which wasn't possible un
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Haha, yes, I recognise a lot of myself in this description. My previous job was a start-up and I was working maybe 8.30-6.30 most days with 20-30 minutes lunch and also working on open source software in the evenings (I still do the open so
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   This is a nice metaphor. I think it's similar in many ways to the complaints one overhears about roadworks. "Why do they take so long!? It's just 5 people stood around watching another dig a hole!". Software is a lot lik
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    It's interesting to hear that this is not just peculiar to software. I have no real understanding of what other jobs involve but I can well believe there's a similar experience in other mentally (and physically!) demanding jobs. F
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I think it's maybe partly that the jobs I've tended to work have no real socializing/email answering/meetings aspect. I've tried to get more onto that side just to preserve my sanity but it's been very much &qu
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'd be interested to know if other software developers feel their current working hours are good/positive? From feedback I've had I'm generally regarded as pretty good at my job and highly productive but my current worki
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    A good summary of the main points in favour of HS2 that almost no-one in English media or politics is making. This article, which is unfortunately now paywalled, covers a lot of the same ground: https://www.independent.co.uk&#x2F
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I don't understand this presumably American fixation with the 40 hour week. It's almost 10% longer than the default UK week which is already too long. Having worked both and currently on 36.75 there's still a huge amount of s
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    PTSD in Maltreated Children Grown Up: Influence of Neighborhood(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

    1 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    It's hard for blanket statements not to raise hackles, I think you highlight a real trend but it feels a little broad of a statement to me (the joys of distilling opinions into text). The first language I learned was Python and then I
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    "We've" tried everything only in the sense we've consistently pandered to the regressive, dogmatic and poorly informed war-on-drugs brigade. Heroin is less dangerous than paracetamol (though much more highly addictive) a
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Hmm, looks like I misunderstood the figure - https://agileenergy.net/uk-net-zero-transition-to-cost-1-tri... So > £1 trillion by 2050, not sure if that includes assumptions about cost reductions in renewables by then tho
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    While I agree with you overall I've been sliding more and more into fear and despondency. We need to put our countries on a 'war footing'. We have so many people who could be working to fix these problems stuck in offices doi
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Seems a real shame there's no mainstream alternative not subject to the US' belligerent foreign policy. Does anyone know if Gitlab is subject to the same restrictions? The sanctioned countries and regions fall even further behind
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'll try to give a very probably incorrect answer with relevance to Linux. NET includes the common language runtime which can take code from any of the NET languages (C#, F# and VB or any language which compiles to IL) and run it in a
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I wonder to what extent this difference between the perceived cost of food in the UK vs US is driven by the relative difference in amount of food imported vs grown locally? As far as I could tell the US is a net exporter of food whereas the
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    The 74% is disposable income once the cost of housing has been removed. It still seems a little high but not completely fanciful https://foodfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The...
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Not sure why you're being down-voted for this, as shared elsewhere in the thread [0] you're right. There's also this [1][2] from a UK think-tank which annoyingly I couldn't find any more information on, which says to mee
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I really don't get this whole Russian interference moral panic. Like sure, maybe there are some people paid by foreign governments to target people on social media, but at the point people are susceptible to that they're already s
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    There are many terrible interviewers and companies out there who would treat asking for clarification as a weakness so I imagine many interviewees avoid asking for clarification to avoid appearing "weak". As others have said make
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Genuine question, I wasn't sure after reading the article whether this was the hottest June ever recorded or the hottest of any month ever recorded?
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    It's a good point about auto-complete I hadn't considered, maybe globals could have some obvious name thing going on, I hate this suggestion but for example an underscore prefix. Some examples of where global functions might make
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I think there are many useful ideas in OOP languages and I still struggle with purely functional languages, I think/hope we'll see increasingly mixed model languages. I'd be interested to see a language like C# but with: + Im
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'm in the same position, I think. I used to be a SOLIDhead but I find the adherence to SOLID increasingly off-putting. Primarily code should do the thing simply and obviously. The best attribute of any code, in my view, is that it&#x2