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by adwww 6y ago
The physical hardware might be a drop in the ocean on a $100,000 car, but the software engineering for all the features they enable cannot be cheap.
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by adwww 6y ago
Do people follow references much? I don't think anyone has ever contacted my previous employers, despite me having supplied their contact details as a reference numerous times over the years. Companies are discouraged from saying anyth
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by adwww 6y ago
True. Although, I have a secondhand fan / air purifier of theirs, and in theory the smart features of that are ideal - setting timers, voice control, etc. But it's crippled by poor UI, only supporting Alexa, and an arbitrary limit
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by adwww 6y ago
They also struggle with the culture of software. From what I've heard from employees, software is looked down on by management and is not really something they 'get'. Things like app connectivity are after thoughts and not co
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by adwww 6y ago
I'd agree with this. I have a Fuji X100F camera which produces lovely photos that look noticably distinct from my Pixel phone camera. However, even on innovative features that it does have - like WiFi or face recognition, it implements
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by adwww 6y ago
ha oh, in that case that's a bit of an own goal from Twitter. Although I doubt he put that fact checking warning up all on his own, there must have been a policy in place that senior management agreed to, and legal have presumably okay
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by adwww 6y ago
lol what, he is biased for pointing out misinformation from a prominent public figure, after years of Twitter being criticised for allowing false information to proliferate?
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by adwww 6y ago
Wow that's actually a pretty good effort. We use Camel, Spark and Beam to do much the same thing at my work, so despite using them all semi regularly, I've never known why you'd pick one over the other.
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by adwww 6y ago
Ha good luck explaining in one sentance the difference between Flume, Spark, Storm, NiFi, Camel, Apex, Flink, Beam.....
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by adwww 6y ago
This is one of the things I love about GCP. Kubernetes Engine, Compute, Storage, Memory Store, Cloud SQL, PubSub.... almost all of the main services do what they say on the tin. The only downside is - ironically - it sometimes makes googlin
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by adwww 6y ago
I think the outrage is more at the cabinet, and the attorney general no less, all defending what he did. Saying "he was just being a good father" is insulting to all the other dads who didn't break lockdown. Also, the rewriti
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by adwww 6y ago
The UI is way worse than either Aperture or Lightroom, but the editing is powerful, and you can download the full version for free if you have a Fuji or Sony camera, IIRC.
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by adwww 6y ago
Ha I used to worked on a tablet app that did a load of industrial safety checks. We kept getting tickets to lock more and more of the device down as 'solutions' to support requests. One ticket was to lock the device to maximum bri
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by adwww 6y ago
That wouldn't win votes (or whatever the dictatorship equivalent is) in the same way as military action though..!
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by adwww 6y ago
I think my experience might have been crippled a bit by having had a mac as my main PC since university, meaning less easy access to a non-locked down Windows installation. Much the same way as Windows users probably are not big objective C
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by adwww 6y ago
Sure, now, but when I was starting out a decade ago, everything seemed to be quite big money. Even reading the docs seemed to need a login and paid subscription.
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by adwww 6y ago
I went for a while of bumping into lots of job opportuntities using the Microsoft stack, and thought perhaps it would be good for my career to learn a bit. But the barrier to entry seemed so high at the time - you needed MSDN subscriptions,
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by adwww 6y ago
> One of the absolute biggest reasons that people aren't on their bikes is maintenance I wish that was the case. The reason people are not on their bikes is because the roads are scary and we don't have nearly enough dedicated
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by adwww 7y ago
This (or something like it?) has been available for ages, but the only time I've ever actually encountered it in the wild is with links to a JIRA project.
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by adwww 7y ago
Same as mine, but I didn't know if it was common or not.
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by adwww 7y ago
Can you even use the app store with a company mac? Who has the login - your personal account or some corporate one?
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by adwww 7y ago
Duo, Meets and Hangouts... off the top of my head. With various levels of being merged or not.
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by adwww 7y ago
Instead of betting, you could read the code and tell us. https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api
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by adwww 7y ago
I was involved (at arms length) in one part of GDS a few years ago and it sounded like some department heads really didn't like the GDS approach. Departments actually prefered spending ££££££ with HP / Capita / CapGemi etc. b
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by adwww 7y ago
> I can't wait to get home and play with it A. Where are you that you are not already at home?? And B. I wonder how many people are using nim at work, and what sort of workplaces that might be?
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by adwww 7y ago
Start a small railway running a tiny profit, go and have dinner, return to heaps of money to take over the world!
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by adwww 7y ago
> this would be illegal in EU Not quite, but privacy rules that protect employees from overzealous employers are common in most European nations (EU or not), to varying degrees.
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by adwww 7y ago
The volume vs weight probably comes into play as well. Without passengers, passenger aircraft probably run out of volume capacity long before they approach their max take off weights. Whereas I think with dedicated cargo aircraft, it is usu
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by adwww 7y ago
Cargo and passengers typically cross subsidise each other, depending on the route. Without (business and first class in particular) passengers the costs of running the planes have to met fully by the limited cargo.
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by adwww 7y ago
It's symbolic of short-termism. Instead of saving cash for emergencies or investing in new equipment, research or product lines, the cash is just 'wasted' on manipulating a share price in order to boost quarterly targets. A l

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