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by askyourmother 10y ago
So, we get it. Complicated file and network formats, handled in C code leads to these types of security issues. We are told that Rust will save us. Glib answer - if it was going to, it already would have (and this is from someone already wr
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by askyourmother 10y ago
The black cabs are under more stringent regulation than minicabs or uber - they are the safer ride. Not sure what's too hard to understand about that. As they say: once you've been surge priced (by uber), you never go back (to ube
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Most people I know tried uber and moved back to more reliable black cabs and minicabs in London. Uber often seems to have 'ghost cars' on the map - never seem to be real or reachable - maybe trying to inflate the perception of av
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Not unsympathetic to the brasileros affected, but this is not the first time this happened over there - surely at this point the fragility of centralised platforms, and becoming reliant on them, is well known by now?
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Appreciate it was written as tongue in cheek, but I am glad that today a developer can start with Go, test, write code, build, deploy all with Go, whereas nearly every other ecosystem requires additional tools, often external competing tool
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by askyourmother 10y ago
There are other issues right now, like impartiality and bought research, like Microsoft at Cambridge University. I recall the professors at our uni treating the undergrads with contempt as wasting their precious lucrative research time.
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by askyourmother 10y ago
In London, the coffee scene in shoreditch/the city does very very well.
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by askyourmother 10y ago
A certain firm got rid of all their expensive staff, who must just sit there all day, being expensive, probably not doing much, except for you know - having about 200 years worth of experience on the core clearing system that was a critical
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by askyourmother 10y ago
A colleague at a previous firm took his severance pay, and opened a coffee shop, right in the tech area. He does very well now, even worried about their jobs, everyone still seems to buy expensive coffee!
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Earlier rounds of job losses were often replaced with offshoring and classic wage arbitrage, but this time feels different. A lot of the companies are cutting jobs, without the expectation to replace them (at all). I think ageism will play
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by askyourmother 10y ago
A thought experiment, how quickly would goog react if every potential hire walked away, emailed old Laszlo and told him to stick his tests. Might push forward the seed change in hiring the industry needs...
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by askyourmother 10y ago
It cuts two ways - if the hiring company expects me to waste, sorry, invest, my time reading their corp pages to make sure I have learnt all about them pre-interview, they can damn well take the time to read my profile and code snippets.
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by askyourmother 10y ago
This is true - a friend told me how he got hired in Bloomberg, he just asked a friend about their interview process and questions, breezed in. Anyone could do this. Now, Bloomberg might feel it is making a mockery of their recruitment proce
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by askyourmother 10y ago
This actually does work. If you do a little homework, there are employers who eschew the googly-algo-cs-wanna-job bullshit, they talk to you as a person, want to know about your experience, drives, values, and they are usually great places
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Some firms use the principal of making life at work downright unpleasant, in the hope the member(s) of staff will take the hint and jump before being pushed. A classic example is the usage of 'PIP's - most of the time unrelated to
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by askyourmother 10y ago
If they can get games to be fun again, where you want to play, rather than just kill time, that would be awesome. I still play games on the old 8 and 16 bit consoles, where gameplay always shone. No matter how many times you complete R-Type
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by askyourmother 10y ago
For me, the best part is interviewing for new jobs. You have not lived till you are asked to reverse sort a binary tree, whilst skipping on one leg, having to show you are passionate about the job! The disappointment was that the actual job
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Reports a gun was also found at the scene: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3561995/Police-inves...
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by askyourmother 10y ago
http://www.stopcocks.uk/plumber-city-of-london/ http://www.princessplumbing.co.uk/about.html
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by askyourmother 10y ago
When I hired a plumber for my heating firm, I put her through a hazing interview, tested her knowledge of Maxwell relations and thermodynamic equations. Oh wait, no I didn't. As she has been a plumber for years, so we recognised her s
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by askyourmother 10y ago
I didn't say they weren't important. But, what a waste, when the doctor saves the life via an operation, the nurse administers care, and the patient dies from an infection acquired due to a dirty ward, when it could be so easily
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by askyourmother 10y ago
One of the most important jobs in a hospital, is the cleaner. To help prevent the spread of infections like MRSI, to help keep outbreaks of vomiting virus under control, and help reduce the number of admitted and post procedure patients dyi
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by askyourmother 10y ago
I hope 'Agile', as a product, with the capital A, that sells lots of worthless pulp fiction "how to" books, with dogmatic consultants propagating useless practices they neither understand nor can follow, well I hope that
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Npm is awesome. When I want poorly thought out single line functions disguised as modules, with dependency chains a mile long, is it my go-to tool. After all, why have a simple left-pad function, when I have lots and lots of modules, just t
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by askyourmother 10y ago
I think in time, we will look back at the mess of "modern js" development, including the true shit-show of npm, in the same way we look back at the horrors of J2EE, XML hell, bean hell, FactoryOfFactoryOfFactoryofEclipsePleaseAuto
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by askyourmother 10y ago
At first I think "wow, what a price for those jeans!" Then I watch the documentary 'China blue', and then I think "wow, what a price for those jeans".
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Most of the recent "big data" projects we have been involved with will fail due to lack of basic direction from the client, from the beginning. Trying to explain how they failed to find the twenty needles in the three pieces of st
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Has uber won? When? Did the rest of the market get told? Given the fact they are still embroiled in legal wrangles worldwide, still throwing a billion dollars a year into a hole in China, had to recently settle a large case with their drive
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by askyourmother 10y ago
Garbage collection can cost money to a firm. Working a few years ago in a large investment firm, lots of the code used to trade via algos, make markets, index arb, was all written in C++. Deterministic, performant, reliable - it just worked
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by askyourmother 10y ago
My favourite smartphone was/is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95 It was such an awesome phone at the time, such quality hardware, and once they patched the firmware (a lot), it was an awesome phone. Loved

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