benashford

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by benashford 11y ago
That story had an unexpectedly happy ending. Several times in the past when I've needed to complain about external consultants cutting corners, I've found the consultants have got in first and told my own management about their un
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by benashford 11y ago
Is the .NET version actually spawning any threads at all? It uses Tasks to collect the results, but all the work is done in the main thread by the looks of it.
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by benashford 11y ago
How's that different from any other freelancer? They all pay themselves a salary until they get to the higher income tax bands, then they pay a dividend. That's the most tax efficient way of doing it usually due to the presence
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by benashford 11y ago
They were also unanimous it would happen last century? What do we mean by "human level" anyway? Last time I got talking to an AI expert he said current research wouldn't lead to anything like a general intelligence, rather hu
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by benashford 11y ago
It's a London based startup, they all look like that until they get some serious funding - and some don't move beyond it even then. If anything, that's above-average.
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by benashford 11y ago
I think everyone here is well aware of the issue. It's getting the message to people outside of the tech bubble that's missing.
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by benashford 11y ago
The worst thing for me about the Snowden leaks wasn't that. It was the deliberate interference in secure protocols (e.g. the flawed random number generators), combined with the pressure to leave open accidental flaws. This makes every
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by benashford 11y ago
And then you lose your phone and...
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by benashford 11y ago
Automation is a given, more-and-more things are going to be automated. People jobs are going to be the last to be automated too, perhaps these jobs never will be automated, although a lot of low-level traditionally people-facing jobs will,
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by benashford 11y ago
The disk footprint was measuring the size of the docker container, who knows what was in it. Something would have to be wrong for 175 lines to require 650MB of dependencies... it could if it were loading all of Spring/Hibernate/e
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by benashford 11y ago
There's a calculator here: http://www.hl.co.uk/news/articles/budget-2015-changes-to-div...
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by benashford 11y ago
I agree entirely. I've had all those issues, and a few more: For a week until this morning, half of the UK (and a few other non-US locations) were unable to play any music at all, due to a CDN DNS issue; and starting new custom radio
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by benashford 11y ago
I think it's because, so far, the reach of ad-blocking is quite small so there hasn't been a significant need to invest in anti-blocking measures. An arms race in blocking ads designed not to be blocked would be interesting to wat
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by benashford 11y ago
I noticed something similar, but note OFCOM is allowing operators to use any part of their allocations for 4G services. I'm wondering if they're reusing some of their 2G and 3G bandwidth for 4G services.
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by benashford 11y ago
Yes, as long as the implementation is in the same module/crate as the T. It's only where both the left and right-hand side are in external crates that would be a problem.