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by benjiweber 8y ago
Fairly straightforward to handle yourself e.g. https://github.com/unruly/control/blob/master/src/test/java/...
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by benjiweber 8y ago
It's increasingly common in e.g. coffee shops/stands who don't want to have to deal with cash. Urban Baristas by Waterloo for example. Even in small supermarkets you'll have to queue for a smaller number of automated che
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by benjiweber 8y ago
> Seems orthogonal to me. You can run CI on a branch. Funny how some terms can be diffused enough over time to come to mean almost the opposite of what they originally meant. Continuous Integration is about integrating continuously. &quo
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by benjiweber 8y ago
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2015/04/17/modern-extreme-prog... XP teams, with pair and mob programming. Spacious team areas with big TVs for coding in pairs or mobs. 20% time for learning and to foster
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by benjiweber 8y ago
The GDPR means you need a lawful basis for processing the data. Not that you can't process it at all. There's lots of talk about consent as a basis for processing. For lots of purposes "Legitimate Interests" is likely a
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by benjiweber 8y ago
The Jubilee line on the Tube has platform doors which help; http://citytransport.info/Digi/P1170633a.jpg people queue by the doors until train arrives, safely separated from the train. People stack up on each side of t
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by benjiweber 8y ago
I don't see listening carefully and asking open ended questions as a step towards simply building what the potential customer wants. Quite the opposite: seeking to understand their underlying needs, the context they are in, and the fac
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by benjiweber 8y ago
US already gathers photos and fingerprints of visitors from Europe.
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by benjiweber 8y ago
Nokia n900. Portable linux box, real keyboard. http://neo900.org/ doesn't seem to have gained much traction. https://www.planetcom.co.uk/ seems to be the closest thing we have now.
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by benjiweber 8y ago
Pockit | Software Engineer (All Levels) | London, UK | Onsite (Partial Remote is an option) As a software engineer at Pockit, you’ll help further our mission of financial inclusion and banking for everyone. You’ll be solving fascinating bus
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by benjiweber 8y ago
Richard Browning's suit is even more impressive, but presumably infeasible to do with electricity with current technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DafoDiRvGLM
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Learning from Pain(benjiweber.co.uk)
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by benjiweber 8y ago
Looks neat, but doesn't look like they have a UK layout? Not sure I could cope with the tiny enter key on the US/ISO layout
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by benjiweber 8y ago
One big caveat with enums in postgres is that adding values can't be done in a transaction https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-altertype.htm... It's modifying a type rather than values as
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by benjiweber 8y ago
Unruly | Senior Developer/Site Reliability Engineer/Engineering Coach | Full-time | London, UK | Onsite Unruly is the video marketplace you can trust. We help the world’s biggest advertisers engage global audiences by harnessing t
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by benjiweber 9y ago
Unruly | Senior Developer/Site Reliability Engineer/Engineering Coach | Full-time | London, UK | Onsite Unruly is the video marketplace you can trust. We help the world’s biggest advertisers engage global audiences by harnessing t
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by benjiweber 9y ago
How does one deactivate the amp preloading?
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by benjiweber 9y ago
Could they use a third rail system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail
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by benjiweber 9y ago
Kent Beck talks about this need for context awareness a lot in his 3x (Explore, Expand, Extract). https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/the-product-develop... https://www.facebook.com/notes&#x2F
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by benjiweber 9y ago
"Woman who found £20 note on floor convicted of theft" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-391...
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by benjiweber 10y ago
SQL can do recursive rules too. SQL tutorials often do SQL a disservice by introducing it as a database query language rather than relational algebra :) example=# select * from move; place | method | newplace ---------+--------+
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by benjiweber 10y ago
SQL gives you all the solutions to query by default unless you limit them right? A relation (table) in SQL is conceptually a predicate that holds for all tuples (rows) therein. You can AND the predicates with "NATURAL JOIN". You c
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by benjiweber 10y ago
You're right, most of the downsides are specific to runtime wiring. I haven't used dagger. It does compile time magic doesn't it?
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by benjiweber 10y ago
It's really just a criticism of dependency injection /frameworks/. Manually wiring dependencies by calling constructors is still dependency injection. This also has the upside that the compiler will check you have satisfied a
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by benjiweber 10y ago
Postgres is of course an excellent document store with JSONB. Its really powerful being able to create relational views backed onto data as json and vice versa.
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by benjiweber 10y ago
You can get push notifications with server side irssi in tmux/screen and IrssiNotifier on Android.
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by benjiweber 10y ago
Google have https://developers.google.com/time/smear but it can introduce different problems.
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by benjiweber 10y ago
This cartoon is often used to illustrate the difference http://interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/I...
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by benjiweber 10y ago
While I agree with your point about cities. London is on the tidal stretch of the thames, and the second biggest port in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_ports_in_Europ...
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by benjiweber 10y ago
You can map JSON onto java interface types with the built in Nashorn. http://paste.debian.net/883460/ ( May be incredibly unsafe, only just thought of it now. )

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