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by brianmcc 8y ago
How can anyone with an ounce of common sense not immediately dismiss this as totally preposterous? It's completely and utterly nuts! Anyone in management at FB considering this a reasonable initiative has surely lost all perspective on
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by brianmcc 8y ago
And now I'm wiping coffee off my monitor :-D
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by brianmcc 9y ago
Don't worry your intent was clear - some people simply read what they want/expect to read, but some of us are still able to recognise a personal observation. Funny: reading HN comments I increasingly get the feeling a lot of fol
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by brianmcc 9y ago
That's fair enough, I guess it's just the fact that the term until very recently confused me rather than clarified things; I found it genuinely obfuscatory, as a developer with relatively light infrastructure experience. Of co
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by brianmcc 9y ago
Nice clear explanation. In the spirit of ELI5 I kind of think "container" is a terrible name for what seem to be super-lightweight VMs, I can't help thinking something like "instance" might have been better. In the
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by brianmcc 9y ago
`Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(1, 2));` _would_ work. You'd be printing the new string returned by the Substring() call. But `s.Substring(1, 2);` as a statement on its own does nothing - its new returned string is discarded on the wind
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by brianmcc 9y ago
Agree, and I think cloud is very much becoming a must-know technology. I suspect many here on HN will be shocked that anyone -doesn't- yet fully grok cloud ecosystems, but there are plenty of us in enterprise environments where physica
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by brianmcc 9y ago
A hype-based placebo effect perhaps?
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by brianmcc 9y ago
The "trough of disillusionment". Great term! http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp...
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by brianmcc 9y ago
This is just preposterous. Is he really trying to suggest that the UK is carrying bravely on with its own regular - one happens every 20 years! - mass shootings...? Nobody, statistically speaking, has guns - end of story!
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by brianmcc 9y ago
It never ceases to shock me how big a factor health insurance is for US folks. The fact that it can influence your career choices to such an extent is just crazy. Otherwise: +10 for freelancing/contracting. It's a genuinely differ
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by brianmcc 9y ago
>> generally people have adapted more or less fine I don't think that such adaptation is a "done deal". We're very much a work in progress as far as the latest social media stuff goes, meaning from about Facebook o
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by brianmcc 9y ago
I happen to agree. I also think that standing back a little, albeit with support and encouragement, and giving kids space to develop their own intrinsic motivation is far more likely to lead to a happy adult. I'd rather my kids grow up
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by brianmcc 9y ago
I think it's OK, I mean the heading's maybe a little similar but being "good" and being "successful" aren't really the same. Good article, I think if one approaches it openly and without cynicism it's
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by brianmcc 10y ago
I agree, and feel compelled to link this old gem. I never tire of it. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
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by brianmcc 10y ago
AMA anyone?
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by brianmcc 10y ago
Exactly. It's not a penalty shoot out. The margin of the majority is tiny. Overall the electorate was broadly split among Leave, Remain and Shrug/Dunno. This is in no way whatsoever a clear mandate to leave given that X% of Leave
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by brianmcc 10y ago
s/larger/buckie/
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by brianmcc 10y ago
I noticed he linked that very word to http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/ending-sentences-wit...
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by brianmcc 10y ago
4th paragraph: "Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.),"
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by brianmcc 11y ago
I think parent is making the point that Orwell's insight applies to today's consumer choices - and that it was an understood phenomenon even ~80 years ago.
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by brianmcc 11y ago
All for new words to help with disambiguation :-)
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by brianmcc 11y ago
Lesson . It's not a "learning", it's a lesson . Stop inventing nouns we don't need. (I know, the horse has bolted long ago, no pointing harrassing this stable door. I will blame too many choccy biscuits after lunc
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by brianmcc 11y ago
We've not cut anything else: dairy, nuts, alcohol, eggs, carbs, fats, proteins, sugar. Not sure what else it could be. For example, turns out malted vinegar causes a reaction, the sole "trigger" ingredient in it is barley. 6
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by brianmcc 11y ago
I have some sympathy with the disdain shown towards bandwagon-jumpers. However gluten has turned out to be a real problem in my own family. There seems to be a range of problems that gluten sensitivity can be linked with, even while traditi
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by brianmcc 11y ago
15 year olds also have a hell of a lot of time to invest in whatever takes their fancy. Never underestimate the single minded focus of an inquisitive teenager!
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by brianmcc 11y ago
Ha, so true. Learned that lesson with Rational in my case :-) Plus the compulsory EJB pain. I found it quite liberating to be able to just abandon EJBs once it became clear what a disaster they were without having to do do the Emperor'
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by brianmcc 11y ago
+1 for small Scottish town :-) we want our daughters to have exactly that, it's great to see our 2-year-old make friends that she could reasonably expect to finish High School with, and that might even last a lifetime
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by brianmcc 11y ago
+1 - if you're selling cars, you want fuel/gas to be free!
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by brianmcc 11y ago
I actually don't know whether to be annoyed/dismayed or impressed . There's something really quite accomplished about this bizarre, entirely abstract, virtual enterprise.

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