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by brianmcc 11y ago
Makes me think there could be a little more to this. On the one hand, if a friend or colleague has something go well (personally, in business, whatever), I will be happy for them, and certainly wouldn't begrudge a twitter/facebook
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by brianmcc 11y ago
The squid thing is a nod to Rolling Stone's famous description of GS as a giant vampire squid - many may be unfamiliar with it.
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by brianmcc 11y ago
Consider prototypes a way of quickly getting the user to confirm: no, that's not right :-) Only a half joke, too: it's easier to critique and improve something concrete , even if it's objectively rubbish, than to go from 0 t
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Exactly. Perhaps it's time for a new catchphrase: "Correlation not being causation does not require dismissal" But it might just lead to: "Correlation not being causation not requiring dismissal does not imply truthines
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by brianmcc 12y ago
"Correlation is not causation", while true, is becoming a very tired response to pretty much any suggested phenomenon here on HN. And it shuts down often worthwhile "what if...?" conversations. This is especially well pu
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Ben Goldacre writes some interesting stuff: http://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/
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by brianmcc 12y ago
You missed SQL/ORMs :-)
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Please subscribe me to your "buying today" newsletter !
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Is the term not about getting so close to real that it's that the remaining shortfall makes us uncomfortable? E.g. something "50% real" is so far off, we psychologically dismiss it as a cartoon, drawing, whatever. It's n
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by brianmcc 12y ago
I'm with you. Speech interaction might be fine in some situations , but they seem all quite superficial to me. The day I have to dictate a regex to my IDE is the day I hang up my boots. I would prefer a keyboard in any situation except
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by brianmcc 12y ago
In general you're probably right. I guess it's finding the exceptions that are out there that's difficult, and as you say, for someone based in the south of England, the middle bit of Scotland is pretty obscure. There is a bo
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by brianmcc 12y ago
There are pockets outside London where demand for developers is very high. Don't be fooled into thinking it's London or nothing for the UK workforce. I'm in Central Scotland, and there's a thriving tech thing going on he
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Agreed; in Scotland, we're now seeing steady, but not excessive, growth in volumes and prices. I'd say it's recovering, not worsening.
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by brianmcc 12y ago
In many places in the UK, it did crash big time. Plenty of people I know even today are in homes well below their 2007 levels or have sold for painful losses. London is unusual in that many properties sell for cash, to investors, and in f
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by brianmcc 12y ago
I enjoy your analysis :-) I don't know about "could care less" conveying the semantics - I genuinely paused when I first read it to work out which meaning it had. Let's saying "caring" goes 0 to 10. "Coul
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by brianmcc 12y ago
In the UK, we pretty much always use the "couldn't" version. I'm guessing "could care less" is an Americanism; it always jars for me when I read it.
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by brianmcc 12y ago
"If you let the monkeys do the design, you get shit on the walls." Marvellous, this would make a great poster :-) I also agree: bad architects, per se, isn't a flaw with the architect role itself. Central design, guidance and
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by brianmcc 12y ago
PTO?
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Seems more a downside of some locations, than of lunchtime walking per se?
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by brianmcc 12y ago
I like it, good luck. Couple of things to add: - where are you based? I'm guessing UK based purely on the railway station image, but other countries might well use similar constructions :-) - does your Dad want to do onsite or remote?
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Stack is Last In, First Out: LIFO. Queue is First In First Out, FIFO. It's insertion and exit order which really defines it.
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by brianmcc 12y ago
>> These kinds of criticisms seem little more than trying to jump on an SEO bandwagon. Wtf? Do you realise this is the jgrahamc who successfully campaigned for the Prime Minister of the UK to finally apologise for Turing's treatm
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by brianmcc 12y ago
FWIW I understood exactly what you meant, and I think you identified a real factor - it's important to identify a root cause of such self-identified "problem behaviour", not just identify coping mechanisms and carry merrily o
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by brianmcc 12y ago
This is not a simple Hello World app, it's a minimally viable end to end EE stack using one particular combination of many available technologies, intended to be deployed within an app server. And I am pretty sure OP knows it if he&#x2
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by brianmcc 12y ago
I find this both crazy and quite appealing! Maybe doing so after also dishing out some of the good books recommended elsewhere in the thread could work well. First read about good practice, then participate in it?
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by brianmcc 12y ago
I pretty much sprayed my monitor with coffee when I read that in the article. Tremendous :-)
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Fair enough. FWIW I think we do need more of a focus on vocational training, apprenticeships, and that degrees-for-all isn't the right direction, per se. But I must admit I hadn't really been too aware that some folks were losing
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by brianmcc 12y ago
Interesting point. Genuine question: you don't feel that basically free degree courses are, with some individual cases to the contrary, sure, still a massive net benefit to social mobility?
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by brianmcc 12y ago
In some parts of the UK, you mean :-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23279868
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by brianmcc 12y ago
The issue on that specific story was that Nick was given nearly 7 minutes of response, which was edited out on the main evening news with a "he declined to answer" dismissal. Technicalities surrounded the legitimacy of that edit,

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