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by brianmcc 5y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think the more root cause thing is - people should be more humble in listening to the advice and guidance of epidemiologists, and indeed other experts and specialists. We as a society tacitly "outs
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Hence it gives "only" a 70x boost in protection, not a 100% protection cast iron guarantee.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
UX gets worse though when screens are cluttered with crap I have no intention of using. Features that can be 100% ignored when not wanted - no problem. Foisting more and more bloat - problem.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Yes - my current place has a very sane, practical approach which would work well for me. No purist algos stuff, no solving hard problems on the fly on a whiteboard with an audience. UK based, financial sector, FWIW. That said if I was looki
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I don't remember it but interesting discussion thanks!
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by brianmcc 5y ago
As my 2014 (!) self wrote: https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/java-golden-handcuffs/
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Yeah but "possible condition 20 - 40 years away" is very different to "contagious disease that could get you next week". Urgency is a motivator!
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by brianmcc 5y ago
A whole new bunch of people for whom the article hits home maybe. In any case - it's a new one to me, and thanks for the link to earlier discussion, v interesting!
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I thought this could be about the Monty Hall Problem, which I think is my own personal favourite. It isn't, of course, but I'll share some info here as no one else has raised it so far this thread :-) It's an interesting prob
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by brianmcc 5y ago
"cheap EU labour" tends to apply more to fruit pickers than AI PhDs I suspect
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by brianmcc 5y ago
We did actually make some progress on this in one place - if sales wanted a 50 day project priced at 30 days they had to get the executive team to approve a discount rather than sell an artificially low estimate. Happily those days, for m
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by brianmcc 5y ago
My God I remember the days of coming up with estimates for like 40 tasks, each a few days, say, then "negotiating" with sales/PM where we could shave a day off here, a half day there. And lo and behold, we price for a 30 day
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Looks a useful resource thanks!
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I know we Scots on the whole are probably a little more attractive than our friends down South but "people who don't look like them" is perhaps a little too much a stretch here? :-)
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by brianmcc 5y ago
The actual title, and even more so the shortened version given here, are needlessly provocative IMO. But the content itself is a little more thoughtful and tries to outline reasons why jumping on the GraphQL bandwagon might be a mistake. I
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Thing I wrote about my own colour blindness a few years back, for anyone here who's never really dug into it before: https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/colourblind-in-software-...
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by brianmcc 5y ago
The "independent contractor" bit of parent's post is what's relevant here. In the UK the Government has clamped down on freelancing by saying, simplified grossly, if you look and act like an employee, but claim to be an
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Sure but my main point is that hands-on tech jobs in NY, SF, London, etc, remain plentiful.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Oh totally. But hands-on tech jobs in the USA aren't eliminated, the sector is buoyant! Colleagues in India feel like colleagues not "replacements" these days.
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I am sceptical. Reminds me of the predictions 20 years ago that outsourcing/offshoring would eliminate hands-on developer jobs in US/UK and other "expensive" countries. Timezones, language factors, cultural factors, rete
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by brianmcc 5y ago
It's unusual but not unheard of for trials to be stopped ahead of schedule because of this - the treatment is so clearly and substantially beneficial it's considered unethical to continue depriving the control group of the treatme
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by brianmcc 5y ago
https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Same here. It's a little bloated maybe but the balance of chit-chat vs real work seems to be one that works for us. It's productive and also good social session to start the day. Feels like it's probably been positive for peo
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by brianmcc 5y ago
It's normal but not inevitable or irreversible. Your reaction will likely be, gut level, either "I prefer this and choose to continue", or "this isn't agreeing with me I will actively move back to hands on". If
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by brianmcc 5y ago
0% APR finance over 2 years in the UK, interesting. Never seen that before. Will definitely wait and see though, my Pixel 4 was terribly disappointing (woeful battery and tiny screen).
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Agree. This is one hill I would choose to die on, data is so much more important and valuable than code. Database design - normal form, relations, etc - was a major part of my education. Surely that's not unusual?
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Please, worldwide HN-ers, remember that not all of us in the UK voted for this Brexit induced shitshow and would dearly love to see it all reversed :-(
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Replying to myself - the phrase "the war for talent", coined in 1997, has always been apt for the tech sector and it's just becoming more and more so. Employers are going to have to compete really really hard for acquisitio
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by brianmcc 5y ago
Totally! We are perhaps in the midst of a great levelling-up game of musical chairs too!
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by brianmcc 5y ago
I agree this is a phenomenon right now, but I feel that article is vastly overcomplicating it, and not necessarily accurately. I'd suggest simply: - software engineers are hugely in demand - software engineers have worked out they can

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