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by bshimmin 7y ago
I loved this tweet from him a year or so ago: https://twitter.com/boonepickens/status/953398294172102658
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I can't say I've ever met anyone who actually uses Coda. Does it appeal more to the Dreamweaver crowd? (No offence to anyone who uses Coda, or Dreamweaver, or anything else!)
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Coming from a strong hobbyist background, I did a "conversion" master's in computer science at a decent university, and definitely knew more than the professors on the topics that I already knew about. I didn't know any
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by bshimmin 7y ago
It seems like he works here: https://www.amarisoft.com/about-us/
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by bshimmin 7y ago
War and Peace by Tolstoy (I like the Volokhonsky and Pevear translation, though I first read a different one that I also liked and now can't remember). If you read it casually, it'll take you most of the summer; if you race thr
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by bshimmin 7y ago
For anyone who was as confused as I was by this, from the root of the site, in the header, click "Reader" to see the actual blogs and posts from the different authors. The navigability of this site needs some work, I would say.
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I can confirm that I both got paid handsomely (especially for the second phase of the project where we were on a retainer and literally did one day of work over the course of three months, barring a couple of phone calls) and that I felt ve
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I think anyone who has done any consulting with a big organisation probably has one of these stories. As one of the other commenters says, if the end result is something that the client is happy with, and they actually pay you, you should
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Previous discussion of this from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12520674 (Seems like a terrible idea to me - complex rules to follow for a really minimal saving...)
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I once worked at a company in London who called an emergency plumber out who charged £5 per minute. It cost ten quid just to get him in through the front door and up the lift.
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Part 4: learn to bill by the day and never again have to worry about justifying how long a simple-sounding code change took to make.
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I like it too - and I assume the name is a reference to the restaurant in American Psycho that Pat Bateman can never get a reservation at!
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Conrad is another great example (maybe the only other example!), but I think perhaps part of the unusual beauty of his writing is that he does (involuntarily, I guess) occasionally employ irregular constructions because of the Polish and Fr
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Have you tried RailsAdmin? It does a great job of getting you over the line with the basics (though configuring it can be fussy and customising it is pretty miserable).
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I had the misfortune to use Rally for a few months about five years ago - I often laugh quietly to myself when I hear people complaining about Jira's UX.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I suspect it may be more the case that many people under 40 in the UK weren't really taught much at all in the way of grammar, and even people who have involuntarily picked up fairly decent grammatical skills still struggle with comma
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Just to aid people who are interesting in looking this sort of thing up, the fourth comma in the original is an example of a "comma splice", where the comma is too weak to join the two independent clauses. You can solve a comma s
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by bshimmin 8y ago
It's a real mess, isn't it? The Mac Pro hasn't been updated since 2013, though apparently a dramatic re-think is due this year; obviously the iMac Pro is the better machine, but it's drastically expensive and probably n
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I think Douglas Adams was fairly prescient back in 1987: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourse
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by bshimmin 8y ago
FB is a partner who snoops on all your apps without permission. Facebook is a partner who snoops on your Facebook without permission!
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by bshimmin 8y ago
This is a great reply. I really recommend the learning to cook suggestion - there are a bunch of parallels with programming (it's creative but in a process-driven sort of way; there are loads of different styles and techniques; great
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I actually find it weird and a bit annoying that Rust's landing page doesn't mention that it's a programming language (it's in the page title and in one of the testimonials). I'm struggling to find another programm
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Yes - both are stunning. He directed nothing further for two decades until The Thin Red Line , which was quite a remarkable way to return!
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Definitely give The Tree of Life another go, and watch Malick's older films too - they are wonderful. Avoid all of his most recent films unless you're feeling very, very meditative (I slept extremely peacefully through the last
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I don't know about you, but I'm somewhat fascinated by these opinions! I mean, if Inception and Interstellar are "juvenile", what possible vocabulary do they have left for all the superhero films we now have in the
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by bshimmin 8y ago
This is great work! However, I would just drop the drop cap. I don't really think they serve any purpose on the web, and I don't think they work terribly well either (they're especially silly when a paragraph starts with a t
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Another reason is support for multiple languages. Many companies in western countries may start by using a typeface that only covers Latin script. I was doing some work with Nokia around the time they released Nokia Pure, and I can certai
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I had a freelance gig, a very long time ago, to create a full-screen ad takeover for one of the UK's better known "lads' mags" (now defunct, I think). I hate ads and I hate those sorts of magazines, and I hate ruining p
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I think (hope!) it's probably a combination of factors - firstly that the top three really are exceptional, probably the best men's tennis has ever seen; vast improvements in modern sports science - nutrition, strength training an
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by bshimmin 8y ago
In the nineties - in fact, the era directly pre-Federer - most players would be thinking pretty hard about retirement at 31! The current situation where all of the top three men's players (and six of the top seven) are over thirty is

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