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by bshimmin 8y ago
I've been very gently dipping into Proust for the last year or so: I find it hard to read more than a few pages of À la recherche... at a time (mostly due to the exhaustions of work and children), but when I do, I always enjoy it. J
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Addressing your last point, at least in the UK, therapists usually/often have supervisors. I think it's a fairly peer-to-peer system, rather than hierarchical, once you get to a certain point of seniority.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
This looks pretty nice and there's loads of good stuff here - well done! Two comments: 1) I am really not sure about the resizing hover animation on the buttons (it feels too slow and looks like it goes a bit blurry as it resizes, at l
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I agree with everything you're saying, apart from the very last clause - they made it to the "Most Read" on the BBC News web site, so I think they must be pretty good at advertising themselves!
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I would love an answer to this too - Arabic always sounds beautiful to me and I would love to learn at least a little bit. It seems like learning both MSA and a dialect (perhaps Egyptian) might be the way to go, at least from what I can
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by bshimmin 8y ago
It's the house style at the New Yorker to use it wherever possible or vaguely plausible: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I don't think you can meaningfully call yourself a "consultant" without having at least a handful of years of industry experience; I think you can probably get started as a contractor just a few years into your career (I pe
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Hey, feel free to drop me an email to have a chat - there's an address in the web page linked from my profile.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I spent about three years contracting, and the way I started was to ask the company I was a permanent employee at (who routinely hired contractors) if they would like to hire me as a contractor instead of as a perm. They said "OK&quot
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by bshimmin 8y ago
It's a misleading sentence, I would say - Steve Ballmer was very critical of open source (he once called Linux "a cancer"), but this was certainly "historically", ie. quite some years before GitHub and GitLab even e
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I watched it again last year, having sort of enjoyed it when it first came out (I was the right sort of age). It's quite an uneven film, to be honest - there's a lot of talent both behind and in front of the camera, but it never
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I am pretty sure the term comes from "relationship" - I remember it being used in alt.tv.x-files about Mulder and Scully, though I don't know if that was its first use (their relationship was/is very much as you describe
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by bshimmin 8y ago
For anyone wondering, the term originated from radio dramas being sponsored by soap manufacturers (according to Wikipedia).
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I can't in all honesty understand why you wouldn't just Google "rails login current_sign_in_ip", the top three hits for which would probably all put you on the right track. I would say grepping through the code of third
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by bshimmin 8y ago
It sounds like you had to remove the Trackable module from Devise - which would indeed be one line of code to change in a Rails app, but quite hard to figure out if you didn't know. However, Devise is a third party gem which is often
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Our local Park Run has two or three men who regularly run around with pushchairs, at least one of whom gets admirably impressive times. I have never seen a woman do it. There are usually a couple of hundred people running.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I feel like JavaScript is a bit of a special case, because there are people out there who, 5-10 years ago, did HTML, CSS, and jQuery, and called themselves "front-end developers", and then along came Node, so they read a few tutor
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I have the Nokia 216 (which you can - or could six months ago - buy in the UK in Tesco for about £25) and it also suffers from the same limited text storage capacity: I think it's probably the most annoying thing about it, since it&#x2
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by bshimmin 8y ago
My father was exactly like this (he retired last year after 49 years in practice as a lawyer, several decades of which he was managing partner of his own firm) - if he needed to send an email, just like sending a letter, he would shout down
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Are you seriously telling me that there are people out there who think fundraising is easy? (And are these people trusted with complex machinery?) You're trying to persuade a bunch of people you don't know to give you a really,
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I recently visited Tyntesfield ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyntesfield ), a Victorian Gothic Revival house in the south west of the UK. I was actually struck by how ugly it is, I think chiefly for all the reasons th
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by bshimmin 8y ago
It's perhaps worth pointing out, for anyone planning a trip to the UK and suddenly alarmed by our baffling array of dialect terms for bread, that the standard international terms like "bread roll" and "baguette" are
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by bshimmin 8y ago
I once worked in an agency where the MD had a dog. Sometimes he used to wash it in the sink in the kitchen. (That said, they had the most expensive and best coffee machine I've ever seen in an office, and a guy who used to make brilli
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by bshimmin 8y ago
If you want to stop being able to receive them as well, just hit reload (then you won't be able to reconnect).
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by bshimmin 8y ago
From the link: "The lone dot that ends a format can also prematurely end a mail message passing through a misconfigured Internet mailer (and based on experience, such misconfiguration is the rule, not the exception). So when sending fo
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by bshimmin 8y ago
One-line jokes are generally not well-received on HN unless they are so exceptionally amusing and original that they are beyond reproach. The standard rationale for this - which can make HN seem very dry and humourless at times - is that p
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by bshimmin 8y ago
To the same extent that the grapes in wine count as part of your five a day, I think.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
The dubiousness of this statement aside, it's definitely good form to mention that you work for the company in question when you're making posts about that company (it was only a couple of clicks for me to figure this out and a co
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Sitecore and Episerver are quite "popular" (probably not really the right word) in some circles.
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Unless the grandparent comment was edited, it certainly does appear in the essay - it's the paragraph under the heading "4. Naughtiness". (And it's a pretty worrisome paragraph, in all honesty.)

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