chrismatheson

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by chrismatheson 4y ago
you have summed up my feelings on politics pretty well. If I were to dedicate my time to politics in any way, it would be to get a little check box on the vote that says "they are all rubbish, please go away and try harder to find de
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
BDFL
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
Not that I disagree with what your saying, for me however there is a difference between feeling like your "skiving" and having real time off. I may duck out a bit sooner than 5pm on a Friday afternoon, but its not the same as taki
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
I wonder if one could feedback into the other though? I want this diagram from my code because it’s a simple way to understand the system, ok then you better refactor your code to match that simple abstraction…
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
My wife used to say “he does the tappy tappy code code stuffs” 50% joke 50% that’s the best thing she could come up with :)
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
Ive encountered this sentiment a lot from my hardware engineering friends, I dont know if its a side effect of the job or something, but they tend to value the sort of "efficiency of exactly the right chip / protocol / whatev
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
Please locate the git commit that fails this test without googling.
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
You’re a rare parent who will let their kid struggle a bit because that’s how they learn
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
My own TL;DR; summary, Software has had dev-shop consultancies/agencies for years, got a large spike in work / demand then pull in extra bodies at short notice, need 24/7 support, contract in some folks on the other side of t
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by chrismatheson 4y ago
Reading the manual. Taking time to read docs and "learning" to read docs (awkward output of various auto-docs tools) has helped me crack programming right from my early days of PIC microchip data sheets
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
some un-solicited advise I got on house market (I have recently purchased after searching for 24+mths ) no one sells their house for less than they bought in unless they HAVE to. They just don't sell. So for me, as a buyer potentially
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
I think this comment from the OP answers your Q ? :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30859125
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Love it, simple & useful. Well done :)
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Nothing stopping you wearing one on your own :) could help reduce the probability of getting sick.
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
This is maybe a completely un-informed comment, but does religion have much to do with the actual books? From my own personal experience 90% of the people I meet who call themselves religious couldn't quote more than 10 lines.
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
I am, but I also went through a specialised course when I was quite young & so my reading & writing are pretty OK generally. My dad is as well and he did the same course but as an adult. Then he partnered with some dyslexia speciali
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
And why exactly are my tax £££s paying for parliament to reinvent a wheel that GDS seems to have provided?
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Plan better? I’m useless at it personally. But my mum used to hit the supermarket once a month for about 2hrs, but about 2 fully loaded trolleys. For a family of 4 this pretty much lasted the month (stuff was frozen etc and maybe a quick 20
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Any suggestions for alternatives? (apart from pinning an old version)
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Just found it amusing, your description vs the tag line on the site "Just stake some tokens to earn. High APR, low risk."
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Possibly… Your accidentally achieving what needs to be done with less effort than another. A lot of the work assigned wasn’t actually needed in the first place Lazy people can find the best effort/reward trade off
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Online half arsed forms for everything! I can’t count the number of times my wife has shouted at the iPad because some web dev wants a SPA form validation that didn’t work correctly, and all while trying to do something reasonably important
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Not sure if this really counts under your original spec, but I’m a programmer and I think they are cool. Desktop steam engines [1] You can get the engine on its own which can be powered by a candle or small oil burner. Then you can build yo
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Nice extension :) I assume this is using the sites own search engine metadata a-la https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... ? I did a little digging into this a while ago for a hobby pr
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by chrismatheson 5y ago
Coworking spaces. Not the “we work” kind, but the smaller community run ones. Being social can be with people who aren’t colleagues. This way you set your own limits on the environment, rather than joining a new place that might be too much
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by chrismatheson 6y ago
Sure, but they could also give me some idea of what the core product costs without my specific tweaks
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by chrismatheson 6y ago
will https://communick.com run / configure the various bridges? setting up my own home server for matrix with bridges to existing services (inc WhatsApp) has been on my list for a while. Seems like a nice way to try and mig
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by chrismatheson 6y ago
I used Alexa routines & Philips hue to setup a "grow clock [1]" type thing for my Childs room. When the light is red, you're supposed to go back to sleep, yellow you can get up and play quietly in your room, green come an
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by chrismatheson 6y ago
It works if I’m just a number to the system though right?
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by chrismatheson 6y ago
Are credit bureaus any better? I mean I know equifax messed up royally and I have no reason to believe that all the rest aren’t pushing on every conceivable limit of the law to maximise the profit to be made from information they scrape abo

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