coastermug

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by coastermug 4y ago
Having a lathe and a milling machine would be my dream. But I suspect the number of tinkerers has always remained constant. Properly understanding computers was always niche. Also, it’s impressive what you can achieve with the right combina
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by coastermug 4y ago
Incidentally, copyright law etc on fonts is very interesting. Many places license their fonts via in-page JavaScript. However, I believe that such a protection against the font designer doesn’t necessarily apply if for instance you use the
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by coastermug 4y ago
This is extremely well put. Finance and defence really are two of the only well performing industries left. - but this is despite there being excellent talent and people within the UK. I despair at government talk about skills shortages. Th
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by coastermug 4y ago
I have worked with extreme extroverts and extreme introverts. The single biggest lesson on communication I have learnt, is that it is better to be heard than not. The opposite lesson to this is “better to leave people thinking, than open yo
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by coastermug 4y ago
Reading the rather thin press on the relationship between Lotus and Britishvolt, it seems all Lotus signed was a “memorandum of understanding”.
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by coastermug 4y ago
What R&D and technical capabilities did this company have? It will be interesting to see if anything gets sold off in administration. In the media, I saw lots of focus about the factory, a potential building, but nothing about the suppl
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by coastermug 4y ago
Yep, I don’t disagree with many of those points. I find the discussion on “productivity” interesting, as the solution always seems to be to import labour to create growth at a macro scale, but which does not result in a growth in wages - an
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by coastermug 4y ago
What are the core issues you see, and what about the workforce is being found out?
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by coastermug 4y ago
Shopify is excellent from a micro business point of view. Even coming from the perspective of a Python dev with limited FE experience, it’s so much easier for the client/business owner to administrate. I have a friend who was a Wordpre
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by coastermug 4y ago
Long time lurker. I used to use forums lots, then went though about 10 years where I contributed nothing anywhere. Decided to start contributing again, and HN feels worth contributing to.
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by coastermug 4y ago
Where in the world do you live and what social security systems are in place? What savings do you have? Why do you want to start your own company? Is it because you’re sick of answering to people, or because you believe you have a genuine s
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by coastermug 4y ago
Sorry to hear about your situation. Try activities, sports that get you out there meeting people. People wrongly assume that introverted people cope fine alone ( and introverted people also wrongly assume this). I felt myself spiralling dow
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by coastermug 4y ago
Have a search for the original investigative piece done by Private Eye. The rest of the reports on this are somewhat lazy copies of their original work.
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by coastermug 4y ago
Good first impressions. I like the category/brand search. I clicked on one link which opened another tab, which wouldn’t allow me to return to the site (which was ok because it was in the other tab - I generally detest this behaviour,
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by coastermug 4y ago
My partner runs a small brand, which attracted a copycat page clearly designed to scam users out of money for giveaways. She attempted to “get verified” and was denied because there was not enough news stories about the brand. We own the tr
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by coastermug 4y ago
Engineer turned programmer in the UK. I put the salary discrepancy down to the ease with which I can move jobs. In programming I can bounce around different companies every couple of years in the same city. In engineering things are so freq
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by coastermug 4y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this out. My partner had a haemorrhage a number of years back, and has many of the symptoms you explain. The extreme tiredness doesn’t come on in the middle of the day, however at night it comes on ver
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by coastermug 4y ago
I don’t love the idea of ‘dumbing down’ maths, but I think there’s a needless race slant that gets added here (not by yourself, almost by US society). Im from the Uk, went a state school, with a Masters in Engineering, and a father who was