davidhbolton

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by davidhbolton 6y ago
There are 800 pending cases of infringements by EU countries. It's not exactly unusual... https://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/scoreboard/performance_...
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Except, I live in rural UK (Lincolnshire) and the nearest town with a bank (Boston) is 7 miles along roads that do not have pavements. Where its dangerous to cycle and even more dangerous to walk. It would be just about possible to live wit
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I'd argue there is a case for some single use plastics. I notice for instance that some drugs are prescribed in one-use syringes that are all plastic with a metal needle and possibly rubber stopper. I imagine there are other use cases
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Still clutching at straws. "as well as being used to influence the results of votes across the region, including the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU." Yeah right. This despite the influence of Obama, the BBC, the British establish
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It's not exactly about mobile, but I saw this recently about IO games. These are small games and can run on many platforms including mobile. https://www.gamedesigning.org/learn/io-game/
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
If performance is an issue then native tools such as Java, Swift or even C# are indeed the way to go. My own experience with C#/Xamarin on iPhone 6 was that it was very performant, in excess of what I anticipated. A specific example. I
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Makes you wonder if any of the players mentioned here are involved. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet...
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
It reflects poorly on Guardian writers and editors who conflate Robot ("a machine that resembles a human being") with AI software. So no a Robot did not write it. I mean, jeez next they'll be saying Sir Tim Berners-Lee inven
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
There is a precedent in the UK. ID cards were introduced during WWII and originally were used for four tasks. By the end of the war and afterwards the scope creep had increased to something like 37. Police were demanding to see Id when driv
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
I worked for a British taxi company that was developing that kind of app, I developed it. One problem for the company was that their drivers worked for Uber at the same time as them. They were freelancers, not employed by either firm. They
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Sadiq Khan should be worried by this. TFL has been blowing money on cycle schemes and is under a mountain of debt. They have been trying to bring in money from the ULEZ, Congestion Charge, but if traffic declines...
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by davidhbolton 6y ago
Another excellent source is language subreddit subscriber numbers. Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/wiki/faq#wiki_what_lang... Mind you the numbers for each language get out of date very quickly. Vi
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
I learnt Pascal at Uni in the late 1970s and programmed in Turbo Pascal from 1986 on and then Delphi D2 since 1997. Slightly off-topic but two of my applications written in Turbo Pascal:Warlord and Quest, in the period 1988-1990 are still i
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
I always found the even versions (D4,D6) buggy while D5 and D7 were very reliable. D4 had bugs in its COM code. In 2000 I worked at a Dotcom (homedirectory.com) and we used a D4 COM search component running in SQL Server 6.5. It used to cra
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
I analysed the Templar website grid watch records for I think 2017 and they showed a period of five days with no wind and overall, wind generation was about 30% of the rated maximum over the year. Also don't forget that turbines close
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
Off-topic but from work this site is blocked due to a security issue. Anyone know why?
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
Even back in the 1980s, author Lance Leventhal who wrote some great programming books on assembly always warned that productivity wise you write the same number of lines of code whether its 6502 or C. As that 6502 example in the article sho
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by davidhbolton 7y ago
Pascal may have failed but there's still a lot of Delphi code in use; Delphi is Pascal but a much better Pascal than Wirth's original language. My job involves working on a large (> 1 million lines of Delphi) code base that is
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
My favourite quote on wealth (not in this book) is "The best way to make a small fortune on the internet is start with a large fortune".
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
Anyone else getting a Cisco - warning about malware.opendns.com on the Wiki? wiki.coi-dev.org. It's blocked to me at work on this url. wiki.coi-dev.org&server=lon16&prefs=&tagging=&nref
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
MEPs can only vote for/against legislation and if you've seen the videos posted on Youtube by an MEP two or three months back, it's a pretty rushed and not what I'd call rigorous process. We did not vote in the EU commis
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
I have a Comp sci. degree which opened doors to big firms, specifically it meant my CV didn't automatically get binned by recruitment agencies. But if you have the experience and some kind of portfolio to show it off, especially in web
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
I take issue with the statement that since 2005 rents in London have only gone up by less than 4%. This is personal data but In 1998 I was paying £650 a month for fully furnished. In the same building but on the top floor unfurnished is £9
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by davidhbolton 8y ago
Tried to access this at work. It's blocked because of malware. opendns. com (spaces included in link deliberately). Caveat browser...
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by davidhbolton 9y ago
I worked in one of the London's financial centres (Canary Wharf) until 2013 for Morgan Stanley. I lived back then in East London (Leyton) and it was a 30 minute door to door commute. I bought a house there in 2000 for £185,000. In 2015
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by davidhbolton 9y ago
That's the DLR (Dcoklands Light Railway). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway Just 20 years old. I used to work at Canary Wharf, so it was a 15 minute ride from Stratford.
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A Tale of Hacking, Before the Internet Existed(01.media)
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by davidhbolton 9y ago
I'm 58, live in the country (UK) and found a programming job almost exactly suited to my skill set (Pascal mainly-i.e. Delphi along with C# plus a few years of C, C++). Add in 5 years of 6502/Z80 assembly (games in the 80s), two y
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by davidhbolton 9y ago
I'm one of those. We moved from London two years ago, bought a house with two acres of land and it has a fireplace. Our nearest neighbour is 1/2 a mile away so we can burn non-recyclable rubbish outside in a fire pit. There were a