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by dcw303 9y ago
To be fair, conferences are not always the best way to learn new things. It's variable depending on the conference, and there are some at the lower end that are glorified trade shows. But for me, the obvious reason to attend is to ne
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by dcw303 9y ago
Let's assume we're talking about developer conferences. Because that seems to be the only kind where we get contention about the value of attending. Entrepreneurs conference? Can't build that start up on your own. Sales confe
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by dcw303 9y ago
> and the blockchain, a type of decentralised ledger, could anonymise it How would "the blockchain" anonymise anything? Isn't it the opposite, if all transactions are transparent?
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by dcw303 9y ago
I wonder if they are adding delivery options due to pressure from franchisees. McDonald's is really a real estate company[0], so I would've thought it's better for corporate if people are coming into the stores. That keeps th
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by dcw303 9y ago
I downloaded the iso during the free upgrade period but didn't get around to installing it until last weekend. On my first attempt I agreed to a prompt to download updates to the installer; it then told me I needed to have a key to con
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by dcw303 9y ago
I'm curious - how old are the systems you're working on? In my experience, unit tests don't catch many bugs when the code is fresh. But when it's five years old with many modifications over the code base, some dumb littl
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by dcw303 9y ago
I think you should write a test. Naming the test just "initialise" is not very useful as it doesn't assert what you expect the method under test to do. Given that the purpose of the initialise function is to populate a watchl
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by dcw303 10y ago
The inotify implementation looks very promising! Editing source files in a Windows-native IDE and having changes picked up by, say, node.js is a great workflow. I'm yet to try it out, but I wonder if the problems with editing files in
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'd be interested in something that was the web site equivalent of Spotify, but not if it was HTML HBO. I think the reason the online music subscriptions have done so well is that their catalogs span multiple publishers, and customers
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by dcw303 10y ago
Maybe I've just played too much Civ, but I don't understand why space colonization isn't our top priority. It changes everything. It won't matter if a large percentage of jobs have been automated. The ones that haven&#x2
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by dcw303 10y ago
As a student of Japanese and having previously thought I might have Aphantasia this was interesting to me. But I'm still not convinced that we understand Aphantasia completely. I think there's a whole spectrum of different conditi
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by dcw303 10y ago
There's this joke on Arrested Development where Lucille Bluthe complains there's (paraphrasing) no manual on raising children. They then cut to an Amazon search revealing hundreds of search results for books on "Raising Child
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by dcw303 10y ago
There's some kind of obscure irony that the longevity of tablet hardware and software is having a negative effect on sales. Like netbooks, that could ultimately mean manufacturers lose interest in the form factor in favour of something
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by dcw303 10y ago
Only slightly related to your tangent, but I've been wondering about the economics of funding a solo indie game project. From what I've seen on Twitter, most of these seem like passion projects as well, but the creators are very m
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by dcw303 10y ago
5 or 6 grammar points can go a long way? If it's that few then I guess they must be the formal forms. So you'll need at least another 5 or 6 to understand the casual forms that you would use with friends or when you're the se
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by dcw303 10y ago
Agreed. This [0] and the subsequent lessons go onto explain that if clauses change depending on whether something is a fact, whether it is an invitation, whether it is volitional, etc. I've been studying Japanese for years and I am at
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by dcw303 10y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting data point. But it kinda does justify the view that they are bungling this release if they have stock left on shelves in those countries while those in US / Japan (where I am) can only resort to buyin
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by dcw303 10y ago
Good. I'm getting sick of walking into Bic Camera and asking the same question when I already know what the (disappointing) answer is going to be. I get that they're a typical conservative Japanese company, they don't want to
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'm six years in Japan. I think staying in touch with your home country makes a big difference. I'm yet to move back for good, but I find that two things have made my readjustment when visiting home much easier: 1. Keeping up
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by dcw303 10y ago
> more that programming in the USA and Europe has become a blue collar job, as it has been in Japan for decades I wouldn't use Japan as your data point to champion programming as accessible to the common man. One only needs to suffe
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by dcw303 10y ago
I recently got a Surface Pro after two cycles (~7 years) of MBP 15 inchers. I wanted something lightweight I could draw on, and did think about the iPad Pro with Pencil for a while, but in the end having the flexibility to install any app w
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by dcw303 10y ago
For a company that understands computers are very similar to fashion (their SVP of retail was poached from Burberry), they show a disappointing lack of foresight by not keeping their taste makers happy. Introducing OS X as the mobile Unix
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by dcw303 10y ago
The Casio F-91W Digital wrist watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W Keeps better time than a Rolex, and is a fraction of the price. Waterproof. Has an alarm, stopwatch, and timer; all things missing from trad
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by dcw303 10y ago
Forgive me if I'm off base, but I am getting a vibe that you are very concerned about what others think of you. My advice (which is free internet advice, so take that for all it's worth) is that this is holding you back. As long a
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by dcw303 10y ago
If the CRM has your purchase history, does this solve the problem of targeting products on users who have already purchased it? Because I am really sick of Google serving me ads for stuff I recently searched for and subsequently bought.
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by dcw303 10y ago
As an Australian who has been living abroad for the better half of a decade, I've noticed ever increasing prices and ever restrictive policies every time I've been back. Being a very occasional social smoker who should probably
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by dcw303 10y ago
It's a start but it doesn't fix the underlying problem. It's not specific to the App Store, but a major problem with Internet based communities in general is that a small vocal group of discontents has a disproportionately lo
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by dcw303 10y ago
This is really useful for a layman like me who doesn't have a lot of exposure to AWS. Anything similiar for Azure? I would really like to understand the difference between the different types of app services, and especially how they re
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by dcw303 10y ago
finders (sales - those that bring in the $$$) = customer machine minders (admin, finance, hr, etc) = company machine grinders (the grunts who actually do the work - for a tech company this is the engineering dept) = product machine
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by dcw303 10y ago
In certain industries, it's said a company is made up of three types of staff - finders, minders, and grinders. It's a pretty simple exercise to map this to the three machines.

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