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by ddek 5y ago
Sorry to hear about that experience. People can be truly shitty sometimes. I got told I "didn't have enough C# proficiency, and this role is unsuitable for C# learners" on a take-home assignment recently. I found that feedbac
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by ddek 5y ago
> How did I get into programming? I was doing a chemistry degree, and suddenly being able to code was a requirement. There were no classes, no recommended material. Just 'welcome to this 6-week lab. Python experience is required&#x2
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by ddek 5y ago
The obviously clueless are rarely controversial fires. The problem is when leadership have a different opinion of the employee than workers. I'm on my notice right now. I started hunting a new job after the company fired their recently
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by ddek 5y ago
Hey, backend dev here with some experience in React. It depends a little on your knowledge of CS fundamentals. If you've got a fairly good grasp, you might benefit from learning the internals of react alongside the high level functions
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by ddek 5y ago
So, we're doing fashion startups now? Seriously though, I have no idea how valid Allbirds sustainability credentials are. They are, however, like slippers I can wear outside. Mine are two years old and have almost no signs of age. Pric
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by ddek 5y ago
> if just for the reason that no accidential implementation-defined behaviour sneaks into the specification How's this going for languages with multiple compilers, such as C++?
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by ddek 5y ago
Of course it always makes sense to own recordings, but I find it either ludicrously expensive or unimaginably boring. Going by my streaming history, if I owned the recordings I listened too I'd have a full CD shelf for the late Beeth
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by ddek 5y ago
Nice idea, but no chance it works in London. It’s faster for me to go the long way round the northern than anything overground, even a taxi.
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by ddek 5y ago
Compound that with the depth work too. Unlike most metro systems, many London Underground (tube) lines are bored, and at a much greater depth. The Northern, Victoria, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines go under the river; while most systems route t
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by ddek 5y ago
I’m young enough to literally never have paid by swiping. Except for my exchange year in Texas.
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by ddek 5y ago
The only reason I’ve started using my card lately is because Face ID is harder with a mask on.
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by ddek 5y ago
F# is such a sleeper language IMO. It's compositional tools are quite beautiful. I don't think it'll ever get wide adoption though, which is quite sad. It's just such a sensible ML language. The abstractions chosen (comp
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by ddek 5y ago
I argued recently that the core to functional programming is composition, rather than specific language features. This goes many ways, such as functional composition (using currying, higher order functions etc) and type composition (using a
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by ddek 5y ago
Can we have a [video] tag on this please?
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by ddek 5y ago
I do too, but for about a month or so I've had proton anyway. I use FF developer so I'm a bit ahead of everyone else. You can fix it with some userChrome.css changes. I'm scared to touch it for fear of fucking my 'tabs o
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by ddek 5y ago
By twitch viewers, AoE2 is more popular than SC2 I think.
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by ddek 5y ago
No, the ability to disable proton was removed a while ago. Or maybe in this release. I'm on FF-developer, which is ahead a bit.
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by ddek 5y ago
Doesn't sound that good for the back IMO, as someone who can squat indefinitely it's not that comfortable leaning forwards like I do on a desk. You end up hunching up even more, and your knees are just in the way of your arms. Kne
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by ddek 5y ago
Your right, I forgot about y13 being the last year. Y11 is GCSE year which ends at 16. I’m not sure why the the age brackets don’t go up to Y13, when school ends.
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by ddek 5y ago
Tentative signs the virus has burned out, either through infections or vaccinations. The wave has been entirely confined to the younger age brackets who are far less vaccinated.[1] Being in central London right now, through anecdotal eviden
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by ddek 5y ago
Which ONS data are you referring to? The currently published data indicates the wave has at least plateaued, as I read it, in all but the youngest age groups.
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by ddek 5y ago
You stagnated because you don't have a job that stretches you. Even if you think the best you can do is the same job you have right now, but in a different place, you'll see a significant bump. But it's highly likely you can
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by ddek 5y ago
Well, the two minute warning... It's interesting to see the power dynamic here. Here in the UK there would be riots if soccer games were broken for ads (I'm really not exaggerating). Over COVID, a short timeout was added in the mi
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by ddek 5y ago
I work on site in an early stage startup, and I think it's about commitment to a communication model. We have a 2x2 grid. On the top we have 'in person' and 'remote'. Down the side we have 'synchronous' an
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by ddek 5y ago
The level of coupling doesn't depend on the deployment architecture at all. It is entirely a function of how much modules know of each others API's. If I have a monolith where each operation synchronously delegates to other module
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by ddek 5y ago
The lengths Westminster Borough will go to while they delay the inevitable. Eventually, sanity will prevail and Oxford Street will be pedestrianised. They've tried this before - remember the wheel?
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by ddek 5y ago
Concentrated, rather than dead. SC2 and AoE2 are the only games still running strong. SC2 seems quite alive. I play AoE2 competitively, and it's stronger than ever. In terms of new games, yeah it's pretty dead. AoE4 looks cool, bu
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by ddek 5y ago
Unlikely. AoE4 looks more like a Civ competitor than AoE2, in that it'll look beautiful, have wildly divergent civs, and almost entirely be played SP long run. AoE2 does so many things wrong by 'modern game' standards. The gr
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by ddek 5y ago
I hate to say it, but that sounds a lot like agile! I had a very similar experience building a scheduling app for a UK freight company. They wanted a domain-heavy platform where they could manage their fleet of locomotives and wagons, with
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by ddek 5y ago
I have a few questions for people who largely agree with this article. Firstly, where do you stand on developers having input into the design process? From my experience, developer input in specification has led to better fitting solutions.

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