dev_north_east

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by dev_north_east 7y ago
From an outsider's perspective, it just seems like a way to replicate daily prayers. I'll stick with the Rosary thanks.
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Ask HN: How can I become a different type of developer?
2 points by dev_north_east 7y ago|1 comments
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Yeah it is horrendously complicated for different nationalities! I've only ever had to provide a scan of my passport to employers in order to prove I have a right to work. Never had to do that when renting. I bought a house recently, s
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
I'm an immigrant living in the UK, I have no such ID card. I have a driving licence and that's about it from stuff issued to me by the British government :)
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> but only immigrants are made to have ID card Errm, that's not true.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Yes I understand that. 1 - Can the same not be achieved via VPN usage? 2 - Can TOR browsers not already access the BBC in the "clearnet"? 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Don't really see the point of this and am tbh slightly irked at a wastage of my licence fee.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> (Of course, the only people that take EU pay and deliberately do a bad job or fail to turn up are ... UKIP MEPs) Well that's blatantly not true. And their "job" is to represent their voters, which they are doing. "W
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> smuggling Ah here, that's more alive than ever right now!
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Did you pay? How much?
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
My friends think I'm nuts for not having my tv connected to the network (I use my PS4 for all the offerings). It's just a default that people nowadays because it's convenient.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Who said anything about friends?
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Just switch after 10 years?
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Any front-end stuff, I just have no interest in them. Related to this, I am sad to see Swift (seemingly) taking over from Obj-C. I really liked it years ago and it has a special place in my heart.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Yes but people have been (rightly) saying this for years. And you'd have been mad to get out of it back then. I'm a passive investor guy. I can't call it and will continue my drip feed.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
I picked up a hitchiker about three weeks ago? It's not the norm for me (my wife hates it) but not that unusual. These aren't for mega journeys though. I live in a commuter town near a city so it's usually along that route.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Aye, I've a friend who in recent months has moved most of their investments from the stock market to cash. Why? Because of the massive increase in people doing cocaine. I knows it's cliche about the correlation between that and an
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
My wife knows that there's a book in our fire box which has account numbers of bank, pension, life insurance etc and contact details for same. That's about it.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
The shocking obesity epidemic?
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
When we release a new version, we always have a big pizza delivery. I'm struggling to think what food you could replace that with, that could satisfy the broad mix of people in our place. It's a good question though!
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> Additionally: when you're up for buying a house and all the lender bank has to look is the credit score, you will be paying more interest than if you apply for a credit at the bank that has handled your business over decades. Whic
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
I live in a country which put a tax on sugary drinks. Personally I think it's been great. All the main vendors came out with sugar free offerings (if they already hadn't one) and I think it will make a big difference to the every
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> Well the thing about foreign election interference which is left unsaid in sound bytes is the "how" matters hell of a lot. Indeed. I guess we can't know. But it is funny to imagine. > was the "Guardian Effect&quo
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> 1. It makes readers of The Guardian feel superior? I think they achieved peak superiority when they organised their readers to send postcards to voters certain counties of Ohio in an attempt to influence the then 2004 Presidential elec
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen? Ireland has a form of PR (single transferable vote), they've had plenty of instances of the Taoiseach (PM) being replaced and not going to a general election str
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
London is not the only city in the UK. That's what I'm calling bollocks on.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
As long as the City of London is independent of that!
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
Tbh I think the "easiest" single thing which would improve the UK immensely would be to ditch FPTP and bring in some type of PR voting.
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by dev_north_east 7y ago
> This basically amounts to advising them not to live in a city (which is fine). But some people do like living in cities, and London is really the only option in the UK if you want to do that. I'm gonna call bollocks on that :) I a

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