drrob

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by drrob 1y ago
Micro Men. British film about the beginnings of Spectrum and Acorn.
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by drrob 1y ago
It's mostly been due to the code quality: everything LLMs have spat I've had to heavily edit to make it readable, good quality code, and that's when the code actually works - the number of iterations it takes me to get code t
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by drrob 1y ago
True. There's a bubble that will burst with LLM stuff, I am sure of it.
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by drrob 1y ago
Defence. We don't use any LLMs, and couldn't even if we wanted to. To be fair the code they produce is dogshit, so it isn't a problem.
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by drrob 1y ago
I'm on Vodafone, I can confirm they're okay.
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by drrob 1y ago
I agree, but I still call myself a software engineer...
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by drrob 1y ago
That AI is utterly dreadful at coding, and I can't fathom how anyone is getting any productivity gains out of it.
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by drrob 2y ago
I'm the developer of a boxing game called Leather, that I've had in the Play Store and App Store for about 6 or 7 years now. As I'm working towards a Steam release I've been digesting a lot of this guy's advice - h
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by drrob 2y ago
I too had the battery bloat issue back in 2020 with my XPS. I won't be buying one ever again.
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by drrob 8y ago
I'm the Systems Architect in a small (fifteen people) non-IT consultancy, and I'm on £72k, so I'd say your estimates are bang on.
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by drrob 8y ago
As a UK user it's just nice to finally have it back. Good to know things are still going swimmingly despite the GDPR setbacks.
42.
by drrob 8y ago
"Woopee cushion" is the name you're looking for.
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by drrob 8y ago
To be fair, if you can get 1.5x you'll have done well. Aim for 2x and be willing to get negotiated down.
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by drrob 8y ago
I'd say it depends on the sort of application you're developing. In the next couple of weeks I'm due to release a boxing game (shameless plug: leatherthegame.com), and other than myself my only tester has been my cousin. Havi
45.
by drrob 8y ago
Any tips? We have a 10 month old boy, and everything we've tried thus far has failed; has to be rocked, hummed and boobed to sleep every time.
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by drrob 9y ago
There's an old saying: in any headline that asks a question, if any of the words are in quotation marks then the answer to the question is "No".
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by drrob 9y ago
I used to work at a place with an ostensibly open-plan office, but with lots of wall panels on wheels that could be moved to form little work areas. These also doubled as white boards. In short: I like modular, configurable workspaces, with
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by drrob 9y ago
In the better places I've worked "getting things done" was the priority. The places that valued code quality always overshot deadlines by enormous degrees (over a year late on an 8 month project, for instance). Typically I fi
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by drrob 9y ago
I'll go with the book Lucifer's Hammer.
50.
by drrob 9y ago
Or "We're developing a website for them, maybe we can upsell them an associated Android/iOS app as well".
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by drrob 9y ago
I'm afraid I have to agree; the ones I've worked with have all been characterised by terrible code quality. Perhaps the key thing is a tighter attitude to specialisation: most Indian (and, for that matter, far east Asian) developm
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by drrob 9y ago
If my area was merely served by two tin cans joined by a piece of string I'd have changed years ago.
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by drrob 9y ago
The classic excuse I'm receiving from Virgin Broadband at the moment is "we're currently upgrading the network in your area, there may be some speed disruption for several months." I'm paying for 100mbps, a few week
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by drrob 9y ago
My strategy would be to constantly change "stimulus" to keep my self active and awake. I'd try reading for a bit, then of course I start to go foggy and you get a headache from focusing on the text. Then I'd play video g
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by drrob 9y ago
It would be handy in pill form, because keeping my eyes open for that long was quite tedious.
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by drrob 9y ago
Incidentally, one of the (many) recommended none pharma treatments to depression is to stay awake for one night (don't go to bed at all), then go to bed the next night as usual (similar to jetlag prevention strategies I suppose). The i
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by drrob 9y ago
Make sure your phone number is on your CV, and get it on Jobsite, Monster, Reed, TotalJobs, etc. Make sure you've ticked whatever box allows these profiles to be publicly viewable by recruiters. Then wait a couple of days for the Recru
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by drrob 9y ago
There are some specific circumstances surrounding what I'm doing, so consider £925 as an ultra-rare, not-in-any-way indicative dayrate. To be fair even in London that would be high, though I know some fintech consultants can get that a
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by drrob 9y ago
I'll email you at the Spreadserve one in a bit.
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by drrob 9y ago
To be fair we're already experiencing the beginnings of "Less tech people = more money"; the contract job I've just started hired me due to the "staffing adjustment" of some of their European coders. The result

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