duncanawoods

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by duncanawoods 12y ago
TNMOC is awesome. Every geek in the UK should go. You can gift them old computing books for their growing library. Colossus is cool but seeing stuff I never knew about was more exciting e.g. The Dekatron with its decimal memory you can visu
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I wrote myself a similar tool for myself using NRefactory so I can fill you in: I found that converting 10k of C# was incredibly quick and the overall build time was still totally dominated by the slow TypeScript compiler. You are right tha
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
You can have hierarchy within an effective team. Its not mutually exclusive in the same way that lack of hierarchy guarantees nothing. Group problem-solving can reveal team problems and help resolve them. If your team is not working well to
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
If you generalise the whole world of ideas and problem solving to the word "creativity" then I have no idea what conclusions you can make. There are a great many types of idea generation to solve unrelated classes of problem. Brai
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I am not a Haskell programmer so I look at this with interest. The biggest thing I notice is that type specifiers have comments next to them akin to variable names describing what they are for. This worries me. Comments are just so awful co
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I agree that startups in central London is pretty daft. Bit like choosing Manhattan with good views of the park. I like Bristol. 90 mins from the big smoke, decent airport and railway hub, more chilled and counter-culture than South/So
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
The NHS makes me very proud here. A well written next-day response to widely published bad science journalism of the worst sort. That headline was plastered across the front-pages of all the newspapers I read with no caveats. Both scare-mon
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Man I love AdBlock. I used it today to block "Hot Network Questions" on StackOverflow. The click-bait trivia was driving me nuts. I'm there to work and hated being distracted by that crap. Two clicks and ahhhh, much better.
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I liked the idea of typescript but after frustration from fundamental issues I was very happy to bin it. i) Wrapper libraries - Sure you can download them from definitelytyped but in practice I quickly found all sort of incompatibilities an
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
What is the market penetration through other stores compared to the pre-installed Play store? - 1:10, more? The total control of Apple is an obvious problem but in practice, dominance despite an 'open market' can be just as proble
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Dare I say it but when a company has a certain level of dominance in a "channel" then they need be subject to regulation. A channel might be any means of reaching customers whether a telecomms provider, a form of media, or in this
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Most of the comments are that the product wasn't viable which might be true insofar as being able to gauge whether the market wants it but I'm not sure why you say the approach didn't work. You did something really hard which
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Yep. This question is actually: "Tell me about a project in which you demonstrate the skills and character attributes that I am looking for without me telling you what those are." A good interviewer will ask questions like this on
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Thank you. I have read the gears.pdf. I'd be interested to see some of your research if you have any links? I can clarify that I don't doubt emotion is integral to cognition and I think its commonly understood the role of a good
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
An interesting read. I don't think I agree with the argument that emotional involvement is the foundation for understanding. I see the author conflating memory and understanding where the emotional connection he discusses are just asso
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Not sure why you have been downvoted. Chrome 32 was a very disappointing release and has undermined silent updates for me. Many users are experiencing crashes and difficulties with general scrolling and select boxes. These are faults introd
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Interesting. I have always found how different cultures "say no" to be one of the biggest acclimatisation factors when working on an international project. I've worked with Japanese clients where they won't disagree or d
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Its unconventional and tackles tough topics so its bound to split opinion. When those situations arise, IMHO the best advice is to give it a go and form your own opinion. Is the core thesis outdated? Well we still don't have a meaningf
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I tried Evernote a couple of times and always thought it was very weak especially when I couldn't even make a todo list. A good text editing experience is just just head-slappingly essential in a freaking note taking app. I'm sur
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I'm in the same boat with Chrome.
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
Thanks for the link, it helped me get there. I followed the documentation and tutorials for nodejs/express which defined the cert and key. As your link suggested, mobile browsers are less lenient about missing intermediate ca informati
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I recently tried the free startssl cert. Fine on IOS/OSX/W7 Chrome/Safari/Firefox/IE but it was rejected by Android default browser where startssl must not be a known CA. I don't think I can do without Android.
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I expect this will skew results. Germany, France etc. will be turned-off or even insulted by the grouping and feel less impulse to represent than the named countries where a little nationalistic pride will be a motivator. The reason for thi
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Physics World at 25: Puzzle 1(blog.physicsworld.com)
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
I am a Filco 10 keyless and wouldn't go back. I find it crazy that we have this 5" of obligatory keyboard everywhere as through everyone really needs a specialised desk calculator. Its where the mouse is meant to go! The only draw
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by duncanawoods 13y ago
The headline and article both accurately report that 9 years worth of meta data of american citizens is to be handed over to Chevron. You don't appear to be disputing this so what are you struggling to "reconcile" and what is