ejrowley

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by ejrowley 8y ago
The cell phone market has matured, the rate of innovation has slowed and the need to update your phone at every release has subsided. Apple has recognised this, they have better long term support for their phones then any other manufacturer
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by ejrowley 10y ago
I studied physics, with intention of becoming a developer (which I did). I didn't have much appetite for a CS course and felt the physics would give me a broader set of skills.
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by ejrowley 10y ago
> Most full stack developers have breadth but not depth. I have to disagree with this, its a generalisation at best. In my experience the "full stack" developers have had a much deeper knowledge of a subject then the "spec
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by ejrowley 11y ago
Another long time vim user, I switched to emacs+evil then to spacemacs back to vim back to emacs+evil. Spacemacs was good but I started to feel bogged down, as I do with big ide's and went back to a very minimal vim. I have now started
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by ejrowley 11y ago
There is a lot of Tory bashing going on here but this policy runs deeper, Labour tried to put through similar legislation. The coalition dropped it but is back. Each Home Secretary seems to become more hard line and blinkered, like they are
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by ejrowley 11y ago
I was the same, yet I continued to invest in the Amiga in the vain hope that it would come back from the brink, in hindsight I should have jumped ship then too, I stuck with the Amiga until the 2000ish
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by ejrowley 11y ago
I can certainly agree with that, I invested far too much time and money in the Amiga long after it was relevant. But I still have a fondness for the machine, it was elegant in a way that just isn't necessary anymore, time and moores la
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by ejrowley 12y ago
An interesting article and I am guilty of copy and paste errors myself. But the bias towards the last line may be because those mistakes are tested less then other parts i.e. in an if statement early conditions mean the final condition is n
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by ejrowley 13y ago
I work for a small company, not a startup (I've been here 9 years), about 20 people. Yesterday we launched a website, today we got Pizza. I was happy. It cost the company £100 but it made all of us feel appreciated. A couple of weeks ago I
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by ejrowley 13y ago
Very useful tool, partially useful is being able to start a Boris shell mid script: $boris = new \Boris\Boris('myapp> '); $boris->setLocal(array('appContext' => $appContext)); $boris->start(); so that you can poke about.