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by eterm 7y ago
FYI, "Thousands" of lines isn't particularly, a large code-base, I'm a developer who tends to specialize in legacy code bases and I've seen aspx (asp webforms) pages with 5k+ LOC in a single file. Also, you haven&#
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by eterm 7y ago
My pet peeve is people thinking that D-K is a negative correlation of ability and perceived ability, when it's actually a weaker correlation than it 'should' be.
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by eterm 7y ago
I think this a fair criticism which you haven't well explained, that a minority expert might be minority misled .
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by eterm 7y ago
No, the law is to blame. Digital surveilance should be considered separate to advertising and should be regulated or made illegal.
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by eterm 7y ago
It doesn't make sense to compare US wages with UK wages without considering all other factors. It's more meaningful to compare UK nurse wages to other UK wages. That still shows that nurses are under paid but in a more meaningful
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by eterm 7y ago
It's too crude to compare salaries like that. That said, it's true that nursing is relatively under-paid in the UK. Part of that however is because the state is the largest employer of nurses which keeps wages down but that in tur
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by eterm 7y ago
This is something my main music player had circa 2003 when I used a linux desktop player. Since then I've not had it any service or software I use, it's the missing killer feature for me. I want "random"/recommended
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by eterm 7y ago
I can't follow that link but I'll trust you, I was just going off what the documentation had to say: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces My reading of "Disallow" must
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by eterm 7y ago
Python 3 won't compile with mixed indentation so by recommending a mixture you're picking a fight you cannot win and still have python programmers along with you.
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by eterm 7y ago
I'm not "whitewashing history" that's a bizarre accusation because I'm not talking about history, I'm talking about what you should use today. Just because tabs would have been the right choice in the past does
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by eterm 7y ago
What proponents of tabs over spaces miss is the fact that consistency is the most important thing. Editors ship with spaces over tabs as default, so you should use spaces over tabs. You will be more consistent with others and reduce errors
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by eterm 7y ago
> Information we receive from third parties. From time to time, we may receive information about you from third parties and other users. We may also collect information about you that is publicly available. No thanks. ( from https:&#x2F
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by eterm 7y ago
Temporal context. If I google "waitrose closing time" I want the closing time of my local supermarket today . When I googled that yesterday, I got a different result, and that's what I want.
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by eterm 7y ago
I used to struggle with this a lot. In fact I never got into open source programming because I simply could not understand where to begin in understanding foreign code bases. I still struggle but it's easier than it used to be, this is
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by eterm 7y ago
Comments are both important and distracting. I immediately prefer the faded comments because they are there if I want to read them. I'm not going to struggle to understand and reason about the comments. I may well find myself needing t
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by eterm 7y ago
No, given chrome's market share other browsers are forced to implement it or people will consider those browsers broken. Google are now where microsoft were when they launched IE6, adding features as they see pleased to support their
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by eterm 7y ago
This isn't HTML & CSS vs squarespace, and to butcher the analogy this is more like CSS vs Sass/SCSS. CSS is the internal API which does everything but Sass is an API which exposes that in a much more beautiful way. I don'
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by eterm 7y ago
Absolutely, there are plenty[1]. A lot of previously minimum wage employees have been 'converted' to ZH contracts in particular: * Care home assistants and other social care * Retail staff * Food manufacturing * Farm labour * Pack
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by eterm 7y ago
That's what it should be, and what proponents say it is. But the reality is that established fulltime jobs are being supplied by "the gig economy" creating a class of worker who previously would work full time but now work
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by eterm 7y ago
Part time employment is very different from 'unpredictable hours with no certainty and poor workers' rights' which is what much of the gig economy actually is. Part time employment with flexible working hours is a good thing,
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by eterm 7y ago
"freedom not to work" is not a freedom it's a threat.
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by eterm 7y ago
And then everything ends up like the 'defaults', with memes and easy to vote up pictures utterly dominating. Despite scrapping the office "defaults" list, there is still clearly a rotation that get set up as default and
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by eterm 8y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious or not. Just seeing the word "tux" reminds me of a lot of really sub-par quality games and applications of ~2003 that people would talk about as if they were just as good as the comme
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by eterm 8y ago
Darwin was already used on tenner, Newton on the £1 note.
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by eterm 8y ago
Well it's effectively free if you're life-long unemployed. But almost more importantly, the healthcare isn't being delivered by companies trying to make a profit but from central funding instead. Sometimes that means making r
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by eterm 8y ago
It's insanely more comfortable to be unemployed where your healthcare isn't tied to your employment. I choose free healthcare over employer supplied health insurance every day.
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by eterm 8y ago
"Fashion accessory prices don't reflect supply cost" is hardly news or something to "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" as per the site guidelines. If you buy a fashion brand of glasses frames then you'
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by eterm 8y ago
Does anyone know what happened to HNLondon? Or know of other similar sort of events in London or the wider UK?
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by eterm 8y ago
As an approximation, we can estimate each face with an approximation to the binomial at looking at where the cut off is for rejections at p=0.05. If you're looking at a single face, With 2000 rolls, you would expect a range of 81-120.
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by eterm 8y ago
You can't assign significance to a sample size alone. A sample size of 10 can be significant (if it were 10 1's for example), and a sample size of 100,000 can be not significant, for example if you were to roll 4,953 1's.

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