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by fendale 18y ago
Well as I got better at swimming, I upped my distance too ... so I cover more distance by going faster and its more enjoyable too. It also upped my top speed, allowing me to swim with the better swimmers without getting in their way, also
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by fendale 18y ago
+1 for the TotalImmersion link. I swim about 10K a week at a reasonable, but not superstar pace, and the TI drills improved my stroke no end a few years back. I can now swim a length of a 25 meter pool in 16 - 18 strokes, where as most of
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by fendale 18y ago
You need to get a certain karma before you can downvote comments. I think it was 100 before I could ...
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by fendale 18y ago
Well that screen tip is going to be really useful - I can feel my explaining things to remote colleagues getting easier already ...
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by fendale 18y ago
Facebook's apps have annoyed me into not using them. Typically I get invites for apps that look like: Test your movie knowledge with this quiz ... You take the quiz, and then it won't give you the results unless you spam all your friends w
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by fendale 18y ago
I have often searched google looking for recent articles, but the most highly ranked are always first which are often really old and outdated ... maybe there is something in the advanced search to tweak the ordering, I am not sure ...
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by fendale 18y ago
"I am feeling excited/happy" that I got to listen to one of Kathy Sierra's talks with slides and all! Thanks for posting the link and well done of experimenting with one of her ideas ...
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by fendale 18y ago
Me too - I miss that blog so much!
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by fendale 18y ago
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but count( ) and count(1) mean basically the same thing and are equivalent. There is a nice optimisation in MYISAM table that makes count( ) from table <with no where clause> almost instant as its
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by fendale 18y ago
Probably not officially otherwise they would have a .gov.uk domain, but I imagine they must be at least loosely affiliated with the government to be pushing this sort of idea.
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by fendale 18y ago
One report I heard is that the rate is about one third of an equivalent UK person now. It used to be a much greater difference, but the Indian rates are going up as the developers get paid more.
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by fendale 18y ago
I hear Textmate is pretty darn good, but it doesn't work in the terminal on my Linux box, and it doesn't run on my windows machine in my cube. I decided a year or two back to learn an editor well, and decided against Textmate for those two
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by fendale 18y ago
irb(main):002:0> p = Proc.new { return :to_sender } => #<Proc:0x0035a050@(irb):2> irb(main):003:0> p.call LocalJumpError: unexpected return from (irb):2 from (irb):3
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by fendale 18y ago
I actually know someone who was hit by a bus on the way to his software developer job - luckily he was fine but for a couple of cuts and bruises (inner city., hence bus was probably going v slow), but it can happen!
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by fendale 18y ago
I have never been in the situation having never launched something, but if I was launching, I would be inclined to just post the link here. Best case, people here love it. Worst case people will point out its failings and be critical. Thi
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by fendale 18y ago
Our install of Confluence is dog slow and gives a lot of Internal Server Errors - granted that is probably because whoever set it up has done so badly and on inadequate hardware. Its WYSIWYG editor annoys me quite a bit, and I find its Mark
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by fendale 18y ago
Nothing sucks more that Confluence - I feel your pain all too well :(
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by fendale 18y ago
Back in the day, by father worked in recruitment for a rather large place that got many many more applicants per jobs (like most places I guess, but this one would employ several 100 new people per year with thousands of applications per re
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by fendale 18y ago
You're give a lot of credit to large companies - things are done wrong in them more often than not. The developers code to requirements - a bunch of signed off requirements are handed off to them and they go make the thing work, so yea ther
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by fendale 18y ago
This is something I can relate to very well - I work for a large company that out sources lots of work to India - some of the developers are good, some terrible (as they are everywhere) - but without fail they refuse to show you anything un
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by fendale 18y ago
I have never once read a EULA - I don't really see how you could make it all the way through one and stay away. How important is the EULA/Terms and conditions that you always have to click OK to when you register to use a new web app? If I
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by fendale 18y ago
And in Rails <%= h(@var) %>
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by fendale 18y ago
Yea if you are interested enough in what you are doing, or its your own startup things are a little different - even interesting work tires you out eventually though. I need at least 1 day a week off all the same - I think that is importan
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by fendale 18y ago
Yea, in the big companies, you would not believe how often I have seen someone 'recognised' and given great praise for being in the office real late pulling a release out of the fire - almost everytime it was that very person that put it in
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by fendale 18y ago
I struggle to see how anyone can be productive at all working all your waking hours. The only result of that is going to be burnout or stress related illness. I don't have or work for a startup granted, but when I am working on something h
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by fendale 18y ago
Buying a house is a great idea if you ask me, so long as you don't pay over the odds for it. If I want to travel, I can rent it out (the rent will cover the mortgage) and in 12 odd years I will owe nothing on it, and can live rent free for
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by fendale 18y ago
I know nothing about the internals of any of the Ruby VM's so this may be a totally stupid question ... How hard would be it be to 'marshal out' the entire running Ruby VM to a binary image and load it back in again like the way the Smallta
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by fendale 18y ago
So does that mean that if I had a Dabble DB instance that had many megabytes of data in it, you need enough RAM for the Dabble code plus all my data to be in memory at once (and so on for each customer), or can you do some lazy loading magi
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by fendale 18y ago
All this hype about MagLev, OODBs and Smalltalk that has come out of this Rails presentation has got me wondering about how some of this stuff works. As I understand it, coding in Smalltalk involves developing code in an 'image' that is per
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by fendale 18y ago
Just because everyone else is drunk doesn't mean you have to be too. Granted if you are sober, a really drunk person can be a pain. However, drunk people don't know you are sober, so you can banter away with them sober or not, but its diff

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