harkyns_castle

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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
You sound hesitant and not confident of your own ability. Personally, the first thing I'd do is remove myself from people like that. What a painful way to live - there are a hundred other different environments. If you feel like you ne
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Give it some more time, all dissenting posts will be greyed out hehe.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Ultimately I guess it depends on whether you're optimistic about human nature, over time. I think we're seeing a gross abuse of it, esp. from the leaders of the US and the people pulling the strings. But, I'd like to think we
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Not just surveillance, we also need a reason to keep the war machine going. And there'll be demands for more money for national security after this. Ad infinitum until there's a revolt or some kind of political evolution in the st
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Most sensible companies ignore LinkedIn now from what I've gathered/listened to, although it has been a while. Still quite a strong, what I would call, "shill" force out there though.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Didn't foresee all this nonsense when I started to enjoy IT back in the younger days. Wish I didn't see it now either. What a mess. Long live the petrodollar and killing other humans for a fiat currency.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I'm rooting for the trees. Here in Tasmania we're seeing some ancient trees being turned into woodchips because it makes short-term sense for greedy politicians and people with an IQ thinner than said trees. "What will I do w
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I can't understand why anyone would be on LinkedIn, after their nefarious practices. The last straw was the one where they requested your email login details, and proceeded to spam your contacts with join requests. What kind of a prick
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I guess the supply/demand thing is going to differ between cities and places in the world. Where I live (Australia), plumbers and electricians often have a higher rate than quite senior developers ($200 call out rate with minimum hour
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I don't know, but the one thing I will say is that they're often interesting, or at least some of them. I tried one, and I've seen it since, which is a challenge i.e. they'll present you with a basic page saying "Tr
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Metrowerks Codewarrior has fond memories for me too (although I have never had a problem with Eclipse aside from bloated J2EE bundles like WSAD etc. It's easy to set it up to be quick and unobstrusive I've found).
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
In terms of making a difference, I think we face the "tyranny of the majority". Whilst a lot of "us" feel strongly about where this is all going, it seems like the average Joe just hears from the media: "Its to prot
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Very much agreed. It sounds like OP is a bit burnt out, and I had much the same thing - I said to myself I'll do my own thing, I've done the hard yards, I'll just sit down to think of something, got a few good ideas... time k
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I've done a fair bit of contracting, and most interview processes are ridiculous imo. You can't glean anything much of value from a face-to-face interview with a software developer; at least, it can range from the fact they either
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I tend to go for Samsung, yet to have a problem with them in the PC space. My Samsung phone otoh has developed a few blue pixels which I'm not enjoying.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I wouldn't say I'm good at great UIs, but my approach has been that of a bowerbird - find things you love using, and copy them. Over time, you'll gradually pick up approaches that you like and refine them, and combine them. T
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Most C++ codebases I've seen have the brace on a fresh line, most Java codebases at the end of the line (at a guess born of the Sun guidelines and default Eclipse formatting perhaps). I started with the former, but prefer the latter no
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I also cut my teeth programming on the old Apple IIe. Brings back some fond memories... bought a big tome at one stage that had an assembler you could 'install' by typing out pages and pages of machine code... I devoutly typed out
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
> whereas Git does not [...] Git's "sparse checkout" feature can grab a part of a larger repo from memory.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Looks nice and easy to plug in, just at a quick glance I'd prefer to see some of the visualisations or output that it produces. Lot of stars for ten days on github.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I quite like Eclipse's debugging support (for Java), though I haven't used it for C. I think you can get GDB integrated into Eclipse's CDT with breakpoints etc. Haven't used DDD either but it looks interesting too: http
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Very true, although I suppose most scams prey on vulnerable people. Be nice to think there's a special circle of Hell for people that'd do this to other people. Are there no laws in Pakistan that prevent this kind of thing from op
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I'm in between moving, but when I unpack I have a bit of a PC graveyard and can piece together something if you're still stuck. Even a Windows key I guess if you're that way inclined.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the US will get up and vote about it. Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the AU will get up and vote about it. Hopefully some of the numbnuts in the NZ will get up and vote about it. (Kia Kaha) Yes I underst
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself, a really well said point or series of points.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Honestly, I'll all for it. But the article had nothing of substance. After a deluge of NSA/GCHQ/ASD/Canadian/NZ links lately, this is like saying, "They're spying on us". Sure, and I despise that, but
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
> It's not always a choice; where I worked, as architects we sometimes had to put on our hero-capes and wade into code to save the day. I think its a matter of context, and one "architect" from one organisation to another
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Hehe yeah. "We're going to release some things", as far as I can tell. I'm not sure the point, lead with something interesting. * Not to say I don't think it's worthwhile. Just a bit dry atm.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I've been using open source for ages, and have rarely taken the time to look at the source. But, at least its there. I sometimes wish there wasn't such motivation to hack software. If we were all working towards a common good (in
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
It probably isn't a bad idea to get a job programming. Depends on the bugs though, and, well, working for free. I'd like to think that won't be the only way to get a job in programming. I hate this focus on "Show me your

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