heurisko

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by heurisko 4y ago
That sounds a lot like the descriptions in the book "The Chimp Paradox", which posits that within us, there are both a chimp, and a human. The chimp reacts emotionally, the human reacts logically.
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by heurisko 4y ago
The book "Adults in the Room" by Yanis Varoufakis is an eye-opening read on the anti-democratic and quite unpleasant elements of the EU.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> In the late 90s and even early 2000s the common wisdom with guidance counselors and even local recruiters was that programming and software design were dead end My career advice as a teenager was that there wasn't any point doing
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by heurisko 4y ago
> (The worst thing that happened in the last 30 years of the web was the transition from http to https, in another 10 years web browsers might quit supporting http entirely.) Enforcing HTTPS was one of the best things to happen to the we
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by heurisko 4y ago
Given Project Loom hasn't been available, how does it utilise Virtual Threads already?
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by heurisko 4y ago
I get motion sickness from headsets, so that will involve vomit all over my work area, constantly.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> The desktop experience is still a mess. The closest I have seen to creating a good experience was Ubuntu Unity. I noticed it being used in universities, and in the office I used to work at. I'm disappointed that the Unity project
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by heurisko 4y ago
Your comment doesn't contain any point. However, I'm from the UK and don't include myself in your "massive arrogance" statement. It just appears inflammatory.
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by heurisko 4y ago
Commuting to Cambridge by car is problematic. But since 2020, short distance commute via train has had an upgrade with new 8 carriage trains along the Fen Line, making situations where you don't have a seat less likely.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> Cambridge is infamously time consuming to get to by train Says who?
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by heurisko 4y ago
In the UK, the teachers union was campaigning to keep schools closed. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/government-fac...
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by heurisko 4y ago
> First it was just the code. Short functions, few parameters, shallow nesting. Make everything testable and maintainable! I don't think this is related to losing sight of the big picture, no more than focusing on good clear sentenc
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by heurisko 4y ago
You would have been removed from the project I was working on, which was responding to a governmental regulatory deadline.
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by heurisko 4y ago
What is the benefit over using symfony and doctrine.
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by heurisko 4y ago
Cover in acceptance tests using something like Selenium and modify things slowly, making test seams to add more tests.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I can think of few better ways to increase racial tension.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> we were never ever a live and let live country. The UK is one of the most "live and let live" countries in the world. However I think there is a marked difference between 2010 and 2022, especially in Scotland, who I used to
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by heurisko 4y ago
A rebuttal that it is monetarism is here: https://positivemoney.org/2014/08/sovereign-money-system-mon...
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by heurisko 4y ago
Positive Money has published books on how the banking system works in real life, not how it is portrayed in textbooks. https://positivemoney.org/publications/
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by heurisko 4y ago
> The site has been engaging in mass harassment for years and is responsible for multiple suicides > Speculation about the ‘trigger’ or cause of a suicide can oversimplify the issue and should be avoided. Suicide is extremely complex
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by heurisko 4y ago
I usually use an ORM to save data, then raw SQL to query data. The ORMs I have used, hibernate and doctrine, allow you to use raw SQL, then they do the object mapping for you. The raw SQL vs ORM is a false dichotomy.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> string-compare-case-insensitive(x, y) => true // Right way what is inside that function?
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by heurisko 4y ago
Climate and plastic pollution are the problems of our time. I see progress made towards number 1, no progress towards number 2.
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by heurisko 4y ago
> And now I see AOT/Slimmed Runtime/Compact packaging are happening largely because of cloud deployments. I see the main driver of AOT to be startup time for things like lambdas. The JVM is pretty lightweight anyway on modern h
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by heurisko 4y ago
> On my crappy laptop a full site rebuild took 75 seconds. (Not compile, just to generate the site.) I only have 240 posts so I don’t think it should be that slow. Wow, what on earth was Hakyll doing all that time?
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by heurisko 4y ago
UK government projects suffered significantly from Waterfall planning, with nothing to show for it at the end. This lead to the Government Digital Service who cite the failings of Waterfall. > Using waterfall methods means you may spend
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by heurisko 4y ago
I have a Lenovo L14 with a Ryzen processor. I switched over from Intel to Ryzen starting at the 4500u series.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I think scrum is best understood as a push back of waterfall. Breaking large parts of work into small chunks, where it makes sense, which are testable and negotiable is better than the massive brittle project designs that collapsed under th
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by heurisko 4y ago
> The UK government has cost us billions by denying permission for privately funded renewable energy projects simply on the basis that they look ugly! The issue I have with that article is that it doesn't say how many were accepted.
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by heurisko 4y ago
The reality of "technology in the classroom" for me was just a bunch of classmates goofing around and getting distracted with computers, whilst they could be reading a book combined with interacting with each other.

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