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by hotcrossbunny 25d ago
...or notepad
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by hotcrossbunny 2mo ago
How?
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by hotcrossbunny 3mo ago
"It's like always eating fast food". That right there
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by hotcrossbunny 3y ago
BBC Horizon, thinks the microchip is going to be a big deal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down
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by hotcrossbunny 3y ago
My thoughts exactly!
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Clojure Plays Mario(blog.phronemophobic.com)
201 points by hotcrossbunny 3y ago|40 comments
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by hotcrossbunny 3y ago
I can never look at Mario the same
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by hotcrossbunny 3y ago
"Amazon knows exactly when you have an outbreak of aphids because you buy things to kill the nasty little beasties, and it probably also knows when you’ve had a nasty breakup because nobody listens to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours on repeat
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by hotcrossbunny 3y ago
We must have played this for years on the Atari before discovering market "collusion" quite by accident when pressing both player buttons simultaneously mid-auction. It was features like this, and much around the auction implement
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by hotcrossbunny 4y ago
When I was a high school kids in the 90s, the dairy across the road from the school would sell individual cigarettes to the kids for 10c each. Utter scumbags. How many addictions began with that thin end of the wedge.
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by hotcrossbunny 4y ago
Absolutely this!
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by hotcrossbunny 4y ago
Absolutely this! Communication of design is an enormous gap that has emerged in the last could of decades.
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by hotcrossbunny 4y ago
When programmers are designing it is more likely to be in the early stages when the program is still small. Often once the program gets bigger, the effort devolves to simply building. They might feel like the design is wrong, but the inerti
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by hotcrossbunny 5y ago
Can I say this really is great news for mice
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by hotcrossbunny 5y ago
Care to qualify this at all?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Same here with regards to preferring the old Thinkpads for daily use. The trouble as I it is that the great ones are getting really old now, and the newer ones don't seem to be of the same ilk.
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
I think it is often more helpful to ask the question "To what extent is XDD useful in context Y?". This firstly shifts the discussion away from whether something is universally good or bad (the space of bandwagon riders and hype c
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Recently I gave up on my latest attempt to read Augustine's Confession. The recommended translation that I have is still so otherworldly wordy that I feel I need something else to help me understand what he is getting at.
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
I recently read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin which was I think was from this collection. Particularly as a non American (so lacking his featuring highly in my primary education), I found this really intriguing insight into a brill
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
+1 for the i7 x220. I paid £150 for mine a couple of years ago for what I thought would be a throwaway bit of kit at end of life for an experimental Linux build. But what I found was the sheer utility of the thing has been unmatched by any
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
-> In some years you'll be 40 ...noting value for "some" may not necessarily be positive
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
And then the lockdown happened, my kids are suddenly being home schooled in our tiny London flat. Thankfully my fleet of fun to refurb ancient ThinkPads find their reason for being, getting pressed into heavy everyday use. Overnight I'
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
In my humble opinion, a lot of projects go quietly bad when they experience some sort of new requirement that gets underestimated in terms of its architectural impact by project management. At such time senior Devs have either already moved
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Out of the tarpit anyone?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Even better, think how much quicker you can achieve a sufficiently large application if you can source some really unwise developers?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Does this framework speak to the mismatch in idiomatics? https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni Not asking from any point of expertise mind you, having only stumbled across this literally this morning
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
This sounds like a good place to learn. Might I ask the company?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Yep, I guess that is pretty ironic. If your roles are open to London/remote, I would be happy to take a look
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Maybe if you make it known that you have some Clojure projects and that it might have even a possibility of a future with you, you might be able to attract and hire some good devs
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
I had this realization about 10 years ago when I had to do a shop in an unfamiliar London supermarket on a Saturday. In that circumstance I'm basically doing their warehousing for them with no knowledge of their layout at the same time

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