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by iamphilrae 8y ago
This is why I feel the high street is failing. It is assumed that a single store’s value is in the products it directly sells. And if it’s making a loss... shut it down! A store itself should be an “experience”. You go in, play with product
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestors Tale is a great layman introduction, on par with Bill Bryson’s as mentioned a few posts up. I’ve read both. Both cover similar subject matter, but approach it from opposite chronological orders.
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
Well there’s a simple response to that... don’t upgrade. No one is forcing you to.
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
There's only so much to listen to. On spans of weeks where I need to drive a daily commute for an hour each way, it eventually gets to the point where I prefer just listening to silence than the same old music or podcasts again. It tak
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
I live in London and a few years ago I used to commute from east to west (Ealing to Liverpool Street). The trip is normally 45 minutes each way on the Central Line, however I would regularly miss out on a seat and be subjected to a cattle-c
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by iamphilrae 8y ago
They maybe be expensive but will last a decade or longer, so price is negated. And when you replace in 10 years, price will be minuscule as to what it is now.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Surely your age will assist you here (I’m 35 too). Unlike software development which is typically a “young mans game” due to the constant need to learn the latest thing (I know, sweeping generalisation), Product Management requires signific
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
You’re still providing excellent usability test data. You’ve proved that their client’s blatant user-unfriendliness advertising strategy doesn’t work on you. Unfortunately 90% of their other test subjects probably clicked the advert so they
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
If they use mailchimp, unsubscribing gives you the opportunity to report there account as spam and get them banned from the service. Also no reason you can’t also mark it as spam in your email client too.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
I’m now a contractor charging by the hour in a company I used to be an employee in (no OT). It’s amazing how few meetings I get invited to now compared to my previous employment. I just get left to get my stuff done and I’m kept up to date
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
This would be terrible for usability. Allow the user to see the date how they want, then you process the data that’s returned.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Technically, I believe that has always been the definition of a hacker, even back in the 80’s. Since then it’s been movies and popular culture that have got it wrong. I believe that what most people think of a hacker, i.e someone who digita
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Just launched https://www.medistudents.com . Not technically fancy (it’s PHP+MySQL) but I thought I’d do something a little unique with how it’s built and managed. The front end (apart from educational modules - see below) is bui
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Could it be that nobody knows what the latest version is any more due to the naming convention. At least with the big cats, they tended to get 'bigger' as they went along. Maybe they should switch to simply 'macOS 2017'
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Still exists (although discontinued). Open the Adobe CC dialogue, go to the Apps part, tick "View older versions" (or something like that), and you should find its CS6 version.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Ditto. Lost me at the first line. I'm fine with the title, but if someone feels they need to insert a 'fuck' per line to get their point across, I'm leaving.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
The main problem with this would be non-standardisation. For example, I have 4 bank accounts at 4 different banks and each has a different piece of hardware for 2FA. Imagine if you needed an individual key fob for every single online accoun
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
To add, my endpoints were: /accounts/{id}/users And /users/account/{id} Both return the users attached to a particular account.
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
I just had this exact 'problem' with an API I'm building. I just ended up creating both routes which accessed the same internal function to return the same results - no duplication of code necessary. Personally I think this
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by iamphilrae 9y ago
Actually, if you read one of their blog posts from the last few weeks, they've pretty much abandoned it because it's too hard a problem to solve. Sorry I can't cite, on a mobile and in a rush.
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
Great idea but you may want to rethink the name. PowWowNow is a well know (at least in the U.K.) conference call provider. May prove a big issue for you since you're in a similar field. Looking forward to the weekly updates.
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
There were two versions of the NES and the SNES, one for Japan, the other US/EU. Technically the same insides but a different version none the less.
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
A front end developer should understand that a TCP request (i.e what an HTTP request is) consists of a handshake which means to receive a file from a server, it takes roughly 5/6 calls to and from the server. So if your UI consists of
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
Until I read the article, I was imagining this: https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/312/014/af9095d403701c1...
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
That's next year's upgrade. This year it's the feature screen, next year it's the performance boost. Keep that marketing department ticking over.
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
Go back far enough and that 'king' was just a fish (or fish type thing)
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
Yes, that's probably very true but it's amazing how long it took me to realise and finally bite the bullet to move on. Basically I really enjoyed running my own business but I didn't like the business was running. It's a
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
I switched back to a management-level web development job in January after 4 years of self-employment and 4 years running a small web business with 5 employees. I must say that I am now less stressed, financially much better off, healthier
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
I hope the pilots in the planes I fly in are doing that too!
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by iamphilrae 10y ago
Not unrealistic to assume a scenario where a disgruntled IT technician installs countless hardware key loggers throughout an open plan office. Could be easier and less noticeable than trying to circumvent the business-grade antivirus.

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