jackpeterfletch

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by jackpeterfletch 7y ago
When I read these kind of pieces I wonder if people know that just because your company has Slack, that doesn't mean they expect you to read everything in it. Company wide/support channels, your basically at liberty to completely
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
One major benefit that I've come to appreciate is that it can't break. My S8 usb-c stopped working about a year ago. Wouldn't have considered a wireless charger before then.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Is it possible the penguin thinks this is his mate?
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
- If electron worked like the JVM and each app shared a runtime You mean like eerr, chrome - and the web :P
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
By the end of friday 250,000 people will have been displaced. I dont know how you really deal with that!
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Fair play - added a correction, that statement came from discussions with our DevOps facility rather than first hand contact with Amazon, so there could be something else going on.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
mcrittenden is right in that it probably will cost more to run than just having the old processes run on ECS/EC2. Lambda charges a premium for maintaining its control plane and development of the product that only makes sense to pay if
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
It isnt more expensive! Our main path business path gets about 60,000 reqs min. For that, sure AWS Lambda would never compete. Not only would it cost more but you'd probably hit the concurrency limit in AWS Lambda. But we also have an
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
not to mention that its hard to stop custom fonts 'popping in'
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
In countries where they're common place and part of the licensing curriculum, roundabouts are far superior for throughput and traffic flow than any other kind of intersection of comparable size. To get any further improvement you start
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
This is actually related to a very deliberate initiative from the Bank of England to make becoming a bank easier. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/new-ba... They recognized that it was basically im
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
If you liked it, I'd really recommend the built in current account transfer service.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
I've been paying my wages in for about a year now. Its been a flawless experience and I'll never look back. From a technical perspective I think it could be easy to believe that because they're a startup your money is in some
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Assuming your outside of London? Principle architect on £150-200k is entirely usual in the smoker.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Well in this camp. I know there's evidence to suggest that black on white is better for reading comprehension, but I honestly find it straining. To me black on white is just a hangover from old skeuomorphic design principles.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Would imagine they'll add the option in browsers to override the operating systems setting.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
We're just moving the entire company to OpenJDK come November. Looking like it'll be a pretty seemless transition actually.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
wat, like no credit/debit card of any kind?
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
If thats your thing, thats fine, but so often it means that the 'gamery' aesthetic is the only option if you want high end hardware. Im a professional software engineer, that likes to game, but doesn't wish to outwardly ident
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
> touchpad much worse with it‘s fake press (i.e at drag and drop) and the increased size means more accidental inputs occur Google around and find out how to turn on 3 finger drag. I have no idea why they decided to hide this feature, bu
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
I've always wondered why long haul flights dont just have stacked bunks or highly reclined stack seats. It'd be more comfortable, AND you get as many/more people in.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
IQ tests are not generalised measures of innate intelligence at all and your IQ absolutely increases with education. My girlfreind is currently doing a doctorate psychology study, of which a small part is a standardised IQ test (though I do
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
> it is way too expensive for regular gamers Gamers arent kids anymore. Amongst my friends that game, most are nearly 30 working excellent jobs in software.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
> and cost to maintain a competitive IT infrastructure I would actually counter this with the point that many of the historic banks are so steeped in technical debt that newcomers are at massive advantage in terms of iteration speed and
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
>> Any high charge-back industry Not if your the person buying. Bitcoin guarantees 1 way movement of 'currency', it makes no guarantees on your product or service. This is why charge-backs exist. >> With respect to vol
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
I remember reading somewhere that Java 9 modules will solve exactly this, as only the required parts of libraries are loaded, and significantly on the used parts of the standard library.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
WASM runs directly on V8, which runs natively. Bytecode runs directly on the JVM which runs natively. I'm not seeing how eithers closer to the metal.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
Whats different about the equivalent libraries in other languages?
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
If the Javascript garbage collecter can do it then I don't see why not.
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by jackpeterfletch 8y ago
I guess we're talking at different levels. Yeah some of these examples are extreme. But I think we can probably agree that there is a balance between accepting gross negligence, and having overzealous legislation.

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