jamiepenney

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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Or Google. At least Oracle would keep its dead corpse alive while it was still producing revenue.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
2 pages is what I go for. I've started leaving out older jobs in favour of pointing them at my LinkedIn profile for more in depth info for older positions.
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I find it handy because most of the time I know some shared connections and I can chat to them about the person (like you said, New Zealand is a small place). I know what you mean, I avoided creating a profile for the longest time, especial
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
I'd say give it a go. Sit down, work out a budget for say a year, and go do something else! I imagine after the amount of time you've spent in industry you've probably got enough contacts to come back to it later if you want&
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Your relation to the work would change I think. You would be less inclined to put up with bad working conditions, heavy deadline pressures, that sort of thing. Things you would normally let slide for the paycheque become dealbreakers or thi
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by jamiepenney 8y ago
Don't feel bad about that! My dad didn't know what the hell I was talking about when I was learning C++ as a teenager, but he asked anyway because he saw I got excited about it.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Wow, this is really nice!
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
I really like the sound of this! I've been using a bullet journal for my contracting work and it's been great, and yours sounds like a good system for managing personal projects. I've tried using digital tools and run into th
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Are you making a Dr Strangelove joke or actually serious?
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Like the AI Winter.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
386s had a push button power switch where if you were really fast you could let it out and immediately push it back in and the power wouldn't be interrupted. Found this out in class - we would walk over to each other, lean over pretend
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Had a power supply open to replace the fan, turned it on while open to test if it was wired up correctly. I flicked the switch with my thumb, with two fingers inside the case to stabilise it as the fan was loose. Those fingers briefly touch
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
That's the perfect way to put it! Definitely going to steal this for later use.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
It's not just Europe, I've heard of banks here in New Zealand doing the same. The cost of compliance for them was more than the customer was worth.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Back then, wouldn't it have been? I think they used ammonia as a coolant initially.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
I use it to keep track of where I am on sites like HN that have some combination of wide content, small fonts, and tight line spacing. It gives my eye something to flick back to when I'm scanning back to the start of a line.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
From personal experience, this is the problem rather than age. God forbid you aren't purely a machine that takes money and produces vastly more money for the company.
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On being the employee who “needs improvement”(virtuouscode.com)
206 points by jamiepenney 9y ago|190 comments
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
I live in New Zealand and had Vodafone do the same thing when they installed the cable internet for the previous owners. They cut both the phone line and the satellite lines leading into the house. No bloody reason for that to happen, the C
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Subscriber only mode on chat cuts back on the spam.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
My primary problem with twitch streams is that even though I can easily get all the 1080p60 bytes onto my machine, the bloody web player can't keep up. My fans spin at max speed, and eventually it starts dropping frames. Contrast that
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
We've already learned from our past mistakes changing the prototype of the standard library - the Ruby community learned the same thing with monkey patching their standard lib too. The maintenance overhead far outweighs any immediate b
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Whenever I've raised the issue with other developers they've been open to the idea, but to be perfectly honest I have no idea how you'd even go about starting something like that.
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by jamiepenney 9y ago
Yeah, it's running a normal version of windows.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
/r/popular is filtered by looking at the most popular filters that people have used on /r/all - and it turns out that heaps of people have /r/the_donald filtered out. Lots of people also filter the League of Le
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
Not to mention they changed their volume pricing - we had to switch because our costs were going to quadruple.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
Smart phones kinda ruined chitchat a little bit for me. Someone states a fact and I have a strong urge to pull out my phone and check it out. Takes me out of the flow of conversation, so I have to make a major effort not to do it.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
I've seen it described as the Dead Sea Effect.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
Yep, been there. To be honest, nothing much changed when I left. The org was big enough that by leaving I wasn't doing catastrophic damage, so I had no leverage there. By staying, I was just allowing them to bleed me dry a bit longer.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
That's because it's a pump and dump scheme. They're just trying to rustle up some new bag holders.

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