jamiepenney

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by jamiepenney 10y ago
http://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/news/18382/eight_col_xlarge_... That's the yellow sticker that buildings in Wellington get if they're unsafe but still usable.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
For children, it works better in the water as you're trying to get flouride to the developing adult teeth rather than their baby teeth.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
This has come up in the local papers a few times here in Wellington, New Zealand. The prevailing theory is that it's a diesel generator on a ship in the harbour.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
The Chinese had a problem with almost exactly that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal they added melamine to milk to raise the apparent protein levels, so they could water down the milk.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
We used to have issues sending password reset emails to users with Outlook hosted email - Outlook would return a 250 status code, then silently discard the email. It never turned up, not even in the spam filter.
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by jamiepenney 10y ago
I've been getting up earlier so I have some time before my kid wakes up. He's adjusted to my earlier schedule now so all that's happened is I'm doing his breakfast at 6:30 instead of 7. Hard to keep quiet in a 2 bedroom
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
I do the same thing. There's a particular way of speaking in the North of New Zealand that is associated with poor Maori - when I'm talking to my dad's family, I switch back to talking like that. I mask it in almost all other
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
Not to be that guy, but I've become a lot more comfortable with not knowing what the hell I am doing since I had a kid. Most people are winging it, you just don't get to see their failures.
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
Got me 100% right, which is weird because I figured the lack of apps on my phone would be a problem (I have a windows phone so there's a lot missing). Sounds like it wasn't too accurate for the rest of you though.
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
> Also, trying to get three or more people to agree on a time and place for lunch is less fun than herding cats. I built a lunch voting website for our Friday company lunch for this very reason. We would spend up to an hour hashing it ou
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
I've often felt a bit abnormal for doing this. I guess I only ever see each person in one mode, so I had no idea if other people do it or not. Nice to know at least some other people do.
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
I love the veiled language in that article - "a new generation of proto-programmers emerge to correct the market" - you mean you hope a bunch of cheap new blood comes in because you wont pay market rates? Yeah, ok.
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
How big is the VPS you're running it on? I've got a 1GB Digital Ocean box for my side projects already, wondering if I should just spin up another one of those with Dokku instead.
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by jamiepenney 11y ago
What are you using to run the VM? I've always had issues integrating the host and guest VM nicely in Windows - getting copy-paste working properly, resizing the window, etc.
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by jamiepenney 12y ago
I've had this conversation with friends before. Some people can't see outside their own risk profile.
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by jamiepenney 12y ago
> Do I have to think about every possible way that people can perceive my actions, in order to make sure I stay the way I see myself - which is fundamentally on the basis that I am a good person? This is the money quote for me. No matter
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by jamiepenney 12y ago
Looks like Raspian have updated their bash package with the fix, so my Raspberry Pi is safe.
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by jamiepenney 12y ago
That got my name wrong. Damn.
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by jamiepenney 12y ago
It all seems overwhelming when you look at the whole of the industry like that, but it's a lot easier if you pick a niche for now. If you like backend work, just ignore Javascript for now. If you need it for a job, you'll be able
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by jamiepenney 13y ago
Until they get big enough to put them in. I've run through this cycle before with ISPs here in New Zealand - they're great while they're small, then once they hit a double digit percentage of the market, they shit all over yo
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by jamiepenney 13y ago
I never thought of contacting customer support to try and restore my old account. I lost all of my playlists when they "helpfully" suggested that I delete my "unused" channel. The popup said this would have no effect on
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by jamiepenney 13y ago
The last time I logged in to Youtube, it told me my channel was unnecessary as it was empty, and that I could delete it without impacting my level of service. What they didn't say was, this also deletes your playlists. And you can&#x27
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by jamiepenney 13y ago
Except for the "we made a mistake, now we are retrofitting the law so that we did not make a mistake" laws that have been passed over the last few years. The Search and Surveillance Bill, as well as the upcoming changes to the GCSB spring t
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by jamiepenney 14y ago
I've got my web browser on a second portrait monitor as well, it's pretty common for people to overlook width < 1024px configurations when designing their websites.
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by jamiepenney 14y ago
This story sounds familiar...
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by jamiepenney 14y ago
Our quiz team is a pretty good source of friends. People bring in their own friends and workmates so we get to meet quite a few new people.
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by jamiepenney 14y ago
I'm guessing New Zealand must be in the same position - I've seen plenty of screenshots showing me where the unsub link is, but it is just plain text for me. I had to call MS and cancel over the phone, which took a lot longer than it really
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by jamiepenney 15y ago
I have a Filco Majestouch with browns at work, and one with blues at home. I mostly prefer the blues, but they are obscenely loud so just aren't that practical for an office environment. The browns are not much louder than a normal keyboard
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by jamiepenney 15y ago
Yeah, especially when you take into account that some of them are using a proper ORM and others are just using straight SQL queries. Sinatra looks twice as fast as Rails at DB based pages, but if they through in ActiveRecord in the Sinatra
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by jamiepenney 18y ago
I think the point was that it wasn't an NHibernate problem, it was a SQL Server problem. The first link when you google that error message gives a good troubleshooting process, and the guy gave no indication that he had searched first. But

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