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by jbb67 9y ago
Played with bitcoin a few years ago, and sold all but a few fragments of the last coin. The few fragments are now worth as much as my original spend! I consider all cryptocurrencies to be way too high risk for my desired investment profile
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by jbb67 9y ago
Yes please. Anything is better than XML
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by jbb67 9y ago
I went for an interview at a game company before I got my current job. As well as the technical questions, a large part of my interview seemed to be indirectly about my attitude to working many extra hours and days. I explained that surely
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by jbb67 9y ago
I was going to add this. Education for possibly future children is one reason why I would move _out_ of London
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by jbb67 9y ago
They call this 'serverless' and yet it's all about running thing on ... Servers. I think it's safe to say that if any individual or company uses the word 'serverless' they are either stupid or have been taken o
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by jbb67 9y ago
Clearly the link is more important than the link description. There is a really surprisingly good document [here] that explains why in detail :P
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by jbb67 9y ago
Even though I sit all day and most of the evening, my 40 minute commute is mostly standing and walking, and I get up every half an hour or so to make a cup of tea, or to stretch, or so look out of the window for a minute (it helps my eyes..
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by jbb67 9y ago
This might well be valid according to the standard, but I find it very depressing how many people consider it reasonable behavior.
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by jbb67 9y ago
Even a rule of 2 would be helpful in a lot of code I've worked on. It seems like nobody wants to build a function to do the thing thats needed, they have to build an abstraction or a framework.
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by jbb67 9y ago
I got as far as 'windows store' and 'ribbons' and thought never mind then
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by jbb67 9y ago
I'd like to be able to sit much of the time but have frequent short periods of standing. But even adjustable standing desks don't really facilitate that well, and most of the adjustable standing desks I've seen are _worse_ si
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by jbb67 9y ago
How can a website that lets people upload music files and comment on them, and play the music POSSIBLY need $170 MILLION to operate? I just don't get what they could possibly need that amount of money for.
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by jbb67 9y ago
I like this a lot. This seems to be how it should be. However, not sure I'd use it. I guess I'll try it out in a VM and see how it goes :)
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by jbb67 9y ago
Well, you could if there was any practical way to sell the bitcoin cash version at the moment. I personally think it likely that once you can, you'll be lucky to get $7 for one.
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by jbb67 9y ago
This doesn't seem cheap >> £0.001 Core per second That works out at over £2500 for a single core running for a month. And thats without memory costs etc...
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by jbb67 9y ago
I presume the incremental cost of treating each additional patient will be considerably smaller once the overheads of treating the first person are made.
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by jbb67 9y ago
As for proof of work, am I right in assuming it works like this :- Add a field to store a random number. Keep generating values for this field until the hash of the structure has 'n' leading zeros. Is that more or less correct?
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by jbb67 9y ago
I've considered unicode not fit for purpose for a long time now. Things like "emoji" do not belong in it.
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by jbb67 9y ago
I never understood why the tech press and sites like this one are obsessed with Uber. It's a taxi company with an app. That's it.
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by jbb67 9y ago
"Facebook announced it would allow publishers to put more ads in Instant Articles" Yeah, that should make it more popular.
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by jbb67 9y ago
How does this work if you lose or break your phone? I know several people who use 2FA apps on their phones to log onto services and whose phones broke and they couldn't log on. While there is usually some way to recover your logon I&#x
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by jbb67 9y ago
Which language is the sample code written in? Looks.... awful.
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by jbb67 9y ago
I think people don't understand that today's business suit and shirt WERE considered smart casual back when people started wearing them. This was retained in business for some time after fashion changed in general use. It's n
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by jbb67 9y ago
Perhaps it's just me but I absolutely detest this pattern. It turns a simple page where you fill into your details then hit submit into a "simple" 36 step process where at each stage you think "Argh ANOTHER page, just
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by jbb67 9y ago
Yeah sure, this can happen. But for most people that's not what burnout means. Mostly it's having a project you want to start but every time you think about it you think "I'll have more time tomorrow, I'll just watc
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by jbb67 9y ago
It was a lot easier in many ways. You bought books or got training, most of which was accurate and good. Now you read random opinions and have little idea how good the advice you find is.
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by jbb67 9y ago
It's not a word in common usage. Neither me, nor anyone else here that I asked had ever heard of that word at all. I had to google for it.
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by jbb67 9y ago
UWP is a locked lock, annoying, walled garden that nobody wants to write programs for, Nobody wants to write programs for it, and the only people who run UWP programs are those who either have no choice or do so by mistake. If we can't
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by jbb67 9y ago
The article had TWO popups to close before I got to it and then it asked for "permission to show notifications". I closed it instead,
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by jbb67 9y ago
No. I tried to install cmake and it wanted to install over 1000 files on my computer. I'm not prepared to install that level of super-bloat just to build a program

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