jen729w

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by jen729w 4y ago
Err… downloaded on my iPad. It launches as a scaled iPhone app. You must be f’ing kidding me?
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by jen729w 4y ago
Is there a launcher for Windows?
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by jen729w 4y ago
They can use Sabre to look this stuff up. Funnily enough I was in a TA just yesterday trying to book a 4 week multi-city flight. Her banging away magical codes in Sabre was a lot easier than me trying to use the shambles which is currently
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Company site does not inspire much confidence: https://libertylabs.ai/ Ah c'mon. It's a bunch of kids -- which I say with envy not malice -- giving something new a go. Let 'em at it! The products will sp
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by jen729w 4y ago
Funny, I was just cleaning up dinner thinking how if I was a program manager hiring a bunch of PMs my interview question — which I would advertise ahead of time to weed out the chaff — would be simple. “Here’s an engineer/architect, a
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by jen729w 4y ago
We feel the same. I’m ready to lose my mind.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Anyone else notice Agile creeping in where it has no place being? I’m suffering on an infrastructure transformation project — migrating complex apps to Azure — which insists on being Agile. It’s preposterous. I just started and already I’ve
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by jen729w 4y ago
Ah, I get you. Apologies.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Forgive me if I’m wrong — I have a sibling comment here and am not a construction PM — but no. This comment beautifully demonstrates the point: the disconnect between our industry and the physical world. There are not just concrete trucks j
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by jen729w 4y ago
I did not, but now that I know more about project management — PMP® specifically — I can probably answer that for you. Risk management. Which in the real world actually means something, unlike those horribly pointless risk workshops your PM
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by jen729w 4y ago
Similar story: I asked a friend, who ran public comms on a rail extension project, to see her schedule. Two Fridays away at 11:05 a concrete truck turns up and pours. At 13:10 something is laid by some specialist in the concrete. At 14:50 a
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by jen729w 4y ago
How would anyone discover this?
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by jen729w 4y ago
I don’t like it, and in fact deleted (rashly, foolishly) my previous profile which went back to ~2006. Did that a bunch of years ago in a ‘fuck these guys’ sort of mood. Anyway I recreated it and now I have a basic profile and <100 conne
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by jen729w 4y ago
I’ve been online since ‘94, don’t worry about me. I’ll figure it out eventually.
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Is this sarcasm? No. I’m a long way — physically — from ‘the valley’, and I’m certainly not young. When I say ‘HN’ I mean the day to day discussion on this site. I know there’s VC and whatnot here but really, mostly, that’s not what I’
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by jen729w 4y ago
What I find distasteful about these fellas is that they’re not adding anything to the world. They’re taking away. It’s what I love about HN. Sure, most of us wouldn’t mind being rich (sorry, ‘financially independent’), but it’s not the driv
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by jen729w 4y ago
No, I wasn't aware of any.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I tried the Master but found it a tad large. As above, I'm not a ginormous person: 172cm (5' 8", just), 70kgs. I don't have huge hands. I found pushing round the Master to be a bit too much work, which sounds preposterou
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by jen729w 4y ago
Aah yep, I also had a Das, and the Filco Majestouch 2. Beautiful keyboards. Sold 'em. Now I use the very-average Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic. Low keycaps, low travel. And of course a split layout. Do not use the execrable MS mouse tha
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by jen729w 4y ago
You don't need to spend that much. I mean, go for it, it sounds fun, but just getting a desk the right height (i.e. probably lower than it is now) and a stable chair solved mine. See sibling comment here. https://news.ycombi
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by jen729w 4y ago
I have a copy of this which I no longer need. If anyone in Australia wants it hit me up and I'll mail it to you. @johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io. FWIW -- I know this isn't an RSI thread -- mine was 100% fixed by changing my desk. It w
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by jen729w 4y ago
Have you spent any time in India? It is absolutely cultural. That might not be palatable but it's true. My mate Kiran used to lament the state of his own country. "The corruption..." he would sigh.
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by jen729w 4y ago
We're in Australia and after reading that book we'll go out of our way to not buy generics manufactured in India. Weirdly, it doesn't seem like a regulatory requirement to print the country of manufacture on the box. All of o
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by jen729w 4y ago
Just try one thing and see how that makes you feel. The feeling might then spread. Example: bored of COVID, on 1 Jan 2021 I stopped reading the ‘mainstream’ (sorry) news. The Guardian, ABC, BBC, whatever it was that I’d been looking at: sto
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by jen729w 4y ago
My exceptionally naive understanding is that "how long ago" and "how far away" aren't really things that cosmologists talk about. Because of relativity and the expansion of space neither really has a meaning. It&#x2
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by jen729w 4y ago
This isn’t new, though. My first job was for Xerox in 1996 and they sold variations on photocopiers that were purely software. (Or even a physical DIP switch.) The basic model XX40 gives you 40 pages a minute. Want the XX80? An engineer com
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by jen729w 4y ago
Speaking of which (loosely), if anyone from LinkedIn is reading this your Campaign Manager has one of the dumbest pieces of UI I’ve seen in a long time. It’s the old ‘three dots signify some sort of button’ pattern. Except these dots hide
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by jen729w 4y ago
Prolog was responsible for me getting kicked out of uni! I just couldn't wrap my head round it, and I failed the exam resit. In fairness I was a shocking student and deserved it.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I might even disagree with 'less rent' (although better finance for sure, yes). Living somewhere nice, that isn't old and moldy, that doesn't leak, that isn't cold in winter and hot in summer, that is close to ameni
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by jen729w 4y ago
Last year we got up at 4am to view a supposedly-spectacular comet. Or meteors, or something. It was cold and we lay in the garden for the best part of an hour. We saw nothing. Just as we were about to give up, I saw a satellite. I pointed

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