joe_fishfish

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by joe_fishfish 15y ago
Coding in Haskell is not like coding in a more imperative language like Python or Java. Haskell is incredibly terse, and most of the work is done in your mind, trying to figure out exactly how best to declare what you're trying to achieve.
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by joe_fishfish 15y ago
There's Android File Transfer for Mac users, which supports MTP. Not sure there's anything at all for Linux users. This issue has turned the phone from must-have to never-want for me - it's unbelievably handy to essentially have a 32GB USB
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by joe_fishfish 15y ago
A normal probationary period is 3 months, yes. But in England at least an employee can be fired for gross misconduct within the first year of employment and will not be legally allowed to challenge it (certain exceptions involving discrimin
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
Those things are true for 99% of IT recruiters that I've encountered. What makes you different?
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
If making cash via an affiliate link is the goal, it would make sense to have the link to the user's localised Amazon site. I much prefer to buy from Amazon.co.uk as I'm UK-based so right now I'll just highlight-> right-click-> goog
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
Not tried with a digital camcorder, but I can do all that with my phone using Ubuntu on my four-year-old desktop, so can my mother on her two-year-old Dell laptop. It isn't as smooth as on OS X, but it's definitely possible.
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
This was why the best job I ever had was working for a non-technical founder who had found himself doing a quite a lot of technical things on a day-to-day basis. He found even quite simple things like URL rewrites in Apache config very taxi
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
Maybe this is a cultural thing but personally I would take great exception to my employer interfering in my private, personal relationships in such a fashion.
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
The problem in Britain seems to be that largely people don't fear their government, they fear other people. Whether this is due to the class divisions in British society or a culture of hatred and fear promoted by the two most widely circul
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
Trivial was probably the wrong choice of word. Regardless of most users' lack of knowledge on the subject, it is a much easier (and cheaper) task to change your browser than to upgrade your phone in mid-contract. I think the real driving fo
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by joe_fishfish 16y ago
His point is that it's pretty trivial for a user to change their browser, these days. Changing their phone is more difficult and expensive. Hence, it would be better for users if developers developed their apps for a specific software platf
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by joe_fishfish 17y ago
It seems that here in the UK we trust our government a lot more than we trust our fellow citizens.
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by joe_fishfish 17y ago
Twitter.
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by joe_fishfish 17y ago
True. When my house was broken into while I was at university, by far the most valuable things there were mine and my housemates' textbooks (a couple of my housemates had law textbooks worth over £200 each, this was back when £1 = $2 btw).
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by joe_fishfish 19y ago
In my school we had a mechanical turtle that drew lines on a big piece of paper on the floor. If you were really good and didn't mess around with your screen turtle you got to have a go at using it. We had to stop using it when someone gave
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by joe_fishfish 19y ago
Are you talking about Vitalic, by any chance?
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by joe_fishfish 19y ago
I remember watching a TV programme a few years back that contrasted the medieval engineering culture of Western Europe with that of China. I can't for the life of me remember the historian's name, but his theory seemed to have some merit.