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by jon-wood 2y ago
> Other than the nice flight attendants, which we still have, for some weird reason They're trained to get everyone off the plane in under 90 seconds in case of emergency. The handing out of drinks and snacks is a pleasant side effe
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I think it's a period thing rather than a country one. People are likely to say they owe "the bank" over here in the UK as well. Back in the 40s though your bank manager had a lot more leeway in the debts they'd underwri
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I don't know how these contracts work in the US, but in the UK if you buy a leasehold apartment where you own the individual unit without having ownership of the building itself, there will be clause in the agreement that states if you
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by jon-wood 2y ago
My read of that was that the Raspberry Pi was mostly there for bootstrapping, so that they could drop servers into the rack and have something there already they knew they'd be able to get onto the local network with, not that they wer
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by jon-wood 2y ago
If you put a product out in the field which can potentially be remotely exploited it’s on you to either patch it when someone does find an exploit or possibly open source everything so others can. If you genuinely can’t support it I guess y
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I think this is completely fine. Some people like working remotely, other people don't. I fully expect to see a gradual trend of companies going on way or the other over time, because hybrid really is the worst of both worlds with nobo
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Classic Register reporting there, managing to turn what I assume is actually a fairly regular occurrence of having a meeting with companies they work closely with into a conspiracy. Of course the press aren't invited. Do MS often invit
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by jon-wood 2y ago
And that intern still needs good, and air conditioning/heating, but now can’t pay for them. Still, at least the share values are up a little.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Is there actually any evidence that higher pay results in better performance from CEOs? I’m sure there’s some threshold below which you’re going to get an incompetent but I strongly suspect that threshold isn’t actually tens of millions a y
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by jon-wood 2y ago
This setup is absolutely the ideal. Sadly it doesn’t often survive first contact with reality. Bob in sales will sign up for a tool that suddenly becomes load bearing, and it doesn’t support SSO without a 10x increase in the monthly fee. A
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by jon-wood 2y ago
USB-C has been a game changer for charging. I'm now able to keep a charger that will work for almost everything I own everywhere I might need one. One at my desk, one in my bag, one by the TV, one by the bed. Next step is strapping a s
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I agree that the cost seems overblown but having worked on several very small teams I'd be hesitant to start anything new with fewer than four people. It is possible to get things done with a one or two person team, it's just a lo
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Be very cautious about “you’ll still be writing code” promises. A team of three is a significant time investment, and I’m highly dubious that leading a team can be done in 1 day a week, at least if you want to do it well. At the very least
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by jon-wood 2y ago
This approach does appeal to me in some ways, one of the things that excites me most about the current government is seeing people with experience being appointed to position in cabinet. I’m pretty sure you’re not serious in suggesting a te
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Firstly, earning more money isn’t a trap. You’d be making more than 3x the average UK salary, you can spare the higher tax rate, and it’s not like you won’t see any of the extra money. With that out of the way, the core thing to consider he
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by jon-wood 2y ago
> Apple doesn't make money with the Email app directly, but its existence likely improves how users perceive iOS. I dunno, have you actually used Apple Mail?
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by jon-wood 2y ago
"I left this shotgun here, kids need to learn that shooting yourself in the foot really hurts."
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by jon-wood 2y ago
The one time I used the Uber Apple Watch app it requested a car but no destination. I assumed they’d just ask me where I’m going but the driver was adamant that I had to provide one, which was impossible because the reason I was using the w
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I've done exactly this in the past, and then when someone asks how long the project as a whole is going to take it's easy enough to give a range. If someone says a task is going to take hours that's a range of 1-6 hours, if t
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Oh come on. There are certainly a bunch of things which nobody on a team has done before in any given project, an error toast is not one of them. Almost every project is using previously built software for them, and the way they fit toget
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I suspect (as with all things) it varies, at least partly based on how important a thing going well is. In your case of doing some drawing there’s not really any downside to doing it badly other than a bit of time you might consider wasted,
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by jon-wood 2y ago
At least in the UK this is done as well as pulling your credit score, traditionally it's not a factor feeding into your credit score. Banks check both your history of paying off debts and your ability to continue doing so, it doesn&#x2
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Farming Simulator, whilst good for listening to podcasts, seems about as accurate a simulator of farming as Goat Simulator is for being a goat.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Most offices are going to notice if someone abducts the IT manager and beats the wifi password out of them. They're probably not going to notice that someone took away the trash they threw out.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
If you just search for "residential proxy" you'll find a lot of them are basically Raspberry Pis or similar shipped to people who are then paid for the amount of traffic that goes through it. Others are agents running on user
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I’m increasingly cold on ORMs existing to abstract away the specifics of your DBMS. In my entire career I think I’ve seen one migration between different databases (MySQL to Postgres), and it was an undertaking despite using an ORM. Where I
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by jon-wood 3y ago
LGA-12 is totally doable yourself, make sure you get solder stencils with the boards and buy yourself a cheap reflow oven. Then you just put solder paste on the board using the stencil so it's in the right places, place the components,
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by jon-wood 3y ago
How small is "too small" here? I'm by no means an expert at soldering but with some patience I can hand solder down to 0603 components, and I know people who can go much smaller than that (right down to the sort of thing wher
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by jon-wood 3y ago
And I chose Ruby about the same amount of time ago, spent 18 years or so writing that professionally, and now write Python for a living. They’re not that dissimilar, if you can use Ruby you’ll pick up Python pretty quickly. (You will howeve
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This sounds like standard corporate ass covering to me. "Oh, that was just an unauthorised rogue employee, they've been fired" sounds a lot better than "someone suggested lubing up the accelerator to speed up production,

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