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by jon-wood 4y ago
I assume that font is the inverse of western ones that have great rendering of Latin text, but don’t really bother with the rest of Unicode. When working with Chinese suppliers in a previous job all the documentation and comms we got would
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by jon-wood 4y ago
A co-op is quite a different thing to a loose knit group of volunteers. I’d love to see co-ops picking up this sort of contract, but I do think it’s important people get paid for that work, and the contract is assigned to a specific organis
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This, as much as people may moan, is the answer. Either that or go subscribe to Nebula or whatever not-YouTube platform your favourite YouTube channels are publishing to. Content production costs money, in some cases vast amounts of it, and
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It’s possible they’re worried about antitrust litigation if they take over the entire stack. At this point in time I don’t think it would be warranted given all their competitors are doing similarly, but given MS’ experience of the 90/
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by jon-wood 4y ago
When my son was born I was working for a company that did grocery deliveries from really good food shops, despite living way out of the area we'd usually deliver to they put together an order made up of things people knew my wife and
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by jon-wood 4y ago
In the UK we have Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, both of whom can and do regularly quote classical literature. You can have them. No, really, please take them.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business by Anja Shortland, which is a fascinating exploration of kidnap insurance, and argues that it’s been a force in keeping down instances of kidnap for ransom by effectively regulating the market for kidnappi
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Scala is big in the financial sector, which means average salaries for Scala developers are going to trend higher.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I picked up a love of design obsession from the years I spent working as a developer in design agencies. A lot of it is very much focused on how a thing feels to whoever receives it, even they don't consciously notice that happening. S
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by jon-wood 4y ago
They don't exactly make it clear what you "should" be doing at any given point though, my experience of all Paradox games is that they have a perfunctory tutorial which seems to cover little more than "here's a coun
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Generally no, it doesn't matter if you're just displaying on (mostly uncalibrated) screens, or printing in CMYK on normal paper stock. It gets more interesting if you're producing things like brochures, in which you care abou
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I’ve tried many things. The thing that (at least so far) seems to be sticking is a note per day in Apple Notes. It contains what I planned to achieve, what I did achieve, and bullet points on thoughts from the day. At least for me anything
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Not the GP here, but having run websites for the non tech savvy I can say they have no problems with any sort of URL structure because they are oblivious to URLs. They enter your-site.com into Google, click the first result (even if that’s
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by jon-wood 4y ago
> Put me in physics class, technical drawing, cooking, math, I focused and did really well. Every other class was boring and non stimulating and so I acted up. Being able to focus (sometimes to self-destructive levels) on things we enjoy
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Relatedly, comments fields are the bane of data compliance exercises. You think you’ve caught everywhere a customer’s information might be stored, and then at the last minute you find out support have been putting phone numbers in the comme
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I think the typical line on this sort of thing is that you can contract someone for a set number of hours, but if you also dictate when those hours will be worked you’ve probably reclassified them as an employee. The other key test in the U
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by jon-wood 4y ago
You should watch Foundation and For All Mankind as well next time you replace an iThing. The Apple TV+ library is definitely a lot smaller than competitor's, but what is in there is on the whole incredibly high quality.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
GDPR does not mandate huge banners for every use of cookies. Those banners are mandated because the website in question wants to share information gathered on you with, in the case of most news websites, hundreds of third parties in order t
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I can see how from the outside you’d think that way. Hacker events are very different to big corporate conferences, and don’t intuitively make sense in a world where almost everything that happens is being done so someone can make a buck. E
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by jon-wood 4y ago
+1 for Safari, partly because on Intel laptops it caused significant less battery drain than Chrome (less of an issue with the M1’s ridiculously long battery life), and partly because it means I can bounce tabs/history/etc between
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Threads is a film that haunts me to this day, despite only having seen it once, in about 1998. For reasons I don’t fully understand our science teacher in secondary school was talked into showing it as an end of term film to show a class of
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Good point, and does definitely push the numbers towards the risk being somewhat higher than I intuitively think of. I still won’t be fitting cameras all over my property though!
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by jon-wood 4y ago
> Wireless cameras and doorbells are crucial for renters having any semblance of security. This seems hyperbolic to me. You don’t need internet connected cameras and doorbells for your home to have a semblance of security. That’s what lo
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by jon-wood 4y ago
If you’re comfortable using platform.io, probably not, you’re not the target audience for the Arduino IDE, which I think is much more focused on people who are just picking up electronics and embedded development.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Absolutely agreed. I'm currently working my notice after 5 years of technical leadership, after which I've got a job lined up where I can get back to sitting down and writing code. The last few years have been great experience, an
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by jon-wood 4y ago
"Because I say so" is a terrible way to communicate why a thing is being done. In senior positions it is definitely necessary now and again to pull rank and tell people something is being done despite their protests, but I don&#x2
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Leetcode and Hackerrank I think, if they're used anywhere, are very much a Silicon Valley kind of thing. I've certainly never been asked to go near them when interviewing for startup jobs in the UK, and never used them when hiring
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Only the third point isn’t valid still, and to be honest I’m not sure it was valid 17 years ago either. There are many complaints I have about the British rail system, but I’ve never had a problem booking tickets that cover multiple operati
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by jon-wood 4y ago
> writing shell scripts to do work takes a matter of minutes This is the core of it for me. Half the time I don’t even need to write a shell scrip, I just fling it straight onto the command line if I’m doing a quick one off task.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
If I remember correctly Fly weren't focused on Elixir at first, and instead were just trying to be a better Heroku, but then one of their developers realised Elixir would be a good fit for one of the components they were writing, and o

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