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by jpz 8y ago
It’s not just the Belgians, if it stands up there that will be the thin edge of the wedge. The issue is the one of random drops for real money. It’s easy to see that has a gambling element to it.
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by jpz 8y ago
Very tragic for Wright and his loved ones. I bought some nail scissors from their website a few years ago when hunting around for something better than they sell in Boots in the UK high street - I marvelled at their comparative quality - I
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by jpz 8y ago
The EU is acting as a cartel. It is unhealthy.
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by jpz 8y ago
It's a hook to the article, the article covers the podcast interview - and the hook is hearing that Holmes is looking for new VC funds. That's interesting in as much as it reveals her shamelessness, I don't see on what basis
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by jpz 8y ago
It's a podcast interview with an author - how is that an "advertisement"? Interviewing an author about his book in a culture magazine is a legitimate journalistic exercise, and it is expected that his research and publicatio
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by jpz 8y ago
She should do something in the crypto space, looks like a perfect fit.
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by jpz 8y ago
I bought their software. The software stopped working properly and nagged me to buy a subscription - despite having purchased the full product previously. I lost my interest in being their customer. They did offer my a 1yr subscription fo
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by jpz 8y ago
I presume an "AE role" is an account executive role - which must be a sales and relationship role? It would seem to me that he aced his interview - he certainly sold the story! I don't mean to imply sales is unethical btw, I
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by jpz 8y ago
Is it safe to use any of these Chrome extensions? I get quite paranoid about them these days.
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by jpz 8y ago
When one writes code which is close to the processor, for instance, one has a reason to write in C, one can represent an unallocated memory structure with a null pointer, or one can use a boolean value. A null value means something in that
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by jpz 8y ago
It's clear that null has semantic and syntactic meaning. If one cares to make the analysis, one could say that it's messy encoding of the None of the maybe monad, e.g. at the call site you need to do some reasoning, but it effecti
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by jpz 8y ago
There are certain ideas which are virulent that people seem to catch, like an incurable virus. One of them I believe is Event Sourcing. I was hired into one $100m+ greenfield project (silly money by a silly investor) where the novice techn
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by jpz 8y ago
The dog that didn't bark. Perhaps that's because people aren't committing code which regresses these cases, due to the presence of pre-checkin unit tests?
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by jpz 9y ago
I can't agree - there's too much going on in Rust - most people using Python want something approaching Matlab or R for ease of use. I'm not saying Rust doesn't have it's sweet spot - but I can't see that as a
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by jpz 9y ago
wow - I'm sitting here with my dual screen iMac setup, never knew about the spacebar! Thanks! lol :)
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by jpz 9y ago
The principle reason Python flourishes is because it's highly expressive and readable. (There are things it misses, such as sensible lambda, any reasonable multi-threading model, etc.) I can't see Rust competing on similar merits
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by jpz 9y ago
Most people are extremely nontechnical and are inadvertently ignorant rather than naive. People that don’t have jobs working with data, who are not technical or mathematical, aren’t going to know.
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by jpz 9y ago
f-strings were the killer feature for me - it’s a pity Python 3.6 isn’t in Debian yet. I do hope macOS get onboard next year also...
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by jpz 9y ago
thanks v much for recommendation
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by jpz 9y ago
Just to make mention in the comments in case people haven't seen the product, I've found Amazon's Lightsail ( https://amazonlightsail.com ) incredibly easy and cheap to launch a simple website upon, along with using
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by jpz 9y ago
I agree with all your points. I've written a lot of multithreaded C++, I did quite a lot back starting about 1994 for around 10+ years, a lot of middle-tier application code on Windows NT in particular (back in the day when it was all
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by jpz 9y ago
I didn't feel the author's opinion was wrong, I felt the article was far-left poppycock. The very subheading "The catastrophic fire that killed at least 80 in London was the inevitable byproduct of an ideology that vilified t
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by jpz 9y ago
It's not an ad hominem attack to suggest someone is a member of Momentum, if they are proud of being so. The author certainly thinks extremely highly of Corbyn and McDonnell, and very lowly of Cameron, Thatcher, Tories, as well as &qu
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by jpz 9y ago
I think you have to work with the language you're in. I had similar frustrations when I first moved into doing some dev in Java and C# and it really bugged me that there was no compile-time guarantee that an Object reference passed as
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by jpz 9y ago
Let's take this const map: const std::map<int, int> constMap = { {1,1}, {2,2 } }; Or take a const map copy-constructed from from a non-const map, if you wish. How is this not immutable data, and "only provides a read-
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by jpz 10y ago
Absolutely - it's the weirdest thing ever that he says this - will he turn down the medal, or just the cash reward - someone who is looking to take your money says something like this. It's a non-topic really, compensation for win
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by jpz 15y ago
I am speaking of my last 15 years in London working in derivatives/front office IT, and interviewing for many jobs in front office IT. It is very exceptional to find banks that will organise IT to report into the front office structure - t
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by jpz 15y ago
It is rare these days in my experience - it creates an appropriate separation of concerns to have the management alignment distinct (that can be interpreted to be a Sarbannes Oxley requirement.) There can be budgeting for specific desk prof
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by jpz 15y ago
There is a lot of crappy developers that's true. If you look at the serious pieces of infra inside the front offices for pricing and risk however, there are some smart people that have done some good software. Quite often however those proj