julian_t

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by julian_t 4y ago
Yes - it's better to be accurate than precise. If you said "1 to 20 days" and it took 15, you were accurate. Being too precise gives you no space for the unknowns to show themselves.
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by julian_t 4y ago
Wow, COM Structured Storage. That brings back memories, but not necessarily good ones. And as for working with OLE... ouch.
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by julian_t 4y ago
The owner of a bike shop I used to frequent had a Moulton (one of the old space-frame ones) with a 5-speed hub and a derailleur on the back and three rings on the front. He said he wanted to see just how many gears he could actually get o
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by julian_t 4y ago
I'm careful with my phones but don't like cases, and I solved the slippery phone problem with some non-slip tape - a couple of strips on the back meant the phone didn't slide, and didn't add bulk. It has worked well for
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by julian_t 4y ago
My wife and I drove that a few years ago on our NY-to-SF trip, and it was a truly memorable experience. And somewhere out in the desert you'd see a tiny wooden house left by a settler; we knew there was another town a few tens of miles
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by julian_t 4y ago
Same for me - 8 years of piano with regular exams, gave it up in my teens because I didn't want to play just classical stuff, and all that practicing was just plain boring. Haven't touched a keyboard since (and have carefully forg
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by julian_t 4y ago
Yep! I remember as a (very) junior dev being told that I was 'responsible' for product documentation. When I asked what I had to do, I was told "nothing, you're just responsible". And like you I got grief when thing
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by julian_t 4y ago
Modern dentistry (especially when you have a tooth abscess)
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by julian_t 4y ago
I'm just sorting out my late father's stuff. He was an avid photographer and so I've got hundreds - probably a couple of thousand - 35mm slides, along with a load of printed ephemera. I do have a slide scanner but it only wor
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by julian_t 4y ago
"The ALAN Parsers Project" Bravo! Best wordplay I've reaed today.
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by julian_t 4y ago
I often think about this. My grandmother was born at the end of the 1800s (yes, I'm old) and remembered electricity and the first car coming to her rural village in Wales. By the end of her life she'd lived through two world wars,
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by julian_t 4y ago
This is what I think about a lot of the "agile development" advice I see on the web. Projects are different, clients are different, teams are different. What works for you may not work for me. Heck, what worked in my last project
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by julian_t 4y ago
I once failed a job interview because they said that they thought I'd take the extensive training and then leave for a better paid job. TBF they were completely correct, but it was a bit of a surprise.
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by julian_t 4y ago
I once had a large company pay me 10x what they owed, and giving the extra back to them was quite a performance. I remember the long suffering lady in their accounts department saying that it was "like pushing the egg back up the chick
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by julian_t 4y ago
Halfway between LA and SF
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by julian_t 4y ago
And at this time of year you're quite likely to meet a house-sized tractor or combine coming round the bend. Those don't hang around either! I'm amazed there aren't a lot more fatal accidents on country roads.
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by julian_t 4y ago
I'm lucky in that we have a good friend who's a dental surgeon, so we're confident in getting good treatment. But someone is setting up a practice in my area (South London) that fits with what a lot of people here are seeing:
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by julian_t 5y ago
I once went to teach a training course to a team at some BigCo, and there was one guy who'd switched to software development from being a baker. He'd worked up to owning two shops, but the leases expired and he couldn't affor
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by julian_t 5y ago
My Renault EV, while excellent in many respects, does suffer from Smart Car Syndrome (or is it Dumb Designer Syndrome?) The "please make sure you observe local road laws!" popup obscures the whole touchscreen for over a minute whe
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by julian_t 5y ago
Oh, thanks for posting this. Coming from a country where only the military and a few police are armed, the concept of armed meteorologists was quite something. I thought this might have been in response to the Weathermen ( https:/&#x2F
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by julian_t 5y ago
I once had to install a Unix system that came on over 90 floppies... and failed about two before the end :-(
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by julian_t 5y ago
It always annoys me when I see that quoted. The original idea applied to people like athletes - you do it when you can, but when you're too old to compete, you can still teach. Nothing to do with ability, and in fact, it assumes more
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by julian_t 5y ago
I've been cutting down on alcohol recently and have been pleasantly surprised by what's available here in the UK. Last time I did this is was mainly Becks Blue and precious little else. Mostly from specialist retailers like Dry Dr
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by julian_t 5y ago
This is a very valid and important point. I'm involved in tech training for the company I work for, and during lockdown we've provided a lot of material as videos and self-study documents. A lot of those have got very good, and we
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by julian_t 5y ago
Oh yes... IBM 3270 terminals sending fields from the screen back to the mainframe. The first time I came across a simple HTML form I wondered where I'd seen the idea before. And as you say, there's definitely a cycle between &quot
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by julian_t 5y ago
Does Bear now support tables? I tried it and liked it, but the lack of tables was a deal-breaker (and replies to my questions make it clear that it wasn't a priority) So I'm using VS Code with the Journal plugin, Markdown notes, a
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by julian_t 5y ago
A common definition (he says, being married to an artist) is that you intend what you do to be taken as art. If the artist says it’s art, then it’s art.
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by julian_t 5y ago
Oh yes, it's similar to a lot of other 'enthusiast' things, like high-end audio, cameras and guitars. I got into keyboards because I wanted a lockdown project. I figured I could learn a little about electronics and firmware,
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by julian_t 5y ago
I try to do something this when I'm teaching classes. Do the "why should I listen to this? What's it going to get me?" bit right at the start. Give some examples so folks can decide if it's relevant to them, then sh
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by julian_t 6y ago
"The main takeaway from your comment is that whatever you do with music should be fun, to make sure you don't destroy your motivation.” Absolutely. As a child, I encountered both music and maths in a way that destroyed any idea th

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