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by jumblesale 13y ago
The legal situation in the UK makes it tricky to provide bad references. You have to be able to back up any claim you make with evidence[1] which is difficult if you don't have a paper trail showing bad conduct. It's far more common for an
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Seriously! Every language should support this. Not just for arrays but in argument lists too! Python does a good job here but I can't think of anything else which does.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I've started taking a notebook with me everywhere and writing down whatever comes into my head. This includes ideas for projects, articles I'd like to write about, things I'd like to research later etc. Then when I have some free time I hav
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is a favourite refrain of cheggars to guilt you into signing up. 'It's only the price of a pint a month. Won't you give that up to save starving children?' Well no, that's a false equivalence. Like the article says, this argument doesn
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by jumblesale 13y ago
It's funny to see two threads on the front page contrasting 'continuing the Windows 8 vision' with 'Microsoft u-turn'. I doubt many outside of Redmond are going to conform to the former viewpoint.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
So does this mean that all that money Microsoft put into getting this 'standard' through ISO was wasted? It would be a delightful slice of schadenfreude if now everyone was refusing to use it. I remember that the main reason they wanted the
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I'm not totally sure where you get the idea that I get that idea based on my statement(s).
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by jumblesale 13y ago
If you're ever in that situation again, try this: http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?lan... You can select what modes of transport you're interested in (so you could disable the tube if the DLR isn't running). It'll
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Most of these are mainline stations, not tube stations. Would be interesting to see a ratio of price and zone to figure out where the cheapest, central area to rent is.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I think a 10 person organisation would probably still be at the stage where they have a lot more to worry about in potential candidates and probably don't have access to enough capital / cachet to be able to attract the ideal person.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
An interesting approach, and it's refreshing to see an employer wanting to be honest and open during the recruitment process, but it feels like this advice has a limited audience. It's fine if you are hiring for a large established hedge fu
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by jumblesale 13y ago
That doesn't account for node's popularity. I like Javascript. That's why I use it.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I had understood that to be the total cost but you're right, the article does seem to imply that was only after it had come back in-house. The blog says 'total cost'. If the article is correct then it seems it's ignoring whatever Siemens we
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Really excellent points. Also it's worth considering that most of the people providing these solutions are not equipped with the expertise or experience to tackle 'third world problems' like floods or infant mortality. No amount of AngularJ
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by jumblesale 13y ago
As someone involved in Information and Archives where this project was based, it serves as both a cautionary tale on outsourcing and a good example of when to recognise a sunk cost. This has been rumbling on for years ever since Siemens rec
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I can't find anything stating one way or the other but potentially it's a moral issue? The reason drones have received bad press is because they're being used for extremely dubious purposes. I can totally understand if they'd want to distan
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by jumblesale 13y ago
It bothers me when reporting on evolution seems to attribute it to some invisible hand shaping the way populations change, or in this article making it seem like the cockroaches have made some conscious decision as a group to stop eating sw
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Too right, bloody limeys! Do you have any evidence for the size of the fraud scene in the UK at the moment or was that just a baseless non sequitur to round off your delightful rant about the character of those deplorable English persons?
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by jumblesale 13y ago
The same functionality in Perl: https://www.inkling.com/read/programming-perl-christiansen-4... It's a fun feature but saying it's the main reason to upgrade to Python 3 is going a bit far. I don't see how it's much different to something