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by junto 10y ago
So the British government is just rubber stamping what they had already been doing in secret and technically illegally for the last twenty years. I can't wait till they get hacked and someone dumps every parliamentary minister and lor
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by junto 10y ago
I think that is a response based upon the dark UI pattern of the site. If you want to view a profile, they force you to register. Hence the user clicks on a profile, gets a registration form, and fills it out in a bad mood, since they are
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by junto 10y ago
My pet hate, directly out of SQL Server Management Studio, is how their code generation places commas. It generates code like this: select columnA ,columnB ,columnC from tableName Whereas I want my commas AF
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by junto 10y ago
Not surprisingly, my mind can be completely focused for hours when I'm doing something I want to do. If it's something I don't want to do, then not so much.
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by junto 10y ago
For me it's about 1000 kilometres.
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by junto 10y ago
Exactly. I still get the office social life, and regularly chat to fellow co-workers by the coffee machine or go to lunch together, but I only have to walk two minutes round the block to get to work. My primary client is in another country
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by junto 10y ago
I've been remote working for 12 years. My opinion as to a successful remote working relationship is as follows: - Trust. You need to build it on both sides. Your employer needs to trust you to deliver what they expect. You need
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by junto 10y ago
This is why I love reading HN comments. On some random Amiga post, the guy that worked with some of my music heroes just pops up and drops a comment like this. Thanks for sharing!
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by junto 10y ago
Helicopters just don't work safely at that altitude. It also has persistent inclement weather conditions. I've spent some time in La Paz, and other areas in Bolivia at high altitude. The effect in the human body is extreme. Someti
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by junto 10y ago
It is interesting to note, that in a consumer focused market such as the US, highly competitive areas consider "the customer is always right" (I.e. catering and hospitality). In oligopolistic niches, the customer is unimportant (I
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by junto 10y ago
I have a family member that was a police officer in a rural location. They have often had cases of farmers who kill themselves with shotguns, and it surprisingly often occurs that they have to shoot themselves more than once in the head.
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by junto 10y ago
I think the point is that he picks it up before anyone else does in your behalf. He's doing the equivalent of standing in line for you outside the Apple store on iPhone 7 release day and then charging you a premium for his services.
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by junto 10y ago
I think I read somewhere recently that Google is going to kill off chrome apps. Can anyone confirm?
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by junto 10y ago
It's not open source but I've enjoyed working with it, Microsoft Workflow: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee342461.aspx
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by junto 10y ago
Reminds me that I really need to apply to become a German national, so I can hopefully remain here without any hassle when this shit storm kicks off.
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by junto 10y ago
I took half a year off and went travelling around Central and South America with a backpack, no laptop and no cellphone. I met loads of great people (other backpackers and locals), learnt some Spanish, visited old friends and new ones, saw
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by junto 10y ago
The author should consider the continuous gearing system, the Nuvinci hub, developed by Fallbrook Technologies. No loss of power whilst shifting gear. http://www.nuvincicycling.com/en/home.html
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by junto 10y ago
That's what the bounties are for.
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by junto 10y ago
Out of interest, is American English considered a dialect of British English?
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by junto 10y ago
Agreed. It's purely a personal and anecdotal observation.
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by junto 10y ago
That's really interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks for the information.
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by junto 10y ago
I think you misunderstood what I wrote. I wasn't implying that my children were the direct cause of my UC, but I am convinced that it played a part in it due to poor sleep hygiene and being run down. Such diseases are complex and have
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by junto 10y ago
God only knows. Whatever it was, my opinion of them remains the same. They're generally incompetent.
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by junto 10y ago
No, it's one of the few sporting occasions where they actually compete together.
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by junto 10y ago
I found Apigee's API design eBook really useful: http://apigee.com/about/resources/ebooks/web-api-design I was impressed with the Rackspace Cloud API and documentation too. Especially their authenticatio
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by junto 10y ago
> Fatherhood hasn't done much for your typing, either! Mobile auto correct! Hopefully I've now fixed the typos! Age could also have played a part in this. It is of course all anecdotal and extremely hard to prove either way. It
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by junto 10y ago
I wasn't privy to their firewall configuration. But that's what their engineer said, made a change, and everything started working. I'm guessing the firewall configuration was non standard.
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by junto 10y ago
I've had the displeasure of working with IBM Global Services as a partner in several occasions. In one instance where we had a connectivity issue, it took weeks of discussions before we finally got everyone on a conference call includi
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by junto 10y ago
I think this kind of thing should be called "paternal shock fatigue syndrome". Our western culture has a thing about getting babies and toddlers to sleep in their own beds and rooms from a young age. There are a wealth of self hel
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by junto 10y ago
"Britain". You mean "Great Britain". We might not be so great anymore, but it is the correct name.

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