jwdunne

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by jwdunne 9y ago
Well there is that. One other thing I've learned is that no matter how stresses I get, there's always someone going through worse and here we are. Sorry to hear that man, cannot imagine what you're going through - I've c
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I certainly felt no pressure to have children. In fact, up until the moment I decided to have children, I always said I didn't want them. What changed was my partner's boy, and now my boy for all intents and purposes. It made me r
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Sensible advice if not coloured with the chalk of Ayn Rand! Hopefully I do a good job and it'll be my honour when my children look after the old when they grow up.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Well it's not for me to recommend. I don't recommend it if you don't feel you've got where you need to be and that matters very much. There's tonnes of reasons why I wouldn't recommend parenthood. I don't
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Each to their own - I don't see it as a bad thing. Having children has made me happier and more fulfilled in ways that I could never have imagined. You cannot know the feeling of it until you do. You cannot really understand it until y
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Exactly the same :) the guilt of not spending time with my kids and my wife is too much. There have been times where I've tried to sit down and work on something but it's no fun when there's a strong feeling of "I should
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Grid Systems for Visual Design is on my list. I have Design Elements on there too. Are there any other books you recommend?
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yep and I'd have it no other way. Before kids, I used to be like that. If I "ambitiously worked on side projects", I'd at best miss times I'll never get back and at worse be downright neglectful. That's a &quot
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That's a relief. Three kids mandate 9 to 5 work hours. There isn't much quality time or mental energy to dedicate after that. It's a relief because whatever energy I have left I spend on books, articles, papers. Those things
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Your last point is interesting - I believe Idris and/or Agda in fact go out of their way to show a natural number type defined using induction as a key example. I remember being blown away by that. Coming from dynamic languages towards
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I read about that actually. They use a 3rds model: retain a 3rd of existing systems, improve on a 3rd of existing systems and bring in a 3rd of totally new gameplay systems. I don't bother with non-gameplay DLC. I don't get these
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Another detail near the end of the war: King George wanted to give his cousin Tsar Nicholas asylum after the Bolshevik Revolution but chose not to for political reasons. Family eh?
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Introduction to Hierarchical State Machines(barrgroup.com)
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I've been meaning to play HOI for a while. I was put off by the short time frame it's set in - feels like I need to understand how they handle that compared to multi-hundred year timeframes in EU4/CK2. Mind Vicky is roughly 1
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by jwdunne 9y ago
No, it wasn't EU4 / CK2 / Stellaris grade. I just love the Roman period and RTW doesn't cut it (Caesar III satisfies city management in a way). I guess I can't argue if you've sat down and tried to model it - t
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yes, meant unionists. I don't agree with that though. Right now, they are feeble. That's not a good thing when really it's a body representing workers. Productivity, wage growth in the UK is a problem. Is that going to get fi
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by jwdunne 9y ago
They released a Rome game on their older engine that's now quite dated. It was pretty fun and I'd recommend it. Because they're so moddable, a total conversion would be possible. I know the mechanics are similar but the game
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Yes. The first time I played a paradox game, I closed it due to the overwhelming UI. Takes a bit of perseverance if you want a rich, fully featured strategy experience. After a Paradox game, although fun, Civ just doesn't cut it.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Oh man, I've sunk countless hours into CK2. Such a rich game and I highly recommend it. This post pretty much lays out a facet of what I love and alludes to the bigger picture: start with a historical setting and run with it, often div
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Not sure what you mean? A big plank in Brexit rationale is restricting freedom of movement. I think some hope for a scale back on multiculturalism. Due to once owning an overwhelming empire, I think a lot of people forget "British cult
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by jwdunne 9y ago
And at the time of the Great War, the monarchs of Britain, Germany and Russia were all first cousins. This photo is particularly striking: https://i.redditmedia.com/2ZKJnNVW1-Mn41TE8dqXFMten1_L6gBZ7I...
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by jwdunne 9y ago
A few older working class specifically cited being ruled by Germany by stealth. I think that's totally ridiculous and I voted to remain, though I am a millennial and don't know life outside of the EU. Irish tensions are resurfacin
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This is a great example of why you should avoid writing clever code. A clever one-line piece of code requires a blog post to make sense of it. Not slating the article. I thought it interesting and the author does mention this caveat, making
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Oh I didn't know he had released one on da Vinci! Thanks for the heads up. Einstein is a great book. I also recommend the NatGeo series after reading it - it's based on the book.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Oooh 2017 has been a year of heavy reading. There's a few for very different reasons: - Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson - Functional Programming in JS by Michael Fogus - The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes - Why the Tories Won
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That looks really cool :) does it still depend on Bower?
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This is very close to one of the key criticisms behind Net Promoter Score when we was looking at implementing it for a client. Basically it uses an 11 point scale and your net promoter score is the proportion of 0-6 (negatives) subtracted f
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I'd consider myself an average JS programmer and would love to try writing web apps in Haskell. I've spent some time on Haskell books, fell in love with the type system, got a basic understanding of monads but found it difficult t
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think the problem is they're using Excel as a database as opposed to a spreadsheet. That's fine at small scale, it's easier to manage and even easier to get going, but Adobe scale? They should advise "Stop using Excel
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Since I last checked it was still experimental, albeit available in Babel, but there is work on syntax for property initialisers in class bodies e.g: class X { id = (x) => x; } See here: https://github.com/je

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