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by jwdunne 5y ago
That’s the meaning in Manchester too. Extreme state of intoxication by alcohol. Beyond mere “I’m drunk”.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Time would feel faster too. We perceive time moving faster as we age. Apparently, it’s because our perception of time is relative. At 5 years old, 1 year feels like a long time because it’s 20% of our lives. But 1 year at 30 years old is a
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I remember reading this back in the day. I remember being shocked and dismayed at the way he was treated. I mean the idea is a bit insane but the guy needed to eat and he’s a writer. I still think the idea of using a typewriter to become a
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Manchester is full of them. Majority of junctions on the M60, the motorway circling the city, have roundabouts after you come off / before you get on. In fact, there are two roundabouts in Worsley/Walkden. Though those cause a hug
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Sums up my life really, goes deeper than that hahaha
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I have quite the story. I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to focus. Terrified I’d get distracted by home life. That my productivity would plummet. But it didn’t happen. In fact, the opposite. I never realised how much commuting and office
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Not sure if that’s the point of the comment. The point of the linked text, maybe, which is why I offered my critique. If “simplicity is good” was the only thing you took away from the comment, you might want to re-read it.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
This is an excellent comment and illuminates what I’ve come to realise myself re. the parallels of writing and programming. In fact, writing is a core part of my workflow: I write to problem solve. A clear problem definition and potential s
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Looks like you need to invalidate your cache of hardest problems in computing ;)
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by jwdunne 6y ago
You know what, that is a fascinating analogy and microcosmic explanation of the Great Filter. I’ve never thought of that before.
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by jwdunne 6y ago
If anyone has fond memories of the 2p machine in Blackpool, it’s not big enough I say!
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Why? Breast cancer is cancer of the breast tissue. It’s a different disease to prostate cancer, which is again a different disease to colon cancer and leukaemia. That’s why there probably won’t be a universal “cure for cancer”. Breast or pr
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by jwdunne 6y ago
That’s my number one problem solving strategy. 1. Batter my brain 2. Do something else 3. Sleep on it 4. Aha moment I do it so often, I just say to colleagues that “It’s stewing in the back of my head for a bit” or “Need to sle
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by jwdunne 6y ago
I’ve noticed this in other contexts too. For small queries with straight forward joins, a query builder is nice and readable. But for larger, more complex queries, I found putting the query into its own file was best for readability.
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Similar thing happened to me but with Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Come to enjoy those stories but it always felt like I was meant to glean a deeper meaning than even the author intended!
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by jwdunne 6y ago
To be fair, Google can deliver that quality because they have so much more data. For every search in Bing where a user clicks on the first result and never clicks back on the first search, Google will much more. Likewise, for every frustrat
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Ahhh, I’m so, so sorry for your loss. I could never imagine the true pain of losing a child. But, as a father, it must be a hell that you would never wish upon even your worst enemy. My deepest condolences and regrets. I remember reading Be
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by jwdunne 6y ago
How interesting, I was reading about this last night. In fact, El was a god worshipped by early Israelites, hence the -el in Israel. Yahweh was a god and worshipped at the time. But over time, Yahweh became the single worshipped god, who be
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Mean Stack Considered Harmful(jamesdunne.dev)
1 points by jwdunne 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 6y ago
I was looking for books on “dark psychology” (don’t, they’re garbage). One book I found had great reviews. So good, in fact, two different verified purchasers were compelled to write the exact same review verbatim. I mean if you’re gonna wr
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by jwdunne 6y ago
This actually looks like the ground work for cognitive behavioural therapy. The idea (grossly simplified) is to take those observations of negative thoughts and build a rational response to those thoughts (cognitive part). Then you build a
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by jwdunne 6y ago
There’s a few issues with this post. It starts off great but falls down hard. For one, PHP did not start out object oriented. Nor did it come with an IDE. Sure, it was dynamically typed (unlike Java). If I recall, it was 1994 too but I can’
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Programming Language Development in C(youtube.com)
4 points by jwdunne 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Hrm, I read the book and the code samples were in mainstream languages, naturally, but there wasn’t a specific reference to OO. Algorithms by Sedgewick had more reference to OO but we don’t say that book is overly biased towards OO. The tex
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Hrm, you identified your target market within the first tens of words: freelancers working on UpWork. But you launched on HackerNews. Why didn’t you seek out communities that freelance, especially on UpWork? That’s where you plug your produ
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Re. the part about reading for pleasure: I do this too and used to think it was a bad habit. But, actually, after years of re-reading particular favourites multiple times, I uncover something knew that clicks more of the story into place. I
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by jwdunne 6y ago
It’s funny. Someone I used to know from Scotland is/was a software tester by day. She went mental about the name of their companies new DB. All over social media. “Derogatory, backwards”
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by jwdunne 6y ago
Just added Forte’s blog post to my reading list! This seems similar in benefits to the idea of a Common Place Book. I’ve just had some more hardback notebooks delivered for that purpose. I’ve been keeping one for a year, filled up 2 noteboo
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by jwdunne 6y ago
In effect, gritted my teeth and got used to it. I mean, the basic movement commands still work (or you can configure it so) so that helps. But the benefits out weigh the sluggishness I feel at the keyboard. It was easier to get the rest of
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by jwdunne 6y ago
At work, I moved from Emacs to VS Code about a year ago. I’d used Emacs for years but I was spending a large amount of time fixing package upgrade problems. I guess I’d got into some kind of dependency hell. Maybe I wasn’t experienced enoug

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