jwdunne

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by jwdunne 8y ago
Yeah, never heard of that. It's a barm for me.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Only 70 miles out. Had me in Blackpool but I grew up and live in Irlam/Eccles of Greater Manchester.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I don't think that is what is meant. The comment isn't about financial support. It's about poor, disparaging attitude to people who choose to have kids. As though it's a fault. Nobody complained of little time because of
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Tried this. My children are young. If I go downstairs, they will hear and think it's time to get up. How am I to demand they go back to bed when their role model isn't?
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by jwdunne 8y ago
My health isn't the best and my 3 children are young. My own fault really but working on that. It's more a mental fatigue. I can't say I'm physically exhausted.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I'm not complaining. I love my children and wouldn't change it for the world. The parent comment stated I've got so many hours I could be using to be productive. I was stating why that isn't the case. When they're o
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by jwdunne 8y ago
After wake up routine, school run, a full day of work, the few hours the kids are up after work and the bed time routine? That 2 hours a night I'm half-dead exhausted.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Can you recommend good resources for engineers to up their skills with SQL that'll provide the understanding you discuss?
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by jwdunne 8y ago
That's the problem with GDPR. It leaves much to be defined by ratifying member states. For example, it says you need a Data Protection Officer if you do "large scale" processing. There's no definition, no threshold defin
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by jwdunne 8y ago
That'd be a valid excuse if you're not safeguarding personal and sensitive data. But is that the most you can do to protect the addresses and some level of access to somebody's money?
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by jwdunne 8y ago
That's not even an excuse. There are solutions out there that mitigate the fact people reuse the same passwords.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
If I recall, there's no distinction between an en masse data leak and someone being able to access your personal info without authority under GDPR. Both are a data breech. It seems like many people have been affected by this too so cle
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by jwdunne 8y ago
This. For me, I changed completely. Things I used to find stressful became water on a duck's back. Things I thought were catastrophic became small. When you bond with your baby, whatever was the most important thing to you gets supplan
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Burning cow shit smells welcoming? I'd have thought it'd stink like cow shit and smoke. What does it smell like? Genuinely curious!
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I've always pronounced it "car". I've never made the connection with my northern English accent pronunciation of character i.e "caractah" - though the Mancunian glottal stop 'er' is hard to articulate
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I was using an old version of IE and the download would just fail without option to resume. If there was a way, my 9 year old self never figured it out.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Sunk a lot of my childhood into AoK. I come back to it every now and then for a bit of nostalgia. I remember downloading the demo - a whopping ~60mb. I had to start the download in the morning, went out for a bit and prayed to god that the
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I get where this is coming from but it gets boring fast. That's not how flow works. You don't get into a flow state because of the reward / regular feedback alone. The challenge must match, or slightly exceed, your skill. Oth
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by jwdunne 8y ago
In the UK, if the police find a bat without a ball or some kind of proof it's for sports, they can consider it an offensive weapon.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Re-assignment warns by default. I tried it, exploring to see what was possible. It indeed worked but threw a warning. I hadn't changed configuration.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Had a problem that I'd typically use Ruby for but needed to shed the GIL. JRuby worked beautifully. The only gotcha was I needed to use the JDBC driver for Sequel instead of the usual drivers. Obvious in hindsight but not so much with
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by jwdunne 8y ago
This is pretty much how all Guardian articles are formatted. Some of their regular pieces could be called "blog posts" - Felicity Cloake's cooking series comes to mind. Guess it makes sense to reuse the platform that already
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Yes, I was thinking that too. Hell, you can write: do_x if a.y? Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on perspectiven- great power and all that), Ruby allows things that Python doesn't and it's not hard to find yourse
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I love that book. I recommend Dr Fung's blog posts too. The success stories are really motivating, e.g: https://idmprogram.com/idm-success-story-robert/ I've just found out they started a FB support group too
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by jwdunne 8y ago
That's not entirely fair because there's a distinction between nicotine and smoking. The method of delivery killed those nicotine addicts. None of those nicotine addicts died as a direct result of what nicotine does to the body. C
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I'd happily pay $79 for original content _in print_ that delves into why each of those tips works the way they do (you can connect each of those tips to fundamental principles of design, for example). But for a compilation of tweets in
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I saw this advertised on product hunt. Apparently it's a good thing that you can read it in 1.5hrs. Maybe but not with a $79 price tag for a PDF.
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by jwdunne 8y ago
The thing I find most hard about WP development is that there isn't much else you can do. It's like one bootstrap file bootstrapping another, with hooks peppered throughout. The majority of your problems will lie in the integratio
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by jwdunne 8y ago
I enjoyed that book. I recommend it. Details how the Steve Jobs that left Apple wasn't the same as the one that returned, along with the journey of how he got there. The Pixar stuff in there was really interesting. Creativity Inc has b
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by jwdunne 8y ago
Still only 4G here too. Apparently we can expect it to return tomorrow morning. O2 were asked if we'll be compensated. They said they'll "apologise in an O2 way" but couldn't confirm what an "O2 way" is.

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