lbriner

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by lbriner 5y ago
Something to remember is that not very long ago, many words didn't have an accepted spelling, they were spelled phonetically. Although Curb would sound correct since it might be to curb things on the road from hitting the pavement&#x2F
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by lbriner 5y ago
The obvious answer is that lockdown made people more aware of their lack of exercise. Once lockdown starts to lift, people don't want it any more, they can go back to their gym instead. It is tough but this is def. a big problem with V
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by lbriner 5y ago
Serious question though, we live in a time when a mere mortal is able to carry out an enormous financial crime, whose knock-on effects could be enormous to millions of people directly and indirectly. How do you put a relevant sentence on
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by lbriner 5y ago
Yeah, if you want the dropping animation and you can't start typing before then, then don't start the timer before the animation finishes. There is also the age-old argument about British-English vs American English e.g. Armor is
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by lbriner 5y ago
Trash comp? You might be talking about FAANG companies but very few Devs (maybe London) in the UK would get close to $160K, let alone $350K. They might want to attract talent but I suspect there are diminishing returns after a while, you on
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by lbriner 5y ago
What I have constantly found confusing is the conflation of related but separate issues here: 1) The general morality of secret services and undercover work, whether or not it is related to known crime or suspected crimes 2) The morality of
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by lbriner 5y ago
You are right of course. The thing that many people miss is that learning isn't just one thing from, say, Hello World to a fully fledged application but it involves learning diferent types of things in different orders. For example, go
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by lbriner 5y ago
Isn't the way to bolster the market to avoid the crazy 8nm stuff and just buy into the industry at the large scales. I can't imagine that buying or building machines to build op amps or voltage regulators isn't within the rea
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by lbriner 5y ago
This reminds me of Paul Graham's famous quote that ideas are free but execution is everything. The same applies to Ted talks. Sure, there are safe high-capacity batteries that would change everything from mobile phones in the developin
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think you are correct and I am struggling to understand why lots of intelligent people are missing the logical fallacy in their responses. I don't know the formal description but the logic is: Shakespeare didn't have a teacher a
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by lbriner 5y ago
A lot of truth in this but most of us are not really taught how to discuss or describe. Philosophy I guess. How many times have I had to ask a Support Tech to go back and get basic details, "not working"? How? What are they expect
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by lbriner 5y ago
The argument doesn't go away though that nationalised industries are largely unaccountable like the governments they report to. I worked for the railways immediately before and after privatisation. I can't speak for the whole netw
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by lbriner 5y ago
The private model does work elsewhere in the world but I'm not sure whether we completely understand the differences and what makes these other countries work so well. On the other hand, we tend to have rose-tinted memories of how chea
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by lbriner 5y ago
You would hope so but it doesn't. Think about how many people drive half a mile to the shop. They don't care about hidden costs even though all of those short trips might add up to $50 a month that they didn't need to spend.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess that by itself that would be helpful but the truth is that most people wouldn't really pay any attention to it or certainly not much attention compared to price, location, what the place looks like etc. There is definitely room
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by lbriner 5y ago
SmartSurvey | UK Remote | Full-time Online data collection and surveys but growing quickly and potential to move into similar markets. .Net stack (mainly) with a mix of MVC/Dotnet Core on IIS and also some newer apps in Linux container
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by lbriner 5y ago
Your mother probably didn't teach the recruiters to call you up without invitation to interrupt your day either.
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's no unreasonable to check if the Resume on Linked In is up to date by asking for an up to date one is it?
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by lbriner 5y ago
One of the most common reasons is simply that they don't want you to go direct to the company in question and bypass their commission. If they give you too much, it is very easy to do and many companies will recruit directly and the re
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is true that the intention of tech debt is supposed to be when you make a conscious choice to take a shortcut now knowing that you will pay interest later and that other people use it to mean anything suboptimal whether due to lack of sk
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by lbriner 5y ago
To be fair, flashy UIs sell well so it is a strange place to be when you need to decide between "engineering good" and "flashy and saleable"
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by lbriner 5y ago
I have a feeling that part of the appeal of the touchscreen for Tesla was early on, they were desperate to ship things that had problems which hadn't quite been resolved yet. The automatic downloads enabled them to sell the car with &q
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by lbriner 5y ago
Because it's not necessarily obvious when you buy one that the "updates" will involve majorly moving the UI around rather than things like bug fixes.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I didn't think it bothered me until I read this and then thought of the biggest gripe with my Skoda Octavia and that is when the auto-start doesn't start in traffic and I end up on the receiving end of the beeping of obstructed dr
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think 90% of the time I use MS products, I am happy enough but there are some things that definitely would make them suck less: * Sort out the single-sign on thing as others have said. Why do I have to tell you whether my account is work
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by lbriner 5y ago
There was an article posted on HN about a year ago, which said that most/all urban areas in the US (and I suspect in many other countries) cannot afford to maintain their infrastructure and are just buying time before major problems wi
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by lbriner 5y ago
I can't really see what the risk would have been. It's just liquid fuel and will mostly work or not work. They would have already tested heat generation and build-up of deposits etc. for many months.
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by lbriner 5y ago
Probably because it was designed for scale and big companies that can afford lots of hardware don't need to invest on standalone instances.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think the premise falls down with the example given about programming languages because in engineering everything is a trade-off. Cobol is not Go and would have made design choices based on not just Instituional Knowledge (or lack of it)
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by lbriner 5y ago
Because there are very few regulations that can effectively capture the intent of the rules instead of "tick boxes" that might or might not mean very much. Sure, "has firewall" is pretty effective but how do you encapsul

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