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by leonroy 11y ago
Whilst sipping a tasty brazilian coffee there's a little irony in me checking back on this comment to back up my critique on coffee. (Gonna lump all my responses to the various comments here, so apologies if I come across as a bit stro
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by leonroy 11y ago
Just like there were studies in the 70s which vilified saturated fats like butter and animal fat which have since been refuted? You can find a study claiming positive (and negative) health effects for near every substance. Ultimately caffei
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by leonroy 11y ago
Bookmarked this page in the hopes of revisiting it once I'm done reading Haskell by Simon Thompson. Admittedly I've had the book on my shelf for 10 years but still... I wouldn't be surprised if many have bookmarked this serie
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by leonroy 11y ago
> We can't change our baseline raw intelligence. Hmm. I used to believe this until a book recommendation by Bill Gates no less opened my mind a little to the thought that intelligence isn't a fixed or capped (to any level most
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by leonroy 11y ago
I used to love Pocket and used it since it was a tiny extension in Firefox. They actually introduced a great feature which turned your list into a magazine format with the highest rated articles at the top. Sadly they canned it not long aft
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by leonroy 11y ago
I think as much as where you want to work is where you want to live. I know they seem as if they go hand in hand but longer term I think where you want to live is a stronger determinant. That factor is sadly not always rational and IMO depe
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by leonroy 11y ago
We ship voice recording and conferencing appliances based on Supermicro hardware, a RAID controller and 4x disks on RAID 10. We tried to mitigate the failure interval on the drives by mixing brands. Our Supermicro distributor tried to reall
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by leonroy 11y ago
Where do you run? I found it took regularity and running in the woods (rather than the city) before I was able to get that feeling of calming and mild euphoria. Not sure if it's runner's high but it sure felt good!
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by leonroy 11y ago
I don't think that most web developers looking for a job think 'Apple'. Google and Facebook would likely be their top pick and not surprising since both of those companies are far more web centric - Apple has historically not
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by leonroy 11y ago
I had no idea they made so little money based upon their (apparently) very unique tile rendering graphics technology. Their CEO and sales guys clearly aren't doing as good a job as their engineering department!
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by leonroy 11y ago
Considering the massive environmental cost of making these electronic devices I think it is absolutely in the consumer, the manufacturer and society's interests to ensure the products are not made more difficult to repair than they nee
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by leonroy 11y ago
Another related British company which has become very successful without anyone noticing is Imagination Technologies (formerly Videologic). They had a successful graphics card business during the 90s but with the introduction of 3D graphics
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by leonroy 11y ago
According to the link which Orf pasted below: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/ Amazon use ECC in all server instances including their GPU compute machines. If you're part of a company or university ask Intel
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by leonroy 11y ago
That's a little like comparing the classified pages to eBay. Both eBay and uber reduce friction between demand and supply and open up the size of the market far beyond its original scale. The fact that I can use uber anywhere in the UK
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by leonroy 11y ago
That is insane. And also one of the reasons I try to avoid being a system integrator whenever possible. It just takes up too much time - so much simpler having my friendly Supermicro distributor build my server for me!
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by leonroy 11y ago
I think the point is more that the current system of temping is being used to game employees to provide work without the company doling out any sort of benefits. Entitlements like sick pay, holidays, health etc. things we take for granted i
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by leonroy 11y ago
Without it Apple arguably would not be around today. In any case the people who purchased it certainly did care. We all build upon what came before. It's hard to predict the outcome of the Apple II not existing but it would at the very
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by leonroy 11y ago
Having had one of these old cameras I can tell you they are not immune from the ravages of age! They do need a good service periodically!
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by leonroy 11y ago
Aren't touch screens a bad idea when you want to be 100% sure you're hitting the right button or switch and don't want to make a mistake? Especially during take off or re-entry I'd imagine a touch screen would be super h
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by leonroy 11y ago
Didn't 'studies' proclaim the benefits of polyunsaturated fats like margarine over butter in the 70s and 80s and then go and reverse position recently? Considering the amount of 'bad' science about (poor quality stu
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by leonroy 11y ago
Unlike a hotel which has to maintain security staff, and often a hotel doctor aren't Airbnb shifting the burden of their own business costs onto society? In this case the mother and or police?
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by leonroy 11y ago
I spent years poring over his books, writings and using his beautiful products to build my own 'Amano' nature aquarium. A truly fascinating man, he was apparently seen as a bit unconventional and a rebel in his home country. I thi
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by leonroy 11y ago
Excellent article. I too find myself looking at ways I can reduce my reliance on Apple these days. For me it's getting burnt with Aperture, discoveryd causing all my Airplay speakers to constantly act up, $1000 Thunderbolt displays fli
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by leonroy 11y ago
In the UK at least Customer Service is superb. I honestly cannot rate the company enough. On the few occasions I've needed anything Dyson simply ask for the serial number and I describe the part. Next day or two and it arrives in the p
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by leonroy 11y ago
Contractors in the UK do ok though. Day rates for a good developer seem to be £400 or higher. Permies can earn as much as £80-90 for Technical Lead roles so it's not all bad. I grant you the initial salary for Junior Devs is appalling
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by leonroy 11y ago
This is incredible. It's painfully clear that the negative externalities of the electronics we manufacture are not being accounted for at all. I shudder to think what sort of long term environmental impact we shall face 15-20 years hen
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by leonroy 11y ago
> I sometimes find myself getting tired of technology and while I love software development, I often think about not doing it anymore. After a while it gets old constantly dealing with other people's decisions. I feel you here. I&#x
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by leonroy 11y ago
Considering the problems Twitter had in its earlier days just trying the basics performing well (which is a very hard problem, so not making a dig here) I'd imagine live hashtag filters for everyone would really slow down the service.
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by leonroy 12y ago
You'd be surprised how cheap or short sighted managers can sometimes be. I guess from their point of view they might see a developer as overly expensive and dogmatic. I've seen companies with 7-8 figures and reliant on just 3-4 de
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by leonroy 12y ago
My background sounds pretty similar to yours except I was lucky enough to land my first gig outta University at a startup in London. The work's always been varied and interesting and whilst it has its ups and downs (mainly downs of lat

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