makerofthings

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by makerofthings 4y ago
In the uk, we realised it was the people and not the guns. We also saw that you can’t stop people being unreliable and dangerous, but we can get rid of the guns. We did, and we’re better for it.
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I was getting a bit bored of c++ a few years ago and learned Haskell http://www.learnyouahaskell.com/ I used Haskell stack at the time and it was zero hassle to get coding. I did nothing practical, learned a lot and had a g
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I had European Citizenship, it was taken away, I did not want this to happen. This was sickening to many of us. I don't believe there is anything there that is incorrect? They did lie. They lied often and obviously. Go look up the Brex
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by makerofthings 4y ago
Our European citizenship, something many of us were proud of, was taken away against our will after a misleading campaign and a badly run referendum full of lies. Brexit has turned out incredibly badly. I understand why this was sickening,
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I love this idea, I think it’s going to make Monday easier. I wonder how much this is two types of people and how much it’s two ways of working that different people got used to.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
You need to pay a license for watching TV programs at the same time they are being broadcast on a channel or for using iplayer. I have a TV and watch Netflix, Disney+ etc. and don’t need a license.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I use Google. It’s still the best. Overdoing it a bit on the ads, but they’re pretty easy to ignore.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
Quit, take severance , look for a job or don’t quit and look for a job. Guess it depends how fast you think you can get a new job.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
The other book that came with the machine has a quote that I think kicked off my career as an engineer - "Now that you have set up the computer, you will want to use it. The rest of this booklet tells you how to do that; but in your im
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I have a copy of this on a shelf by my desk. From Chapter 1 - "Whatever else you do, keep using the computer. If you have the question “what does it do if I tell it such and such?” then the answer is easy: type it in and see. Whenever
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I had to wear a shirt and tie to work. An analyst programmer would turn the requirements into a written spec, I would write the code and someone else would write the tests. We had no internet, so if I couldn't work it out on my own or
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by makerofthings 4y ago
Well that wiki page was a wild ride. I don't completely see how it relates, but it was worth reading. I will think about this next time I see complaining on slack about perks being removed :)
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I like programming puzzles, I have done a lot of leetcode for fun. I can do any of them correctly given a few hours and a cup of tea to think it over. I still failed an interview for a FAANG because of the coding test. Even though I've
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by makerofthings 4y ago
Religion isn't like race or disability, you can change it if you want to. It's a set of ideas and ideas can be challenged. I think it would be pretty rude to start criticizing someone's religion unprompted, but if they start
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I have a theory. I see intelligence as existing on a scale. For any task, you need to be at or beyond a certain point on that scale. At some point on that scale lies the ability to question what you’re doing and maybe not want to do it. I t
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I’ve been enjoying gopher sites since all the recent mentions on here. It’s really fun, no images, no JS no BS.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
When I was 25 I could scan a 5000 line file in a few minutes and start making changes. I’m now a lot older than that. It takes me a few days to get completely happy with a file of that size and start making changes. When I was 25, I had a s
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by makerofthings 4y ago
DALL-E is way better than me. Sure, I can count past four and I know what letters are, but I can’t draw a wizard koala as good as that. Also, there is criticism of how it draws faces, but it’s way better than I am.
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I started buying a house 15 years ago. I have moved twice since and now live in a nice house that I have paid off fully, I overpaid as much as possible. Maintainance is easy. Now and then something breaks and I pay someone to fix it. This h
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by makerofthings 4y ago
The “correct” colour mixing example looks a little better, but only a little bit. The others, I don’t see a problem(I have m1 MBP, Firefox). I don’t think any of this would really affect my browsing experience one way or the other…
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Yes, seriously, and I have thought about this a lot. I appreciate it’s not a popular position and I’m not likely to win any debates on the topic. If a computer is voluntarily connected to the internet then it’s there to explore and there sh
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I still disagree. Those other systems are not the web. If i can look at a url and get your secret data, that’s on you. I think the other reply who gave the analogy of leaving the blinds open was a better one than mine. [ and just off-topic
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I’ve heard the “leaving your door open” thing before and I don’t think that’s a good analogy here. That’s not how the internet works. I send requests to other machines and ask them for stuff and whether they respond or not is on them. That
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by makerofthings 4y ago
I'm assuming "nm" in this article is Nautical Miles(Nm). I read it as nanometers(nm) at first and was a lot more impressed with the technology!
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by makerofthings 5y ago
I learned Haskell because I love programming and it was fun. If you enjoyed learning F# then your time was not wasted :)
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I would love a job writing Haskell but any of the jobs I’ve seen would involve a 6 figure pay cut. Haskell is such a joy to work with.
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I also have applications in the AppStore (x2). I knew what I was getting into when I built them. Apple are very clear about their pricing and value. If I had to drop either my iOS or Android apps then I would drop the Android apps in a hear
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by makerofthings 5y ago
I think this is great, too. I just wish all the folk on hackernews that want to trash what apple have built would just go buy an Android phone and leave it alone. If you don’t like the AppStore, don’t buy an iPhone.
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by makerofthings 5y ago
It was a bit of a blanket statement from me, I’m sure people do survive in good companies, but this is a genuine observation. I’ve never been anywhere near the bottom of the ranking. So I have, over the years, been dragged into a lot of con
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It’s how you fire people in tech companies. You put them on a PiP, give them some tasks to do and then fire them when they don’t deliver. Obviously nobody survives the PiP because for an engineer not on a pip, taking 9 weeks on an 8 week pr

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