martijn_himself

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by martijn_himself 7y ago
Yep, and this kind of behaviour can't be fixed by having a formal company culture despite what many organisations think. Mentoring should be voluntary and should just be about helping someone else on the team.
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by martijn_himself 7y ago
It's a catch 22 situation because a lot of organisations expect folk to skill up but don't provide a formal structure to do so. I've worked on projects where I was helping out junior developers but criticised because it wasn
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by martijn_himself 7y ago
So the iPhone and iPad line-up look fine to me. Nothing exciting, but it doesn't have to be if you are upgrading every 2-3 years and you are a fan of Apple's tight integration of software and hardware. The most worrying is the s
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by martijn_himself 7y ago
In my experience Teams is often used alongside other 'channels of communication and collaboration' which makes it a burden more than anything else. Ever since it was introduced it seems more like an unfinished tech experiment (but
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
I don't own a Mac at the minute but I must say Monaco is hands down the best programming font I've worked with. Most of the fonts on this list don't even come close.
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. The other, perhaps equally worrying thing is that the App Store is becoming a graveyard of abandoned and unsupported (as in not running on newer versions of iOS) apps drowned out by apps and games designed to fle
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
Yes, that's what I thought. So are these pretty pictures visualisations of scalar fields? EDIT: or maybe like iso-lines (is that what you call them?) lines connecting points with the same value?
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
That sound really interesting, I'm sure there are lots of subtleties to working for the armed forces that wouldn't become apparent to an outside contractor that would come in even if it was for multiple years. Also these big contr
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
These projects are incredibly complex that fail for a variety of reasons, most of them to do with politics, conflicting requirements, too many stakeholders and decision makers, and too many people with little to no interest in or grasp of t
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
I have no familiarity with Java but I'm not surprised you are more productive with Python, Flask and Django (although you are conflating languages and frameworks to some extent here) versus C# and .NET Core's way of building API&#
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
It definitely would be I suppose. However the current gen HoloLens is not much more then a tech demo for use in a controlled environment, pretty much the opposite from the envisaged use case.
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
This seems to be a typical case of someone in charge of a budget having to spend it otherwise it will be allocated elsewhere. Either they have access to a completely improved device or expect a lot of devices being chucked out by aggravated
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
This is quite enlightening in that I'm very excited by the prospect of using C# in the browser without the downsides that came with Silverlight, but especially 1) seems to be a big negative! (I'm not sure I completely understand 2
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
SpaceX has delivered reusable rockets, which is one of the holy grails of space travel.
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
I agree with you on the smart watch and wireless earbuds (although perhaps the latter can hardly be called an achievement given the amount of resources Apple has). They also managed to all but ruin their computing product line, to the point
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
Sure, Apple still makes the best smartphones and will sustain its current momentum and cash flow for the foreseeable future. It has gone from a company built around its products to a company focusing on its shareholders with a CEO that is a
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
Google Maps must be one of the modern wonders of the world, it's still nothing short of breathtaking to zoom out of streetview in crowded London and then land somewhere on a country crossroads in remote Vietnam.
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by martijn_himself 8y ago
I think one of the things I like about Murakami is that his writing doesn't feel pretentious and is matter-of-factly, even though most of it is quite fantastical. I really can't bear pretentiousness in writing (or music).
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I really don't think that to be the case. Quality on OS X was a priority in its own right and fundamental to everything at Apple, not just a by-product of a strategy to get people to move from Windows. Of course all that changed when i
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
How appropriate. I was just watching Simon and Garfunkel perform 'The Boxer' in Central Park, 1981 on YouTube.
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I put in the comment and I then I thought you probably were :).
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I understand- and I am in two minds whether this would be a good thing or not- especially because of the control aspect of it.
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
My comment was slightly tongue in cheek as I get where he is coming from. I suppose it could be an optional feature, or a way to differentiate the product.
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I suppose so. I guess I'm just arguing this is a bizarre feature request. He is out on a run . Will it need a separate processor for image stabilization because he is running?
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
You could share it by talking about it.
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
A camera is the one thing I miss when I leave my iPhone at home and go for a run. I have no idea how a camera could work ergonomically on a watch. Maybe it’s just not feasible. But it is mildly frustrating when I’m out on a run and see som
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I'm more than happy to pay £1k for the iPhone X if it docks and I'm able to use it as a Mac Mini running MacOS. It should be powerful enough.
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I agree. I also read somewhere that talking about past behaviors (e.g. how you solved a complex issue) is the best indicator for competency (I can't back that up with sources sorry). On a side note I also worked with RFID readers, they
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by martijn_himself 9y ago
I suppose that is fair enough, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it being one of the ways in which companies assess potential candidates. From my recent experience (and anecdotal evidence) it seemed it was becoming a deal

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