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by mathieuh 8y ago
I feel like I have pretty good visual thinking (I can picture and walk around places I’ve been and imagined with no effort, although I don’t know if this is actually normal or subnormal since it‘s impossible to adequately convey how your mi
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by mathieuh 8y ago
It goes further than just things developed by GDS themselves, all government projects for which GDS is responsible (i.e. they conduct audits and assessments at alpha, beta and live) are also open source. Here's one I worked on: https:
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Surely if you model the non-emergent properties well enough the emergent properties will arise anyway
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Probably not, as far as I have read it is ketamine metabolites that have anti-depressant properties, not the experience itself, which only lasts about 40-60 minutes
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Where 'overused' means snorting like 12g a day, every day. I can't be bothered finding a source for this as I'm on my phone but I'm fairly sure it's somewhere in my comment history from the last time this came
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by mathieuh 8y ago
It really Just Works. We’ve used Skype previously and literally every group call had issues, 75% of the time requiring everyone to restart the app entirely. We’ve been using Zoom for a year now and have had zero issues. None at all.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Governments already do this, it's called quantitative easing
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by mathieuh 8y ago
> Date formatting - use type="date" so you get native mobile support for date entry. I do work for GDS and while we offer a date picker for date fields in the app I work on, we also have three day/month/year fields, b
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Highlighted Belfast and Aberdeen for me, and I'm raised in Belfast; Scots words are present in Hiberno- and Scottish-English so seems fair enough. Nothing highlighted in the south, which makes sense I only lived in Herts between the ag
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Sorry you got that impression, I mean modern humans, not any particular group with a diagnosed condition. Didn’t mean to single out people with aphasia or any other similar disorder at all.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I mean, the level of CGI and game engine textures we have is almost indistinguishable from real life. Perhaps because we have access to the super high-fidelity, interactive simulations, we've lost the practice of imagining so vividly?
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Can't edit my comment now that it has children (I think that's how the logic works) so upvoting you for visibility.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I'm shamefully unsure of how it works exactly, but it's possible they had subroutines that looked for phrases like "weather", "movement", "troops" etc. to try and speed up the brute force. https:&#x2
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I'm not sure of the prior history, which may affect my appreciation for it, but as far as I know, what happened with Colossus was that they were aware the cipher seeds changed each day, and they obtained an Enigma machine so they could
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by mathieuh 8y ago
For years it was a very permissive language that allowed you to do a lot very quickly but then with a lot of overhead to make sure things were correct. E.g., I've seen a payment management suite that was written using php traits, which
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Really you can write a DSL in almost any language. I've worked with Java and TypeScript Selenium testing suites that were so project specific with everything abstracted out to methods so much you could barely tell what language you wer
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Yes, I work both for a consulting company that takes contracts from the public and private sector, as well as run my own consulting company as a sole trader. They are by necessity entirely independent, I use personal hardware for personal s
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Thanks man, the debt is manageable, just about. I actually need to get on to the credit card companies and claim financial hardship, i'm just a bit wary of admitting addiction to people who will control my life in future. Are they goin
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Just preliminary phone interviews I get from recruiters on LinkedIn, I don't take them seriously. It's just always good to keep up with the industry. Thanks for the offer of talking, I feel pretty secure in myself right now (no de
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by mathieuh 8y ago
This is really good advice that I had managed not to think about before; the people who really helped me number in the double digits and there are well over 1,000 people working where I work, and I doubt they would all be as understanding.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I am loyal to them because they have been loyal to me, and monetary compensation is not top of my priorities, being treated right is. They knew what has happening, gave me almost two months to get over it (paid, I just didn't have to g
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I actually do really like work (wouldn’t say ‘love’), am 23 and have a consulting side-hustle which pays somewhere like 220% more per hour than my salaries job. I’m not doing this consulting work because I love software so much my day job i
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Huge natural resources (if you want new earth magnets it’s your only option etc,), huge moderately to well trained labour force, a smart foreign policy in building very close ties to their sometimes previously hostile neighbours That’s what
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In his second public speech, head of MI6 will warn of Russia’s growing threat(bbc.co.uk)
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by mathieuh 8y ago
OK I think I've just ended up reading OP in a such a way that it appeared OP was saying that primates evolved opposable thumbs because they needed opposable thumbs, as if evolving opposable thumbs suddenly resulted in primates thinki
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Evolution is not a directed process. It is essentially a load of small random mutations, and the random evolutions that improve the organism's fitness get passed on. So, yeah octopodes are really cool, but it's not correct to say
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I hate it. Constantly being pressured to move some stupid card or add some stupid tag so people’s graphs look nice. I just want to get work done, Scrum just adds overhead.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Tax avoidance I imagine if you registered your tax evasion scheme you would receive a knock at the door in short order
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by mathieuh 8y ago
The US legal system is based on English common law, which uses precedent to make decisions. Companies will submit test cases to be judged to inform whether what they're doing is likely to be found legal or illegal.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Picoseconds or at most a couple of nanoseconds

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