mattdlondon

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by mattdlondon 11y ago
I found the intense focus music (and the "white noise"/hissing in it) to be really, really grating and kinda put me on-edge while listening. I also found the repetitiveness/predictability of the rhythm to be troubling -
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
I have been doing something similar for a couple of years. My printer can scan to a shared drive on my home LAN, saving files as PDFs. These are then uploaded Google Drive where everything else happens automatically (e.g. if you search for
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
Not sure if that was bait or not, but you can get normal (i.e. not google glass) lens + frames for less than £10 delivered in the UK from many different online retailers. The quality is not amazing - they probably won't last more than
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
Just a spin on this: as a java developer that recently started doing a lot of python, what has really annoyed me (apart from the utterly woeful IDE functionality compared to typed languages) is the extra "boiler plate" thinking yo
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
You can ask for them to provide "extra detail" over email outside of the call as you think that question may need some detailed thought/extra checks etc.
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
Shameless self promotion for something I threw together ages ago and may be implemented in a better way these days. https://github.com/matt1/doc.js So it uses "doc" instead of "$" but feel free to f
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
The "back to their roots" thing inspired this useful reference website: http://standardjavascript.info
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
How is this Google's fault? Google's name is used in the article title, but then it is basically not mentioned again apart from in a list of equally well-known companies?
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by mattdlondon 11y ago
For every person that "makes it", there are probably a million or two who do not. Find your passion, do the best you can, learn, improve your skills and you might get lucky one day or just live a good life. Money is nice but its
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
Agreed - what struck me with that site is that all the CVs had photos of the applicants. For anyone applying to where I work please please please do not include a photo because I instantly know your age & ethnicity - things that I am no
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
Yep - you offer up a sacrificial bikeshed/duck for management to meddle with, whilst the important stuff is left alone. Could be one person or a committee/group - its the same thing.
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
It is called bikeshedding. People have been using "bike sheds" in software development for years to get project managers off their back about the important stuff.
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
The share link doesn't work!
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
1) Find a niche area of interest and build a web site and put AdSense ads on it 2) Promote the website a bit 3) Profit. The trick is working out what your niche is that hadn't already been done by someone else. I lucked out with some w
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by mattdlondon 12y ago
About these super tablets... "...least a 13” screen, 64 bit processor, 2GB of RAM, 256GB drive, a real keyboard, an actual file system, and an improved operating system with windowing and true multitasking capability..." They&#x27
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Ask HN – critique my HTML5-flex based response grid CSS
1 points by mattdlondon 12y ago|0 comments
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Supercomputer-generated weather animation(earth.nullschool.net)
1 points by mattdlondon 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattdlondon 13y ago
I was previously an IBMer (not US based) until I left a couple of years ago, and I know someone very close to me who has just been offered redundancy from IBM (also not US based). I appreciate the company's responsibilities are to the