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by mb_72 9y ago
'Nothing works' is not an exaggeration? This is purely irrational, not to mention I don't experience any of those issues you mention, nor other ones that take more than a tiny fraction of my development time (eg shutting down
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by mb_72 9y ago
"There is just ZERO quality on the platform and I'm done with it." This is clearly an exaggeration, as is "Nothing on windows works properly for months if not years.". If 'nothing' works, then how do devel
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by mb_72 9y ago
Very interesting, however as comfortable as I am after 20+ years with some degree of coding in front of others (pair programming, fixing something with the boss breathing down my neck) I couldn't imagine doing this as strangers watch o
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by mb_72 9y ago
One can still have a ritual for digital music, and - having grown up using cassettes and vinyl and getting very over the time and hassle needed to maintain the media or the playing equipment - I'm more than happy having an option of a
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by mb_72 9y ago
Interesting. I prefer to eat a home-made lunch at my desk or chilling outside with co-workers for 15-20m, then leave work 45m early. This reduces time wasted on commuting by avoiding peak hour and gets me home by around 4:30pm (after a 7:10
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by mb_72 9y ago
I think it's much more likely he was smuggling vinyl, unless the smuggling was also done via a time machine, but I get your point! My wife (Estonian) had an uncle who was a respected yachtsman during the Soviet occupation, and who inva
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by mb_72 9y ago
"So, just because a guy has a bad reference it does not mean that he's necessarily bad." This is so true. Years ago I was brought into a company specifically to improve their software quality process, but without being aware
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by mb_72 9y ago
Me too, but doesn't it seem as though 'the game' requires a modern CEO to be super-visible, to have their face everywhere, and to be 'seen to be taking action' as well as maybe actually taking action?
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by mb_72 9y ago
I didn't cheat once through a CS degree gained in the early 90's (as my sometimes shabby, sometimes ok results would show), but I was made hard to think about whether a certain incident was cheating or not. One of my final year su
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by mb_72 9y ago
"...have some other animal eat the beans and shit them out." Sounds like something I can do at home myself then.
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by mb_72 9y ago
More good news from the MS / Xamarin camp. A few years ago I 'bet the farm' on using Xamarin for Mac to develop a Mac version of our PC application (with shared code in a PCL); since that time Xamarin (and then MS/Xamari
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by mb_72 9y ago
I think it's a matter of finding an industry that is conservative or for which the underlying business structures / calculations don't change. Myself, I've been working on real estate feasibility analysis software for 12
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by mb_72 9y ago
I am not American, but when Trump was elected and made attacks on the media it was the 'last straw' and I took out a NYT digital sub, thinking it might help in some small way. The AUD6.40 per month is terrific value, and I often c
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by mb_72 10y ago
Estonia has made it much easier for selected local start-ups to hire from outside the EU: http://www.startupestonia.ee/visa/estonian-startups Might be worth checking with a selection of these companies to see if they h
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by mb_72 10y ago
I'm not sure, but it seems to work for every sci-fi / futuristic TV show or movie I can think of. If it helps accelerate our society to a more advanced state I will immediately commit to wearing a the same-design jumpsuit until th
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by mb_72 10y ago
Wolfe is a pseduo-scientific salesman of the worst kind; I would seek alternative sources of information to back up anything he says or writes: http://ascienceenthusiast.com/the-david-avocado-wolfe-effect...
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by mb_72 10y ago
Overseas purchasers willing to pay far above market rates are partly responsible, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. The government department responsible for making sure foreign investment rules are followed are underfunded and quite inef
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by mb_72 10y ago
As an Australian user of the TRS-80 Color Computer I was always disappointed the artificating technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors ... didn't work on PAL so I never got to see all the
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by mb_72 10y ago
Indeed; the 'simulation universe' possibility I find (oddly I know!) comforting, and this has provided me with a way of understanding to some degree the comfort offered by religion to many people, while at the same time I still ca
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by mb_72 10y ago
I have experience as a tax payer in Estonia (employee only) and Australia (employee and business owner). In Estonia I login to my bank with my citizens ID card, click through a few screens ... and my tax return is done. All the financial in
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by mb_72 10y ago
As a 'traditional musician' (i.e. I play a couple of instruments, read music, jam and write songs with real humans etc), I used to think this way, however actual 'good' club music takes a lot of time to produce in terms
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by mb_72 10y ago
Perhaps you are right - my 'problem' is that my parents are of an age were they studied Latin at High School, and as a result some of their education rubbed off on me; I no longer remember where I learned 'NB' (and other
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by mb_72 10y ago
Perhaps NB is more of a European thing? I see it here often, but never did once in Australia. That said, I don't consider NB close to being 'obscure'.
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by mb_72 10y ago
> ORMs make porting queries to another project that needs to use the same database difficult. Wouldn't you have written a shared library through which both projects access the same database? I know SQL pretty well (20+ years experie
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by mb_72 10y ago
Nostalgia sells, yet another 'that digital crap' pedal may not. And many, many guitar players are dead keen on recreating classic tones of the 60's and 70's with period-authentic designs.
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by mb_72 10y ago
What experience do you have with using Microsoft products and resultant mental health issues? I'm guessing none, and it's just another throw-away remark that is anti-Microsoft, ignorant of the interesting and - in my experience at
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by mb_72 10y ago
QLM, for both the OSX and PC versions of our product. QLM is web-based, but also handles off-line licensing via a generated file. Our product can be used in demo mode (no saving, limited editing, reports printed with a 'demo' wate
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by mb_72 10y ago
I don't really follow the news where I live (Estonia) but I do check the news and weather for my Australian hometown daily. Why? So I can communicate with my parents about their garden and thoughts on local (to them) matters. It really
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by mb_72 10y ago
Yep, I've actually been working mostly from home for about 8 years now. I agree this would solve a lot of the 'problems'.
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by mb_72 10y ago
Thanks - I'd already made a list of stuff like that to expand my 'profile'. One thing I should have noted more clearly is that I'm not in the USA. However, the bulk of what you say still applies independent of location.

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