memetherapy

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by memetherapy 6y ago
None of these things has anything to do with agile, they are all from scrum. Scrum is not agile as it is the very definition of prioritizing processes and tools over individuals and interactions. If you want to learn about scrum, you have a
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by memetherapy 6y ago
No, because beggars can't be choosers right? And the best thing to do to a person when they are at their absolute worst is to take away their last scrap of autonomy. I'm sorry, in future I will humbly accept the advice of the self
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Nope I'm from the UK but we have a system that is closer to the American then the Swiss. There are services out there but they're incredibly poorly funded.
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by memetherapy 6y ago
As someone who's been homeless (and didn't have a drink or drug problem thanks) please fuck off. A night in a shelter costs money. Clothes which regularly get stolen cost money. Going to the bathroom costs money. Having a shower c
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by memetherapy 6y ago
A "halo" market segment for mac books is video and photography professionals who make extremely heavy use of SD cards. Appealing to this group (who are also willing to pay a premium) has always been a feature of macs. Devs, not so
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Yeah, I find this a huge problem especially with junior devs (by which I mean those within the first five or so years of their career. When you have people calling themselves senior devs after six months the job title has become meaningless
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by memetherapy 6y ago
The open university in the UK was founded in 1969 and has been offering full distance learning degrees ever since in large numbers of subjects. It uses a mix of professionally produced video content (so usually not just a video of a lecture
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Yeah that was my experience at university in the UK (well you put it in your bag and got a ticket like at a cloakroom) and that was in 2008 so pre smartphones being common amongst students. If university's or schools are allowing kids
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by memetherapy 6y ago
I know there's lots of research papers out there talking about it but do you know if today's commercial microfluidics "lab on chip" devices use fluidics logic gates or is this still something that is still confined to ac
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Forget older employees, just employees. And I've seen enough poor security practices by 20 somethings at tech firms to have any faith in any user. Favourite example I've seen in several companies including one doing extremely sens
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Well China is obviously a bigger threat than the USSR now because the USSR hasn't existed for about 30 years. And while China may threaten western, or rather US hegemony it isn't an existential threat to the USA or EU in that Chin
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Because there is little to no benefit to the EU or USA to challenging the CCP, be it because of their treatment of a few billionaires or millions of Uighers. Unlike the Soviet Union China doesn't represent an existential threat to the
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Thanks for the response, really interesting to see how this stuff is used.
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Genuine question from someone from an entirely different world - why on earth do you have 10 billion log entries? What is in them and do you ever do anything with them that requires you to store so much data rather than just a representativ
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by memetherapy 6y ago
This change is particularly insane. If you are an overseas business that sells goods that cost £135 or below (per consignment) you have to register for VAT in the UK. If you sell goods that cost more than £135 you don't however because
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by memetherapy 6y ago
I'm afraid you have it backwards if you think the UK government were "desperate to negotiate everything in one go". "Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" was a core principle of the EU negotiating guideline
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by memetherapy 6y ago
The negotiators had 11 months not "years". The UK left the UK on 31st January 2020 and negotiations on this agreement didn't start (and couldn't legally begin) until then. The negotiations around the "withdrawal agr
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by memetherapy 6y ago
What seems to be missing from this discussion is that this agreement was negotiated mind bogglingly quickly (9 months as opposed to the multi year / decade long process) and hasn't undergone the usual process of scrubbing which is
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. The UK has been intentionally deindustrialising since the 1980s and has essentially lost most of its industrial capability already. What remains is essentially assembly and finishing (i.e. our car manuf
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by memetherapy 6y ago
The problem with this is that you then have to drive that 8k, or multiple 8k, monitors which is a problem if you're doing anything visually complex. As someone who straddles the programming / visual arts world (I write plugins for
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by memetherapy 6y ago
One thing that surprised me as a latecomer to software development coming from a visual arts background is how much choice of technology and working practices are purely fashion driven. The thing about fashion is that the way if develops is
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by memetherapy 6y ago
That puts you just below the top 10% of earners in the UK, which is not exactly cheap to live in so I would define that as very good salary. You have to remember that a) FAANGS have insane salaries not seen anywhere else but the price you p
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by memetherapy 6y ago
The quest 2 is pretty much a revelation. Untethered, light, cheap, high quality display and inside out tracking and connects wirelessly to a gaming PC allowing you to play virtually any title if you pay $15 for vrdesktop. Obviously you have
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Ediscovery software, and I used a bespoke solution in that job, takes a job that can take weeks or months the and makes it possible to do it in days. Or y'know, you could use a filing system and do it in minutes?
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Even old draughty homes suffer really badly from damp and mold due to condensation once you get down below a certain temperature for sustained periods. I grew up without central heating (Im 40 and this isn't that unusual for a lot of t
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by memetherapy 6y ago
It does feel entertaining to read the comments from people who have so obviously never worked for a large (or old) organisation doing an admin related job who think that spotlight or fuzzy search will save them. In a previous job I had to
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by memetherapy 6y ago
The consensus amongst the three English teachers I asked was that it should be "or else" or "otherwise" and that it's probably ungrammatical, although none of them could explain why. The one who is also an actor sai
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by memetherapy 6y ago
Hmmm, thinking about my dialect of English (Lancastrian) I can certainly say else without an or and it doesn't sound unnatural to my ears. Something like "if you're hungry now then I can make you a sandwich, else we'll e