mickeyp

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by mickeyp 13y ago
Hello, I run the blog mastering emacs - please let me know if there are any articles you want me to cover.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
This kind of thing does indeed happen with alarming frequency. I used to work for a transport consultancy and we had a lot of jetsam left over from when that particular transport industry was government-owned, and those guys... well, we nev
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by mickeyp 13y ago
That takes me back! I still remember the sound of inserting the floppy disk and the disk controller reading from it... nostalgia.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
It's missing a lot of public toilets and, in any event, McDonalds toilets are free and all over the place :-)
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by mickeyp 13y ago
You don't change behaviour like that once it's been introduced. That will just break existing code in very subtle ways. There's plenty of code out there that rely on default values being assigned a mutable value and changing
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by mickeyp 13y ago
I love my little Boxee v1 box. I may be a developer and I may love technology, but I utterly despise anything remotely related to hi-fi, and I want my stuff as plug-and-play as possible. My supposed "SmartTV" from Samsung sucked (
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by mickeyp 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - London, on-site / remote Jack-of-all-trades backend Python developer with a wide gamut of experience doing backend development work. Past work include: enterprise-scale release management systems; large-scale ETL and web
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by mickeyp 13y ago
LinkedIn would be another excellent choice.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Web Rings were amazing though; found a great site about X-Files plot theories? -- no problem, chances are you'd find more that were like that by following the web ring. We lost something back then that, even today, we never really got
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Yeah but that's true of most things that're not obfuscated. I used to use the Amiga Action Replay on my Amiga to alter memory on the fly in games like that.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Those games (Frontier Elite and First Encounters included) had loaaads of bugs like that. Another one in FE had you put in passenger holds, fill them with passengers, then sell the holds -- this would obviously not work as you had to evict
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by mickeyp 14y ago
MS Access is actually a very very useful piece of kit; it's a surprisingly good database considering its limitations, and it's infinitely better than keeping your data with your business logic in an excel spreadsheet. ... Why people hate on
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by mickeyp 14y ago
I remember building pseudo-blog-like thing with an ISAPI web application in Delphi with WebSnap back in... 2001? Simply by dragging and dropping components and filling in a few things like table names and columns. Understand, that doesn't t
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Sorry but lxml with ETree will handle any amount of broken html you throw at it. Add in XPath and I find lxml to be a far superior, and more memory efficent, option. Source: former professional web scraper.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Or if you're an Emacs user you can use sqlplus.el, a very nice wrapper around SQL*Plus.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Even if you're not an Emacs guy you may want to consider using it with the sqlplus.el module. It adds a nice table formatter and other features to make SQL*Plus more palatable.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
I think the main issue has always been that "The Business" -- that nebulous, supposedly all-knowing corporate entity -- never wanted their employees to rely on a spreadsheets stuck on somebody's shared network drive. The issue has never bee
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Excel and Word do have a lot of these "paper trail" functionalities you talk about; in fact, Excel has amazing database support thanks to ODBC as well -- you can easily separate your business logic from your data by using Access and Excel t
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by mickeyp 14y ago
I don't think he means liable in the literal sense but in a figurative way: that permanent employee might lose out on a bonus, raise or future greenfield projects if they screw up. A consultant or contractor might not get their contract ren
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Really? That's good to know. Glad to know the salaries are higher.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
The other issue with Cambridge is that they think they can get away with paying people -- senior people -- £35,000 a year\ . Even if you hate London you're better off contracting in the midlands where you can probably get £350/day if you're
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Understand the key word here being "placements" whereas we were talking about a, sadly, today, niche skill: low-level programming. Generally finance companies are exceptionally picky and the only way to get a job in finance is to have worke
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Well if we're talking about grads then yeah you're going to end up with programming newbies -- whether it's the right thing for CS programmes to churn out academics and not developers is a different discussion altogether -- but there's plen
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Actually, you know, you just need #1 if you're hiring people who aren't in their early 20s, or something. Most "help us solve hard problems!" technology firms/startups in London simply don't pay that well, and that makes it hard to attract
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Well, low-level roles are harder to come by, for one, but they also tend not to pay terribly well; especially as they're competing against Finance in London, which does. Here's my top tip for attracting amazing candidates: pay them a lot of
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by mickeyp 14y ago
I see you're in London; the only way to fly as a developer in Finance not on a profit share or massive front office bonus scheme with the trading desks is to be a contractor.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
Hedge funds tend to be a lot more blue chip and technology-driven than IBs. IBs are usually filled with a lot of legacy crud -- some of it well-written, a lot of it.. not so much -- and a completely different culture as the earlier poster c
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by mickeyp 14y ago
I use an application that detects where I am and turns things off and on as required. Much better than waving your phone at a sticker.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
It certainly is a classic book. That book has changed more lives than Kant ever had. Everyone should read it, especially people with un/under-developed social skills. It's that great.
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by mickeyp 14y ago
It's different from a mouse, but the basics should work reasonably well; at least, they did when I used to own a laptop which was admittedly a while ago.

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