mikej1000

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by mikej1000 3y ago
I think they're a problem in universities too. I'm sure I've seen research that suggests students in lectures who take notes on paper get better grades that students who use laptops in lectures.
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Ask HN: Burner Phone for China?
3 points by mikej1000 3y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Simple apprenticeship vacancy site built with NextJS(sheffieldapprenticeships.com)
1 points by mikej1000 3y ago|1 comments
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by mikej1000 3y ago
The UK gov has a database of all apprenticeship vacancies in England (think Wales & Scotland have something similar). You can get the vacancies via an API. I built the site to get all the vacancies for Sheffield. Local branding matters
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by mikej1000 4y ago
Disable JavaScript to read Telegraph articles behind paywall.
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Life on Mars(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mikej1000 4y ago|3 comments
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by mikej1000 4y ago
Always thought the pizzas were a bit small.
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by mikej1000 4y ago
Try learning Japanese at 55. It’s the same. I was in an evening class with other students who were mostly in their 20s. The age thing was really obvious. All the older students struggled. I kind of thought I could be super organised, come u
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by mikej1000 5y ago
Reminds me of an article about the code that Neil Ferguson's Imperial College team used to model covid. Though I think the Imperial code sounded worse.
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by mikej1000 5y ago
What a miserable list. The ordinary Brits I know - friends and coworkers - are kind, hardworking and tolerant. That includes the people I know who voted for Brexit. And the British seaside is great - go to Scarborough for a day in the summe
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by mikej1000 5y ago
University of Sheffield is big, but £30m stills sounds like a lot to spend on a student management system. I believe the SITS system is written in uniface - "You're building all these views and processes and you get all of the pro
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£30m Sheffield University Classic IT Disaster(theregister.com)
2 points by mikej1000 5y ago|2 comments