nickmyersdt

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by nickmyersdt 4y ago
Microsoft Money. Whilst other products do similar things in terms of tracking accounts, I miss the forecast graph that would model how your money would perform over time. Google Reader. I can't stand video or audio, and strongly prefe
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by nickmyersdt 4y ago
You are focusing too much on things that are external to you and do not directly affect you. Life has always been hard for most people most of the time. There is nothing about the premise of existence that promises it will be easy or comfo
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by nickmyersdt 4y ago
See also: Smart Motorways in the UK. Otherwise known as "how can we funnel billions of pounds into the construction industry for zero or negative benefits to tax payers" https://www.electropages.com/blog/2022
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I bought 30 Lenovo and Dell laptops for new starters at our business and have definitely found that, over the last two years, both present more issues than I would have expected from either. We've stopped buying Lenovo because of the
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I only feel bad that life is a lottery and our global and local economies are rigged to improve the lives of winners whilst grinding the life out of losers.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I'll be honest. You can know bits of front end engineering and get a front end engineer job without knowing it all (got to start somewhere). I think that you'll find newer entrants to the field argue you don't need CSS (or H
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
https://github.com/features/copilot/signup
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Not a book but I enjoy https://www.moesif.com/blog/
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
But how will marketing determine the effectiveness of their efforts if I don't "just add a single line of code" for every social media company to our website? </sarcasm>
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I like mindmeister, I have used it for a long time.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I think because it doesn't make anything better. It just provides alternative ways (often much poorer) to do things. Disruption comes when a new technology solves a real problem/need that everyone has.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Can you not do something with that time that enables your business to grow and pay you more?
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
My calendar for blocking out time in big enough chunks to get things done and not feel stressed.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
For themselves, with very high day rates, and impressive networks of contacts.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
No. I don't lie online or IRL. The world has enough dishonesty, and I don't feel the need to partake or receive interaction online. I'll occasionally ask a question or answer one, but it's more of an idle interest. I ge
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
And accordingly the glorious sunny weather that has been present for the last week has vanished with promise of rain.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Java was created by Sun Microsystems. SQL was created by IBM. C# was created by Microsoft. I don't know if your question was intended to mean "commercially successful" or if by commercially-backed you may have meant "clo
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I work in a way that requires me to focus for periods of time. I find that booking a time that is mutually convenient (even for a short conversation) is preferable to possibly interrupting or being interrupted. It means I can give my full a
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Being 25% over budget when the programme is already extortionately expensive compared to similar infrastructure projects in other countries. And each time we do "another one" it's even more expensive than the last. There is
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
If anyone knows an identity solution that supports bilateral and multilateral saml (federation of identity providers), automatic retrieval of metadata/certs, Oauth, Oidc, group rules, IDP discovery (routing to IDP based on identifier),
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Whilst the names may change, there have always been threats and attacks on democracy, wealth, welfare and sovereignty for as long as history records. Typically with the aim of shifting power from one group to another. The world isn't g
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I wonder whether this will drive smaller companies out of business, given how important software is in modern businesses, when hiring/retaining engineers becomes so expensive that business models fail or only juniors can be hired, whic
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Surely the reason is capitalism? If you make every person compete for lining their own pockets in order to determine their quality of life, every channel available will be exploited and every effort will scale as far as that channel will al
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Ask HN: HTML5 video with EME – is it possible to detect CDM blackout?
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Correct link is https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/I-write-code-100-hours-a-week
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I don't have any written or direct evidence, however I worked for a public service broadcaster, who regularly dealt with Apple and Netflix, and the feedback from both was that star-rankings were driving a lot of royalty payments and us
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
A capitalist one.
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I didn't say it was reason for a daily meeting. If you don't find you need them, don't do them. Just agree with your team they are unnecessary. The teams I have worked with have always found it helpful to be able to adjust
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
I agree on the teacher point. There are some teachers that really care about unleashing genius, creativity and curiosity. There are some that just want the paycheck each month. And a scale in between. I question the "system" a
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by nickmyersdt 5y ago
Yeah, I think there are too many industries that take more than they give, however they prey on human weaknesses. The global logistics thing is interesting as arguably globalisation is the leading cause of destruction to planet Earth.

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