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by oakesm9 9y ago
I was eating out (in the UK) with a large group earlier today and we split the bill between 13 happily. Didn't take too long with contactless cards either.
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by oakesm9 9y ago
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, in that order is what you should aim for. It still takes a lot of energy to recycle something and much less to reuse it as is or not use it in the first place
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by oakesm9 9y ago
The countdown is only shown when the pedestrian crossing is on green. Drivers don't get a countdown on their green signal. Most also have a plastic shield around the countdown so you can't see it from where the driver is sitting t
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by oakesm9 9y ago
Whoops! Sorry, I missed that one
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‘I’m a creep’: Tech boss Dave McClure resigns after harassment claims(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by oakesm9 9y ago|2 comments
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by oakesm9 9y ago
I generally type with just 2 fingers on each hand and my touch typing skills are pretty terrible. I've been programming professionally for about 6 years and overall I would consider myself a fast developer. In my experience, you spent
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React Native Monthly #1(facebook.github.io)
3 points by oakesm9 9y ago|3 comments
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by oakesm9 9y ago
And the massive technical undertaking of making the Android framework work with a none Java interoperable language? Kotlin was already mostly working with Android thanks to a community effort. This announcement just gives it Google's b
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by oakesm9 9y ago
You'd need to rewrite Swift to run on the Android VM (a big undertaking) or fork the Android frameworks to work well with Swift. That's a much bigger undertaking than supporting a language which was created for the JVM and specifi
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by oakesm9 10y ago
Not in terms of it being a breaking change. It's meant to be a big speed improvement but the API is largely the same I believe.
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I meant is it really a free market when Intuit needs to pay off the government through lobbying to stop them making tax filing simpler so they can keep their market.
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by oakesm9 10y ago
In the UK the majority of people do absolutely nothing. Your wage slip says how much tax you've paid each month (through the PAYE system) and then at the end of the tax year your company sends you a P60 form ( https://www.gov
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by oakesm9 10y ago
Is it really a free market if you need to stop one party (the government) doing something to keep your market?
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by oakesm9 10y ago
Just to note, React Native doesn't compile Javascript to native code. It uses Javascript running in a Javascript engine (JavascriptCore usually) to control native views through a bridge. You're still running Javascript on user&#x2
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by oakesm9 10y ago
From speaking to other EU nationals who've made their home in the UK it's more feeling like they're no longer welcome than the legal burden which is making them think about leaving.
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by oakesm9 10y ago
Am I right in thinking that these are completely separate to the Instagram stories?
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I think it comes from the Ruby community influence where the language and tools aim to read like natural language.
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Why not release them when they make sense as a whole?
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I worked on a medium sized RN app for both Android and iOS which dealt with the camera, photos and the file system. It was 99.98% the same with only 50 lines of _my_ code difference between then (this obviously excludes framework and librar
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I think you're ready to read this: https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.zbmt4tp7... ;-)
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by oakesm9 10y ago
That's partly true, however as someone who uses React Native with multiple production apps, having "real" native experience is invaluable when using React Native. To create a good RN app you need to know how the system works
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I wasn't expecting that to be as nice looks as it is. I've signed up for early access. Do you have a timeframe for when it will be available?
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I think it's likely that people who use Trello appreciate the simplicity and Atlassian aren't exactly known for creating simple software (speaking as a past Jira user/admin). I had the same feeling of "oh well, what else
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Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council(independent.co.uk)
3 points by oakesm9 10y ago|1 comments
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by oakesm9 10y ago
It's on a different scale, but in the UK the BBC decided to move a lot of their operations out of London. This was party done as a political move to spread the jobs out from the south east of the UK to the north of England, which is in
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by oakesm9 10y ago
Sounds like the Motorola Atrix 4G from way back: http://img-3.newatlas.com/motorola-atrix-4g.jpg?auto=format%...
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by oakesm9 10y ago
For me, it's a symptom of open plan offices. If you need to work together with someone it's too distracting to do it at your desk right next to everyone else, therefore, you need to go to a small meeting room. If you only had a de
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by oakesm9 10y ago
> Because you are not a unique and special snowflake. If you regularly go to /r/The_Donald, it says something specific about your politics (probably). Same for /r/LateStageCapitalism or /r/trees. It might no
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by oakesm9 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has experience with both .net and Swift communities about the differences and similarities in how the projects are run.
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by oakesm9 10y ago
The same could be said if you refuse to do the work and it's given to any other person who doesn't morally object (off-shore or otherwise).

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