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by ollysb 12y ago
This would actually make a lot of sense if you could detect when a call came off hold. A small pool of operators could deal with calls as soon as the operator on the other end becomes available.
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by ollysb 12y ago
I can't recommend the discussion between Kent Beck, David Hansson and Martin Fowler enough. They look at how and where it should be used and in particular discuss their approach to mocking which I feel is an often misunderstood tool. P
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by ollysb 12y ago
Continuous refactoring is really the only way to maintain a good time-to-market for new features. Unfortunately by the time your time-to-market suffers you've probably already accrued a substantial level of technical debt and it requir
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by ollysb 12y ago
I think the distinction is a straw man really. Changing the semantics of interfaces is generally a bad idea once you have code depending on them whether it be within your application or a library. Where open/closed falls down is that i
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by ollysb 12y ago
I always struggled to understand the appeal of the open/closed principle. "The idea was that once completed, the implementation of a class could only be modified to correct errors; new or changed features would require that a diff
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by ollysb 12y ago
Which authors would you recommend(for sci-fi)?
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by ollysb 12y ago
As a newly diagnosed type 2 I have to take objection to your classification of all type 2s as having the condition due to bad lifestyle choices. Admittedly I did share your view point until I was diagnosed, I always assumed it was fried chi
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'In five years you’ll see exoskeletons on the building site'(theguardian.com)
5 points by ollysb 12y ago|0 comments
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by ollysb 12y ago
The only way for legal sales to disrupt the existing blackmarket is to allow the new legal stores to compete on equal terms: very low taxes and allow them to deliver. Once the legal sales have reached a sufficient level of penetration then
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by ollysb 12y ago
My macbook pro(late 2013) consistently fails to connect to the wifi on it's first attempt and never connects in under 20seconds. It was a similar story on my previous macbook air as well. Note this is consistent with different laptops,
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by ollysb 12y ago
Couldn't you order a car replete with everything you needed? There are lot's of parents on the roads, presumably there's a fair degree of overlap regarding what they'd want in the car?
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by ollysb 12y ago
In London I know a fair few people that earn over £100,000. None of them own cars. Aside from the fact that the tube or a bike is generally far faster for A-B the drinking culture means that people really don't want to be stuck having
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by ollysb 12y ago
I've been living in Mexico city for the last 18 months and visiting Senora regularly for a couple of years before that. Mexico is a country rich in resources but with very little production. What there is is largely foreign owned. Give
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by ollysb 12y ago
While i don't have any great issue with the practice(BT does this in the uk) I also don't really see much benefit. Given the range you'd have to be in an adjacent house/apartment to actually connect(or sitting outside so
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by ollysb 12y ago
I've just subscribed to tidal (was spotify before) for $20/month. I'm now quite happily spending $240/year which is significantly more than I ever spent on CDs(I think I bought 3 CDs in the Sam year once...). Even at $10
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by ollysb 12y ago
> He still thinks he can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3 If we're to take Tidal and Spotify(at highest quality) as representative of those two (please correct me if I'm wrong, no expert) then the difference is night an
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by ollysb 12y ago
Here's how I do it: you'll notice that there's a repeating pattern, cross your eyes until you get two of the repititions to be on top of each other. Once you've done this you should find that the shapes pop out.
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by ollysb 12y ago
This looks like a great idea! Ideally though, with electric hobs, I'd like to be able to set the temperature on the hob and then have the pan kept at the correct temperature automatically(with the thermometer still in the pan not the h
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Cable companies 'stunned' by Obama's 'extreme' net neutrality proposals(theguardian.com)
1 points by ollysb 12y ago|0 comments
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by ollysb 12y ago
Yes a blog post on that would be great! (Personally I'd love to see rails move to broccoli instead of the asset pipeline but I guess that won't be for a while if ever).
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by ollysb 12y ago
> You should begin moving your app to Ember CLI as soon as possible. While I'm using ember-cli for thick clients I'm using the ember-rails gem for sites which use a mix (mainly older projects). Has anyone figured out a good way
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by ollysb 12y ago
It's a marginal overhead and it also has the benefit of encouraging clear naming. Autocomplete is convenient but also removes some of the cost of poor naming. This is fine when you're writing code (the autocomplete just kicks in a
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by ollysb 12y ago
This is honestly an issue I don't experience, if I have a typo my test fails and the compiler tells me the line and method call that failed. I correct it, carry on. I can't think of a scenario where you would get stuck with this t
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by ollysb 12y ago
How is it done? I see a couple of css transitions but there must be some js involved as well?
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by ollysb 12y ago
>> One could easily argue that the people showing an unreasonable entitlement are the ones who think they should get to use the park in the tiny sliver of time where someone else has paid the city to reserve it for an organized game.
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by ollysb 12y ago
Do you believe that every aspect of life should have a price tag on it? (Serious question). In a wealthy country is it not desirable to redistribute some wealth to the young, old and sick? Communal park areas have been a standing feature of
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by ollysb 12y ago
They handed them out at one of my previous jobs (corporate gig). Everyone that went for them came down with a mild flu after the shot and then proceeded to catch every other flu that came around during the winter. edit: I hadn't realis
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by ollysb 12y ago
Drummers get fast notes by bouncing the stick on the drum heads i.e. for one flick of the wrist you can get 2 or 3 notes. It doesn't matter how much tactile feedback you get, you're not going to be able to play like you can on the
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by ollysb 12y ago
I can see how there's a class of applications that would need the level of verification you're talking about(payment authorization being a good example). Many apps don't need that level of verification though, an app like tre
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by ollysb 12y ago
That's the purpose of the sync-gateway(in couchdb's case), it handles authorisation of actions against couchdb.

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