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by osullivj 7y ago
Yes - parenting three young kids is brutal. In my experience it does get easier for a while, once the youngest is past nappies, sleepless nights and is into kindergarten. Then you're in the sweet spot for a few years, until the teenage
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by osullivj 7y ago
6502 instruction set nowhere near as powerful as 8086, so I'd say more impressive! I was a ZX81 then Lynx coder myself, so learned Z80 rather than 6502.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Can you provide some references or biblio from the charisma in Islam course? Thanks...
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by osullivj 7y ago
They work in both systems, but make the big money in private practice, which is often paid by insurers, but sometimes as cash. For instance Google Cyrus Abbasian; he works in both systems and I recently paid cash for a consultation with my
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by osullivj 7y ago
There are plenty of consultant surgeons and specialists practicing on Harley St in London who make way more than USD400K/annum.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Ditto for the UK. Police will revoke firearms licenses if a holder has mental health issues, and GPs have a duty to inform the police [1]. Typically a UK firearms license will only allow the holder to use a shotgun on their own land if they
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by osullivj 7y ago
It was founders, not employees, I had in mind. It's a massive longshot, survivor bias clouds our thinking, and you need connections.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Is that so different from the world of startups?
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by osullivj 7y ago
"a mathematician often finds herself engaged in an individual battle of the human mind against rigid logic" The platonist view is assumed all the way through the article. Why assume that maths and logic exist independently of the
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by osullivj 7y ago
Good to see the ref to Waugh's Sword of Honour, a must read for anyone interested in the topics raised in Heffer's review of Verney.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Is your difficult senior colleague assigning work to you? Perhaps in a way that clashes with the priorities set by your manager? If that's the case you should deflect his assignments by saying "more than happy to help, but I need
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by osullivj 7y ago
Xerox Alto [1] had GUI, Smalltalk 72 dev env and TCP/IP networking in 1973. How much real progress has there been in software technology since then? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
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by osullivj 7y ago
Indeed. Ironically it's exactly the sort of philosophical muddle that Wittgenstein sort to dispel. I was hoping to find an application of the private language argument to tech, but it seemed like the author only picked up on games and
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by osullivj 7y ago
Ted Honderich (UCL philosopher) on Scruton: "the unthinking man's thinking man"
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by osullivj 7y ago
Wonderful to read the Eastwood quote on Lawrence: "he was a mardarse". Nottinghamshire has lots of dialect: mardy means sulky and petulant.
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by osullivj 8y ago
I'm something of a pen fetishist, and swear by the Mitsubishi Uni-ball. I've tried Pilot and other brands, but nothing beats the Mitsu. Other pen obsessives might want to check this site: https://www.penaddict.com/
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by osullivj 8y ago
Visual Studio Community Edition 2019 for C# & C++ dev. PyCharm for Python. Mark Russinovich's SysInternals tool for troubleshooting. ProcessExplorer and ProcMon are essential for cracking DLL load and threading issues.
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by osullivj 8y ago
I enjoyed the Baroque Cycle, but at the end was left with little sense of resolution. I have enjoyed Anathem since.
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by osullivj 8y ago
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
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by osullivj 8y ago
I work for Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) in London; I've been here 18 months as a contractor, and I'm switching to perm. Why? Because BAML is hands down the most pleasant, civilized and supportive investment bank environmen
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by osullivj 8y ago
Brent crude, from the UK North Sea fields, is much lighter than Iraqi or Saudi crude. I'm guessing Norwegian crude is similar. Light crude is too "good" for fuel use; I believe it's used for plastics.
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by osullivj 8y ago
If the House of Lords votes through Cooper-Letwin today, and it gets Royal Assent, then a no deal Brexit has become illegal. If the EU also refuses an extension, then the PM has no option but to revoke.
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by osullivj 8y ago
You're working for a small buy side firm, which is quite different than large sell side institutions like JPMorgan, BoA, Citi, GS, Deutsche, UBS, HSBC etc. The big sell side broker dealers have big staff, lots of bureaucratic rules and
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by osullivj 8y ago
Fascinating. In Britain it's long been recognised that our frequently innovative design engineering is often let down by poor production engineering. Many exmples can be cited: most F1 cars are UK built, but we no longer have an mass m
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by osullivj 8y ago
Strongly agreed. Exposure to a History & Philosophy of Software course might reduce the amount of wheel reinvention that plagues our industry.
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by osullivj 8y ago
The Soviets were allies of the Nazis at the time of the Winter War, and it's been expedient for many to ignore the Nazi Soviet pact since.
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by osullivj 8y ago
Yes - extensions. Particularly 32bit .xlls.
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by osullivj 8y ago
I'd mention Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason and Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach as my faves in the undead category. Or family if you will!
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by osullivj 8y ago
Also note AWS Windows is not plain vanilla. It comes with an x64 Python 2.7 build built in, and the x64 python27.dll is on the standard path. Bit of a gotcha if you're deploying x86 Python 2.7 to AWS Windows!
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by osullivj 8y ago
It is a truth universally acknowledged... Jane Austen, naturally.

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