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by peterhi 6y ago
I've seen (and still use to a small extent) a templating language like that. The real exciting thing is the documentation! There is none, so you scrape through the existing codebase to find one that is doing the sort of thing you want
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by peterhi 6y ago
This looked nice. I really want a keyboard that changes it's keycaps when I change language. But then I read this bit "all your settings are saved automatically to the cloud" WTF! My keyboard requires cloud access? No. Just n
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by peterhi 6y ago
When I work in an open office I am always been up to date with what is going on. We have been able to squash problems when they were small because we could overhear people having problems with the systems. Problems that would be too small t
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by peterhi 6y ago
The chain is still the same length when centralised and may be weaker. Separate services would use separate databases but it would make sense to consolidate resources when centralised If you had separate services the CI service database goi
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by peterhi 7y ago
Write shallow code, code that is the simplest solution for the problem If the word "architect" springs to mind then you are doing it wrong
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by peterhi 7y ago
Data aggregation. Scores, stats and tv listings from multiple suppliers covering almost all sports worldwide. As B2B for people who don't want the hassle of doing it themselves
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by peterhi 7y ago
The problem with mental models is that they are domain specific. My domain is sports data, solving problems is easy because I have 10 years of experience and a cookbook of models (can we say patterns) to apply to any given problem Good ment
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by peterhi 8y ago
I'm 57. A self taught generalist who's been paid to do this since the early 80's What keeps me going? There is just so much interesting stuff going on with computers - how can you ever get bored :) There are a lot of people b
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by peterhi 8y ago
LinkedIn is just an online CV for recruiters to find you by. The one you submit should be tailored to the job you are applying for The CV that lands on my desk will determine if you get called for an interview. One or two sides of A4 is all
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by peterhi 8y ago
Unless I have copious free time (and I don't) then I'm not going to browse 130 Github repositories and wouldn't known from Adam if they are forks or not (unless they were all created close together). Thus I cannot trust the m
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by peterhi 8y ago
The other example would be the Kin phone. A feature complete working phone that Microsoft decided needed to be rewritten from scratch to use the Windows Mobile / Phone stack It took 18 months and nearly $1B to rewrite only to find the
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by peterhi 8y ago
Lets rephrase that shall we "Why would they acquire Nokia just to turn on it and run it into the ground?" It doesn't need malice but Microsoft have a talent for this kind of thing
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by peterhi 9y ago
Same here. I am a bot with 84.7% confidence Dread to think how they came up with this
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by peterhi 9y ago
It's was like that in the 1980s. There was always good money to be earned in Law or Accounting but for those without the drive to study IT looked like easy money. Met many a failed accountant that thought all you had to do was sit in a
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by peterhi 9y ago
Icon was a language I used in my youth. It took me a long time to unlearn some of the very neat features of the language. if 1 <= x < 99 rather than if 1 <= x && x < 99 and a host of much more natural expressions
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by peterhi 9y ago
Which would be fine if all sites used the same rules. But I often find that I can only find the rules when I break them. Such as "password too long > 16 characters" or "cannot include a space character" (why not?)
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by peterhi 9y ago
From the 70s to the 90s I changed jobs about every 3 years. Since then the shortest was 7 if you exclude a dot com bubble that exploded after 2 years Presently heading to the 9th year in this job
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by peterhi 9y ago
There are two issues here. Firstly is your perception that they are 'quite mediocre, or above average at best' - this is your problem. Looking down on people for being less than yourself is not an admirable trait, something you s
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by peterhi 10y ago
No one asked for Unity, it was just dumped on us and later iterations became harder and harder to remove. So I jumped ship to Mint. Mir, don't know. What problem was it supposed to solve?
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by peterhi 10y ago
I live in Brighton and work in London. I leave the house at 6h15 to be in for work at 9h00. I leave at 17h00 to get home by, around 19h35.
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by peterhi 10y ago
Pros: What the actual job is, the industry sector and the pay Cons: Guru, Ninja, Rock Star and Passion. I am 55 with a shit pension and your 'Uber for salads' is not something I am passionate about. Never will be. Complete put off
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by peterhi 10y ago
Problems. We have more things that need to be done than we can ever possibly do. So we get to pick the problems we feel are the most important and simply have to solve them - however we want :) There is not a lot of money to throw around so
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by peterhi 11y ago
When I started in the late 70's the "horizon" was being 30 years old. There were almost no pure programmers beyond that age, they had all gone into management or consulting. It was quite scary to see your preferred career pat
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by peterhi 12y ago
The question about CS students is "were they self taught before they got their degree". Most who had no interest in computing before they got their degree seem to remain that way - a CS degree was seen as a way to earn easy money.
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by peterhi 12y ago
Yeah, I realise what I suggested was a hack. But simple word counting is so error prone that the real answer is not to use it. I am curious if the word 'not' was in your negative list, it is quite a difficult word to handle. &quot
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by peterhi 12y ago
Word counting can be pretty ropey but there are some things that you should check out. Of the 1800 negative words how many of them actually occurred in the documents? Or you could simply count negative words as 0.44 rather than 1 (800/
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by peterhi 12y ago
Personally I am still open to persuasion. However I am greatly disappointed when people say they have found God when all they have done is join a religion. Finding God seems more of a life's work rather than "read this, wear these
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by peterhi 12y ago
Well this article is over 4 years old, which is positively Paleozoic in language development terms. But I am sure that the discussion here will be equally out of date. Can we have less of these sort of articles please, it was a waste of my
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by peterhi 12y ago
The problem with his description of his achievements is that he is probably underplaying them. Obviously without knowing what he has actually produced (seen the site, reviewed the code etc) I was hoping to make him see what he has done in a
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by peterhi 12y ago
Not wanting to be brutal but if you have 2 years experience of anything then you are no longer a junior. Maybe not actually a senior but certainly not a junior. Junior is like saying trainee. Stop thinking that you are junior. You seem to p

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