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by philbarr 11y ago
> makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software. Absolutely there are. I worked on one project with ~30 other devs on one project for 3 years, then a change of m
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by philbarr 11y ago
> So it's not that it's really hard, it's just not something we like to do. I think it's hard. I think it's REALLY hard - but I'm more than happy to learn, I just don't know what to do. And that's
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by philbarr 11y ago
Yeah, I'm into card magic only. So I might pay my $9, watch all the card ones, and then cancel it. Unless the videos are REALLY good. And how much can you really cover in 12 videos (at the moment)?
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by philbarr 11y ago
Lessons from this post: 1. If you're going to swear, don't use an asterisk to try and make it look good. We can take it, honest. 2. Something in between two asterisks on HN gets shown in italics .
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by philbarr 11y ago
What's wrong with having 66 commits?
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by philbarr 11y ago
If people spent extra money on entertainment, wouldn't that drive down the cost of entertainment? Since the costs associated with entertainment are less and each company can afford to cut prices in order to compete?
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by philbarr 11y ago
I'm from the UK and would be happy with either "trucks" or "lorries".
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by philbarr 11y ago
"Everything has gone to hell and we're panicking and need to feel like we're doing something so we're calling all of our remote workers in and wasting lots of time in the process." That's the usual reason for m
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by philbarr 11y ago
I still sometimes catch myself staring out of the window thinking, "when tweetle beetles battle in a puddle that's a tweetle beetle puddle battle. And when tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle that's a tweetl
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by philbarr 11y ago
Let's not forget the "would you mind filling in a survey about our site?" popovers as well. I mean, I might have filled out a survey if you'd actually let me look at the site first. Even Microsoft do this.
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by philbarr 11y ago
That's what the interpretation should be. But because of a comment Paul Graham wrote ~8 years ago, people think they can downvote just if they disagree. Anyway, we're not allowed to talk about downvoting because it's agains
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by philbarr 11y ago
My apologies for that. It was just a one off line but now the thread is discussing how/if the guy deserves the title and I appreciate it seems a little verbose. Sorry for any offence caused.
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by philbarr 11y ago
Good point. At the time I think I wasn't aware of the actual law, and because he'd done a good job of keeping it quiet until that moment, we were all in the room and got the news all at once so hadn't had a chance to look it
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by philbarr 11y ago
Owning an Aston Martin does not necessarily make one a cunt. Laying people off who are on minimum wage with little more than a sorry whilst having your fancy car on full display outside the window does, however.
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by philbarr 11y ago
This is a FAR better situation for the people being laid off here than in an ordinary scenario. The CEO did what's right for the company, nothing wrong with that, but at least he tried to do it in the right way. My experiences of layof
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by philbarr 11y ago
I'm still not sure what you're getting at here. It's a zero-day exploit. Updates won't help with that.
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by philbarr 11y ago
I don't understand - there are end-users in those institutions using java applets. They have to use java applets because their institutions mandate their use for anything from bug tracking software (yes really, I've seen it with m
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by philbarr 11y ago
> It's dead for the end-user for every meaningful definition of "dead". Unfortunately not, there are MANY institutions that still rely on Java Applets.
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by philbarr 11y ago
$59! For a book that's 25% complete?! Ouch. Oh, but I get "free updates". Well for $59 I should bloody well hope so.
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by philbarr 11y ago
Which is fine, but it's hardly news-worthy?
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by philbarr 11y ago
Here we go again with the "functional programming will solve all your problems" thing. It won't. Every language has it's inadequacies.
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by philbarr 11y ago
"wogrammer" ? Do we really need a word that exists purely to make the distinction between male and female programmers? Seems to me you're just a programmer, sex doesn't matter.
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by philbarr 11y ago
Later on in the class I notice they have this: public ulong GeneratedBytesCount { get { ulong u; lock(m_oSyncRoot) { u = m_uGeneratedBytesCount; } return u; } } ...so if you care about thread safety at some p
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by philbarr 11y ago
Well, it's not thread safe but they might not think that's an issue. It looks like this: private static CryptoRandom m_pInstance = null; public static CryptoRandom Instance { get { if(m_pInstance != null) return
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by philbarr 11y ago
Looks like, "him a farmer", to me. Like: "What does he do?" "Him a farmer, he is"
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by philbarr 11y ago
I work for a company that is completely remote, and we have an all-hands meeting 2-4 times a year. As an employee I find I need these meetings just to put faces to names, at the very least. It also means you get a broader view of what every
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by philbarr 11y ago
I wouldn't bother with ads. One of my apps [1] has about 13,000 active users and I make ~£20 a month with it. Ads just don't make you any money. Although this is just my experience, obviously, and there may be reasons why the ads
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by philbarr 11y ago
Why is HTTPS "rather a joke"? Genuinely curious...
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by philbarr 11y ago
I think schools find it difficult to compete with tech companies because they can't afford to pay the salaries. So the people they DO get tend not to, er, be very good... I remember at my school the IT teacher had no IT qualifications,
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by philbarr 11y ago
Excellent choice there. If you want to know what they mean by "tone" when talking about guitar, listen to that...

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