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by philbarr 13y ago
This seems a little unfair to me. Personally I really like the idea, but I feel the implementation is lacking. That's my opinion, am I not allowed to express it, giving reasons why? These are hardly "Youtube-quality comments". Clearly you'v
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by philbarr 13y ago
I don't mean to do the automatic-HN-criticism bit, but... I reckon I can think of better examples for each of the terms than he/she's come up with there. The two we have are: "A is for Array: a place to store your toys." - then there's a pi
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by philbarr 13y ago
There's a problem when you apply this to software development. There are so many frameworks and APIs out there that it's impossible to truly learn them all (to the point that you truly understand them as opposed to just knowing how to use t
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by philbarr 13y ago
"column editing, multiple cursors, and snippets" It's more about smart refactoring, code completion, extensibility, project management, "open type hierarchy", "show usages", etc. You kind of need these things in big projects. Especially ent
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by philbarr 13y ago
"felt happier" when you got home, right? It's an interesting point that risk makes you feel alive, I've experienced it myself and you feel brilliant afterwards. Once I got trapped in a wave machine as a child and was being spun around under
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by philbarr 13y ago
Exactly. Feel like you don't know enough people? Go out and join a club and meet some. Or go down your local pub enough that you start getting recognised. Hiding indoors waiting for your girlfriend to come home because that's your only inte
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by philbarr 13y ago
I think this depends purely on the type of people who work at your job. I now work at home and have done for 2 years, but still meet up with colleagues from my previous job occasionally, and they still talk to me and we discuss life/softwar
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by philbarr 13y ago
> I would make a project out of finding all the shortcuts and hacks like this applicable to my routine I'm often amazed at how often people don't do this. The last place I worked was always a nightmare to get to because of traffic, so I
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by philbarr 13y ago
A great list of questions, and far better than the awkward, "er...no...I don't have any questions" with an embarrassed smile. It should also make you look better to your prospective employer too.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Well, picking one of my ideas at random: I've always been amazed at how poor companies are at simple timesheet tracking. For example, the company I'm at now is a s/w dev company and we are still expected to fill in bloody Excel forms for
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by philbarr 13y ago
> find a group of people near you How do I do that? Sorry if I sound pretty simple but having never done it before there's a barrier to break. I didn't use the word "terrified" lightly. Where are these groups of people that aren't just
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by philbarr 13y ago
This is all good stuff, but it kind of misses out on one of the things I'm most interested in and which I feel is holding me back the most: I'm terrified of marketing and trying to attract customers. There I said it. I've got a hundred idea
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by philbarr 13y ago
I wanted to know what the differences were between "Personal License" and "Business License" but eventually had to click "Buy" in order to find out. Except I couldn't find out because it hung so long I got bored. High load at the moment bec
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by philbarr 14y ago
Damned straight. I could sit here reading HN or I could go to the pub. Pub it is.
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by philbarr 14y ago
It's correct for UK time (assuming beer o'clock is 5pm, which it is).
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by philbarr 14y ago
The problem is that some of these big companies outsource their IT. They don't want to upgrade from, say, IE6 because they know it's going to cost them a FORTUNE. I know of at least 2 big blue chip companies with this problem. In fact, I on
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by philbarr 14y ago
Some of the best advice I've ever had was, "when you start at a company, it's tempting to try and work your arse off to prove how worthy you are. Don't - you're not proving anything, you're just establishing precedent. Instead, quickly dete
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by philbarr 14y ago
You gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Also annoying is that the page jumps around whilst the adverts load, making it hard to even read the text.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I love how I learnt a real hacker titbit from an age poll.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Whilst reading Getting To Yes, I kept thinking, "I don't see how this is going to get me a cheaper car", but it did take a while to sink in. I would say it's probably been more valuable in changing how I speak to people rather than directly
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by philbarr 14y ago
This is exactly what happened when I got a quote for a new boiler recently. He asked how much I thought it would cost, I told him, and he did the, "you really don't know anything" flinch and wide-eyed stare. I responded by rolling my eyes a
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by philbarr 14y ago
You need a : in your link there fella.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Exactly. Personally, I had to let my wife buy her own ring because I was skint. If it's the right person the ring thing is kind of just a tradition that can be observed as you wish. In contrast, a friend of mine was ordered by his fiance th
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by philbarr 14y ago
I watched The Ring once and must have left the TV on, because later that night I woke up to a light coming from the living room. I went in and the TV was doing the "white noise / static" thing exactly like in the movie. I turned it off, unp
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by philbarr 14y ago
> The chords sound more jazzy when you go counter-clockwise (it is the circle-of-fourths) As a side note, movement by fourths sounds more jazzy or "warm" because the interval of a 4th is itself a "warm" sounding interval. So if you want
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by philbarr 14y ago
Sorry - have seen my mistake, but there's no Edit link...?
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by philbarr 14y ago
This is great! Here's mine: {"kitIndex":0,"effectIndex":1,"tempo":100,"swingFactor":0,"effectMix":0.10204081632653061, "kickPitchVal":0.5102040816326531,"snarePitchVal":0.5,"hihatPitchVal":0.5,"tom1PitchVal":0.4285714285714286,"tom2PitchVal
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by philbarr 14y ago
My only problem with AppFog is the "50GB Bandwidth". They don't let you know how much you've used - they just say "we will start slowing down your app when you hit the limit." Obviously they need to get paid for their service, but I prefer
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by philbarr 14y ago
> "spend it on things for which you have no say" Yes you do, you have a vote. Each party standing for election presents a set of policies some of which include spending policy. The elected party then has a mandate to spend as per the po

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