philbarr

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by philbarr 14y ago
I've heard this advice before but I'm not sure what the benefit is? Will give it a try though - I guess it makes things more interesting when you mix it up.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I don't know if this will help others but it helps me - I try and go to the gym at lunch, or if I have to work my lunch then go after work, basically get to the gym at some point in the day. If I'm skipping too many days and feel like I'm l
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yes, I've had this in my contract with every job I've had except my current one. My current place was set up by developers though and I think the contract reflects that. It actually specifically states that I can do stuff in my own time a
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yes, the problem is not the musicians per-se, it's the music industry that surrounds them. They make a fortune copying and selling music, and get all upset about it when other people want to copy music. I know there's a lot of effort that g
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yes, it's always seemed odd to me, from a moral point of view, that it's perfectly fine for them to copy music easily (and hence make huge profits) but it's not ok for us to copy music. If you look at the history of the music business,
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by philbarr 14y ago
Unless you've got some work you need to do instead of staring blankly at your screen for 10 minutes, of course.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I'm sure it's a lot harder than the manager to which I refer could do. In fact - it's a lot harder than many could manage, and whilst not literally as hard as rocket science, it's still a lot harder than some other fields. For example, "man
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by philbarr 14y ago
In other professional fields (like with lawyers), doing work for free is called "pro bono". I would think that if you're being interviewed for lawyer position they would ask you how much pro bono work you've done. So I disagree that doing t
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by philbarr 14y ago
You clearly are not a dog walker. Us dog walkers get pretty tired of getting wet all the time, and trying to dry off a wet dog insistent on shaking his soggy hair all over you is extra motivation to make that last 100 yard sprint home when
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by philbarr 14y ago
Exactly, my parents are in their 60's and both retired and are having a bloody great time. Golf, fast cars, lots of holidays, they're loving it.
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by philbarr 14y ago
My local bookstore had a sign in the software development section saying "C, C+, C++". I can't point and laugh anymore :(.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I also clicked on "Money per month" first rather than "amount". I think I'm used to the edit box being on the right?
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by philbarr 14y ago
It's the very least we could do after having persecuted him whilst being alive even though he contributed so much. The apology he got years later always seemed a little feeble to me.
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by philbarr 14y ago
It definitely looks a lot nicer than previously, and the better publishing workflow sounds nice even though I haven't tried it. I spent quite a bit of time trying to publish my first app and it made me feel pretty stupid!
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by philbarr 14y ago
I didn't crop that so as to take it out of context, I cropped it to keep the quote short. I don't agree with the bit you added either.
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by philbarr 14y ago
The point is that you can be a software developer without knowing this stuff off the top of your head. Naturally I would encourage anyone who doesn't know the answers to these questions to go ahead and learn them if they want to, but you're
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by philbarr 14y ago
The red flag was this line in the blog that led to the questions: "If you can't answer the majority of the questions on these four papers, and you're working or intend to work as a software developer, you should ask yourself why". This assu
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by philbarr 14y ago
For those who are reading this and are new to software development, please don't let these questions put you off or take them as some sort of test of your skills. The questions pertain only to the poster's particular CS degree and to his pa
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by philbarr 14y ago
Legal means application of the law, and law should be derived from morality. If we think something legal is not moral, it should not be legal and we should strive to change the law.
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by philbarr 14y ago
So once the patent expires it's then morally fine to claim the "inspiration" for a certain design?
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by philbarr 14y ago
"But while he reads Apple’s tactics as outlandish and creepy, if brilliant, I’d just call them brilliant." And I would read them as standard sales technique. "Feel, felt, found" or "the three F's" is well known.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I did further down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4443294 Personally I think it's better too.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Zooming in is with fingers at top left and bottom right, zooming out is with fingers at top right and bottom left.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Personally I think pinch-to-zoom doesn't work very well anyway. It always seems to zoom in too quickly or too slowly; the amount of zoom seems arbitrary. What I've always wanted was to be able to put two fingers to mark the top left and bot
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by philbarr 14y ago
Really? I find reading on any device for a decent length of time that isn't e-ink a real pain.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Well, it worked!
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by philbarr 14y ago
Exactly, it's hardly like we gave them a mandate to screw everybody in London over.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Although people did bloodletting because they thought it was good for you.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Fantastic! As a piano player myself I find that all too often we get tied up in theory or practice routines or grades. Sometimes you've just got to PLAY THE DAMNED THING. Sort of applies to programming as well if you see what I mean.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Er - as a seasoned Java programmer I think you'll find I've worked in C++, C#, PHP, and any other number of languages thankyou-oh-so-very-much.

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