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by philbarr 14y ago
It's amazing how many times I see the word "devloper". Maybe having to type "e" twice so close together is what causes the typo..?
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by philbarr 14y ago
I agree completely. I used to get excited when I saw a new framework or language out and would always download it, play with it, etc. Now I just think " another one? I hope I don't have to learn that one day." Maybe I just need a break to
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yep. Had knee surgery recently and they gave me something that basically turned off the nerves in my leg. The brace they put on it afterwards trapped the skin near my backside and caused a huge welt which I couldn't feel. My God it hurt nex
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by philbarr 14y ago
> We appreciate our 22-30 days vacations, without any contact with the employer while enjoying friends and family. Not in any company I've worked for. You're expected to answer emails, phone calls, etc. whilst on holiday. I used to foll
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by philbarr 14y ago
patched to still work really badly?
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by philbarr 14y ago
Don't you hate it when you make a comment through an old HN account and then completely forget about it and post through your normal HN account a quarter of an hour later?
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by philbarr 14y ago
Obviously you've not tried them in the UK. We've been to Vegas in the US and thought the burgers there were amazing. Like, "oh my god, this actually looks a bit like real beef!"
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by philbarr 14y ago
I have an Asus Transformer 101 and my wife has an iPad, we both use them in the evenings for Facebook-ing, email, games etc. and I don't see the difference. I also use mine for some music apps which are pretty much unusable on my HTC Desire
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by philbarr 14y ago
He should be glad it's not 90% meetings and 10% maintenance you mean, which is what's waiting for him if he stays in the business long enough.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I think the simplest argument against people who propose "nothing to hide" is to say, "I have nothing to hide, I just don't trust those morons to keep my data safe and secure." I used to work in the education sector, and we had access to "a
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yeah, it's much harder to fully remove, say, Norton Antivirus from your computer.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Back pain can often be caused by having weak stomach muscles and having too much of a gut. The back ends up trying to support the weight at the front which the stomach muscles are unable to support by themselves. Source: my GP when he told
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by philbarr 14y ago
I did and I don't get it.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I'm surprised how often a mean is quoted without a standard deviation. Especially in an analysis like this. It's only telling you half the story.
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by philbarr 14y ago
As a long time Java programmer, who has been writing C# for the last year and a half, I think leaving out checked exceptions from C# may have been a bad idea. What they've done is to identify that checked exceptions are a pain in many cases
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by philbarr 14y ago
Coming from the UK, I'm always amazed at how important health insurance is in the US, and what a broad range of quality of healthcare there is. Our company provide a free, private healthcare (BUPA), but I've never felt the need to use it. R
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by philbarr 14y ago
Exactly - everyone should learn basic plumbing! Not the best analogy he could have used.
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by philbarr 14y ago
You mean like this: http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/scraig/gansberg.html
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by philbarr 14y ago
Perhaps, over the last two months you've been running the experiment, you've been thinking about actually wanting a response and have automatically been constructing better emails that people feel they can reply to. Unlike the "brain-dump"
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by philbarr 14y ago
Don't start giving them ideas...
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by philbarr 14y ago
That is a fantastic rant about the open market. Do you mind if I use it and claim it as my own someday?
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by philbarr 15y ago
And he was getting conned out of an extra hour every two weeks!
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by philbarr 15y ago
Yes, this could generate an awful lot of network traffic in a production system. And since he's using ajax to log errors, and he's hooking into ajaxError, he might well have a serious problem on his hands if a problem occurs during the atte
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by philbarr 15y ago
How many impressions do you buy from Adwords to see if you think it's worth continuing?
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by philbarr 15y ago
That book looks great. And cheap too, which is the way I like it. I wonder if this "bundling" technique could be used in salary negotiations? I used to work for a small dev shop (~30 devs) where we each had a personal review with the manage
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by philbarr 15y ago
May I humbly suggest that you are mixing your data up with your code? Could you not just put the data in an external Excel file (or *.txt file, whatever) and read that in when you run your code? This has a number of advantages: - you don't
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by philbarr 15y ago
Mathematics aside, is this one of those puzzles where the answer is "of course the lion tamer is not caught - because he's a lion tamer and therefore the lion does not chase him."
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by philbarr 15y ago
I'm surprised Google couldn't tell him what it was. Exactly what are they protecting by not telling people what rules they've broken? Surely, all the breakable rules are in the T's & C's anyway?
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by philbarr 15y ago
Dolphin allows you to choose your user agent on Android. I'm starting to really like Dolphin...
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by philbarr 15y ago
I own up that I didn't know about Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Although I'm very happy that I do now...

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