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by philbarr 15y ago
I agree you shouldn't have been downvoted for that. In my opinion, there's far too much downvoting going on at the moment on HN. People should remember that it's only a way to express that you feel a post is inappropriate to the discussion,
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by philbarr 15y ago
Also free in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Robin-Nixons-HTML5-Course-ebook/dp/B... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Robin-Nixons-Crash-Course-ebook/dp/B...
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by philbarr 15y ago
Why wouldn't you dream up your own simple app and do that? Nothing makes a portfolio more than a published app. Or are you trying to avoid the actual publishing side and just want the experience of app creation? I would say that the act of
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by philbarr 15y ago
I wonder what kind of permissions they had to obtain in order to do that? Surely they'd need to worry about air traffic and the chance of it landing on someone or someone else's property (however unlikely). Or maybe they went to some privat
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by philbarr 15y ago
It seems to me that it would be good if 20 hours a week was already the norm, but for the reasons you highlight, I don't think it's something that's possible to transition to from 40 hours as we have now. As you say, you certainly can't jus
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by philbarr 15y ago
Is it really necessary to look at friends in terms of "ROI"? Should I calculate the ROI for each friend? And if a particular friend falls below his/her expected "return" (however that's calculated) then do I ditch them? > Your current f
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Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by philbarr 15y ago|2 comments
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by philbarr 15y ago
I've seen this "change your friends" thing before, when it is perceived that they are holding you back. Is it me, or does this not seem a little callous? I've worked hard to get where I am now, and I've got a good s/w dev job, and am workin
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by philbarr 15y ago
Yes - hardly counts as "news". Why does this get posted so often, and how on earth does it get to the front page of Hacker News?
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by philbarr 15y ago
I think they need to spend more time getting voice recognition software, on all devices including iPhone and Android, to recognise speech across many more regional dialects. I'm from the north west of England and didn't think my "lancyshire
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by philbarr 15y ago
You're suggesting that Turing-completeness of compilers IS covered in most C++ programming courses? I doubt it.
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by philbarr 15y ago
What's this: "If there’s grass on the field, play ball" ?! I think you'll find the actual phrase is, "if there's grass on the wicket, let's play Cricket." The American-ized version doesn't even rhyme!
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by philbarr 15y ago
Sure - and I wrote a blog post about it: http://philbarr.blogspot.com/2011/11/experience-and-lessons-... . End of first week and I've made a full $0.40. Woop!
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by philbarr 15y ago
I love that sketch! :) The only problem is, now I'm working from home full time, my friends accuse me of that all the time...
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Experiences and Lessons Learned Publishing My First Android App(philbarr.blogspot.com)
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by philbarr 15y ago
The Market Economics Fairy doesn't work here because there is such a large lead-in time to making money as a programmer. I have had 2 or 3 friends want to become programmers just because they want to make more money, and also because they s
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by philbarr 15y ago
I had to type "do a barrel roll" without quotes in google. e.g. http://www.google.co.uk/#q=do+a+barrel+roll
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by philbarr 15y ago
I wasted about 3 minutes of my life just now trying to work that out. Apparently, lots of people are challenging preconceived ideas somehow. That's nice for them. Moving on...
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by philbarr 15y ago
that's great, thanks!
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by philbarr 15y ago
Dude, that's like fate or karma or something.
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by philbarr 15y ago
If they knew the benefits of doing that, they'd learn. My wife did when I showed her. Now she knows what to do when she sees a website and thinks, "that's not what it looks like on my laptop".
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by philbarr 15y ago
"..Android WebKit, the most disappointing mobile browser right now..." Android is great but this line is unfortunately SO true. It's especially noticable on a tablet. I tried Dolphin instead and it's awesome. One feature I particularly like
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by philbarr 15y ago
You'd think they'd mention which version of Android it uses.
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by philbarr 15y ago
I'm not rich either and had absolutely no idea about shares, so figured I should learn and am now reading "Investing In Shares For Dummies" - UK Edition. I know it's a For Dummies book but as I really knew nothing I had to start somewhere.
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by philbarr 15y ago
What I still don't understand is, what would I put in place of the Controller? Events are raised by the user, these are all fired off and I want to handle them in the same place in the same way. I certainly don't want event handling code al
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by philbarr 15y ago
You're suggesting I call them "StateSynchronizer" or "ConstraintVerifier"?
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by philbarr 15y ago
I generally accept the point made in the article, but what should I use in place of "Controller"? If using MVC I generally call it "ApplicationController" or "SimpleController". Should it be "Application", "ApplicationControl"...?
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by philbarr 15y ago
Google+ is better than Facebook for lots of reasons except for one important thing - nobody's on it and they're still using Facebook. I would much prefer to use Google+, I prefer the interface, I like the Circles idea - everything sort of f
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by philbarr 15y ago
I agree, although that didn't stop me from signing the petition. When I was at school I was told, "I.T. isn't a real subject", and was prevented from taking it. It was seen as a drop-out's subject. That kind of attitude has to change, and a
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by philbarr 15y ago
Exactly right. These disaffected young people clearly feel that they are not a part of society, so they're just going to take from it what they can whilst they can. I'm not saying it's justified, just that that's how it is. Now the reason f

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