philbarr

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by philbarr 10y ago
Does anyone know of a different decent networking book that's available on Safari?
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by philbarr 10y ago
I have one cup of tea in the morning, drink water the rest of the time, and still struggle to get to sleep before 1am. Edit: own stupidity.
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by philbarr 10y ago
This line: Just by looking at the first vector we've reduced our space from 2^16 to 2^16-5. Should be: Just by looking at the first vector we've reduced our space from 2^4 to 2^4-5. Can't edit it now - sorry if that confused
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by philbarr 10y ago
The domain with the "n" was available.
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by philbarr 10y ago
My take on this: The naive approach (which is what I did) is to assign each second to a binary number and work out how high the number goes - this works out at 2^12. The clever way other people did - and which I've been thinking about
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by philbarr 10y ago
Oops, sorry!
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by philbarr 10y ago
I also did something very similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplyappe... It's supposed to be like the "numbers" round from the show Countdown in the UK.
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by philbarr 10y ago
> What skills must be demonstrable? Have the balls to stand up to management. You are often under significant pressure to adjust timelines and somehow get "9 women to have a baby in a month." The PM I have now is excellent and
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by philbarr 10y ago
Done. And it's not so much that I care about how much they snoop on me, but more that I know how absolutely useless they are at storing all this data so it can't be abused by malicious parties.
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by philbarr 10y ago
Had the same problem thinking I must have done something wrong. Found this: https://gist.github.com/pbssubhash/2f99644a4f24e8fe6b3e
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by philbarr 10y ago
Yep - happened to me too. Was working in a team where everyone was working remotely. Then a few things went wrong and one of the directors blamed the "remoteness", set up an office, and gradually forced all the remote employees to
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by philbarr 10y ago
You had kind of a good point until you called someone pathetic and wrongheaded...?
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by philbarr 10y ago
Not my problem - I'm their manager. If I have 2000 engineers I just make one of them Lead Dev and then shout at him when he hasn't been able to deliver after I gave him 1999 software engineers. What an idiot.
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by philbarr 10y ago
if (false){ ...buggy code here... }
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by philbarr 10y ago
This is why, at age 38, I deliberately chose to move to big-tech-company-x. As it turns out, most of my colleagues are older than me and starting to look towards their pensions. The tech is 10 years out of date, but it's so ingrained i
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by philbarr 10y ago
They seem to be upsetting a lot of Android users by charging £2.99 a year for it as a subscription model. Personally I don't mind since I've been using forecast.io for years and it's invaluable when planning to walk the dog w
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by philbarr 10y ago
The only problem you have is that people are leaving all their comments on the chat group instead of in here... :)
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by philbarr 10y ago
We used to call this a "Hackintosh" back in the day. Is that not a thing any more?
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by philbarr 10y ago
It seems that we could expand this for n people with n choices. So in the first case where there are only 2 people and 2 colours, they assign, say 0 to black and 1 to red. Then they each sum up the other choices they can see (which happens
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by philbarr 10y ago
If you're blocking an emergency vehicle in the UK by bad parking they have the right to smash your vehicle to get past - and it's your fault.
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by philbarr 10y ago
Completely agree. We should also be allowed to talk about downvoting (in the appropriate place, whatever that is) without fear of reprisal! Downvoting should be for comments that don't add to the discussion, not for disagreement. I kno
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by philbarr 10y ago
And it does look like the anime version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zhLBe319KE About 35 seconds in.
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by philbarr 10y ago
That sounds fair enough. I wasn't complaining - just wondering. And it looks like you're trying to maintain the level of involvement too which is good.
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by philbarr 10y ago
> energetic internal discussion so - not discussed on HN then. I was wondering if it might go against HN "ethics" because it risks everyone posting these and then Who's Hiring gets spammed. One of the best things about Who
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by philbarr 10y ago
Using "Who's Hiring?" to chase referral bonuses? Is that allowed?!
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by philbarr 10y ago
It couldn't. It had no nose...
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by philbarr 10y ago
Gan canny woer Geordie!
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by philbarr 10y ago
It always makes me sad to see this same argument happen in every thread mentioning remote work. Exactly HOW does one get $100,000 working remotely? When no-one's ever heard of you?
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by philbarr 10y ago
If you're using split-diff I also recommend MiniMap [0] and the Minimap-Split-Diff plugin [1] [0] https://atom.io/packages/minimap [1] https://atom.io/packages/minimap-split-diff
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by philbarr 10y ago
> A job, any job, will involve thousands of hours with at least a few hundred of them on tasks you really do not appreciate. But you get paid to do those tasks. And remember that those 2 hours are an estimate, which means it'll prob

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