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by powatom 14y ago
You probably won't read this now, but I never mentioned the third world. There are people in the UK who can't afford to do what you're doing, let alone third world countries. Of course I moan about things - but I'm also capable of seeing th
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by powatom 14y ago
I think it largely depends on the type of website you're running. For example, the kinds of websites I visit are relatively text heavy - I want to see the text regardless of which device I'm using. These websites are pretty light on images
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by powatom 14y ago
Honestly, you sound like a spoilt brat. There are people who would pay far, far more than you are to get a third of what you're getting. Until you can explain why you think that education must necessarily be 'fun', then there's no hope for
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by powatom 14y ago
Go back to uni - you've just put yourself at a massive disadvantage compared to everyone who successfully graduates. If you absolutely do not want to do that, then you need to create something that makes a ton of money. I'd get started now
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by powatom 14y ago
> Imo if I am paying for the course then it shouldn't be boring as such. Says who? That's like saying that just because you pay for a gym membership it shouldn't be tiring to run on a treadmill.
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by powatom 14y ago
I'm not going to pretend I've been there, because I haven't, but this sentence struck me as being particularly curious: > I walk around waiting for someone to say something to me that matters, but it never happens. Maybe everybody else
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by powatom 14y ago
How do you know when somebody is an <x> user? They'll tell you!
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by powatom 14y ago
> instead of trying to change things, I simply leave them the way they are and stop "bitching" about it Please don't do this to yourself. This is likely to go one of two ways: 1: You stop caring about quality. 2: You forget what qualit
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by powatom 14y ago
Of course, that's where the negotiation comes in to play from both the employer and the employee.
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by powatom 14y ago
My policy is that every year I aim for a substantial pay rise. There is no set percentage that I aim for, I basically just come up with a number that I want, and start negotiating. The day that the company claims there is no more room in th
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by powatom 14y ago
Anecdotal evidence is not evidence at all. Tyrannical governments come about through incredibly complex situations that can't simply be reduced to an arms race between government and civilians.
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by powatom 14y ago
Well sure, if I only ever listened to views that echoed my own, I'm pretty sure I'd feel like that too. A few points from this video: 1: Horrible presentation: this is fear-mongering at its finest. 2: Not a single argument presented from
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by powatom 14y ago
And yet here we are: a man just shot up a school full of kids. A gun is an effective way to kill somebody - regardless of what happens after the fact. Most of the time in these kinds of massacres, the perpetrator doesn't care at all what ha
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by powatom 14y ago
Well, ten points for irrelevancy. I'm assuming you use a knife as part of your regular culinary experience.
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by powatom 14y ago
The point is not that gun control reduces the number of murders: it's that making it harder to get hold of a gun makes it harder to kill somebody . Anybody who wants to kill somebody badly enough will do it with or without gun control: you
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by powatom 14y ago
Show me why you believe that this is what will happen: don't just tell me that this is what will happen. This is precisely why we do everything in our power to stop countries like Iran getting nukes. It's only a matter of time before some
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by powatom 14y ago
Well, yes - but you don't use a pistol to cut your steak.
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by powatom 14y ago
> A pistol is no more an assault weapon than a knife. You're just arguing semantics here - if you assault somebody with a pistol, then it's an assault weapon. Saying that there are more dangerous types of guns than a 9mm pistol is like
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by powatom 14y ago
And yet, countries with strict gun control tend to have far less deaths caused by guns. Nobody is saying that gun control will mean that nobody will ever get shot and killed again, but the harder you make it for people to act on their murde
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by powatom 14y ago
How is this even remotely like Facebook? All I saw in this video was an idiot harassing people.
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by powatom 14y ago
The reason people don't give much constructive criticism any more is, in my opinion, largely down to a set of pervasive, poisonous attitudes which affect the tech industry: 1: 'Ship early, ship often' is better than 'take your time and get
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by powatom 14y ago
Documentation should most certainly be updated as the code changes. Programmers should realise that the documentation is just as important (if not more so) than the code itself. If people don't know how to use your wonderful API, then it's
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by powatom 14y ago
Well, you can either pay people, or do it yourself. Big data is big business these days. If you can find free data on the scale you need, it wouldn't be a business at all.
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Responsibility: why coding standards are a good thing (tomhalligan.co.uk)
1 points by powatom 14y ago|0 comments
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by powatom 14y ago
It depends entirely on what kind of system you're building. A common system design is to have a database, a RESTful API, and then a bunch of clients which interact with the API in order to do whatever they need to do. The method of integrat
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by powatom 14y ago
Weird, such an irritating bug when your scroll-wheel is broken (like mine is!). I haven't checked out Blogger for ages though, so apologies, I thought it was a custom template!
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by powatom 14y ago
Thank you for implementing an annoying pop-out utility box directly over the vertical scrollbar. EDIT: Upon refresh, this problem disappeared. Odd :/
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by powatom 14y ago
I actually meant 'what have you tried' in terms of getting help from Microsoft. You said that you don't know who to complain to - what have you tried in order to find out?
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by powatom 14y ago
I fear it's far more likely that you have other issues and the alcohol simply helps you focus. Lots of people are able to 'forget about themselves' during work and simply focus on the job. This becomes a lot more difficult when you don't ac
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by powatom 14y ago
Well, what have you tried?

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