prof_hobart

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by prof_hobart 11y ago
It's never too late. I didn't start programming until I was about 13 (admittedly, I'd only ever seen one computer - an Apple II - before I bought my Spectrum), but I know a lot of people in IT who didn't start until thei
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
My daughter is 9 and has been fascinated by coding since she was about 6 - initially with Scratch, but she's just moving on to Javascript. I didn't push it on her at all - she asked me one night what I did for a job, so I showed h
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
People asking me a quick question doesn't bother me in the slightest - if I don't want to be disturbed, I put my headphones on. If a 30 second conversation can stop them having to set up a meeting, or allows them to get on with wh
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
This is, and has been for many years, the norm in the UK. I've been working for over quarter of a century and have had my own pod/room for about 6 months in that time. It's something you largely get used to, and in some ways
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
In 1975, you are correct. But the key mistake wasn't in 1975. It was in the 2000s, as the digital market started to pick up. Unfortunately, the attitude of "Every digital camera that was sold took away from a film camera and we kn
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
A court expecting the contract to be legally binding.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Don't know about Russian law, but that's certainly not true everywhere In the UK for instance, if you're changing credit card terms, you'd be expected to send a notice of variation looking something like this ( https:&#x
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
The problem with that article, as with most of the "X is bad for kids, because Y is better" ones I've ever read, is that the two things aren't in any way exclusive. The article explains why giving kids a blank sheet of p
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Depends if it adds anything else - readability, maintainability, flexibility, portability etc. The "code as liability" argument seems, unless I'm mistaken, to be based on the idea that less code for the same level of function
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
That's an entirely valid point in relation to WWII (although as I'm sure I've seen research suggesting that Japan was already trying to mediate a peace, and that the US were aware of this, before the bomb was dropped so it ma
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I'm not sure it is unassailable. More quickly doesn't always equal less casualties, for instance. And even where more quickly does equal less casualties for your side, it could mean vastly more for the other side, or less military
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I'm not sure it is being defined that way. If anything, I'm reading the opposite of that - that it's entirely possible to work "hard" without working for extremely long hours.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
In my experience cross-platform means "runs just as badly everywhere". They pretty much never feel like native on any platform. And what's the advantage to the average user? If I'm a Mac user, I'm interested in Appl
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Why not?
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Business Process Modelling Notation - a formal notation for describing steps/rules/roles etc in business processes, e.g. order processing. It's both a documentation notation that can be used by analysts and managers, and (at
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
If it were 2 that was driving it, companies would be equally quiet about grades. If you're annoyed that Jeff in sales is earning so much, you'll probably be equally annoyed that he's two levels higher than you. However, in my
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
One of the reasons that these kinds of things aren't often enforced is that they are very hard to prove. Companies are rarely stupid enough to openly say that you've been fired or given a low performance rating because of this spe
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>But we realized that the credit card number is not a “secret”. You can’t do much with just a card number. I think I know what they're trying to get at in the context of the form, but this doesn't do much for my confidence in h
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Formally, yes. Informally, it's sometimes referred to as "vat", e.g. calling a tax inspector "the vat man". If used in context, no one is going to get confused by either pronunciation though.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>Still, actually, HN should define OP -- I still don't have a good source to know what it means and have been only guessing. So it's HN's fault, not yours, that you didn't define a term that you chose to use? And you&
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>For my using OP in my post, well, here on Hacker News (HN), that is a standard abbreviation And for AWS, IAM is a standard abbreviation. That's my point. >Sorry, clearly that's just not good enough since the first use of th
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Why would you think that? I explicitly said "Apart from the OS (which isn't where the problem lies), there's no open source in it." It's a 3rd party commercial platform for developing your own applications on. To re
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
It wasn't undefined. There was a hyperlink to a page all about it. You failed to explain what OP meant, and didn't explain that your comment was aimed at people who knew this kind of terminology. Does that make your comment bad wr
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
You seem to be mistaking your lack of knowledge of a particular set of technologies with bad writing. I read it and it was an absolutely clear article to me. I want an article explaining how Amazon's API gateway works, not what all of
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I know you're joking, but the reality is that software has been replacing huge chunks of developers' work for years, whether through optimising compilers, common libraries, CI/CD tools, web APIs, IDEs or whatever. I've b
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
In this case, I'm not sure that's an important distinction. Whether it's the desktop app driving increased usage or it's heavy users preferring the desktop app, it suggests that one way or another, the desktop app is bet
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Given the point you're trying to make, I'm really struggling with understanding your comment. Are you saying that you don't believe the Amazon technical blog is aimed primarily at existing AWS users?
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
OP is writing a technical blog on AWS, primarily aimed at existing AWS users. Defining what IAM means in there is about as pointless as you needing to define what OP meant in your post.
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I would still be mostly using a 3rd part application framework if I rewrote some bit of it that I found problems with. I wouldn't be rewriting the whole lot - that would take forever. So I'd be left with a 95% of the framework bei
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I think the problem I'm having with it is that it's presented as a logic puzzle, but I'm not sure I'd classify it that way. It seems more of a comprehension test to me, as the trick is both to see that the questions is a

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