rb808

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by rb808 8y ago
I've done a bunch of 2 years, a 5 year and an 8 year. Staying longer at a place you like is great. I don't believe there are no new challenges, after a few years you have more knowledge and authority to do the major work on a big
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by rb808 8y ago
I do believe taking CO2 from the air is critically important. But meanwhile not far away from this site, all around Europe, power stations are burning mountains of coal. Surely its easier to stop that than scrubbing it.
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by rb808 8y ago
Surely every student with loans would be bankrupt on graduation so no one would ever pay?
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by rb808 8y ago
I have a 6yo i5, I'm about to upgrade. Its interesting the the main reasons are NVMe and graphics for a 4k monitor, the extra CPU speed is just a bonus.
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by rb808 8y ago
The problem though is how do you bill clients? If you're "working" and surfing HN you could possibly bill that, but walking around talking to neighbours doesn't cut it.
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by rb808 8y ago
I remember some big tech company had sabaticals available for everyone, but cancelled it because most people were just using them to train for a different job, so quit straight after.
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by rb808 8y ago
Amen. Tools that let you work with version A and B of a db schema would be great. Then you could update DB independently of code release. Its one of the things that I fear the most (and prevents me from loving RMDBs) is the thought of doing
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by rb808 8y ago
Yes Please for DC power. Especially if it can remove all the power adapters. I think I have more adapters than wall sockets in my house now. Phones, Tablets, electric toothbrushes, shaver, router & switch, wifi access point, rasp pi, ca
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by rb808 8y ago
You should check out the tax havens in the US before complaining about EU. Wyoming, Nevada etc https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world...
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by rb808 8y ago
What I see a lot around me: Kids work really hard to get into a good high school High School kids work really hard to get into a good college College kids work really hard to get into a great first job Young Adults working really hard to pr
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by rb808 8y ago
Jira. Even though the movie predates it, I feel like it should have been in there.
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NZ: Test of 10 gigabit ultrafast broadband to begin in March(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by rb808 8y ago|0 comments
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by rb808 8y ago
In reality its not that simple. Its often extra difficult for 30-35 year old women to find new jobs as employers are wary. Its also more difficult for women to return to work after taking longer off. Discrimination lawsuits are more common
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by rb808 8y ago
I once worked with a guy who had 4 children in 5 years. He took a lot of parental leave, sick days and often slacked off early. As soon as the last baby was stable he quit for a new job. Companies and teams that are too generous get shafted
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by rb808 8y ago
yeah as soon as I submitted it looked wrong, corrected.
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by rb808 8y ago
OK UK is perhaps smaller than average but: > The average house dimensions in UK is 91 sq m. which is a bit under 1000 sq ft. http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/average-house-dimensions-in-uk... > The average UK one-bedroom
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by rb808 8y ago
I've always had office hours 9am-7pm, with some on call. I rely on SAH wife to look after children, but family time 8-10pm and weekends. Work on learning and projects some nights. We try to do active stuff together - biking, skiing swi
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by rb808 8y ago
I've used a lot of both. Excel is much better for most tasks where you have < 1mil rows of data. Its easier to look at the data, easier for novices and fast enough. Just being able to scroll through the data is very valuable just to
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by rb808 8y ago
Its also a side effect of property taxes. Why pay 10-20k a year in property taxes when you can live in a mobile home.
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by rb808 8y ago
"Tiny house" AKA a normal house in the rest of the world.
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by rb808 8y ago
Nice. I also feel like I need humility training to work with and evaluate newbie devs. They cant do anything right. Not sure if its just hard to find people who know what they're doing or I've forgotten what its like in your first
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by rb808 8y ago
The other point that there are millions of boring crud apps written out there in govt/contractor land. We dont need to see these as open source, its not as if there are lots of devs that love fixing crappy crud apps in their spare time
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by rb808 8y ago
> Like if you told the French they should all start speaking english to better interact with the international business community, or if you told programmers they should start wearing dress shirts so they look like professionals. Both of
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by rb808 8y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense to have all apps run in a sandbox or container by default. Everything is segregated and easy to monitor and track what its doing.
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by rb808 8y ago
I think that government agencies should have everyones DNA. Esp rape I'm really surprised police can't just look at the semen and look up who it belonged to. The government already knows everyone's photos and basic biometrics
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by rb808 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon and other retail sites hate page scrapers. That is why there are all the tricks like see the price in the basket, instant rebates, click to see price etc. I'm surprised that camel still manages to work after
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by rb808 8y ago
Yeah lol I can imagine the Taiwanese execs used to a tropical climate getting off the plane thinking WTF.
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by rb808 8y ago
I use bing. I dont really mind that someone is monitoring my searches and tracking my usage. I just dont want Google to dominate, so hopefully using bing helps to balance the world.
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by rb808 8y ago
This tmobile stir/shaken looks good, but only for Galaxy Note 9. https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/call-protection
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Robocalls reach ridiculous level, as people are afraid to answer their phones(foxnews.com)
8 points by rb808 8y ago|4 comments

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