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by robmcm 10y ago
"This" airport has a name, it's "Geneva Airport". Stop with the link bait headlines.
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by robmcm 10y ago
The contracts in London are often 6-12 months for big companies, for agencies less. However there are so many the is little risk of ever being without work. A graduate developer at a finance company would earn over 40k...
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by robmcm 10y ago
AWS contractor can earn up to 800 per day for a 6 month contract in London at the moment...
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by robmcm 10y ago
I assume it's because they could get a local developer in Eastern Europe, India or South America for a fraction of the London price. You want to have your cake and eat it ;) I work with people who commute from Europe 3/4 days a we
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by robmcm 10y ago
25% more is a bit of an understatement. A web developer outside of London could expect 40/50K pa where as in London you could earn 600 a day contracting. That's 2-3 times the money, plus with so many jobs you don't have to wo
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by robmcm 10y ago
They would quickly have a potential revenue ceiling that would likely decline over time. At the moment it's the opposite.
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by robmcm 10y ago
Not sure why you are getting down voted? Predicting users health data based on simple searches is terrifying, I'm not sure why anyone would be happy with Google or Microsoft having this information, especially when their customers coul
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by robmcm 10y ago
Assuming sites like WebMD are tracking users and analyzing symptom searches over a period of time. I expect people would find this more of an invasion of privacy that the search engines doing it. Hopefully this is a wake up call to people a
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by robmcm 10y ago
What if they put this warning up to their (actual) customers, like the US insurance companies that could hike premiums or ditch their customers before they realized they had costly conditions.
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by robmcm 10y ago
But if they didn't use a misleading title you wouldn't have clicked the link...
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by robmcm 10y ago
Disable canvas rendering from 3rd part domains? Prompt to enable canvas support for each domain?
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by robmcm 10y ago
I did not, Google Docs is blocked at my work place. Apologies.
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by robmcm 10y ago
I used to organise my wallet so when open one side only had one card in (to prevent card clash), but I risked things falling out. My phone is normally in my hand anyway so using it is much more convenient. The only problem is it's take
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by robmcm 10y ago
I hope you prep it before you use it on the underground, otherwise you'll cause a pileup behind you.
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by robmcm 10y ago
Sorry that should have read: "Unfortunately you could easily replace Flash for JavaScript these days [in that quote]."
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by robmcm 10y ago
This isn't related to flash or JS, it's a choice made by the developers/sales department. Having a new page impression for each slide is a win for advertising revenue.
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by robmcm 10y ago
Opera has just done something like this for it's low power mode: Reduced activity in background tabs Waking CPU less often due to more optimal scheduling of JavaScript timers Automatically pausing unused plug-ins Reduced frame rate to
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by robmcm 10y ago
"Flash is a pain, performance and battery life-wise, and it's all too often used for video ads and such" Unfortunately you could easily replace Flash for JavaScript these days. I wonder how long before the default is to brows
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by robmcm 10y ago
I think the argument is that with "single page applications" you duplicate a lot of your business logic in fat clients. This thinking is essentially a return to circa 2004 but with today's APIs like websockets. I think you wi
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by robmcm 10y ago
Reduction in accidents and auto makers taking responsibility for accidents. http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/volvo-liability-self-driving-c...
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by robmcm 10y ago
I agree, the statement, "Pluralize the variable name instead of including the name of a collection type" massively increases the chance of referring to the wrong variables based on a simple typo. Also glancing at the code you have
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by robmcm 10y ago
I find this very confusing, and would much prefer to be explicit in adding the collection type. This is also useful when you have two types of collections in the same place, such as an array and dictionary.
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by robmcm 10y ago
We used to do this with Fluid.app in the naughties.
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by robmcm 10y ago
It is a grey area, all web applications I work on have syncing, caching, local storage and offline support. I can also think of many mobile apps that do not. To assume otherwise is a bit of a generalization.
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by robmcm 10y ago
"or rather a mayor that happens to be Muslim", but then I guess that wouldn't get as many clicks...
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by robmcm 10y ago
Perhaps they were expecting the Echo to really flop.
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by robmcm 10y ago
Most people have 10 to choose from, 20 if you want, and potentially more if you consider other regions of your skin.
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by robmcm 10y ago
The key thing to remember is a bug in autonomous driving doesn't mean the car swerves off the road at 100mph. If the software crashes or fails the car can come to a stop quite quickly without harm and allowing for human intervention. H
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by robmcm 10y ago
Exactly, it's frighting how everyone is assuming they have to change their public persona in order to protect their online version!
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by robmcm 10y ago
I found after a mixture of tear out and maximizing and minimizing the widgets end up half way down the page. To reproduce (Chrome 49.0.x): Take "Fnts 100" maximize, undock, redock, meximize (repeat if needed).

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