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by shubb 9y ago
Occasionally it does in the UK. A man who was videoed appealingly for calm during the London riots was let off I believe an assault charge. The magistrate told him something like 'we're even now '. However this was mitigatio
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by shubb 9y ago
Lately, they are offering quite good context sensitive caned responses. For instance I got an email earlier confirming a cancellation due to illness. It suggested I respond 'Thank you for your understanding'. That's some qui
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by shubb 9y ago
Linux isn't a single company though. There are around 25 different editions of windows 10. It's very difficult to know what you need to buy. And when you read their... licensing white paper... it quickly becomes clear that you can
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by shubb 9y ago
There is though a workforce of gardeners employed by local governments and individuals that you would be displacing. Perhaps from a good job onto the work programme.
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by shubb 9y ago
Such a programme was recently tried here in the UK. I don't know the details but friends effected mentioned: * Being required to attend an office full time where they were monitored job searching and required to do soft skills courses,
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by shubb 9y ago
The other cool thing is, (given that these will end up in a lot of servers) - instead of graphics card, read CUDA card.
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by shubb 9y ago
It's worth considering that palantir, while big and spooky from a startup perspective, are a new kid on a block with some even spookier bruisers. Palantirs competitors are folks like IBM, Lockheed Martin, and BAE. We know a little abo
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by shubb 9y ago
If the general point is that kids are super expensive - I dunno about that. I'm happily childless in my 30s, and when I look around at my circle of friends, those who had children early tend to have more stuff and more savings. Why? Be
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by shubb 9y ago
But we're in it right? And it is a world where non participation might equate to a negative profile, so the bay we can do is understand the enemy and curate perfection, while engaging in a real way only when anonymous (so far as that c
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by shubb 9y ago
Wasn't the big story last week that digital natives and millennials weren't really a thing?
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by shubb 9y ago
You seem like someone who needs to turn off Firefox's prefetching, especially for DNS.
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by shubb 9y ago
I don't actually agree with your examples but I wanted to add one of my own. I went to a dentist complaining of sensitive teeth. He identified the problem as small cavities caused by chewing in my sleep, drilled them out, and added fil
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by shubb 9y ago
A classic move from Japan and South Korea's economic rise was a closed home market, but with home companies forced to export. This created a safe pool where new local companies could grow before they were able to face international com
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by shubb 9y ago
This is interesting because it shows no wires is desirable. You could build an almost wireless box - just a little power lead - if you built in whdi or wigig into your little desktop unit but for now tat would push the price up too much. I
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by shubb 9y ago
I feel like this is actually a great idea - As a night owl,I've noticed people who get up in the morning have life worked out way better than me. If the ceo text people at 3am, excluded anyone awake to respond, and upmarked anyone who
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by shubb 9y ago
I'm pretty sure joylent lost me a job once. I was there consulting but they were making good noises about an extension. Then I tried a week on joylent. I emitted smells I have only previously come across in a hospital. The putrid rea
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by shubb 9y ago
Can confirm. I'm a terrible programmer but got 100%. I guess it selects for people with very unfocused careers and no real specialism.
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by shubb 9y ago
Well indeed - I wonder how these folks are gonna pay for hosting once someone starts testing a video streaming site...
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by shubb 9y ago
Very nice, bookmarked - this will be great for scraping 'advanced' websites!
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by shubb 9y ago
I went the ltd route, and believe it has given me more paperwork. As developers we don't have all that many business expenses. Maybe you'll do better than me, but I don't think I made huge tax savings. As a director I have to
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by shubb 9y ago
CS is a safe bet. If you study CS at a good school and graduate well, do a bit of portfolio, and study for interview tests, you'll land a job at a large company that pays much better than what most of your peers can expect. We tend to
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by shubb 9y ago
I do Yoga. Like a lot of computer folk I spent my days sitting with terrible posture, and I love how it makes my back feel. If physical exercise is missing from your day, I can tell you that for me, adding it was trans formative. It's
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by shubb 9y ago
Interesting that you mention dynamic languages. I think that a lot of why people do TDD is that you can't reliably know if a program in a dynamic language has basic issues unless you run it. The same is partially true for manual memory
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by shubb 9y ago
Browser inconsistencies are the 2nd worst part of web development. Are you sure you wouldn't want to render your site in a consistent 'browser in a browser' if you could?
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by shubb 9y ago
It's surprising how big programs are. Very basic android apps can weigh in at 30-60mb, and I've noticed cordova apps are particularly bad for that. Imagine needing to pull that much data every time you visited a new site. We'
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by shubb 9y ago
Mearsk is kind of critical infrastructure - they carry a lot of freight. It's conceivable that if you took out a few major carriers like this for a week, you'd get widespread food shortages.
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by shubb 9y ago
Ha, the idea being that once you've said to someone that they you'll do a thing for them, the social pressure will make you complete it. Recently I hooked up with some friend of a friend students who needed an app. I don't no
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by shubb 9y ago
Presumably this 'lack of focus' isn't a problem in your day job. First of all cut yourself some slack here - it's your spare time, and you hard enough already. You don't need to do more than you are doing, and hones
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by shubb 9y ago
In some industries and areas of the US 'consulting' can mean temporary employment of various kinds. In other, IT consultants might be employees of a large firm like IBM who show businesses how to modernize their IT. This would typ
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by shubb 9y ago
I worry how that wording will work for security researchers exposing badly implemented roll your own encryption systems. Or opensource client applications for proprietary messaging systems, though those get rarer these days.

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