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by shubb 13y ago
Sorry, you seem to be suggesting that having insurance (access to non-emergency medical treatment) has no effect on life expectancy. Which might be the case. You argue that Oregon showed that. Doesn't that paint medicine as a huge frau
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by shubb 13y ago
There have been some decent clinical trials showing a high does of fish oil (something like 1g a day) improves mood better than placebo in bipolar depresssives. There are some risks to taking really high doses of fish oil every day though -
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by shubb 13y ago
This is what an undisrupted industry sounds like. You hear it from train driver unions, banks, and doctors. There is merit in what they say about safety, but they see it not as a set of problems that might be overcome, but as a way of shutt
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by shubb 13y ago
I find it very strange that hospitality is such a big part of the financial industry. Bank / broker employees take clients (who are senior employees of pension funds for instance) out for food and drinks. Maintaining the relationship b
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by shubb 13y ago
>> I suspect we're indeed looking at the same site, Ah, but we weren't. I'd like to apologize - I didn't mean that to sound sassy. When I was viewing the site earlier, I was doing it on a high resolution widescreen
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by shubb 13y ago
The queries I find myself switching to Google for are: * When I want a local result (i.e. I'm googling for business cards, and I want a UK based company that will sell them to me). This is because DuckDuckGo doesn't use your locat
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by shubb 13y ago
A while ago, I did one of these horrific team training things with a large group of people I work with day to day. We were asked to self assess whether we were introverts or extravert's, and then the group assessed each person by secre
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by shubb 13y ago
I feel like we are looking at different sites here. At least for me, the first screenfull of python.org is dominated by a picture of some code and the text 'Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate syst
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by shubb 13y ago
I think the price has come down because the number of buyers is now much bigger. Half Life 1, which was a huge blockbuster in 1998 took a year to sell 1/4 the number of coppies BioShock Infinite sold in 5 months. I'm just impresse
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by shubb 13y ago
Maybe a lot of people know that moving job comes with a 10-20% raise, so they take the counter offer while planning to move on in 6 months or so, meaning that they get a double raise... They might also feel they will be taken as a more skil
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by shubb 13y ago
My thought is that if the achievements of a 40 year old took 20 years to accumulate, then they must have been working at something for 20 years. That sort of achievement is one that is earned, rather than coming from luck. Which means it is
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by shubb 13y ago
I find it is usually possible to convince your employer to give you time to study up - whether this is extra time tacked onto a project because "I need to learn the framework", or actual formal training. I think not making your em
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by shubb 13y ago
Maybe there are lots of types of programmer now. I tend to do the sort of things you mentioned, and look in awe at the amount of api / domain knowledge good Java or web developers have. Actually, I wonder if the steamroller is age. I c
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by shubb 13y ago
I think this is the culture shock of not working with a compiled language. I mostly work in compiled, statically typed languages, and it can be a bit of a surprise in Javascript when you don't find out about a syntax error until execut
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by shubb 13y ago
Why are people incredulous that China could produce an operating system? They have the skilled labor to do it. I can get incredulity that they would want to - a chinese certified security inspected android/linux would do what is needed
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by shubb 13y ago
Personally, I make a digital ocean VM in the US, and then use: ssh myvmaddress.com -D 10000 Then I set Firefox proxy to SOCKS on port 10000. You can also do this on windows with putty. Great for when you need to use an untrusted wifi, becau
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by shubb 13y ago
To me, there are a bunch of people who can't do Agile. They have huge legacy software projects, with low test coverage. They have customers that want (or can only cope with) traditional requirements based contracts. In situations where
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by shubb 13y ago
You mention linkedin. The reason I said SMEs is that things at a small company are less process driven. If you want to intern at linkedin, then you probably have to apply to head office, and probably then intern at head office. But at a sma
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by shubb 13y ago
You are right - I am basing this on my subjective experience. Also, I suspect that this is a problem if 80% of your time you are at a desk typing, but if you move around a lot, it's not going to be such a problem. That said, if you are
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by shubb 13y ago
Tiny screens, especially high res ones, are fine for coding. But working on laptops all day isn't great. If you code all day, you will probably develop back problems if you don't sit with good posture. You need to sit straight in
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm going to give different advice. You should ideally try to get work at a software focussed SME, where you can learn from good developers, and slowly grow into larger and more difficult projects. There are lots of different small sof
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by shubb 13y ago
When he says it would be possible to completely imitate a real call using web rtc and vibrate, what I hear is that this API combined with webRTC could replace phone calls. Sure you could install a skype ap, but this opens the way to compani
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by shubb 13y ago
What happens if they find you have stuff that you have not delcared? I know for cheap items they charge you the tax or trash them. For several thousand dollars worth of equiptment though, they might not be so nice...
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by shubb 13y ago
Can anyone recommend a particular book? So far we have: +Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition +Building Machine Learning Systems with Python +Data Visualization: a successful design process +Infinispan Data Grid Platform
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by shubb 13y ago
Can I ask the thinking behind how you name your products? I had some difficulty understanding what you are selling - a groupware suite with API integration? If all your sub-products make sense used as part of a suite, why not talk about the
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by shubb 13y ago
IANAL, but it is possible to do this under UK law - employees in the UK can be fired for any or no reason for the first 2 years, providing they are not being discriminated against (religion, gender etc). After that, they can be fired if it
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by shubb 13y ago
I guess my point is, the difference between sports and politics is that sports don't really matter. Neither do the other things you list. TDD vs Anti-TDD for a self driving car. That matters. The engineer that decides that based on an
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by shubb 13y ago
If you are saying the division is by original design, that is kind of awesome. Did one of the founders say anything about it in a speech? That would actually be pretty cool. I guess what I object to is the black and whiteness of the discuss
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by shubb 13y ago
From the outside, the way American politics divides people is strange. The psychology of republicans vs democrats, tpartiers vs big staters seems more like the supporters of a sports team. When you support a sports team, if your player blat
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by shubb 13y ago
Edit - replying to deleted comment saying to use a commercial VPN Alternative for the particularly nerdy brit, who happens to have a cloud instance in the US, and likes to roll their own. Instructions are from a Linux machine, but you can d

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