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by shubb 13y ago
Brit here. Just been convinced to invade Norway for my next holiday.
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by shubb 13y ago
>> ...C++ Exceptions are "thrown" without operator new... Reading this reminded me how dependent I am on intelisense for a lot of languages. I work in C++ and Java all day every day, and if you asked me how to throw an excep
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by shubb 13y ago
This is basically a Segway, which is essentially an electric wheelchair with higher spec motors and battery. All of the above sell for more than $1000 dollars, probably because that's just what the hardware costs :-( Likely, the proble
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by shubb 13y ago
According to the Insitution of Engineering and Technology in the UK, Computer Science students are more likely to be unemployed than graduates of any other STEM subject (16%). Computer Science graduates are more likely to be unemployed 6 mo
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by shubb 13y ago
My perception is the opposite - Perm employees, particularly junior ones, are often hired because they can be developed. Whereas, contractors need all the skills to do the job on day one. As a perm employee, I assume contractors are somewha
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by shubb 13y ago
8 years is a long time - a lot more than ~2 which is what I'd assumed. Given the circumstances Op may find running away the best option.
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by shubb 13y ago
A lot of countries have dogmatic laws many people in them disagree with. For instance, in the US, you can go to jail for selling cannabis, and a lot of people disagree with that. If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for
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by shubb 13y ago
Depending on how long you are likely to go away, it's probably best do just do the time. Escaping, as others suggested, would mean leaving your life behind, likely living as an illegal elsewhere (without the ability to open a bank acco
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by shubb 13y ago
So are you saying that there was no deliberate hijack, but rather AS25459 was configured not to carry traffic to those IPs, and it's blackholes got propagated?
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by shubb 13y ago
The science lot usually call simulation 'In silico' in their papers. Personally, unnecessary latin makes me cringe.
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by shubb 13y ago
From reading job ads, I think most people work in the languages you mentioned. HN is more oriented towards python/ruby/objective C because it's demo is making relatively simple applications as fast as possible, and critically
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by shubb 13y ago
I'd guess she reused code from previous sites. Lately, I've been dumping heavily into a wiki while I work. Every command line snippet or reusable looking piece of code gets dumped in there. After about a week, it became really use
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by shubb 13y ago
The narrative in the UK is that some recent official reports, following some specific nasty crimes, established that the offenders used 'extreme pornography', and went from mild criminal records to quite extreme acts. I'm not
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by shubb 13y ago
A lot of negativity here, mostly based on the 90s site. Reading the excerpts, what the author is doing is quite clever. He creates an identity, the reliable, effective Senior Engineer. The reader wants to be more like that identity, so he t
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by shubb 13y ago
I have some questions for older posters (me - approaching 30): 1. There is always a new wave in tech. Currently, it's datascience, and previously it was web applications. Is it important to skill up and ride these, or can you keep goin
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by shubb 13y ago
Thanks for the recommend, I purchased. So far as I can tell, this book isn't so much about how to code, as how to work with people. It's by Jonathan Locke, who has an impressive history, and (judging by the online preview) a lovel
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by shubb 13y ago
>That's a totally ludicrous argument. In hindsight yeah. The catastrophic 'could be homeless' stuff was deliberate, and I thought it was a good idea at the time, but it's not realistic. In tech, things are made by tea
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by shubb 13y ago
You may have a point there. I'm sure being able to draw on the screen is pretty good for art work too.
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by shubb 13y ago
The vision of the surface (unlike the ipad) is that it is both a tablet, and a PC. You can mount it on a wall, put a bluetooth keyboard and mouse under it, and you are at a PC. You can clip in the little clippy keyboard, and it's a lap
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by shubb 13y ago
It looks like Canonical, as well as Microsoft, think that something in the form factor of a MS Surface is the way things are going. If you are going to have a desktop/tablet, you need a touch driven UI. Five years ago, when Samsung Q1
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by shubb 13y ago
I meant that dedication is when you make yourself do something in order to achieve a goal, while passion is doing that thing for it's own sake. That's what I think the girl meant. Which is the opposite of what the GP was talking a
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by shubb 13y ago
My reading of the speech (full here[1]), was the opposite of your conclusion. She makes the case that people are naturally passionate about (different) things, and should be free to follow that passion. She makes the case that many jobs cou
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by shubb 13y ago
Agreement not to be nasty to people mostly protects people in a weak position. It's a long time since that has been Linus, so it's not surprising he's forgotten the merits of it. Say 'Sarah Sharp' was hired by her c
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by shubb 13y ago
How would you feel about an event with a female only speaker list? Instinctively, it raises my hackles, because positive discrimination is still discrimination, but I've seen it work really well in stand up comedy. Women standups only
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by shubb 13y ago
The value of a combat robot is in avoiding casualties rather than cost savings. Casualties lose America wars, because it is a democracy, and it fights without an existential threat. However, I think your numbers for the cost of humans are w
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by shubb 13y ago
Yeah, they are based in Reading, on the UoR campus, which is in the Thames Valley area I mentioned. I though they were exciting, and considered using them for a project. I guess my comment was a bit negative. I wish good luck to anyone tryi
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by shubb 13y ago
I get these sense that the UK has a startup culture, but Silicon Roundabout isn't it. Several major exchanges (in energy, commodities) are recently ex-startups, and there is an ecosystem of innovative, fast growing companies servicing
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm enjoying 'Data Structures and Algorithms using Python'[1] Coming from a C++ background, I felt uncomfortable using python as more than a glue/scripting language, because the way resources are managed is treated very
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by shubb 13y ago
US bases outside of America are vital to the US if it wants to operate on other continents[1]. The bases in Germany for instance were used for medical care of casualties from Iraq and Afganistan. It's fair to say that without such base
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by shubb 13y ago
I haven't seen anyone elsewhere point out that maybe he is onboard. It may not be the case, but there must have been some convincing information to convince various countries to do this, and our evidence against is the departure site a

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