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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I've just spent a few days using Ionic to mockup up a front end app. It would take a few days more to create a back end and that would be a complete app. This rapid development cycle is incredible. I've got the app running in ios
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Syria conflict: Bashar al-Assad vows to retake whole country(bbc.co.uk)
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Interesting idea. I've tried to exercise most of my life, and running is a favourite - however, my legs/knees can't take the impact any more and I'm much more into cycling. I really want to exercise after I get up in the
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I had an interview for a contract as a front end coder before Christmas and got offered the position at the end of the interview - he asked all the right questions - but after Christmas the contract details were taking a while to sort until
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I was reading on a mobile. It must default to the white on black theme.
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
Totally off topic, I know, but another white on black web page. It plays havoc with my eyes. /rant
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I've been down voted on here for an anti FB post before. And I wasn't even saying anything that contentious. I have since stopped using Facebook because of all the regurgitated noise that appears in my timeline.
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Awesome read. Sounds like a great guy.
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That's been recommended to me before, but I'd forgotten about it - I shall act this time. Thanks! I started to read Solaris, but found the translation stilted and difficult, so gave up. I've just read that Lem himself didn&#x
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
This is not my understanding of the Fermi Paradox and I've never heard this interpretation before. The paradox is; given the Drake equation, where is everyone? That's all it amounts to, hence the paradox. The author of the article
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I've worked in places where a number of these were actual passwords to actual servers. starwars anyone?
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Lincolnshire County Council hit by £1m malware demand(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sjclemmy 11y ago|0 comments
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> Sleep. A lot of programming problems get solved while you sleep. I love it when I go to bed mulling over a problem, and when I get up I have the solution. The brain is truly a wondrous machine!
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30 years ago when I was 13, I experienced all the things described by the author. I over valued my peers' opinion, I disregarded my parents' words of advice. Isn't it normal to feel these things? It's how an individual g
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
This will have to be very good to be better than Visual Studio on Windows. I've used Visual Studio 2013 a fair bit in the last 12 months and it's a fantastic IDE. Microsoft are also developing their cross-platform offering Visual
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
What don't you buy? >Music follows rules, rules that we all grew up internalizing. There's no "universal music", just music who's rules you are familiar with. Tweak those rules just enough and in the right way an
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I totally agree with your points - the market economy finds ways to monetise and that's its job. I'm not actually a big fan of Bowie, I'm a bit too young, but it's something I'm observing. I'm also aware that t
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
Facebook annoys me so much, I've stopped using it. It really is like an addiction. We've outsourced our feelings of belonging to Facebook. We want to be careful with that.
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I think Bowie was the antithesis of this. If you'll forgive the hyperbole, he is the archetypal outsider, the patron saint of the dispossessed. So for all those who don't feel that they belong, Bowie's activities provided a m
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I contract. So if that dries up, I'm screwed. But luckily I have an interest in something that is highly valued in the modern world; software development. So it's incumbent on me to make sure I can get work, and, so far, it's
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
The pithy answer is 'life is complicated, confusing and difficult'. The slightly longer answer is; I was young, I was (and still am) in love, it's my child (and she's great btw. Aced all her exams, goes to a top Universi
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
When I was young and fresh out of college, I earned £8000 per annum and attempted to support a non-working partner and a small child. The idea of time vs money was irrelevant. I did not have enough money to live on. I would work as much as
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Nothing to do with the function, but the form... I really struggle with white on black text. Most of the internet is black on white, so, when switching back to a light screen I see black line after images. I really dislike it.
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It seems to me that the spirit of long working hours stems from the idea that a worker is an interchangeable 'machine' with a capacity to provide effort and the idea that more time spent (literally) at the coal face will yield a b
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I'm in Eijsden at the moment! I have family who live here, and we often walk down there and have lunch by the Meuse / Maas. It's quite a surprise to see it on HN.
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
I've just started working on an app using Angular 2 and Ionic 2.: 1. TypeScript - It's really nice to be able to use a typed version of JS, although it does feel like I'm writing C# sometimes! It supports lambda syntax /
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I see your references are Australian, so the rules there may be different but I'd like to clarify the rules in force in the UK around your second example. According to the Copyright Act 1988 there is the idea of fair use / fair de
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by sjclemmy 11y ago
A really odd alternate history novel I read recently is called 'Pavane'. Worth a read if you're into that kind of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(novel)
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Some Differences Between Experts and Novices (2012)(karlkapp.com)
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Orwell wasn't poor. He went to Eton. He's more like the Greek girl in Pulp's song 'Common People' Whatever he did he could call time on it. That's not to say I don't admire his work for its obvious compass

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