stctgion

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by stctgion 9y ago
I think maybe it's because you can't win at Facebook. All the other forms of entertainment give you a sense of satisfaction on completion. Facebook is the complete opposite. It doesn't end and you can't really win at it.
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by stctgion 9y ago
UK. No limit. All vacation has manager approval though never heard of it being denied. Also have a various schemes for large amounts of unpaid leave while still returning to your original position.
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by stctgion 9y ago
Another good question to ask is "Did we all really need to be here?" after someone adds a mailer to the invite..
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by stctgion 9y ago
I have witnessed the case where whole products were created to fill gaps in sales promises on the threat of law suits. It's not a great way to do business, both Dev and the customer end up upset.
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by stctgion 9y ago
It's a nice thought but we aren't heading in that direction. The young are almost exclusively brought up on swipe interfaces. The future is likely to be a dystopia of idiot proof GUIs or even worse voice control.
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by stctgion 9y ago
Ultimately it is really quite hard to monetize a platform that is so easy to implement with so little product differentiation. People use messaging for messaging. I don't care if you have better emojis. I will certainly leave if you sh
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by stctgion 9y ago
The class system in the US might be about money but here in the UK you can be penniless and still look down upon someone by being born into the right family!
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by stctgion 9y ago
Implementing scarcity seems like a totally undesirable thing to do, unless your only motive is money
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by stctgion 9y ago
There is an opinion to delay the recording start for this very reason
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by stctgion 9y ago
Totally agree with this. I've had to pick up the pieces on more than one occasion when some key piece of code was written in the flavour of the month and the writer shortly left. I've heard other Devs say you should pick the right
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by stctgion 9y ago
Every time I see some one say no version control I do a double take. Hopefully you managed to convince them to start it?
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by stctgion 9y ago
It's not gold. Gold has a long history of being a stable store of value. I could buy gold now and sit back and not worry that the price was about to fall through the floor. Owning bitcoin is not the same. At any moment it could tank. I
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by stctgion 9y ago
Happens where I work quite frequently, and yes it does have the effects you describe
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by stctgion 9y ago
The languages move on but so do the expectations. Until we have star trek style computers there will always be more to it than just hooking up some libraries
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by stctgion 9y ago
Using an historical inflation calculator I make the yearly maintenance cost of the customs line to be approximately £35 billion.
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by stctgion 9y ago
It's not pronounced wee-men. It's a shorter sound than that, but I guess I'm proving your point!
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by stctgion 9y ago
I've used decorators for registration multiple times in the real world. It's nice to be able to visibly attach the registration function call to the object you are registering rather than having it just written after it somewhere.
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by stctgion 9y ago
When I saw the term tracing my mind went to network tracing and then ray tracing before whatever this is. Is the front page of this more obvious to other people?
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by stctgion 9y ago
There's also micropython https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp8266/esp8266/tutor...
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by stctgion 9y ago
If you don't allow uninitialised variables
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by stctgion 9y ago
Anyone know the specifics of how you actually intercept data on a fibre optic cable?
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by stctgion 9y ago
It's still possible for the government to apply pressure so that ISPs man in the middle and force weaker ciphers that can be decoded after the fact
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by stctgion 9y ago
In 2023 Mickey mouse is due to enter the public domain again so it'll probably increase before then
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by stctgion 9y ago
You'd need a new coin. Perhaps some form of proof of work that could only be done by hand
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by stctgion 9y ago
I think that's my point. Using unlimited force for self defense is not good. I couldn't care less about the legality
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by stctgion 9y ago
If an unarmed man charges at you, you don't have the right to kill them. Police forces all round the world manage fine with battons and other non lethal weapons.
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by stctgion 9y ago
I read it as a 4x speed up of 10% of the work. So what took 10% now takes 2.5%. this leaves 7.5% remaining. Assuming that time is spent doing the same thing then it's 100/(90+0.925*7.5) which is ~3% increase in useful work. I&#x27
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by stctgion 9y ago
My wife came home today and said her work load had just doubled. She's been told to copy reports from Word to a web based application. I told her that this could be scripted really easily. She shrugged. Imagine the efficiencies possibl
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by stctgion 9y ago
I just totally dispair when it comes to this. I feel powerless to stop my country becoming the distopia imagined in V for Vendetta. Both main parties are supporting legislation beyond the wildest dreams of 20th century despots..
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by stctgion 9y ago
Do you realize that calling people inefficiencies sounds rather cold?

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