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by thorin 3y ago
I don't disagree with any of that, but it's interesting to consider how China might move to be a place where like in the UK (aspirationally at least) or in Germany or Scandanavia where people might enjoy freedom, healthcare, socia
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by thorin 3y ago
The only obvious advantage to a wide dataset to me is not having to join data entities, but I come from 25 years of mainly working with relational databases so I'm used to that. I can see that it would fix some problems around creating
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by thorin 3y ago
How will it change if they are living in a dictatorship under total Government control. If you look at the history of European workers rights many of the movements would not be allowed in this context. The only alternative seems to be some
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by thorin 3y ago
You don't really say why you want to use ultra wide tables? I can tell you that they are quite painful to look at as a user, microsoft dynamics crm which I use has some tables with many hundreds of columns and it's painful to acce
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by thorin 3y ago
Why do you need status in the UK though, I'm not sure it's a requirement, probably more of an ego thing? I've been to garden parties at Buckingham Palace, balls at Oxford and Cambridge university, worked in investment banking
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by thorin 3y ago
You are living the dream, I suspect, from a UK perspective. I have a similar background. Not sure what you mean by coffee engineer? I have friends who are plumbers (gas safe) or builders etc. They can make the same money as me, or more, but
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by thorin 3y ago
I would concentrate on modern JS without frameworks and TS initially. I can't recommend a book really as the last ones I read are 10 years old now e.g. JS - the good parts. You mention devops stuff e.g. networking / routing that I
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by thorin 3y ago
There are some different pictures on a theme and some more similar ones from what I remember. I'll have to check out the wave, I only know it from popular culture, I don't think I've seen it in person.
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by thorin 3y ago
Think of it as applying to a family member rather than yourself. Would you like your pet to eat well and drink enough water! You're free to do what you want. Lemmy lived till his later 60s and Ozzy is even older. You can't do ever
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by thorin 3y ago
A bit like "the scream" and "sunflowers". I went to the Munch museum in Oslo and was very impressed.
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Retro Computer Museum(retrocomputermuseum.co.uk)
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by thorin 3y ago
I was massively into computer gaming from age about 6, starting with game and watch, then vic20, spectrum and commodore amiga. The last games I remember playing regularly were in the mid-late 90s, stuff like Doom, Goldeneye etc. One thing t
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by thorin 3y ago
Why do you need user authentication, data model and user state, what is that part doing?
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by thorin 3y ago
Lockdown completely killed my mum's social life. She's in her 80s and all her friends were met through church (UK). During the pandemic her church only did some online services and no outdoors meets or anything and never really re
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by thorin 3y ago
Around 2006 I travelled around Mexico extensively including drinking heavily and getting on tubes late at night in Mexico City and living in an apartment for a while. Had no problems whatsoever. I was hit by terrorists in Nepal and thieves
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by thorin 3y ago
Yes, this is really excellent, I really struggle to engage with history for some reason, since I was a kid I always found it boring but I have enjoyed the 1st few articles I've read on his site and will finish watching the lecture. I&#
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by thorin 3y ago
I have an Ikea chair (it might be the Markus) and an Ikea manual standing desk, although it's been in sitting mode so far. What advantages do you feel you get from the more expensive chair. I've been having some muscle issues arou
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by thorin 3y ago
In the past (Oracle - for nearly 25yrs, SQLServer, Redis, Sqlite, Postgres, MongoDb) Currently Snowflake, CouchbaseDb, CosmosDb, Sqlserver connection to Microsoft Dynamics backend dataverse.
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by thorin 3y ago
Emails are work, meetings are work, discussions are work. I'm not a developer anymore, when I was I did maybe 2-3hrs a day of coding and testing. Now I might do a couple of hours a week. Assuming these are work, I do maybe 7-8.5hrs&#x2
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by thorin 4y ago
None of them would have impressed my parents as they would have had no idea what they were. My uncle was a doctor ( the only family member that I knew that went to a university ) but they weren't keen on him. They met in the army and h
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by thorin 4y ago
What if you aren't "really passionate" about anything. I know very few people who are particularly focused on one thing. For instance, I love outdoor activities, have considered working in that area, but the pay is bad and th
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by thorin 4y ago
Do you have an example? I'm not a massive fan of animations or effects on functional apps and websites.
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by thorin 4y ago
What do you have for breakfast?
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by thorin 4y ago
Why F#? When I play blues on the piano I tend to play in C (first one I learnt) or Eb. I've noticed Stevie Wonder plays in Eb a lot presumably because he can more easily identify the black notes by feel and Eb blues is mainly black key
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by thorin 4y ago
I have that one and it was worth it for me to be able to correctly set the height of the desk for sitting (I'm v tall). I haven't yet tested it as a standing desk, but I guess I'll give it a go sometime.
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by thorin 4y ago
I'm not a postgres expert but I wouldn't be surprised if the people selling themselves as such were previously sql server or oracle experts. I've done both over the last 25 years and followed their certification path, but I&#
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by thorin 4y ago
This isn't really how it works though. She would take AT LEAST half of what you currently have, including stuff you had before you met. You would also have some responsibility for providing for her and your children in the future at a
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by thorin 4y ago
Scenarios: 1. They hook you in and get you the job in the advert, they get 10-20% of your 1st years salary or whatever for making a few phone calls 2. They hook you in, but you're a poor fit, but they can match you with another job 3.
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by thorin 4y ago
UK has a lot lower % of VC funded startups. Would be interesting to see the stats on that. Most UK IT is directly servicing customers through consultancies or inhouse. UK recession/inflation is bad at the moment, but almost everywhere
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by thorin 4y ago
Where in Europe? Do you have any jobs going?

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