thorin

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by thorin 4y ago
Yes, but the number of people wanting to do software over a certain age also goes down. I was working with a developer/tester in his early 70s until recently. He's not working now but I messaged him the other day and he was workin
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by thorin 4y ago
Do you have a linK? I tried to search, but it brought up only this thread and a blog post.
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by thorin 4y ago
It must be really hard work being a baker, it's very labour intensive and you sell each item pretty cheaply. I guess it's hard to make money. I'm always so happy in France to see every village having it's own bakery whic
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by thorin 4y ago
Empty spaces, what are we living for? Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on Does anybody know what we are looking for?
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by thorin 4y ago
I remember seeing an advert for door into summer, never heard of the others, thanks.
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by thorin 4y ago
Yes, I agree with the short story part, these are attractive to film makers and for instance I think all of the good Stephen King films are based on his short stories. I always though Man who fell to earth (Bowie) was an (unofficial?) versi
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by thorin 4y ago
Depends what you're hoping to get out of it. If you want to socialise on route or look at is as some kind of spiritual pilgrimage I'd focus 100% on the walk while you're doing it. Seems like a good opportunity to forget about
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by thorin 4y ago
What do you have to do to get banned? I've seen people getting banned temporarily but I haven't heard of anyone getting banned permanently.
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by thorin 4y ago
No, they exist because someone can see an opportunity to make the same or more money than they make on beef with something that is extremely cheap for them to manufacture.
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by thorin 4y ago
The other things I put in the same group would be Pret A Manger (more of a takeaway/cafe) and also Cranks. I was in London at the same time as these chains were taking off before they spread to the greater UK. Cranks was such a great h
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by thorin 4y ago
Nandos was in South Africa at least 10 years before it got popular in the UK. I was pretty disappointed when I went there.
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by thorin 4y ago
I'm never going to be Linus Torvals or John Carmack, so does that make me a 0.001x programmer or them a 1000000x programmer or an ∞x programmer?
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by thorin 4y ago
This is probably true in the US, but in UK/Europe most buildings are made of brick/stone. People seem to think builders are dumb, but it's a very complicated job really if you are working on lots of different types of housing
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by thorin 4y ago
I had one of these when I was over in Canada (paddling Ottawa river) in 2004, it was a great vehicle.
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by thorin 4y ago
I drive a Ford Mondeo (diesel estate 50MPG) in the UK. I bought it because it has very large cabin space for loading bikes/kayaks, I also have 2 children. I can sleep in it if I need to while away from home. I previously had this car f
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by thorin 4y ago
It's obviously incredibly dated now, but I used to absolutely love this game on the Amiga in the 90s - Midwinter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwinter_(video_game)
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by thorin 4y ago
I would imagine that some (non-IT) companies would be investing heavily in IT - home working, automation, call centre/websites/webapps Speculative spend for startups and service companies which is investor drive may be down for th
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by thorin 4y ago
I think this is quite true, and I've noticed that my son can remember virtually every pokemon card and football player he's interested in whereas I've started to have to write things down. His world is quite small and now wit
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by thorin 4y ago
Is the vinegar for the taste? I was told to cook hot for 10 mins then turn off heat and leave the lid on for 10 mins. Usually comes out pretty good. Twice as much water as rice. Rice cookers must be popular for a reason though?
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by thorin 4y ago
But it's mainly the ones in the US that get the crazy salaries? Certainly not the ones in Asia, S America and much less so in Europe.
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by thorin 4y ago
Service Now Teams - slow, memory hungry Defendpoint for local admin - when you end up having to put your password in 20 times to install something from Microsoft, for example Jira - maybe it's just the way ours is configured but TFS&#x
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by thorin 4y ago
The first one I thought of was John Carmack. Also the broken record podcast of rick rubin doing interviews of all of the red hot chili peppers had some fantastic stories. Edit, the lex episode with Jack Barsky too ( spy)
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by thorin 4y ago
Nearly 10 years ago my manager suggested we get a mentor so I chose a great Java developer in our team (I didn't have much OO experience) and wanted to learn about dependency injection and TDD and all that stuff. A couple of weeks late
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by thorin 4y ago
Thanks! It's also my daughters birthday (9 yesterday) so I always remember it. I celebrated by eating cake, cuddling my kids, listening to music and listening to the audio book biography of the dark lord himself Tony Iommi.
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by thorin 4y ago
I used Oracle on VMS at British Gas around 20+ years ago. I couldn't believe they were still using it to be honest. I'd generally used UNIX SUNs etc up to that point for servers. The main thing I remember was that the shell seemed
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by thorin 4y ago
When I was a kid my dad used a sack with a hole in it all time as a drogue while out fishing.
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by thorin 4y ago
And Harvey Pekar I guess, I love American Splendor. However a lot of those people had already "made it" in some sense, but they became notable in old(er) age.
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by thorin 4y ago
I've used pro* C for a couple of things (in banking and utilties, 1990s) where people wanted interactive batch functionality for something more complex than you'd generally put in a shell script. I think most of the pro* C usage c
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by thorin 4y ago
If you want somewhere remote and quiet in England go to Northumberland. Another option maybe be one of the retreat centres in the UK I can personally recommend this one: https://www.holyisle.org/
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by thorin 4y ago
Was thinking back to childhood when deciding what to get my kids at xmas time. The big presents that stand out: Commodore Vic 20 when I was about 6 so I started "programming" immediately. This was followed by a zx spectrum +3 a fe

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