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by thorin 4y ago
I thought this was a fantastic podcast. I'm not sure how so many people can hate Lex and his (free!) work. I've been waiting for some of these interviews (with a technical interview for years/decades). I'm a bit confused
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by thorin 4y ago
I have to say I enjoy these YouTube videos with people talking about "the olden days". Very much ASMR, they are normally quite relaxing. I haven't watched this one but there are lots: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by thorin 4y ago
The code you're writing right now, is a legacy codebase soon enough, if it's good and valuable enough and to survive a few years.
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by thorin 4y ago
This is the best one I've seen, thanks for the reminder.
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by thorin 4y ago
My son is 7 and plays Prodigy Maths (there is also an English version ) with account provided by school. He's so competitive with it with other kids in school and it's like an RPG with math battles and levelling up which he loves.
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by thorin 4y ago
His Dark Materials would have been good to read around that age, and Dune maybe slightly older. I read both as an adult.
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by thorin 4y ago
There was a TV series on the BBC when I was around 10 which I don't think they ever finished, but it was fantastic. I read the books around the same time.
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by thorin 4y ago
Outside of Silicon Valley (I'm only interested in UK/Europe) I've seen several opportunities. I did work for a startup for around 3months which was a terrible fit for me ~15 people and not offering equity at that time but low
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by thorin 4y ago
In the UK at least virtually every town has the option to buy locally farmed possibly organic meat direct from the farm which is almost always fantastic. It might cost twice as much as supermarket meat (which is also ok at times), but at le
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by thorin 4y ago
I studied elec eng for 4 years in the UK up to masters level. I went from being top of the class with a good knowledge of maths/physics to struggling. A few people moved from elec eng to cs and went from failing to getting a 1st. On gr
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by thorin 4y ago
I've spent a bit of time in Sicily, Italy and Sardinia. I agree with what you're saying, but I bet the locals eat less meat and better quality meat than the average American. They're also active and outside a lot.
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by thorin 4y ago
And if you're interested in that watch the movie :-) https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM Micro men, story of the zx spectrum vs the bbc
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by thorin 4y ago
A mid period band I don't hear about much anymore is Queensryche.
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by thorin 4y ago
Walking on Glass - Iain Banks and In-sides - Orbital been stuck there for 25 years or so
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by thorin 4y ago
Prog is still alive and well. I love King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard. My fav lesser known prog is Caravan.
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Free Documentaries Online(openculture.com)
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by thorin 4y ago
This is mandated by OFGEM in the UK now. uSwitch will also give you the current "best deal". I have done some work with the Octopus systems and they are very new an agile, but don't handle the complexity that the big 6 have p
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by thorin 4y ago
You are 2 people, one with a bunch of skills to offer a new job and another with in depth knowledge at the current company. You could refuse to use those skills in your current company, but that's a big part of the value you represent
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by thorin 4y ago
Generally by hacking them into smaller, less complicated problems. Note, I didn't say microservices!
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by thorin 4y ago
Similar thing happened at a Heathrow terminal, the day after hundreds of British Airways workers were made redundant / outsourced. Possibly a coincidence!
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by thorin 4y ago
I had a PHPBB in 199X for a small group of friends / club. It would frequently get hacked or spammed if you didn't update patches and monitor it quite closely which was annoying. Most of the forums I use (apart from this one) have
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by thorin 4y ago
I wrote stuff in the 90s that's probably still in use. Conversely I have built who systems recently that have been superseded after a couple of months of use.
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by thorin 4y ago
I think you got lucky with Java and were able to stay doing similar stuff for a long period of time. This is constantly happening in every part of software and has been for for 50 years or more. I "got lucky" with Oracle developme
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by thorin 4y ago
The UK is now advertising a massive employment rate / very low employment. However obvs that disregards retired, minors, people in full time education, people with medical issues. According to google over 5 million receive Universal Cr
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Chinese Room Thought Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thorin 4y ago
Monetisation of Linkedin works because they provide features job seekers and current employees don't want. Recruitment agents love it, but then again it makes it harder for them to justify their existence. For me (full time employee wh
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by thorin 4y ago
Additionally I've got a lot out of: The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway L'Etranger - Camus The Castle / The Trial - Kafka
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by thorin 4y ago
In my case, Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh and Travels - Michael Crichton
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by thorin 4y ago
The Doors, love the look of the film and always enjoy kicking back and listening to the music Labyrinth, with the kids now (and Spirited away and Totoro) David Lynch films American Splendor, becomes more relevant with age.
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by thorin 4y ago
Almost everything is FOR PROFIT NOW in the western system. This kind of thing is more likely to be happening in China. R&D departments have been downsized in most cases (maybe not in bio/pharma, which still has a long lifecycle). W

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