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by thorin 5y ago
It's not really been discussed yet in my job, Indian company contracted to a UK business which I used to work for directly (I'm English) so been at home every day for over 2 years now.
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by thorin 5y ago
Google had been building a massive office in central London so I assume they have a reasonable amount of interesting work going on there. I did go there for a mobile conference a while back and they were not sparing any expense on the confe
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by thorin 5y ago
I bumped into kids in villages in the middle of no where with no internet and few TVs in the Himalayas and Central Africa that could list all the premier league teams. It's hard to imagine how popular football is worldwide for an Ameri
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by thorin 5y ago
Ha ha, I was going to suggest Byron Bay :-) From your list I'd go for Lisbon, I mean if you are interested in learning languages it has to be Europe really. Are you interested in any particular activities e.g. surfing and outdoor life
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by thorin 5y ago
What country are you in? When I graduated in Elec Eng in the UK there were plenty of big companies like banks, government, utilities taking graduates of all kinds to train them into software engineering. I've met plenty of SWE with deg
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by thorin 5y ago
Is this the basis for Danny Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl?
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by thorin 5y ago
I like Lex too, he's a sensible and considerate guy. He's part of the whole podcast circuit like Joe Rogan, Brett/Eric Weinstein, Duncan Trussell, Joey Diaz, Russell Brand, Jocko Willink and a whole bunch of others. He wouldn
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by thorin 5y ago
One of my fav books is an autobiography: Michael Crichton - Travels It's a lighthearted journey through his career, physical and mental/spiritual experiences. I've read it a few times now.
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by thorin 5y ago
Are you currently in Ireland? If you want something similar consider other areas of England outside the South-East (I'm in Nottingham) or Scotland or Wales. Where have you lived previously? What do you enjoy doing? Lots of people live&
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by thorin 5y ago
If I wanted the best wine or geography and climate, I'd go to Western Europe. If I only had $5000, I'd probably go to Eastern Europe or Thailand/Vietnam.
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by thorin 5y ago
We like to use swagger to document the endpoints / payloads etc for REST APIs For other stuff we tend to just provide diagrams of servers/cloud services etc. Really the only way to understand it fully is to look at the code, but a
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by thorin 5y ago
Albert Camus, the stranger Earnest hemmingway, the old man and the sea Have read many times, I like short books!
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by thorin 5y ago
Ha, this is just the reality of things in Europe. I guess at least you get "free" healthcare, holidays and sick pay that you might not get in the US. Jobs in London (remote) would pay best I imagine. My role is paying London rate,
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by thorin 5y ago
If you have a chance to change, do physics, but there's every chance you wouldn't enjoy that as much as you think anyway. Except for people that work at universities, most people that I know who did physics (even to associate prof
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by thorin 5y ago
No one wants to pay you a load of money to do something you like :-) They might pay you to do something they don't like or something that can make you a load of money. You need to get into something lucrative e.g. funded startups, Bank
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by thorin 5y ago
Python the hard way would be good, but what do you want/need to do in the job, you might want to mention that! If you are doing webdev you should devote sometime to django/flask. I'm sure you can pick it up pretty quickly, it
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by thorin 5y ago
Possibly, but do you actually need any of that stuff? Some friends only listen to music on youtube or free on spotify (with ads). Personally I have apple music, after going through 3 months free trial of all the services I stuck with it and
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm 45, divorced and am not really that keen to meet people on Tinder/FB Dating etc. Recently I've really enjoyed meeting people through a walking group on FB, there is something happening most weekends when I'm not with
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm pleased you said that, because we also have a mixture, but most of the sets that were built were broken up and are now in communal boxes. This seems pretty unusual compared to most parents, I guess it's mostly because the pare
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by thorin 5y ago
If you're talking web services and you're a java expert / proficient then sure why not. I used Java Spring a while back and it was fine. You probably want to use what you know. I'm using .net core web api currently. If y
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by thorin 5y ago
I really struggled with it, during a time when I was reading many large or difficult books: Don Quixote, Moby Dick, The Quran. I like the idea of it, but couldn't get into it. I was perhaps considering the audio book instead as that mi
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by thorin 5y ago
Same with Jaspersoft, I used to enjoy working with their technical guys and went to a few conferences, but then it disappeared into the larger Tibco bucket. Tibco did spend a bucketload of cash on a hotel for their conferences though, very
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by thorin 5y ago
If I'm not looking but the role looks interesting, I'll normally just ping them and ask. Most of the time they will give you a name, location and pay range online. Of course the more desperate you are the less leverage you have. I
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by thorin 5y ago
Possible, in my experience it's always been the hardware vendors that add all that stuff, but it seems like Microsoft wants in on the action.
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by thorin 5y ago
I was amused recently sat with a bunch of IBM consultants that had mac books and couldn't get them to work with the conference video screen. If only they'd had the foresight to develop some kind of compatible PC.
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by thorin 5y ago
Good luck to you! I'm in the UK - England, had some lockdowns, in the first one I got a puncture on a bike ride 10 miles from home and felt bad struggling to fix it. A guy stopped and helped and gave me some respect for humanity, it wa
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by thorin 5y ago
I've used win 8 and win 10 exclusively for years but have never seen an advert. Is this because I have the business (enterprise) edition, not the home version? I'm not sure how good or bad Bing, Edge etc are as I only use them occ
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by thorin 5y ago
Seems like your issue is motivation, not staying fit. Maybe align with colleagues for "exercise time" or even meet in person if they are close. You can still do your walking or cycling commute if you want to! Book meetings in your
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by thorin 5y ago
I got pulled into a meeting telling me I'd been made redundant at short notice (UK based). A few mins later I was asked if I would consider moving teams. I moved to another team for a few months and did some training, and did a load of
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by thorin 5y ago
No mention of Sam fox strip poker on the zx spectrum in 1986. By the time 16 machines came along and disk swapping was common things became quite convincing. High chance of getting a virus that way though.

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