thorin

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by thorin 11mo ago
Trading Places
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Codemasters post their retro catalog for online play(thecodemastersarchive.co.uk)
3 points by thorin 11mo ago|0 comments
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by thorin 11mo ago
Same reason it got out of every other industry. It wasn't short-term profitable. After the 70s at least everything began moving to the private sector and there was no strategic thinking. This completed in the 90s and there was no reaso
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by thorin 11mo ago
AFAIK know phones are banned in all secondary school (and primary school) from the start till the end of the school day. My daughter just started secondary school and one kid was trying to text her mum to add credit to her lunch money accou
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by thorin 1y ago
Yup, AI is actually great for vibe coding yourself up a prototype in a technology you're unsure in but we all know that most of the work on a given systems is in scaling and maintaining the original idea.
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by thorin 1y ago
What makes you want to visit Iran - doesn't seem very relaxing to me and there are lots of other interesting historical sites in the rest of the middle east and Europe. Assuming you are coming from the US? Lots of technical questions b
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Ask HN: Ask HN page this week restricted to a small list
2 points by thorin 1y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 1y ago
In recent years I've struggled with knowing the details and how to get started. I've had to programme/design in Java, C#, Android, Python, bits of c and c++ all kinds of stuff. In theory now I can write programmes because I k
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by thorin 1y ago
If you want to live in a low cost of living country you need to learn to live as the locals live. My friends that live overseas in Asia or in Eastern Europe probably spend as much as I do on rent and have servants, drivers etc so they still
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by thorin 1y ago
Lex gets a lot of hate, probably mainly for political reasons and the way he manages his public persona. However not many people can argue with the fact he has probably the best collection of programmer interview/podcasts out there. If
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by thorin 1y ago
Downhill mountain bikers basically expect their bike to be destroyed and train to bail and are dressed for impact. Road cyclists wear no protection other than some thin skimpy lycra and don't fall often but when they do it can be catas
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by thorin 1y ago
Totally agree. Most of my professional coding has been on window desktops although the servers are often unix/linux. The amount of time spent spinning up a new framework, IDE, build pipeline or something can be ridiculous and every tim
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by thorin 1y ago
I'm pretty sure they do, but quite a few parts of the Oracle applications suite are acquired so probably not those. I'm sure sap would use sap erp, from what I've seen almost all big European companies use sap for payroll.
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by thorin 1y ago
It didn't use anywhere near as much as the hobbit, but lots of things are enhanced. I have a similar problem with Avengers/Marvel which just doesn't look great to me. Avatar did look very good though. The main problem I have
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by thorin 1y ago
The organisation or the people?
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by thorin 1y ago
Being reported as maybe. But incitement and abuse has always been illegal and doesn't have much to do with freedom of speech. E.g. see Bob Vylan at glasto calling for death of people... is that really what we want? OK it's no wher
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by thorin 1y ago
I feel like every UK building and most private companies have a sign saying something like "we take insults and abuse very seriously and will prosecute etc etc". I always see this in hospitals, civic buildings etc so assumed it&#x
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by thorin 1y ago
Lightbulbs are horrendous these days. On my first car they were like changing a room light bulb, you just reached in and changed the bulb. More recent cars I've had to take the battery out or pull out the whole headlight assembly. It&#
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by thorin 1y ago
That was a good read, hope you are feeling some peace. Rock climbing is a great way of seeing places no one see and meeting interesting people. For instance I loved climbing in Yangshuo, China. I've climbed in most of the continents bu
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by thorin 1y ago
This is interesting, what would you personally recommend in terms of fiction and fact/history to read to explore that. I've probably read a bit like Nietzsche, Camus, Voltaire, Stoicism, some more classical philosophy. Would like
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by thorin 1y ago
Worked in field installation of gas and electric meters and I went to a few conferences probably 5+ years ago where aug reality would be used to help installers complete there work. The idea is they would have basic training, but could get
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by thorin 1y ago
Spanish guitar is hard, there is not much crossover between spanish styles and modern pop/metal etc. It probably has more in common with classical music, but then the picking is completely different. It's not that Brian couldn&#x2
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by thorin 1y ago
I was thinking like this, but after being married before I'm not even sure I want to date. I have friends, hobbies, kids in school to manage. Not really feeling the dating scene right now. I do enjoy talking to and meeting new people b
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by thorin 1y ago
Ask Epic how that worked out with Fortnite... As mentioned this is possible but not recommended for Android. I'm not sure if anyone is releasing paid apps outside of Play store though.
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by thorin 1y ago
In the statoil petrol stations in Norway you can buy a mug and get free drinks thereafter at all petrol stations for the season. This is very popular with dirtbag kayakers, climbers etc. It was there that I discovered the weinermelange opti
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by thorin 1y ago
Harking back to the days when people at Apple, Microsoft, Google and Bell Labs had fun. It really happened, allegedly!
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by thorin 1y ago
My dad worked at BT and used to take me to different exchanges at the weekend normally on Saturday mornings. I guess he claimed a day in lieu for working a couple of hours and then we went for lunch or pottered around the shops. In there we
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by thorin 1y ago
It wasn't very secret, at least for local exchanges as I went into many in the north-east of England with my dad as a kid.
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by thorin 1y ago
Would agree with this to an extent, however most younger managers would not agree, as they are "agile" and have deadlines to worry about.
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by thorin 1y ago
I think I agree, I used to see a lot of highly experienced older contractors who probably had FU money. They had far more experience than any of the leadership and were normally older and would not hold back. This was especially when workin

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