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by thorin 5y ago
Quite frequently in enterprise software I've built something that has either been replaced soon after or a 3rd party has been brought in with a product or our product has been discontinued. Usually this is nothing to do with the techni
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm probably behind the times, but this really seems like using a "cool technology" to solve a non existent problem. It would be pretty easy to have this in a list of FAQS on your site or via a support bot or something. If th
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by thorin 5y ago
A lot of big companies do. The large UK utility I work for has dozens of large production Oracle dbs. I'm sure this is also the case with SQLServer / Postgres / DB2(!). The tide is turning though and for new systems /pro
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by thorin 5y ago
Sorry, looks like the URL got changed, reposted.
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Apple Daily: Hong Kong pro-democracy paper announces closure(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by thorin 5y ago|0 comments
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HK pro-democracy paper Apple Daily announces closure(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by thorin 5y ago|1 comments
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by thorin 5y ago
It wasn't my choice (when does the technologist get to choose), but here is a short list: * Silverlight (!) * Adobe Air (about 2 weeks before it was end dated) * Rhomobile (native multi-platform mobile build, seemed like a good idea at
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by thorin 5y ago
Interesting, I also have this problem. I still remember one time when I was staying at a friends place in a different city, I took his key to get back early and the key broke in the lock so he came back to me trying to get the bit of key ou
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by thorin 5y ago
Yes, that is the correct reference, sorry I forgot the subtitle!
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by thorin 5y ago
I think the most attractive and memorable short books that spring to mind are: 1. Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh, helps you cope with anything 2. The Stranger, Camus, Nihilism/Stoicism 3. The old man and the sea, Hemmingway
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by thorin 5y ago
When I read this in like 2017, I thought the idea of home schooling in bulk online was ridiculous, not many places are still doing it! Unbelievable, I'm certainly pleased the majority of schools in the UK are fully school based, but I
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by thorin 5y ago
That's why I say perception. Cost savings could be up to x4 but this makes no difference as if you can't do something, you can't do it with more people. If you got 100 people to write doom on the original hardware and Carmack
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by thorin 5y ago
Maybe, but that change was coming for 20 years, it just so happen that the marketing money only came in for the upgrade / rewrite more recently. I was first involved in outsourcing in 2000ish, I'm now actually working for an outso
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by thorin 5y ago
Assuming if you aren't in the bay area and lucky in guessing the answer is always going to be finance/ banking. Technology is probably less important than domain.
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by thorin 5y ago
The students were pretty intense, but I'm guessing the ones I met in the bar weren't the ones studying chess games and reading maths papers. They do often play chess in the bar, while they're downing vodka...
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by thorin 5y ago
I spent some time with students in Russia and they were even worse! Most of Europe is similar to an extent, but sure there are people who are obsessed with studying and learning, but there are a lot more who are keen to get away from their
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by thorin 5y ago
A lot of the stuff you mention, the drinking/clubbing is just true of teenagers / young people in the UK and you probably missed out the drugs and sex. When I went to a "top tier" uni in the 90s after watching the young
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by thorin 5y ago
I see more integration of packaged solutions/SAAS and as I seem to becoming an architect rather than a developer, maybe that's not so bad. I guess this has been happening slowly since I started in the 90s so it's not a massiv
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by thorin 5y ago
I always thought Kafka was the worst possible name for a simple reliable event streaming/ queuing system. I wish I'd listened to my instincts, but it's probably just our implementation.
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by thorin 5y ago
Not as good as the UK, and historically Germany and Austria, which have their own little problems in the past...
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by thorin 5y ago
It's definitely not the "vast majority", but it probably is often the most highly paid and visible. I worked in software eng as a graduate in London and it was pretty good. At that time EBay and other ecommerce businesses wer
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by thorin 5y ago
I wouldn't say they are niche, but many people I work with would model these systems in relational or no sql databases rather than pick a graph database for such a specific use case. With the popularity of microservice approach, this m
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by thorin 5y ago
1. 2nd hand kayaks, cheap and great fun, good to recycle the used plastic! 2. Road bike, best exercise and stress relief process and I've got to know my local area up to a radius of 50 miles 3. Upcoming - new guitar to go with the bass
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by thorin 5y ago
Something like 160 pounds at peak time from Nottingham to London. Service is good but it's just inconceivable that private individuals would be paying that, all the travelers are on expenses or are self employed contractors/consul
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by thorin 5y ago
You've had lots of sales advice already so I won't comment on that. How does your product compare with liquid chalk like this [1] which used to be pretty popular in France. No idea if it was popular in the US. I know quite a lot o
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BBC – UBI to be tested in Wales(bbc.in)
1 points by thorin 5y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 5y ago
After reading Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential (and before), there's no way I'd like to do this working 20 hours a day and little chance of making a profit...only dedicated passionate workaholics really succeed in catering whereas a
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by thorin 5y ago
I can sympathize to some degree, but I certainly don't hate it. I like programming/software, I like people, I like solving problems. Most industries that make huge amounts of money generally have their issues. I take advantage of
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by thorin 5y ago
If you're in the UK and you're really making something in your spare time that might be worth anywhere near as much as your paid income you should really be contracting/self employed. The company will be wondering why you are
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by thorin 5y ago
You'll have a notice within 5-10 minutes if you continually carry your phone and are "supporting" your application 24/7. What if you want to go camping or turn your phone off when you go to bed or do a long drive or some

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