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by thorin 7y ago
Or Sid James (a very famous UK comedian/actor). He died onstage in my home town https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/night-sid-james-died-sta...
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by thorin 7y ago
When people started talking about running every day, the first thing that came to mind was Ron Hill: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...
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by thorin 7y ago
It's split into 3 parts 1. Medical School 2. World travel 3. Inner travel The medical school part has some interesting perspective on careers/development and life goals. The world travel deals quite a bit on relationships. The inn
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by thorin 7y ago
Not sure if these books are unknown or fallen out of favor, but I've never spoken to anyone else who's read them without me passing them on first: Travels - Michael Crichton - a number of useful life lessons I'm only just cat
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by thorin 7y ago
Microserfs - by Douglas Coupland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs
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by thorin 7y ago
Time will do it for some people, but not for everyone. For instance I come from the north-east of England and had a very strong accent which people outside of the area struggle to understand. I then lived in other parts of England for sever
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by thorin 7y ago
I found this book very useful and read it multiple times over a period of months. That, meditation, exercise and talking to people helped. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623836-fear
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by thorin 7y ago
Interesting that you rented it first. I just got into playing the bass guitar more seriously this year ( had played a little bit previously ). If you actually play an instrument it is such good value for money. My main guitar (maybe £150) w
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by thorin 7y ago
Maybe the same things that google mail used to "enhance" their site
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by thorin 7y ago
He certainly made it more cool than my hero and his precursor ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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by thorin 7y ago
So sorry to hear about your accident. I was very close to having an amputation years ago but was able to make a recovery thankfully. Yesterday I heard a podcast by https://www.instagram.com/kirstie_ennis/?hl=en this ep
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by thorin 7y ago
Tell that to the Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix... but yeah I kinda agree ;-)
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by thorin 7y ago
7 years in Tibet
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by thorin 7y ago
But actually, it needs to appear very difficult, costly and a bad idea to exit the EU otherwise other countries might consider it too!
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by thorin 7y ago
Well, Gmail was ok but then they decided to slow it down massively for no benefit. Sure paid services may work better, but "integrated" services are worth more so apple/google all in is the preferred approach.
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by thorin 7y ago
Money I guess. I'd be interested in seeing a blog post analyzing how all this stuff gets used. For instance looking at https://www.theguardian.com/uk I can see hundreds of cookies against their site and loads of associ
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by thorin 7y ago
People getting a majority of goods, services, and customer service centres via online or automation. Fall in use of hard cash in favour of card (often contactless) or online/app transactions.
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by thorin 7y ago
The idea that Ruby and R will die any time soon is pretty ridiculous. Massive user base and lots of active development. Perl probably has more lines in use that a lot of languages and although there isn't much active development it wil
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by thorin 7y ago
I seem to remember the man who loved only numbers had some puzzles in and it's an interesting story about the mathematician Paul Erdos: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Who-Loved-Only-Numbers/dp/18570...
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by thorin 7y ago
This reminds me of a youtube video and game that were linked to on here about a depressed game designer building a game to cope with his loneliness and despair and talking over it. Can anyone remember that or send a link? It was a 3d doom t
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by thorin 7y ago
Pretty easy to find this kind of stuff in the UK, e.g. a lot of cutlery used to be made in Sheffield which is near to me and there still seems to be a demand. https://www.sheffield-made.com/acatalog/Old_English.html#SID
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by thorin 7y ago
It is difficult, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be an interesting 10 min discussion as part of an interview.
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by thorin 7y ago
None-existent, I do sometimes do them or ask people to do them for my code but it's often not pretty. I prefer a sort of pairing where another knowledgeable guy is available throughout the process to bounce ideas off. If you do a code
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by thorin 7y ago
If it's actually going to be an app I guess writing something against the NDK in C++ would be the fastest option? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13773686/why-shouldnt-an... https://developer.a
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Ask HN: Self Contained Tutorial for Azure or AWS
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by thorin 8y ago
I used to drink quite a bit as a student and for a few years after uni. It's very common in the UK. Now I have children I'd be up in the night quite a lot and if you were drunk it would feel horrendous. Also there is the possibili
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by thorin 8y ago
That's impressive. I'm early 40s and have found doing this kind of exercise really beneficial recently. I think push-ups are great for posture and all round conditioning. I could barely do 10 in a row a few years back, but now do
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by thorin 8y ago
I'm currently doing this course to complement my knowledge of dev/architecture on azure. Seems pretty good so far and free if you don't want a cert. https://www.edx.org/course/aws-developer-building-on-aw
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by thorin 8y ago
It was definitely free when I did part one, most of the Edx courses have a free evaluation and you can access all of the course but not get a certificate. I did some of this course as well as some Azure certifications. With a discount vouch
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by thorin 8y ago
What about this? It was free to evaluate when I looked before and Jonathon S Weissman is a fun teacher ;-) https://www.edx.org/micromasters/ritx-cybersecurity

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