thorin

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by thorin 8y ago
* All the stuff that's important to you can disappear in a few hours and there is likely nothing you can do about it * Trying harder will not always change someones mind about things and may make stuff worse * You need to rely on and t
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by thorin 8y ago
I'll have to check that out later! Just remembered another 2 favorites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grailquest
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by thorin 8y ago
Was Heroquest any good? I did tunnels and trolls as a teenager but 7-8 sounds a bit young. At that age I was interested in solo roleplaying e.g. Fighting Fantasy, Choose Your Own Adventure, Lone Wolf etc which were in the local library.
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by thorin 8y ago
The issue seems to be down to your network connection. As Outlook is sending or receiving emails and making other service calls you experience a slowdown. Onsite our connection is very slow and everyone experiences this problem. Additional
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by thorin 8y ago
Insight timer may not be as good but it does have a free option. After following a meditation course I find it plenty good enough.
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by thorin 8y ago
I've forgotten about the reserved partition and you've reminded me of when this was last a problem for me. I had a multi-boot set up with GRUB and managed to make the reserved partition unusable somehow and never managed to recove
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Ask HN: How do you backup/restore/repair your windows machine?
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by thorin 8y ago
The fact that Simons' was written by a 16 year old implies he started quite young! Amazing stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons%27_BASIC
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by thorin 8y ago
There are interesting problems (technical and business) in boring businesses. If you want to work on interesting technical problems you probably need to excel at a technical company. At an enterprise you are likely to find "interesting
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by thorin 8y ago
Went to Tesco, uk around 430pm. they said they'd had card problems all afternoon. my visa debit went through fine.
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by thorin 8y ago
What one man can do, another man can do.
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by thorin 8y ago
I've worked for 5 very large companies and one startup. I'd say if you have a critical role in the company and aren't "just a dev/tester etc" you wouldn't have a problem getting private space when you need
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by thorin 8y ago
Insight timer is a good free app. I had some free time recently and need to get away so I did a 1 week mindfulness retreat which I found very helpful. I was finding it hard to stick with it since returning but the app gives me a little stru
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by thorin 8y ago
You might be confusing liberalism with neo-liberalism. Yes the term is being appropriated by the right-wing establishment to make it seem like they're promoting freedom.
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by thorin 8y ago
Ha ha, at least she has a scientific/maths background rather than the majority of politicians in UK/US who are lawyers, "economists", social scientists or in some cases celebrities.
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by thorin 8y ago
The tax system has to be very complicated so: 1. Consultancies, accounting firms and senior government make huge amounts facilitating it 2. Enables evasion by the rich and punishment of the poor! 3. We don't realise how much tax we&#x2
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by thorin 8y ago
A friend gave me a copy of this book following a crisis. He had had a similar experience and it had helped him. I read it 3 times in a row over the period of a few weeks and it really helped comfort me. Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh https:/&
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by thorin 9y ago
Be polite, be kind, explain in a manner the consumer can understand - if you can't explain at their level, maybe you don't understand it well enough yourself.
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by thorin 9y ago
Speaking to a customer and developing some of use to them. Doing the design, programming and test yourself and helping them with the training. I'm thinking of standard enterprise web and back end development . There is a real shortage
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by thorin 9y ago
In the UK you struggle to get a mortgage on a wooden construction so have to be cash rich, you'd also struggle to get conventional housing insurance cover.
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by thorin 9y ago
I use this one https://regex101.com/
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by thorin 9y ago
I've always thought of Man Who Fell To Earth as being a film of Stranger in a Strange Land. Brilliant "acting" by Bowie also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth
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by thorin 9y ago
Entity attribute value anti pattern - this has been well known for at least 20 years. It can be tempting when you want to design a "flexible" system but really needs to be used sparingly. I was BI team lead on a product where the
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by thorin 9y ago
That may be the case but coming from using frameworks such as .net webapi/mvc or spring do I really want to write all the controller/view code by hand every time when I don't need to or are you using other generators/met
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by thorin 9y ago
Why would you do this unless you're an athlete/bodybuilder or have a medical need? Is it purely convenience?
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by thorin 9y ago
Is idea a static website or a self driving car? I've been a programmer since 10 print [1] in the 80s, but I still can't implement all I want, I can make a living out of it though. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/10-Pr
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by thorin 9y ago
In the UK I think the big seller was the Bat Pack [1]. Batman was a pretty amazing action game which had the bonus of being completable and at the same time as the film was a massive hit. New Zealand story was arcade perfect Mario style gam
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by thorin 9y ago
Quite a bit of negativity on the comments, but can anyone hit me with a concise guide of how it works from the ground up - in text, not a video! I've read some good guides in the past, but don't have them bookmarked.
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by thorin 9y ago
Hmm, according to wikipedia lisp appeared 60 years ago, so it's had some chance to gain ground and functional is popular currently but everywhere, soon seems like a stretch
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by thorin 9y ago
Worth checking out https://apex.oracle.com/en/ apex also, easy to build and a no cost/license option.

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