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by thorin 10y ago
If you are in the uk I've had a good experience with wiley fox phones. Have a look on their website and on amazon.
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by thorin 10y ago
Read code, write code, have a mentor, have a lot of users. Big programs, small programs, lots of data, high level, low level. It'll only take about 20 years and you'll still think you have a lot to learn.
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by thorin 10y ago
What technologies and platform are you targeting and what kind of games. If you have a year to spare you must watch https://handmadehero.org/
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by thorin 10y ago
What One Man Can Do Another Man Can Do.
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by thorin 10y ago
Same with when we developed oracle forms apps in late 90s or to a lesser extend VB. So much slower and more complicated to produce something simple which works for 90% of cases for business apps.
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by thorin 10y ago
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
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by thorin 10y ago
If you were affected by it I'd strongly recommend you read the ragged trousered philanthropists. Unfortunately it seems like not much has changed in the 100 years since it was written.
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by thorin 10y ago
I work with a guy who is 70. He's a test manager and one of the smartest guys on the team. He also works on the side writing betting software. In the 80s he wrote several hit games for the zx spectrum and also worked with psygnosis. I
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by thorin 10y ago
I had this perspective being involved in a few sports some would consider "extreme" it was a fantastic distraction to be totally engaged in a sport and out in the outdoors with a brilliant community of like-minded friends. However
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New Wileyfox phone with Cyanogen(wileyfox.com)
2 points by thorin 10y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 10y ago
This book may be of interest although not 100% vegan, the introduction in particular is quite inspiring https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-Pear-Healthy-Delicious-Change...
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by thorin 10y ago
Are you a fan of Paco de Lucia by any chance? I love Entre dos aguas.
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170 Questions for UK Government on Brexit(labourlist.org)
1 points by thorin 10y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 10y ago
When this was reported on the bbc radio today Apple was described as iPad and iPhone manufacture Apple. So desktops and laptops old hat now!
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by thorin 10y ago
I'm in nottingham. Would be interested in any opportunities or some ideas. Boots, capital1, reuters seem to be the major ones. I'm currently contracting in smart metering.
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by thorin 10y ago
You should definitely check out Bob Pape's book about the spectrum version of Rtype (and Rampage) http://bizzley.imbahost.com/download.html
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Ask HN: Tutorial / reference for building db backed web apps with express/node?
2 points by thorin 10y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 10y ago
Well it might be but Theresa May still has a chance to veto it...
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by thorin 10y ago
I think you're probably wrong that you can't handle it in stored procedures (packages). You may even be able to do a lot of the processing in a single SQL statement? Try this first, then PL/SQL. Do the bits you can't do
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by thorin 10y ago
I guess C# in depth by Jon Skeet would be the obvious answer. Any language would be happy to have such a useful historical guide to best practice. I'm not really a c# dev although I do use it a fair bit and I thought it was excellent.
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by thorin 10y ago
Been there. Consider whether you want to stay there. If you aren't sure start looking for other jobs. Even if you want to stay consider other options. If you're going to have to do a lot of catching up to get where want to be is i
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by thorin 10y ago
I was thinking about this today and stumbled across hortonworks sandbox which is a whole bunch of big data stuff including hadoop set up to run on a vm with a load of tutorials built in. Seems like it would be worth checking out! http:&#x2
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by thorin 10y ago
Agree with the above. My daughter is nearly 3 and very confident and energetic. My wife picked up this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/1-2-3-Magic-Effective-Discipline-Pa... and is using the techniques. It seems to be working
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by thorin 10y ago
Weird comment as oracle reports as their reporting tool. Forums was great for crud only business applications, actually the majority of business applications but it went downhill when it moved from client server to Web using applets... Apex
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by thorin 10y ago
Linkedin seems popular for small companies. What is your location?
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by thorin 10y ago
Code complete was a great early read for someone who already knew the basics of programming L'etranger Albert Camus, for the same reasons as jjgreen A Herbert Shilt book on C programming but could have been K&R instead, was part of
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by thorin 10y ago
If you have oracle would you consider using Oracle rest data services? I've only used it a little bit but it seems to make everything very easy. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-...
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by thorin 10y ago
What sort of work and where specifically are you in Europe? For instance if you are in London and have some skills from the last 10 years and work experience I would think getting contracts or permanent would be fairly straightforward. If y
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by thorin 10y ago
Some great interviews with parkinson https://youtu.be/YkM0v4lYEUc
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by thorin 11y ago
Probably the trial (kafka) or the plague (camus) but the one book I struggle to put down to put down is l'etranger as it's so easy to read in a single sitting and do compelling.

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