thorin

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by thorin 11y ago
Best surveillance film ever http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
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by thorin 11y ago
Agreed,but in the late 90s living in the east end with a graduate job paying 18k I felt rich. 10 mins on the tube to the city and lots of free beer and champagne and posh meals on the company. I went out whenever I felt like it. I've b
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by thorin 11y ago
Have you used apex 5. I've seen apex applications created by good developers (who can code with sql, pl/sql and javascript) which have been nicer, more reliable and definitely more performant than some java or.Net Web apps.
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by thorin 11y ago
I used to see this all the time. No comments on the checkin either. Also the managers that would say I don't know how to access cvs/svn/git can you put it on a shared drive for me...
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Eric Brown [pioneering pilot] has died(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by thorin 11y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 11y ago
That's a good idea. Thanks
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Ask HN: What music do you listen to while coding?
4 points by thorin 11y ago|10 comments
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by thorin 11y ago
I feel the same. I have a 6 month old and 2 year old. I'm an only child and when I was young I had hour and hours (especially in school holidays) to sit, read, play on my computer and think. Now I have a couple of hours spare a day. I
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by thorin 11y ago
While I understand your pov,why don't you flag to your boss if your feel you are spending too long on meetings and emails and find time during your actual working day to do that work. I'm a family man too and I've made a deci
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by thorin 11y ago
I don't see this being the case in bigger companies in the uk e.g. government, health, utilities, finance. It will definitely help if you have some business specific knowledge too. Try to match this to where you live I'm in the Mi
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by thorin 11y ago
Morocco, marrakesh or essourira would also be a cheap option.
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by thorin 11y ago
Don't go to Switzerland. Flying into Malaga southern Spain there are lovely mountain areas between seville and Granada, Google el chorro for example. Or east of Rome about an hour or two are some wonderful mountain regions-you might f
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by thorin 11y ago
No its definitely not necessary. Nice to have maybe. In enterprise settings I've seen 100s of developers working across many organisations in the uk. At least 99% of them have used windows laptops. They might have had a vm with Linux o
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by thorin 11y ago
And I'm not finding the source code any easier to read. Thank God we moved on from one char variable names.
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by thorin 11y ago
That's incredible. Usbourne books including some of those filled my shelves as a kid along with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston's fighting fantasy series. Nostalgia is cheap these days. I'll be buying some Usbourne for my ch
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by thorin 11y ago
Could be in the uk. Tech jobs get sparse once you go over £60k outside London.
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by thorin 11y ago
When you say the world doesn't care you might be nearly right from a consumer perspective but that's not really their target market. Outside of cool IT and design companies almost everyone's business machine is running Window
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by thorin 11y ago
Started a new job for the first time in 14 years. I'm at a startup learning about and doing asp.net web api and angularjs.
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by thorin 11y ago
There's nothing stopping you from using version control and having an automated build and unit tests. We always have everywhere I've worked before. Check out steve fuerenstein's books and websites for more modern ways of work
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by thorin 11y ago
Most of my programming has been done in pl/sql. It's still the best language for interacting with a relational db I've seen. I've just started using c# and when I pick up some more linq I think I might like it. I also p
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by thorin 11y ago
Most people i know of doing mech engine and programing work with some kind of control software or in mathematical/engineering modelling. The former tends to use c/c++ or done pretty proprietary languages. The latter sometimes uses
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Google to pay hmrc £130M(theguardian.com)
2 points by thorin 11y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 11y ago
I used to think the BBC news was definitive 5-10 years ago. I'm not sure what has changed? Have the recent governments and their pressure on the license fee really made the difference or is it just my perception? When I was young the B
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by thorin 11y ago
And Lemmy!
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by thorin 11y ago
I think the enterprise now uses quite a lot of rules engine type stuff which draws inspiration from prolog. We used drools pretty heavily at my last place http://www.drools.org/
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by thorin 11y ago
Oracle apex is great too. Well worth checking out if you already have an oracle licence. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https... You can create beautiful crud apps or rest endpoints for
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Christmas Lemmings (1991)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thorin 11y ago
If you have to ask this question maybe you haven't seen much "production" code. It's pretty variable. Open source projects can be a great help to see what's possible. If it's easy to understand and well used it
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by thorin 11y ago
In terms of data warehousing-the data warehouse toolkit (kimball) book is an excellent resource. It covers models for many business areas and also talks about the transactional models the are coming from.
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by thorin 11y ago
I often find people are a lot more focused on the technology than on actually solving problems. As well as having a flashy POC for the sales team I'm all for having a dead simple but working shell of app with no polish.

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