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by thorin 2y ago
I think Tenet could be enjoyable in the same way that Primer is enjoyable, but I found it unwatchable at the time I tried to watch it. I'm sure if I watched it at the right time I would like it.
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by thorin 2y ago
Reading a few comments it occurs to me that these platforms e.g. Linkedin / Facebook are so big they have multiple uses. Linkedin is mainly buying and selling. There is a lot of sales going on there and programmers generally would not
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by thorin 2y ago
Inception would be another one that springs to mind, I notice that came out the year after Avatar, although I think Inception probably took it's lead from the Matrix.
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by thorin 2y ago
It's more likely that he was a decent C developer and learnt the basics of C++ and then ignored most of it. C++ --
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by thorin 2y ago
This isn't often discussed on here. If I speak to my friends who are accountants, lawyers, doctors they generally aren't that inspired by their work either. I tend to find managers are often quite enthusiastic about work, and I th
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by thorin 2y ago
Kind of, but if you've seen people trying to implement a chess game in Oracle Forms or similar you'll know that most people never stop at "a thin wrapper around simple database transactions"... Like systems built in exce
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by thorin 2y ago
That was my assumption too, I guess what I got out of that thread was that they would have no idea of whether they were going to be in violation or not or what the consequences would be.
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Ask HN: Summarise the UK Online Safety Act for Me
4 points by thorin 2y ago|6 comments
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by thorin 2y ago
Forums are weird now since fb etc took over. You can find information in the strangest places. For instance I frequent UKClimbing forums and you could probably find information on how to fix your car, investments and data science. It's
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by thorin 2y ago
I agree for the most part, however the question is more about where the windows product itself is moving.
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Ask HN: Future of Windows operating system and application
14 points by thorin 2y ago|18 comments
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by thorin 2y ago
First I've ever noticed this. I was little surprised it now has infinite tabs, did that come in with win11? I also noticed today that it has autocorrect, never noticed that before! I generally just use it as a clipboard for ascii text
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by thorin 2y ago
It's fun to try and keep up, we can still play together and have a laugh and he tolerates my pitiful skills. It's even more fun when he's at his mum's house and we can chat and play squads remotely.
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by thorin 2y ago
Largely because as an 8bit machine it wasn't really going to cut it against the Atari ST and Amiga and remember the had much bigger marketing power. I was thrilled with my Amiga which I got around the time the SAM was advertised. Then
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by thorin 2y ago
Was the same for me, with a Commodore Vic 20 around about 1982/3. I noticed that although my dad was a competent electrician and had built radios and fixed TVs he always struggled with using the computer and stuff like programming the
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by thorin 2y ago
Oracle Forms, in my opinion, not too much. I started doing Oracle Forms in 1998, but it had really dropped off by about 10 years later when web became common. There may still be legacy apps running there though, for instance I believe a mil
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by thorin 2y ago
Is there some reason you are working at that time? Are you on a shift or working with a different timezone. The obvious solution is to finish work by 5-6pm and be in bed by 9-10pm.
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by thorin 2y ago
I don't think this had the desired effect for me (or maybe it did). When I have a coke, or other soft drink it's generally because I want the sugar and caffeine, for instance part way through a long drive or during a night out. Ge
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by thorin 2y ago
Well, it's a boring CRM company in a sense, but also one of those used (along with Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle etc) by almost every large enterprise. So quite a large market to ignore, however boring.
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by thorin 2y ago
Would be nice to see a Battle Chess [1] version of this! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
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by thorin 2y ago
Women's crisis in this case would be linked to when they reach the end of child-bearing age? Men's would more likely relate to their circumstances e.g. I had children relatively late so my mid-life crisis will be later...
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by thorin 2y ago
Listening to welcome to the machine after drinking and smoking herb all day (I didn't smoke) I have recurring visions of throwing up in my friends sink at uni with that in the background.
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by thorin 2y ago
I started my first job writing software for investment banking in 1998, in London. Right from the start people were talking about Y2K and we probably had a couple of million lines of pl/sql and vb code in our regulatory and risk manage
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by thorin 2y ago
It was interesting to contrast various museums in UK that I'm aware of. There is the retro computer museum [1] which I've been to in Leicester which I was very impressed with, when talking to the guy he mentioned that they receive
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by thorin 2y ago
I enjoyed reading Pepys diary. Seems like almost every day he meets up with his pals, gets totally wasted, eats fine food and generally just lives his best life. It's kind of how I remember things before I had kids...
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by thorin 2y ago
Watching threads is always a mistake lol. Next you need to avoid watching this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics) . I grew up with this kind of stuff being in the news all the time. I tend to t
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by thorin 2y ago
Correct, bernie and corbyn were both well meaning with genuine ideas and were lambasted by the press, opposition and even their own parties to never stand a chance of election. Tulsi had similar issues.
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by thorin 2y ago
Interesting, I'm travelling to Bergen in a couple of days to meet a friend. Previously I have taken a train from Oslo to Trondheim. If the weather is nice it's very beautiful!
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by thorin 2y ago
I'd imagine getting a PO box number would be significantly cheaper than the process you have to go through on the Apple Store, if Google accept that. If you are serious at making money you probably want to register a company identity a
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by thorin 2y ago
Not sure if you're aware but it's not that uncommon for people to be interviewed when someone else already has the job, or they don't actually end up hiring. Maybe someone internal got the role and they still interviewed to m

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