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by thorin 2y ago
I heard about this years ago, but it seems very strange what you can get away with as a massive megacorp! When I was in Peru everyone chewed Coca leaves on the backpacker scene, and many of the locals, but no one ever offered me cocaine.
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by thorin 2y ago
And Germany, Russia, Poland, Australia etc
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by thorin 2y ago
Yes, this is a major plus point about LLMs which you can ask really stupid questions about things you know nothing about and get a starting point. I'm doing this with Bard all the time.
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by thorin 2y ago
Yet still most enterprises use windows, O365, teams outlook, AD/entra etc. Azure has like 30% of market share. Copilot, visual studio, Dotnet framework, Microsoft dynamics, Power Automate are massive. I prefer the current incarnation o
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by thorin 2y ago
I'm under the impression that Google/Microsoft etc get paid far less in the UK than in the US though, would you say that's correct? I've been working in the UK since the late 90s. Started in banking and banking contracts
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by thorin 2y ago
Sorry to hear of your accident. I have done a fair bit of rock climbing and know how quickly things can go bad. Actually I had a bad accident around 20 years ago whitewater kayaking in the US. People we so kind in supporting including my fa
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by thorin 2y ago
Most recruiters use Linkedin as a primary tool though and I've had several real jobs offered on a plate through IMs on there, including my current role. In the UK at least this seems the easiest way to go.
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by thorin 2y ago
Have kids or get a hobby. I'm in the same boat tbh, I don't find interesting things with programming anymore, maybe when I did it was just that I had less other stuff to do. I'd rather learn something new now e.g. last year I
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by thorin 2y ago
I guess the problem was more that the guy was a jerk or not willing to learn. I do remember a C++ guy who would only ever do stuff in text files refusing to use a database which was ok up to a point, until it wasn't. What I meant was t
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by thorin 2y ago
If you have friends or other people in your organisation that can help, consider choosing the language they use. Otherwise choose a general purpose language that has a longish history. I would say Python, JS/Node, C# would all be reaso
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by thorin 2y ago
Customer service is seen as an overhead by most large businesses (and likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon are the worst at dealing with anything non standard). In my work with utilities businesses even though they've had great feedback p
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by thorin 2y ago
I've worked with a few programmes in Fortran 77 and Basic which I think were from the early 80s and the same algorithms are still in use. I'm sure some people are still running these models in the original language which were to d
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by thorin 2y ago
While this is true, generally the people you are selling to aren't that technical whether this be if you are working as a consultant in a big company going out to clients or at an interview which would include non technical staff. Whil
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by thorin 2y ago
I would have no problem taking on people with excellent c++ or c# experience for a longer term role if they show they are committed to spending time improving their java skills. If you are hiring for a very short assignment then obviously y
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by thorin 2y ago
Passion is a luxury, for those that don't need to earn money. I'm a bit less interested in coding now that I was as a teenager as I don't really prioritise it in my (much smaller) free time.
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by thorin 2y ago
But you need to get the right people in the right constituency. Reform got 4 million votes.
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by thorin 2y ago
Although he's now been elected as an independent.
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by thorin 2y ago
Just because they aren't diametrically opposed, doesn't mean they aren't different in terms of character and policies.
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by thorin 2y ago
I remember jquery being an early classic with some annotated versions being available when I had an interest in learning js. No idea how much it has dated now.
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by thorin 2y ago
For some reason i can't get the stranger, Camus out of my head. I had it on my desk for at least 10 years at one company as a sign that I never quite fitted in there, but I never felt like I fitted anywhere else either. I enjoy books y
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Ask HN: Xbox live signin issue yesterday
2 points by thorin 2y ago|1 comments
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by thorin 2y ago
Problem with big companies is that they are now constantly trying to layoff / outsource IT where-ever possible. They prefer to outsource staff to save costs and cut overhead for accounting reasons. This mean that projects can be quite
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by thorin 2y ago
What is your location? Personally, I've never been asked about this stuff in an interview. I think I've been asked about big 0 notation a few times and some patterns but none of this pure leetcode stuff. This is one good thing abo
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by thorin 2y ago
I have memories of coming back from nursery to watch a particular children's programme and my mum minding another child regularly. I also remember visiting Spain/Barcelona around that time (aged 3) My first computer memories, were
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by thorin 2y ago
In large organisations I've worked at previously, virtualisation has been disabled at a bios level and this has been a pain to get round, so for commercial users this would be enough to rule it out.
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by thorin 2y ago
It's difficult. Now I'm old in IT terms (48) I try to act in a mentor role for young developers I come in contact with. I have discussed their career progression and helped them apply for jobs etc. I don't feel this has ever
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by thorin 2y ago
Can you briefly explain what you think the issues are? I'm just moving from azure functions over to lambda. Code will likely be dotnet and I just assumed I'd use the aws provided tools: codecommit/build/pipeline/dep
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Ask HN: AWS Primer for Solution Architects
2 points by thorin 2y ago|0 comments
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It's behind you making of a computer game (rtype)(bizzley.42web.io)
3 points by thorin 2y ago|1 comments
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by thorin 2y ago
Would recommend this for the full 80s solo developer on 8 bits treatment. I might just read it again myself https://bizzley.42web.io/download.html

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