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by thorin 2y ago
I used to play a lot with those electronics kits you got with springs to could fit wires into a board with "100 circuits for kids" or whatever. They were widely sold by RadioShack / Tandy in the 80s. 5 sounds way too young th
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by thorin 2y ago
It's not ideal, but generally these tools aren't used by web developers. I did some stuff with Jasper reports and dashboards that took this approach and was then acquired by Tibco so may be merged with that toolset now. At the tim
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by thorin 3y ago
I very rarely find it answering on "expert" level, but maybe I have a warped idea of what expert means, I've certainly never considered myself and expert at anything. However it definitely works as a good alternative to googl
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by thorin 3y ago
If you spent 10-20 years writing C++ and all of the code you interact with is written in C++ and all the libraries you are calling are C++, why would you write in Rust?
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by thorin 3y ago
This rings true!
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by thorin 3y ago
No specific problem, but as an app developer / architect I often find gaps in my knowledge when discussing system design and communication. Want to develop a more stable foundation.
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Ask HN: Recommendation for Networks Refresher
8 points by thorin 3y ago|5 comments
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by thorin 3y ago
I believe I have a Hotmail account from around 1997/8 which I still use indirectly for some services although I never read my mail there and Microsoft cleared out all my old mail automatically so I can't see when it first started.
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by thorin 3y ago
I was surprised to see this in the news. I have a local community Facebook group and these outages have been communicated several times on the group before. Actually it's normally it's Tesco that seems to have an issue with the pa
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by thorin 3y ago
I think it was only the new normal in certain sectors/countries for a period. Now I see mostly hybrid and after 3 years remote I now have the expectation to go in 1 or 2 days a week. Would at least look at this initially, then after yo
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by thorin 3y ago
Shouldn't it be a 20% pay cut?
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by thorin 3y ago
TLDR; The book referenced is a very easy and entertaining read as I recall. Would recommend. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Who-Loved-Only-Numbers/dp/18570...
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by thorin 3y ago
Not convinced. My 8,10yr kids love climbing trees. Also in the last few days it's been so windy that we often get a tree or branches falling into the road!
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by thorin 3y ago
Plenty of people do this in the UK, just not in the inner cities. Oslo is a nice place though and a friend of mine just moved to Bergen with young kids. It's pretty chill in the UK if you don't live in London and have enough money
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by thorin 3y ago
Be thankful you don't have to manage a gear stick or roundabouts. If you have ridden a bicycle in traffic before you'll find it way easier as it's mainly managing position on the road and watching out for other traffic. Might
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by thorin 3y ago
The MED/OCTOMED soundtracker program on the amiga if I remember correctly.
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by thorin 3y ago
You've just reminded me that o reilly used to publish quite a lot of cookbooks, I think there was a bash one, perl, python etc. That kind of book would probably be quite useful for getting advanced concepts I guess as a lot of more adv
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by thorin 3y ago
The only reason it's popular in India is due to the huge amount of service/consultancy devs doing work for Western companies. A large percentage of lucrative legacy enterprise contracts will be using java ( and spring really took
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by thorin 3y ago
Having children. It was the best of times, it was (almost) the worst of times. Getting into outdoor activities (kayaking, climbing, hiking etc). Made the best friends, travelled worldwide, saw interesting places, got fitter Music, listening
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by thorin 3y ago
That seems very high, but not surprising. I would guess my car cost around 28K new but I bought it one year old for 20K. Most people don't buy new cars though do they? It's mainly lease and hire companies that buy new cars I think
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by thorin 3y ago
Posted this a few days ago but no one commented. I heard about it on the new Netflix series on ww2. Impressive stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system
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by thorin 3y ago
This actually fits with problems I've seen when trying to record practice sessions. Phone recording alone sounds terrible, but miking everything individual isn't really possible where I practice. Unfortunately I only have an andro
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The Dowding System(iwm.org.uk)
1 points by thorin 3y ago|0 comments
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by thorin 3y ago
I think they are willing to put up with / indulge me reading something I enjoy to have a bit of close time together. The like the challenge of it being a massive book, but I remember finding the two towers pretty boring as a kid myself
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by thorin 3y ago
The Fellowship of the ring. What I found was that reading these stories that I think I know so well to my children (8 and 9) is that you get a new appreciation and understanding by reading them to someone else, particularly a child. I find
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by thorin 3y ago
I think there is some truth in that. In a recent interview Shane McGowan's wife stated she was interested in him because he could get her access to lots of celebrities and she was very shallow. She wanted to get invites to parties with
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by thorin 3y ago
Potentially, but it has a lot more health impacts!
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by thorin 3y ago
Strangely the rag and bone man and the brewery deliveries still used horses when I was a kid, late 1970s UK! I think the brewery used the carthorses as a kind of advertisement for the beer, but it was still very weird. I'm sure milk ca
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by thorin 3y ago
Thanks for posting that, ironically probably the biggest driver of inflation in the UK is increases in house/land prices!
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by thorin 3y ago
At that time labour was cheap, now labour is a major part of the build. Housing was also cheap due to land being more plentiful. 100 year homes are pretty common in older cities of the UK and in the countryside. New homes are similar in pri

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