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by timje1 8y ago
Yep, when I'm interviewing a developer, if they try to bullshit an answer I instantly lose trust in them. How can I trust their work if, when they don't know something, they just try to BS their way through? Far more healthy to ad
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by timje1 9y ago
A closer parallel might be the London Underground, that manages 55-60mph. The new Elizabeth line is apparently going to go up to 90 miles per hour, but that is probably only for when the train leaves London and heads out to neighbouring tow
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by timje1 9y ago
Devil's advocate: It's possible your sense of smell and taste is less sharp than what it was when you were a kid.
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by timje1 9y ago
I can't remember the exact details, but I remember there being a British study that found that cutting an hour a day off your commute increases your happiness more than a ~30% payrise (figures misremembered). If you've gotten back
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by timje1 9y ago
This is also a fabulously entertaining novel.
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by timje1 9y ago
Ha, nice use of "borrow".
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by timje1 9y ago
I remember reading that the average retired person in the UK earns more (higher _income_) than the average worker, so that's before you work out the 'wealth' bit. And 80% of the country's wealth is with the 60+ crowd (th
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by timje1 9y ago
Ha, this happened to me a couple of weeks ago!
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by timje1 10y ago
(Tiny rick)
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by timje1 10y ago
I love this concept as a defence against the 'well virtually anything can be proven wrong or right' anti-knowledge argument...
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by timje1 10y ago
You've got to remember that Investment Banks have two sets of customers -> the big investors who they want to please and their corporate clients who want to sell shares. In recent times the big investors have become massively more p
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by timje1 10y ago
I played both, and I remember talking loudly and often about how much better WoW looked despite having a fraction of the system reqs. WoW vanilla could be run on a potato - I think I had it going on a pentium 2 with a third hand graphics ca
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by timje1 10y ago
I remember thinking at the time "wow, the characters look like ass". I think the character models look worse than Final Fantasy X, which was a game with good art direction and miniscule polycount that came out in 2001.
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by timje1 10y ago
It gets more fun when you start to think about it as different consciousness being created and destroyed, each with the same memories. At what point do we start being afraid to fall asleep?
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by timje1 10y ago
I had a similar issue, except after some asking around it turned out that the entire street's internet would go down when it rained heavily (in England, so this is pretty often). It still took around a year to get fixed.
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by timje1 10y ago
Not really, anywhere that's convenient to London has basically the same prices as London. If you do end up saving money it's because you're taking one of those awkward 90minute+ journeys.
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by timje1 10y ago
That's funny, I thought the same about skiing.
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by timje1 10y ago
I just simply changed my bookmarks to point to https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=280 - which gets shaken up by a couple of new stories per day, but doesn't actually change enough to justify visiting every hour.
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by timje1 10y ago
This actually offended me the most about Dragon Age : Inquisition - the way that every interaction with the world seemed to be 'hit it with your sword'. Early on you find a region which contains groups of Templars battling rogue s
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Valve tackles dodgy devs cheating Steam review scores(arstechnica.co.uk)
8 points by timje1 10y ago|1 comments
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by timje1 10y ago
"Salsa".
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by timje1 10y ago
Quick FYI - factoid: a false fact that is repeated often enough to become accepted as true.
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by timje1 10y ago
Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
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by timje1 10y ago
Earlier puberty normally results in a shorter adult - since kids tend to grow slowly before puberty and stop once it finishes.
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by timje1 10y ago
Typo on the front page, 2nd info box - "Mirco-frameworks tend to sacrifice a lot of usefulness for the file size, leaving the developer wanting more".
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by timje1 10y ago
Do you have a source for that? It was my understanding that PBKDF2 is 'good enough for now', but not necessarily the most future-proof of techs, given how easily the algorithm is optimised for GFX cards.
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by timje1 10y ago
in console - $('img').hide();
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by timje1 10y ago
Hearthstone fixed this mana issue by having the mana automatically increase by 1 each turn, up to 10. This means that every card you draw will be a spell you can cast or a minion you can play - you at least get to play 'hearthstone&#x2
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by timje1 10y ago
Unfortunately ageing doesn't tend to be 'some years tacked on the end', it tends to be literally getting older at a different rate. So some 40 year-olds are physically 30, and other 40 year-olds are physically 55. (going by l
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by timje1 11y ago
MMOs are generally a good place for this stuff. I knew a fellow who would offer to offer to buy expensive runes in Shadowbane for, say, 250k gold - and then when the time came for the trade he'd slice a 0 off the amount of gold he put

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