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by zelos 4y ago
Could it be that the more you know, the more you realise how much more there is to know? That would explain the feeling of impostor syndrome in more senior people - they're judging by different standards.
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by zelos 4y ago
Out of interest, what kind of state is software engineering in the rail industry in? Watching a documentary about Crossrail the other day their testing seemed to consist of a driver manually driving a simulator in real-time through signals
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by zelos 4y ago
Exactly. The rules may be complicated, but I bet if you threw them all out they'd mostly gradually reappear one by one over the years in response to problems that occur.
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by zelos 4y ago
Octopus ( https://octopus.energy/ ) do 7.5p/kwh 00:30-04:30. I haven't used it, though, no idea if there are catches.
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by zelos 4y ago
I think it's closer than that? Very roughly, UK prices are ~£0.2/kwh electrity and ~£2/litre of petrol. Per mile I make that £0.2 for petrol vs £0.045 for electric. Although you could probably get to the 1/10th figure if
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by zelos 4y ago
I agree - in a UK open office I’m maybe 2 metres from a coworker if we both squeezed to opposite ends of our desks. Headphones are the only way to get any work done. Our US colleagues have acres of space in comparison.
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by zelos 4y ago
"Senior Engineer" isn't a single job definition, is it? There's senior in the technical sense and senior in the quasi-management sense.
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by zelos 4y ago
> But I feel they've been fading away slowly. TomTom closed their sports division and made most of the staff redundant.
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by zelos 4y ago
"Oh, the best charity is to give and not let other people know. But what if your example encourages others to give?"
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by zelos 4y ago
It does look like the Model 3 has a decent lead in efficiency: https://ev-database.uk/compare/efficiency-electric-vehicle-m...
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by zelos 4y ago
My microwave pretty much has that - press start and it sets the timer to 1 minute and starts. Then spin the dial to add time while it’s cooking.
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by zelos 4y ago
That was Carbide IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide.c%2B%2B You could always tell who was using it in the office because their laptop fans would be at full blast.
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by zelos 4y ago
It may divide people with its auto-playing trailers etc, but I don't think anyone can deny that Netflix's app is head and shoulders better than the rest.
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by zelos 4y ago
Their employers are making $300k+ net profit per employee. The salaries seem reasonable to me on that basis.
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by zelos 4y ago
I think there's a huge amount of 'boring' software development going on that doesn't touch any of kind of stuff. Java and C++ still run a lot of things. I'm still suspicious of Guava , let alone Rust.
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by zelos 4y ago
ECLiPSe was always quite good back when I worked in the area. https://eclipseclp.org/
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by zelos 4y ago
> "each day the customer order is delayed is bad, but I also can't make things 3 months before they want it This would be something in the objective function, I think? Assign some daily cost to having stock in inventory and a p
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by zelos 4y ago
Is he a mathematics professor struggling with a proof?
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by zelos 5y ago
Locoscript was a great piece of software. I remember switching from that to an early version of Word and being incredulous that in Word the entire line of text you were typing would flicker as you typed because it couldn't redraw the s
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by zelos 5y ago
Maybe, but I don't think anyone can deny that it is an appalling slide. I count 3 spelling and grammatical errors alone. It looks like the bad "before" example in a presentation skills workshop. This was created by engineer
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by zelos 5y ago
He worked on OpenMoko for a while when they chose enlightenment libs for the UI.
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by zelos 5y ago
20 years ago I was doing the same thing, except on Slashdot instead of HN.
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by zelos 5y ago
That's not true for lawyers as far as I know (at least in the UK, I suspect the same applies elsewhere). There's an oversupply of law graduates, getting a pupillage/training contract is very competitive and fees are being cut
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by zelos 5y ago
I really hope that it ends up with Post Office management in prison for a long time. There seems to be evidence that they shredded incriminating documents: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252498245/Post-Office-
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by zelos 5y ago
Wouldn't the entire rear of the car and the rear seats have to be glass to exempt a car from having the camera? A bigger rear window wouldn't have let me see the toddler who'd wandered a short distance off from his parents in
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by zelos 5y ago
Yes: I think the official injury stats are only part of the story. When I lived in London I got knocked off my bike by cars or motorbikes several times. None of them were bad enough to be reported, but they left me with bruises and scrapes.
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by zelos 5y ago
I kind of see that, but it completely ignores the cost of hiring (financial and in lost productivity in the team that has to onboard the new hire) and the loss of knowledge and experience from firing as well.
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by zelos 5y ago
What's the justification for an attrition target? It seems such a weird thing to want your staff to leave.
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by zelos 5y ago
> Like Ged in Earthsea, this is my own personal devil. I need to get rid of it The book ends with Ged accepting that the devil/shadow is part of him, I’m hoping this story has a happier ending!
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by zelos 5y ago
Not that it makes things better, but 80K doesn't put you in the highest tax bracket: you pay a higher marginal rate over £100k because you start to lose your personal allowance, plus there's a 45% rate at 150k+

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