KiwiCoder

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by KiwiCoder 5mo ago
I've built a tool that analyses UK company accounts data to highlight various forms of unfair treatment of workers, such as serious wage decline in spite of soaring profits. All data sourced from Companies House as xbrl or pdf. The tri
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by KiwiCoder 10mo ago
I started programming on Zilog z80 when I was 11 years old, at school in NZ. I'm now 55, and I've been a programmer for all that time. I've worked as contractor, consultant, tech and architecture lead, people manager, indepen
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by KiwiCoder 1y ago
Voluntarily playing Kd7 on move 5 instead of castling is maybe a human move (like a bong cloud) but at the time it seemed more like a move a stochastic parrot would make. https://lichess.org/OB6kYF8w
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by KiwiCoder 6y ago
Never touched Haskell before, but found that path separators were needed to get this working (on WSL with Ubuntu if it matters) For example - capsPath <- getFullPath (T.unpack (coerce dir <> coerce videoName <> ".
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Software Maintenance: Understanding and Estimating Costs(blog.lookfar.com)
1 points by KiwiCoder 7y ago|0 comments
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Stripe's take on software engineer efficiency made me angry(threadreaderapp.com)
94 points by KiwiCoder 8y ago|14 comments
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by KiwiCoder 8y ago
They way this report is framed made me angry. Stripe, first of all, your report misrepresents software development reality. You present software maintenance as a massive waste of time and money. But that’s just not true. Maintenance is how
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by KiwiCoder 8y ago
I will join the chorus - wkhtmltopdf has been working fine in production for many months, reliably producing thousands of 10+ page PDFs with cover pages, headers, footers, page numbering, and images. Sure, it takes bit of fiddling to get it
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by KiwiCoder 9y ago
Suppose a simulated intelligence was indistinguishable from real intelligence. In what sense would it matter that it was a simulation and not real?
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by KiwiCoder 9y ago
Doesn't the focus on data simply shift the problems you describe to telemetry decisions?
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by KiwiCoder 9y ago
Taking large amounts (more than 1,000mg per day) of vitamin C can cause stomach pain, diarrhoea, flatulence. Source: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vitamins-minerals/Pages/Vitamin...
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by KiwiCoder 9y ago
I expect drones are now more relevant than satellites for localised imaging. For example http://www.cropcopter.co/uav-imagery-vs-satellite/
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
I'm easy to find. Finding someone local to you, well, you'll have to ask around. But how do you know if the recruiter is qualified to assess coding skills? >> Pretend you're a team leader interviewing a junior coder.
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
I do a lot of recruiting, for both paid and volunteer coding roles. I've been hiring for about 13 years, and I've been coding professionally for about 25 years. Before that I coded as a hobby, from about age 11. Speaking from this
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
In the past six months I've seen an uptick in the number of politically motivated software projects appearing on SocialCoder.org Examples; - CollAction [ http://socialcoder.org/9dy ] - Fight Back Wisely [ http:/&#x2
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
This article frames the question rhetorically. Of course we should not disadvantage gifted children by depriving them of tailored learning strategies etc. Why on earth would we even consider it? But it's not so easy to define what this
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Software – do you really need custom development?(docs.google.com)
1 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|0 comments
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Software project guidance for charities(docs.google.com)
1 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|0 comments
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see
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How the Friday DDoS Attack Affected Pingdom(royal.pingdom.com)
5 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|3 comments
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
Impressive that this is pure JS, however trying an image cut from the page itself gave this result > Dropan Enghsh Wage on (Ms page to OCR m Should be > Drop an English image on this page to OCR it!
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
Siri seems dumb because we are shown demos that suggest the tech is far more advanced than it actually is.
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
> after contacting Microsoft and AT&T to get my IP removed from their block lists Yikes. Isn't this exactly the problem with running your own email setup? And have you not found that keeping on the white side of mail server list
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
I used K-9 for many months and it was just OK. The FastMail app was not a huge improvement (over K-9) but it was still an improvement, at least in my experience. From memory K-9 didn't handle multiple "send-from" accounts as
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
Not OP, but I moved all of my email from free Gmail to paid Fastmail about 2 years ago, and I've not had a moment of regret. I send quite a lot of email for work and other things and I have what I think is a higher-than-average number
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Social Coder Partners with the Association for Computing Machinery(socialcoder.org)
2 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|0 comments
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SocialCoder partners with the ACM, volunteers now get ACM membership at no cost(linkedin.com)
1 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|0 comments
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by KiwiCoder 10y ago
SocialCoder announcement here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/socialcoder-partners-acm-edwa...
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ACM and SocialCoder Partnership for Positive Impact Through Computing(acm.org)
1 points by KiwiCoder 10y ago|1 comments
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Social Coder Gets a Letter from David Cameron(tinyletter.com)
3 points by KiwiCoder 11y ago|0 comments

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