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by Robin_Message 7y ago
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7309167,-0.3021986,152m/da... I grew up by this roundabout; the south exit joins to a village. Note it has 5 exits, and is slightly tweaked: there are two lanes that go off most o
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
To be fair, a home modem which you are renting as part of a contract to receive 4G under certain terms is quite different to a consumer product you bought in a shop bricking itself when you sell it to someone.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
I reckon TDD would get you at least part of the way there, because it enforces a discipline of making smaller, meaningful changes. Hard to learn though, and some things genuinely do need longer.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
The comma and dot seem weird; curly braces would feel more natural to me. In your example, style isn't terminated by a dot, but other one liners are, which I'm assuming is just a typo else I'm really confused. What's the
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of jobs through HN now
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Calling someone else first is a false sense of security: if scammers are faking a dial tone, they will starthaving software to connect the call too, and then resume the scam when you call the bank number. If it's a landline, call on a
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
I've done something similar in C type languages to switch between blocks of code: /*/ This block is inactive /*/ This block is active /**/ Just swap the first star to two stars to
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. This past month I've been doing some work for
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
https://www.notboring.com/jokes/work/3.htm
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Hmmmm. It's a reasonable question but I'm not sure if I'm comfortable putting it here. Drop me an e-mail and I can give some numbers though. (Because my rate varies based on a number of factors and this is effectively an adve
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Lots have people have talked about how to conduct yourself. With regard to references, I'm not sure if this is right for your situation, but consider the following: If you got on with the CTO, I would reach out to them and ask if they
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c
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Tell HN: Amazon has removed searching for wishlists by name/email
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Not sure why it's called topological sort or what it had to do with topology, but it's a graph traversal where predecessors are visited before their successors. Such a sort only exists if there are no cycles in the graph.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
I hired a Renault Mégane about five years ago. The headlight control was a rotational control with very low friction on the end of a stalk. The same stalk also did full beam and indicating. You can guess what happened repeatedly: whilst dri
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Ammusingly, Paul Stamets is the name of a scientist in the newest star trek series. He is an astro-mycologist and apparently they named him for this real scientist.
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SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
A similar thing happened to our support driver in rural Greece when we were walking London-Jerusalem. road gradually gets worse until you realise some AI or human has mistaken a stream bed for a road!
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Xkcd Book Tour: Competition(blog.xkcd.com)
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I have to say, that sounds like it might be an awesome effect!
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How many of your renters have suffered "voluntary parting" since you began, and will you be seeking out and reimbursing all of them or just the ones with large internet presences? (Also, was the less than 0.01% number accurate? Es
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/286824/silic...
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Think of it this way: a barrel shifter has to be able to "carry" every bit to (potentially) every other bit.
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I'm not a pilot, but my understanding is it is quite different to driving in terms of attention — a cruising pilot can easily look at a screen for 5 or 10 seconds (?) entirely safely, whereas a driver might struggle to even stay in lan
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Read the curriculum of an undergraduate computer science course and read up on the things you haven't heard of. Some courses will even have lecture notes available. E.g. these four pages are the university of Cambridge masters in compu
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
If you're getting paid >$500k, would it be possible to do a bit of Mr Money Mustache and then get some kind of high net worth visa. At >$500k a year, that can't take more than a few years. And you'll be retired too.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
To be fair, he said something about a failing startup which is likely to take work friendships to the limit anyway.
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SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c

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