anexprogrammer

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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I don't think I ever signed an agency contract without heavily adjusting some clauses. I would simply state I can't sign as is. The only times I got pushback (rare) an annotated letter from accountant or PCG (now IPSE I think) c
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
My workflow is usually to lose interest and motivation right around the time I have it rough, ready and working. Rather than do the last polish and site to release I would end up doing other hobbies. It's been frusrtating.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Worked for me in same conditions. I'm running uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger that may have affected it. Doesn't always work lately though - I sometimes get the snippet and sign in to read prompt.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I dislike this intensely. Presumably poorer people can look forward to longer queues. Richer people might prefer to talk to the best agents at solving problems over the agents that "show results with high-income callers". I forsee
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
The v20 always on screen is right where you're always looking on a phone, unlike MBP touchbar. I'd buy one tomorrow but LG feel Europeans are unworthy of them.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Well there's already tile who seem to be doing OK selling tags for £25 each. They have a remarkable burn rate for selling something so simple! $34M in 2 Rounds
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Yes it would. Unfortunately doing that in today's world would render them unelectable. Emissions regs are the best our defective system can do, hence slow changes. That even those aren't being honoured makes it a big thing. Of cou
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I find it odd in pointing out health risks and citing David Nutt's study[0] you don't mention the #1 damaging drug - alcohol. [0] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
To follow on from the little thread from my comment over there [0]... I was getting far too jaded and cynical about the constant reinvention of the wheel that was never better, just different. Along with the ever increasing crap masqueradin
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
It's one of the countless historic houses in the UK and Europe. Similar age as and nearer Downton Abbey than mere house! Elizabethan (late 1500s) and numerous alterations since, so plenty is in need of care and restoration. There'
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Houses. Well houses++ really. Working at an old estate preserving and restoring. There's a little of everything including the old farm equipment etc. I'm a strange mix of restorer, labourer and extremely junior apprentice (seems l
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
You mean why does it load instantly, pulling 100K, and not need JS and Disqus for comments? After a makeover it'll want to pull 2M+ for a short piece of text and 5M if there's a few images. Like with HN I prefer speed and simple f
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Mostly past caring about Firefox. Just about every choice they've made since before Australis moves it further away from being what I'd like. May as well just use Chrome at this point, rather than Chrome Lite.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I already did after 25 years in development. I'm tempted to do a side-project or startup now after a few years away. If I was to return to tech I'd be very focused on creating real benefit and progress (think perhaps environment
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Almost everyone I know using email for business uses a desktop client - usually Mac Mail, sometimes thunderbird. A new client that isn't quite so neglected would be very welcome.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Over 60% against ... but "more channels". OK solely money driven then. I have somewhere around 12 FM radios, ranging in price from £10 to £lots and 40 years old or newer. They all still work and often give LW and SW too. In the UK
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Very much anecdotal, and I'm sure I saw people hit harder than many in quiet, unexciting companies who just kept working - I was contracting as were a fair number of my friends. It felt like a nationwide hard stop - there was almost no
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Rather missing the point that we've replaced much native software with thin clients running JS in a browser or pretending to be an app. Whether it needs to be or not. For many reasons - multi device support, convenience, data harvestin
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> But by and large, the programmers at the other end of the bell curve did just fine... Sure doesn't align with the experience I had or any of my tech friends had in the UK in the post-Y2K bust. The only person I know who did &q
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Precisely. Continuing Steve's vision as best they can imagine it (not well). Don't forget when he used the post-PC phrase he was very clear PCs are still going to be needed and valued. It wasn't supposed to be either-or. Pret
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
How does the current Apple identify the correct idealised user when they don't seem to share the required taste? They need to relearn and engage in user discovery and questioning until they realise what niches they occupy and their use
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> having the UK, Wales and Scotland all on the list is somewhat confusing Why? UK is comprised of countries with their own legislatures (with devolved and varying powers). England doesn't. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have p
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Meh. When I submit my project to Show HN it'll be to have the stupid obvious things, or gaping security FU, I've missed ripped to shreds. That's the point to my mind. Same if I were showing it to /r/programming. The
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I'd suggest to "Start contributing data to DDG in 2017". Most of their best results are crowdsourced. I've been using it as default for perhaps 2 years now. There's some consistent annoyances, but overall I actually
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Most likely simply don't think about it in enough depth to form a view either way. Collecting data to make the app make connections better is the "acceptable" view. The artificial bubbling is probably widely known - as it&#x2
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
It's a big subject and I don't want to to drag too far off topic. So I'll just say prescription rates in 1990 were when the condition was barely recognised and hugely under-diagnosed. Most doctors still believed you grew out
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I did say it was flawed. > currently allow prescription of extraordinarily strong methamphetamine to children As someone adult diagnosed ADHD and taking "extrordinarily strong amphetamine" from my 40s I'd like to point out
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Ridiculously clickbait headline. BBC reports study "better than other outlets" (according to OP), later reports study is flawed. BBC's organisation ensures better oversight and correction mechanisms compared to most websites.
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
<s> Yes! We could replace those flawed and lobbied against restrictions with advice. The market would be free once again to innovate. Bayer could once again offer Heroin as an addiction free drug. We could get long missed radium cures

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