daven11

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by daven11 7y ago
Yes I've often maintained that we could just drill a hole in the middle of Australia and dump the worlds nuclear waste in it. Its the perfect spot, no ground water (if you make sure its west of the great artesian basin), geologically a
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by daven11 12y ago
I find that one hard to believe - I can't believe Bill would open himself up to cartel laws, the others however :-) Though that would explain a few things
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by daven11 12y ago
Wow, that's the bit you don't hear in the papers. Ever thought of writing a book with this stuff?
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by daven11 12y ago
Thanks folks, it's really interesting to hear the road less travelled. Any others?
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by daven11 12y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'm pleased to hear you recommend going to school, it seems there's an exceptional few who can make it without a degree. I'd thought there'd be more, maybe they have better things to do on their weeke
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by daven11 12y ago
Indeed, and you could do the old trick of making a ram disk for your compiles
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by daven11 12y ago
I have to ask - any stories you can tell?
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by daven11 12y ago
That's great - did not having a degree ever cause you problems?
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by daven11 12y ago
oh, I just had a look and the base model doesn't have an SSD - I'd really not consider developing without an SSD any more. It will work but compile times are slower, how much I couldn't say. But then I've developed for y
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by daven11 12y ago
lol, I think you may be an exception :-), kudos to you by the way
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by daven11 12y ago
Are you sure? - from the site https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT4432 Mac mini (Late 2014) Mac mini (Late 2014) does not have user-installable RAM. You can configure the memory in your Mac mini (Late 2014) when you purc
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by daven11 12y ago
I'd get 8GB, I do have trouble now and then with the 4GB, but only because of the VM (I have to reboot), 8GB will give you a longer lifetime I think (I didn't think you could upgrade the RAM in the mini's any more).
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by daven11 12y ago
I use a macbook air mid 2011. 1.7 Ghz i5, 4GB 133MHz DDR3, 128GB SSD, intel HD graphics 3000 384 MB memory, and it works fine. I run Yosemite on it and develop iOS apps. I actually run a Windows 8 VM on it as well - but I have to be careful
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Ask HN: Are there many professional devs who don't have any degree?
5 points by daven11 12y ago|23 comments
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by daven11 12y ago
That was what a degree was for in the old days - it was to teach you how to learn. There are other paths nowadays I suppose, but a degree is a tick from an institution (who are experts in learning) that you can learn something and presumabl
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by daven11 12y ago
I was self taught then did a CS degree, so have a foot in both camps. Some of the things I learnt in the degree which I never would have learnt by myself were (and others have mentioned some of these) - algorithms, relational theory, O-nota
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by daven11 12y ago
Managers who hire specialists in a field (i.e. me) then proceed to tell them how to work. It's solvable, but the cost is me taking on the risk of ignoring managers and proceeding, or present the reasons why their approach will fail and
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by daven11 12y ago
i don't want to rain on your parade but you do know there are a gagillion of these around
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by daven11 12y ago
I looked at flex/air a year or so ago for the same requirements - ended up using Delphi. It was uncertain at the time whether flex/air would be around (it may be different now), also Delphi has a very mature 3rd party component ma
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by daven11 13y ago
until someone comes up with a way to determine what is bad versus good then that is perhaps the best there is. I use companies to do all sorts of things for me - watching software is just one more thing.
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by daven11 13y ago
...or come up with a better way to download and install software, oh wait a minute Apple did that and made a billion dollar industry downloading apps.
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Surprising Variation Among Genomes of Individual Neurons from Same Brain(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by daven11 13y ago|0 comments
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by daven11 13y ago
we've come a long way since the 70's...
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The myths of the "self-made man" and meritocracy [2010](psychologytoday.com)
1 points by daven11 13y ago|0 comments
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by daven11 13y ago
Delphi - I'm all alone
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by daven11 13y ago
For those who don't live in Brisbane. The brisbane times is a free paper put in peoples letter boxes, best known for it's local restaurant reviews and fashion. I wouldn't take it's views on overseas IT procurement very s
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by daven11 13y ago
way faster than in the browser
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by daven11 13y ago
of course - run it in a VM - I do it every day
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by daven11 13y ago
A 50"? How close do you sit to that? I have a 27" Dell which is a beautiful monitor and a couple of 24" monitors - but I'd probably just get 2 or 3 x 24" next time, I find the 27 a bit big, 50" I'd find ov
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by daven11 13y ago
Wait till you go back to your own code in 1,2,5 years and think who wrote this rubbish - only to look it up and find out it was you :-)

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