daveoflynn

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by daveoflynn 6y ago
Boeing is already a public/private enterprise. The down years in commercial aircraft are propped up by US Gov defence orders, lots of primary research is funded by the US taxpayer, the US Gov works very hard to help Boeing sell airplan
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by daveoflynn 6y ago
I don’t want to argue that the keyboards and mice are perfect, but we have two magic keyboards, two mice, and one gen1 trackpad that have all been extremely reliable. All are +/- 10 years old. Well, one mouse and one trackpad didn’t su
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
It’s not “for the sake of a wink and a nod” or “dogwhistling.” The ACLU is actively campaigning against the way the US Government and ICE in particular treats immigrants and people around the borders. Have a look at the ACLU website... thei
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
BACS is generally cheaper at volume. In addition, BACS Bureau allows a payroll company to transfer money directly from your employer's account to yours without the money ever reaching their account. All fixable, but payroll companies a
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
The auction cleared at £45/MWh (1). This means that the bids referenced in the Bloomberg story have succeeded. Bloomberg have significantly updated their story to reflect the results. In today’s good news story, we can change “may” to
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
It took about 30s to ‘solve’ the captcha on my iPhone XR, with minimal feedback as to why it was taking so long. That was pretty annoying. If I hadn’t been on a site demoing captchas, I would have assumed the site broken and moved on...
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
There’s a joke in skydiving: “What happens if your backup parachute fails? You aim for the car of the person who packed it”
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
Hard to say definitively - double malfunctions are relatively rare, so the sample size isn’t enormous. More time can increase the likelihood that you can get some piece of parachute fabric above your head. And if you can do that, the odds g
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
> after some inflection point, does your likelihood of survival actually increase with altitude? For humans, no. After ~10sec you’re falling at terminal velocity, which is generally 2-300km/h, and your odds of survival are extraordi
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
The primary things that's changed has been the availability of small powerful gas-turbine engines. That's what's made the folks you've mentioned, plus the Jetman project, possible. To the best of my knowledge, this class
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
> Do the regulators take into account whether the firm is actually at fault? To echo others: yes, a lot. To quote the Information Commissioner: > "I have no intention of changing the ICO’s proportionate and pragmatic approach aft
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by daveoflynn 7y ago
£183m is about 10% of the profit BA made in FY 2018 before exceptional items: > Despite these challenges, our revenues have held up, increasing 5.7 per cent versus last year. ... we achieved an operating profit of £1,952 million before
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
That analogy doesn’t hold up. All Airbus and most Boeing aircraft have systems to push the nose down in event of a stall. The problem here is: in the transition from the -NG to the -MAX, Boeing added this protection and didn’t tell anyone
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
Here are Joshua’s slides from the talk mentioned above: https://joshlf.com/files/talks/Move%20Fast%20and%20Don't%20B...
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
Ireland is, as of 2016, a net contributor to the EU; this year the country is expecting to contribute 2.7bn€ Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-contri...
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
Contractors still do a bit better than employees, though HMRC keep talking about seriously cracking down on the practice.
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
Was that a while ago? Dingle town (and many other small towns in Kerry) have fibre: https://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/ . Lots of houses have been connected in the last 2-3 years.
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by daveoflynn 8y ago
Likewise - in the decade I was active in the sport of skydiving, I heard plenty of stories around using the sport to help with stress, depression, and other issues back in the “real world”. Never heard of a tandem jumper saying that, but th
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by daveoflynn 11y ago
This article misses the point. Atlassian's success is not because of their user onboarding. The onboarding process has been a serious weak point of JIRA and Confluence for as long as I can remember (and I worked at Atlassian from 2007-
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
I know a _lot_ about JIRA. I worked at Atlassian for almost four years, in engineering management and product management roles. (Left in 2011, if you care). JIRA is a total nightmare to configure sensibly, and the UX is complex enough that
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
Are you outside the USA? Atlassian's Cloud (previously OnDemand, Studio) offerings are only hosted in the USA. So they're clunky and slow on any other continent. Including, amusingly, Atlassian's engineering HQ in Sydney.
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
You're talking about European Commission, not the European Parliment. This action is being initiated by the directly-elected[1] Members of the European Parliment. For readers more familiar with the US, the closest analogy is European P
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
Thank you so much. I felt like I was in a teenager's bedroom. In dark theme, the contrast to the Yosemite system toolbar is terrible and the tab text is extremely hard to read.
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
Paddington, London, or REMOTE within UK. VISA help available. ( http://www.alchemytec.com ) AlchemyTec is a team of about ten people building software to turn the labour supply market on its head, starting with the UK construction
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
It's vital if you use a Mac/Win as a dev machine.
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
I used to have the cert (deleted a while ago), and I've never installed Steam.
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
I live in France & all the major telcos* do this. It's an advertised part of the services. * At least: Orange, Bouygues, SFR, Free.
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by daveoflynn 12y ago
Many of the products were acquisitions, though often at a very early stage in the product's lifecycle. Off the top of my head, acquisitions: HipChat, Bitbucket, GreenHopper (now JIRA Agile), SourceTree, FishEye, Crucible, Clover, Crowd
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by daveoflynn 13y ago
I'm an Irish redhead who lived in Australia for a decade, doing lots of outdoor sports. To solve your problem: Put sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat on. Go outside.
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by daveoflynn 13y ago
> Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat. For anyone tackling this today for a small-medium team: set up JIRA first, point Stash at JIRA, done. JIRA can act as a user managem

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