jmcdowell

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by jmcdowell 1y ago
I was quite interested in one of the CEOs from a premier league team who runs StarLizard which is a private gambling syndicate focused on sports. They're making a lot of money off building models to predict sport outcomes. I'm not
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by jmcdowell 1y ago
If anyone is a fan of podcasts and this subject, there is a really good podcast series called 'Ghost in the Machine' which does a deep dive into motor doping, how it could be occurring, the current state of technology to enable it
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by jmcdowell 2y ago
I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be. Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to c
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by jmcdowell 3y ago
Have you looked at all at the ZSA Voyager and if so, what were your thoughts? I realise it cuts down on the number of thumb buttons compared to the Moonlander but I saw quite a few Moonlander users who have used both saying they'd opt
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by jmcdowell 3y ago
Out of interest, do you find many working on software projects at hacker spaces? Each one I've looked at online seems to have more of a focus on hardware, electronics, metal/wood working with little mention of software. The caveat
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The GCHQ Christmas Challenge 2022(gchq.gov.uk)
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by jmcdowell 10y ago
Many of the engineers I've worked with in the UK carry EE degrees (I'm unsure how different this is to electronic and computer engineering). It's certainly not seen as a bad thing or a reason to not get interviews compared to
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by jmcdowell 10y ago
Yea I'm in the same boat, seen a recommendation for AirVPN which seems very affordable and easy to use but then also those recommending to set your own up, is this doable without much knowledge in the area of VPNs?
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by jmcdowell 11y ago
Any idea who would have "126 million images along with their accompanying Exif location data."? That seems an insane amount to me.
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by jmcdowell 11y ago
Ah sorry about that, didn't think to check the history.
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by jmcdowell 11y ago
Did you skim read? It introduces him as: "One can be sure that Uber's Design Director, Shalin Amin".
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by jmcdowell 11y ago
Any reason for the use of Perl both in this and in DDG? I'm a recent Comp Sci graduate and haven't seen a lot jobs for Perl or use cases over say Python/Ruby which seem to more popular.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
I haven't used the Suface Pro 3 myself but I'm wondering, can it become your sole/main dev machine? Or is it only good for some light coding?
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
As someone interested in this lifestyle, do you receive your work from a network of clients you built up from a more traditional job or do you use online job sites.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
I work in England but a co-worker here mentioned that the law says he can't carry them unless he had a very good reason e.g. he is a locksmith.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Sorry, should have been clearer, couple of months in my job and past 4 years at university. Glad to hear though, I'll try it for my next android project.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
I realise this is subjective but how hard have people found converting over to Android Studio for someone used to Eclipse? I was taught to use Eclipse in university and having been using it full time at my job for the last couple of months
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other? I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by teaming up with such a used storage platform and not succumbin
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
What sort of things do you miss? Never got to use NeXT so purely from a 'seeing what I'm missing' point of view.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Has he talked much about his writing process for this book? Would be really interested to read his thoughts on it.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Try searching 'club mate' and your country. Results came up for a UK branch for me, just checked and the same happens for the US.
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by jmcdowell 12y ago
Since he's not asking you to leave the company but instead to stop writing code, is there work to be done elsewhere in the company? You might find this talk from Ian Hogarth (Songkick) at Hacker News London Meetup quite relevant. He ta
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
Thank you very much, I'll have a look at those 3. Completely agree about the parent book, it does seem very interesting. Although potentially only available in the UK as an import.
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
Would you know/recommend any books from the early Microsoft era? I enjoyed Masters of Doom and would love to know if there is anything which goes into that much detail of the early days of Microsoft, actually any company would be inter
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
That's interesting, it was the opposite here with all the developers having workstations and spec'ed up laptops whereas sale/marketing would be given some generic thinkpad. I would of thought Brazil may be changing as they we
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
Guessing this is USA? This did not happen for UK based interns , only full time employees received surfaces as gifts over here.
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
I'm still very young compared to the original poster on stackexchange, however a comment in that thread reminded me of something I did myself which filled me with motivation. "And finally, if you get a chance, help students with t
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
I was looking for the same thing, ended up using ddd, has watches, breakpoints etc. If you've found a better solution than that though feel free to let me know.
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by jmcdowell 13y ago
Hey! I've been to a few of the HNLondon meet ups and going to miss them a lot when I'm back in Newcastle this year. If you want to chat at all about potentially setting something up in the North this year I'd be happy to help

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