joe202

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by joe202 4y ago
Laid off from a tech job after 20+ years. Retrained as a teacher, which was something I was also interested in. Lower salary and more hours but both OK. Went back into tech (not FAANG like) after 5 years, partly because I missed out on alwa
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by joe202 4y ago
I'm in the UK and spent a little over £10k for 6.5kW and batteries. Expected payback is < 7y, depends on (UK) electricity prices and possible smart reselling power.
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by joe202 4y ago
Solar panels. Took about 6 months since starting the process and still need certificates before I can sell on a smart tariff but it's been fun seeing electricity generated even in December!
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by joe202 4y ago
Yes! I do financial risk modelling for a UK household name. I was hired 12y ago, after applying to an advert, to work with a (niche) language I'd not seen before. I enjoy solving the problems, learning new things, doing things the &#x2
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by joe202 4y ago
In October 1992 I was mostly programming in Fortran on a Dec VAX, writing scientific simulation and design software for electronic and optical components. About this time we bought some large CRT monitors, partly so that we could remotely r
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by joe202 5y ago
I'm no longer looking for different work but when I was, I definitely had categories of employers I wouldn't work for. Never shy about letting a recruiter know, don't think it had any adverse effects.
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by joe202 6y ago
I'm now old enough to retire if I wanted but intend to go on for another ~5y. Worked at the first place for 26y (3/4 different employers, mostly takeovers). When I got made redundant, I retrained as a teacher, which I stayed at fo
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by joe202 6y ago
> I was hired as a physicist with requirement for some programming. Almost immediately I was a programmer with a bit of physics. > I first worked on surface acoustic waves for signal processing - most computational intensive part of t
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by joe202 6y ago
My employer has been encouraging WFH for a while but mandated it for half our office before government requirement (didn't want everyone in key teams sick at the same time). We have been allowed to buy a monitor and have been supplied
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by joe202 6y ago
The most objectionable part for me is noise level, followed by the fact that my seat faces the big windows, which are frequently too bright. They are also often too warm for my comfort, though too cold for others. I don't want to liste
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by joe202 7y ago
Do you mean something like these: https://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups ?
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by joe202 7y ago
I have taught programming in schools in the UK. It's not necessarily that easy. If your kids are beyond Scratch and Minecraft, I would teach them Python - I think it's the best teaching language and it's also real world usefu
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by joe202 9y ago
We started giving our kids money to spend on a comic or similar at the corner shop as soon as they were old enough to handle it. From school age they had regular pocket money that they could save or spend. This was mostly not tied to chores
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by joe202 10y ago
Location: Swindon, United Kingdom Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes - UK, Europe Technologies: Python, R, SAS, Fortran Résumé/CV: https://bitbucket.org/joe202/my_cv Email: j.g.metcalfe (at) gmail (dot) com I cu
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by joe202 15y ago
I used to use a debugger more extensively when I was writing Fortran. More recently, writing Python, S-Plus and VBA I've mostly used print (or MsgBox) - easier to do with interpreted languages, stepping through code is also easier.
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by joe202 15y ago
Just ordered a Lenovo G570 for my daughter to go to uni (core i3 2130, 4Gb, 500Gb, 15in) - good price, good reputation. I'll set it up to dual boot Win 7 & Ubuntu. It's what I'd buy for myself if I was buying now, though serious number