lin_lin

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by lin_lin 9y ago
Are you American by any chance? Not having a go, just curious.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
I remember getting my first mobile, one of the big pitches for it was "no cost to receive sms messages." It's funny to look back on it now.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
There was the referendum. Then the elected representatives voted on it, and passed it. Then there was a general election, after which Leave was again voted for in Parliament (and both the main parties back leaving the EU). How many votes ar
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by lin_lin 9y ago
What utter rubbish. Just when you think it's already reached "Peak Guardian", they come out with that.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
You've given an extreme example, not worth replying to really. > I don't know what bubble you live in The "bubble" that the vast majority of devs live in where on-call isn't a thing? > If you don't want a
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by lin_lin 9y ago
How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Anything goes? Twitter have been actively censoring hashtags, banning people, shadow-banning accounts and most recently "de-verifiying" people due to political differences.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
So realistically, is the code going to be fixed at 3 a.m.? Why can't it wait til I'm in the next morning at 8 a.m. for a proper review, triage, priority listing and then fix? I'm shocked that people would so easily give up th
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by lin_lin 9y ago
On call as a core part? Really? Thankfully I've never worked anywhere with such a "duty", tbh if my current place proposed it I'd be applying for new jobs by lunch time. What's the standard pay for being on-call as
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven? Not really. The problem is that building all but stopped in the aftermath of the 2007/8 crash. Meanwhile the economy recovered, Dublin in particular is booming now b
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> It's deja vu all over again. Except for the lack of readily available credit. For the most part, it seems the people paying the high prices are "able" to afford it. The problem is that home ownership (and the security th
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by lin_lin 9y ago
I fail to see what that has to do with supercomputing funding/underfunding due to religious stuff (which I'm guessing is tax breaks).
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> including supercomputing No, not true at all. > His statement has some weight. Only in so far as you could make the argument about any of the other spendings of the US government and shoe-horn it in.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Hilarious shoe-horning in of your personal gripe. When was the vote to decide between computing funding and religious stuff?
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by lin_lin 9y ago
I honestly don't remember that. I could easily have predicated what would come up in the article, the G have a bizarre fascination with that mini-shuttle protesting story. It comes up in pretty much every tech/SV story. Throw in a
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by lin_lin 9y ago
The Guardian has a clear anti-tech/SV bias, I'll take the lot with a desert spoon of salt.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
No but his PR team have done wonders in making the average Joe think he's the smartest man in the world and therefore the papers will run with anything he comes out with,
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Living in the UK, my last job required three months notice to leave on paper. In reality they accepted a month which is standard enough.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
A few years back I had 10 bitcoins and bought weed on the Silk Road with them. Hmm, imagine I held onto it :)
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Hmm, the whole "use pens" thing was extensively widespread in the Scottish Independence ref in 2014. Not a surprise it'd resurface on a wider scale two years later.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> I can operate it without ever taking it out of the pocket its in. Yes! That's something so innate to my usage that I forgot to mention it.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
It's some sort of Sony Walkman. Dunno which model as all of the printing on the device has worn away with use!
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Charging isn't an issue, it lasts days and days. I don't actually remember the last time it ever ran out. Not mention I use it as a handy sub storage for other files. It's ultra light, and as someone who does a bit of running
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by lin_lin 9y ago
I can relate to an extent. I use a USB stick music player. It's essentially like a usb drive with a headphone jack. I've had it years. I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need. When it breaks, I'll get a
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Wow that's some jump. It's the opposite for me in a way, I'm renting and it's killing me to see all that "wasted". A mortgage would cost far less than what rent is, and by paying it off I see that as a type of
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> How did punching a Nazi once in a while stop being great? Maybe when the people doing it reserve the right to decide who is a "Nazi" and who is not.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Not really an exhaustive list of positions... Anyways the figures for my area are well off and I suspect London-tainted.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
> This was written so disrespectfully and dismissively of programmers, hackers and engineers that I have a hard time reading it, despite my extreme distaste for Facebook. It's the Guardian, that's pretty much to be expected.
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Well if we're going down that road, that figure is dwarfed by the amount of debt the Irish State took on to bail out European banks...
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by lin_lin 9y ago
Nice selective headlining from the Guardian. Usually txes are paid on profits. Wouldn't drive the clicks though.

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