lmorris84

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by lmorris84 8y ago
Ah I don’t believe that was available last time I used it - I’ll check it out thanks!
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by lmorris84 8y ago
I wrote a java port of the python counter many moons ago [1]. Will have to resurrect it! [1] https://github.com/leemorrisdev/foundationcounter
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Yep most of the FIX connections I've seen are connected for most of the day, long outside trading hours. Tag 103 has specific error codes for the exchange being closed.
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I'm always suspicious when news articles embed tweets as "evidence". The one case that sticks out for me was Tim Hunt losing his job because of his joke at a conference. I wonder if UCL also fell for media manufactured outr
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by lmorris84 11y ago
> Should we blame Michael S for wasting hours of his life hitting a small button? We could. Yep we could, and we should. I'm all for personal responsibility, and this feels like setting up a massive excuse for someone wasting their
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by lmorris84 11y ago
> I am against writing unit tests in general > How often have you seen a program crash? If it was developed by a large software company, chances are it was written using TDD. Clearly, TDD is not a magic bullet. So, TDD does not "
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I like the sound of this. As well as giving the candidate ample opportunity to show what they can do, it'll also be representative of the actual work they'll be doing in that role so everyone will be going into the post-probation
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Falklands have around 3,000 people who actively WANT their home to be a British Overseas Territory. Argentina's claim to them holds about as much water as my claim to Buckingham Palace.
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Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers(wired.com)
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by lmorris84 11y ago
His complaint about returns is curious, not sure if it's country specific. I returned something to Amazon a couple of weeks ago in the UK due to some missing parts. I printed out the label, put it in the box and the next day a delive
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I normally just call myself a developer, although engineer is so widespread in the industry now I wouldn't mind that either. I can't look at someone with a straight face when they refer to themselves as a "software craftsman
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by lmorris84 11y ago
My first reaction to this was that VPN usage will explode, but I'm not sure how a VPN server hosted in another country would work with their desire to effectively ban encryption. I feel like the UK is slowly goose stepping its way to a
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Can someone who does more UI work than me explain why you would want to future proof css like this in the first place? Even forgetting the undesired outcome and lack of testing, it's css...if browsers implement this feature, release it
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by lmorris84 11y ago
The problem with applying analytics to Martial is the limited dataset - he only made about 50 appearances in his career before joining United. It's looking a good bet so far, but it's definitely a punt.
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I'd love to see something like this available in running stores (if it's not already). I've done the treadmill + video camera test in the past, where someone looks at slow motion video of your footfall and determines whether
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I'd be interested to see if anyone can recommend recruiters in London. I've had nothing but bad experiences over the last few years so tend to ignore them now, but it'd be good to have a little list of decent ones.
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Agreed. It's laid out in such a simple way it's easy to navigate and read. I can fit 25 posts on the screen on iPhone 6 which is nice for browsing - ihackernews makes everything bigger and drops me down to 4/5. Keep it the w
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by lmorris84 11y ago
We solved this in a roughly similar way to a real stock exchange: the order book is persisted entirely in memory, in Go. What happens if your process crashes? how do you rebuild the order book? Great work btw guys, can't wait to get
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I love what Netflix are doing right now but I wouldn't ever work there. It sounds like the Hunger Games, with employees desperate to show they're "A" players. I'd be terrified of having a couple of weeks as a &quot
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I believe Google Spanner obsesses over timestamps quite a lot to deliver distributed transactions with something called TrueTime [1]. [1] http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
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by lmorris84 11y ago
It'll be interesting to see how Amazon respond to the inevitable complaints when Clarkson does a "Clarkson". The BBC used to fall over themselves to apologise and give him another final warning - you'd have to assume th
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Does anyone know how they colour correct these images? I'm guessing there isn't a robotic arm holding up a test card in front of the camera :-)
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I give so little thought to many of these things. I have a Spotify subscription, I'm watching the Football on Sky Go which uses Silverlight, I'm using a browser rathe
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Should be called "temperature" rather than "weather". 21 degrees and...raining? sunny? any cloud? Wouldn't call it beautiful - the ascii art is really distracting.
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Presumably many institutions would have other sources of pricing data too - I know this is the case in many sell-sides, not sure about everywhere else. I've worked in a few sell-sides and you see bloomberg screens all over the place,
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by lmorris84 11y ago
I've often thought the same thing. On the other side of this, according to the NMC[0] only 10.69% of Nurses in 2008 were men (UK). I've personally never seen anyone highlight this as a diversity issue. This is just a guess but I
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by lmorris84 11y ago
We have 4 internal cameras that use motion detection, and a house alarm that calls us if the motion sensors go off, or goes nuts if it detects movement at night. We were broken into last year while we were asleep. We were only alerted afte
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by lmorris84 11y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Java - Spring (core, MVC), Guice, Javassist, Hibernate, Akka, JGroups, Maven, Gradle, JUnit, Netty, Jetty/Servlets, Apache Camel, groovy, Jasper rep
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by lmorris84 12y ago
Agree with many of these points. I've worked from home for the last 3 years and I love it, but it definitely has it's downsides. I think the worst for me is not being able to switch off at 5pm. Without the journey home to empty
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by lmorris84 12y ago
This is either really good satire or really depressing. It's like every HR buzzword has been shoved into a single requirements doc, and then some bizarre ones added for good measure (it's a bonus if you like to wear headphones app

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