peterhi

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by peterhi 2y ago
So they looked at this and said "ship it"?
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by peterhi 2y ago
Wonder if this could be co-opted to function like a Narrative Clip. Take a photo every 30 seconds (or something like that). I had mine for 3 years before it died
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by peterhi 2y ago
It is an asset and in their minds worth something. Think old people and fine china dinner plates. They are convinced that they are valuable and refuse to throw it out
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by peterhi 2y ago
Oh god we had this in team building exercises in the woods. "Here's a pile of junk, work out how to cross a stream without getting wet". One guy grabbed a long piece of wood and vaulted over the stream, others weren't sa
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by peterhi 2y ago
But the flag was useful to show in the ui where the language setting was. This is especially useful when the language has been set to something I cannot read. I don't know which of 语言设定 and 重置设备 will allow me to set the language back t
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by peterhi 3y ago
But that is my point. When trying to teach Lisp they would teach you all about the 100 ways to chop up lists without showing you why you would even want to. Your example would not have appeared until the 4th or 5th lecture and would have re
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by peterhi 3y ago
It's the learnability of the language. Remember BASIC? You could show someone a FOR ... NEXT loop and they would completely understand. After a couple more 10 line programs and you can safely hand over the keyboard and handle the &quot
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by peterhi 3y ago
Currently on macos because the servers we deploy to are linux. Used to work on windows and it was ok, as everything was done from the command line and the application was deployed from the CVS. Realistically I was not really using windows i
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by peterhi 3y ago
I know some delivery workers and if they get anything less than "excellent" they get written up. So it's "excellent" each and every time I know it's meaningless but it takes one click to help someone
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by peterhi 3y ago
I was expected to get around 10 O Levels at school (a UK exam for 16 yo). I failed them all. The nearest thing to an academic achievement I have ever accomplished :) I stayed on for another 2 years just so I could get an O Level in basic En
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by peterhi 3y ago
The os itself eats much more of the resources than linux running on the same hardware. Macos is a "bigger" operating system (more parts) and they all want memory and cycles. Linux is positively anorexic in comparison :) It will al
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by peterhi 4y ago
For Amazon the issue for me has always been that aside from the things I shop for myself I get asked to buy things for other people or presents for family members Amazon doesn't know who I bought something for so making sense of why I
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by peterhi 4y ago
I have found ebooks (at least on my Kindle) make reading code very hard. Wraps code which is not a good look for a language like Python and not much code is shown on each page. Also I find that I can not flip back and forth when I need to c
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by peterhi 4y ago
Joins are severely misunderstood and often incorrectly used. I've seen code that had the wrong join and would return 1,000s of rows which then had to be programatically squished down into the data we actually wanted. Some hand crafted
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by peterhi 4y ago
Lord of the Rings, House on the Borderland, Pilgrims Progress, Gulliver's Travels and the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft
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by peterhi 4y ago
House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodges. Very atmospheric horror I read to read Lord of the Rings every year but I pretty much got to memorise the whole thing and it became a drag
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by peterhi 4y ago
Work I would like to do and being paid accordingly (being originally a COBOL programmer myself) Money is money after all I would be less inclined to take a MUMPS gig than a Forth one. Part of the issue would be the environment. Developing P
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by peterhi 4y ago
If he can prove that he was saying what he did as an employee of IW then IW, the company, is responsible. The US doesn't necessarily hold that the company and the owner (even a sole owner) are the same. The phrase "corporate veil&
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by peterhi 5y ago
Oh yes, I've forgotten things and looked at my phone and gone "I know it's on here, which app was it?" Make all the messages texts searchable And whilst we are at it: TRANSCRIBE THE PHONE CALLS TOO!!!
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by peterhi 5y ago
We don't whiteboard. Though we do have a pile of paper on hand so that people can draw diagrams to better explain their solutions to the problems we put forward. Simple ones like improve this one table database into something "bet
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by peterhi 5y ago
This was normal for me for good many years. Given that few companies promote internally (or that there are fewer promotions available to staff) means that if you want a change you will probably have to move on anyhow I would say that your f
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by peterhi 5y ago
Downvoting is too blunt a tool. You can downvote for many reasons "(I think) you are wrong", "your comment adds nothing to the discussion (simply repeating the original)", "I don't like you (lets be honest that
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by peterhi 5y ago
We used mercurial but few tools integrated with it out of the box. It was easier to move to git that get mercurial to work with our tools
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by peterhi 5y ago
In the old days as you approached 30 being a pure programmer was unheard of (or at least you were going to become that "weird guy" in a corner office) and you were expected to move into management / consulting I resisted and
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by peterhi 5y ago
I've never found a benefit in "Personalized ads" because they have never been something that I am interested in, it seems to really mean "we can charge the brands more for this ad". There is a ton of stuff I would w
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by peterhi 5y ago
After a time it finally occurs to me that those "one off" scripts that I write to help out at work really need to be packaged up. So I end up with https://github.com/PeterHickman/Nginx-Log-Tools to get basic
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by peterhi 5y ago
I was a Perl dev for more than a decade and the only problem we had was when we started to grow the company. We needed programmers who could do Perl but graduates had not even heard of it. How do you evaluate a graduate who had been taught
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by peterhi 6y ago
I know that Ruby works on Apple Silicon. Or at least it has not failed yet. However will go work, will rust? Would be a pain to get so far and then find, oh yeah that doesn't work either Once the python package for tensorflow is workin
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by peterhi 6y ago
Virtual Box will only run 32 bit versions of Linux. Some python scripts will run, others die. At least it is consistent in which is which but I'm looking to rewrite the python stuff in ruby
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by peterhi 6y ago
Use the code you write

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