pointyhats

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by pointyhats 13y ago
That is because the 140 EUR grant is of significantly less value, which is absolutely wonderful motivation to do things properly. I applaud what they do in Finland.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Firstly it's not a fantasy unless you make it one. As someone brought up on a shoestring budget in one of the worst bits of London, I can assure you that in the real world, class is entirely irrelevant and ethics and morals are. There are p
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by pointyhats 13y ago
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5818507 I try to live a life which is entirely ethical and I treat people with respect where earned. I will not be an apologist though and if I find something morally reprehensible I
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by pointyhats 13y ago
And by making the distinction of working class are you not contributing to that bias? I treat all people as classless. The people described by myself are not bound by class, but by attitude and morals. There is no class distinction involved
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by pointyhats 13y ago
I agree entirely. I did not state it was citable or sound, but an observation. The observation/hypothesis is valuable as it's the starting point for a discussion. Presenting the extreme is disingenuous. The answer to the correctness of my a
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Yes indeed. Philosophical note: 1. I think things that are desirable are easy to offer citations for because there is a motivation to promote the desirable. 2. Conversely, things that are not desirably are not researched by people who do no
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Yes it is unsupported. I admit that. But it's clearly observable. I'm sure many people here observe it regularly. You specify the problem the wrong way around. The women got pregnant because the maternity grant was offered as is a cosy coun
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by pointyhats 13y ago
I know the differences, probably more than you realise. I presented a hypothesis, which you can turn into a theory by sitting outside ASDA for a bit with a clipboard and a copy of SPSS. My suggestion was that you should try it.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Not everything needs citation in the form of a survey or scientific paper. I doubt the results of it would be honest as the people who they would be surveying have an interest in lying about the things they have purchased with it. Some thin
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Stand outside ASDA in Feltham or Hounslow and observe.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
There are very few tech products without something Foxconn in them. Even my old Lenovo T61 had most of the parts stamped Foxconn.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
This is because their JS implementation is a wrapper around WinRT rather than anything close to what anyone else is doing. It also isn't very JavaScripty. WinRT is a particularly odd creation. Plus Windows 8 RT isn't selling.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some expensive fashionable buggy for the baby (usually topped up by
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Very true. It took me 9 months and 45 calls to support to get a relatively simple regression in IE9/ClickOnce fixed and all we got was a fucking registry fix that we now have to ship to 2000 clients. Basically they broke ClickOnce in IE9 fo
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Good plan! Never thought of that!
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by pointyhats 13y ago
I've got an 8 core 3.0 Xeon with 32Gb RAM and Samsung 840. It's still slow. It's more latency than long waits but it's enough to stop me using it.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
To be honest I dragged a 1.5MLOC .Net 1.1 Web Forms and SQL 2000 application up to 4.0 and SQL 2008 R2 last year. It wasn't that much of a problem. It took about 3 days and most of that was fixing deprecation warnings and porting the in hou
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Try R# with VS in a solution with 54 projects and ~ 1.5MLOC... It stinks!
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by pointyhats 13y ago
The Windows kernel is C++. From what I've seen (shared source), it's mainly C-style C++ though. I didn't see a single template or a class in my travels.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Did we really expect any other endgame?
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Isn't this just a "job agent term" for generalist?
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by pointyhats 13y ago
C is easy to get right. Its also easy to get wrong. To be honest, most holes I've seen over the years are above the level of the language and are down to the implementation or design being flawed. For example SQL injection, silly business p
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by pointyhats 13y ago
It is right not wrong. Being decoupled from the machine by several layers of abstraction means you're just rearranging the furniture rather than whittling it out of wood. I hate rearranging the furniture; it gives no satisfaction. Satisfact
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by pointyhats 13y ago
There are loads of companies already doing this, at least in the UK. They find the holes and you fix them.
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by pointyhats 13y ago
I've done contract work in London and had several permanent positions over the last 15 years. That's a BIG chunk of it unfortunately. The rest is "big names", "trendy startups" and high finance. There is literally nothing else. The best opp
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by pointyhats 13y ago
Yes. Myself, my wife, 3 children, a car in a 2 bedroom maisonette with two gardens in zone 5. No problems. Apart from the incurred debt from having to live on a much lower salary for several years beforehand. That is the biggest problem for
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by pointyhats 13y ago
This times a million. When I was doing contract from 2004-2007, a shit Nokia and an O2 PAYG phone was a good investment. Many times did I just chuck the thing in the bin. Recruiters will suck up to you even if you've ignored them for months
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by pointyhats 13y ago
You need a big stock of cash, a hard skin and a good accountant. The uncertainty is a problem, particularly when you end up getting booted early (it does happen), but occasionally you get to sit on your arse for the last 3 months of a say a
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by pointyhats 13y ago
The cost of living is absolutely awful in London. You'll be fine doing a flat share etc in some of the nicer metropolitan bits, but if you have 3 children like myself, things get expensive awfully quickly. You have to fish out £1500/month f
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by pointyhats 13y ago
It's not as bad as you think. The number of applicants is lower per position outside London and the ratio of muppets to positions is higher. If you're not a muppet, it's quite easy to land 50k+ in any major city.

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