prof_hobart

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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but to me more frequent builds make proper semver more important, not less. An easy way of knowing which versions you should be able safely update to without breaking changes seems hugely valuable. He talks
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
That's exactly what I thought when I started using it. But as I've got more used to it, I'm not sure it's really an issue, or at least doesn't have to be. Firstly, JSX isn't really HTML. It's a bit of synt
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
It's one of the meanings, and presumably the one that was in mind when the term was coined. But an awful lot of people seem to take it to mean the other sense - "in good health, especially because of regular physical exercise&quot
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I agree. The critical question isn't "should I be attending a meeting when I'm walking in the countryside?". It's "what's the alternative?" If it's that you can be walking in the countryside when
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people doing it are never spotted by police officers. I walk to work most days, and I can't remember the last time I didn't see at least one person (usually it's at least half a dozen on a
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Not the original poster, but I assume they mean daylight saving. Depending on which kind of clock you're talking about, then for most of the world time goes back by an hour.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
There's at least one on that list that's (at least in my experience) gone from relatively mainstream to esoteric - self-modification. Back in the day when both memory and clock cycles were very precious, it wasn't unknown to
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I get why IPv6 is going to be massively important in the future, but we're not (as far as I know) in that future yet, and these sites aren't going to be dropping their v4 addresses as soon as they get V6 ones, so it's not goi
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I do the same, but some companies don't seem to be interested. I've had two different emails linked to a magazine's website and had spam to both. When I've contacted them about it, they've been absolutely adamant th
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
My reading of the ruling is that the EU are saying that it's always been illegal under EU law, but that the Irish government had pretended that it wasn't. What it looks like they are trying to do is apply a legally compliant level
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
That may be true in some parts, but not everywhere. Nottingham, for instance, has had contactless cards for transport for years. There's an array of confusing different options (some cards will work only on City buses, some will work o
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I feel the key sentence is “Our strains, to the extent that we can test them , won’t escape,
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
This is the exact reason that the Disability Discrimination Act, now the Equality Act, was introduced in the UK (no idea whether there's any equivalent elsewhere). It's illegal to for a business to discriminate their service based
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
If you were using the primaries as a way of predicting the overall winner, the critical word would be "random". The statistical idea that a small sample can accurately represent the whole is based on the assumption that the small
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
You didn't make it to > 48) Physics and most of biology are just opinions that will change every few years. then?
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I agree with that, and as I say I'm not attempting to defend Tesla in the slightest. My point was simply that the driver has to take responsibility for their actions in this situation as well.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I don't disagree - like I say, none of my comment was intended to let Tesla off the hook in any way. My point was simply that the drivers who use semi-automatic cars and choose to ignore warnings to retake control need to be responsibl
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
It's certainly a major fault of Tesla's - if you know it's not safe, you've got no excuse to keep going. But the driver shouldn't be allowed to escape blame either. When your car is repeatedly telling you that you n
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I'm not sure that most people would be particularly offended by the fact that it reduces drug dealing, theft, littering etc. The problem, at least for me, is the sleeping bit. I would much rather that people didn't have to sleep o
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
It's so ignorant and full of "I'm doing something stupid, but the employee was brilliant" comments that I can only assume it was actually written by the employee herself trying to pretend-rationalise her manager's b
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I think the problem is that out of the context of the blog, the title makes it sound like it's going to be more interesting to the average reader than it actually is. If you're reading his blog anyway, you'll probably be awar
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
For me, mobile web and native app are largely solving two different use cases. If it's one of the handful of places that I use regularly, and want frequent quick access to, it's probably going to be an app. I use apps for my main
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Curiosity in general is probably a fundamental part of human nature. But you have to make a call at what point you stop trying to understand everything about everything. Thomas Young, the early 19th Century scientist has been famously descr
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Why? There's plenty of rumours that Apple will launch a lightning -> 3.5 mm female for existing headphones to plug into. If they're doing that, there's nothing to stop them creating a lightning -> 3.5 mm male to plug in
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
It is, but the equivalent is "people with high end headphones replace their headphone cable all the time". And if the rumours are true that Apple will release a lightning -> 3.5 mm female for standard earphones, there's no
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
>Wire wears out? Replace it. Is there any reason why a replacement wire with a lightning connection on one end wouldn't be possible?
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I agree with that. It's more that a lot of companies are looking for much more than someone's ability to simply churn code out these days, and if this place was one of those then it simply sounds like this guy wasn't suitable
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
>Interviewers are expecting the actual exact answer with syntax correctness instead of looking at thought process. Are you talking about this specific case or in general? I've sat in on several interviews where someone's been a
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
What's unprofessional about it? I spend a fair amount of my day job drawing up technical solutions on whiteboards - either helping to analyse a problem, or talking people (often people I've never met before) through my thought pro
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
If you're in a small company, possibly. In a large organisation, I fairly regularly find myself having to explain technical stuff to people I've never met before. Some are non-technical, some are very technical. Some are external

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