tehwalrus

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by tehwalrus 1mo ago
Location: Cambridge UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Docker, Linux systems, Postgres/PostGIS. A little JS/React, C/C++. A long tail of other tech. Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.co
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by tehwalrus 6y ago
In the UK, high rises are cheap social housing, and rarely have any of these features. (it's possible a few nice ones were built here at there, but those are the exception - people here value houses and gardens, and nobody builds high
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by tehwalrus 6y ago
They may not become famous in their fields, but they're not going to be worrying about that stuff anyway, so will probably be happier. Which, it turned out for me, was a better goal all along.
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
The independent wealth was what allowed them to do science in the first place, nobody else had time or equipment (at least, that's the normal rationalisation).
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
Those are all things that fall into the second category (subjective stuff I wouldn't call lying). But saying that something works in X case when it doesn't (or even when you don't know for sure), and everyone estimating four
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
I think I agree more with the parent than with you, particularly in engineering. Lying in engineering means saying anything that's not true with any certainty. I wouldn't hold it against someone, but I would ask them to think care
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
See also Rome, which is built on top of about eight more layers of Rome. Residents often get architectural and history students asking to look at something weird in the basement.
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
When I visited the USA for a conference, I looked up a nice coffee place that was just across the street from the academic campus where I was staying. I went to the nearest crossing point, waited for several cycles of the traffic lights, an
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by tehwalrus 7y ago
Similarly, lowest voltage ever to kill someone was 48V.
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
I learned 4e first (modulo a one-shot 3rd ed game a long time before). I think it has excellent potential as a system that allows you to tell stories, even if the actual game mechanics are a bit too simple for most AD&D-heads. Check out
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Pico Technology | C++/C# Software Engineer, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Pico Technology | C#/C++ Software Engineer, Software Test Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscillosco
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, Testers who code, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscillos
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, Software Testers (who code a bit), Product Owner | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data log
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Interesting, but almost certainly a systematic error. We have a lot of experiments over the last few decades detecting neutrinos, and only 2 detecting "sterile" ones (i.e. slightly too many) seems like the outlier. (These experime
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, ou
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, ou
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Or, whenever you get an unexpected email, go retrieve your credentials from your password manager, log in via the main page, and check you can see the message/problem it's referring to. (Some of us use the dots to trick some sites
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Not right now, I've just done it enough times. It's often when I want to do a search with 6+ words and all of them are important. But because some of them are e.g. "C++ default constructor" google just gives me C++ 101 a
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
I've actually stopped trying to search google for things anymore, because it almost always tried to be clever and totally missed the point. Sounds like I should try "verbatim" too!
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
So, you write down the formal requirements you have of an operating system (with aggressive auto-updates enabled, or disabled, as the customer chooses) once, on a piece of paper, and hope that they don't change? Your method seems impra
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Sorry, I proposed unit testing as a real-world formalisation of requirements in an earlier post, and you didn't contradict me. What automated system would you use for this instead?
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
There is a big debate about open plan, isn't there? I personally like working in a collaborative environment, at least within the scrum team all focussed on the same goals. I think Pico's layout is quite good in that hardware and
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, ou
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
I've found unit tests for system libraries like this before. The idea is that you run them each time you upgrade your framework, but in practise you run them every time (slowing down your debug loop) and managers use them to inflate th
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
I've never had the luxury of that much control over a codebase in the real world of work.
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
I've never yet had the luxury of working in a language that admitted formal proofs of correctness. Do you mean informal "proofs" like unit tests? When a bug occurs (perhaps because your tests did not anticipate every edge cas
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Hogwash. Stack traces in multi-threaded applications are much much more useful than just an exception name, or even just the site of the exception.
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by tehwalrus 8y ago
Yeah, just return the struct by value. By the way, if you do C programming and haven't, read 21st Century C: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do

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