timruffles

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by timruffles 4mo ago
Import dependency. The UK government put it at 43.5% in 2025 and 43.8% in 2024: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cd1451b5210... > EDIT: maybe you meant the UK total primary energy? I feel like that&#
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by timruffles 4mo ago
> Sovereign capability just means that no foreign government can pull the plug OK, fair enough on 'pull the plug ~instantly'. But models and chips age fast. If another country can stop you getting new models and chips, this mea
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by timruffles 4mo ago
Firstly, congrats! As a Brit this looks cool, and I'm happy to see it. I wish you every success. Secondly: I get that 'sovereign' is probably an important sales term for your company. But this, in common with the government&#
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by timruffles 2y ago
The Economist is a British newspaper. HQ London, editors British. That said, ‘America’ is synonymous with the USA in writing and conversation here (and elsewhere in Europe in my experience).
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by timruffles 2y ago
> nowadays every 16-year-old web-dev reaches for Array.map(x => <div>{x}</div>) when they write their pages in the most popular framework. These higher-order functions have now become part of the “hello world” It&#x27
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by timruffles 2y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662
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by timruffles 3y ago
Not so - it was the majority of their music industry earnings, and they are apparently quite haunted by it to this day!
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by timruffles 3y ago
If you live in or near London, go for a (free) tour of the Linnean Society. Worth it to see his beautiful notebooks alone. Also learned that he included phoenixes in his original taxonomy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by timruffles 4y ago
One of the best things about living in London. If you visit, take a walk there and then end up in one of the many brilliant pubs nearby - The Holly Bush, Wells, Spainard’s Inn, Magdala, Garden Gate, or sit in Keats’ house’s garden. Also pro
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by timruffles 4y ago
Your take is cliché, factually wrong, and makes you look callous all at once, congrats! Any other major religions' holidays you'd like to dismiss while you're at it?
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MDN: <i> - The Idiomatic Text Element(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by timruffles 4y ago|1 comments
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Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence(world.hey.com)
7 points by timruffles 5y ago|2 comments
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by timruffles 5y ago
Cal Newport is a tenured theoretical computer science professor. Seems like an accomplishment in an actual specialized domain to me!
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by timruffles 5y ago
Sounds wonderful! Would love if this were a thing elsewhere. I don't think I've experienced anything similar since I left uni, where unplanned, all-night conversations might happen randomly in halls' kitchens, pubs etc.
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by timruffles 6y ago
I don't know enough (anything) about how market works, but that appears to be a crank article. It got zero interest before the WSBs/GME thing: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Anatomy+Of+A+Short+Attack... See al
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NXIVM's Keith Raniere on web technology (2008)(web.archive.org)
1 points by timruffles 6y ago|0 comments
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by timruffles 6y ago
A lot of Brits would like the British Museum to give the marbles back too! <3
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by timruffles 6y ago
Principled - bravo!
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by timruffles 7y ago
Because the number of death from smoking or traffic accidents doesn't grow exponentially, as they're not caused by an infectious disease. You don't go from 100 lung cancer cases to 80,000 within a matter of weeks. Also, consi
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by timruffles 7y ago
Sure, but since that’s a median not a cap, doesn’t that point to ‘a more realistic cap is not even half that’ (75k) being a bit pessimistic? There are a lot of people in finance in London, also a lot of big tech (seen the current, and new,
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by timruffles 7y ago
I’m actually very surprised, and interested, to hear this. I’ve never felt software was looked down on in any middle class/professional circle I’ve mixed in. Perhaps a generational/geographic/tribe thing? 32y/o, London f
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by timruffles 7y ago
Definitely higher than half that. SWEs at FB, Google etc will get >100k. Even aside from that I regularly see higher than half that - e.g random example from a quick Google at 85k https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/T
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by timruffles 7y ago
"LP dollars", LPs = Limited Partners = https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-limited...
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by timruffles 8y ago
Oh sure, it's just for fun/learning! Check my first post.
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by timruffles 8y ago
I went for longjmp(), non-local goto, for precisely the reason you highlighted: I realised pretty well everything in JS can throw, so needed something easy to trigger from anywhere See https://github.com/timruffles/js-t
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Architecture for a JavaScript to C compiler(timr.co)
90 points by timruffles 8y ago|45 comments
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by timruffles 8y ago
Sounds like quite the challenge! > Built in, in the sense that they're first class statements built into the language. :O > 94 year old hacker in the great state of Texas Wow, I hope I'm coding at 94!
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by timruffles 8y ago
I'm doing this for Javascript - finding it a lot of fun! https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c I'd recommend it as a project to any wanting to learn more about a particular language (implementing a language t
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by timruffles 9y ago
Cubik.io | Developers | London | Onsite | Pay by level, up to £65k for good full-stack devs We're building a data-visualisation platform using some great tech (TypeScript, D3, Node, React+Redux, Postgres) and using it to deliver data s
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by timruffles 9y ago
Not well reasoned. Mostly of the complaints boil down to 'not knowing' whether a given piece of data is mutable or not. If you're doing FP with immutable data, there is no ambiguity: you never mutate. Doesn't matter whic

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