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by tjpick 12y ago
Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share with family (mms, email or social media), when you otherwise would have missed t
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by tjpick 13y ago
it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.
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by tjpick 13y ago
why don't you set your default search engine to wikipedia?
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by tjpick 13y ago
realistically, at 27 one is a long way away from senior.
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by tjpick 13y ago
> how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube Have kids.
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by tjpick 13y ago
Well, the classical engineering domains are all pretty different anyway (electrical, structural, civil, etc). I remember my grandfather saying he thought it was ludicrous that they were all covered by a single qualification. Building softwa
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by tjpick 13y ago
> When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money? As I've understood, the point is to blow all your retirement money between the age of 65(standard retirement age), and as you
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by tjpick 13y ago
> Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO. If you are interested in the most credible celebrity gossip news source, that is. Stuff is terrible.
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by tjpick 14y ago
> Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither. Standard negatory bullshit. You should be able to achieve building something interesting, using someone elses time and money. If you c
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Autofocus time management system(markforster.squarespace.com)
6 points by tjpick 14y ago|2 comments
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by tjpick 14y ago
Original source FOR the "orders of magnitude" claim seem to usually point back to Fred Brooks Mythical Man Month (5-10x) or Robert Glass (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering) 28x. I don't think either of these multipliers are accura
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by tjpick 14y ago
No. They are part of the curriculum in a good SE degree. There is a SWEBOK. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok
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by tjpick 14y ago
> who have every interest in making the higher cost phones more attractive by not updating the Android version on lower cost phones You'd be better to attribute that to them being under-resourced to deliver software updates to all model
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by tjpick 14y ago
about:blank
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by tjpick 14y ago
and then he jumped in his flying suit and flew around the city beating people up under his own sense of vigilante justice, all powered by the rubics cube sized nuclear reactor he has instead of a heart... But you're worried about the influe
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by tjpick 14y ago
Do scrum. You have the vision and the budget. You are the product owner. Hire a scrum master and a team. Pay them handsomely and treat them kindly.
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by tjpick 14y ago
I got the N9 here in New Zealand a couple of months ago. It is absolutely brilliant. By absolutely brilliant, I mean $200 cheaper than the Lumia 800 (which I also got for my wife); A mile better than the crappy samsung gio I previously had;
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by tjpick 14y ago
Jolt award winners, and Martin Fowler's signature series
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by tjpick 14y ago
Kiwi? [edit: read your profile. Actually Aus] was going to comment that neither python nor ruby are that great if you are looking for jobs in NZ. There are more options with php, and if you are good at what you do it won't be that hard to d
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by tjpick 14y ago
In some situations, giving developers direct access to remote [production] servers is unacceptable. (Areas like healthcare, banking.) Not everything in life is about developer efficiency.
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by tjpick 14y ago
Why is it a problem? I personally get a Macbook because it's a good balance -- I can run all the unix/dev tools I want, and my wife can plug in the digital camera or printer and I can plug in my iPod and have it do something sensible. She's
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by tjpick 14y ago
Eat well, get exercise, sleep properly, drink lots of water. Vitamin tablets are a symptom not a cure.
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by tjpick 14y ago
the NHS couch-to-5k podcasts are pretty good motivation for running. (Background music + an encouraging human voice that speaks up every now and then with things like "you're doing great, just 10 minutes to go, keep going... " etc)
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by tjpick 14y ago
No you don't. You take the whole thing, with the husk on, and microwave it. Then you give it to the kid, and they pull the husk off, eat it, and throw the husk and cob into the compost bucket. If you are worried about healthy meals, you pro
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by tjpick 14y ago
> Preparing and cooking fresh food requires much, much more effort than prepared packaged foods. Microwavable or similarly low/zero-prep food products. Microwaving corn on the cob is pretty much as low effort as it gets.
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by tjpick 14y ago
It sounds like you have only worked with arseholes. We need less arseholes in the industry, and more civil, caring, and talented engineers. I've worked with very good engineers, of both sexes.
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by tjpick 14y ago
the five thousand lines factory class is the real problem.
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by tjpick 14y ago
Not really. But if any, Apple, because I'm a paying customer in my own country.
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by tjpick 14y ago
Like anything: quite well, if you are good at it.
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by tjpick 15y ago
never had the call to do it myself. Just something I keep in the back of my mind for a rainy day. The benefits would be application specific, I don't think it's something that you balance against POST to the collection in the general case a

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