tobbob

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by tobbob 9mo ago
Very similar situation. I have been cancelled, and I can't face going back to employment, but finding a way to earn a crust as a solo engineer is proving somewhat hopeless. At least I'm not paying tax any more. Checkmate Rachel Re
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by tobbob 9mo ago
It's true that (these days) typically, a senior dev will be handy with AWS. It's certainly not true that a senior dev is defined by being good with AWS. I bet Linus Torvalds isn't a big AWS guy. I share your scepticism of the
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by tobbob 9mo ago
This is cool. I'm actually working on a trivial web-app that will be similar. I'm just doing it as an exercise before I undertake something a bit more ambitious, but I'll be drawing inspiration from yours.
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by tobbob 4y ago
You don't need to spend any time or effort memorising a bunch of menus.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Okay..
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by tobbob 4y ago
I've never seen the point in spending time and effort learning and memorising a bunch of vim commands. If I need to do more than simple edits to a file, I'll have a graphical desktop installed and use vscode. I tend to use nano i
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by tobbob 4y ago
I've never heard anyone say that.
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by tobbob 4y ago
I've not tried anything like melatonin. I originally believed that if I normally go to bed at 1am, trying to sleep at 10pm would have me just lying awake, and the only way to change my sleep cycle was to force myself to get up early, s
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by tobbob 4y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a listen.
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by tobbob 4y ago
I'm a night owl, always have been, always will be, but we live in an early bird world, and fitting in with that is worth a lot. So at the moment I'm passionate about fixing my daily routine to finally get enough sleep, and get to
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by tobbob 4y ago
I'm similar, I remember when I was a teen the way I'd obsess over things, now I just don't care about anything. I can't get excited. I think part of it is ageing, part of it could just be loneliness or depression, but I
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by tobbob 4y ago
You regard a country having its own currency as a privilege? When the UK was a member state, the EU mercifully ordained that they could have our own central bank? This view/attitude was a big part of why people wanted to leave.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Start using it yourself, raise some PRs, get them to review it, bring up diffs on the screen, just ease them into it a bit. If you're confident using it, that might help them learn to trust it again.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Basically everything from the age of 11 onward. I can't think of a single thing I'd do the same if I could do it all again, but probably my biggest would be not to go to university. I was too young and naive and the absolutely las
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by tobbob 4y ago
What do you mean by all that?
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by tobbob 4y ago
Why do women need an excuse? We have free will, we can all pursue the careers we choose.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Yep, it's here forever. It won't go away, that was never on the cards. Thanks again China.
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by tobbob 4y ago
If management aren't on board, and have an aggressive road map, and it's pulling in $20mil, it deserves to fail. Their on borrowed time, and likely they're the reason for the current situation. Run like the wind.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Dicing with Death A series generally about dangerous roads in countries around the world, but largely focusing on African countries. It gives a view of sub-saharan countries that I've never seen anywhere else.
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by tobbob 4y ago
This in addition to the months of legal work required to actually read all the terms from the hundreds of tracking companies that I'm expected to individually allow or disallow, before being able to see the page, only to realise it&#x2
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by tobbob 4y ago
No
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by tobbob 4y ago
It's the same note, but musicians are anoraks. I know because I used to be one.
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by tobbob 4y ago
I always use UK layout.
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by tobbob 4y ago
I couldn't even get past the legal work to read the article.
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by tobbob 4y ago
You've heard of "Blue skies research", this is what I call "The sky is blue research". Working very hard to show something that is pretty much self evident. I'd love it if we could learn how to change people&#x
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by tobbob 4y ago
Sound's like you just straight up don't like your job, so I'd say get the CV up to scratch and start looking elsewhere. Also, working from home is not for everyone. It pains me to say it, but I can't work from home. All
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by tobbob 4y ago
[sic] Seriously?
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by tobbob 4y ago
If you need to rely on stats for Google search terms as opposed to observing real life, then you can safely say there isn't a rise.
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by tobbob 4y ago
Tinder, but for everyone, not just single mums. Or less sarcastically, a dating site that actually works, where it doesn't revert to the whole game theory optimum strategy leading to the worst result overall.
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by tobbob 4y ago
We are overly London-centric in the UK. It's important to remember that it's just one city, and it's completely different to the rest of the country in almost every way.

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