voycey

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by voycey 7y ago
The UK recently passed laws for Middle Lane Hoggers so they can get fined. Needs to happen here in Australia as well!
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by voycey 8y ago
I need to be able to use it one handed, Samsung has gestures to enable this which is helpful but feels like a hack - I really dont need a longer phone. I feel the Nexus 5 was the perfect size for a phone - with pixel densities now I will be
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by voycey 8y ago
We are using Rapids.Ai and unfortunately this requires Pascal as a minimum Architecture - unfortunate as we have been looking at a cheap method to create proof of concepts for code we would eventually push to the cloud (functionality rather
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by voycey 8y ago
I think the last version we used was Ada95. I definitely wasn't saying it was a terrible first language to learn with - job prospects however - not so good! And yes the transition from Ada to PHP was easy - agree that the other way aro
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by voycey 8y ago
Ada was the language our University decided to teach for BSc Computer Science. Once you learn to code in Ada - every other language looks like a death trap. To say it is unforgiving is and understatement. The huge benefit of this is that yo
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by voycey 8y ago
Thanks! What kind of development environment is usually used? IDE's, environments etc? IOPipe looks interesting - will check it out as I dig deeper!
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Ask HN: What Is a Good Toolset for Serveless Development?
1 points by voycey 8y ago|2 comments
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by voycey 8y ago
The UUID (IDFA / AAID) is 'true north' for us, this allows us to join it to other data-sets, however there are several other methods of attribution we use. We don't collect any PII data (in fact we actively avoid it!), w
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by voycey 8y ago
Yep we know your company very well - we came to the same conclusions, even despite the heavy cleansing methods people purport to undertake it is still garbage!
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by voycey 8y ago
Where are you? Antarctic?
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by voycey 8y ago
As an Location Data Exec I can say that so much of what he 'assumes' here is utter tripe. There is no need to have the phone in hand with the application open in order to collect location data - we get billions of signals from fir
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by voycey 8y ago
As someone who has been in and out of small companies it is usually for a number of reasons: 1) I feel like I can effect more change with fewer barriers in a smaller company - the idea to goal conversion is much more condensed vs when I wor
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by voycey 8y ago
Our WeWork has them in the kitchens - I feel like I'm drunk whenever I am in there!
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by voycey 8y ago
And already tech companies are talking about leaving Australia. This government is completely backwards, we have idiots legislating on things they don't even slightly comprehend and a senate full of old codgers who have no clue what th
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by voycey 8y ago
I'm not a tin-foil hat conspiracy kind of person but I do find it extremely suspect that the ME requires all that kind of access and is completely black-box. Yes, ideally using a different CPU platform is an option, but not if you want
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by voycey 8y ago
I agree with this, there is the secondary problem whereby people advertising work really don't understand how to price that work. The majority of it that I see is probably budgeted around half of what I would charge. I think for Junior
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by voycey 8y ago
Until someone manages to open source the ME of various CPU chips tools like this don't offer much more than a cushion against basic surveillance. I can only imagine the shitstorm that is to follow when someone finally leaks it.
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by voycey 8y ago
Probably just so they can get rid of that 1/3 page notification to "give them money"
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by voycey 8y ago
"Australia does not have a strong tech industry..." I'm sorry - what? Having moved to Australia from the UK I am continually amazed at the tech industry here, sure in comparison to the US ours is small but that is because the
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by voycey 8y ago
Wait - Wine is available on Android? I use Wine for a few things - would be great to have those apps on my Android device!
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by voycey 8y ago
That cookie notification is absolutely atrocious - is there really any need for a full screen popover??
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by voycey 8y ago
My brain no longer works that way either, I started getting sick of the same standard code tests asked at interviews while I was a developer (Please write a palindrome detector, please write a function to reverse these sets of numbers). My
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by voycey 8y ago
Totally agree, Money talks!
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by voycey 8y ago
Still pissed that they registered .dev as a TLD
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by voycey 8y ago
I would love for the time to arrive where I can just walk to work with my phone in my pocket, dock it and run everything I need to in one place on one device - unfortunately as someone said above the restrictions manufacturers put on the de
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by voycey 8y ago
Honestly - I would actually require front-end developers to have some backend coding experience in our case, we have a very large monolithic app that we are attempting to break down to a more MSA type app but it still needs upgrading. This
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by voycey 8y ago
The prices were similar here in Australia, friends who are on it were given instructions by their doctor on websites in South Africa and a particular brand name to purchase along with a prescription to get around it. Generic version but equ
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by voycey 8y ago
He said 40+ Cobol and Fortran were still kicking 30 years ago - entirely possible! Many older coders that I know kept their jobs in these languages when newer languages were taking over - Mainframes were still using them and the Banking sys
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by voycey 8y ago
I'd blame autocorrect but it was just my brain haha
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by voycey 8y ago
I just don't understand why the majority of them look so terrible, Xfce has weirdly become one of the better looking DE's now and it was designed to use minimal resources.

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