Nice, this is like Vimium link hints but for everything. So long carpal tunnel!
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, Debian, JavaScript, Python Résumé/CV: https://www.bergw.xyz/res/CV-WilliamBerg.pdf Email: bergw@bergw.xyz I am looking for a…
Another x220 club member reporting in. My employer was getting rid of old machines a few years back, I got it for £20. The only work it needed was to resolder the left speaker, I think it already had an SSD in it. It…
Thanks to Wordpress publishing an RSS feed endpoint by default (/feed) and Feedly's aptitude at finding feeds, RSS is not dead, or undead, or anything of the sort and I have been using it on a daily basis for over a…
"At the time of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, the Greenwich Village bar Stonewall Inn was owned and operated by the New York Mafia." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewal...
This article started off well but began to lose me around the time he said: "Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it…
As a university student in London, I noticed Chinese students (the main foreign contingent of the student body) overwhelmingly tended to socialise with one another, and groups of Chinese students speaking Mandarin to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
it was a bad idea #savedyouaclick
For when your pickle cat needs that special extra something: analogue synths
For general sanity: $150,000,000
I remember reading about positive conceptualisation techniques in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. This is nothing particularly special. What if you spent 90 minutes detailing one another's flaws? You'd come…
Are you sure it was the "height of her ambition"? Sounds like she was primarily focused on practising her English and didn't mind too much about the work.
In fact, Scott Adams proposed this in The Dilbert Future as a workplace scheme to improve productivity (he called it 'OA5'). He may be accurate in thinking it's up to the employer to destigmatise leaving 'early' (when…
I think this explains why I hated school.
I started writing a sample-level audio suite in Java, for musical purposes: https://github.com/williamberg/audioDCB which I'll probably discard because Java is not the right tool for the job. Inspecting…
If he were emotionally stunted, he would have difficulty expressing his emotions. Evidently, he does not have that problem.
You aren't Jewish, are you?
Yeah, me too. We're paid for the lip service - that's our incentive. Linus has no incentive, financial or social, to be nice to Kay. Chewing him out, however, probably lowers his blood pressure and saves him the time of…
The Open Source community is young, like the rest of the field of software engineering, and we're still childish and uncivil towards one another, derived from a root of individualism, fed by the promise of a vast and…
That's a very interesting theory, but quick googling doesn't bring up anything relating to this correlation you suggest. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
This article is really long and has no easily discernable point. Can someone highlight it?
Seriously? Most founders' ideas hinge on their hardware product looking sleek? This is progress?
Can somebody executive summary this big lump of wooly garbage?
Your hasty "this is a rant" cover does nothing to compensate for the fact that nobody cares.
Nice, this is like Vimium link hints but for everything. So long carpal tunnel!
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, Debian, JavaScript, Python Résumé/CV: https://www.bergw.xyz/res/CV-WilliamBerg.pdf Email: bergw@bergw.xyz I am looking for a…
Another x220 club member reporting in. My employer was getting rid of old machines a few years back, I got it for £20. The only work it needed was to resolder the left speaker, I think it already had an SSD in it. It…
Thanks to Wordpress publishing an RSS feed endpoint by default (/feed) and Feedly's aptitude at finding feeds, RSS is not dead, or undead, or anything of the sort and I have been using it on a daily basis for over a…
"At the time of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, the Greenwich Village bar Stonewall Inn was owned and operated by the New York Mafia." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewal...
This article started off well but began to lose me around the time he said: "Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it…
As a university student in London, I noticed Chinese students (the main foreign contingent of the student body) overwhelmingly tended to socialise with one another, and groups of Chinese students speaking Mandarin to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
it was a bad idea #savedyouaclick
For when your pickle cat needs that special extra something: analogue synths
For general sanity: $150,000,000
I remember reading about positive conceptualisation techniques in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. This is nothing particularly special. What if you spent 90 minutes detailing one another's flaws? You'd come…
Are you sure it was the "height of her ambition"? Sounds like she was primarily focused on practising her English and didn't mind too much about the work.
In fact, Scott Adams proposed this in The Dilbert Future as a workplace scheme to improve productivity (he called it 'OA5'). He may be accurate in thinking it's up to the employer to destigmatise leaving 'early' (when…
I think this explains why I hated school.
I started writing a sample-level audio suite in Java, for musical purposes: https://github.com/williamberg/audioDCB which I'll probably discard because Java is not the right tool for the job. Inspecting…
If he were emotionally stunted, he would have difficulty expressing his emotions. Evidently, he does not have that problem.
You aren't Jewish, are you?
Yeah, me too. We're paid for the lip service - that's our incentive. Linus has no incentive, financial or social, to be nice to Kay. Chewing him out, however, probably lowers his blood pressure and saves him the time of…
The Open Source community is young, like the rest of the field of software engineering, and we're still childish and uncivil towards one another, derived from a root of individualism, fed by the promise of a vast and…
That's a very interesting theory, but quick googling doesn't bring up anything relating to this correlation you suggest. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
This article is really long and has no easily discernable point. Can someone highlight it?
Seriously? Most founders' ideas hinge on their hardware product looking sleek? This is progress?
Can somebody executive summary this big lump of wooly garbage?
Your hasty "this is a rant" cover does nothing to compensate for the fact that nobody cares.