bshimmin · HackerTrans

há 4 mesesdiscuss

Honestly, you just need cron (and Ruby/Python/bash/whatever) on an EC2. It's not very fashionable, but it works, will continue to work forever, and costs hardly anything.

bshimmin

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Not to worry, though: his grandson, Louis, is in charge of Palantir in the UK. Definitely nothing concerning about that!

bshimmin

há 6 anosdiscuss

I have the DT 770 Pro, which I'm not sure they still make anymore, and it has been a ten year love affair. I am reliably informed that you can, as the grandparent says, replace most parts of them, but I have never needed to - they are very, very robust. Mine do look a little dog-eared but honestly nothing most people would worry about. And, obviously, they sound great.

bshimmin

há 7 anosdiscuss

I once worked at a company in London who called an emergency plumber out who charged £5 per minute. It cost ten quid just to get him in through the front door and up the lift.

bshimmin

há 9 anosdiscuss

For your second example, your JavaScript is wrong. Let's compare the ES2015 JavaScript:

  ((a, b) => a * b)(6, 4);

...against the Clojure:

  ((fn [a b] (* a b)) 6 4)

Not a lot in it, really, is there?

bshimmin

há 9 anosdiscuss

JWB as in John Wilkes Booth, the guy who assassinated Lincoln? I can't really imagine him having a resurgence in popularity, but I've never fully understood the American psyche, I will admit.

bshimmin

há 11 anosdiscuss

The fact I completely forgot about it is probably quite telling!

bshimmin

há 11 anosdiscuss

I've been a Twitter user since 2006 and mostly just use it to post sarcastic and pretentious remarks for my own enjoyment; the social aspect of it is almost meaningless to me. Many of my friends in tech do have Twitter accounts, of which they make varying degrees of use (though I'm not sure how many of them would regard it as essential - probably not many).

Most of my non-tech friends in real life broadly do not have Twitter accounts, or if they do, they follow about eight people (usually including Stephen Fry) and have either never tweeted, or only tweeted about four times, usually starting with, "Well, I'm on Twitter now. What do I do next?"

I'm talking about people in their 20s and 30s here. The same set of people do make a lot of use of Facebook (though a few, like me, find it vastly irritating and have deleted their accounts in recent years - but I'm not sure I know anyone female in that age bracket who doesn't have and use a Facebook account).

A bit more anecdata while I'm at it: Instagram seems pretty popular in cities, where people enjoy posting pictures of their pulled pork burgers and cocktails in jam jars - out here in the countryside, I don't hear much about it. The younger generation definitely do use Snapchat and the like, but I think most people over about 25 have no understanding at all of it. WhatsApp seems to have a very broad and universal appeal, and is a real common denominator for anyone who falls under the category of "I want to keep in contact with a friend who lives abroad" (I don't fully understand how it won out over Skype, apart from Skype being a very poor experience on mobile). Lastly, I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't work in online media who actually uses Pinterest.

bshimmin

há 11 anosdiscuss

I wasn't complaining that this was particularly onerous (in fact, I am always pleased how easily PostScript files open on Macs)!

bshimmin

há 11 anosdiscuss

One click to download, two double-clicks (one for the gzip, one for the PS) to open on my Mac.

bshimmin

há 11 anosdiscuss

Or use refinements.

bshimmin

há 12 anosdiscuss

HipChat is significantly cheaper and purports to offer video chat (didn't work for us the one time we tried it).

I too generally find Slack to be a more appealing user experience, though along with others I find the advantages over, say, Skype plus email to be fairly nugatory.

Because I work on a bunch of different teams for different organisations, I currently have open Slack, HipChat, Skype, and Apple's Messages, and I have to use Google Hangouts (which periodically completely kills Chrome for me) for a daily standup. I sort of miss those happy days when you could just use Adium for everything.

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