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jezhiggins

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Freelance software grandad -
software created, extended or repaired

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Over the past four or five months, I've been pulled into the recruiting process at work. I say pulled in because I didn't have any prior experience or training in recruiting, and because I'm not sure our process is particularly great. I don't think it's bad, necessarily, but it is quite drawn out. At least, I think so although people tell me it's not unusual. Anyway...

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If you run a small business in the UK, what are your must have subscriptions?

Boosts very welcome!

jezhiggins,
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@Edent For what definition of small? Just you?

Your email, your domain name, your phone, your accountant (I know that's not a subscription as such, but I pay a flat fee for payroll and end of year), your Internet provision, whatever you need to do your MTD VAT returns (which might depend on your accountant).

Anything else depends on what you're up to ๐Ÿ™‚ I pay for JetBrains for CLion and Webstorm and have an O'Reilly books subscription, but hardly universal needs

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Imagine if Britain was a real place

jezhiggins,
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@Floppy @CatherineFlick @pikesley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepy

jezhiggins, to random
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Yellow warning of Christmas wind in effect

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Shocked and baffled to see Jacob Rees-Mogg writing an op-ed in The Spectator that I actually AGREE with:

"Shamima Begum shouldnโ€™t have lost her British citizenship"

I mean, WTF?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shamima-begum-shouldnt-have-lost-her-british-citizenship/

/1

jezhiggins,
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@cstross I buy the logic but not when applied to Rees-Mogg. He's shown no hint of any kind of compassion or intelligence in the past, and GB News sure as hell aren't forking over 350,000 a year for him to talk sense. My bet was he's trying to put the boot to Sajid Javid because Javid came straight out to condemn Lee fucking Anderson

Floppy, (edited ) to random
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Itโ€™s May 4th! What shall I get the kids to watch tonight?

jezhiggins,
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@Floppy I feel like your kids might be a bit young for Jay and Silent Bob. You'd have to have a break in middle to explain who George Carlin was, for instance, and their attention might wander.

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A minute's silence, please, for the LinkedIn guy who just posted that testing steals time from shipping features, and that's why developers shouldn't do it.

jezhiggins,
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@jasongorman Do you want to punch him, or shall I?

jezhiggins, to random
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For a talk I'm thinking about for later this year, early next, I've decided I need a text prediction engine. The basic idea is that there are lots of things in software that seem kind of amazing, even to people who work in software. Compilers & interpreters, o/ses, windowing systems are obvious choices, as is lots of games stuff (and not just fancy graphics stuff) but they're all pretty large. You can't write an o/s in 40 minutes. I can't anyway. But I think I can do a text predictor.

jezhiggins,
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Why JavaScript?

Well,

a) Everyone can read it

and

b) People shit on it all the time (even though its actually really capable)

jezhiggins,
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My phone keyboard asked me last week if I wanted to turn on some kind of AI assistant. I obviously said no, but it's stoking up the idea that text prediction is a hard problem, best left to the big brains at Google/Apple/Microsoft in their shiny offices and free lunches on Silicon Valley and Redmond.

A text predictor in few lines of JavaScript should pop that bubble. A bit. Hopefully.

jezhiggins,
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Tool shaming. Don't do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfDJtY9l1c

CatherineFlick, to random
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Hello baby seeds! One of the benefits of seed blocks Iโ€™ve discovered is you can see the first germination really easily. Here are some seed blocks with day one tomato and carrot seedlings.

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jezhiggins,
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@CatherineFlick I saw the picture and thought they were brownies ๐Ÿ˜ข

jezhiggins, to random
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@Floppy Something from the vaults ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/warhammer-40000-rogue-trader-pod-2023

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Well done, everyone

GeePawHill, to random
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I hesitate to ask, but what's this about dhh being a freshly-renewed ass-clown?

jezhiggins,
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@GeePawHill Uncritical rah-rah-rah of a book on child mental health by an author who's a newspaper columnist, and consequently, like anyone who has opinions for money, probably not somebody we should be uncritically rah-rah-rahing.

jezhiggins, to random
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Only the best adapted survive

jezhiggins, to random
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Fear, frit, or just a massive grifter?

BBC News - Nigel Farage rules out standing for Reform UK in general election
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69052837

jezhiggins, to random
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The recorded "We are now arriving in Swindon" announcement is far too jolly.

jezhiggins, to random
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Just swallowed a fly, lads

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Our it-comes-out-in-the-broad-daylight bat reappeared again today, doing a few laps behind the barn then settling down to, I think, groom for a couple of minutes.

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Day's peaked lads. Won't get better than this.

jezhiggins, to random
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We've got a digger on site today and it's basically taking my entire adult energy not to run outside and spend the rest of the day watching it charging around the place

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Met a friendly chap in town yesterday. I recognised his @openrightsgroup t-shirt and said hello, he recognised my @emf t-shirt. There was an exchange of nerd appreciation. ๐Ÿค“

No idea who it actually was, but nice to know my people are secretly all around, even out here in the sticks.

jezhiggins,
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@Floppy Used to often chat with a guy who would be getting home from work in his van as I was walking past with my dogs. Initially spoke to him because he was wearing a New Japan Prog Wrestling t shirt. We'd have little chats about wrestling, kids, dogs, just small stuff. Never knew his name nor him mine ๐Ÿ™‚

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TFW you merge a PR that represents your entire week's work. Lovely.

jezhiggins,
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@Floppy Eek!

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