Richard Pickering

New Father | No-Nonsense Techie | Programmer | CTO | Digital Brainwave

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@americanmcgee Still happens in the UK too - signalling cable is stolen from railway lines as it's copper and can be sold on.

Very annoying - causes huge delays.

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@SandyofCthulhu I love games with tongue in cheek humour and that feel fun.

I'm not so easily offended that I miss out on humour and comedy.

It's a shame that's a normalised part of modern society.

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@jasonfried I would so pay an extra 20 or 30 dollars for a mini handbook like this with any software product I want.

Even open source ones. Like for tmux cheat sheet bindings and such.

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@dhh I think this is a crucial point many fall down on.

Dynamic typing doesn’t mean no checking, and certainly doesn’t mean unsafe.

It means you have to Engineer - like with any language, as an Engineer.

And that means verify, check edge cases, and gain confidence in the build.

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@rebeu_furtif I don't want hyper-realism, I want hyper-stylised.

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The amount of research depends on what I'm building really.

If a command line tool or something for my own productivity, I quite like just writing code with basic docs.

Equally I'm not always time rich (I'm a new Dad) and so get AI to build something.

Alternatively I'll be at my desktop.

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@MaksShamihulau @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R

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@RetroMoviesDB Going to be honest, I'd give up the entire Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.

Nothing further - don't need anything in return.

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Perhaps controversial, but "white privilege" is the absence of negative bias towards them before knowing them. Lack of prejudice.

It doesn't help to reduce the prejudice by us acting like this is a privilege.

It should be a default expectation for anyone.

Of course, this is before entering socio-economics and discussions on that side - I just mean that I don't think the concept of "white privilege" is doing what it's intended to do anyway.

It just sows division, when we should be looking to remove prejudices against people of colour.

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@Telegraph Can I choose a random lottery of the population instead?

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@JamesMelville Especially when things like this are routine:

https://t.co/1uVGJ0kWIM

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For me, it’s not just the tech that make Microsoft products feel like a lower bar of quality.

I think it’s in the amount of stuff they force on people that they simply don’t want.

There’s a sort of nose blindness to it, and Windows is now, IMO, the result of 30+ years of additive design.

There’s no opinion. No direction.

And this makes for an extremely high level of technical challenge to make performant.

Don’t get me wrong - I also feel macOS is going that way too - in the race of competition, when the companies are just looking at what the competitors are doing rather than value added to customer and whether people will use things - there’s a lot of waste.

Perhaps an opinion on Big Tech. But it seems, externally, that Big Tech has lost its customer insights that made it powerful to begin with.

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@dhh Please tell me the only review comment was LGTM

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@PatrickChristys I’m starting to suspect that he did not, after all, have a cunning plan…

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@DannyINTEL Amazing!

I wish more people were able to do all of the above in reality!

Sounds like a wonderful game though.

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@tomwarren Isn’t it funny how, when people are given a mysterious, forward thinking, innovative design they resonate well to it.

Give them flat design slop, bland and pretentious - not so much.

Also, 2001 and 2026 are the best.