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iamflimflam1
5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
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https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html Our challenge at the moment isn't making agile a thing that people want to do, it's dealing with what I call faux…
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That is not agile it is SCRUM.
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Indeed - the principals of the manifesto are very easy to read: https://agilemanifesto.org/ and https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html The problem is people take …
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I implemented LZ77 when I was at university as I was trying to load gifs for an image processing project. I was absolutely blown away by the simplicity and elegance algorithm. Need to have a look at L…
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First issue I clicked on... https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/pull/3176 …
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That’s really interesting - one of the nice things about the esp32 is the built in WiFi so integrating with these APIs would be pretty easy.
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I've been working on this for a while and it's just about good enough to show people now. It's pretty much working and renders ePUB files pretty well. It's using an ESP32 board wit…
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The low level of RAM will make it hard to support epub files out of the box. They are pretty nasty to deal with as they are actually zip files containing html and css. So to render an epub file accura…
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Reading these comments makes me realise how lucky I was in my first job. Brilliant people and amazing tech.
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Very much like the current "being able to google properly" skill.
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I remember as a child being extremely puzzled as to how glass worked. I could not understand how something solid could be transparent. I had seen that when things moved quickly they seemed to become t…
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Commented out the credit card charging part of the order processing pipeline during testing and pushed it to production.
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I thought this was pretty interesting - building MicroPython from scratch turns out to be really easy and there's a nice PR that adds support for I2S. I think MicroPython (and it's sister Ci…
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There are plenty of countries who have had minimum wage for some time and have increased that minimum wage over time. So there have been lots of studies done on the impact of it. Here’s one: https:&#…
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There are driver boards out there. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272635844177
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I had an old (2010?) iPad1 that's been around the family and was pretty much dead. Seemed a shame to send it all to landfill so I've pulled out the LCD and made a nice magic mirror from it.