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Guavanaut posted:It's time for another "gently caress the London Property Market!" If they did a remake of Bottom the main characters would have to share an understairs cupboard. In Southend.
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coffeetable posted:it is but a candidate with only six months study and no previous professional experience is gonna have a hard time getting reliable contract work Ahhh that makes plenty of sense, thanks for answering I've been thinking about learning a programming language myself, less for career purposes (though it wouldn't hurt) and more because I have a few videogame ideas I'd like to tinker with because I am a goon Most of what I've heard is the same as in this thread though, it's a good field if you've got the right brain to learn it. Also, turning this to government stuff, I imagine a six-month training course could be a lot more effective than people learning by themselves for the same length of time. Seems to me that if the government wants to get people back into work they should help set up and sponsor classes like this (ideally with flexibility so they can scale up or down class numbers in different industries as needed), help students afford the books and programs needed, give people a benefits guarantee as long as they're attending and such*, and get people in the industries in to make connections. It really doesn't seem like it'd be an easy thing to gently caress up but as far as the Tories seem concerned, the only classes anyone gets are at the level of primary school literacy classes. Which some people need, but far from most. * By this I don't mean people should be forced into such programs or sanctioned, rather that if you are on such a course you no longer need to sign on. Maybe the benefits on such a course would be a bit more generous or something, to encourage uptake?
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# ? Jul 31, 2015 23:05 |
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Just like to mention that the Corbyn was at the Red Star festival at the Marx Memorial library, arranged by the Morning Star and Communist Party of Great Britain this weekend. You won't catch me voting Labour, but still,
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# ? Jul 31, 2015 23:23 |
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Ugh, lazy OP. Not even bothering to do the maths. 40% of 66% is 86.4%. The steps: 100% - 66% is 34%. 40% of 34% is 13.6%. 100% - 13.6% is 86.4%. Your problem is trying to use immigrant maths where British maths are needed. In British maths you already know the answer and the will of the people, and just need to find out how to make the numbers agree, which is the easy part when you have the people on your side. Immigrant maths are for people who would corrupt the values of the British society with their "facts" and "science".
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loving Arabic numerals.
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coffeetable posted:meanwhile there are a thousand entry-level webdev/bizdev positions which'll settle for the first person to pass fizzbuzz I hadn't heard of this so I looked it up and holy hell I can barely comprehend how many excessively complex solutions people are suggesting for this problem
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 00:29 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:I hadn't heard of this so I looked it up and holy hell I can barely comprehend how many excessively complex solutions people are suggesting for this problem Assuming I'm looking at the same FizzBuzz question. (Also assuming I'm not being an idiot and missing an obvious simpler way.)
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 00:44 |
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Guavanaut posted:Wouldn't you just use a small series of if/else if/else with modulo operators for 3 and 5? The two easy solution are to test all of mod 3/mod 5/mod 15 with four different print statements, or build a string with mod 3 and mod 5 and return either that or the number if it has no length. It's easy but helpful for weeding out the people who can't grasp problems and the people who needlessly complicate them because you kind of don't want either. Some people search for the most obtuse 'elegant' solutions and I suspect they're the ones who'll write dense undebuggable nonsense.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 00:51 |
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coffeetable posted:this is completely unsolicited, but: if you've got time to burn retraining and all you want is a steady, well paid career, sit down an learn a programming language. demand is obscene, and six months' study and a few projects will likely see you into an easy £20-£30k. you don't need a technical background or any qualifications. you just need the drive to power through a few books on webdev/java/c#/whatever, and to write a project or two using what you've learnt. stick the projects on github, stick your github on your cv, and apply for entry-level programming jobs. you will be bounced from a lot of interviews, but the numbers are on your side: there are an awful lot more software jobs going right now than there are software developers The downside is that programming is more boring than working in customer service call centres.
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Noxville posted:The two easy solution are to test all of mod 3/mod 5/mod 15 with four different print statements, or build a string with mod 3 and mod 5 and return either that or the number if it has no length. It's easy but helpful for weeding out the people who can't grasp problems and the people who needlessly complicate them because you kind of don't want either. code:
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 01:05 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:I hadn't heard of this so I looked it up and holy hell I can barely comprehend how many excessively complex solutions people are suggesting for this problem That's kind of the idea, how many clever/wacky/ridiculous ways can you solve this basic problem? Wallace would never have got to the moon if he'd just put his pants on like a normal person
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 02:38 |
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What's the command that gets the computer to take a drink when it gives a wrong answer, I think this might be important
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:01 |
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drinks++ x += Math.round(Math.random(drinks / ALCOHOL_TOLERANCE))
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 04:26 |
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Would you all stfu about this nerd poo poo!
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 08:02 |
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crispix posted:If they did a remake of Bottom the main characters would have to share an understairs cupboard. In Southend. I escaped the London property market by moving to Southend. Rents here are OK! (So you'd probably have to film bottom in Leyton!) It was pretty much a no brainer when I found out that my rent and transport would still be less than the price of a months rent in London. Besides the trains are so good here, you can be in central London in about 50 minutes. For example, you can get a two bedroom flat a short walk to the train station for £725 a month.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 08:13 |
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A mere £700/mo for a two bed flat that gives you a commute of around an hour (is that 50 minutes the door-to-door time, or just the time that the train takes to go from Southend to London?) each way.
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big scary monsters posted:I've been looking for a new place in Bristol (my current flat is nice but really too expensive for me) and honestly I've seen places not dissimilar to that. Although admittedly at half the price. I miss Scotland where I was paying £270/month all in I moved to Bristol a couple of months ago and was a bit surprised by how competitive it was, especially for rooms that weren't even very good. Definitely cheaper than London though.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 09:13 |
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Angepain posted:Aww, youguys.... also lol @ The Guardian > Comment is Free > Middle-class hand-wringing An OP emptyquoting "get on" forever.
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forkboy84 posted:The downside is that programming is more boring than working in customer service call centres. Renaissance Robot posted:I hadn't heard of this so I looked it up and holy hell I can barely comprehend how many excessively complex solutions people are suggesting for this problem coffeetable fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Would you all stfu about this nerd poo poo! Shut down the forum, his Lordship has spoken.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 09:54 |
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Venmoch posted:I escaped the London property market by moving to Southend. Rents here are OK! (So you'd probably have to film bottom in Leyton!) And how much does the month's travel cost? Trains are expensive as hell.
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last post on software dev before i let the thread return to its scheduled programming: here're two charts made from the stack overflow dev survey data. qualifiers are that it's self-reported (but anonymous), and self-selected for people who read stackoverflow. here i've filtered for full-time, UK developers, and kept only job titles which have more then 25 datapoints (mean compensation rather than median because the salary data is binned) and since webdev is by far and away the most popular job title, (if you're wondering why the curve isn't smooth, again it's because the salary data is binned) coffeetable fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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Venmoch posted:I escaped the London property market by moving to Southend. Rents here are OK! (So you'd probably have to film bottom in Leyton!) Depends how highly you value your time and how crowded the commute is. If your commute is cattle-car (as trains into London are from my direction) that's an extra twenty three hours of leisure time a month replaced by stress. Not a great saving imo.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 10:47 |
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Hello thread, please enjoy this humorous satire: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11776855/Jeremy-Corbyn-the-first-100-days.html quote:It’s summer 2020, and a glorious new era in politics has dawned. Not everything, however, is going to plan… OvineYeast fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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OvineYeast posted:Hello thread, please enjoy this humorous satire: pls copy/paste so I don't have to give the telegraph money
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lmaoboy1998 posted:pls copy/paste so I don't have to give the telegraph money done - as you can see, this satire certainly is humorous.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 10:54 |
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i dont know whats real any more
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:02 |
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Imagine looking at Britain in 2015 where political parties must offer unconditional protection to both pensioners and upper-median earners to have a hope of winning and criticising the loving under-25s for self-interested voting.
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coffeetable posted:last post on software dev before i let the thread return to its scheduled programming: here're two charts made from the stack overflow dev survey data. qualifiers are that it's self-reported (but anonymous), and self-selected for people who read stackoverflow. here i've filtered for full-time, UK developers, and kept only job titles which have more then 25 datapoints I'd be interested in seeing the medians there, even if with the bins they're not going to be super precise. I'd expect salary to be super skewed by large values.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:11 |
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Have political sketch writers for newspapers ever written anything funny/unsmug?
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:19 |
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I remember the Daily Mail writing a series of 'satirical' articles back in the Blair years which were pages from the fake diary of John Prescott. Now I suppose you could have done something interesting with that premise, but they instead just wrote a bunch of boisterous "ZaNuLiebore" nonsense written in a Northern dialect. So not only was the whole thing incredibly stupid but it was also really annoying to read.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:20 |
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J_RBG posted:Have political sketch writers for newspapers ever written anything funny/unsmug? I remember "Malcom Tucker"'s bits for the Guardian being amusing, if that counts, but then that was someone who had already proved themselves at writing funny things in another medium so
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:23 |
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quote:nationalise Man United and ban money quote:free gap years and iPhones to the under-25s
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:27 |
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Angepain posted:I'd be interested in seeing the medians there, even if with the bins they're not going to be super precise. I'd expect salary to be super skewed by large values. here's the gist if you're interested in looking at anything else. coffeetable fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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The Daily Mail, then and now:
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:31 |
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Jedit posted:Shut down the forum, his Lordship has spoken.
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LemonDrizzle posted:The Daily Mail, then and now: Love that the pictures don't depict swarms but one or two immigrant-looking types, because that's enough to get the juices flowing.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:34 |
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And here's the Mirror: The British press (and public) cares more about African animals than African people.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 11:40 |
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Cheers. I think I have an endless insatiable desire for graphs. You can never have too many graphs.
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OvineYeast posted:Hello thread, please enjoy this humorous satire: Ho ho ho, wanting children not to starve is so adolescent.
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