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I was quite interested in one of the CEOs from a premier league team who runs StarLizard which is a private gambling syndicate focused on sports. They're making a lot of money off …

If anyone is a fan of podcasts and this subject, there is a really good podcast series called 'Ghost in the Machine' which does a deep dive into motor doping, how it could be occur…

I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be. Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is v…

Have you looked at all at the ZSA Voyager and if so, what were your thoughts? I realise it cuts down on the number of thumb buttons compared to the Moonlander but I saw quite a few…

Out of interest, do you find many working on software projects at hacker spaces? Each one I've looked at online seems to have more of a focus on hardware, electronics, metal/wood w…

Many of the engineers I've worked with in the UK carry EE degrees (I'm unsure how different this is to electronic and computer engineering). It's certainly not seen as a bad thing …

Yea I'm in the same boat, seen a recommendation for AirVPN which seems very affordable and easy to use but then also those recommending to set your own up, is this doable without m…

Any idea who would have "126 million images along with their accompanying Exif location data."? That seems an insane amount to me.

Ah sorry about that, didn't think to check the history.

Did you skim read? It introduces him as: "One can be sure that Uber's Design Director, Shalin Amin".

Any reason for the use of Perl both in this and in DDG? I'm a recent Comp Sci graduate and haven't seen a lot jobs for Perl or use cases over say Python/Ruby which seem to more pop…

I haven't used the Suface Pro 3 myself but I'm wondering, can it become your sole/main dev machine? Or is it only good for some light coding?

As someone interested in this lifestyle, do you receive your work from a network of clients you built up from a more traditional job or do you use online job sites.

I work in England but a co-worker here mentioned that the law says he can't carry them unless he had a very good reason e.g. he is a locksmith.

Sorry, should have been clearer, couple of months in my job and past 4 years at university. Glad to hear though, I'll try it for my next android project.

I realise this is subjective but how hard have people found converting over to Android Studio for someone used to Eclipse? I was taught to use Eclipse in university and having been…

Very interesting, just wondering but do people think this benefits one company more than the other? I originally thought Microsoft as its a great reason to keep Word relevant by te…

What sort of things do you miss? Never got to use NeXT so purely from a 'seeing what I'm missing' point of view.

Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?

Has he talked much about his writing process for this book? Would be really interested to read his thoughts on it.

Try searching 'club mate' and your country. Results came up for a UK branch for me, just checked and the same happens for the US.

Since he's not asking you to leave the company but instead to stop writing code, is there work to be done elsewhere in the company? You might find this talk from Ian Hogarth (Songk…

Thank you very much, I'll have a look at those 3. Completely agree about the parent book, it does seem very interesting. Although potentially only available in the UK as an import.…

Would you know/recommend any books from the early Microsoft era? I enjoyed Masters of Doom and would love to know if there is anything which goes into that much detail of the early…