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philk10

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Tester/QA, available for work
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philk10··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
If a 55 year old with no knowledge of the system was set loose I'd still be freaking out
philk10··on Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown
they think they are going to get cheap eggs and bacon
philk10··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
Also Grammar school (in the 1980s), I got lucky as I got in the 'express track' and did O-levels after 4 years not 5 so I went to uni at 17. Probably a good thing as some kids were total sh*ts and 5 years of them would have been awful
philk10··on Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops
same, have a natural pond in my backyard and I can watch them all day
philk10··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
those who have not increased their neck size in the last year will be first to go
philk10··on Let's Quit X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
philk10··on US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
flooding the zone with shit
philk10··on The Aging Programmer [video]
no they dont so I'm outta here
philk10··on The Aging Programmer [video]
yeh, the poor neighborhoods are full of grocery stores with fresh food and not food deserts

AMA any better as a source? https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fet...

philk10··on The Aging Programmer
One example of many - https://www.henryford.com/blog/2023/11/how-bmi-is-flawed-and...
philk10··on Bog Standard (2005)
I played in a 6-a-side footy(soccer) team in the late 90s, there was a Belgium team called Standard Liege so our team name was Bog Standard Liege so it was in common usage back then but have no idea where it came from...
philk10··on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
Just after hitting 40 I moved from being a dev to being a tester/QA I was working at a small company and after almost 20 years there was getting bored - the tech was changing ( from BCPL on a PDP-11 to C and .Net on Macs/PCs ) but I felt stuck in a rut and found I was better at finding bugs than writing them...

Got involved with the test community, learned a lot, got myself known and then ended up moving from the UK to Michigan just before I hit 50 to work for a small but growing s/w consultancy

philk10··on Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)
First half of my career was at a company writing pagination systems for books/magazines and so I can now never not notice such things as widows, orphans, kerning...
philk10··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
Grand Rapids, MI Chicago, IL and Raleigh NC | ONSITE (hybrid, not full time in office) Senior Software Developer & Consultants

Atomic is growing a diverse and inclusive team of curious, creative people who love creating great software for our clients.

Atomic is an employee-owned company and a certified B Corporation with 100+ Atoms based in our Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Chicago and Raleigh offices

We’re looking for thoughtful problem solvers who are passionate about finding success for our clients, teams, and end-users through the human-centered design process.

Open positions in our offices listed here: https://atomicobject.com/careers

philk10··on Show HN: Everyday Chef and Recipe Platform
gave me a chance to practice my testing skills so win-win
philk10··on Show HN: Everyday Chef and Recipe Platform
Using ! or & or ) in the Explore errors...(there might be more)

Browser width below 1270 and the recipe display looks bad (is the site meant to be responsive?)

Thai has Wiener schnitzel as its dish...

+1 for having ngolo kanté :)

Maybe have some recipes that are 3 and 4 star and tried and tested and most popular so you can better see those functions working?

philk10··on Show HN: Everyday Chef and Recipe Platform
500 error Oh no, something went wrong! if I sign up just using spaces as username, same when creating recipes - not something normal users are gonna do but 2 minutes of looking it as a destructive tester...
philk10··on Show HN: Everyday Chef and Recipe Platform
There seems to be a bug in the 'report a bug' link as it doesn't actually seem to go anywhere to report a bug...
philk10··on How a Gas Compressor Station Works
I worked on a PIG app several years ago, fun project - https://atomicobject.com/portfolio/microline-embedded-softwa...
philk10··on The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out
My hometown - a very quiet place, especially in the winter with no tourists - but it seems he did grow up and spend most of his life in Liverpool which was/is a rough place
philk10··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
As an immigrant in the US I looked at the plans ( produced by Stephen Miller) and would not have qualified to be admitted.
philk10··on Britain's 'Pompeii': UK's Largest Bronze Age Find
Hope you were having a joke - it's a comedy show. It's great but it's not a documentary
philk10··on Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle
Yeh, moved to Michigan from England and was taken to the oldest pub in the city, 120 years old. My local pub used to be a hunting lodge used by Henry VIII
philk10··on Optimizing your talking points (2018)
"You shouldn't hire bad programmers" - I did work at a company where the CEO did say that he wished they had programmers who didn't write bugs

He did also not want me to do any testing as "the customers were better at finding bugs than we are"

philk10··on UK General Election called for July 4th
The PM has changed as have ministers, hardly the same as 'changes of governments'
philk10··on UK General Election called for July 4th
Please tell me you're trying for a funny
philk10··on UK General Election called for July 4th
Inflation went down today - and things are not going to get any better so Rishi can get things over with and head off to a new life in California...
philk10··on "Unprecedented" Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
Previous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666
philk10··on BCPL evolved from CPL. (2021) [pdf]
Worked for a company writing book publishing software in BCPL, we also built our own display terminals. Then SUN workstations came along so we wrote ( or the brains at the company did) a BCPL->C compiler
philk10··on The Waning Reign of the Muskrat
We have a regular muskrat visitor at our pond in Michigan every March, I haven't worked out where it goes the rest of the year
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