ErrantX

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by ErrantX 16y ago
So, as a self-taught programmer I know a smattering of those things (admittedly compilers, FSM's and functional programming came from my engineering degree). The problem I have with that question (as already pointed out) is that it is phr
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Hmm. I did a quick poll of the programmers I know personally & would consider successful (for a reasonable value of success). One has a firm grasp of assembly (which makes sense because he uses it a lot), a handful have a firm grasp of
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by ErrantX 16y ago
More. See the reason I despise April Fools nowadays isn't because of the day itself... the problem is that the "pranks" aren't pranks any more, it is just people doing silly or stupid things for the lulz. That was a proper "prank", if a s
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by ErrantX 16y ago
When he writes about this sort of thing Derren Brown (British mentalist) mentions that once you get to a decent level of skill with this you can just make up new rooms in your head; he talks about "dropping" overused rooms and starting fres
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I happily recommend Gandi myself; ben switching all my domains there for the past year or so and couldn't be happier.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
It's fine; I probably didn't express it well. Regarding the RR, I did see about the power thing - but I wasn't sure the extent of that. Or how much that affected the reactors (iirc the issue was not that they had no power, but that the powe
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by ErrantX 16y ago
No. He has errors in this area too. But within the text there are things of interest. A critical reader can pick these out. It's not perfect, but something of use in there.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Hmm, take a careful re-read. I wouldn't (and didn't) call him insightful. Past experience of his writing screams "take care". What I did say was that in this case they are interesting, and he does have some insight into the Japanese. As I o
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by ErrantX 16y ago
A meta point: Cringely is one of those bloggers who, previously, I have slated here on HN - I find his insights into technology poor, badly thought out or both. To make a bad joke; he makes me cringe. So I've been (pleasantly) surprised to
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Wow, the definition of flame war there I think :S Am I missing something obvious? Is there an important reason why the FHS is considered so important and unchangeable? Or is it just political?
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Heh, yep :) It's 5pm so not really concentrating ;)
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Copying text (or close paraphrasing) == Copyright Problem Using someone's ideas/text/research without attribution is plagiarism. They are two different considerations, commonly confused. You can violate copyright without plagiarising, and y
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I never knew that.... I let http://www.startupwiki.co.uk slide because it was impossible to seed/get traction next to Crunchbase. sigh If anyone wants to collaborate on that I might be able to find the impetus to focus on it again.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Small tasks, the tutorials. All sorts of ways. But if you're learning Ruby, writing a Rails app is not necessarily a good way to start. And if you are learning Rails writing a full on project as you're introduction is going to flounder.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I tend to agree with the sentiment here; I like to play around with new ideas/stuff/software/architecture, and constantly look for way to make use of it day-to-day. But if I've decided to take on a new project it's best to default to my usu
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Same, and would take great delight in letting him loose with it on "certain" clients :D
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I dug around my email box and I think this is the one: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10 It was long. And very odd. I'm kinda used to that from Appsumo by now so it didn't really register for me. Truth be told, I just clicked through t
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I met a BL person once with my then business partner to discuss bis-development ideas/options, and, yep, it was a total hard sell of the services; they couldn't "get" that our total capital was about £1,000 of our own money and there was si
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by ErrantX 16y ago
It has govt. backing (maybe funding, not sure), but this is from the private sector. I am slightly suspicious of the fact that the people listed on the "About Us" page appear to have things to sell in this field. For example a link to a "st
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by ErrantX 16y ago
No. Most of it is trivial advice (for example; under "ideas" it links to TechCrunch) with links to other websites and lots of partner offers. On one hand, it is a useful collection of links for entrepreneurs in the UK, and the offers, while
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Ah, thanks, didn't know that. I will update my post later with a clarification :)
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Color is in a bubble all of its own(errant.me.uk)
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I'll try and put something together. There are loads of industries/areas to disrupt, a quick list from the top of my head: employment databases,auditing,ISO,internal communications,document control,security control,anything government,cater
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by ErrantX 16y ago
There's no real secret to any of it (that's the first pointer). The few things that spring to mind: Be polite but persistent Procurement people at corporates are used to really pushy sales people; so if you barely make any effort you won'
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by ErrantX 16y ago
That's just one (the main) side of things; the specific piece of software I mention is in another market.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
That would be it then :P Finance is very very definitely in the category of "industries not to pick" in my experience.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
It depends which industry you pick - but often the problems are over-hyped. It's true; I had the same trepidation you talk about when first having to face doing sales... and at the start it can be a disaster ;) but you can soon pick up the
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by ErrantX 16y ago
There is also a huge (multi-Billion dollar) "industry" for corporate level software that is under serviced in many areas (i.e. the software is churned out by large development houses and is below par). Yet very few startups seem to target t
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by ErrantX 16y ago
And the inherent problem is that there are a frightening amount of people who think that kids doing things like that are "morally reprehensible" and that such a prosecution is for the good of all. The even more frightening thing is that the
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by ErrantX 16y ago
In the US this is covered under the laws r.e. Personal release rights. So, yeh, you could be sued for doing such a thing. We have a reasonable amount of trouble with this on Wikipedia.

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