Jem

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by Jem 17y ago
There's a surprising amount of things this works for - I reply to emails, type up blog entries (and comments), etc all inside an open document in my text editor. Of course, I could just work a little harder.
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by Jem 17y ago
I've been using it for about 10 years. Application compatibility is only a small part of why I stick with it. (I have tried multiple Linux distributions and OS X)
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by Jem 17y ago
Seriously, Penelope Trunk on HN?
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by Jem 17y ago
Although I think this is tasteless and I wouldn't use it, what's the difference between that and a game like Grand Theft Auto?
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by Jem 17y ago
I've always wondered how people could forget their domains. I get at least 7-8 reminders for my domains prior to their expiry, and that's even on domains set to auto-renew. It didn't occur to me it was a difference between European/US regis
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by Jem 17y ago
Duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575329
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by Jem 17y ago
I use my netbook for coding on the go (so that I don't have to carry around my heavy, expensive laptop). Could I realistically spend an hour coding on the iPhone or iPod? No.
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by Jem 18y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I don't use it myself (I even opted to buy a new laptop with XP over Vista) but I'm responsible for looking after a Vista laptop where I work and I have no end of problems. Networking issues, compatibility
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by Jem 18y ago
My Uncle married a Maltese lady, and they have raised their children to speak English and Maltese over in Malta. Likewise, my Dad re-married a few years back (to a Belgian lady), and my step-sister is being raised speaking Flemish and Engli
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by Jem 18y ago
Didn't we have this poll just last week too? I'm certainly feeling a bit 'deja vu' :)
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by Jem 18y ago
I made a similar mistake in a job interview once. I was interviewing for a position as IT technician, and the network manager asked me where I wanted to be in 5 years time. I responded "in your job". It didn't go down well, and although I e
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by Jem 18y ago
I got 20k unique visitors from stumbleupon in less than 24 hours on an equally cheap host (running wp, no caching, image-heavy page) with no problems. Shame they totally screwed up a few months down the line and I was forced to move host.
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by Jem 18y ago
If I remember correctly, it doesn't. The crawler ignores it. The problem is, some people still want to be indexed by the Live crawler, but without the spam in the referrals. At least by blocking the crawler purely in the stats, they still h
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by Jem 18y ago
Yesterday I spent 10 minutes implementing the 'Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns' that works in all of those browsers. Why make more work for yourself if there are solutions already out there? :) (I am of course assuming you mean a standard css n
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by Jem 18y ago
Just being picky, but you say on page that "Instantly you know you'll be taken to Amazon.com and that the link is safe to click on." but further down, you say: "twi.bz doesn't warrant that a link is safe" Otherwise, I'm glad you implemented
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by Jem 18y ago
Preserving the correct URLs is a lost cause - tinyurl and services of that ilk make it all but impossible. With regards to content appearing in search engines as belonging to both, have you bothered to check or are you making assumptions? S
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by Jem 18y ago
It's not Digg's responsibility to increase your PageRank.
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by Jem 18y ago
This is my experience only so is likely to differ based on location (for example, salaries are so widely different in London compared to where I'm based, that I couldn't even begin to hazard a guess) and industry (I have only applied for jo
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by Jem 18y ago
The original article - while showing Windows itself as attracting a lower salary - shows that jobs involving Microsoft/proprietary technologies are paid significantly more than OS counterparts. It seems to me that the author (certainly of t
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by Jem 18y ago
Oh dear, nobody likes my humour :p
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by Jem 18y ago
Link should point to: http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2009/04/... ?
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by Jem 18y ago
I'm a woman, of course I'm not always logical ;) Seriously though, I personally find that the longer I leave something the less likely I am to get worked up about it. After a few weeks it's probably gone from my mind altogether, so yeah, 10
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by Jem 18y ago
I've stayed out this for the most part because neither company are of interest to me, but Tom's comment on this follow up post is interesting. It's almost as if 37signals knew about the site, made an attempt at using it and then couldn't be
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by Jem 18y ago
I like to eat - I'll take whatever work comes my way.
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by Jem 18y ago
Not really. Your average IT admin in a school isn't going to care that the students can't get to latestweb2gadget.com
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by Jem 18y ago
I used to get lots of AOL CDs back in the day. It didn't make me in any way tempted to go with AOL.
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by Jem 18y ago
I can't be too specific but one site in particular that I maintain has a big user base in education (from nurseries to universities) and I think it's very likely that this heavily influences the IE stats. I know from experience (I've worked
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by Jem 18y ago
> FWIW, most people who are dropping IE6 support are doing so when it hits the 6-8% usage range. I know - I want to know where these people get their audience from so that I can swap ;)
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by Jem 18y ago
I'm the only developer for a company that has created (and continues to support) some huge sites that require(d) a great amount of development. For the majority of these sites, IE6 is not falling in usage. It has hit - and stuck at - around
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by Jem 18y ago
Technically literate or not? If yes, I can give you some links to some areas where you could address these sorts of people directly and get some ideas from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

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