KiwiNige

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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Sounds like he needs a sewing machine and a few lessons.
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
"1. Include only an attachment and don’t write anything in the body of the email." "5. Include only a resume and don’t explain why you think you are qualified for the job (believe it or not, a well written letter puts you to the top 20% pre
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Oxygen is the common link in all these, and every single case of Cancer ever recorded. I can assure you that if you stop breathing now you will not die of cancer (unless you already have a very advanced case).
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
reminds me of an ant farm....
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Thank you Edit: why is learning to type a dirty little secret?
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
13 hours prep for each hour of teaching, and 8 hours recovery from each meeting (+ prep I assume) and still has time to do coding. I'm impressed.
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
SQL server now has row versioning like Oracle, so that writes won't block reads, and you don't have to read dirty data (you just read data how it was before the write started). I think this is not turned on by default because it has a perfo
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
There is also a school of though that says the extra cuddles and being held in mothers space is good for them alone. This can be done with a bottle but does not have to be.
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
The danger with this stuff is some people take it very literally, then a few years later we hear that it's not the whole story and unless you take something else into account then you've done it wrong. I'm not trying to shoot down the resea
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Getting into IT? - Get into Usability(codebureau.com)
3 points by KiwiNige 18y ago|0 comments
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Chip makes broadband 60 times faster(stuff.co.nz)
3 points by KiwiNige 18y ago|0 comments
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
The biggest problems faced by the two consultingware shops I've worked at, is that they thought they were product based shops and every design desision reflected that. But the product became so complicated that every client had there own sp
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
sounds like your home schooling could never have broken your spirit enough to be ready for 'the real world'
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Maybe it's a coincidence that the best boss I've ever worked for was home schooled, maybe it's not.
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How do you 'rate' a developer or team lead?(codebureau.com)
1 points by KiwiNige 18y ago|0 comments
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TG Video: Fusion io - the power of 1000 hard drives in the palm of your hand (tgdaily.com)
7 points by KiwiNige 18y ago|5 comments
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
The extra 16cm of Radius is lots compared to a golf ball, and nothing compared to earth. I have to scale these in my mind to be able to compare the two, and the relative gap is what I expected. But I'm still surprised that the gap is exactl
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Couldn't agree more, the bar for entry with MS tools is very low, so it's not a surprise that lots of applications written with them suck. The biggest problem I have with MS tools in my day job is usually getting the 3rd party add on tools
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Programs with short methods are easy to understand. My program uses short methods. Therefore my program is easy to understand. so if follows.... Cats have Eyes. I have Eyes. Therefore I am a Cat!
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Another good one is John Holt's How Children Learn, in which he says something along the lines of "It's just as well that we don't try to teach children to walk and talk" or else they would struggle to learn that as well. My wife and I are
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
"And that, in turn, depends on end-users being good at their job." Incompetence is Everywhere, not just Developers and Managers, EVERYWHERE. Big companies, small companies... maybe 95% of the population is generally incompetent. Every so of
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by KiwiNige 18y ago
Crap Dentists, Lawyers and Doctors still exist; In my experience in simalar porportions to Mechanics, Real Estate Agents and Recuting Agents
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
I have a plan to start a game of some sort, get a local computer store to sponsor it with a new PC as the prize. Maybe sell local advertising on the site as much to spread awearness as anything. If it goes well then find a bigger sponsor a
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
You have a basic right to earn a living, no contract can take that away from you. It's not worth the paper it written on.
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
Any tips on how long the 10k places will last? I'll go 30 mins
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
Didn't think there was anything wrong the way it is. Must be getting old.
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
Another post pointed me at the Netflix prize http://www.netflixprize.com/ the other day. Got me to thinking what other programming contests one could make money from. Bit of a long shot, but then a start up can be too.
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
I don't know much about Second Life but I thought a window to it in public places and night clubs that you feed coins into to make it work would be fun. It would have a camera so that the virtual people could see out also. Other side of the
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by KiwiNige 19y ago
I've worked with a lot of accounting data, which fits the relational DB model really well. But I can't understand why I have to use an OO model to display it on a screen as a table of rows and columns with the odd field scattered here and t