RowanH

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by RowanH 11y ago
Or New Zealand - check out www.seek.co.nz for jobs. Quite easy for tech skilled immigration.
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by RowanH 11y ago
So I started with a non .com address, after watching a client trying to find my homepage with .com my heart sank. The first thing anyone does is write in abc.com or their local country tld (in my case .co.nz). 3 weeks ago I purchased the .c
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by RowanH 11y ago
Link to your talk ?
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by RowanH 11y ago
"Track day toys". Eg Caterham 620R, Ariel Atom 3.5r. I've got something very similar to a 620R, animal machines. Absolute animals. Stripped down, no creature comforts, really for one thing only...
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by RowanH 11y ago
Yep - had my wisdom teeth out, same deal - I remember counting backwards, waking up in the chair, magically getting to waiting room, I blinked and my flatmate was magically there, then I magically was upstairs at home. Definitely would repe
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by RowanH 11y ago
Switching over from sublime - I noticed the last session problem, found a plugin for that. - Searching for files and ordering of files presented is a bit different; in Sublime I'd get more relevant files first (in a Rails app) typica
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by RowanH 12y ago
I'd be interested to see how many buy 2nd generation TAG smart watches vs mechanical watches. I'm sure the 1st generation will fly off the shelves as "the first TAG of their kind" but once the novelty value dies down I w
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by RowanH 12y ago
It would be an interesting experiment to measure actual alertness and ability to react.... I would hazard that while you think you might be alert you're probably less so as because you're not actively driving your brain is not rea
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by RowanH 12y ago
I'd like to say having worked in both Canada and New Zealand over 18 odd years now and I've never seen anything like this also. I read these articles and I'm simply stunned. I keep wondering what the heck is going on in compa
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by RowanH 12y ago
...they've started coming back.
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by RowanH 12y ago
What this shows is it's important to have a test server at a bunch of different companies to see what's important to you and leave them there for a 3-4 months evaluating how they respond to issues, actual uptime, speed of updating
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by RowanH 12y ago
.. but you get young minds entrenched in your ecosystem and you've got a head start. Fast forward a number of years with all of your school work online, maybe a 'school' email account/drive and profile linked with your &
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by RowanH 12y ago
So hazarding a guess here - you've written your own services on top of CoreImage, Core Text etc? https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/macosx...
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by RowanH 13y ago
Same in NZ - after living in Canada for nearly 8 years, just returned back to NZ. I love roundabouts... far quicker getting round town, you're not constantly having to do these infuriating 4 way stops everywhere.
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by RowanH 14y ago
A long standing interview question I've used is "draw us an ERD for this domain" (orders/customer/products). It's what at first is a seemingly simple question to start drilling into understanding of systems "so if I was going to do X, what
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by RowanH 14y ago
There was a guy who designed/built racecars by the name of Colin Chapman founder of Lotus Cars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Chapman ) One of the ethos he had was "add lightness". Every additional piece of weight is more kg's to stop
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Dotcom wants to lay some fibre(nzherald.co.nz)
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by RowanH 14y ago
Hey so I'm one of the team that built this app - we're super stoked to have pulled it off over the weekend. We focussed on trying to build the best UX for annotating and commenting on pictures/images/screenshots/wireframes as well as a supe
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Show HN: Webapp for gathering feedback about images etc (Rails Rumble) (weevu.net)
4 points by RowanH 14y ago|1 comments
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by RowanH 14y ago
I have to agree, the UX Guidelines document of Win 8 apps is really well thought out and put together. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46542... ) - we live in interesting times....
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by RowanH 14y ago
Seriously America is huge you could adventure around the states seeing a bunch of different lifestyles, and environments without ever having to get a passport. In that sense perspectives are very, very different between the US and NZ. You
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by RowanH 14y ago
I'm an expat Kiwi now living in Canada. Gun control is much stricter in NZ - you need a firearms license with different endorsement, and restrictions on the types of guns allowed http://www.police.govt.nz/service/firearms/ A fair percenta
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by RowanH 14y ago
Did I just read this right "iOS 6 brings even better web browsing to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch." .... "And when you’re posting a photo or video to eBay, Craigslist, or another site, you can take photos and video — or choose from you
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by RowanH 14y ago
Same boat. Some of my most impressive hires have been fresh out of the oven so to speak. In some markets, I think it would be pretty foolish to start putting blanket 'must have +years' experience on postings. It only takes a 15 min phone ca
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by RowanH 14y ago
Having seen the end result of a low speed collision last night between motorbike and car, with said dude on motorbike tail between legs, and one very raw burnt calf, very much agree there is a lot of merit in this. For all the arguments o
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by RowanH 14y ago
There's a showcase page on their website - http://www.appcelerator.com/thinkmobile/showcase ZipCars pretty notable...
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by RowanH 14y ago
The official docs are fantastic. The newer PacktPub books are also pretty good http://www.packtpub.com/postgresql-90-high-performance/book and http://www.packtpub.com/postgresql-9-admin-cookbook
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by RowanH 14y ago
Interesting analogy.. I'll take it a little further in the custom/kit car world, it's not unlike the software world. The last 20% takes 80% of the effort, and you can clearly tell the projects that have had thousands of hours put in with at
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by RowanH 14y ago
Some impressive stuff here, check out the getting started video at around 4:30 The 'positioning a label' live from the simulator command line is way cool. http://www.rubymotion.com/getting-started/
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by RowanH 14y ago
I read earlier reports that the procedures/paperwork for the seizure warrant was done incorrectly, thereby opening the door for it's return. Refer this article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&#...

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