Swannie

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by Swannie 16y ago
All this talk of bubble misses the fact that there is real growth happening in the technology sector. The growth is a combination of many factors, by mostly it seems, the following: * redistribution of services from a small office, small
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by Swannie 16y ago
Despite the 300LOC stuff, it's still a really inspiring story. You started with a hack, learned a bunch, wrote some code in two weeks, and sold it for, what sounds like, just over the non-trivial threshold. Good job :-)
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by Swannie 16y ago
Sorry, this is very snarky, but seriously (over)paraphrasing: ``We didn't really have anything to sell until "we rewrote everything [and] made it configurable". Would you say you could have sold without a rewrite? Did you try and sell befor
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by Swannie 16y ago
Yup, every fork = +300 LOC! :P
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by Swannie 16y ago
Nokia were clearly the leader 10 years ago. Whilst at the front of the race they took their eye off for a little distraction called Symbian. The problem there was the complete lack of control over the UI. Symbian forked their UI for phone a
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by Swannie 16y ago
Having just scanned the rest of this thread. My future plans: * max out the company pension scheme in terms of contributions. * continue to max out the UK tax free savings & investment schemes. It's only £10k ish a year but it starts ad
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by Swannie 16y ago
Your best option is satellite. If the base station is in another country, and the satellite covers your geography, it's just a case of smuggling in the hardware, or if it's legal hardware, setting up the account and getting the card thingy.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Thanks, means I didn't have to dig it out. It really makes me wonder about investing my savings into my tracker fund when I saw that. I'm in the UK, and my guess is, due to very tight correlation between the markets we did the same sort of
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by Swannie 16y ago
I don't know how many customers Facebook has. Do you? It's certainly less than the 30 million customers AOL had. (Customer defined as someone who pays for service). Facebook has it's place for the people who like safe, controlled and easy.
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by Swannie 16y ago
If you're experience really is as you suggest and you are an EJB/JMS/Spring/RDBMS/transactions/JAAS guru, then yes, that is low-ball, and I'd have expected you to be getting double that!!! Caveat: I'm not NY based, but I have worked out of
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by Swannie 16y ago
I know that situation well. I figured out it's because I strongly prefer working in a team. Solo-founder is never going to work 100% for me. I do work individually great, but if there isn't at least one smart person to bounce ideas off, and
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by Swannie 16y ago
That's a sorry testament to the quality of resumes everywhere.
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by Swannie 16y ago
No, he's right. It's hard enough trying to keep normal stuff to two pages without all that random stuff. My "high school" (UK secondary school), gets 1 whole line. I dropped the bit about being the top student (at GCSE) in my school years a
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by Swannie 16y ago
I found it quite surprising that Jim doesn't get CVs where people rank their skills. My first proper CV had that on, and my CV does to this day. Pretty basic stuff. That said I reviewed a friend's CV two weeks ago. He was lucky it was over
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by Swannie 16y ago
Noo, you let out the super secret location!
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by Swannie 16y ago
Get it on Lanyrd.com please! :-) TYVM
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by Swannie 16y ago
I think you have to think logically and be able to make cognitive jumps. For example realising that process A must be rolled back if midway though - therefore it is essentially an atomic transaction with all that entails. Or that the user o
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by Swannie 16y ago
https://posterous.com/ appears to be the tool of choice for both techie and non people that I know.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I had a dabble a few years ago. There was a strong community on a couple of IRC channels. I saw the potential for seriously automated stuff, but sadly when I went to Uni it all fell by the wayside. Got back into it a little after, but lost
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by Swannie 16y ago
Sure, it has and is being done. GuiFi is a running example of a mesh network in Spain. http://guifi.net/en Friefunk are a number of networking running in Germany http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English Village Telco is a project usin
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by Swannie 16y ago
I hear you. I'm sorry for your loss. Clearly she was important to you. Try and "re-frame" it. You now know a lot about her, and she doesn't sound right for you. Get to a place where you can fully agree with yourself that you're better off w
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by Swannie 16y ago
Ahh. OK. Making your own stuff is easier in many ways. However I'd suspect that with 3 - 4 years experience, with team and time management issues are far from the biggest problem. If they're going into a small development house, lacking in
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by Swannie 16y ago
I think the fastest route into project management can be had through the business analyst role. Basically if you're already on top of the requirements, work with the customers well, manage your own work well, report risky/unclear areas quic
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by Swannie 16y ago
This is a one written by a friend, on SitePoint: The Principles Of Project Management http://www.sitepoint.com/books/project1/ When you say development house, do you mean software house - as in doing development work for other companies?
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Visualising the Iraq War Logs(jimanning.com)
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by Swannie 16y ago
Find another source of this same content. Based on the licensing of it either: use it directly, quote and reference to it, approach the best contributors and offer to pay peanuts for their content, approach the site and pay for a bulk licen
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by Swannie 16y ago
Umm... that's the bit between your local exchange (Central Office) and the nearest Bell exchange (Central Office) to where the ISP actually hosts its equipment. (In the case of the GAS, that equipment is routers that can talk PPP/L2TP, or s
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by Swannie 16y ago
This is a super awesome project. Basically running a mesh network, asterisk, asterisk special sauce, and a sip client/controller, all on an android. They can even route calls through the mesh & out via phones with working connections. (
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by Swannie 16y ago
I guess a launch had to happen soon. What with photos of them (& others) at the YC Yuri event popping up on the web :-)
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by Swannie 16y ago
Au revoir, not good bye. I'm sure you'll be back, for old times sake.

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