Tarks

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by Tarks 12y ago
Hehe wow it's funny to see my words written by someone else, I've come out of the other end of this, for three months I'd be surprised to be alive in the morning after nights of wakin up to chest pains (when I was 22 and rel
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by Tarks 12y ago
Oh I can actually help with this, same age range too I just hit 26, no kids etc I think if you go travelling you'll end up repeating bad habits in each new place because you haven't changed anything about yourself. I don't li
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by Tarks 13y ago
For the benefit of people that haven't had the dis/pleasure of working in a really big company, the large banks / govy places often have a ton of dependencies and at (least) one place I worked at had a custom tailored build o
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by Tarks 13y ago
You sound like you've actually done this and yes we're in the UK (London), my email is in my profile so if you're interested I'd like to chat with you
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by Tarks 13y ago
Is such a well reasoned + researched post deserving of a knee-jerk response?
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Ask HN: How does a 3 man consultancy land projects, not just contracts?
6 points by Tarks 13y ago|3 comments
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by Tarks 13y ago
It's Intellisense. I might have a chip on my shoulder but if you were competent and really were hiring .net programmers you should know that? Especially if you're going to take the mickey. You get those types no matter what role t
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by Tarks 13y ago
Nobody would grasp at straws enough to suggest to another man that the pain with a lesson is directly proportional to it's usefulness, that would be terrible, like the fate of the idiot in your analogy that decides the lesson learned i
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by Tarks 13y ago
First paragraph : Note that he didn't say that. Revealing a previous passive observation versus giving advice is different. He was basically just trying to say "I think I've had the wrong impression of you", but perhaps
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by Tarks 13y ago
Terrible, terrible advice. Every interaction with someone carries the chance of impact, the closer you get to talking about things related to or stemming from their core values the higher the chance you'll provoke a strong reaction (po
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by Tarks 13y ago
Possibly give Typescript a go, or javascript, but you have to accept that you'll be going through the 5 stages after knowing and loving C#, I recommend "Secrets of the Javascript ninja" has a very good pace and it shows you a
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by Tarks 14y ago
I think this is even more important for Javascript files. So many times I'll look at something to learn and find it's minified, which makes it a lot harder, there are tools to deminify but obviously a lot of semantic information is lost and
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by Tarks 14y ago
This is awesome, sure most of the solutions have extra hurdles to overcome but that's not the point, it reminds me to keep my eyes open and remember things that I accept as unchanging might not be as rigid as I assume. Very inspiring.
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by Tarks 14y ago
Hey, thanks for reading + replying, my stuff is crap while I'm learning how to write properly ^_^ I haven't yet spent any money on the events, I've gotten tickets given to me by my ex boss and go to free ones. I've got a couple of domains +
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If you want to, why aren't you doing a startup now?(azimpalmer.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by Tarks 14y ago|2 comments
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by Tarks 14y ago
Hi, it's long and rambly but I'd like to know what parts (if any) were interesting, I could talk more about working at an investment bank, about my experience consulting in general etc, or something completely different. I'd also really app
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My long rambly post about what to do with my life(azimpalmer.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by Tarks 14y ago|1 comments
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by Tarks 14y ago
I work as a consultant for CS, it's weird when your workplace pops up on HN. We have one of these on the 18th floor in London too, it's so out of place with the rest of the building but it's super awesome, we sneak up there for lunches etc.
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by Tarks 15y ago
I spent all that time learning to program because I loved that it let me make things all on my own. I got to play as much as I liked. I remember first learning c++ (after visual basic), every new chapter gave me an awesome new power, Vector
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by Tarks 15y ago
Thanks for writing this, I hadn't yet seen the method caller stuff.
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by Tarks 15y ago
I'm all for more things like this, especially in the UK, heck I'm currently in London working for a consulting company in a bank and would love to jump into a startup but I have to say that what they're expecting compared to what they're wi
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by Tarks 15y ago
huh, interesting, if it's not too much trouble could you please provide some examples + explanation? I'm not doubting you, I'm a pleb when it comes to things like this and just get lost in the stories, I'd like to learn what people with so
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by Tarks 15y ago
If you enjoyed this article you might like to give "For the Win" by Cory Doctorow a read, it's a pretty fun book that asks questions with regards to game economies and how they might affect the real world.
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by Tarks 15y ago
Free Lumina for registered devs? I'm sure there's a few people here, myself included, that would appreciate more info on that.
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by Tarks 15y ago
Just go, seriously go and walk up to whoever is in charge of whatever event you're at and say that you have a huge interest in the field and you'd love to learn more, people that host those type of events usually really love enthusiastic pe
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by Tarks 15y ago
I love stuff like this because the time it took him to fix it was probably worth more than the cost of the motherboard BUT the fact that he pulled it off is what makes him so valuable (and cool ^_^ ) and he learned a lot while doing it. Sim
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by Tarks 15y ago
It's not cool to call someone out, but it's even less cool to have to. What else was he supposed to do? Have a nice reasonable talk with a troll? Better that he's making people aware rather then continuing a fight that was disrupting a serv
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by Tarks 16y ago
I play, can't even remember how I heard of it but my girlfriend and I learned together a few months ago, I've just got another friend hooked on it too. Having SmartGo Kifu on the iPad and the free go Client from Pandanet has made it easier
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by Tarks 16y ago
Thankyou Zed, I'm going to give this a proper read-through before probably using it to help teach a friend how to learn to program.
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Ask HN: Learning "good" HTML/CSS (or at least a discussion on the subjective)
1 points by Tarks 16y ago|1 comments

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