andyjenn

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by andyjenn 17y ago
Slight aside, but thanks for posting that link. I was confused at your "let alone house of commons" bit as I never realised a bill could be started from either house.. http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/index.h...
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by andyjenn 17y ago
I've tried http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer from my Nexus One and it still says, "Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Anroid 2.0 and future releases in the first half of 2010", so I guess it's the former...
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by andyjenn 17y ago
I'm sorry but the, "A Robin Hood airport spokesman said..." just sums it up for me.
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by andyjenn 17y ago
Others are doing it.. http://www.salesforce.com/platform/ - I suppose it's not unreasonable to assume AWS will provide something similar (but slightly better in some way I'm guessing!)
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US startup visas(news.bbc.co.uk)
7 points by andyjenn 17y ago|0 comments
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by andyjenn 17y ago
choice!
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by andyjenn 17y ago
I have a small 3 year-old walk into my bedroom ~6am every day and jump up and down on the end of the bed saying, I want to have breakfast/watch Bob the Builder/brush the baby's teeth.. Funnily enough, this perfect alarm-clock never fails to
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by andyjenn 17y ago
"determination starts to look like talent." - can determination not be considered a talent in itself?
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by andyjenn 17y ago
I wonder how Taleb reconciles his views on probability with respect to Cameron winning the next election in May?
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by andyjenn 17y ago
..exactly, like the time they claimed it was faster and cheaper travelling from London to Brussels and were in breach of advertising standards. I think they were on CNN, BBC, Ch4 etc.. every hour to get their point across. Damn fine adverti
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by andyjenn 17y ago
..hmm, very interesting considering Justice Eady's track record. Read almost any Private Eye edition and they'll mention some bizarre ruling he has made.
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by andyjenn 17y ago
Not always, although I know where you are coming from. Pretty soon you can find out whether they're someone you can "go over the trenches" with, no matter what size they might look.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
I do something similar; get a first draft out quickly so I'm not inhibited by grammar, sentence structure, logical flow etc.. then perform a second parse to tighten everything up. Interestingly, I sometimes find I almost completely reverse
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by andyjenn 18y ago
On reading this, I am reminded of the decision by the BBC not to broadcast the Gaza fundraising appeal on the grounds of it affecting its reputation for impartiality.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
Dunno - there is just one option to ship via UPS.. was surprised also; bit like using those cashpoints and then getting prompted for an extra 2 quid at the end only..err..quite a bit more.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
...plus 171 USD shipping to the UK - I couldn't stop myself, I wanted one.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
Interesting to see how that follows the cost of a barrel of crude oil.. roughly
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by andyjenn 18y ago
Agreed. A terrible daily, bereft of insight or intellect in keeping with Murdoch's other rags.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
Like it... my first thought was "Bill and Ted meet Stephen Hawking."
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by andyjenn 18y ago
...had to add somethng here as I am a big fan of the NHS. In an increasingly litigious profession, the doctor must've known the consequences had something gone wrong and acted in spite of those career threatening risks - shows true courage
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by andyjenn 18y ago
I tried these out for converting image-only PDFs, but the installation was getting ever more complex and unstable. I made a time-is-money decision and purchased Vividata - *nix based command line utility - which is a shame as I would've lik
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by andyjenn 18y ago
"Crime and Punishment" (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) changed my life.
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by andyjenn 18y ago
As a boring freelance Oracle consultant, I can bill 450-500 GBP/day... interesting LAMP and Web based roles seem to be around half that.
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by andyjenn 19y ago
...or a MySQL engine on top of S3? http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/
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by andyjenn 19y ago
My immediate thought was hacker is an artist to the engineer's pragmatist... getting something to work is more important than its beauty, elegance or how few LOC are used, rather than something that is ..err.. hacked together(!?)
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by andyjenn 19y ago
As they say in Yorkshire - "wur thuz muck, thuz brasse"...
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by andyjenn 19y ago
Curt Monash's take on it :- http://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-t...
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by andyjenn 19y ago
I quite agree - we're bootstrapping too. I'm contracting during the day at the moment to pay for mortgage, food etc.. But when I'm stuck on something coding late at night, I've got the whole next day to chew over the best way forward then a
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by andyjenn 19y ago
How about a gym on the train into work? All those treadmills, running, rowing machines etc.. all hooked up to the engine carriage. Commuters get their (twice?) daily workout and reduce the energy needed by the train.
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by andyjenn 19y ago
Strange as its increased my productivity. Kids do take up a load of time, but its been THE most focusing effect of my life :- 1. Any spare time I have, I work immensely hard - no creativity suites with bean bags for inspiration; no procras

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