artumi-richard

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by artumi-richard 9y ago
You've written a lot here, and I don't have much time. My apologies, I will be terse: 1) I prefer text too and ongoing communication requires lots of this. 2) You should be able to call people over simple things. 3) You should ha
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by artumi-richard 9y ago
Back in 2006 I read that people don't understand the intended tone in emails. I'm assuming it applies to most text based communication, and is one of the reasons I have devalued email and comments. The key quote: "According t
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by artumi-richard 9y ago
I would have thought a single multi-column index would have been more appropriate. Did you consider these? They have been in PostgreSQL since 9.2 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/indexes-multicolu...
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by artumi-richard 9y ago
That reference about DHL being German doesn't sit nicely with me. Germany is much more socialist than the USA.
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by artumi-richard 10y ago
To emphasise this point, he believes that consciousness is provided by a non-physical unmeasurable substance that has some kind of complex structure, in order to contain the complex consciousness. Could you build a human molecule by molecu
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by artumi-richard 10y ago
There has to be a ceiling to how much demand can be induced.
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by artumi-richard 10y ago
There are 2 Aldi's near me here in the UK. One in a wealthier area and one in a poorer area. They do seem to alter the store somewhat to match what they sell. The Aldi in the wealthier area has a larger area for fresh foods and a large
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by artumi-richard 10y ago
I think the two labels are "absolute poverty" and "relative poverty"
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
What fun: I have recently been reading The Hobbit with my 6 year old son Benjamin stop he has become engrossed in the book somewhat and then just hearing about the Adventures of Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf as well of course as mine growing ar
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
I just today listened to the BBC Bottom Line Special [1] on this, and their guests, one who used to run Jaguar, and an expert on VW, don't buy it. Their argument is that the engineers in VW could have done a proper job, but the technol
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
One thing I've noticed since using an e-reader that I've not heard anyone else mention, is that I've become far less happy with the quality of print and the quality of the paper in the physical books I'm buying. I once r
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
I used one in the Arts Tower of Sheffield University where I studied. It was fun, but felt slow. There were also 2 (3?) conventional elevators that seemed like the best bet when doing more than 5 floors. It's still functional. https:&
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
I think you can generalise one more step up. Markets that look horribly inefficient may well not be.
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
Does anyone know of a conference that takes a wider view of the job of programming? It has always felt to me like the focus is all about our tools, because tools can look cool, but I'm interested in the process of starting with a messy
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
Open access science books http://www.intechopen.com/books
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
Not just PHP. Here's an advert for a django junior developer in London for £25k. http://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Titan-Merchandise/jobs/Junior-We...
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by artumi-richard 11y ago
I stopped with the statistics element of my math degree as soon as I could because of the disgust I had for the p-value decision thresholds.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
My first reaction to this was "MySpace? - some kind of stargazing based website?" before moments later: "Wow! - I completely forgot what Myspace was!"
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
HMRC is not going to know if someone travelling from France to the UK was charged the wrong VAT rate, and if they did, they wouldn't start issuing fines. They are very kind to our sector, as the government wants to encourage our sector
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
No. There is nothing you can do. There is nothing you can say. Choose a battle you can win.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
I'm doing work with a drug testing company, that generates a lot of stuff you wouldn't want taken out of context. This kind of stuff: "How's the meth goin?" - "Oh great. We're getting loads this week&quot
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
Could there be a browser plugin to like and share everything as you wander through the web? That would be an interesting way to demonstrate tracking technologies.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
Stay in the job, focus on your family life for the next 12 months. At some point during that time you'll know exactly what you want to do, and you wont need to ask advice here.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
Now this may be old, but it had something called "pods" which I think are servers. And you have to run one, or register with one. Once done it would store all the data. There didn't seem to be a way to have intra-pod communi
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
Encrypted p2p facebook.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
Quitting because you are stressed and the pressure is high is one option. As you say above, taking a week off might be another option. Taking two might be better, if you can forget or put into perspective the problem at hand. Prioritise you
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
This is one of those things no one could value before having done it. Relax. Going home early was always going to be more appealing. I'm sure it's nothing to do with you, your meeting or what you planned to do in it.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
I have a more up-to date reference http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/start/register/when-to-register.h... I do get them from pingdom, and AWS. I do not get them from Mailchimp or hostgator.
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by artumi-richard 12y ago
I try to do things now that I won't be able to do in the future. If you hope to have a family one day, that's going to tie you to one spot, because you'll want a support network, so you would be wise to travel now.

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