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by auxbuss 15y ago
Not just because this is what I do, mainly, but it's such an important point that it deserves highlighting. Working software is easy. Working maintainable software is harder.
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by auxbuss 15y ago
I agree with everything you've said. But I live in the EU, so the health care issue is covered by the taxes I pay; regardless of where I pay them. I hail from the UK, but I've lived and worked across the EU. In fact, even if I weren't payin
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by auxbuss 15y ago
I would have bought an Air 15" yesterday. And today, as it happens. 13" is too small for older eyes. Looking forward to a 15" Air. I'm already in line.
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Weak human + machine + good process beats strong human + machine + poor process(blog.palantirtech.com)
2 points by auxbuss 15y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical medallist Cédric Villani: Seducing CEOs and socialists(newscientist.com)
4 points by auxbuss 15y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Seems like an excellent business opportunity. £0.31 * 30,000,000 = £9,300,000 pa
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Why are people still dialling the speaking clock?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by auxbuss 15y ago|3 comments
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Annoying Americanisms.(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by auxbuss 15y ago|4 comments
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by auxbuss 15y ago
This is an excellent and concise statement of software development. I think, the best I've ever read. I don't think of TDD and Agile as being fads, though, but the best we have to date in an evolving process. It'll go on for decades yet. Th
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Surprised this got no traction. It is one of the best "getting started" talks I've seen for a while. Real ideas based on real world experience from a company that is demonstrably successful at innovation. Seriously, well worth viewing.
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Innovation at Google(infoq.com)
6 points by auxbuss 15y ago|1 comments
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by auxbuss 15y ago
I needed to use SSL on nginx and got great results from following a number of pieces of advice. I jotted down my noted here: http://auxbuss.com/blog/posts/2011_06_28_ssl_session_caching... It made a significant performance difference to m
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Add the project to gitolite.conf git remote add origin git@FQDN.com:new_project.git git push origin master git config branch.master.remote origin git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Nits: 1. When one drinks one's tea from a cup and saucer, one extends one's little finger. I believe the colonists call this one's pinky. Not to do is unconscionable. 2. One does not say "Sorry, chap", but "Sorry, old chap". 3. As to the lo
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by auxbuss 15y ago
The proof of the pudding will be when the real world arrives on G+. At the moment I'm interacting with my usual gang of geeks, and political and media moguls that I mainly interact with on twitter. When, perhaps if, the facebook crowd arriv
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by auxbuss 15y ago
coderstack looks, but I have two usability issues with it that stop me using it. 1. No submission dates. 2. Limited locations. I'd also like to be able to filter everywhere except London, but that's just me :)
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by auxbuss 15y ago
I made the decision to work in small, preferably very small, teams 20 years ago. Why? Because I noticed that the very small teams I worked with were far, far more productive than the bigger teams. I also learned at that time, empirically, t
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Good call. I've lost 25% of my body weight this year (I started on 4 Jan) -- 16 to 12 stone, ~100kg to 75kg. I've run marathons and climbed mountains in the past -- big Himalayan lumps and I've sumitted Denali, for example -- so I know what
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by auxbuss 15y ago
The World at War is a series that I believe shaped large parts of my life. It still colours my thinking to this day; particularly with respect to the Middle East. I was 11 or 12 when this series first aired in the UK. It was on quite late a
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Thanks for that piece of advice. I just went and found and followed this: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html and gained a noticeable speed improvement on nginx. Here's the nginx module docs, for completeness: ht
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Percentage-based fees are rarely appropriate, imo; for those paying the fee, naturally. It's a phenomenon that we simple seem to take for granted. I believe that any system where fees are based on percentages is ripe for disruption. I inclu
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Great read. This is something you come to assimilate as you get older -- unless you are very wise, very young. Or perhaps it's cultural. But it something you are aware of from very early on. And so, so many folk fight it. To put a geek twis
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by auxbuss 15y ago
I love maintenance. But that's because I'm usually called in to build what should have been built in the first place. So perhaps it's better to say that I like to make things work. And to me, working implies maintenance over time. Which its
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by auxbuss 15y ago
Good call. Mirrors my behaviour, after thinking about it. It's early days with location awareness. We're still at the, "Ooh shiny" stage. Location awareness is something to build on. But not the fact that I'm 823m from something, somewher
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Just logged on to my PSN cc company and was met by: Sony PlayStation Network Data Breach - Important Customer Information You may have seen the recent news in relation to the Sony PlayStation Network data breach. Please be reassured that Th
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Like Linux, git is taking a while to "mature" from a user's perspective. It's ludicrously powerful -- it's as much as file system as a distributed VCS -- and its 1,001 options need to be distilled for the masses into the handful and a half
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Now I have a working droppage -- thanks Dave for sorting my idiocy -- I am both impressed and enamoured by the potential use of this idea. Someone is bound to open source something similar to allow you to self host, thus bypassing droppage'
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Ideas: - Add images a row at a time (threes), so that you don't lose track of an interesting image. - Add options for other places, or to let the user enter it themselves - Translate the tweets to a user selected language (In case you've no
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Is this for the whole of Japan or Tokyo only?
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Apologies for interjecting. I would like to make it mandatory to comment when down-voting. In addition, if that comment is down-voted, then the original down-vote is restored. So, rather than trying to weed out poor up-votes, leave it to th

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