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by boothead 11y ago
E A very interesting mental brute force process to work it out though. How did other people work it out, is there a more elegant method?
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by boothead 11y ago
Josh is a revelation: Making smaller circles (there's an article on this on his blog and in the book that is a great read). Also, everything he learned, he's able to apply to something from a completely different field to speed up
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by boothead 11y ago
It's more that things are changing faster and faster. At the same time, my life is progressing (wife, kids, commute) and I have less time to focus and devote to learning. At some point, I feel like I have to focus on the whole package
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It takes a network(foreignpolicy.com)
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whi
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by boothead 11y ago
The critical distinction here is popular with the people who have to use it or most widespread? :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
It isn't all that - I didn't mention that I feel pretty scared about the prospect of hanging that noose around my neck for ~ 25 years. Once I'm on the hook for this much money I'm pretty much tied in to a certain type of
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by boothead 11y ago
Bad terminology: I meant food and utilities.
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by boothead 11y ago
I have a small deposit :-) My mortgage is nearer £600k
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by boothead 11y ago
It's a small independent primary school founded 80 years ago and still located in the original founder's house (and out buildings). It's a non-profit so all fees go to the upkeep of the school. Classes are about 15 students.
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by boothead 11y ago
Devops contract rate seems to be around £450/day (at the low end). Assuming 21 days per month and 2 months off per year, you'd be looking at £94500 revenue. As a contractor you could expect to pay as little as 25% total tax, but i
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by boothead 11y ago
I just about to buy a house outside of London. I'm also about to send my 2 kids to private school as all the decent local state schools are full with waiting lists (thankfully a lot cheaper than the figures mentioned here). I had a loo
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by boothead 11y ago
Please - do enlighten me.
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by boothead 11y ago
Almost every black cab ride I've ever had has been great - and they most certainly know how to get round London better than a newly minted uber driver with google maps. However if you've never had a black cab with the driver spout
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by boothead 11y ago
It was almost certainly a pirate taxi. I guess my point was that using the same app I use in London and knowing that I'm not going to get ripped off in a strange* city was quite nice * that's strange as in unfamiliar ;-)
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by boothead 11y ago
You're right - all of these things are of concern. The incumbents never really seem to make an argument beyond shrieking that their protected racket is being disrupted though. I remember one hilarious picture on the news of a cabbie f-
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that the taxi that was being touted for the first time was also unregulated, so it's extremely unclear here what 3x my money was going to get me. Quality of black cabs and mini-cabs in London in also wildly variabl
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by boothead 11y ago
I took my wife to Paris last year. When I turned up a taxi tout (I assume for an un-licensed taxi) offered to get us to our hotel (about 6 km away) for 100 euro. When I demurred he kindly lowered the price to 60 euro. I ordered an uber, whi
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by boothead 11y ago
Sometimes restrictions are useful... Aside from that in Haskell the type system isn't usually a restriction. Experts in Haskell tend to use the type system to guide them towards a correct solution. I'm not sure it possible to say
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by boothead 11y ago
Softcover looks awesome. Thanks!
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by boothead 11y ago
Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.
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by boothead 11y ago
Why all the down votes at an honest attempt at dialogue?
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by boothead 11y ago
You're right, my meme-trolling was a bit childish. However I have read some of Britain First's facebook pages and the comments there are hateful, vitriolic and most of the time barely literate. I actually agree with most of what y
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by boothead 11y ago
The thing is that I'm genuinely interested in how people of certain groups regard themselves. I follow both of those individuals on twitter and they seem to an outsider to be talking sense. I would however like to know the opinion of p
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by boothead 11y ago
Actually it's more like a small subset of Group A intends to kill us all (highly doubtful that they actually have the capability to actually kill us all). Group B is using the undeniable fact that some factions of Group A intend us har
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by boothead 11y ago
That's nonsense frankly. I've worked with an excellent team of Haskellers before I don't think we'd have been anywhere near as good without the type system. I'd agree that having an awesome team gives you a lot of o
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by boothead 11y ago
ameen, may I ask how you regard people who call themselves reformers such as Maajid Nawaz https://twitter.com/maajidnawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali https://twitter.com/Ayaan ?
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by boothead 11y ago
Oh noes it's all teh muslamics fault! I don't know how much of an idiot you have to be to fall for this right wing fear mongering bullshit. It's not politically incorrect - it's just incorrect!
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by boothead 11y ago
Making smaller circles in action: http://theartoflearningproject.org/resources/make-smaller-ci...
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by boothead 11y ago
If you're going to do this, a lot of the guts are already available in the form of http://hledger.org/ or http://ledger-cli.org/ . (Can't remember the license offhand, but you might be able to buil

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