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by drrob 9y ago
A friend of mine is an analyst, he has a business studies degree.
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by drrob 9y ago
My thoughts exactly; I can remember reading that the first time around on HN/Reddit.
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by drrob 9y ago
I've worked in places with open offices that have a no-headphone policy, so I was pretty scuppered in this regard.
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by drrob 10y ago
"What you really need is time". This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This...this. Over the last 6 months I've finally had the chance to a big
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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone(instapaper.com)
2 points by drrob 10y ago|1 comments
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by drrob 10y ago
I removed mine as soon as I'd gotten my first post-university job. The thesis part of my CV was only a single paragraph, if I recall correctly, so it was mostly a bit of filler. If I also remember correctly my CV was shit at that time.
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by drrob 10y ago
Prior to having any "real world" experience on there I'd say yes: bung it on. Once you've clocked up some actual solid work experience I'd remove it though.
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by drrob 10y ago
Incidentally, and in no way related to the discussion, "Chatty" in Nottinghamshire (UK) speak means "unclean or dirty". Realistic example in a sentence: "Pigpen from Peanuts worra right chatty bastard."
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by drrob 10y ago
Quite simply: brilliant.
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by drrob 10y ago
I read this book about a month ago, it's excellent.
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by drrob 10y ago
Indeed, though I suppose you've got to hope that the keeper of the passwords gets their hands on a similar level of processing power as the attackers do, with which they can increase the encryption work factor.
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by drrob 10y ago
Or some curious, thousands-of-computers strong grid-based cracking enterprise. I suppose, even constrained by the current state of tech, cracking bcrypt with some kind of massively parallel dictionary attack isn't entirely unfeasible.
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by drrob 10y ago
I suppose the main danger is the possibility that someone might, at some point in the future if processing power should suddenly take a leap forward, come up with a way to crack them.
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by drrob 10y ago
I'll bite, how do you want to get in touch to discuss?
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Xamarin to be free in all Visual Studio versions(blog.xamarin.com)
1 points by drrob 11y ago|0 comments
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by drrob 11y ago
Couldn't agree with you more; out of the half dozen bouts of serious depression I've had in my life (I'm 32) only 1 of them had a series of direct triggers. The rest had no basis, and this is what makes them all the more dis
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by drrob 11y ago
Completely agree. There is something massively satisfying about surrounding your colony with ploughed fields and roads into the mountains, maximising the resource gain. And finally recruiting a proper blacksmith to make tools, as opposed to
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by drrob 11y ago
I'm English, and I have never used or even heard the phrase "host it on physical tin" before. Then again, I just tend to say "hosted on our own hardware" or just simply "self-hosted".
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by drrob 11y ago
We've used a local PR firm for our UK e-learning business (tuitionkit.com). We got a few newspots in local papers and the like, but nothing too groundbreaking that put us on the map. I'm not entirely sure it's the perfect fit
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by drrob 11y ago
In the past I've worked under Giant and Parasol. I used Giant back in 2008 when I wasn't sure if I was staying in contracting for forever. All umbrellas are much of a muchness; there's a legal limit on how much tax efficiency
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by drrob 11y ago
Agree entirely. All my contracts come through recruiters, and I've never had a problem with them, once you get a good rapport going with a decent contract recruiter they'll do all the hard work for you.
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by drrob 11y ago
Indeed, I wasn't writing that solidly until into my 20s.
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The TuitionKit Launch: 10 Lessons Learned(drewrobey.com)
1 points by drrob 11y ago|0 comments
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by drrob 11y ago
For a couple of years, back in 2008-2009, I had a freelance support gig with a former employer who I'd built a system for when I was a permie. We didn't have any real solid agreement on my availability, and the deal was for £100 a
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by drrob 12y ago
Typically I'd say give it at least 6 months before making a decision about whether you'd want to stay in the job. Obviously at 4 months in you've already given it some time, but a little longer won't hurt (well, clearly
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The Ageing Gamer(drewrobey.com)
2 points by drrob 12y ago|1 comments
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How Not to Build Phone Apps: A Post-Mortem(drewrobey.com)
1 points by drrob 12y ago|0 comments
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by drrob 12y ago
Wow. Even just this little summary had me hooked, you should write the whole tale up in full, you'd get readers in droves.
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by drrob 12y ago
If we define a "failed project" as one that someone has worked on and then shelved when it didn't gain traction, then I think that perhaps a more common scenario is that of the Zombie Project; after spending so much work on s
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by drrob 12y ago
I posted this on my site a few weeks ago, detailing my most recent failed project. "Failure" might be a harsh description in my case, but "success" hardly seems appropriate either. How Not to Build Phone Apps: The Story

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