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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Would someone care to explain why these things still cost double what an equivalent netbook with additional parts does?
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
It’s as if they view their work as some part of themselves. If you're a good artistic / creative person with that sort of mind, it pretty much is.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm not sure LinkedIn has quite this much information, but after a short search - http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiekite
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
And yet I've never seen a recruiter ask for anything but a Word document; this seems to be significantly because they then strip off your contact details and put their own header on it, mangling your carefully thought through presentation..
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've got a 5mx here that's not been used in a while, should have plenty of life left in it..... :-) (Disclaimer - I stopped using it because I changed jobs and no longer needed its functionality, then eventually went for a netbook as I no l
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
As has the web guy for me too. Now, I'm not ever going to need his services; I can handle the tech stuff just fine myself thanks and I know plenty of graphic designers. I also tend to pay bills when I receive them :-) But there's no way I'd
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Psion Series 5 or Revo. QWERTY keyboard with proper keys in a decent shape and that aren't much smaller than netbook keys. But it'll fit into a pocket and run for plenty of time on AA batteries. I could and did touch type on it fast enough
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Spend 5 minutes on PoF, then 5 minutes on OKC. Now tell me that PoF's user experience isn't actively repellant. One of the strangest success stories I've ever come across, that site. Ugly design, badly thought through functionality, limite
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Not necessarily a good idea. On an average working day I'll probably use 5 different machines; I could very well trigger an action on one, go off to do something else while waiting for an email (if it wasn't instant, these things often aren
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I disagree. The (quite old; it'd be interesting to see how this panned out) question came across to me as someone who, at the end of their many years in education up to this point, has got very used to directed learning. They are used to le
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Ideally, you want both. The link being clicked on twice is a clear red flag for a problem, but if the user requests a password and then for whatever reason doesn't click on the link that quickly, how are you otherwise going to know who's do
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well done! I love my career in IT but if I could've done the same I'd have jumped at it. Sadly my instrument skills aren't ideally suited (I play the trumpet) and I knew I wasn't up to playing with a pro orchestra, but I still miss the rush
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Agreed. I wonder what percentage of us have promptly thought about the startup costs and practicalities for doing that sort of business ourselves ;-)
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Heh, an ex-employer had an even simpler filter we used :-) We had a 2 page tech test and did read it all, but most of the time we could mark it based on the first question. For a VB+SQL job, most of the candidates couldn't write a valid INN
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
As a fan of SPs: They offer a clean and easy (IMHO) way of making sure I've got the exact same code for common jobs encapsulated and tracked within the database. One routine to add a user (for example) which is common to all client interfac
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Provided a pulpit or were used as a pulpit? The post is poorly worded I agree but there's a difference; if I as a hypothetical editor went searching for such people as regular op-ed voices I think that would be unethical, but is it the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
OK, so for IE8 users return a single page AJAX app instead as a variant of what's already done with Instant. Still no referrers but no POST warning messages (which, BTW, have to be one of the most annoying things about ASP.Net web forms -
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm a Brit (and not a lottery player) so not fully familiar with US state scratchcard lottery game mechanics :-) The longest odds straight lottery over here is 75m to 1 which is definitely enumerable, but if you say these cards get into the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Not in the UK lottery; all the tickets get dispensed from clear containers and have to be the next one on the roll (which comes out at the back so you can't see what the next one will be). They've tried educating their customers* about not
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
But that's a solvable problem. OK, database geek hat on here. It's not too hard to pregenerate a set of every possible ticket combination, just lots of cross joining of numbers tables and a bit of coding of the play rules. Add in the payout
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Which is why we need a return to separation between retail and investment operations; a retail bank with a significant proportion of the market going bankrupt causes enormous problems for everyday customers who really aren't well placed to
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Someone is definitely taking that attitude. I bet on Goldman Sachs when this came up a while ago, describing their actions as 'Pump and Dump', but there's no reason their customers couldn't be doing the same. The problem is that we've the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Different target, same problem (but without the undo function that Chrome has): Windows System Menu. Alt-Space. Very useful for those of us who use our keyboard shortcuts in preference to pointing devices where possible, but with a bone-he
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
"It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have the appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to cal up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
As another voice on the subject - I like the concept but struggle with the execution. Net result, I actually run a basic low-power PC alongside my TV, 99% used just to provide 'connected TV' services. Works very nicely and avoids compatibil
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm sorry to be picky, but The President of the United States of America has the power. That office currently resides with one Mr. B. Obama, but if it's an obscure provision in a pre-WWII law it's hardly a power he's introduced against th
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Tunny was the British codename for data from the Lorenz machine, which is what Collossus was working on. The original Enigma machines were attacked by Bombe machines developed by Polish codebreakers pre-war.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
A good part of that though is circular; it's where the 'good' jobs are so people go there for the jobs so the companies set up there because that's where the 'good' people are and... I've worked in enough much smaller towns that could still
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
How much do they want to be paid? About £40k starting, please. Best of luck to them. I know few (non-contractors) who pull in even 90% of that with substantial experience. Idle wandering of mind a while back, I came to the conclusion that
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Wasn't the whole point of Collossus that it was brute-forcing the messages on the more complex Naval keys until it found a candidate match? That's certainly what I remember from visiting Bletchley Park. In any case, there are now (finally!)

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