forcetenhen

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by forcetenhen 16y ago
I regularly see entry level positions around £15k - often a little less. From looking around relatively recently, if you want £30k+, you need to be project managing at the very least (in a buzzword-compliant sense that is). Things have pick
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
I tried a couple of times, got Raymond Chandler, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King and... Dan Brown. All for different elements of the same page. In turns inpsiring and soul-crushing..
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
And as usual it'll end up with the same old list of reasonable problems, 'unforgivable' omissions and miles upon miles of ridiculous hyperbole. It's started already. Is abuse of includes or goto an inherent problem of PHP? I was abusing in
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
The brush & soap is still the most satisfying shave I've ever had. I'm not sure how effective it really was compared to others as it's been a while, but I certainly felt the best afterwards and itched a lot less. On a friends recommenda
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
He made some wrong predictions 2 years ago for the European Championships so he's not infallible, though he appears to be getting much better :)
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
Quad core 2.8Ghz, 8GB RAM, 2TB internal, further 2.5TB in rats nest of external disks. 2 x 19" monitors. Running W7 and Snow Leopard via VM for iDev, Plus a crappy old laptop I had to upgrade to 1.5GB RAM after it came with 512MB and Vista.
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
That's why I like the twitter. It's more "look at this X" and a direct link without all the padding that would go into justifying an article.
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
Smashing Mag's Twitter feed I find to be be more useful than the site itself. There's a fair bit of fluff but there's a lot of good stuff too. Plus, it's updated at a furious rate.
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
Ok - long delayed response since I lost my damned login :) Thanks very much for all the replies, MUCH appreciated - and it seems to have given me the big kick I needed. Since I posted, I managed to wangle a £10k raise. Basically gave a poli
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Ask HN: Average coder at dead-end. What now?
49 points by forcetenhen 16y ago|59 comments
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
He ended up selling them all yeah. Minus tax and whatnot, he still pocketed a tidy sum and decided to forego university (which it was originally to pay for) and become a business god.
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
I used to work for one of the companies who bought in early (they're top left somewhere :). Not sure it brought us much, if anything, though it did get the company logo on TV a few times when it was picked up by the news.
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by forcetenhen 16y ago
pro-red mis-disinformation.