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by guy_c 10y ago
"... I do not wish to work for Google. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever." Are you really sure? How about in 15 years when nearly all programming jobs have been replaced with AI[1]. Programmers are jobless, hungry, homeless and with
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by guy_c 10y ago
Yep Japan is amazing. No tipping, but if you ask for help in a shop the staff will literally run to help you.
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by guy_c 10y ago
I think this applies to many roles, not just engineering. I could imagine a copy-writer getting stuck on some exact word choice, a salesperson mulling over every reaction and word from a previous meeting. A designer taking in everything the
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by guy_c 10y ago
Or you have hot humid cities like Fukuoka and Taipei that move a lot of the pedestrian and retail underground. I think the best solutions depend a lot on the local weather conditions.
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by guy_c 10y ago
Sorry, I should have made clear. That was my 1 minute of CSS tweaks.
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by guy_c 10y ago
Yep that stood out to me too http://postimg.org/image/kho7l7pyl/
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by guy_c 11y ago
This is a good quote from http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html The modern software developer has to be something of a swiss army knife. Of course, you need to write code that fulfills customer func
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by guy_c 11y ago
Nice, that is good to see.
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by guy_c 11y ago
This is a good point, but it actually goes further up the chain. The universities in UK, a lot of their funding is driven from publication record of their staff. So they too are just responding to incentives - https://en.wikipedi
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by guy_c 11y ago
Why is it so ridiculous? Isn't it trying to serve as a retention incentive? Obviously it can back-fire on the company. If the share price drops a lot then people that were planning on staying till the 6 monthly vesting may quit.
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by guy_c 11y ago
I've travelled extensively for the last 2.5 years using a combination of Airbnb, hotels (booked via Agoda & Rakuten Travel) & apartments arranged via local classifieds (Craigslist, Gumtree etc.). At the beginning airbnb was my
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by guy_c 11y ago
Good point :-)
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by guy_c 11y ago
Nice! The same conversation in the context of sports, where they really do want the best: "We hire only the best" "What do you pay?" "Between 10 and 30 million USD per year"
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by guy_c 11y ago
I wonder, for such mission critical data a good strategy would be to start rotating out old drives at set periods. Maybe replace one drive of your RAID5 every 6 months, not matter what the health. Once you've replaced all the drives, t
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by guy_c 11y ago
Firstly there seems an inherent bias that young people want to be homeowners and not being a homeowner is bad for people. My first reaction to "Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank" is, "So wha
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by guy_c 11y ago
Feed in tariff dropped, but the installation costs dropped significantly too. I've not done the calculations for a while but it still might be profitable.
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by guy_c 11y ago
Slightly concerning is that mysql is no longer built into v2, and their Databse-as-a-service is yet to get out of beta - https://www.ctl.io/dbaas/ "DBaaS Beta is not recommended for production environments" W
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by guy_c 12y ago
A nice observation from the Xerox, Xerox, Xerox, Xerox chapter: "In any case, office reproduction began to grow very rapidly. (It may seem paradoxical that this growth coincided with the rise of the telephone, but perhaps it isn’t. All
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by guy_c 12y ago
I forced white to always take a piece if it can. It initially tears black to shreds, but then the lone Black king battles back and slowly picks off the white pieces.
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by guy_c 12y ago
This is an important point. You cannot directly compare salary to business income. The day you quit your $150,000/year dev job is the day you income hits zero. Compare that to BCC that he effectively quit four years ago. 2007 $6,200 &
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by guy_c 12y ago
Appreciate having some stellar for my account too - 'guyc'
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by guy_c 13y ago
This risk premium is an important part of that equation. "So out of the original $4R, we’re left with $0.1R in profit. That’s 1/40th of the revenue making its way to actual bottom-line profitability, and even that takes 4 years t
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by guy_c 13y ago
As an aside to (2). You might not even need to go as far as creating and marketing a full SaaS. I know small businesses that are paying $100-$1000/month for small little services or manually doing tasks at similar costs. Automate/
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by guy_c 14y ago
Few additions: Add £100/month more expenses for public transport to work (since in London it's not very common to live within walking distance of work). Probably a fair comparison might want to factor in university education cost. In the UK
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by guy_c 14y ago
What US city? What are the tax and housing expenses?
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by guy_c 14y ago
I guess for a fair comparison you'd need to consider taxation and major costs. In UK £45,000pa would net you £2,750/month after tax. Most likely your employer would be paying or contributing to your pension. Health care is free. Assuming yo
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by guy_c 14y ago
One option would be to partner with an experienced freelance developer that has work they are looking to sub out to someone else. They can then be the client facing side of your development skills.
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by guy_c 14y ago
+1 for social status as zero-sum game. Imagine your social status if you jumped back 2,000 years and could still conduct your current lifestyle: being able to feed yourself for a week from only a fews hours of labour; travel across the Atla
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by guy_c 14y ago
I hope no passwords on PostIt notes - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-92.6367&#3...
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by guy_c 14y ago
I like your perspective on this. It is impossible to see the 'damage' done by capital applied (or over applied) to the wrong thing. So people don't really think about it. What great things were NOT created by the great people LivingSocial h

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