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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Totally this. Brexit has me not trusting the government I reside under as far as I could throw it. I believe in crypto as an ideological position and hope to see it continue to grow. It might not be Bitcoin that wins in the end but decentra
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> Most drugs are de-facto legal since the laws are simply not enforced Sorry, but I just can't agree with this. The laws are there, the government says they still apply and have zero interest in any sort of repeal or reduction of
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
iOS sticker packs - never did it myself (can't draw to save my life) but there was at one point good money [2] to be made in them. The full title of [1] is How I made two ridiculous iOS 10 sticker packs for Messages without any coding
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Bit OT, but I was unfamiliar with the term "redshirting" (apart from Star Trek connotations, which I assumed isn't what was meant :) For the non-US people: the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligibl
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> it could've been the reverse Totally this. I get asked by friends if they should buy in (or buy more) and my answer is always "if you can afford to lose it, sure". I feel like people asking if they should buy or not ri
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> I found lectures to be a complete waste of time at University, with or without a laptop. You could just download the lecturer's slides and speaker notes outside of class and learn the material ahead of exams/coursework. Thi
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I am talking about the potential for the future and of the tech in general in that aspect. I accept there are huge impracticalities right now, especially with BTC. I'll leave it at that, I don't want to get into a big argument abo
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
From my own recent experience, I had to spend £10 to send €6, pay conversion fees and it took 2 days to go through. https://estimatefee.com/ suggests right now for a 2-hour confirmation a cost of around $3 via BTC. (Natwes
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> Huh? I mean this is obviously not what I'm talking about, I don't think I have to elaborate further. Sorry, I don't follow then. You asked how you get it without a bank account and I believe I answered that. Why does it
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
The Django Rest Framework library has taken this very approach [1] offering both corporate and individual monthly subscriptions which is then used to fund development. It appears to be quite successful in that it's allowed the lead d
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
If you gave me your bitcoin address I could transfer you some right now, we don't have to meet up, likewise you don't have to have a bank account to make use of it. If merchants in your area accepted bitcoin you could then use tha
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> I see no value to cryptocurrencies besides black market transactions and hacking around with financial instruments It costs a small fortune to send money internationally not to mention the friction of needing to have a bank account - a
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Sorry if I sounded like an apologist for management. I am a believer in better working conditions and reduced hours and flexible time for everyone and anyone. The article struck a nerve with me as friends have been recently looking for jobs
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I feel like we as an industry can sometimes forget just how good we have it. Many of my friends do not work in tech, they are low paid, they have stressful jobs with little autonomy, they are not challenged at all and they feel little perso
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Jesus, that sounds like a nightmare! Hope you get it all sorted out. Probably even more expensive but any potential of suing the developer collectively with the other people? Sounds like they'll have annoyed a lot of people!
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I hadn't seen that before but that is a great post and makes an excellent point.
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I read that as the apartment was a new build of some sort and had not yet been connected to the main supply. So he was then left with that expense as the owner. I was surprised he paid for such an apartment, it sounds like he didn't ge
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I completely agree. There's a hell of a lot to be said for having a buffer like this for your mental health. When a long-term relationship I was in collapsed and I was struggling with a bad environment at work the one thing that stoppe
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Alas Homeserve, the massive insurance company who were the primary investors, took over all the IP and I think they just killed it. They bought CheckATrade [1] around the time we shutdown, so maybe it will see the light of day as part of th
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
It definitely did have a lot of value and customers, once they used it, loved it. From perhaps an emergency "this has stopped working" first call out you would have people then asking about exactly the sort of thing you mention wi
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I worked at a startup doing exactly this last year[1], [2], [3]. Unfortunately, the parent company shut us down after we ran out of runway but it was starting to gain traction. One issue we had was ultimately a lot of people wanted someone
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Not OP but I've worked places that in London (not exactly cheap to live), they pay a junior developer £18,000 or so - which is under $23,000. In ad agencies, in particular, this seems quite common. Usually by job hopping said junior ca
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
So, so much this. I am really sick of the double-faced bullshit nature of companies extolling their work-life balance and then going nuclear when anyone exercises it. At some of my jobs it really didn't matter how much work you did dur
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I use this as a basic indicator of someone's Unix competency. Not as a straight binary thing, but if I'm talking to someone (interviewing or maybe debugging something) I've found that if you know about setgid/setuid yo
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted (maybe offtopic I guess?) but this is how I view pretty much all transactions I do. If I buy a fancy craft beer in a bar for £5 then that's not £5 to me but "X minutes" depending on wh
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I wonder if this will see an ability to more easily switch into fintech/banking as a developer working in various other industries. I worked with GS via a mobile agency for a while and really respected the developers and what they wer
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
If I was still working in a startup (whether it would count as cool or not I'm not sure) I certainly would. People like this are rare - he's proactive and clearly driven. If a cool startup turned their nose up at this sort of pers
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
The sheet of paper is a nice analogy though I think people would see it as a sunk cost already and so "have" to use it. The $0.01 per article is a new transaction each and every time. Given how mindlessly I click around the web go
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
The security guard doesn't exactly come across as lacking influence: > That’s when the male guard reportedly told the students, “You don’t belong here,” and, allegedly, “Your kind don’t belong in here.” This whilst the Salesforce em
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by jaymzcampbell 9y ago
> He credited Pineda with trying to straighten out the situation. “Angelica did a fabulous job, she did everything in her power to keep us inside,” Sosa said. But the two security guards, who Sosa described as a black man and Latina wom

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