jgamman

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by jgamman 19y ago
if you want millions, pick a job that pays well in a large company and work your arse off 60-70 h/wk. seriously. good lawyers, accountants, finance etc, lots/most of them will end up with net worths >1M by the time they're in their 40
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by jgamman 19y ago
context? reason for linking? random keyboard error? please be constructive.
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What do you get when an Oxford anthropologist writes a guide to English pub etiquette for tourists?(sirc.org)
10 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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Google is 403 - wonder who got the dreaded 404 booth?(analytics.blogspot.com)
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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Scariest cephalopod you'll see today (and i'm gonna guess all week)(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 19y ago
i was skim reading after a while but i never caught my personal favorite - 'have something "GBP$"GBP$ interesting to say', no amount of eye candy can polish a god awful boring conclusion.
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by jgamman 19y ago
ouch - i'm an outlier.
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by jgamman 19y ago
step 1: decide on the minimum grade you want for each class step 2: work harder for an A than a B and likewise for a C step 3: do the work rinse and repeat. oh BTW, as someone that had to grade uni students, having someone harass you for
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by jgamman 19y ago
thank you thank you thank you thank you...
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by jgamman 19y ago
i think there's plenty of room in the ynews/reddit model to go. don't think of it as the website, but in terms of the users. i think a big step forward will be the blogger of news aggregators. allow people to make a submission+vote page
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Anyone looking for a couple hours html/css work?
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 19y ago
young = time but no money older = more(ish) money and less time. i still see facebook as something people fool around with in their dormrooms, a kindof tv/DVD kind of thing - if you want to sell to this demographic, sure facebook is king.
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by jgamman 19y ago
if the code is a crystallisation of their business idea then using it again is equivalent to re-using their business idea and i think that is highly un-ethical. if you are talking about reusing some CSS templates and changing the colors -
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by jgamman 19y ago
hi, thanks for the reply - sorry, i interpreted your joking bits to mean that you had been around for a lot longer.
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by jgamman 19y ago
seriously - ynews worthy?
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by jgamman 19y ago
hi, could you please elaborate on that throwaway line '..takes me a little longer...'. i'm just a user so when i saw gmail and google aps, my first thought was woohoo, i don't need to know how to do the boring back end stuff for email/cal
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by jgamman 19y ago
isn't the iphone a google phone? i thought SJ and ES were on each other's boards. google is trying to create the platform and capitalise on the traffic (by betting it can build better products) - that's their business space. apple makes
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by jgamman 19y ago
ask them if they want to change the world. i knew i wanted to try and do something 'big' when i was a kid (not that i had any idea what that was ;-). i went into the physical sciences not programming but even at that age i would have hear
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by jgamman 19y ago
man that sounds dull. 5 am? who the heck drags themselves out of bed at 5am for the glory of being productive? i used to leap out of bed early to go skiing so maybe if my work was pulling me out of bed i'd consider it but man, this post d
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by jgamman 19y ago
...next week i delve into water is wet.
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by jgamman 19y ago
i for one am completely anal about version control. i work in engineering offices and version control of, for instance detailed design drawings, is extremely important - most things worth building with actual steel have quite a few zeros a
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by jgamman 19y ago
didn't see a submit and vote widget (didn't look too hard though). for me, this is a killer ap of forging a community.
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by jgamman 19y ago
wasn't this blindingly obvious? eyeball time matters because people who have stuff to sell need people who wish to buy. search/email/maps... are just ways of making your net-billboard the first one people see. finally people are being 'pa
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by jgamman 19y ago
try a ceramic like yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). toughest freakin' stuff on the planet and i believe it holds an edge (probably not an issue for the non-knife bits).
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by jgamman 19y ago
rugby is the new management group-speak analogy? did i miss the /sarcasm tag?
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by jgamman 19y ago
thanks david. ideally this would be the end result, i was just wondering if there was a way to purchase the experience quickly while on the learning curve without getting ripped off.
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by jgamman 19y ago
cheers imp
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by jgamman 19y ago
hi, i've started working for a small tech company (catalysis, engineering, R&D services) and to my horror, i've discovered it's almost impossible to find us on a search engine unless you know our company name. I suspect that a consultant g
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SEO advice for a small (non-IT) business?
1 points by jgamman 19y ago|6 comments
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by jgamman 19y ago
hi, me too (chemist), working on some ideas in the energy field. i'm always jealous of web designers who can buy a $500 laptop, download a pile of open source software and start producing. i've got to raise at least two more zeros before

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