jimparkins

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by jimparkins 3y ago
as you have asked for feedback - I think there is a fundamental issue with the flow. The first step should be to choose the fundamental benefit the person is looking to achieve Upper / Back / Lower / Cardio or similar high le
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by jimparkins 3y ago
I have tried it here is my experience: I am new user, I login and begin to search for content: Whatever I search for does not match the content on any tweet equivalent either the text or meta information - like hashtags. Only the content o
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by jimparkins 5y ago
I am British and worked in central London for years. The idea of owning an 800,000 apartment in central London was a ridiculous luxury. Most people that I worked with had to commute like me for 1-1.5 hours a day from outside London commuter
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by jimparkins 6y ago
Beaver dams
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by jimparkins 8y ago
“Every click is scrutinised in order to optimise profit, not to enhance a user’s experience.” So identical to every modern digital business then....
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by jimparkins 9y ago
The key part of this is whole thing is the mechanism of enforcement - at the ISP. To do this UK ISPs will need increased government controlled infrastructure operating within their ISP core networks. This to me sounds like post Brexit GCHQ
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by jimparkins 9y ago
Have a google for: "can i lie to a employer about past salary" - it really really messes with people - people feel super uncertain about how to approach this situation. Throwing any confidence they have during the negotiation out
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by jimparkins 10y ago
Starcraft Remastered - Check Warcraft III Remastered - ?
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by jimparkins 10y ago
Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent. To date the only site I know that does this is "filelistin
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by jimparkins 10y ago
Google "bendy buses" the design they are proposing between segments is exactly the same as this. Nothing magical or gelatonus about it.
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by jimparkins 13y ago
People will no doubt come on this thread and remind everyone that of course the government always had access - you must have been a fool not to think so. But I just can not get over how angry it makes me. Honestly I thought that using googl
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by jimparkins 13y ago
This dude looses me half way through - I think that adults can compartmentalise and choose between international news and hobby tech news. And lets not forget that modern technology is freekin incredible and Apple is the premier brand.
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by jimparkins 13y ago
You can buy and modify a Toyota Supra to go faster than a Ferrari for much less money. Thats why nobody buys Ferrari's - there is just no point. And people buying Ferraris are just stupid for wasting their money when they could have a
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by jimparkins 13y ago
Love the idea of these cloud based services and I also like the idea of a content management app that does not want to try and take over your application. However outside of personal projects at work I am scared that these cloud based black
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by jimparkins 13y ago
When I see this all I think is that these are the requests from lower level agents who have to fill in paperwork to get their data. I just cannot now believe that upper levels of the intelligence agencies do not have complete and total acce
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by jimparkins 13y ago
"That 80% marketshare is not going anywhere anytime soon." >> I have seen this mentioned many times before, and also worked in PHP development teams. However I think this statement is confusing. There is no way that php dev
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by jimparkins 13y ago
We live in a world doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This sounds like an old transcript saying that if you disagree with the government / military you must instantly be a communist. Feels like we are only a step away from publ
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by jimparkins 13y ago
Maybe I am missing the point - but this style of 3d I have never really found visually impressive or fun. I think it is because of the limited range of movement on display. Half the fun of this kind of 3d would be to find things initially h
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by jimparkins 13y ago
As someone who has never done any development in Ruby. I loved the idea and wanted to use. However what makes it not accessible is that you give no instruction initially on the structure of Ruby syntax. This means that I would need to follo
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by jimparkins 13y ago
Not the real issue. If Microsoft would have come out and said piracy and the 2nd hand market costs us 11 bajillion dollars in lost revenue. Which is why you the consumer have to pay 59.99 for a game. Then if the xbox one close to the same p
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by jimparkins 13y ago
As much as this story is meant to be about keeping staff happy and managing expectation. Actually what I think it really does a good job is illustrate that finance and hr teams are pretty bad at managing the complex cause and affect that ba
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Sounded great until I read that Fuduntu does not come with Apt or Deb and uses Yum/Rpm instead... "Apt is not installed with Fuduntu. Yum (Yellowdog Package Manager) is the replacement. For more help on yum, "man yum" from a terminal, or go
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Rajeevk - please please create a version of this app that is modified into a virtual whiteboard so that two or more people can update the same plan at the same time. I have engineers spread over multiple offices and find it hard to do meeti
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by jimparkins 14y ago
"THE BEST GTD© APP ON WINDOWS 8" This may be relevant or it may not but: The homepage of their website I think needs some work. The above slogan is all the text apart from the carousel. I had absolutely no idea what GTD was (as it was not e
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by jimparkins 14y ago
I was staying in Shenzhen China a couple of weeks ago, it is completely obvious why google is not popular - every other search request I made is slow or just white screen dies. I would not even think to use another search engine normally bu
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Ironic? That your website touting"lean" has a MVP that is too minimal?
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Just wanted to do a bit of cheerleading for this. Do not give up. I think this will be an awesome open source project and a great project for people who are learning Clojure and want a non web project outlet to actually build plugins for. A
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by jimparkins 14y ago
People are excited by Node doing numbers like this because there is a massive active Javascript community - with hundreds of thousands of people using Javascript all day every day at work. 0.01% of these people would ever consider learning
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Watched the video - what struck me most is that it felt just like TopGear - when they introduce a new supercar and they have a minute or so intro.
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by jimparkins 14y ago
Three things: (1) Embrace the fact that a lot of people want to partner up Riak with an in memory DB like Redis and provide documentation, articles, tools to make this easy. (2) A public face of Basho at events like Scala-days and who engag

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