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by jlees 16y ago
Learning all of a Python or Ruby or Javascript, and knowing how to use it well and in a structured way, would cover a good, say, 60% of various concepts of imperative, functional and object-oriented programming Totally agree, and my issue
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by jlees 16y ago
I've seen a lot of this lately and I think it's an admirable idea. Even if you don't become a rockstar coder yourself overnight it'll earn you a lot more respect among coders, and you'll have better conversations (provided they're not 'so w
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by jlees 16y ago
Some URL fiddling produces http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style... A little easier, but I'm not up to the masochism required to go any further. :)
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by jlees 16y ago
Or when you want something from a stranger. "Excuse me sir, have you got any change..." (And similarly with the leafletting, cashiering, tour-guiding and door-holding occupations I've had in the past. You want people to feel important, and
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by jlees 16y ago
Shoulda been 'Ask HN Googlers', and the answer'd be 'no comment' either way.
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by jlees 16y ago
Love how Amanda's advice was all generic, also. It shouldn't make a difference what gender or species you are for YC, and it doesn't.
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by jlees 16y ago
Working on a startup gave me extremes of happiness and stress. Working at a 9-5 -- sorry, 8-8 -- is like Prozac. It dulls the extremes, and sometimes that can be a good thing.
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by jlees 16y ago
Quick gut reaction to your comments - yes, £20 is way too low, you can go up at least an order of magnitude if not all the way to £500. If you are targeting companies that are already paying staffs of 30-100 in IT security, even £500 is a d
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by jlees 16y ago
It doesn't search for 'he', it searches for the first autocomplete from 'he' - which happens to be Hertz, oh well.
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by jlees 16y ago
It's a UI challenge, but as Techcrunch reports, this may well be in browsers at some point.
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by jlees 16y ago
The other angle is: most of the time I use the omnibox etc to search, so I don't interact with Instant at all, but having it there on google.com for the few times I am searching for something more complex (misremembered song lyrics are a fa
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by jlees 16y ago
in the UK various funding bodies (eg. SMART) approve a founder salary of up to £40k, approx $60k, in line with other posts here.
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by jlees 16y ago
I suppose they could have been, but looking at the author's website it seems he runs an on-demand print house himself (whether he uses a third party provider to do the actual printing isn't clear).
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by jlees 16y ago
I stumbled upon this infographic of Wikipedia edit wars yesterday, coincidentally also a dConstruct speaker: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/wikipedia-lamest-...
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by jlees 16y ago
I wrote a (quite frankly dull and rambly) blog post about my upbringing to try to figure out why it made me an engineer, and it's pretty much the same. I was encouraged to tinker and nothing was ever discouraged. The only discouragement was
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by jlees 16y ago
The problem with arguments like this is it makes me feel like a freak for being a woman in computer science. Thanks.
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by jlees 16y ago
I was thinking the same, every single trans or genderqueer person I know is in tech; but then I found it difficult to think of people I knew of any description who weren't in some way in tech. I guess it's a matter of perspective. Still,
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by jlees 16y ago
I absolutely do not think about stuff like that before I sleep - I try to spend at least an hour winding down with a book and peppermint tea or something similar. I do however think about tough issues when I'm half asleep in the morning, re
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by jlees 16y ago
But is it quicker to charge every customer the same rate per lb of laundry than to spend time analysing the laundry or ask your customers to pre-sort? I'd say yes.
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by jlees 16y ago
I've been using CrowdFlower as an interface to MTurk, and it let me exclude specific countries. Your point about the secondary motivation is unfortunately valid, though.
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by jlees 16y ago
He's Australian, they misuse English wilfully all the time. ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
A lot of this applies to working for yourself, or for a big company. Startups exaggerate the extremes of stress and crunch, but I pretty much do all these things (and have done for the last 18 months or so, so ~8 months of BigCo and ~10 mon
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The beauty of data visualisation (David McCandless at TED)(ted.com)
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by jlees 16y ago
Yes, my next project is most likely going to be a game. Most of my industry experience is on the writing, reviewing and community side, so I want to get my feet wet on the technical :)
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by jlees 16y ago
Something almost Sims-esque? I'd ignore the haters for now and try to figure out what your vision is. It's not clear if you have a game in mind or just know you want to make a game - but assuming you have the difficult but rewarding task of
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by jlees 16y ago
That article's totally backwards. The rendering is nothing to do with Google (unless you're viewing on Chrome :P). Microsoft has a fairly good font group internally and has made some great progress. Google is just getting started (I'm part
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by jlees 16y ago
We're reaching out to a number of open source font developers so I bet they have been contacted. I'll inquire. I think the current priorities are international language fonts actually, but other beautiful fonts are still welcome.
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by jlees 16y ago
Your comment on a wife is made in jest, but it's the same advice I've heard from respected lawyers and others experienced in immigration here. It really is the easiest way, even though there's a wait and plenty of paperwork still involved.
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by jlees 16y ago
To me, this is less about the fact a single woman had to memorise a written driving test by failing it 949 times, and more about the mismatch between the test itself and the populace. Surely she is fairly indicative of a rural inhabitant? W
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by jlees 16y ago
Children are amazing. If you want to refocus your world, talk to one for half an hour. Wait! Not like that, you'll get arrested.

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