jon-wood

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by jon-wood 14y ago
It all depends how you approach it. We recently went away for a week (with our wives) as a development team, locked ourselves in a rural cottage, and built the first iteration of an iPhone app for the site. We worked normal hours, spent eve
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by jon-wood 14y ago
Its great to see people recognising the importance of local businesses! They're the core of most communities, and if we let them die then the community around them also dies, and will be hugely difficult to bring back again. We're working o
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by jon-wood 14y ago
> For me personally, I keep mental snapshots of my baseline emotional state so that I have something to compare against. It's a kind of early warning system for when I'm falling so I can catch myself. I'm currently developing some softw
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by jon-wood 14y ago
I've been in the position of being that someone else a few times, most recently last night, so please excuse any incoherence due to sleep deprivation. My wife suffers from bipolar disorder, which is mostly characterised in her by periods of
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by jon-wood 14y ago
Agreed, I'd say I have half the items on that list at the most, and still manage to make good food most nights (admittedly my last soup came out like baby food). And since it seems somewhat on topic, Hubbub are hiring developers, so if you
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by jon-wood 14y ago
It goes in a JSON file for Node because there's already one present to configure NPM packages, just as for Ruby applications you can define the runtime in your Gemfile. In the Python world their package manger uses a file called something l
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by jon-wood 14y ago
That's true to an extent, but I've also had deliveries from supermarkets in incredibly rural areas whilst on holiday, once to a farmhouse which was so remote you couldn't see any of the neighbours.
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by jon-wood 14y ago
In the UK (although just outside and around London, so data is probably quite good) my experience has been that if your driving the directions work about as well as Google Maps. If you're traveling by public transport its useless, since it
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by jon-wood 14y ago
Hubbub - London or Remote - Full time Hubbub is saving independent food shops by letting people order online when they can't get to the shops themselves. We mask the complexity of ordering from lots of separate shops and allow customers to
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by jon-wood 14y ago
I think its a common mistake to write off companies which have a physical aspect as "not software companies". The company I work for delivers food to people, but we're very much a software company in that we couldn't possibly compete with t
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by jon-wood 14y ago
Honestly, the driving force behind all of this is that we thought it was an interesting question which tells you about how people view food. My favourite answer so far has been "Don't redesign the chicken, redesign society to better use it.
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by jon-wood 14y ago
If anything, you'd want a chicken with skin which excretes fat so you can avoid putting butter on it, although that would make it quite a bit more difficult to catch.
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by jon-wood 14y ago
I'm one of Hubbub's developers (the one who attached lasers), and just wanted to respond to this because I can completely understand the distaste you're feeling. As you seem to realise, this is just an exercise in thinking "what if", I don'