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by julian_t 6y ago
5% from translations... ha! I remember getting told by a foreign publisher that they were publishing a version in their native language. No royalties, they just thought I'd like to know. They did, however, send me a free copy, which wa
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by julian_t 6y ago
The publishers definitely take a risk, but back when I was involved in this, way before ebooks, the biggest part went to the booksellers. IIRC I got about 6% on book sales. If I ever do anything like that again, I'll be self-publishing
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by julian_t 6y ago
My local Toyota dealer has contacted me after I've used them for a service to ask that I give 5/5 on the feedback form that I get sent. They say that if they get lower than 5 from a few customers, they get a visit from head office
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by julian_t 6y ago
Slightly more than a few miles, but still pretty local (KT4)!
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by julian_t 6y ago
You need a bit more than that if people are going to understand you... what is a "position", and what does "next position" mean?
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by julian_t 6y ago
This depends on so many factors: home environment, office environment, commuting, personal preferences... My personal preference is to work from home, even though I have a really nice office environment. It's quieter, and I don't
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by julian_t 6y ago
If they're messing about with quantum, they really need to be licensed quantum mechanics. Not just anyone should be allowed to touch this stuff, you know... ask to see their certification! ;-)
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by julian_t 7y ago
Sounds like the difference between "agile development" and "Agile development" ;-)
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by julian_t 7y ago
I’d love to be able to use paper notes, but I’ve always found writing physically uncomfortable, and my writing is so bad that even I can’t necessarily read old notes! And how do you find “all the notes about GCC” without some kind of librar
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by julian_t 7y ago
When I was a contractor in fintech, I did a lot of work for one guy on and off over 10 years. He was always very prompt in paying, and I only found out after some time that some of his clients (big banks) were very slow to pay him. At one
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by julian_t 7y ago
A small company I once worked for employed a new firm of cleaners. Very good and conscientious for several months, right up to the night they loaded all the computer gear they could find on the premises into their van and disappeared. (Afte
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by julian_t 8y ago
> eBay protects the buyer and will almost always rule in the buyers favour. Exactly so. I've done a bit of buying and selling acoustic guitars, and would now only do "buyer collects". I do this because several acquaintance
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by julian_t 8y ago
Although you can't eat inside unless you're a cabbie, some of them will serve you tea and a bacon sarnie through a window (I'm thinking of the one outside the V&A and the one at Temple)
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by julian_t 8y ago
We mixed it fresh every day, and to contain it we used crucibles made from a platinum/gold alloy. Which, needless to say, were locked away very carefully at the end of the day. And I was using it to dissolve up rock specimens for analy
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by julian_t 8y ago
It is indeed scary. I once had to use a mixture of boiling nitric, hydrofluoric and perchloric acids... quite possibly the nastiest stuff I've ever come across, and partly responsible for my sideways move into programming. The lab had
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by julian_t 9y ago
I'd put traditional Danish numbering a bit further up the list... it's pretty strange ( http://www.olestig.dk/dansk/numbers.html )
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by julian_t 9y ago
We did the same thing with the signature of our department head, who was often out of the office, and was cool with it provided it didn't get him into trouble. It was necessary because this was in the Civil Service where you needed a s
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by julian_t 9y ago
This stuff brings back memories... as a junior dev, one of my jobs was to keep the Rotring ink pens working so that we could plot maps on tracing film on the Calcomp drum plotter. I later wrote some Fortran code to sort the data in order to
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by julian_t 9y ago
1l water, 25g sugar, 2.5g salt (approx)
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by julian_t 9y ago
Excellent observation. I realized this about myself a year or so back... I'd collected a lot of guitars, some reasonably rare, but most of them weren't getting played, and were sitting in their cases or on the wall. Given the amou
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by julian_t 9y ago
> but you absolutely cannot 'share space'. Absolutely key to segregate That is indeed key, and I'd love to see more of it in the UK, where cycle lanes aren't usually segregated, and tend to disappear as soon as the ro
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by julian_t 9y ago
Leaving aside the (hopefully) unlikely case of the authorities deciding to install malware on my laptop, I've had experience of the roughness with which checked baggage is treated and getting things stolen from said baggage. That mak
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by julian_t 10y ago
Er... on the window, as the indentation and API tells you. It may be "not exactly obvious" to you, but having been doing GUI programming for a long time, this makes complete sense to me. It is also, of course, a matter of personal
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by julian_t 10y ago
Lowden acoustic guitars. Never found anything to match the design (never mind sound) of my '82 L23. La Pavoni coffee maker. Replace O-rings and give it a service every couple of years and it'll last forever. Copper cooking pans, e
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by julian_t 10y ago
We have several similar Zojirushi products at home (SM-KHE48BA) and I'm convinced that they violate the laws of physics somehow. I've never had a vacuum flask that works so well.
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by julian_t 10y ago
The one that caused me to do a double take was the "postal police"... the postal service, at least in New York, appears to have its own police force.
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by julian_t 10y ago
Cast iron? Pah! Tinned heavy-gauge copper with brass handles works the best (for me, ymmv). There are drawbacks - they need re-tinning every now and again, and you have to be careful with metal utensils, but the heat distribution and evenne
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by julian_t 10y ago
Exactly. I had back trouble, and visited a couple of therapists over the years who would massage and manipulate. I eventually realized that I was an income stream to them, and that I'd keep going back every time I had trouble. Then I f
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by julian_t 10y ago
And should you wish to play with this, you can run your own ITS instance using SIMH[1] [1] https://www.cosmic.com/u/mirian/its/itsbuild.html
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by julian_t 10y ago
My wife bought me a 'nice' watch as a birthday present, a Raymond Weil quartz. Nice thin case that suits my slim build rather well, but... like many other people I hadn't expected the high maintenance cost, but what really pu

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