julian_t

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by julian_t 10y ago
Er... catch errors? (Available for hire as copy editor...)
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by julian_t 10y ago
I'm starting a self-publish project, and am looking at using Pollen[1] along with some CSS based on Edward Tufte's ideas[2]. I'm not a designer by any means, but I'm having fun with this, and the result is looking pretty
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by julian_t 10y ago
Absolutely. When I was starting out on my own I got the opportunity to write for Wrox Press. When talking to clients and going for contracts, it was definitely worth more than being one more guy with an MCSD. Also, as Dr Johnson noted, writ
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by julian_t 10y ago
Up... oh goodness, yes... I first saw it on a flight. Middle-aged IT consultants shouldn't be sitting on a plane sniffling over a goddam cartoon! A masterly piece of animation, that.
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by julian_t 10y ago
Ah yes, the Magic Roundabout... indelibly written in my memory, as my first encounter with it was on a freezing January morning in thick fog. I had no idea what on earth was going on. The one at Hatton Cross is pretty good as well ( https:&
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by julian_t 10y ago
I often fly with a travel-size guitar (one of these: http://www.guitarbench.com/Images%20for%20articles/brunner/8... ). The neck comes off and it packs into a case that's small enough for carry-on. It has ofte
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by julian_t 10y ago
Here in NY, chips are becoming more common. But rather strangely, my local diner has gone back to swiping because "they got a new card machine"
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by julian_t 10y ago
I've started using TW and find it great for the simple to-do list stuff I need, with enough control over dependencies and scheduling. I've tried org mode, but I just don't get on with the emacs way of working. TW, as a simple
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by julian_t 10y ago
Value classes solve this problem without the overhead of runtime allocation...
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by julian_t 11y ago
Very neat, but am I missing something obvious... I can get the top 10, but how can I page through posts? I often find that if I've been away from HN for a day or two that there's interesting stuff way down the list.
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by julian_t 11y ago
Definitely agree on the age thing... I've just turned 60 and it takes me days to get fully recovered from flying LN-NY, much longer than it used to. Melatonin and adjusting sleep times helps a bit, but not as much as I'd wish. Not
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by julian_t 11y ago
I think the same about some modern art, such as Duchamp's urinal, or Craig-Martin's oak tree. Once you understand what the artist is trying to say, there is no need ever to see the work again. Although it gets me into trouble, I t
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by julian_t 11y ago
Oh my, I can so identify with this. I used to do product reviews for a magazine, and Rose was the only review software I decided not to keep. And I'd have felt bad giving it to anyone else. From that time on, any mention of Rose in a
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by julian_t 11y ago
Quite so. My youngest is now 24, but I remember those days. I remember thinking that "I thought the idea was that we work together to get this stuff done," and that if the company decided that its interests were more important tha
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by julian_t 11y ago
> Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say, with great aplomb: “I’m too old for this.” Hmmm... for me, that'll be in just under a month, then ;-)
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by julian_t 11y ago
Ah yes... there is such a lot of that around. I recall a "work-life balance" seminar held from 7-8pm on a Friday. (I'd like to think that anyone who turned up was just told to go away and get some work-life balance, but kno
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by julian_t 11y ago
> Then they added linking And that's great, until someone inserts a couple of rows into the range you've linked. Or moves the file. Or any one of another hundred things could happen to upset the OLE Gods. Do not go anywhere nea
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by julian_t 11y ago
Or to those countries where getting a local SIM can be a real hassle (ie. India)
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by julian_t 11y ago
Very few people make money out of programming books, but it can be a very valuable thing to have one on your resumé. It always struck me as strange that the person who typically makes the least out of a book is the author (unless you'r
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by julian_t 11y ago
Absolutely... as others here have said, if you don't have people who want to think , then no amount of process can save you. You only have deal with any official bureaucratic process or government department to see that. From my POV,
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by julian_t 12y ago
I've done something similar, but with different results... I wear down heels very fast, and used to get through mass-produced shoes with moulded soles far too quickly. It annoyed me hugely that I had to throw away a pair of shoes whose
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by julian_t 12y ago
I'm not so sure about the "really bad"... I started programming in Fortran in 1973 and have never come across that convention before. Never seen any code that uses it, either, come to that ;-)
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by julian_t 12y ago
It isn't just Yosemite... I had exactly this behavior with Mavericks on a new MacBook last year. Fired up a Bluetooth mouse, and next time I opened the lid wireless had completely gone. I've managed to get it working after a fashi
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by julian_t 12y ago
I've got an old Psion Series 5 that someone gave me... fantastic for taking notes, and one of the best keyboards I have ever encountered on a pocket-size device.
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by julian_t 12y ago
WiFi... every upgrade I've done since Lion has caused me pain. Upgrade, and WiFi stops working reliably. Last time was on a virtually new MacBook Pro, upgrading to Mavericks, and it took me two weeks to get it working again. So I'
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by julian_t 12y ago
They definitely shouldn't be.... IANA electrician, but as far as I am aware UK regulations require separate power and lighting circuits and a proper distribution board with RCBs. And while our plugs may be clunky, I kind of prefer them
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by julian_t 12y ago
I've got an Ablett pocket knife, which is a wonderful piece of work. And I just bought my wife a chef's knife from Blok ( http://www.blok-knives.co.uk/ ). I would thoroughly recommend them... not only great craftsma
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by julian_t 12y ago
That's right. I wrote some computer books some years back, and the royalties were somewhere around 10% of the wholesale cost of the book. So a book with a $40 shelf price might have a $20 wholesale price... and with only about 6000 c
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by julian_t 12y ago
Yes... as a technique, possibly interesting, but it would actually increase the time taken to prepare my pasta dishes!
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by julian_t 12y ago
Most London cabbies are very proud of "the knowledge", so I wonder if your driver had a GPS to tell him about traffic conditions rather than the route?

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