kamjam

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by kamjam 13y ago
I can't vouch for AWS, since I've never used it, but if the same principles carry across from their online store then one thing I've always found with Amazon is that they have the most amazing customer service. I had an issue
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by kamjam 13y ago
I'm not American or from SF, but interestingly from the the shuttle routes posted by @potatolicious I would say nearly all those companies on that list - Apple, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo - have just as high a market penetration. I'm s
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yeah, Bali is not too far away, give me a remote worker job in Singapore and I can fly in for meetings every 2 weeks :-D
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by kamjam 13y ago
I had this same discussion with an ex-colleague and he pointed out that if you managed to drive away all the lower paid workers, then who would clean your streets, stock your supermarket shelves, put our your fires and catch those criminals
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by kamjam 13y ago
If you were using Excel, you code have just written a VBA macro to do it, or created another column with formula =CONCATENATE(" http://domain/",A1 ) if that's what you mean
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by kamjam 13y ago
How often does this actually need to be done? I know beginner coders who struggle with this, esp when it comes to AJAX. I very much doubt that someone with no interest in coding who is forced to code because of some government initiative fo
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by kamjam 13y ago
I hate this bandwagon of everyone jumping onto the MS Metro UI look for everything. The old site wasn't perfect, but please come up with something original.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Everything you mention can be done by a non-programmer. - Copy and paste your list of charities into MS Word and print it - Not sure what that is about - Create a blog on one of the many readily available platforms like Wordpress or blogger
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by kamjam 13y ago
You seem to have a big gripe about the English language. There is nothing prestige about it, some of the upper class may like to pretend there is but it's just a means of communication like every other language and I would make the sam
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by kamjam 13y ago
Possibly, I presume you mean because it is not phonetic? But that is not going to be so easy to change... My biggest gripe of the modern school leavers is when dey ryt n txt spch & i hv 2 decifa evry wrd. That's ok in an actual tex
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yes, that also. As a programmer, half the battle in trying to understand an issue exactly what you have just stated. In my job the second part is also very true, tech speak for other developers, business/marketing for everyone else. Bu
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by kamjam 13y ago
Why? Because I don't want the inconvenience. If I call up and complain about unrecognised charges then my card is cancelled, then I have to wait 5 business days minimum for a new card and also a new pin to be issued. If you want my bus
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by kamjam 13y ago
Except that not everyone will work with code monkeys. Basic computer skills and able to use applications is a lot more different than programming, and often the reason you have levels of middle management with technical and business ability
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. I'm not pedantic enough about the "you and me" stuff, or even fully correct in my own punctuation and I'm a native English speaker. But knowing the difference between "there, their
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by kamjam 13y ago
Very nice and everything, but if I went into a store and the payment method was via a device attached to an iPhone then alarm bells ringing "card skimmer" would be going off in my head and I'd walk out the door.
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by kamjam 13y ago
There's a lack of enforcement of a lot of motoring laws too. I've sped plenty of times without being caught, I haven't always used the blinkers and sometimes I've even parked illegally. I've jumped the occasional re
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by kamjam 13y ago
Soon to be followed by shale fracking for water.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Sometime in the last few years, we reached a point where there are, by weight, more ships in the ocean than fish Nice link. This made me sad :'(
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by kamjam 13y ago
I agree. How many of those making laws right now know anything about technology let alone how to code? So why does Joe Public specifically need to know how to code? It would be much better to teach people math and proper grammar, that wou
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by kamjam 13y ago
Same goes for anything you actually buy with currency also.
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by kamjam 13y ago
I don't think gold failed as a currency, I could pretty much go anywhere in the world with a bar of gold and exchange it for currency to buy whatever I want. It is still a universal currency, although not an everyday currency.
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by kamjam 13y ago
I wonder how many hard drives are retrieved and then somehow rescued - which may no longer power up so expert help to recover data off the platters is required. Rinse. Repeat.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Nothing is really deleted, the NSA already has a backup copy and I'm pretty sure Google would be able to retrieve this from archive should it be required from law enforcement. But agree, he could have just snooped around to gather what
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by kamjam 13y ago
I might be surrounded by idiots but I think I'm the only one in my entourage who read the instructions (I've told my friends numerous amount of time "What? You're not suppose to take more than 4g per day!"). Serio
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by kamjam 13y ago
The government works for us, not the other way round. There is no such thing as us being beat, there is such a thing as us not getting our shit together to do something about it.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Why don't they just take the site down? Oh wait, it's somewhere else in the world out side the UK jurisdiction. Ok, so the game of cat and mouse begins, we all know how well that's worked with the pirate bay.
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by kamjam 13y ago
No, that's not correct, at least in my experience. "Request desktop site" usually means "reload the same page, but send a User Agent string so the server thinks I'm calling from a full desktop browser". This wo
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by kamjam 13y ago
Indeed. The thing that annoys me about responsive design is when I browse on my phone and can't find what I'm looking for so I "Request Desktop Site" and it's the same! Grrr. Even worse when they STILL serve me all
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by kamjam 13y ago
I'm getting a lot of this feeling these days. This is an interesting post by the OP. I am going to investigate this more, it might up some avenues to explore further.
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by kamjam 13y ago
I'd call that pessimism. Or life. But not hating. Urban dictionary definition of hater: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hater A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So r

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