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by mb_72 14y ago
Good job, and bookmarked. When Stripe makes it to Europe / Australia, you'll have another customer.
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I also used Turbo Pascal at university (around '90 / '91), and while I can remember some growing pains in terms of learning to program I can't recall any such problems that you experienced. My memory is fuzzy on the detail, but I think ther
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Art is one of the areas of human endeavour that has the greatest amount of 'lasting value' - you only need to look at the numerous existing works that are around, and how much pleasure people derive from them, to see that. Even if you are o
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Surely a lot of these problems would be solved by having a 'backing ceiling' - once this amount is reached, that's it, no more pledges accepted. It seems to me this would stimulate funding (so people feel they won't 'miss out') and also avo
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by mb_72 14y ago
Unless teaching programming or some web design work is taking a huge amount of time each week, there's no reason cooking or first-aid can't be taught as well. However, cooking is one thing that is not likely to be taught; the use of knives
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I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia there is an 'official' handicap tracking system already in existence: http://www.golflink.com.au/index.aspx?from=menu To the best of my knowledge, every registered club golfer is allocat
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Signed up as 'patient' (with UC), and am looking forward to contributing (both as patient and with site feedback if you like also).
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I'm someone that uses rain / rain + thunder / waves on seashore sounds to help sleep - it's quite noisy where I live and these sounds mask outside interference - but I can't see myself moving away from the mp3 player (Cowon J3) solution I u
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by mb_72 14y ago
I am not sure there are many people who would be across the details of migration for all those three countries, and even then you might just get opinions, whereas you need facts. For Australia, my home country, start here: http://www.immi.
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by mb_72 14y ago
I disagree. If you want to program, program. If someone can't bluff / impress / negotiate their way into some kind of programming position - and they need 'a job' - then they are better off improving their skills or addressing whatever the
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When you are sitting and looking at a blank screen, why are you stuck? Is it a problem with comprehending the problem, or a problem with breaking it down? This is what works for me: 1) get general understanding of problem to solve 2) break
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... not when you check the price of a commercial licence. edit: found the email I was sent when asking Digia. 2995 EUR Windows Desktop only for a single developer, 4195 EUR for multiple o/s development; includes 12 months email support and
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http://spideroak.com/faq/ = cross-platform, client-side encryption / decryption note for clarify - not associated with Spideroak in anyway, just a happy home user (100GB) and I've introduced it at work (2GB free account). Considered and r
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And I, also, disagree. I'm using the Developer Express ORM, XPO, and it provides 'drop-in portability' between a range of databases. I've successfully run my small-mid scale app on three different backends - MS SQL, MySQl and Postgres - sim
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My g/f uses our ICS TF101 a lot (1-3 hrs each day), with no stability problems that I'm aware of. Can't see her go for a smaller screen though, as - like others - it's used as a laptop-replacement for the most part.
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It's not an either / or situation - it can be 'and'. I work from home 2-3 days a week, and I'm in the office the other days (and that includes days I do for 'credibility', i.e. I go in, say hi to everyone, work all day in my office, then sa
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'Letting you go' is the best way to balance being direct, and also being (somewhat sensitive), I think. Although the appropriateness of any phrase is related to context. One place I worked I was aware some people were about to be fired, and
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I think it's ok to take ideas and information as being somewhat independent from their creators. Bad people can produce good ideas, just as good people can produce bad ideas. I might feel very uncomfortable with Shockley's views on genetics
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"Of course, there’s nothing wrong with those things, and ephemeral delight might be good enough for some people, but I’m usually looking for something more out of my reading (in fact, I don’t read fiction at all any more)." I find this comm
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I am from Adelaide, but am currently in Estonia. :) I'll be back in Adelaide from January 2013 (wow, sounds ominous).
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Allow me to offer an opposing position. If you want to program, start doing that and don't accept a job doing anything else. Doctors don't accept nursing jobs and civil engineers don't dig holes. I have never employed people who have been '
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by mb_72 14y ago
Eh? Two options: 1) you leave your wifi unsecured intentionally, and are hence willing to have bandwidth 'stolen' OR 2) you use WEP (I know, I know) etc or MAC address limiting to restrict access Also, my modem's admin mode lists active con
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Welcome, and I believe you are thinking about this: http://www.deadmansswitch.net/
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Maybe the airlines don't realise how bad things are because no-one takes the time to tell them? Write up an email with constructive criticism and send it to their customer support people, web master, etc. It could be that no-one except for
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I am not in the exact same situation as you (I work as an independent developer and have several clients), but here's what I did - I made an agreement with a friend / previous business partner (who has similar development skills to me) that
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Certainly, one's early experience skews one's perceptions - I was 10 or 11 when I was 'non-technical', my friend is 35 (and, knowing her pretty well, her skills are definitely not in the coding area). Thanks for the tip, I'll pass it on to
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Sure you can do anything you want, but the better you are at something: a) the more enjoyable and rewarding it is for you AND b) the more efficiently you can generate something useful for others; with any activity, there is an opportunity c
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I think you've hit on something here. I came to start using ORMs after 10+ years of writing / optimising databases and SQL. When using an ORM (and most of my work is done with a probably not-well-known one, XPO from DevExpress) I'm aware of