nicwise

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by nicwise 13y ago
I'm out of my depth in more than one way here. How about rigging a bite switch to the ubikey (either directly or via something like a raspberry pi / beagle bone). That's assuming that the only issue with the ubikey is you pre
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by nicwise 13y ago
He's in the UK. We have health covered. He would have to have liability insurance tho, but it's not expensive (£300/year)
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by nicwise 13y ago
Exactly. Freelancing has a lot more control, but less money, and you bid on jobs like an agency would. Contracting is basically a full time job, but you own the company, can claim expenses / equipment / etc, and otherwise, it works like a n
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by nicwise 13y ago
I think a lot of people, especially @jangosteve, mistake freelancing for contracting. I've been in London for 6 years, I've contracted for 5 of those (architect position at the BBC was "only available is it was full time". In hind sight, I
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by nicwise 13y ago
I'm calling BS on this, being a contractor. I spend around 10 mins a week invoicing. Nearly no time "marketing myself". I DO spending a bit of time saying "no, I have a contract" to recruiters tho.
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by nicwise 13y ago
If you live in London and do software for a salary, you better LOVE what you are doing and where you are doing it, 'cos you aint doing it for the money. You might want to also ask daily rates for contractors... most of the salary rates I've
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by nicwise 14y ago
Well, THIS is going to bring on the haters. (keep in mind, microsoft haters, that microsoft is currently a HUGE proponent of node.js - a lot of the Azure Mobile Services and the like are built on node)
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Whats an option and why is Apple's stock price at $500 (no conspiracy theories)(fastchicken.co.nz)
1 points by nicwise 14y ago|0 comments
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C# is dead (again). Long live C#.(fastchicken.co.nz)
1 points by nicwise 14y ago|0 comments
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The case for an AppleTV Transmitter(fastchicken.co.nz)
1 points by nicwise 14y ago|0 comments
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by nicwise 14y ago
Yup, thats exactly what Monotouch does. It's something like: C# -> IL -> Mono AOT* -> ARM binary -> xcode/LLVM -> normal iOS binary * AOT = ahead of time compiler - like JIT, but... before it's needed. There is a linker
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by nicwise 14y ago
C# can "go native" right now. NGEN precompiles the IL into native code if you use the normal framework. Mono AOT compiles (and links) code into various architectures, but MonoTouch and Mono for Android ( http://xamarin.com ) would be the ma
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by nicwise 14y ago
Mostly a discussion topic, tho with a workable flow (assuming I didn't miss anything stupid).
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Mobile-Initiated payments: a possible solution (maybe)(fastchicken.co.nz)
1 points by nicwise 14y ago|1 comments
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Passbook and NFC(fastchicken.co.nz)
7 points by nicwise 14y ago|2 comments
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by nicwise 14y ago
I've got a little rebuttal to this here: http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/2012/05/11/so-many-straw-men-so... You have a good point, but mostly, I think it's a strawman argument.