oliyoung

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by oliyoung 11y ago
I get the sense that CA is a whole different world than the rest of the planet, makes sense really
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Pleasure :) This "our current client has expressed a willingness to run their CRM system side-by-side with our product as we launch and develop. " is really important, partner with a guinea pig firm so you can learn on the ground
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Desktops for most fee-earners are locked down tight, there's little room to move with new software. Phones are still considered personal so you'll have more freedom
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by oliyoung 11y ago
I've spent a couple of years in the legal tech industry and this looks like a cool solution, in a lucrative market that are willing to spend A LOT of money on IT solutions but I'd keep in mind - Your customers will be running a ce
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Terrifying, amazing but terrifying.
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Plastic instruments, motion controllers, Power Gloves™ … it could be a fad (I don't think it will be) but I think the collective excitement about a “revolutionary new gaming interface" has been burnt too many times and people ar
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Not the first step, this was the first step https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
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by oliyoung 11y ago
“The best way for kids to learn to be hackers is on their hardware, free from school or parental controls“ That's why I think the Raspberry Pi et al are so important, they're disposable yet fully capable pieces of hardware that ki
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by oliyoung 11y ago
try http://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Also relevant http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/taxpaye... Security isn't a strong point with these people, which is amazing for a portal that has literally every relationship you have with
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by oliyoung 11y ago
That was my point, it took cashing out shares to be able to afford there … (source: home owner in Adelaide)
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by oliyoung 11y ago
“Scott Farquhar said some employees would be able to buy a house“ To be fair, it is Sydney ;)
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not ;)
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ahead? This 3d representation of computer operations has been a staple of “hacker” movie art direction since the 80's. Tron, WarGames, Jurassic Park.
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Yep. You should never ever be on the critical path 1. If you don't deliver and you hold up the schedule, you lose authority as a leader because really … if you can't, then you can't expect others. 2. You WILL be diverted to o
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by oliyoung 11y ago
IPython seems really uniquely Python, does a similar “live documentation” tool exist for other languages? I get that Python's usage/culture produces amazing tools like this, but is there anything unique about the language that sto
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The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined(theregister.co.uk)
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by oliyoung 11y ago
You can change the order (and availability of) Spotlight results in the System Prefs http://imgur.com/iElMwe7
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Looks like there's critical infrastructure in us-east-1 that's broken and causing a ripple effect across all of AWS Our platform is entirely hosted in ap-southeast-2 but we've had our EC2 instances deregistered and OpsWorks r
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by oliyoung 11y ago
These guys (ie Verge) are going to have a really really tough time when iOS9 lands https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
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by oliyoung 11y ago
"you know that you could throw everything away" To be fair, that's like 99% of all hackathons I've been to
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Story is "better" with this related tweet https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/616360772478722048
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"they" did, it's called Medium (it was founded by @biz & @ev)
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by oliyoung 11y ago
as another comment said "If you want a good reddit experience do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators." r/hiphopheads, r/nba and r/comicbooks are great
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by oliyoung 11y ago
Hired a guy who took himself halfway around the world to crash-course in dev for 3 months after graduating a science degree. Absolutely would hire again. Not just because he's damned skilled for a "junior" but the commitment
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Not just FIFA, the IOC aren't exactly squeaky clean either
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Getting my football nerd hat on … The WC qualifiers, Copa América and Gold Cup are international competitions, the USA Men's National Team (as they're called) participates in the WCQ and Gold Cup, although why the Copa América is
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by oliyoung 11y ago
This is why (from the NYT) "Indictment cites bribes, kickbacks related to * WC qualifications in Concacaf; * Gold Cup and Concacaf Champions League * Copa América * Copa Libertadores." The USA or American owned teams participated
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by oliyoung 11y ago
> booed by just about everyone in the stadium It, like these arrests, are a wonderful thing to the majority of the football world. Unpopular doesn't go far enough to describe the disdain that the football "community" feels
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It's that plus the commercial aspects. We (Australia) almost investigated FIFA for the same reasons (the 18/22 World Cup Bids), but we don't have the financial leverage to do anything about it.

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