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by rjd 15y ago
I know where you are coming from, I tripped over the REST aspects of the MVC framework recently. Found it rather difficult to have the same end points, couldn't have JSON, XML, form data going to the same URL. I almost walked away from the
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by rjd 15y ago
I've had a few friends and myself go through this. What generally happens is Google flounders and fails. They are extraordinarily bad at launching products and even worse at building momentum. Kind of like Microsoft really... I guess its so
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by rjd 15y ago
The latest Groupon thing I had was a guy who came to with an idea of filling orders. People vote on what they want to do and then companies could see the customer interest and fill the order. He had a mechanism in place that would have a gr
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by rjd 15y ago
People wasting my time with stupid ideas. The amount of Groupon clones I've had come in front of me with "a special twist that will take the market by storm" is ridiculous.
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by rjd 15y ago
Completely rubbish article. His analysis is flawed left right and centre. Not that I'm probably much better but heres my take on his points: 1) The Zune failed because Apple controlled the price of hardware. A Zune was more expensive than a
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by rjd 15y ago
I think mine would need an R18 rating when I go into swearing fits at the .net framework and permission issues :P
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by rjd 15y ago
You can buy commercial set ups that do this, but they don't have daylight bulbs, which is how I got the idea to do it to my tank. I used all off the shelf products. The first step was an electric wall socket timer. You can pick these up at
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by rjd 15y ago
Kind of off topic but I did some thing years ago that worked great for sleep. I had a tropical fish tank, kinda large few metres long. I can sleep quite soundly to the sound of running water, intact I find it relaxing. I have bad tinitus fr
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by rjd 15y ago
Awesome thank you so much for reply, its high appreciated :) I'd blame my misspelling on OSX's new autocorrection feature, but I suspect it was me as I pronounce it closure :O
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I was a little disappointed in the point where he said he rewrote it in 15 hours, and was 75% lighter code... and didn't explain why. Makes me think is think a few things... - the original code was bloated and needed a rewrite anyway, and
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by rjd 15y ago
Well from an outsider look I'd say the problem is the majority of businesses are running Windows and have reasons not to move off Windows. Even basic reasons such as staff training. This from what I can tell is addressing that issue. As for
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by rjd 15y ago
No science is historical a place of people working in poverty for the love of the job. I myself did a degree in Microbiology and started working at a research lab as an assistant. One thing caught me very quickly, people I worked with, some
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by rjd 15y ago
> Native Apps are here to stay because it is impossible to build a certain class of Apps in the web browser. Even current usages have issues. A few hours ago I decided I wanted to move a bunch of RSS feeds into Google Reader so I could
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by rjd 15y ago
Am I the only one who is amused by the irony of these guys? i.e. "lets use Javascript end to end", and then the very same people go and create a new language to replace said Javascript?
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by rjd 15y ago
On a personal level I find that its the IDE's that make the gains as opposed to the language. But its the statically type nature where the boons really kick in. When working with foreign code statically typed interrogation is amazing. For m
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by rjd 15y ago
I'll call bull sh/t on the whole test. I'd hazard a guess that learning a new language that is dynamic is easier than learning one that is static. Reason being dynamic languages are more forgiving to the new user. For this reason they are a
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The anomalous stuff just popped up in the team building stuff. They displayed the results and I wasn't normal, intact my results seemed like they might be completely wrong. At the time I was working for a large courier company, in an IT dep
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by rjd 15y ago
The fact is I shy the hell away form confrontation because creativity vs society problems has existed my entire life. As a kid I was treated really bad by there children. Teased constantly as ebign a weirdo because I thought differently, ph
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by rjd 15y ago
By that you mean authority level attached to the idea? thats what I've noticed, brilliant people without any authority get laughed at, and the converse people do what idiots command as they have the authority. Myself I'm somewhat of a creat
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by rjd 15y ago
Probably, I just had a look what I was currently running and noted them down. Could probably do with uninstalling it ;)
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by rjd 15y ago
I use a few plugins to handle this, check out: http://www.ghostery.com/ http://open-bits.com/shellfish/ http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ With ad block it cleans pages up like you wouldn't believe. Many sites actually bec
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeah I picked a nice cartography desk setup for $1 each a few years ago. People where just ditching them. I had one set up for standing, and a second set low for computer (so my rising chair could be used). Following all the rage around the
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by rjd 15y ago
Having lived in the UK a few times and having to go through the process of bank accounts and stuff, and a lot of friends who did the same, the problem usually isn't the bank. Its usually the case manager you get. My first account was with H
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by rjd 15y ago
The point is that Google pushing margins so low that returns are below production costs. And the way they manage to do that is by transferring funds to cover that loss. No one can compete with that unless they have a secondary market to cha
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Well I haven't seen them sacrificing children to Baphomet or anything, but I do believe they are ethical and morally in the wrong camp and have been for a few years now. They take money from one industry and use it to crush/undermine compet
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Its because the root motivation most people including myself see is that its about control. And things that try and control other things are evil. Years ago Google was a disruption force towards existing controlling organisations. Now Googl
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by rjd 15y ago
If I was in charge of the strategy of it I wouldn't monetise the app directly, I'd probably work on a click through model. Tempt people to open full articles laden with paid ads. Try and push targetted content. But alas the content on Zite
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep exactly the same boat as you. My heart sank a little when I read the head line, I hope the quality stays in place. I still use pulse for visual stuff and high traffic blogs (like engadget doign a hundred articles a day). But Zite was ri
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We're mixing things here a bit. Theres always merit in pushing and improving yourself, but the article was about putting in extra hours for other people, and the linked response was about over time being linked to bad process and decisions.
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I still think MS has the potential to be the biggest cellphone maker and tablet maker. But boy they have BBBBAAAADDDD marketing and advertising campaigns. They have the largest social networks under there belts Live (messenger+hotmail+xbox)

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