robashton2

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by robashton2 9y ago
I find it bizarre that the original blog entry was seen to be blaming the technology, quite the inverse in fact.
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by robashton2 12y ago
Jees, what is your issue seriously? It's all just a bit of fun; there is no need to get directly insulting over it.
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by robashton2 12y ago
I got loads of time for that, but I've also suffered at the hands of MSBuild as have thousands of others so the PR seemed like a funny troll at the time. Seriously - I remember at one client there was a specific machine set up to edit
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by robashton2 12y ago
Absolutely nothing, it was as relevant as the pull request itself.
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by robashton2 12y ago
I can't see this ending anything other than in a positive way
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The Charlie Foxtrot aka TechEd(goodenoughsoftware.net)
3 points by robashton2 13y ago|0 comments
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by robashton2 13y ago
"then they'll get on that stuff and make it happen providing they have some similar experience and you have an in-house knowledge pool for them to draw on." <-- some similar experience is probably another way of saying tha
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by robashton2 13y ago
Maybe - I can't help but feel you're all putting C on a pedestal though - thinking you're immune from memory management issues because you're not using C seems a bit weird. I feel confident that if I was asked to do C at
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by robashton2 13y ago
Yeah, it didn't see that important - the internet is quite a good place for doing things like this - thanks to Twitter and other places where people share things the calendar was booked up for 6 months within a couple of weeks
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by robashton2 13y ago
Sure - but I'd be earning money to cover them :)
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by robashton2 13y ago
Perhaps I miswrote, I lost a lot of money doing this - expenses were travel and finding me somewhere to live, everything else in life costs a lot of money which came from my own account.
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by robashton2 13y ago
I found my jobs by writing a blog entry, the Internet did the rest for me - pretty boring really :)
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by robashton2 13y ago
Considering how much it usually costs to hire a contractor, this really is free. If you win tickets to a concert you still have to pay to get there, but the tickets are still free. Paying a couple hundred quid to hire me for two weeks is fr
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by robashton2 14y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much it - I don't really want to keep dozens of domain names and DNS entries for pet projects lying around when they're only going to get 10 hits a day and the code is all available :-)
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by robashton2 14y ago
Hey, I noticed the traffic spike and came to say hello. The thing about a chatroom and load, is that your server is effectively just message passing, and if there is any CPU spike, that is all it is - a spike, which VPSs for the most part