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by robotmay 13y ago
Yeah Birmingham seems to have become quite trendy, especially around the Jewellery Quarter too. Cardiff hasn't quite hit the expensive end yet, and there are a number of decent little galleries cropping up with craft work, which is gre
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by robotmay 13y ago
It's a great break from programming. You get to destroy something (which is stress relieving after dealing with client work ;) ) and create something (which is satisfying) at the same time. Plus a spoon is a practical object, and it ce
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by robotmay 13y ago
It's a nice fantasy to have, and maybe if I work hard in tech for a while I'll have the money to kick back and do something totally different. Painting is something I always wanted to be good at, but I'm awful at it. Lot of r
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by robotmay 13y ago
Hehe, about 0.21 BTC at current prices (£15). I need to get around to making a little online shop at some point; I'm currently trying to increase my speed to make that price at least slightly profitable. I make them a lot in my spare t
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by robotmay 13y ago
I've been feeling very similarly recently. Most people here in the UK don't understand or care about the privacy issues being revealed. I'm just one very small fish in a big ocean of ignorance. And frankly; I'd like to b
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by robotmay 13y ago
I've had so many issues with PayPal that it's just unreal. First up, they have something like 10 separate API interfaces for taking payments. Second, the documentation is -terrible-. We implemented one of the APIs (can't reme
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by robotmay 13y ago
It is well documented but they use a lot of terminology which makes it annoyingly obscure, and the control panel is very confusing if you don't know any accountancy vocab. There are far simpler alternatives which cost less and do the s
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by robotmay 13y ago
Well I've worked with pretty much every provider available in the UK, so here are some brief opinions on the bigger ones: PayPal: Awful, API changes regularly without warning (including changing parameter names for no apparent reason)
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by robotmay 13y ago
I actually did some (simplistic) examples of this in a small presentation to illustrate the performance improvements of batching memcached requests, if anyone's interested: https://speakerdeck.com/robotmay/a-simple
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by robotmay 13y ago
I actually have the opposite problem on https://www.photographer.io/en/photographs/explore . I liken it to the idea of rows vs. columns; Flickr and this are organised in rows, and Photographer.io/Pinterest etc
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by robotmay 13y ago
I've always liked beanstalkd, unfortunately it still has no authentication support so you're unlikely to see it catch on in the PaaS environments any time soon (unless someone hooks SASL into it).
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by robotmay 13y ago
I actually find that website almost entirely useless. A to-do list means nothing and demonstrates nothing useful. It has no associations between models and nothing particularly complex. I have tried so many of these frameworks and found cri
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by robotmay 13y ago
Mine started randomly shutting itself down a couple of weeks ago. A factory reset seems to have abated it for now, but I'm constantly worried that it's going to happen again.
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by robotmay 13y ago
Is this so uncommon though? Ever since I was in school I've felt like the rare nerd who actually liked other people and wasn't a colossally negative dilweed. They pervade all aspects of our industry and culture, from grumpy neckbe
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by robotmay 13y ago
Yeah charcoal can burn really slowly for a really long time. Hell a wood fire will happily burn through the night too, but it's normally a bit more obvious due to the smoke it chucks off.
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by robotmay 13y ago
I'm generally pretty astounded by how many people end up killing themselves or others this way every year. It's a fire, don't stick it inside your highly flammable tent. Fires and things in which you've had a fire should
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by robotmay 13y ago
I'm not too sure. I see a lot of people these days, and unfortunately even kids, becoming hooked on quick fixes; pay-to-win games, AAA games with 10-hour single-player campaigns, and pretty much all mobile games. I gave a copy of Pokem
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by robotmay 13y ago
Takes a while to load (Firefox Dev) but it's really nice when it does!
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by robotmay 13y ago
If you're in the UK they can be picked up pretty cheaply from surplus stores, and no doubt online too. There must be some consumer-grade ones knocking about too which might be worth a shot if you're not sure if it'll work or
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by robotmay 13y ago
I wish there was an OpenWRT firmware for my Billion 7800N. Apart from the pretty naff firmware it's an excellent router. Just wish it had OpenVPN support :\
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Photographer.io v1.1.0 released, now has a modicum of documentation.(blog.photographer.io)
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by robotmay 13y ago
Here's an article they published previously about the use of stereoscopic photographs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13359064 Also has a few nice little interviews/videos tied in to it, and there was a f
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Photographer.io now has beta Dutch and Polish language support(blog.photographer.io)
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by robotmay 13y ago
Unfortunately neither can I! I'm sure they had one when DuckDuckHack was first announced but the docs have changed a lot since then.
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by robotmay 13y ago
Their introduction to Perl and documentation for it is really quite handy for someone coming from another language. I wrote a plugin in Perl without any previous knowledge of it and it only took an evening. And as it turns out I quite like
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by robotmay 13y ago
I've been using 'cmus' recently, which is pretty decent. Far less issues with pulseaudio than with a lot of the other players.
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by robotmay 13y ago
Glad you like it! Make sure to let me know of any problems you find or ideas you have; I love getting feedback on it :)
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by robotmay 13y ago
ZoHo Mail isn't bad, I've been using that instead of Google Apps at the moment. Ideally I want to switch to my own server but I never relish the thought of setting one up.
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by robotmay 13y ago
Thanks for the Photographer.io mention! I was about to deploy Dutch and Polish language support when I noticed the traffic rolling in, so I'll be leaving that for a few hours now in case I break it. If anyone has any questions about pr
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by robotmay 13y ago
Still waiting for the Linux client, but once that's about I'm going to give it a proper go.

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