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by sharpn 17y ago
Having worked in UK Banking I can only suggest you google phrases like eg. 'know your customer KYC regulations' and 'anti-money laundering AML' to see why Apple cannot send, and your bank cannot recieve, funds in the ficticious company name
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by sharpn 17y ago
Ah - I see, fair enough. Thanks.
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by sharpn 17y ago
Interesting, but I thought MySQL was Swedish, not Finnish?
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by sharpn 17y ago
If you found a cure for cancer and only put it on a website, maybe noone would find it. But if you also mentioned it to a few people (especially a doctor or cancer victim) then it would be featured in news articles, broadcast, tweeted etc
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by sharpn 17y ago
think that's where the phrase 'a spanner in the works' comes from too.
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by sharpn 17y ago
You have a point. But I think the sample is biased because of fame. A founder who goes from $0 to $10m is rags-to-riches by most definitions of the term, but goes largely unnoticed unless they seek fame - and many don't. Conversely, you c
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by sharpn 17y ago
You got screwed. The cash single fare is about double the incremental fare using an 'oyster' card.
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by sharpn 17y ago
Tokyo & Singapore both have excellent public transport networks (at least until around 11:30pm)
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by sharpn 17y ago
What I did (with fewer sticks): Copied whatever pdf files I found useful as a startup (example incorporation templates, cautionary tales, relevant essays, useful tips etc.) onto them & passed them on to whoever wanted them. Great feedba
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by sharpn 17y ago
I agree he's not in a good place & I empathise. But the awkward fact is that his work is lowering in value because of greater transparacy, not because of a decrease in worth. There are several good UK writers earning decent money via ne
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by sharpn 17y ago
I didn't go to either so I don't know. But in a previous job I hired programer grads from both & found them all excellent (& much better than Harvard - but nb. tiny sample size). I strongly recommend you make some connections in Lon
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by sharpn 17y ago
Yes, there are. But if your living is content, then ignoring developments in your industry is a failure to engage in your career - and if you blithely blame others for the result of that failing in print then you diminish your authority
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by sharpn 17y ago
Sadly not. I'm British & this guy is not joking. His 'career' is making unobservant remarks about his life for a newspaper. The internet has opened up what he does to comparison & he is discovering that the market places a low value
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by sharpn 17y ago
One approach you can use: If you're working 1.8x fair rate, work out what 0.8x your salary is & imagine you were an investor with this sum to put to work - how much equity would you require? That's a starting base for your negotiation.
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by sharpn 17y ago
The data isn't secret, but commercial access to the database is restricted. If you want to find a few postcodes (I think <=5 per day) it's free. More, or if you want a manipulatable copy of the dataset you need to pay.
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by sharpn 17y ago
I don't know what that means, but I did think this was a brilliant marketing post from a company, and an interesting read.
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by sharpn 17y ago
Good point - I can't find anything twitter does better for me than my current behaviour, but if others do then that's great; I might find a use for it in future.
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by sharpn 17y ago
I liked this on a few different levels: -Hacking data to reveal the answers to important difficult questions. -Exploring contentious issues in a neutral & intelligent way. -Great example of how to attract potential customers by providin
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by sharpn 17y ago
Yes they are: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/lic...
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by sharpn 17y ago
Interesting. However, I would note what they do: "Through storytelling and technology, we helps brands engage the connected culture" And that they are 'sponsored' by Microsoft. I can't find anything on the site explicitly distancing the blo
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by sharpn 17y ago
I can't find it, but there was a guy doing the same thing (but with .doc as well as pdf) about a year ago on here. I think he had some sort of monthly subscription option as well as a 'per-use' fee. Try finding out how he got on. [edit] Thi
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by sharpn 17y ago
Good luck asking authors to identify which parts of their book can be safely ignored. Seriously - if you're coding then that is what you should be concentrating your attention on. Listen to an audiobook while you're cooking, exercising or w
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by sharpn 17y ago
Assuming their answers are all honest & display competence, I've found that the quality of questions a candidate asks are a better long-term indicators of likely success.
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by sharpn 17y ago
for me, signal < noise.
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The intellectual contradiction of Google Voice(blogs.ft.com)
1 points by sharpn 17y ago|0 comments
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Google easter eggs(telegraph.co.uk)
15 points by sharpn 17y ago|9 comments
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by sharpn 17y ago
I agree the mail is terrible, and as other comments have said it's no secret (try googling 'dry baltic index' for business news stories on the topic). But besides that, this article is far above the mail's usual standard.
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by sharpn 17y ago
I guess the author hit 'replace all' when editing in the word 'Christmas' somewhere: "You used to look Christmas from here straight over to Indonesia..."
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by sharpn 17y ago
http://code.google.com/apis/finance/ I expect yahoo has something similar.
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by sharpn 17y ago
Good point - I think of this as the difference between a pupil (absorbs instruction) and a scholar (seeks knowledge).

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