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by shubb 13y ago
What worked for me might not be the things that work for you. For me the following were useful: -I worked with a 'life coach', and I guess we did something like CBT. I'd be a bit embarrassed to tell my friends but it was very
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by shubb 13y ago
I had a major problem with this back at college. I'd read articles about how to study, or focus, instead of focusing and studying. The problem, clear in hindsight, was that actually hitting the books revealed how little I knew. Which i
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm expecting social networks to be used 'voluntarily' for insurance soon. Likely the no social network quote will be higher, because it's higher risk because it's based on less information. So you get a quote throu
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by shubb 13y ago
Props for opencagedata.com! It's fairly easy (days work) to set up a Geoserver web map server to provide the data you need as a Web Map Service. You could use parent's data. People should note the GetFeatureInfo interface that WM
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by shubb 13y ago
As far as I've seen, the main users of FPGAs are developers eventually targeting ASICs. A video codec or whatever might first be implemented in C++, then 'translated' to verilog and tested thoroughly on an FPGA. Having solved
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by shubb 13y ago
This is a publicity stunt sure. But a lot of people develop amazing things that make a lot of money, without actually benefiting from that money. For instance, if you work for GSK, and lead a team that discovers the next Penicillin, GSK mak
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by shubb 13y ago
Oh I'm not complaining. 2 of my colleagues just went on security training, so I think we have enough 'security experts' right now. I'd be more likely to get an android course.
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by shubb 13y ago
I think this is just due to the form of a news article. "The mistake was made by IBM Technical expert Julia Smith, 38, from Palm Springs, Colorado. Julia, who graduated from Stanford in 2001 was described by neighbors as serious and ca
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by shubb 13y ago
I think your price is reasonable for people that will get a good return from this, and not for people that won't. I'm not going to get a raise from doing the course, and my employer is not going to pay out for it, so I'd like
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by shubb 13y ago
It does put China's insistence on a local internet, surrounded by a 'fire wall', and serviced by local companies, in a very different perspective doesn't it.
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by shubb 13y ago
That's interesting. A crowd equity site doesn't exist in the UK, so I presume it is a regulatory problem, but crowd loans to businesses sites do. I wonder if a specialist 'loans to businesses' site could loan to businesses that have not sta
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by shubb 13y ago
£600'000, which is normally VC territory. To my mind there is a reason for that - kickstarter allows people who really want a thing to exist to pay the amount that thing is worth to them, and then get it. No computer game is worth $10'000 j
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by shubb 13y ago
1. My job requires software engineering skills more than compsci skills, i.e. designing a program in UML, or writing elegant code is important, but most actual algorithms are pre-implimented, e.g. container classes implement sorting. 2. Big
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by shubb 13y ago
But competitively is the word. They can attract software engineers at those low wages, therefore they are competitive. This seems strange to me, as it takes a few years for someone to get good at software (the supply is constricted), and wh
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by shubb 13y ago
Not that it makes the Start screen any less wierd, but win+W keys open up search for settings, without having to press down at the end.
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by shubb 13y ago
Yes, I didn't mean to say employers should filter by qualification. For the first 3 years of your career, they just do. Then after that, HR appear to filter by previous job title, hoping to see career progression and a similar title previou
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by shubb 13y ago
This bar sounds really very high. I read things like this a lot, but it doesn't match up with what I see. No employer has ever asked me for a github address, or a list of open source commits. I put github on my CV via a goo.gl url last time
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by shubb 13y ago
Wow, here is the conversation this blog is about [1]. I'm horrified. Not so much that this guy wants his 'friend' to suddenly start acting like an anonymous jobseeker, in order to get work he is being offered for being a 'friend'. No, I'm j
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by shubb 13y ago
Actually, reading this, I can see your point. It's all very well to say 'other people can test this out', but the possible consequences are pretty bad. Thanks. As I say, I'm waiting a year before having anything to do with this. But I hope
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by shubb 13y ago
Well, if in a year, it hasn't gone horribly wrong, then he's produced something people can eat for a year without great ill effect. Someone will eat this for a year, so we will find out. Most of it's demo will eat it about 50% of the time,
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by shubb 13y ago
I suspect we won't get the recipe now either. It's a commercial venture, and more power to him. If this concept proves out, I'm hoping we can make an opensource alternative.
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm sitting this one out for a year. I expected Rob to run longer and more detailed trails than it appears he has. As in a few hundred people eating nothing but Soylent for a year. There will be problems with the initial manufacture, and he
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by shubb 13y ago
This would look to me most useful as a sort of C++ replacement, for systems programming. It has a nice big Standard Libary[1], and seems to have good tools for using compiled libaries, and generally interop with C++[2], which would be impor
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by shubb 13y ago
Good spot
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by shubb 13y ago
The official PDF tube maps are pretty bad. I don't know what they did to the PDFs but they take 3 seconds to render on my modern laptop, and do not work with some opensource readers. Try it yourself[1]. I'd be more likely to refer to this m
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by shubb 13y ago
A bit late, but http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/aindex.html
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by shubb 13y ago
Tax in the UK makes me very sad. For businesses big and small, and for individuals like me, it's a huge burden. A lot of business owners in my town have been forced out of business by local taxes. They lose business to charity shops, which
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by shubb 13y ago
Look into Quantum GIS. It's an opensource tool that will let you do what you want (and more). A fair bit more flexible than Google Earth. Most geographic charts and images are in formats that include a locations/scale/alignment. Mixing diff
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by shubb 13y ago
I find the maps they make really pretty, but the technical stuff doesn't quite deserve the hype. This seems like blue marble, which NASA did in 2005 (and every month since). That said it should yield a dataset with twice the resolution of B
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by shubb 13y ago
I started off really hating windows 8, but it turns out you are supposed to use the 'start screen' like gnome 3. I.e. you hit meta-key, then start typing - 'fir'. At this point, Firefox is the only thing on the screen. Hit enter. You do the

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