simon

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by simon 15y ago
Worked at a place that shall not be named, back before startups were hip and trendy. They had received capital funding from a local collective of business folks. Lots of bad use of the money and telling investors versions of the truth. I re
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by simon 15y ago
Some excellent points even for a non-maths guy like me. And I learned a new word: incunabulum.
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by simon 15y ago
A great book and one that I am reading diligently as I work up to re-entering the world of blogging. I stopped blogging half a dozen years ago as I was making no money and using plenty of time. This time I intend to manage the time aspect m
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by simon 15y ago
I agree. I just wanted to question your use of the term over-nourished. My understanding is that we are generally over-fed (myself included ... but now actively working on it) but woefully under-nourished. Jon Gabriel (sp?) teaches that mos
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by simon 15y ago
Upgrade your diet and then address the fitness. I followed the Slow Carb diet (from 4 Hour Body book) and then switched to the Warrior Diet. A total loss of 51 pounds as of this morning. (38 from SC & 13 from WD so far) Look at kettlebe
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by simon 15y ago
<soapbox> Good thing we've had all those recent discussions about not offending the too few ladies in our industry. And I guess the conference title should have a couple of swear words in it as well. Otherwise, how will anyone know
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by simon 15y ago
I grew up in a Navy town, so I had an extensive education in all manner of swear words. I doubt there are many that I have not heard. You young edgy guys have nothing on the British Royal Navy ... not even close. I've heard people swear up
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by simon 15y ago
I'd start with just leaving the word out. "This piece of software is useless." will most likely convey your point. Perhaps, if you wished to ramp up the emphasis, you could say that "this piece of software is totally useless." I also like t
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by simon 15y ago
"but it seems (as other commenters have pointed out) that there could be a real niche for techies to run a recruiting firm that know what they're talking about." I'd love to do that. What would such a company look like?
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by simon 15y ago
Yup. It's only too late if you don't want to do it in the first place. While I started programming at 13, I didn't become a pastor until age 40. I suppose I could have said that I was too old to add such a different activity to my life, but
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by simon 15y ago
DMR was one of my heroes. Rest In Peace Sir. I learned C from the first edition of K&R back in 1989 (iirc) on an Atari ST using the Sozobon C compiler. Happy memories (except for learning to combine pointers and loops and null terminate
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by simon 15y ago
Excellent advice from edw519. I only want to add that you are welcome to contact me (I'm a pastor and a programmer :-) if you need more help with the depression and suicidal thoughts. My contact information is in my profile. My startup is a
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by simon 15y ago
> I remember writing my first program on a Commodore Pet with 4K of RAM. 4K? Luxury! I started with 1K and that included the screen memory!
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by simon 15y ago
Another data point. I have had no problem with my existing links (1697 of them that all seem to be present), exporting said links and have had no problems logging in or using my existing id and password.
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by simon 20y ago
Thanks. I'll go back an re-read it carefully then. I admit that I stopped once I realised how old the article was.
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by simon 20y ago
The timestamp said that the article was written back in 2005. Does anyone have a feel for how much of it is still relevant?
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by simon 20y ago
This is a great book. All of the advice in t is either excellent or at least thought-provoking. Highly recommended. Now, that being said, I did order a dead tree version through the Lulu.com store (very nice store, by the way) and while I l
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by simon 20y ago
As a former employee of Lands' End, I can attest to the quality of their customer service. (The quality of the internal employee care is less good than it used to be, since back when I started there in 1998, but I could just be bitter after