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by strongai 10y ago
I was the same with soccer. Poor motor skills etc. Fortunately, I was saved by rugby at secondary school where despite my physical uncoordination, I was keen and could tackle hard. As soon as I got into the rugby team, all the bullying stop
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by strongai 10y ago
I regret choosing an elite university (Oxford) and its ultra-generic Engineering course, rather than a more specific course in say, electronics or even maths but at a less prestigious institution. I came out with a paper-thin knowledge of a
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by strongai 10y ago
The 'x for y' metaphor is actually a well-respected positioning technique in strategic marketing. You want your product or service to occupy a place in a prospective customer's mind. The easiest way to do that is to place it
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by strongai 10y ago
Dribbles
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by strongai 10y ago
It's the hostility that would kill me.
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by strongai 10y ago
Sorry old.lag@gmail.com
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by strongai 10y ago
Pure curiosity - is this for an 8 hour day? or 10? or more? Just wondering what the downsides are to working for a bank.
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by strongai 10y ago
Shoot me an email (see profile). Medium sized company - analytics, financial services, other interesting data science stuff. Offices in London and elsewhere :-) I'll help steer you to our HR people and if you're successful, will r
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by strongai 10y ago
Senior technical author. I freelanced from 2004-2013. My very first London contract in 2004 was at £350 a day. Nowadays, it's crazy bad - anything from £200 to £400, maybe £450 if your domain knowledge is spot on. And Google - I'm
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by strongai 10y ago
For what it's worth, I was never excited by starfighter because of its trading/markets premise - simple as that. It just doesn't float my boat. The entire proposition sounded far too much like real work. Game? Surely not.
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by strongai 10y ago
A solution fixes a business problem and can have both product and service elements.
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by strongai 10y ago
Ah. I hate these kind of puzzles!
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by strongai 10y ago
Hats off to all those sci-fi stories that described future aircraft as enclosed by glowing silhouettes of various colors. We're living in the future :0)
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by strongai 10y ago
Corilla looks very promising. Any plans to allow publishing outside of the Corilla platform? For me, it's one of my must-haves.
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by strongai 11y ago
Port Talbot is my home town. I left many years ago but still keep in touch and visit occasionally. Everyone is directly or indirectly connected to the steelworks. My father worked in steel, my brother still does, and even I did for a gap ye
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by strongai 11y ago
Yes it is. I believe the usage comes from the days when calling them 'personnel' was deemed creepy!
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by strongai 11y ago
Thanks for the intel re the London DO datacentre. I'm glad it's not just me :-)
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by strongai 11y ago
I just submitted mine. The job looks attractive for a techie who likes writing. Mind you, I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of big blue sitting there in the background, metastasizing its woes everywhere.
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by strongai 11y ago
UK-based full-time employed tech writer here. Been shaping my experience towards that magic 50% programming (Java, JavaScript, Python) and 50% writing. Current gig pays well but doesn't offer the amount of programming I would like. I&#
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by strongai 11y ago
I have always wondered why there isn't more tech sector investment in (South) Wales. Low cost of living, good transport links, a fantastic outdoors scene (e.g. world class mountain biking) and strong links with academia. I would choose
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by strongai 11y ago
Like you said, examples would be [are] really useful!
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by strongai 11y ago
Being 47 (I'm older!) gives you a perspective that younger folks simply don't have. How many SV startups are targeting people a few decades beyond their teens?
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by strongai 11y ago
This looks fantastic! Please could you write some words aimed at potential recruits to qbix? What to expect, what not to expect. I noticed, in scanning your site quickly (... I think all content should bear the 'scanning user' in
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by strongai 11y ago
Heh. We were there in the summer vacation to boost our flying hours on Bulldogs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Aviation_Bulldog . I had joined the cadets relatively recently and so, as it happened, my first so
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by strongai 11y ago
While on summer camp as a university cadet in the early 1980s, I was fortunate to fly (as a passenger, of course) in the training variant of the Lightning from Binbrook, in Lincolnshire, one of their operational bases. It has always been ha
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by strongai 11y ago
Indeed. In my UK primary school in the 1960s, 'Mental Arithmetic' was a distinct curriculum subject.
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by strongai 11y ago
We've been obsessed with this for some time. In the 1990s, Prograph CP/X was ahead of the pack in this space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph I haven't tried it, but I was pleased to see that ther
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by strongai 11y ago
One route would be to explore opportunities for 'pre-sales' roles. Essentially, you'd be the technical go-to person for a customer evaluation of a software/hardware solution. The wider process would be managed by a sales
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by strongai 11y ago
I'm sure it can't have escaped the attention of the defense lawyers.
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by strongai 11y ago
More here (trying to unbury it - sorry mods): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386335 This story is extremely relevant to the general discourse here, and I am interested in peoples opinions. No dog in the fight, but I

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