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by vickytnz 13y ago
Pretty sure they're using the McDonalds techniques of subtly edging people out. They ain't doing that by accident….
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by vickytnz 13y ago
As someone who occasionally does spend a few hours in a cafe writing (I'm doing my PhD and it stops me going mad), what's the fair payoff? Sit at a small table and buy a decent coffee (i.e. a latte rather than a cheap filter coffe
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by vickytnz 13y ago
As they note, the traffic from HN has meant that their main page isn't a full list. There's dozens when you look at the UK category http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Reading this, this is perhaps comparable to getting university education: you are losing money, but you get some interesting experiences to set you up for later. That said, in an age of free internships and similar, I hope this isn't d
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by vickytnz 13y ago
He does say "until my startup takes off". I don't think this is really that much different from the kid who kept sneaking into a big corp's office (was it YCombinator?) and sleeping under a table in a sleeping bag until he got caught. He's
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I mean in general, there are about 500 responses there. You can get permalinks for all of them. (After doing a lot of page refreshes—and seeing a lot of amazing stories from interning at the Swedish Defence centre to being inspired by Glori
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I had a discussion with someone about learning Dutch, as I know many foreigners there who learn to understand it but never speak it as they get spoken back to in English. One suggestion put up was that the Dutch never get people speaking th
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by vickytnz 13y ago
You know about this site, right? http://ilearnedtoprogram.com/
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by vickytnz 13y ago
My favourite example of what seems like talent actually being a damn lot of work: Derek Silver's 15 years of vocal training that took him from a mediocre singer to a the type of one that people would say 'had a gift' http://sivers.org/15-y
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by vickytnz 13y ago
:) Where were you originally from (rough area if you don't want to be too specific)? As much as I'd like to move back home I fear I've been spoilt by living in the UK to expect cheap and plentiful internet, great public transport, and loads
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Are you a foreigner working in the US? How did you get a work permit?
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Yeah, savvy companies are getting away from the annoying "RT every nice thing people say about my company" with 'fave it and then point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Hostgator does this well: http://twitter.com/hostgator/
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by vickytnz 13y ago
I moved to Chrome just to be able to see PDFs in browser. Lots of websites have info that way (restaurants are the worst) and I don't want to get it saved on my computer just to have to delete it!
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Slightly OT: but I've always loved how Finns are so direct in their writing and speech (yet also able to be really funny at the same time). I suspect that it might have something to do with their famously small alphabet, but it always comes
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Yes, my former work were very clear with our clients about this (usually Drupal as this was a couple of years ago): "we use open source because it means that if you decide you don't want to work with us any more, you're not locked in and ca
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by vickytnz 13y ago
Conversely, the difference is that women are incentivised just as much as men to apply and be accepted as (in the UK at least) it's tied to research outcomes. At least one other article has made the point that conference organisers should a
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by vickytnz 13y ago
And, of course, you're contributing to a greater good (particularly with new references). And learn how to reference. [Proud Wikimedian]
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by vickytnz 14y ago
The whole open source eco-system has similar things e.g. Drupal books and so-so online documentation (I can attest to this one), Joomla, WP …. Books are much like doing workshops, they're a shortcut for those who are prepared to pay rather
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by vickytnz 14y ago
I hate to be that person, but I'd have liked some of those testimonials to include music students and teachers.
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yep, the death was unfortunate (photographer goes back for his gear and doesn't come back). Still, a lot of us Kiwis are still angry at what happened afterwards (France plays hard ball and gets the agents on a French Atoll and then back to
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Hmm, this is basically pointing out that power users take the time to learn the craft and make shortcuts. I learned all this stuff not because of Starcraft but because mousing around a 21" screen (which was amazing back in 2007) started giv
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Funnily enough, today there was a piece on Jezebel (I know, it's my guilty pleasure) "We’ve Seen the Future, and You’re Freelancing" http://jezebel.com/5993227/weve-seen-the-future-and-youre-fr...
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by vickytnz 14y ago
I think that this has to come from both directions: 1. Remember those silly class codes of conduct we had to do at the beginning of each school year? Bring something like that back at the beginning of each conference. OK, not quite that che
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by vickytnz 14y ago
That is interesting. Or in particular, when you get to the pages that actually spell out how it works http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Tips_and... (that landing page is somewhat nebulous, it takes a little digging to fi
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by vickytnz 14y ago
As someone who's being involved with wikedit days (e.g. for Women in Science) and also in academia, I think this was a typical 'good idea, terrible execution'. The washup from 2011 noted that not many people did it, and those that did weren
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yeah, the official title on Wikipedia (or at present is) "Class of 1700 students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism. Response from prof is accusation of illegal behaviour by editors" link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%
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by vickytnz 14y ago
You need to think of the context of that logo, which was, what, 30 years ago? The arrow meant speed in a time when post (hell, pretty much everything) was slow. And visual jokes such as this were still pretty new. It's like saying The Beatl
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yes, the real rule here is 'breaking the rules for a landing page . The author hasn't noted that his site is a one page site. I suspect that when he adds any extra pages the logo will appear back at the top again. Actually, I'd argue that
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by vickytnz 14y ago
I did Code Year and was pretty critical of it (I've blogged about it but won't spam here!), particularly as it got less and less immediately practical over the course of the year and spent the last 3 months doing Python (which was bad enoug
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Recruiter: How many years of Rails experience do you have? DHH: ALL OF THEM https://gist.github.com/dhh/1285068

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