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by vickytnz 14y ago
I was not impressed with Codeyear last year for this exact reason (and I did it with coding skills; I just did it for interest to fill in any gaps as I'm self taught). What started as JS then moved to HTML/CSS (fair enough, they do relate t
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Am I the only person somewhat confused by the site at present? It feels as if they're trying to muscle in on TC/Wired/Netmag … yet I don't know what exactly I'm reading as of yet.
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Oh, and to add to my own comment, I'd also say you could swap out "depression" to "ongoing medical condition". Similar thing, it's fine if you manage it, if you don't things could get a whole lot worse (and other people will end up hating y
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Perhaps a better way of phrasing this is: suffering from depression? Don't do that startup unless you have a safety net (of course, that could apply to people without depression too). Hell, I'd say that applies to doing a PhD (I'm in one
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by vickytnz 14y ago
http://hackdesign.org/ is trying to cover this exact niche (I'm following along as a designer just out of curiosity, and it's pretty cool). Mark Boulton's A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web (Five Simple Steps) http://www.amazon.c
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by vickytnz 14y ago
This sort of stuff also ties into the whole 'fake geek girl'thing as well: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-g... Or, the pink ghetto: http://tarahunt.com/2011/09/14/a-pink-collar-tech-ghetto/
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by vickytnz 14y ago
One of the more famous incidents was the twitter backchannel for dana boyd's Web2.0 talk http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectac... (admittedly, she did have a talk that bombed, but that's still no excuse for the ang
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by vickytnz 14y ago
This stuff particularly applies to machinery: the horror stories about people getting hair and clothing caught in machinery or looking away for a second when using a bandsaw are always a reminder to be careful no matter how many times you'v
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yeah, and a key thing missing from these graphs is ease of movement. As far as I know, Australia is about the only country Kiwis can move to for work without requiring a visa, whereas the UK is getting stricter and stricter each year as it
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by vickytnz 14y ago
And if you must watch any season, watch Season 3 as it's them at their peak. (S2 is good, S1 fun but less clear voice as it uses a few Monty Python tricks, and S4 sadly their patchiest as they had guest stars forced on them.)
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by vickytnz 14y ago
If you look at who was speaking, the man who was trying to evangelise tech was a good example of that. In that respect, having a woman who was evangelising would be a good counterpoint. I'm not entirely sure of the point of the angle of a g
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by vickytnz 14y ago
"How Did a Statistical Programming Language Invented in New Zealand Become a Global Sensation?". Hmm, slightly condescending title—though I had no idea that it was invented by two academics at the University of Auckland (not "Aukland"!)
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by vickytnz 14y ago
As a casual observer (I'm not going to download the game as I have a lot of deadlines!), I'd suggest taking another look at your copy. I think you'll inspire more confidence to buy later on if you take it easy on the caps and paragraph spac
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by vickytnz 14y ago
An international purchase that doesn't ask for the name on your card though? (I know most check as my CC has a weird format, if it's put in wrong it doesn't validate.)
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Had to go speak to my bank, turns out that Gumroad came up as fraud and HSBC froze my entire account! The bank said it should work now but I'm pretty put off.
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yeah, all good and well … but I just used this with a UK Visa Debit card (which are pretty strict in terms of acceptance) on Gumroad, and not only did the thing not verify without a name, but my card got flagged for fraud and frozen until I
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Uh oh, I'm on exactly the same card … wonder what that's about :/
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by vickytnz 14y ago
+1 on payment options. As someone with a British credit card, the site won't verify my card (I suspect I need to be able to put my name as per card and address on it). So much for being able to buy it :(
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by vickytnz 14y ago
I'm surprised that no one seems to have connected Swartz's death to that of Ilya Zhitomirskiy of Diaspora, and the discussions about depression and tech (admittedly startups) http://betabeat.com/2011/11/u-cant-haz-sadz-the-hushed-dange...
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Things are easier now thanks to academia.edu (which lets you add papers to your research profile), but a fair number of researchers I know of don't even have a personal website. Also, having worked on websites to do with research projects,
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by vickytnz 14y ago
I agree on this, and think it's particularly useful to do with younger people for this exact reason. I did it as a Masters student with some colleagues, and it was an eye-opener for showing how many of us had different priorities in terms o
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Martin Belam (former head of UX at the Guardian, and designer of the app) has a great commentary on its successes and failures: http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2012/12/guardian-facebook-...
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Yep, was going to mention this site, never looked as nice but great mechanics for doing reviews (I blew through about 10 on my first go!)
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by vickytnz 14y ago
Looks good. I think I should point out that the current version of python.org is actually pretty decent in the scheme of programming language/codebase sites (there are some real eyesores out there!)
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by vickytnz 15y ago
And they're really buggy. If your window isn't wide enough for comfortable, it shifts down to the more compact version which looks terrible. Responsive ≠ cramped!