JonWood

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by JonWood 14y ago
Completely off topic, but TVCatchup provide an XBMC plugin which completely avoids the advertising they add. No idea why, since it presumably destroys their business model, but it's great.
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by JonWood 14y ago
I moved from Natwest to First Direct a couple of months ago, and have had a great experience so far. Their online banking isn't quite so nice as Natwest's, but that's more than made up for by the amazing phone service. I've had to call a co
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by JonWood 14y ago
They can track response rates for particular flyers by pointing them at different URLs. Measurable A/B testing for physical advertising.
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by JonWood 14y ago
Your cat may already have an RFID tag - they're used in the process of "chipping" cats so that they can be traced if they find themselves at a vet without their owner. If there is one, it'll be on the back of their neck.
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by JonWood 14y ago
Having just got to the end of a frustrating couple of days and realising I haven't left the house since Tuesday, I totally endorse this. And on that note, I'm going out.
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by JonWood 14y ago
> now 90% of the work is done Which presumably leaves the other 90% to finish.
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by JonWood 14y ago
> That bread you find at Kroger, somebody had to work to make it appear in your cart. In any community there is likely to be someone with a passion for something. Whether that something is making bread, helping the sick, or teaching chi
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by JonWood 14y ago
> A programmer's salary is great, but why can't I work 20 hours as a programmer, and 20 hours as a tree-planter, or teaching rock climbing to high school kids, for maybe 55% of a programmer's salary? You can. You just have to learn to n
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by JonWood 15y ago
This is why I love open source. 30 minutes ago I was thinking "I wonder if there's a WYSIWYG editor that integrates with Bootstrap." And now, here I am, reading about it.
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by JonWood 15y ago
Yup, police with submachine guns are completely routine at Heathrow. They're also not an uncommon sight around certain parts of London these days - all the big government buildings have a couple of policemen with MP5s hanging around the ent
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Work for Hubbub, and get a year's worth of bacon(apply.hubbub.co.uk)
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by JonWood 15y ago
I'm starting to use service objects, which are responsible for coordinating things when multiple models are required to perform an operation, or complex business logic is involved. James Golick has a great blog post on that approach at htt
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by JonWood 15y ago
This strikes me as being similar to extracting bits of a model out into modules that then get included back into that model. It looks like you're reducing the complexity of the model, but in fact you're just hiding it elsewhere, without mak
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by JonWood 15y ago
One advantage of "Heroku's" nickel and diming is that the money is actually being split with other companies in most cases, and those companies core competency is providing exactly that service, whether that be a Redis server or email del
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by JonWood 15y ago
If you're hiring dedicated people to manage your servers bare metal becomes even more appealing, especially if they know what they're doing and can allow you to burst out to a cloud provider when you need extra capacity fast.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I'm agreed on the week of work, since as you say, no one in a proper job is going to take a week of holiday to come and work for someone who may or may not employ them. Probation however is a standard clause on every UK employment contract
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by JonWood 15y ago
If all goes well, you'll be a mid-sized company at some point. I say that from painful experience - we're about to hire our second developer at work, and I'm not looking forward to the time it's going to take to document all those little ed
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by JonWood 15y ago
Is causing your customers to think you're ripping them of, and making them look elsewhere for service actually maximising profit though? Given the cost of acquiring a customer they should be bending over backwards to keep existing customers
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by JonWood 15y ago
I'm in a similar company at the moment - it's not quite GitHub, but the atmosphere of smart people working on things they love is there. Since I started they've also started adapting to the "Work when you want, where you want" approach as w
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by JonWood 15y ago
"you have a PM screaming at your engineers" - and there lies your problem. I'm the sole engineer for a distinctly non-engineering company (we deliver food, and I'm the only person with any sort of engineering background). However, we work i
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by JonWood 15y ago
Its actually fairly standard practice for bulk SMS providers to charge for receiving messages as well.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I love that you have a problem with people calling copyright infringement "stealing", but no qualms at all about calling it "piracy" instead, which is an entirely different affair. Certainly the last time I downloaded a TV program I did u
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by JonWood 15y ago
At least in the UK it costs a decent chunk of money to get the name on your passport changed after marriage. Not a huge amount, but enough that it's easier to just book tickets under your maiden name.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I'm not convinced by the idea of heavily specialised high schools. At that age you should be discovering what you're passionate about, and sampling a wide range of subjects. The focus here seems to be more on training kids up for a job - wo
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by JonWood 15y ago
Another alternative is <a href=" http://cheat.errtheblog.com/>Cheat</a> , which is essentially a CLI accessible wiki of usage examples. It was originally focused on Ruby (and still is to an extent), but it gives decent resul
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by JonWood 15y ago
If your TV has a USB port (mine does, and is in no way state of the art) you should be able to power it from that. Not quite a zero cable solution, but it's close.
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by JonWood 15y ago
Having worked as a solo freelancer in the UK my experience was that prompt payment is inversely proportional to the size of the company. The single man startups I worked for would pay their invoices promptly, while multi-nationals seemed to
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by JonWood 15y ago
Presumably it's still backed by a card of some form, unless Square are picking up the tab for anyone using card case, so you'll get reward points when the transaction gets processed by Square.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I do that as well. Because games are the only reason I'd want to run Windows.
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by JonWood 15y ago
> These laptops would cost a normal human about $600, but for some reason my company leases them instead. For some reason the corporate world considers money spent in big blocks to be a different kind of money to that spent over an exte

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