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by ibrow 12y ago
I live in Berlin and have just walked to work - I love it (even on a rainy day like today) - time to think. Whilst Berlin is spread out I have found that you normally stick to your own "kiez" (neighbourhood). If you are lucky you&
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by ibrow 13y ago
Think you're over egging the pudding there. Was simply responding to the question "Ireland won anything lately?"
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by ibrow 13y ago
The Rugby on Sunday. They were looking very good actually, might be a dark horse for the Six Nations.
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by ibrow 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but has anyone read "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age"[1]? It's been on my wishlist for ages, but I've not got round to buying/reading it yet. [1] http://www.amazo
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by ibrow 13y ago
Thanks for the info. We haven't hit near that number yet, we mainly use it for the autoresponder stuff and some simple mailings to a few hundered addresses.
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by ibrow 13y ago
I use Sendy[0] for this very reason. It uses Amazon's SES and whilst it isn't as feature full as Mailchimp it does the job, costs about $60. Note, I'm not affiliated in any way I just started to use it as I needed auto-respon
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by ibrow 13y ago
Masters of Doom is a fantastic book, really enjoyed reading that. From that I then also read the Making of the Prince of Persia[1]. This is Jordan Mechner's journal from his time during the making of this game. Not just about the game
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by ibrow 13y ago
Yes, it is a bit strange. I'm a native speaker and I would have said "in a single PHP file" too.
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by ibrow 13y ago
Are the three videos running at the same speed? Or are they constantly adjusted so they keep up with each other so we can see more clearly any changes in landscape? I can actually believe that the journey time hasn't increased since
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by ibrow 13y ago
Many thanks for the link.
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by ibrow 13y ago
Well, if it works for nuclear?! Bonkers.
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by ibrow 13y ago
But then you look at Egypt. It once seemed so hopeful and now it appears to descending ever more into violence and civil war. What's to say that even if they do have fair elections unrest will continue.
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by ibrow 13y ago
Yesterday my wife and I were discussing the UK vote on intervening in Syria. It is such a horrible plight for people trapped in the middle of this, that both options of going in or not going in are equally awful. The conclusion was that we
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by ibrow 13y ago
This sounds spot on for what I'm after. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Thanks for the link to the other vids, will check them out.
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by ibrow 13y ago
Regarding target audience, I think if the screencasts were "emacs for beginners and elisp for beginners" it would be too much and there would be no real audience: people who are starting out in emacs don't need to bother abou
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by ibrow 13y ago
I read quite a good interview with Chicken Scheme's author a few months ago. Here's the link which might be of interest: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-...
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by ibrow 13y ago
Here is the book[1] that goes with that documentary. It is a really good read and not too technical at all. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fermats-Last-Theorem-confounded-grea... Edit: Just seen nicholassmith posted exactly th
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by ibrow 13y ago
But talking to customers is exactly what these guys did: > So we talked to a few artists who said they thought it was a cool idea. BOOM! Our idea had been validated! The idea had not been validated at all, just been told it was "cool".
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by ibrow 13y ago
I am probably not making myself clear > Is it because i drew the wrong crowd? Is it because they don't know me? is it because adwords conversions are usually very low so do i need to pay for more traffic? You don't just put up one ad us
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by ibrow 13y ago
You can learn a lot from this. Firstly you can learn how other people describe the type of product you are offering - not necessarily how you describe it. With Adwords you'll see the types of keywords that people are typing to have your adv
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by ibrow 13y ago
My mother always used to tell me "only boring people get bored". Now with a small child and business to run, some days I would love to be bored and have nothing to do!
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by ibrow 14y ago
Not to take this thread off topic but I've also been getting into the fascinating history of computers. I've almost finished the book Code by Charles Petzold and it was like a lightbulb going off in my head. So interesting and so exciting.
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by ibrow 14y ago
Actually, we are possibly expecting another (it's a bit too early to officially announce) and my wife has suggested Haskell if it was a boy! (as guard-of-terra says below, it is the name of a boy). It is rather worryingly beginning to gro
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by ibrow 14y ago
It's not really an issue, but I have had a number of people know me, know I'm a bit of a dweeb and clock it, normally with an eye-roll. (I personally actually like her being called Lua, I think it is really individual. She is about 20 month
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by ibrow 14y ago
We added the middle name to be safe really. We had heard some horror stores about parents being denied kinder-geld due to an "incorrect" name. We're both English, so middle names are common there (not sure about the US) and the middle name
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by ibrow 14y ago
While it can be seen like this, it does stop the unnecessary act of going through childhood being called things like Moon Unit[1] or Prince Michael II. But then again, I suppose there is an argument that if you can make it through childhood
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by ibrow 14y ago
When my wife was heavily pregnant we were stuck thinking up girls names. (No idea at this point if a boy or a girl). She suggested Ruby and I said we couldn't as this is a name for a programming language and everyone would think we named he
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by ibrow 14y ago
Ditto for me. It is the unlimited free private repos that initially drew me to Bitbucket, however, I am now happily paying the $10 per month for multiple members of the team (7 of them) for the company account. Using Github the way we would
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by ibrow 14y ago
Pirate Party UK Donation page: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/Help
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by ibrow 14y ago
I completely disagree with you calling it an "embarrassing system". I've had my Pi for a couple of weeks now and been happily tinkering with it. For the price I am utterly amazed with it (in fairness, I'm a bit of an old git and amazed that

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