jms429

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by jms429 4mo ago
I can't read the last book. Growing up, I was always 6 months to a year away from another Terry Pratchett book. I don't want to live in a world where there is no more of his books left for me to read.
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by jms429 3y ago
I'm going to say it: I loved clippy. I loved it so much that in 2005 for my CompSci final project I created a search assistant, using the agent builder tool, C# and the Google API. I think it should come back as a personal AI agent.
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by jms429 4y ago
Burn out. Teaching is a job that is never "done", and expectations from management and parents are constantly set higher and higher. Especially around IT. I lost count of the number of times I asked for help from management and
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by jms429 4y ago
As a former computing teacher, I loved Scratch. I remember reading about it on a Thursday evening on Slashdot, maybe spring of '08, or 09. I had a free lesson first thing the next day, so I installed it on the network then had a class
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by jms429 4y ago
At the time, MS educational licensing was cheap as hell, we paid a set price per teacher and that then included windows & office for everyone.p, including free licenses for the kids to download office at home. I’m sure it’s changed now
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by jms429 4y ago
I was an IT manager in a school (not any more), and was asked by a parent why I wasn’t using Linux everywhere. Our Microsoft licensing cost £1000 per year, and our MSP cost about £10,000 for remote support and a weekly onsite. Using Linux,
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by jms429 5y ago
I use the bullet journal technique (1), I keep it simple and don’t go in for all the decoration that you see online. I also don’t do any fancy life tracking; it’s for recording tasks, making notes for meetings and notes around any work ong
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by jms429 5y ago
Oswinproject.org.uk
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by jms429 6y ago
I've hired a number through upwork, and once from someone who advertised on here. Through upwork it can be hit and miss, I found the best method was to set a couple of questions in the description of the task for people to answer ie &q
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by jms429 7y ago
Have emailed, interesting idea!