mrtrombone

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Digital Nomads are awful. I should know, I'm one of them(smh.com.au)
6 points by mrtrombone 3y ago|2 comments
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by mrtrombone 4y ago
The company Torchbox (creators of Wagtail CMS) are an interesting example of an employee owned company. In their case it was a matter of the founders selling/moving most of their ownership to an Employee Owned Trust (as opposed to star
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by mrtrombone 4y ago
This looks great. Will definitely try it out. I run a dev shop and have been thinking along these lines also.
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by mrtrombone 4y ago
I want to learn about quantum mechanics. 10 year old me is pretty bummed I haven't invented a teleporter yet and ChatGPT said this is a pretty good place to start :)
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by mrtrombone 4y ago
I run a software dev/ digital services company and my take on this is for her to consider retraining in a business analyst or change management role. - These require very complementary skills to teaching, - good fundamentals training
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by mrtrombone 5y ago
The right starting point is probably "what are their skills and interests" and based on that what is the simplest thing to segue into. Obviously this forum is mostly focused on developers but there is a while world of business ana
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by mrtrombone 5y ago
Maybe someone should release a smart context which is a literal MLM/pyramid NFT where everybody in the upline gets a portion of the sale (rather than just the seller and the creator)
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by mrtrombone 6y ago
Fantastic toolset. I found the posts by Leyla Acaroglu [1] an excellent introduction to systems thinking and many of these concepts [1]: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/search?q=tools%20for%20...
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by mrtrombone 6y ago
It would be interesting to know whether the same issues would exist outsourcing to a country such as New Zealand with less of a language and cultural barrier or if it is still largely the nature of remote agency work.
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by mrtrombone 6y ago
Sorry try https://www.hygen.io Didn't like the missing www
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by mrtrombone 6y ago
For low-code dev friendly in our React/ node environment I've been impressed with https://hygen.io for generating boilerplate entities, models, controllers etc. Extremely light weight and flexible so it only needs to d
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by mrtrombone 7y ago
This has been an interesting discussion but I am surprised at the high level of criticism towards the project. There seems to be two primary critiques of the project: 1. This should not be an area of focus - There are better climate change
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by mrtrombone 8y ago
I recently came back from Padang, Sumatra, was really impacted by the level of pollution and did quite a bit of research. - It is too simplistic to just say it's all about education. Yes it needs work however there is just not the infr
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by mrtrombone 10y ago
I have worked with Silverstripe before and as you mentioned about CraftCMS I find it flexible and lean compared to Wordpress - I feel like it is much easier to be close to the data etc so great from a developer point of view. It is OpenSour
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by mrtrombone 10y ago
http://gamesalad.com/ My son used this for his science fair project last year and I thought it was an excellent platform.
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by mrtrombone 13y ago
I signed my son up with Jux.com. It looks great out of the box on desktop and mobile and is pretty straight forward,
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by mrtrombone 13y ago
Yes but an amazingly common one. If I look at the NZ city I live in (pop ~80k) both Tertiary institutes, City Council, Regional Council, primary Health organization etc are all very much happy Microsoft shops.
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
I set my son up on http://www.jux.com . Nice and easy
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
I went and lived for 2 years in France with my wife and 8yr old step daughter. Recently I also took my kids to Kathmandu for a couple of weeks and mixed working with holidaying - so it's definitely possible. Of course in almost every major
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
Great links thanks. One thing I have been wondering is what text to speech synthesis would sound like with non 'human' voices. Most demo's are of course focussed on human voices e.g. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.ht
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Ask HN: Do any open Furby-like projects exist?
5 points by mrtrombone 14y ago|6 comments
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
Not sure what the best way to research is. A couple of websites that might help: http://www.idealog.co.nz http://unlimited.co.nz/ Few other high profile companies: http://www.vendhq.com http://www.silverstripe.com http://www.optima
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
There's definitely some awesome companies in NZ open to bringing quality developers from overseas. Check out http://www.xero.com/about/careers/ Note: I'm not associated with them in any way
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by mrtrombone 14y ago
Have you looked at vend? (vendhq.com) interesting startup from NZ
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by mrtrombone 15y ago
What's the unique proposition with this? In NZ this is already very common with Universities, Dominos etc. Is it just a market that SendHub wants to contest in or does SendHub bring something new to the table (or is this difficult in the US
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by mrtrombone 15y ago
Has anyone else played with the dojo mobile framework? It is rarely mentioned in these type of articles. We started using it mainly for business reasons but after playing with it for a while it seems to me to have a lot more functionality t