pcowans

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by pcowans 5y ago
Try to sit in the middle of the carriage. I don't get motion sickness on trains, but I find doing that makes a meaningful difference to how comfortable it is to type on a laptop on a commuter train.
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by pcowans 11y ago
In terms of a concrete example of what we actually use it for, http://www.nature.com/srep/ is using Shunter, as is http://www.nature.com/search?journal=srep&q=physics&subject= . Behind the scene
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by pcowans 13y ago
Develop a sense of curiosity, get into the habit of asking yourself why things are they way they are, even if you don't need to know the answer. Read widely about technology and follow the threads to new topics. Try things just to see
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by pcowans 13y ago
Yes, I've experienced this exact problem in the past.
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by pcowans 13y ago
From the article: "To be clear, Malik isn’t talking about Kickstarter where funders make a donation that acts like a pre-order. He’s talking about the public buying stock in private companies, something that may soon be legal thanks to
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by pcowans 13y ago
I think the total energy available at ground level is something closer to 250W/m^2.
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by pcowans 13y ago
It's even called stereolithography :-)
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by pcowans 13y ago
... one other thing though. With a bit of practice you can remove the need to develop on feature branches; break things down into really small chunks and get into the habit of making half-done features unobtrusive (e.g. hiding UI elements u
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by pcowans 13y ago
Don't worry about it then - there are more important things to spend your time doing.
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by pcowans 13y ago
This doesn't seem that bad to me, what problems is it causing? The only changes I'd make would be to wrap it up in a script so you have one-click deploys, and possibly implement the 'copy and symlink' strategy that Capis
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by pcowans 13y ago
That should never be necessary; if you invest in the appropriate automation you can get your regular deployment process down to a few minutes and then even emergency fixes can go through the normal channels. The benefit is of course mainly
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by pcowans 13y ago
So, obvious question... why do you not have tests in this set up?
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by pcowans 13y ago
This is true, but you should probably still put more emphasis on avoiding them than optimising your process for fixing them.
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by pcowans 13y ago
YouTrack ( http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/index.jsp ) is my favourite out of everything I've ever seriously used. Physical cards stuck to the wall also works well for small, co-located teams. The important things
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by pcowans 13y ago
Okay, cool - so it seems like you do actually have quite a specific piece of technology missing, but it also seems to me that this is an architecture / technical design problem rather than just needing someone to code it up. It also seems t
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by pcowans 13y ago
So what is your background? It seems like you have experience doing something technical, even if it isn't professional software engineering. Do you feel you could code up a workable implementation of your network simulation in Python which
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by pcowans 13y ago
Can you say more about how your product is medium computational intensity? i.e. what makes it more complex than your average databased backed web app? Why do you feel that code quality is more important for you than for an average project?
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by pcowans 13y ago
> 1 - what do you think about users paying in advance? I guess it depends on your attitude to risk and the sort of service you think people will pay for. If you don't you presumably need more working capital, which has a cost, and you'r
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by pcowans 13y ago
Exact duplicate rows? If you have access to standard Unix tools, try this on a command line: cat input_file.csv | sort | uniq > output_file.csv
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by pcowans 13y ago
Can you be more specific about how large 'large' is? Edit: without knowing the specifics, you might like to look at Elasticsearch ( http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ). That'll give you an HTTP/JSON API into your data, so you might be able to d
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by pcowans 14y ago
You can be pretty sure that it is. You should definitely do competitor research, but also don't reject ideas just because someone's already doing something similar. Execution is much more important, and the details do matter.
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by pcowans 14y ago
In the case of phones maybe it's the fact that you've just been holding it against your body for a few minutes.
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by pcowans 14y ago
This may be the difference between being a contractor and being after a permanent position. For the latter, with the exception of very senior roles, you don't often hear people talk about them as anything better than a necessary evil.
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by pcowans 14y ago
It's certainly not difficult to apply directly to the big tech players - you can find these pretty easily with '<company name> uk careers' Google searches: http://www.google.co.uk/about/jobs/locations/london/ https://www.facebook
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by pcowans 14y ago
So, at least we've got from 'I'm too gifted to learn from anyone' to 'I'm in a difficult position without access to peers to learn from', which sounds more plausible and is probably worth sticking with. I guess you have two options really -
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by pcowans 14y ago
... and finally, teaching yourself C++ from a book isn't exactly unusual. I'm entirely self taught, and I'm sure a lot of other people here are too.
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by pcowans 14y ago
... having said that, on a good team there will be a culture of code review. Have you ever asked for feedback on your code?
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by pcowans 14y ago
Yeah - that's life, the people who will tell you what to do next are few and far between, and you need to demonstrate that you deeply care about them (possibly in ways you don't yet understand) before they'll reciprocate the favour. And am
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by pcowans 14y ago
Although I kind of agree with you that iterators for vectors aren't really very necessary, for std::list, std::map, etc. I think they're quite a sensible way of sequentially accessing the data - you'd pretty much have to re-implement them i
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by pcowans 14y ago
Stop defining success in terms of praise from others. At best you'll spend your time doing unfulfilling work and not learning much, and at worst you'll be manipulated. From the discussion in this thread I don't believe that you're a particu

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