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by ropz 12y ago
Naw, Alec Guinness lived quite close to me, near Petersfield in Hampshire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersfield,_Hampshire . Never met him, but I think he's on record as describing those roles as ... <Googles
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by ropz 12y ago
My father is a retired South Wales steelworker - he worked in the Hot Mill, which is where you put slabs of steel in, and take huge coils of hot rolled steel out ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_%28metalworking%29
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by ropz 12y ago
Is this some kind of RHEL marketing thing? Help me out here, I'm rather lost.
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by ropz 13y ago
Nope, I don't work there. Suggest you ask them :)
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by ropz 13y ago
These people: http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/ produce a compiler, tools etc that run the language of SAS. (disclaimer: I interviewed there last year)
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by ropz 13y ago
"Censorship is the mother of metaphor" - Borges
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by ropz 13y ago
I think that it's terrific but does a disservice to Illustrator. It's terrific because you've built it - and what's there, works, wonderfully - but does a disservice to Illustrator because the devil is in the million det
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by ropz 13y ago
What a bunch of spoiled, whining brats! Sure, you can only code for 4-6 hours a day, but why not honor your contract by spending that other 2 hours mentoring less senior people, trying to understand your employer's business goals, and
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by ropz 13y ago
Yeah, you're right, but I'm stubborn. I won't move to where the work is - I have a family. I'm much much more productive if I'm actually interested in what the client is doing (... and that's hard to figure out
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by ropz 13y ago
There is a market in the UK for good technical writers. It's not as sexy as development (whoever heard of a technical writer making the cut as a YC founder?) but it pays the bills. My own problem is that around 10 years ago, I veered o
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by ropz 13y ago
In the UK, my lowest rate is equivalent to $75 an hour. I can read and write code, but most of my work is documentation related. I, too, like to tinker around with my own projects, but tend to do that between gigs. I'd be delighted if
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by ropz 13y ago
"Tapjoy is a mobile advertising and monetization platform whose unique Mobile Value Exchange model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtual rewards ... blah blah blah." Sounds like shit.
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by ropz 13y ago
Marketing, it seems, is all about spamming HN with ads for a book about marketing.
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by ropz 13y ago
Council House[1] And Violent This is not the original etymology (see other replies) but I have heard it explained thus many times. [1] Council House - A UK property owned by 'the council', a regional administrative and legislative body, and
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by ropz 13y ago
But unlike all the other resources, a resource that lives, thinks and judges people as they are done by.
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by ropz 13y ago
Trouble is, I think LinkedIn is a cancer. You know, I've worked with some pretty decent people, but I've often cringed to see their extravagant self descriptions on LinkedIn. No way are they the people they think they are. And if decent peo
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by ropz 13y ago
Crocodile tears, I suspect. Based on multiple past experiences, I'd be a little reluctant to trust a recruiter who described himself on his blog thus: "Over a career spanning thirty years, Greg Savage has established himself as an icon of t
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by ropz 13y ago
In fairness, his medical school helped him to study part time while he played rugby - but hey, there's no need to dilute a great achievement.
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by ropz 13y ago
Nice. It reminds me a little of Prograph/Prograph CPX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph
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by ropz 13y ago
On a related but tangential theme, I once started an argument by claiming that Japanese culture does not support the emergence of strong individuals. Perhaps, in electronics as in software, it really does take someone with a huge ego to sen
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by ropz 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - UK(South)/remote Freelance technical and marketing writer. I enjoy working with startups and anything that gets me close to the code. Understand Python, Java, C#, Ruby, C, C++ plus ancillary parts of the technology stack and
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by ropz 14y ago
I concur, having worked in customer-facing roles for 2 of the 3 cited organizations in the 80s.
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by ropz 14y ago
Another (oft-cited) example: "What did you bring that book that I don't like to be read to out of up for?"
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by ropz 14y ago
I know I'm gonna get downvoted, but something about it gives me the creeps. It's almost as if the culture itself is some altar you have to worship at, rather than being the consensual improv that great cultures turn out to be.
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by ropz 14y ago
From that I would assume that they think they have enough coders, and don't need any more. After all, if you've got over 400,000 subjects, the top 10% are going to be pretty good, especially if they keep competing for the same prizes.
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by ropz 14y ago
I meant ... that I just tried to join. Filled in the form and had to complete the Captcha. Got it right - I'm certain - 5 or 6 times - but it kept telling me that I failed the Capcha verification test.
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by ropz 14y ago
Topcoder is such a great site that it can't even program a Captcha to let you in when you get it right :0>
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by ropz 14y ago
I like the story, I like the website - it's pretty. You don't see so many long-form websites. And based on the principle that improvement happens in discernable, incremental steps forward - the new name is much better than the old one. But
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by ropz 14y ago
I guess it is a link aggregator. But they've got 25000+ links to real jobs, with not an agency or recruiter in sight. What's wrong with it being a link aggregator? I'm no expert, but I've not seen any other UK site that advertises so many n
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by ropz 14y ago
http://www.jobsmanifesto.com ... another new UK jobs site, over 25,000 jobs, exactly zero agencies/recruiters. Generic site, but over 1000 IT Jobs. Disclaimer: I know the dev team.

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