stevenwilkin

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by stevenwilkin 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/7XytV
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by stevenwilkin 8mo ago
Don't make mistakes.
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by stevenwilkin 10mo ago
https://archive.ph/Ta4ON
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by stevenwilkin 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/o7Yp2
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by stevenwilkin 1y ago
Great to see you're still going Nigel! Is this library the latest iteration of your original VectorGL project?
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by stevenwilkin 1y ago
Probably related that Foodpanda announced they were shutting down in Thailand.
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by stevenwilkin 2y ago
It currently costs <1 USD to perform a Bitcoin transaction: https://bitcoinfees.net/
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by stevenwilkin 2y ago
Reminds me of irccat: https://github.com/irccloud/irccat
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by stevenwilkin 12y ago
I've had the same experience with a constant stream of freshly minted recruiters want to add me on LinkedIn each and every week. I've done contract Rails dev in London for the past 2 years now, before that I had clients in the Sou
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by stevenwilkin 12y ago
Here's a relatively recent post from the LRUG mailing list with a bunch of jobs in it: https://gist.github.com/stevenwilkin/76cdb6a1680c18192c2d Another from the same guy from a while back outlining the market in
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by stevenwilkin 12y ago
The demand for contract Rails devs here in London is showing no signs of lessening
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Writing Testable Code in Go(relistan.com)
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by stevenwilkin 12y ago
The last few years I've been building up a portfolio of dividend paying shares. In the previous 12 months dividend payouts have totalled GBP 2488.31. There has also been some capital growth. The portfolio is inside a SIPP (self-investe
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by stevenwilkin 13y ago
I just stopped putting my phone number on my CV about a year ago which cut down the calls a great deal.
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by stevenwilkin 13y ago
My current rate is nearly double the rate of my first contract which was equivalent to double my last permanent salary. This is after a few years of contracting, starting off in a low-cost city (Belfast, N. Ireland) branching out to Dublin
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by stevenwilkin 13y ago
Ditto, I don't need to put a huge amount of time into the admin side of things. The volume of recruiter emails & calls can be oppressing at times haha
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by stevenwilkin 13y ago
The contract market here is pretty vibrant. I'm on close to a 100% premium to the permanent employees sitting in the same office, doing the same work.
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by stevenwilkin 14y ago
I was copying out the example BASIC programs from the back of manual of the C64 I got for Christmas 1991 when I was 11. I have vague recollections of LOGO on the BBC Micro before that. 20+ years then. Still so much to learn ;)
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by stevenwilkin 15y ago
Supplied usernames and passwords should be all lowercase, ie: user: star pass: star user: night pass: night
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by stevenwilkin 15y ago
Having 12+ months of savings at hand has certainly bought some peace of mind in my own situation
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by stevenwilkin 15y ago
Looks interesting Des. How are the users' social media details accessed? Do they opt-in and supply Twitter/LinkedIn/FB credentials themselves or are they acquired by other means?
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by stevenwilkin 15y ago
I can vouch for the skills gap here in Ireland. I have siblings working in fields which were quite dependent on the housing bubble and as such they have been out of work for some time. On the other hand, every IT recruiter I know here is co
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by stevenwilkin 15y ago
The place I'm currently contracting in (mentioned in article) has their summer intern programme in full swing. Not only are the guys getting decent pay but they are building a useful in-house app while getting trained up in technologies lik