strongai

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by strongai 6y ago
AA?
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by strongai 6y ago
'Positioning' by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Where it all started.
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by strongai 9y ago
Yeah, they'd have to be some new rookie company to make a mistake like that. In fact, it was EDS :0)
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by strongai 9y ago
Yes. Took a job with a defense contractor in the UK. On day 1 they told me that it would take 6 months to get security clearance. The bummer was that the men's bathroom was in a secure area and I would have to be escorted every time. O
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by strongai 9y ago
Maybe it was scanning us?
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by strongai 9y ago
Yes please. Just the motivation I need.
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by strongai 9y ago
It is so important to support things like Gimp. The alternative is truly being in thrall to Adobe forever.
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by strongai 9y ago
Similar model - http://compellingsciencefiction.com/ I'm not a subscriber, but I've bought every issue on Kindle. Mostly good, sometimes great. Glad I discovered it.
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by strongai 9y ago
Round about 1998 I worked in software pre-sales, and visited ARM in Cambridge, UK to try to convince them to buy our software. They didn't. My bad. But the guy I met was so ecstatic that they had just had an IPO, I bought £3K's wo
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by strongai 9y ago
Well, I agree in principle, but fact is, I've never worked for an organization that didn't have its share of stupid rules. 'Stupid' is subjective as well, so I think it's a bit of a losing battle to up sticks every
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by strongai 9y ago
I think it depends if you're interested in knowing how to solve these problems, or simply in solving them. If the latter, there's a bunch of commercial solvers out there. I won't name any for fear of an adverse reaction :0) b
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by strongai 9y ago
Hey zapperdapper I'm so glad you posted. I'm a 57-year-old tech writer (UK-based) who followed a similar pattern to you for 10 years. Then I got sick of static daily rates and now work as a permie (2 days in Birmingham, 3 days fro
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by strongai 9y ago
I have always wanted to invent an ice-cube maker that works by being filled with water and placed in a microwave.
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by strongai 9y ago
I worked there as a contract tech-writer a few years back. The people were great company and very talented. But the bling and the actual value proposition - who knows? I guess the market has decided. Interesting factoids: 1. They have/
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by strongai 9y ago
Thank you. A very illuminating description of how things work.
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by strongai 9y ago
Same is happening to me. These folks get hold of the details of recent domain registrants and spam them. I'm even getting phone calls. I don't think the information is explicitly being 'sold' - if you don't opt for
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by strongai 9y ago
Forgive me, but more and more I see the phrase 'outer space' referring to stuff that happens at distances between the Earth and the moon. Is this a thing now?
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by strongai 9y ago
A good employee does their job, and then does more. No way should they be allowed to work for someone else (themselves!) on your dime. Fired.
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by strongai 9y ago
I've never seen a plan that didn't have to be replanned. In all likelihood, your initial list of tasks is going to double or triple once you get into the zone. So I think this micro-level of attention is a huge red flag. If the mo
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by strongai 10y ago
And what does 'contrastive connotation' mean?
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by strongai 10y ago
I think it depends on how much you could subdue your anger at at the Cobol language itself. I have worked for a Cobol company (Micro Focus) and found that I didn't want to stay there (... although colleagues and even immediate manageme
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by strongai 10y ago
I don't think so - I think that particular accolade goes to https://www.emishealth.com
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by strongai 10y ago
"Actually,it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits." Big difference.
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by strongai 10y ago
Hey, you're not old! Really. I'm 57. At a guess, if you're experiencing 'ageism' - this is really a proxy for an employer's suspicion that you're no longer as biddable as early-career folks who can be pers
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by strongai 10y ago
Back in 1996, having just joined a developer tools company, I recall my new CEO at our first meeting saying "The developer tools market is such a shitty, shitty market"
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by strongai 10y ago
Disagree. I thought it was always fighting a low budget, and for me, it never rose beyond the level of a poor mini series. Clive Owen was not good either - he has no real talent.
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by strongai 10y ago
Before compute resources became essentially free, Lisp took up rather more memory on the then-constrained commodity hardware than other languages. I remember being in awe of one of our developers who had a whopping 96MB on his machine - thi
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by strongai 10y ago
The opium of the people indeed.
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by strongai 10y ago
I'm a full timer but was a freelancer for ten years. As others have said, a portfolio is a great entry ticket. Try to flesh out your portfolio with further examples of the work you would like to do. Tech writing, like development, is a
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by strongai 10y ago
Again anecdotally, I have a keen running doctor friend in the UK who had 2 hip replacements by the time he was 40. Now that he's in his mid 50s, he's looking at replacements for his replacements.

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