geedee77 | 13 years ago | on: Can programmers without CS degrees find jobs?
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geedee77 | 13 years ago | on: Living Without Time
You've fallen into the trap of reading about something that is written by someone who has no real boss and thinking that you could apply it to yourself.
Living 'without time' is a great idea and is ideal for how we, as humans, have developed. Unfortunately, in the real world, the rest of us need to use time to make sure we do things on other peoples schedules. Whether it be the boss, the airline, the doctor, the kid's school or whatever, we need to make sure we're aligned.
You will only be able to really do this if none of those things apply to you and you can spend your days doing whatever you want.
geedee77 | 13 years ago | on: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week
Blue Toad could be a front company for the FBI ...
geedee77 | 13 years ago | on: Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A
Are you American? Not being critical but I notice a lot of Americans seem to think that HN is only in America.
geedee77 | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My app in 4 weeks is done
This needs to be integrated in with Siri so you can walk up to James and whisper to Siri and she'll tell you his wifes name, what he does and how his kids are doing in school ... if only there was a Siri API.
geedee77 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Going offline 15 days with an iPad. How to code?
Pen and paper (or iPad equivalent)?
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows
This is an old concept that Microsoft themselves used in early version of Excel. I remember that there was a way to get early Excel to use the same commands as Lotus 1-2-3 which, I think, was the main spreadsheet application at the time. I'm going back 25 years though so apologies if my memory is not what it used to be!
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Startups: Don't just collect my email address
I do completely agree with this post but when did a blog post become the place for a one line piece of advice? What happened to the long, detailed blog post with loads of useful information - did they die out whilst I wasn't watching?
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Images of US Military Space Drone
I can't remember where I read it (it may have been Wikipedia) but the shape X-37 was based on the shuttle which is why it's the current craft that's being developed by the military. There was another craft prototyped but it was too costly and time consuming to test out a completely new shape.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding
This is the exact opposite to me. I spend my full day working, hit (or better) all deadlines, come in about 2 hours early and I still get grief from the big boss for leaving on-time!
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Remnants of a Disappearing UI
I was expecting a large background image to load because the text colour seemed so inappropriate to the actual background.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: "Seriously - those first 386 chips barely worked at all. " Anyone remember?
Wow I feel old now - the first one I was around to buy in that family was the 8088! I remember getting excited when we got our first 286
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Website calculates how your life might be like in another country
You've obviously never tried Gourmet Burger Kitchen in the UK!
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: From cosmism to deism: AI makes deities plausible
I think he's saying that they will rise over the next 100 years (well, 89 actually). Not completely unreasonable if you think of the advances in technology over the last 100 years.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
My older brother, when learning assembly, needed a memory address to write to on the hard disk of my Dad's business computer. Sadly he chose the first one as he hadn't discovered the File Allocation Table at that point. My Dad wasn't best pleased, even though technically the data was still on the disk!
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Minimalist renditions of international brands
I thought the Schweppes one was easily the best but the Lindt version took away from the luxury feel of the brand and damaged the buying experience.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: WakeMates are ready
I'm in the same boat. Just checked paypal, ordered on 25th Nov 2009, refunded on 4th August 2010 but with a shortfall due to currency conversion differences so I'm basically out of pocket (admittedly only a bit) due to lack of product.
As I've said previously, I actually don't even own the phone anymore that I intended to use this product with. I just hope for the sake of the company that this is the beginning of the end of their constant problems.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: WakeMate Blog - In Production
I was excited by WakeMate when it first appeared and signed up but it's been so long in shipping that I no longer have an iPhone that I can use it with. Talk about disappointment.
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Mac App Store denial
Reminds me of a web application I put together for a large British corporation. I was waiting for the final copy to be approved so gave them a test site with several bits of lorem ipsum in place of real text. It was failed due to there being "a translation issue" on some parts because "it was doing something funny and changing the English text to Greek or something". This was from an apparently 'technical' person as well!
geedee77 | 15 years ago | on: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable
I'm not saying they aren't but when has the tactic against a bully being to bully them? Regardless of what you think about Paypal themselves, there are an awful lot of people that rely on the service they provide that can now no longer use that service due to the tactics of Anonymous.
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As people have said, the trick is learning in your own time and learning quickly in your jobs. I agree with whoever said it that there's somethings that will be a challenge because you might not have the right level of Maths (etc) but you should be able to get by as long as you're committed.