markng | 2 years ago | on: What are the “trophy jobs” in tech?
I like that you say "maybe" about a janitor, because at some point a filthy office will break a product.
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markng | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
(that said, I am currently downloading this image, and I've had problems running x86-64 stuff in docker sometimes)
markng | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
On my M1, --platform linux/amd64 seems to work (I think I needed to turn rosetta on for this for some other stuff, I don't recall.)
markng | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Carrot
No sugary. Less food than a steak. Lame.
markng | 12 years ago | on: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
Having moved from the UK to the US, it makes me angry and disappointed that they don't use the paper/foil packaging here, so you can't do that :/
markng | 13 years ago | on: The Data Journalism Handbook
IRE's NICAR listserv and conference are the best place.
markng | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
And also forced us to make videos that make us cringe :)
markng | 14 years ago | on: The Hack Day Manifesto
Also, that's mostly when you don't tell people "hey, can you not put your iPhones and Android mobile phones on the wireless?"
markng | 14 years ago | on: The Hack Day Manifesto
right, I'm not so sure that's because of DHCP, though.
markng | 14 years ago | on: The Hack Day Manifesto
for a 20-30 person hackday, it's not so much of a big problem. You wouldn't need more than a /24 for that, and you'd still be inside the * 8. But most tech events with more than 100-ish people I've been to have failed on their wifi at some point, and it's normally for this reason.
markng | 14 years ago | on: The Hack Day Manifesto
one of the reasons to go high on IP addresses is because many devices don't release their leases properly, which can cause all sorts of havoc.
markng | 14 years ago | on: KML shapes of any US state, city, or county, made possible by the U.S. Census
It's worth noting that these are approximations of zip code areas, rather than exact zip codes. http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html - for most reasons, it'll be good enough, though.
markng | 14 years ago | on: New York I Love You, But US Immigration Policy Is Bringing Me Down
I can't say I've experienced anything like what you've talked about. What places in the UK and the US are you talking about/comparing ? My experiences have been in London, Bournemouth and Phoenix.
markng | 14 years ago | on: New York I Love You, But US Immigration Policy Is Bringing Me Down
Do you mean start a company, or build a product? As another UK expat in America, starting my first company here (and having run a company back home), the process for starting a company in the UK is slightly more efficient than in the US.
If you're talking about finding investment, that's a different matter. But finding investment is only "easy" in a few places in America. It's certainly no easier to find investment in the city in which I am based than it is in London.
Edit: (and I'm not so sure we should all be building companies that need hundreds of thousands of dollars to get off the ground. That places exist where we can do that in the world is great, but bootstrapping creates different types of worthwhile businesses.)
markng | 14 years ago | on: XXX TLD Officially Open
I use that all the time, but the only other person I've heard say it is the person I picked the habit up from.
markng | 14 years ago | on: Tilemill: Maps done right
When I first started using tilemill, I missed that you can create indexes for shapefiles. This turned a 12 hour render into a 15 minute render for my particular use case. The devseed guys show how to do it here : http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/mar/29/speed-optimizati...
markng | 14 years ago | on: Spotify launches in the US
The "disappearing playlist" the parent refers to is a licensing issue, not a technical one, as far as I could tell. When I was in the UK (now in the US), whole artists catalogs would go missing all at once. I eventually stopped paying for the service because of this (it wiped out about 10% of the content from my playlists).
markng | 15 years ago | on: Today you, tomorrow me
Yes, there are, and I've found a bunch of them. I used to go to gangplank alot, but now I only get there about once or twice a month since I went from self-employment to normal employment.
I've not been involved in Heatsync other than to see some of the cool things they do. I was lucky enough to meet a bunch of the founding people on the day they came into Gangplank 2 to start their collaboration, though.
markng | 15 years ago | on: Today you, tomorrow me
This sums up why I've had so much culture shock moving from the UK to Phoenix. People don't get it when I say that selfishness is what really hurts me here, not the heat or any of the other factors.
That said, it's all of our fault. Every day, in this place, I feel myself getting a little more like everyone else here. Thanks for reminding me that I need to do better.
markng | 15 years ago | on: Zappos offers new employees $3000 to quit after a week
I wonder how well this would work were it extended further into employment, too. A $3000 bonus to quit when you've worked somewhere for x years and are still in a job because of habit or fear could be a nice way to get rid of dead weight.
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