walkamages's comments

London based too - what exactly was that 40 percent of? Would be interested to find out, as a colleague of mine can reveal the following details for comparison: 20 percent of equity in a B2B company (not even live yet; but customers already signed up), five developers plus owner, central London based, amount invested £1.4MM. I am not sure how much haggling was involved but he was happy as the investor has a proven record with B2B in the UK, and can probably help it in the mid to long term.

Developing on the BlackBerry 10 OS has actually been a pleasant experience, but that was for fun rather than profit, as the numbers do not add up in their store vs the rest of the market. Their android runtime is very good and most apps run well on it, with the confidence of a modicum more sandboxing than a native android phone. I think BlackBerry's only real hope now is to get the phone into the hands of people for little to no cost and hold developer events and contests. It will cost them to have a dev community, like Microsoft learnt, but without it, they will wither even more so.

An excellent article! I had wanted to get back into some python recently after seeing the changes in 3.4, I had also wanted to become more familiar with LLVM, and this does both.

As someone who had one of the products mentioned here, the side effects were not slight, and to be honest more annoying than the flu itself. We only received the medication (here in the UK) because at the time there was the fear of an outbreak of avian or swine flu, and the idea at the time was to head things off. I think even if they do show any effectiveness in longer term trials (didn't do much for me personally), I would be wary of seeing them widely used, as it seems they should be targeted mostly at those individuals with compromised immune systems, or perhaps in the future, those individuals identified as having a genetic makeup that could aid and abet a flu related fatality.

There is a horrible trend of sealing homes up tight, and then we start to notice a raft of problems developing - in the fabric of the home, and it's inhabitants. I am lucky to live in a 1930's building in London, with plenty of ventilation built it. It is certainly not the most eco rated property, but, it is healthy. It might cost a couple of pounds more to heat over the year, but, it has proven itself over time, from coal fires, to back boilers, to central heating, air flows throughout, damp does not get a chance to thrive, nor mould nor fungi nor other related issues.

There was a recent exhibition of train and tube photos from London, and it was amazing to see how smart dress from the mid century gave way to fashions of the time like mods, teddy boys, punks, skin heads, new wave romantics, goths,hipsters, and finally back to a more stylish approach. No one looked happy though. Public transport is a great leveller - we all feel equally trapped and unhappy upon it!

I was just remarking to a colleague today how beneficial a lunchtime walk really is. The walk provided: 1. Fresh air 2. Exercise 3. A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides. 4. A chance to take a brief phone call from a recruitment agent to discuss a better job 5. A chance meeting of an old colleague I had not seen for nearly twenty years as he also took a walk. 6. I was away from the desk when the boss had a crappy task so someone else had to do it. 7. I found a new coffee shop I will revisit 8. I solved a long running problem by being able to walk and think 9. I am sure the stress levels were reduced!