168 karma · joined January 8, 2013
France can be quite reactionary when it comes to think like this, and it's a shame. Wish they'd thought of ways to incorporate this technology and democratise the system as opposed to a good old knee-jerk.
It's a book you dip into. I was once introduced to the esoteric art of bibliomancy; and as much as I can't take such a practice seriously, it does seem to work on books that are simply fantastic. Open up meditations, at any page, read it for 10 minutes and put it down. The chances are the passage will be highly pertinent and insightful.
I know this doesn't affect the trains directly, but surely it's something they have to take into consideration, especially during their announcement of their plans until 2060 god damn it.
London keeps boasting "best city in the world, best city in the world", yet its citizens are under increasing work pressure, and simultaneously cannot send or receive emails during their daily commute.
Sure they have wifi in the stations, but by the time you login (assuming you're paying because see, it's not free) you train has arrived.
I remember my holiday in Tel Aviv. I was skyping on the beach, on public free wifi.
Then I return to London, and nope, back to being offline, while on my way to a high tech job. And we're supposed to be a cutting edge city? Explain how.
Will that affect Qt?
Airbnb offered me a 500 USD voucher, which barely covered the cost of my last minute Holiday Inn stay that I had to make to, well, not spend the night on the street after getting kicked out, and it's all water under the bridge now, but nightmare stories happen both ways.
Don't be a boss. Ask for "Lead [...]" in your job title, and get your colleagues to do what you tell them because of technical seniority, not hierarchical seniority.
As for your path: convince your company to let you develop a product with an Open Source license. Tell them it will provide them with free advertising, increase their notoriety in the industry, and mean they'll get other companies to work on their project for free.
Contact other companies and promote your project, this is simply a trojan horse for building a great contact list. This then leaves you free to move on to freelance down the road by charging for features, but fixes and support. It also allows you to find work really easily.
Damn right. It's completely hypocritical that on one hand we point fingers at Apple for their closed market policy, then laugh when a developer floods an open market with apps.
Make your mind up.
Anyway I strongly recommend "The power of habit: Why we do what we do, and how to change" which is a scientific investigation into, well, the science of habit, but more importantly the information contained in those pages is highly usable.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Habit-Why-What-Change/dp/18479...
Not to mention the "Don't break the chain" principle, which inadvertently makes you apply the most fundamental principle of good habit building: