I'm old enough, and ugly enough, to remember the games built by teenagers of the 80's. Ultimate Play The Game (Rare) - Stamper Brothers in Ashby, Codemasters by the Darling brothers. I hope rpi takes off, it'll be interesting to see what innovation comes out of it.
Good advice. A friend of mine dropped out of his Computer Science course but still went for a job at a games company Rare. He sent them his code for a rotating 3D light sourced car written in GW Basic, and got the job!
My wife worked in the city for one of the big banks. A chap who worked there was in a similar situation. He missed the train that had the bombers on board, but he decided to grab a bus to work instead. This also had one of the bombers upstairs which moments later detonated killing most of the people on the bus.
What made it even worse is that everyone who died that day was taken to a makeshift morgue on Moorgate which is overlooked by the people who worked in his team. A really shocking day.
I heard a while back they use your computer as a connection point to other Skype users. That's why I chosen not to use it over my 3g connection. Probably not true, but would make sense in this case to make it difficult to quit!
I clicked a few pages and thought it was great. I did wonder if you decided to supply starter templates. So I could start with Futurama's Bender and just increase the size of his head - however, I suppose copyright would come into play.
You remind me of the early 2000 Business Link companies. You rang up looking for advice, thinking it's a government initiative, but spend 70% of the time getting a hard sell for their web development sideline.
I graduated in '99 with a 2.1 CompSci degree - the year a Chinese chap threw himself off the top of an 10-storey engineering building because he couldn't go back with a 2.1 degree.
Do any of the principles of ML be applied to KPI / balanced scorecard applications? I have done some work with calculating simple linear regression but would like to move towards decision tree learning. Is this a good idea? or is there something more applicable? BTW, I'am a noob at this! Thanks in advance.
It's called Startup.com and shows the massive initial growth of Govworks web-site (300+ staff), but then things go South and their competitors catch them up and put them out of business. One of my favourite documentaries and gives good insight into the dot com bubble burst of 2000-2001.
Ditto from me. I just got fed up with top x lists which seem to dominate the front page. I'm much happier on HN. I can't believe how fast these guys fell over such a short period of time. It's like they started asking people to pay money to view their content, rather than some pointless v4 upgrade.
I own RECTOID.COM, a colleague was trying to describe a shape and he came out with that. After a giggle I checked whois and was surprised it hadn't gone. So I ordered it and done nothing with it. It has a certain goatse tone about it.
I think I might be part of the problem. I came to HN accidentally while searching Google for video post-production tips. I normally get my social news fix on digg.com and have used them for the last 5-6 years, slashdot and ntk before it, but recently got fed up with the juvenile comments and the 'Top 10 x' or 'Catz cheeze' type posts. I think Diggs latest v4 has driven their entire readership to reddit, tumblr and also here. So depending on your view, I think HN will continue to get popular and descend further down the LOLCATs route. I would add that I think today this community is great and extremely insightful - speaking as a director of a web services company.
We stayed at apartment block 333 River Street which was right on the Hudson, next to the 'W'. Luckily for us the company paid for it as the rent for a massive two bedroom apartment was about $3000 a month (2008)
However, Hoboken is a big place so I would imagine more sensible rentals further away from the river front. It's certainly worth considering.
I think that's an interesting point. However, I do have to consider running sensitive performance data running on equipment we don't control or host. So, is it wise to run customers data on kit we don't own or host?
The Software is a web based PHP5 App running both Mysql and Oracle on top of SLES9. It collects performance information (KPIs) and sends out formatted reports (PDF/XLS) to clients & customers. It's been running on IBM Xseries 336 servers since 2005 (eek!) and really needs an upgrade. Our technical provider came up with the spec but am interested to see if cloud hosting has moved on; I understand it was a bit shakey to start with.