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:( Damn, I'm still on XP at work and XP on my laptop at home. At work my boss won't shell out for anything new. At home my laptop doesn't have drivers for Vista or Win7 :( I'm now one of those people everyone hates for holding the internet back!
(Not really - lol - I got Firefox installed up the wazoo!)
Come on, we're coders/hackers I think it's important to have something neat and beautiful hidden in plain sight like that.
This sort of 'cool thing' should be encouraged. How boring would life be without some people out there having a little fun?
My SO just went to Uganda to volunteer in a primary school. It was a right faf to organise and was completely chaotic. I'd pay a few hundred just for the peace of mind that someone who isn't a complete moron was working out all the details.
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In one of my first jobs as a coder we had little crappy PCs for development. They were ok, but a bit slow. When I left I wrote a polite email to the CEO pointing out the same thing - lag time x wages per hour x number of people in the team. A week later one of the devs emailed me and said they'd just recieved amazing new machines.
Everyone I know just uses facebook on their phones. No need for all this integration, I think SMS is old here in the UK, people still use it, but it's fading away.
You can get unlimited internet on your phone for an extra fiver, or tenner a month.
So true!
Coming from Cornwall (a rural part of the UK) I can't tell you how much we spend sending sales people to the cities for face-to-face meetings.
I liked the bit about VCs from Silicon Valley Vs Boston. I see London VCs, Parisian VCs, German VCs don't even get a sniff. Most amusing, and so very true. I think that may be more evidence for the argument.
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