bquinn

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Managing Director of IPTC, the international organisation creating technical standards for the news and media industries. Previously CTO of NewsFixed.com, BBC, Associated Press, Fairfax, UK government and more.
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Comment · 3 years ago
The other day I was talking with someone here in Estonia who is working on a similar system that looks at real-world AWS usage and moves customer machines on to reserved instances, using a marketplace so customers don't have to take on the 12-month commitment of a "real" reserved instance.

It looks like a new wave of AI-enabled cost-cutting cloud startups is emerging. Exciting times!

Comment · 4 years ago
Hmm it seems curious that this attack on a successful Ukrainian startup is happening at this time.

Could it be a Russian smear campaign? It seems like the sort of thing that the St Petersburg disinformation teams would attempt, in very subtle ways...

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Comment · 11 years ago
fewer errors ;-)

Proving your point!

Comment · 15 years ago
I know it's a bit OT but if anyone really does want to charge for offering skills in this way, you should check out a startup called www.minutebox.com which offers pay-by-the-minute video calls which are intended to work like this.

Props to these guys for doing it for free! I hope it works out for you.

Comment · 15 years ago
umm... see that bit under the vote which says "xxx points"? That's how many many voted for that item!
Comment · 15 years ago
Any word on when it will be available outside the US, particularly in the UK?
Comment · 16 years ago
If you're still at Cal then you should talk to international house, they would know lots of good visa consultants etc -- but on the other hand they have to play by the book as they could jeopardize their entire visa sponsorship programme if they do anything wrong... so you won't learn any dirty tricks from them. But maybe you could get work as a tutor etc which would let you stay in the country..?
Comment · 16 years ago
For some reason I thought of this post when I read this story, so I came back to post the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-wr...

It's about writing fiction, but I think we can learn a lot from people who spend years holed up in a loft with a laptop typing out tens of thousands of words that may or may not ever be seen by anyone.

One theme that resonated with me is that you should try to get to something you can vaguely call "finished" as soon as you can: have something on the page that you can then come back and edit, refactor, tinker with. Might help. Good luck.

Comment · 17 years ago
http://www.geonames.org/ (download area at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/)

Used as the placename source for http://www.dopplr.com among others.

HTH,

Brendan.

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