Interesting Links for 12-01-2012
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andrewducker- Why the Raspberry Pi computer won't be built in the UK
- This Photograph Is Not Free
- Some decent numbers on how often Scottish MPs would have changed control of the UK government
- The smartphone CPU wars are about to begin
- Teams of 32 people produce code at the same rate as teams of four people.
- Ten 100-year predictions that came true
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:22 am (UTC)But no, that's true, high end photography of Events (tm) will survive. Although I'd be surprised if you can find a photographer who can make a living at it anymore, and if it isn't people who do it at their weekends as a hobby type thing to make a little extra money.
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:50 am (UTC)Obviously it gets a lot cheaper than that if you're prepared to deal with Honest Bob and his phonecam.
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:58 am (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennymathieson/sets/72157628312711287/detail/
Many of the rest are good, but they're not _that_ good.
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Date: 2012-01-12 02:04 pm (UTC)The funny part is that almost none of them are professional photographers - most of them could be described as bungling amateurs who happen to have a really expensive camera and take exactly the kind of photos that you would expect, but as far I can tell they're posting the links with the assumption that they're on the professional side, when any real professional would laugh at them
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Date: 2012-01-12 12:43 pm (UTC)Specifically, we were generating usernames based on domain names, and varying the last character in case of conflicts. There are so many domains of the form wedding-photographer-glasgow.com etc. that we used up all the available characters.
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Date: 2012-01-12 12:46 pm (UTC)/ insightful commentary.
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Date: 2012-01-12 12:45 pm (UTC)On the other hand if you want a really good photo of, say, Westminster Abbey ... well, you can look through loads and loads to find the time an amateur got lucky for less money than you'll spend hiring a pro to go there and take one for you.
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 11:51 am (UTC)Sad though. The general level of quality in images in the media will I think slowly decline over the years. Because there's a lot more to taking a good photograph than pointing a camera.
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Date: 2012-01-12 05:08 pm (UTC)My ex-colleague who went pro (http://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/) does weddings (documentary style), sporting events and (if I recall) portfolio pics for actors/models etc. He is doing really well, really does a lot in terms of professional societies, competitions, magazines etc. to get noticed.
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Date: 2012-01-12 11:34 pm (UTC)Value =/= price.
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Date: 2012-01-13 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-12 12:33 pm (UTC)1992 Conservative govt (Major)
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Conservative majority: 21
Without Scottish MPs: 71
NO CHANGE
... leapt right out at me. The idea that the Major government would not have been profoundly changed had it had a majority of 71 rather than a Euro-rebel vulnerable 21 is ... rather at odds with how things seemed at the time, let's say.
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Date: 2012-01-12 07:13 pm (UTC)One thing I did wonder about the article in the link was where teams of between 5 and 19 programmers were.
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Date: 2012-01-12 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-01-12 10:06 pm (UTC)My current team has 14 people who do dev work plus a bunch of QA, docs, etc. In my opinion this is too many. (There is a reason why they've done this, which is that the plan is to create new products based on the existing code base so they've overhired to get people familiar with it who can then start on the new stuff. It's still too many.)
Date: 2012-01-13 08:59 am (UTC)Also, we break people into smaller huddles, so we have 5 UI devs, 6 midware devs, 5 mainframe devs, etc.
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Date: 2012-01-12 02:41 pm (UTC)How much does a skilled individual cost for a day or two’s work?
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Date: 2012-01-12 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-01-13 04:01 pm (UTC)You can have me as a teacher of improvisational theatre for free.
As an accountant I’m available for multiples of what it costs to hire me for improv.
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