Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Startup Visa : The Sausage Is Half Stuffed

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In my first, very personal post about what's now become the Startup Visa movement, I referred to the sausageworks nature of modern USA...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Have finally resolved comments and layout

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After several attempts in the past , I've finally managed to move Kirk's Rants to Disqus for comments, and fixed the layout. While...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

My qCon London 2009 Presentation

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It's hit the interwebs. Here's the video and slide deck all in one . I haven't actually watched the whole thing yet (it's 2...

The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality

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My fearless readers are, no doubt, already familiar with the fact that I'm an American born and bred, but transplanted here to blighty t...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Ivy Tutorial Strikes Back

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We're continuing on with the Jim Moores Guest Post series, as Ivy proceeds to destroy his source code directory. After my previous pr...

Ant, Ivy 2.0.0, and java.net.UnknownHostException

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This is a Very Special Guest Post by Jim Moores , another one of the OpenGamma team. We thought this would be useful to the interwebs, and u...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Dress Code Wars Episode IV: The Suits Strike Back

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Wow. What a bit of a crazy couple of days since my last rant on the absurdity of forcing developers to work under dress codes . It hit Prog...

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