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To add to this, I've known senior developers that have just turned 21, and developers with a decade of experience that have yet to have a senior title. On the face of it, the latter is usually the stronger dev. The reason why the forme
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London is a great city, and I think that if you could offer most people the opportunity to own a house (or even rent) near their work for a reasonable price, they'd jump at the chance. The problem with London is that it's simply t
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I've worked with some talented designers in the past, and this rings true every time. They are often seen as great designers because they don't compromise, and the result of that is a happy designer, a not-so-happy client, and an
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If you work with undesirable technology then it's entirely possible to double it. As an example, a friend of mine is a Sitecore developer. Sitecore is an enterprise-level CMS on the .NET framework that is used by large companies, and i
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That was a fantastic read. In a world of products and apps that seem to be a solution looking for a problem, it's nice to see a full story illustrating a common problem, and how a technical person came to provide a featured solution to
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Yep, that's what we were told. It doesn't matter if you're doing the right thing by getting out of someone's way, you'll get a fine/points if you cross the line. Although, if you are at a set of traffic lights
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Nope, I think his court case has been moved back. The court wouldn't say why, but it's believed to be because they want him to ensure he gets the most out of his time back in rehab.
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Umbraco have released a pretty cool REST framework for this approach, and I've built a few React apps off of it. I remember seeing a demo of it where it was being used to build webapps in Node and Ruby, alongside React, which for a .NE
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As someone that has been caught speeding, it's also worth mentioning that one of the big reasons why the UK has improved its road safety statistics is a reasonably new initiative where you get an option on your first offence to either
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This seems to be an area where they are limited compared to Apple. In my view, Spotify have pretty much "won" the streaming war. They beat Apple to the market with their streaming offering, and they have a good product that people
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Out of interest, where does the chain of command lie? I've worked with people in the past that respect the chain o' command to such a degree that they will follow everything a more senior member of staff will say, but will both ig
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No idea where you're getting most of this from. I was a C# developer as recently as 2017, and I'd say that I prefer Windows 10 to OSX as a development environment, but going through your points: * Upgrades are handled by the syste
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While I agree to an extent, I think it does a disservice to those that want to be involved in tech and can't take 3/4 years to get a degree to get past HR for an interview. I've worked with a few bootcamp grads in the past. S
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In the UK, I've noticed more companies moving to Entry -> Junior -> Mid-level -> Senior. To me, this makes sense, as it allows easier access for people re-training or coming in outside of school without a degree. Graduates com
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This is why the attitude of "well, we know Facebook stores all our data, so what?" really annoys me. It's not that Facebook tracks this data, it's that the Cambridge Analytica story shows that this data has been shared a
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I'm glad that I wasn't the first (or second) person to notice this. Admittedly, 99% of people are using git as a centralised source control system, and outside of branching/merging there hasn't been much of a change in w
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I like the idea of personal data regulation, but I can't imagine it being easy to enforce, when data can be passed with complete ease and without any detection when compared to moving expensive physical goods. The big problem right now
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I guess it depends on where in Europe you're from. This doesn't seem to be the case in the UK, where a lot of employers really couldn't care less if you're got a Masters of not. Hell, when I was studying for a masters, I
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A few reasons: 1. For me, the damage is already done. Facebook has over a decade of data from me, and even if I were to delete my account the Cambridge Analytica story shows that Facebook has already shared that data. Even if there was a wa
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The main thing I don't get from this approach is the idea that deleting Facebook somehow frees you from this level of data mining. In reality, it's well-known (not just by techies, but everyone) that when you "delete" Fa
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On the .NET side, I've had a lot of success with Umbraco, using it as a headless CMS to provide content for a Node/Express application. https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS https://github.com&#x2
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I don't use C# any more (outside of personal projects), but I absolutely love it as a language. ASP.NET has always been a mixed bag for me, and I've always felt tied down by my decision to restrict myself to the Windows platform.
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Having worked for a few places with on-call clauses in contracts, I'm inclined to say yes. There are companies that handle on-call work really well. They'll pay a person over their usual hour rate for nights on-call, and they will
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As someone that has loosely tried to learn Mathematics over the past decade, I second this. Self-learning mathematics is really difficult, especially when you don't really know where you stand any more in terms of pre-requisite educati
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LINQ is the reason I became a .NET developer after leaving university. I was bored of Java at university, and as the project I was basing my dissertation on was a web-based search engine I decided to use C# and ASP.NET. The professor helpin
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The web interface is fantastic, to the point where I use my Fastmail account for most of my email because it's less of a pain in the ass to go through. The mobile app is also fantastic, but I've had instances in the past where I&#
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Admittedly, it's been a while since I played with Docker on Windows, but the last time I used it the containers were huge and temperamental. Has the experience improved in the last year?
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It's this mentality that made me switch jobs. The last five years have been pretty kind to me - senior developer at two companies, delivering a number of successful projects, building up development teams, delivering talks and open-sou
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I think the gig economy has helped #1 considerably. In the UK, at least, a lot of developers reach a point where their pay is limited to what a company is willing to pay them for a full-time role. When you get to this point, you have a choi
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Mine is a similar story to others, although I can't really say if it's a success or not. For the past eight years I've been a C# developer, working my way up from mid-level to senior developer across a number of companies. I&

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