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by EnderMB 9y ago
On that subject, I'm surprised that we haven't seen a clash between journalists and the "tech elite" yet. Sure, there's a lot of crap written about Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like on printed media, but given
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The key point for me is that Amber Rudd wouldn't rule out forcing tech companies to use it by law. If the UK government are going to throw their weight behind a tool, they'd better hope that it's of sufficient quality to not
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by EnderMB 9y ago
For Windows dev, Visual Studio as the IDE, VSCode as the text editor, Powershell running within Cmder, and any required git extensions for running on the command line like Posh Git. For Linux dev, I have Debian installed on a VM in VirtualB
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by EnderMB 9y ago
What frustrates me the most about SO is that they've already solved this problem. The crux of the problem is that SO is great if you have a clear question, and a clear answer. More often than not, this isn't the case, or what you&
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It's easy enough to write code when you're young, but to write something that is being actively used is impressive. With that being said, I do find the worship of young people in tech a bit worrying. Over the years I've worke
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It's not an original idea, but I think there's a gap in the market for this to be done at a more local level, and for the other 90% of jobs that aren't at big tech agencies. A lot of these platforms are trying to solve the pr
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by EnderMB 9y ago
As standard, yes, it would be a bad idea for a normal recruitment agency to do this. My problem with recruiters is that they are salespeople. That's all they are. They take a CV, and they sell it to someone, and ultimately it doesn&#x2
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I had an idea a while back around inverting the interview/recruitment process, but a lack of resource/willpower/ability means I won't ever follow through with it. Regardless, I like the idea of it. If a third-party recru
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In theory, wouldn't it require someone challenging the government in a court of law? It sounds like this kind of thing is very common, but because there's no challenge to these crimes the government just carry on as normal. I know
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You've essentially described my interaction with dozens of agencies, where all projects are initially design-led and passed to the developers. It's funny how everything a (good) developer builds will match a written requirement, b
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've only recently started learning Python, and the f-strings remind me a bit of the syntactic sugar provided by C# for string.Format() (var str = $"Hello, my name is {name}."; // for those who care) I get the same
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by EnderMB 9y ago
A few years ago I remember being asked to sit in on an interview with a senior-level developer. Our lead seemed really impressed by this guy, and he had a ton of specific questions written out on various tools, which was fairly strange as w
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by EnderMB 9y ago
It's surprising how throwing a random name on something will make you want to buy it. A local pub near my office sells Trooper, a type of ale "created' by Iron Maiden, and the novelty of it seems to result in most people tryi
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Absolutely. They vote in numbers, they put money towards traditional media, and as such they have a lot of power. Regardless of their "political" power, it'd just be a nice thing to do. Getting old sucks, and if Uber could do
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I've worked with a few designer/developer hybrids, like myself, and this almost always turns out to be the case. Even when it doesn't, you find yourself doing more of one than the other for a prolonged period of time, and sud
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Uber has a lot of negative press, but if there's one way for them to turn all of that around, it's to pander to the older generation and to provide senior citizens either heavily subsidised or a subscription-based system. They won
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I think it was mainly luck, because I've noticed this on both sides. Senior roles are extremely hard to fill because there aren't enough experienced developers looking for full-time roles. In the UK you often reach a certain earni
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by EnderMB 9y ago
IIRC, Powershell and CMD have different chain syntax, so it depends which one you're running from. If I'm using CMD I can use &&, whereas | works on PS. I might be wildly wrong on this one, but I'm a big fan of writin
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by EnderMB 9y ago
JSON.NET is the standard library for handling JSON on the .NET platform, and to my knowledge it's available for both .NET Core and for use with F# collections. I've never used F# on .NET Core, but I'd be surprised if it didn&
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've definitely seen this shift, mainly because a lot of people seem to be coming to the realisation that the iPad is a fantastic tablet, but a shitty work device. I like the iPad, and I like the idea of using it as a basic client for
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've been lucky enough to join a company that is largely agnostic. The devs here seem to be mostly Ruby and JavaScript, but a bit of Python too. I've not done much dev yet outside of a few bug fixes, but simply being out of my ele
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Out of interest, what distro do you use? I tried to run Ubuntu on mine a while back, and ran into nothing but issues, so I stick to a VM with Debian nowadays.
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Same goes for Python and JavaScript in my experience. A lot of people see Mac as "close enough" for any Linux based development, and will build on a Mac and deploy to a Linux based server. In terms of Lenovo, they were usually pre
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Over the past year and a bit, I've seen far more Surface Books than before, and I put that entirely down to the delay in Apple releasing the new MBP model. A lot of people wanted a new model, and Apple took their sweet time, so they we
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by EnderMB 9y ago
One of my favourites is C# Digest. https://csharpdigest.net/ Five links every week, all in some way useful or informative for a .NET developer.
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From my perspective, I'd try walking before you run. You need to get the interview first. Although you hear of Google hiring thousands of developers a year, and those that do get hired having a 5% chance of success or whatever, that do
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Like the others that have commented, I found that your landing page didn't really tell me what your product did, or why it does it. However, the about page does this pretty well, and I while I think you've targeted a very niche an
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by EnderMB 9y ago
On the subject of drops, it's worth speaking to a pharmacist about getting eye cream/gel if you find that you suffer from dry eyes. I used to get occasional headaches, and maybe once or twice a year I'd get a minor corneal ab
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I've got a few that have worked for me in the past. 1. Find your local job boards. A large number of agencies in my local area post on a local media job board, even though in my experience on the other side of the hiring process not ma
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Looks like a nice overview, although it's a shame to see very little on the .NET/C# front.

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