EnderMB

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by EnderMB 9y ago
1. Expand my development horizons. I've been a .NET developer for most of my career, and I've recently taken a job at a company that is mostly Node/Ruby. This year, I want to learn enough RoR, Django, and Node to be able to c
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While that's true, C# isn't limited to enterprise. I've worked in startups and digital agencies throughout my career, and C# is everywhere in the latter. It's a lot harder to find startup work, but there are people build
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For your argument, wouldn't history still be a key marketing tactic? If an ISP started to throttle traffic, then reversed their decision, the damage has already been done. The message would switch from "Unlike Comcast, we don&#x27
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I'm working my way through LPTHW, and from what I can tell (I'm at exercise 35 now) most of these criticisms are now out of date with what he's currently teaching. From what I understand, LPTHW was essentially a book/cou
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by EnderMB 9y ago
In addition to this, Sky Sports is pretty much the only game in town in the UK when it comes to sports. Sky hold an insane amount of power in football, to the point where if they want a game to be played at a different time/day the fix
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I'm sure many people have similar stories, but the first thing that went through my mind was when a new dev joined my old company. He'd been recruited directly, and after a successful week trial he was given a full-time role. A we
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I used to run and go to the gym. I got in pretty good shape, but it felt too monotonous for me. For the last two years I've been going to Brazilain Jiu-jitsu classes, and I've been getting the same level of exercise, but I also ge
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by EnderMB 9y ago
This sounds a lot like what Newsvine was in 2006, albeit with a different focus on how that news is generated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsvine I'll be interested in their implementation, but it doesn't
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I wish every Scala house had this attitude. I'm a .NET developer by day (for the moment, I'm moving jobs soon), and I applied for a handful of Scala roles, and I didn't even get as far as the interview stage for all but one o
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My thoughts exactly. Regardless of whether HIV is a "death sentence" or not in this day and age, it's at best an extremely undesirable illness that many would give everything they could to be rid of forever. What they did was
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've switched over, and I'm loving it so far. The dark theme looks great, and it's as quick as Chrome for me. The only major downsides for me so far are: * I have a lot of bookbarks on my toolbar that I ported over from Chrom
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by EnderMB 9y ago
As a British person, one of my favourites lately is: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/ With all the doom and gloom in the UK at the moment, it's nice to go somewhere on Reddit and talk about what supermarket
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by EnderMB 9y ago
This is why I suggested donating to a "lobbying group" that is pro net neutrality, and is run by figure-heads that would always side with net neutrality. If Reddit is anything to go by, a lot of people are being asked to contact t
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I'm not American, so I don't know how this works, but would it not be a good idea to fight lobbying with lobbying? Create a lobbying group, funded by a mix of regular people and businesses that push towards the ultimate aim of net
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've worked at an agency that went fully into Agile and Scrum. When it worked well, we had a single sprint board with different product backlogs, with different PO's for each product (where possible). All dev work would go onto a
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by EnderMB 9y ago
In the .NET universe, demand seems to continue to grow in the UK, especially in the CMS landscape. However, demand for lower-paying jobs using open-source CMS's like Umbraco seems to be rising, whereas the rates for contractors are ris
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by EnderMB 9y ago
The problem I see with the "agent" model is that it either short-changes the recruiter, or results in an agency that manages too much talent to offer a personalised service (i.e. reverting back to being a bog-standard recruiter).
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by EnderMB 9y ago
It's not as application-heavy as a lot of other platforms, but there are definitely some great applications built on top of .NET. If you're looking for a CMS, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better open-source CMS that runs o
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by EnderMB 9y ago
It's more of a person-to-person thing, and not really something we can offer much advice on, as we don't know your personality, or your bosses. A few years ago I had a manager that would claim that we did BDD all the time because
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by EnderMB 9y ago
This is the only thing stopping me from buying a Samsung phone. They've almost a completely different company from the original Samsung Galaxy days. If they could partner their build quality with a stock experience and optional downloa
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've got the full intention of keeping up to date with .NET. After all, no job is permanent, and there's every possibility that I'll be using .NET/C# in my new job anyway. I meant jump as jumping between companies, as I
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Ask HN: Making the move from Windows/.NET to Linux/Python/Ruby/etc?
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I've worked with a couple of "child geniuses". The kind of kids that were freelancing at 12, writing search engines at 14, working in agencies at 16 alongside college, and senior developers at 20. Half go down the alternative
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I'm in the UK, but I've always thought of moving to NYC one day (despite the man in government at the mo). Is it really only a 30 minute commute into Manhattan?! I live in Bristol, and at times I've had an hour commute by bus
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My thoughts exactly. Software development in general is a high-bullshit career, so I think anyone involved in either building software or hiring people to build software is going to have an extremely well-tuned bullshit detector.
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I mainly use Wappalyser, after finding it to be more reliable than BuiltWith, but I've given this a quick go on some of the sites I work on, and I have the following feedback: 1. All in all, this looks really tidy, so nice work! 2. Sad
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by EnderMB 9y ago
Yep, it took me a while to figure out why my commit dates didn't match the dates within GitHub. Luckily, it's fairly straightforward to figure out once you know what the issue is!
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I think a lot of people don't bother with rebasing because they either don't know how to do it, or they are scared of the idea of a version control system not explicitly saying what they've done to accomplish the latest versi
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by EnderMB 9y ago
I'm surprised at the line regarding the need for work authorisation in the US. I would've assumed that Microsoft would be willing to arrange visas for those of us outside of America.
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I agree with the other comments, but in addition, interviewing ten people a day is far too many. Either the interview process was too short to truly gauge a persons ability, or you're stretching yourself so thin that someone would be t

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