EnderMB

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by EnderMB 10y ago
I'm surprised that Twitter hasn't added a cost for verification, considering these accounts have functionality that many of us don't have (i.e. ability to filter interactions, etc). Sure, people can opt to not pay for verific
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The place I used to work had actually tried something like this, but it completely fell apart, and I imagine when I tell this story you'll realise why. One guy came to us from a recruiter highly-recommended. He had a few years experien
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by EnderMB 10y ago
In my experience, don't. Offer them your best solution for a novice user, which for me is usually an up-to-date machine with an ad blocker, and make sure that you're open for Ultimately, they're adults, and the last thing you
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. What I will add is that there are loads of development jobs in non-techy companies that will treat hiring a developer like they would with any other skilled employee in the company, and these usually involve a re
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by EnderMB 10y ago
It's a tricky one. I can tell a chef when their food tastes like shit, but I can't cook like a chef can, and I probably couldn't tell him/her what he needs to do to make their food taste better. It might not even be a ba
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by EnderMB 10y ago
It's better to know that you're not a good developer than to think you are, blissfully unaware of the problems in your code. I've worked with plenty of people with "good reputations" that have failed to deliver a cl
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I agree that they should cut costs, but I don't agree with your thoughts of how they do so. One of the notable things about Twitter is that they're a huge marketing machine. They have hundreds of employees that handle sales, marke
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by EnderMB 10y ago
They always seem to be hiring people for sales and advertising. I've known some people go to them, and from what they've said their ads team is huge.
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I think there is definitely a demand for a beautiful Linux desktop system, but it would be a tough ask. A few open source projects have had success with the crowdfunding model, when something non-trivial is in demand. If there is a possibil
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I'm going to disagree with all of the comments here so far, and say that if you're looking to learn ASP.NET with the aim of using it at work, you should stick with ASP.NET MVC. If you're learning for the fun of it, it really
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by EnderMB 10y ago
It's absolutely shocking how many people lack basic empathy when shit hits the fan. A lot of people are so quick to throw others under the bus if they make a mistake, as long as it saves their own ass. Witnessing the lack of empathy ha
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by EnderMB 10y ago
It sounds like a really shitty thing to do, but one thing that really helped me in interviews is basically going to more of them. If a company sounds you out, and you're not entirely sure that you want to join them, why not go to the i
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I use a very similar system to this one, but instead of building from environment-specific branches, we branch from a release branch. We use a similar git flow system, but we build when a deployable bit of work has been merged into the rele
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by EnderMB 10y ago
Can you not study part-time? When I was studying CS, there was one older guy in his thirties who was already a programmer for a defense contractor. Simply being a professional programmer put him ahead of plenty of others in my class, leavin
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by EnderMB 10y ago
When I was a recent graduate, I was thrown into becoming the lead developer for a product at a startup after my boss left to become a Java dev. The workload was enough that we needed to hire another developer, so we lined up a couple of peo
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by EnderMB 10y ago
What a silly system! They should have used BobX instead. http://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I can't recommend this enough. I've worked with a couple of youngsters in a professional capacity through work experience programmes, and the ones with a drive to do well from 16 onwards are those that are given the freedom to mak
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by EnderMB 10y ago
I've picked up quite a few over the years, with my favourite being Algorithms by Sedgewick. With that being said, I've tried to teach myself about the most important data structures and algorithms, but I find that I'm not &qu
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by EnderMB 10y ago
This was my first thought. A friend of mine recently left London for a gig in SV, and I've heard nothing but complaints. The weather is lovely, but rent is insane, his new apartment is a shithole (and that's coming from a Londoner
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by EnderMB 10y ago
1) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: I bought this book after it was referenced in one of Alex Ferguson's books. It's a fascinating tale of how people became to be successful by being the right person in the right environment at the r
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by EnderMB 10y ago
From a regional point of view could it be seen as a positive to see a tech company from outside of London thrive and be acquired?
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by EnderMB 10y ago
From a UK perspective, we've largely thrown our eggs into one basket with London. It's the financial capital, but it's also the best place to work if you're involved in design, programming, recruitment, law, etc. With so
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by EnderMB 10y ago
It'd be nice to see someone collate more git workflows, and what the advantages and disadvantages of these are. Over time, my workflow has become simpler and simpler. I've worked with some weird and wacky workflows before, which h
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by EnderMB 10y ago
That kind of thing is quite common in small agency environments, where you might have a bunch of different clients on support contracts paying for x hours a month of time. With that being said, in those types of environments, cost is everyt
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by EnderMB 11y ago
Yeah, without a doubt. Some of the best devs I've worked with don't have degrees. I have a CS degree, and in my own personal view, I think that a degree is extremely helpful. With that being said, your average degree doesn't
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by EnderMB 11y ago
Hacker News doesn't represent the world of programming as a whole. In many companies, developers are hired in the same way that many other office workers are. The required degree is needed, the necessary experience on top. For larger c
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by EnderMB 11y ago
On PHP I quite like Concrete5. It's reasonably clean, and while I've only used it on small sites there are a bunch of people using it as their main CMS for decent sized sites. The CMS I use the most is Umbraco. It's an open-s
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by EnderMB 11y ago
It didn't really help that no one outside of the US could easily watch season 6. I'm a huge Community fan, but Yahoo Screen just didn't work for us. In the end, season 6 was on TV, but a lot of people had just pirated it. Yah
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by EnderMB 11y ago
I remember reading something about how one of the biggest hurdles of tackling homelessness is dealing with those who were made homeless through a history of mental illness. If someone suffers homelessness due to mental illness, I'm sur
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by EnderMB 11y ago
If you do speak to a lawyer, bring up the possibility of getting a debt collector involved. I've worked with debt collectors before, and lawyers often know some really good ones. It might be in both your best interest and the lawyers b

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