EnderMB

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by EnderMB 12y ago
This isn't gospel. This is just my opinion based on observations I've made from working with or against people that are considered "great". You don't know what you don't know. Someone could say something with s
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by EnderMB 12y ago
If you're willing to post on HN about leaving your job, you are ready to leave your job. The trust is clearly gone. You hold no obligations to your company outside of serving a two week notice period. I wouldn't raise the fact tha
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by EnderMB 12y ago
I can only speak from my own experience, but here goes: 1. A lot of graduate internship schemes in the UK are partly funded by the universities themselves for graduates from their undergraduate courses. This makes getting one on the back of
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While that's most likely true, they all go through a fairly grueling interview process where their theoretical knowledge is really tested. It sounds a bit iffy to make someone with a decorated career or an advanced degree go through th
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by EnderMB 12y ago
This is definitely true of large firms, but it still surprises me that the likes of Google could have developers that could get through the Google interview process, but would probably struggle with a take-home test from a company looking f
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by EnderMB 12y ago
Sounds exactly like the guy I knew. In writing, he knew it all, but had no reference to actually apply it. It sounds like many CS graduates, myself included; without applying yourself in a non-academic setting it's quite hard to be a g
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by EnderMB 12y ago
In a similar vein, I'd also like to know how many people manage to land jobs at the Google's and Facebook's of the world, and ultimately prove to be less-than-spectacular developers. I dropped out of a masters degree to join
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by EnderMB 12y ago
Languages: C# / JS Frameworks: .NET / AngularJS / jQuery Database: SQL Server or SQLite if needed for a tiny system Tools: TeamCity / Octopus Nothing too fancy on my end. I build standard CMS based websites at my day job
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by EnderMB 12y ago
I can't agree enough with this advice. You could be the best CS student on the planet, but when you start at a company that all goes right out of the window. Not only is it an entirely different environment to academia, you'll (ve
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by EnderMB 12y ago
A bit of back-story; during my second year of university I picked up C# after a summer internship at a local company. I was purely taught Java at university, but was keen to learn other languages as I wanted to expand my knowledge past what
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by EnderMB 12y ago
I'm a happy .NET developer, but sometimes I often feel that being so involved in .NET alienates me from a lot of useful tooling built for Linux. If I need a tool there's usually something out there for me, but I'm a mid-to-se
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by EnderMB 12y ago
People are replacable. I've worked in countless companies where a tech lead or an important person that seemingly keeps the whole ship floating leaves, and the company is ALWAYS fine after. This urgent project might have done better wi
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by EnderMB 12y ago
Junior developer wages are terrible in the UK if you're not a part of a large business. In fact, I believe a lot of great junior developers move every year or two simply because someone else will offer them more money. Eventually, you
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by EnderMB 12y ago
I hear this mentioned a lot, but I'd be interested in hearing how many opportunities a company like Google would give someone. If you fail twice, would you be given a third opportunity in a few years? How about if you fail again? I thi
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by EnderMB 12y ago
That's a very clever idea, especially since many of the calorie counting apps tend to be very bossy and intrusive. It might be a very good and fun way to get people to think about what they have eaten. It's a shame it's iOS o
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by EnderMB 12y ago
In my experience, directory scripts are similar to forums in that most of them are about a decade old, and very few of them have anything new or exciting to bring to the table. That being said, my experience of directories is quite limited,
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by EnderMB 12y ago
One idea I tend to agree with is the idea that "you are in the position you deserve to be in". If you are in a junior position when you feel like a senior developer, you deserve to be in that position. You might have the skills, b
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by EnderMB 12y ago
Sounds like a great idea, and it looks great. My only worry is the number of jobs on the board. I assume that this will change over time though.
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As a note, these languages do cross over. While you're more likely to see .NET in a corporate setting I've worked in numerous agencies and startups that have used .NET. I've also worked with corporations that solely use Pytho
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by EnderMB 12y ago
A part of me is annoyed that Firefox has spent so long trying to build a set of dev tools when Firebug was already an established tool for them. I agree that the dev tools are a lot better, and I've recently removed Firebug as well, bu
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by EnderMB 12y ago
The latter has happened to me before, except I've never used a recruiter in my life. The recruiter had copied my LinkedIn profile into a Word document and had sent it to loads of companies, including my current employer. Nothing really
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From my own personal experience as a Computer Science graduate, I feel that an ideal Computer Science curriculum would be as theoretical as possible, but would promote outside work in industry for those looking to work in industry. I intern
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by EnderMB 12y ago
Out of interest, did you do any user testing for this site? I've worked on sites that have required a legal accessibility audit and in my experience a lot of screen readers don't even know what ARIA is, let alone use it. Like user
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by EnderMB 12y ago
When I first saw Google Glass, my first thoughts weren't of how it could be used to improve my life, but how it could be used to improve the lives of those with behavioural problems and/or disabilities. While a lot of people think
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I tried to make it as casual as possible. We got some nice coffee from the coffee shop down the road, brought it into a meeting room and spent about 45-60 mins going through the commit history on some of our projects. We kinda lucked out wi
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The first company I worked at hired a fairly poor developer, who eventually turned into a quite talented programmer. When he joined his front-end knowledge was shocking, and he was entering a mainly .NET office with knowledge of PHP, so he
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by EnderMB 12y ago
At every single company I've worked at an Agile-like approach was used. This meant that the daily catch-up is called a Scrum, and that instead of working in a Waterfall approach we've created sprints of however long was needed to
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I remember signing up to GSoC to work on a Java forum for an open-source wiki tool and not getting in. It sucked, but it pushed me to apply for another scheme and eventually I landed an internship in a local business using ASP.NET and I fel
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I'm kinda ashamed to admit that I don't really know a lot about what a union does for its workers, since outside of the odd retail job when I was a teenager I've always worked as a developer, and I've never known anyone
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by EnderMB 13y ago
You may already know about this, but HN Notify is worth looking into. I'm sure it's what a lot of people on here use to make sure they get notifications. http://hnnotify.com/

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