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by EnderMB 13y ago
It's entirely down to the kind of projects you're working on. Most of my work experience is with agencies, so I've had a good mix of clients with new and legacy clients. Some industries have a large number of legacy users, wh
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I once worked with a digital marketing manager that spent most of her day running scripts to spam Digg and Reddit, and using her budget to "outsource" these kind of things (probably using Mechanical Turk or something similar). She
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I remember first looking at this, and thinking it was pretty stupid. I downloaded it out of curiousity and ran it on my work machine while doing a few late nights, and I noticed very quickly that my eyes were feeling a lot less tired near t
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I imagine that 99% of the users on here won't work on any projects that receive the same levels of traffic that Stack Overflow will get, and as such the worries of scaling to this level aren't really an issue. For the vast majorit
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This is actually quite common for loads of companies. I worked in a startup that made the developers have a pretend meeting so we looked like "we worked together", I've worked in agencies where we spent hours of dev time sett
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You'd be shocked at how many bad schools exist. I graduated from a university that tried to drop "Data Structures and Algorithms" because it didn't translate well to the workplace, and that university is deemed to be oka
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Usually, I agree entirely with this state of mind. There's a definite trend of trying to get kids involved in programming at as young an age as possible, especially by those who have kids of their own. Sometimes, I often get the feelin
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I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but I feel that the vast majority of gamers that would be interested in this game probably didn't have the slightest clue about any issues the game has had. I read tech sites regularly and as
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It's also worth noting that even good developers might not understand GitHub. I worked with a guy (around 8-10 years experience, and a good senior dev/technical architect) who spoke to me about someone he was interviewing for a mi
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I've submitted a number of bugs to different tools and sites, and in the vast majority of cases the company involved have promptly got back to me, have thanked me for my time, and have informed me of the status of the bug. In the rare
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I started out at a non-technical startup that was pushing a technical tool as its main product. Out of a team of three developers, I became the Lead Developer, despite having barely a year of experience, simply because I was the better prog
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I'm a .NET developer by day, and I'm definitely a fan. C# is a great language, I've worked on many fun projects, and I've even worked in a .NET startup environment. Many of my experiences do not echo that of the author.
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While this is an important distinction to make, I think that it doesn't understate the importance of this change. I've worked for quite a few enterprise clients, and many of them are in offices working on old hardware and old soft
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Most of my freelance work has been "saving" fairly new WordPress sites that just haven't worked out for clients. I think you're absolutely spot on when you say that it's mostly people who haven't seen any bette
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You're assuming that a school is capable of separating the smart kids from the dullards. The big flaw in your idea is that you're labeling kids who really don't know what they want to do yet, or aren't really happy with
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So, apparently I'm "Only The Best Yahoo CTO"...
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One of my last jobs was at an agency that handled the digital account for a very large airport in the UK. They get a lot of traffic, and quite a high percentage of users using legacy browsers, probably from businesses looking up flight info
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by EnderMB 13y ago
There seems to be a self-imagined divide between these two "camps" of developer. We see: 1. Hipsters that throw tools at a problem, and are eager to know as many different languages/frameworks/tools as possible, to stay
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I know the feeling all too well. In my opinion, a lot of degree courses are not fit for purpose. I studied at an ex-poly that had over 15 different Computing related courses and the only ones of real value were Computer Science and Software
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by EnderMB 13y ago
This is what I am currently using. We build changes using TeamCity on every default (live) branch commit, build the changes into a NuGet package, and use Octopus to pull in TeamCity's NuGet feed. It can be a pain to set up large, exist
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by EnderMB 13y ago
Higher Certificate? Perhaps my knowledge of this is dated, but after you finish your second year can you not go onto the final-year of a university course? That was the case for HND's a while back. If you can move on, and get a degree
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I know it'd be impossible to know these stats, but it'd be interesting to see how many (recent) ex-Googlers went on to start their own successful startup. With that, it'd also be quite interesting to speculate how many of the
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I had written comments for the rest of your points, but then I read your final paragraph. > Programming itself requires design skills, so we know all (good) programmers have what it takes to be good designers by default, they just need a
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> Yes I would - it's not rocket science, though I'm not really interested in satisfying your demands for internet proof, sorry. If I were hiring a web designer I'd prefer one who was familiar with HTML and used it to desig
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You're making a number of baseless assumptions about the quality of my job. I'd say my company is more than ideal. In fact, I'd say that we're pretty darn close to having one of the best processes I've seen in an ag
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On the contrary, the agency I work at now is almost purely a development agency. We usually get freelancers in to handle design, but I will pick up Photoshop whenever I can to do very basic things, such as to mock-up a form change. However,
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This is essentially my argument. A lot of people seem to start out gaining skills in design and development, as needed by their job, but as they gain experience they always tend to go into one camp. I know plenty of people that class themse
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> Writing markup absolutely is part of design So you'd expect a designer to be able to write concise mark-up that works on all required browsers, works well on modern mobile devices and writes clean code? If so, I'd like to mee
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> I've had independent jobs as a designer (including one that was not related to software at all) and as a developer. Though I do bill myself as a designer and developer because I enjoy both and prefer to have a job that is the mix
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The analogy is the least important part of the post. The argument still stands that a designer designs and a developer develops. Some designers do go straight to code, but usually in a prototyping stage and absolutely not as a build for a f

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