EnderMB

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by EnderMB 13y ago
Maybe I'm just an entitled jerk, but I get slightly annoyed when a popular app decides to limit itself to a single platform, and then release later. I subconsciously didn't bother with Instagram because it took so long to get onto Android,
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by EnderMB 13y ago
It's surprising how poorly paid developers are in this country, even in London. In Bristol I was able to earn £25k after graduating, but from what I've heard a lot of companies are now offering lower, around £17.5k to £20k if lucky. A lot o
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by EnderMB 13y ago
> Several years ago I was interviewing somewhere and Googled the job blurb. There were over 100 recruiters who had copied the job details from the company website and pretended it was their own client. (I checked with the company - they
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by EnderMB 13y ago
This sounds a lot like me. I am a .NET developer by day, but I like to write Python when I get home. I don't know if Python is good enough for me to ever want to make the switch in my full-time career, but it's still fantastic to use with D
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by EnderMB 13y ago
My girlfriend is a teacher, and I can say for sure that it is a lost cause. Teachers know that their slides suck, but it's what they are taught, and is what their curriculum demands. They demand bright colours, Comic Sans for dyslexic stude
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I dropped out of grad school to work in a start-up, which also turned out to be my first proper full-time job after graduating from university. I had worked before, in internships and before university, which made me attractive to the compa
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by EnderMB 13y ago
You'd be very surprised at how widely it is still used, especially in schools, colleges, and universities. I know for a fact that my old college still teaches "Web Design" with Dreamweaver (even though coding is nothing to do with design).
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by EnderMB 13y ago
A basic site doesn't have to be designed poorly. My opposition is against design for the sake of designing, and in turn code for code's sake. A page doesn't always need to be loaded to the brim with JavaScript, and a home page doesn't alway
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by EnderMB 13y ago
This came up in a pub a few days ago, and one guy piped up to say "If I see anyone staring at me while wearing one I'll hit them". The guy next to him laughed and said "Brilliant, then he can kick your ass, film it, and put it all over YouT
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by EnderMB 13y ago
I don't mind a bit of design, as long as the design is fully functional for EVERYONE that needs to use it. Yes, that means people using older browsers/machines, users with restricted vision, anyone that requires access to a council website,
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Of course. There is a growing number of companies that will happily look at LinkedIn and personal websites, but the vast majority of companies have HR employees that will insist on a CV in Word or PDF format for an interview.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I know that feeling all too well. I'm a .NET developer, but I often find myself working with front-end code because I know it fairly well. I also find myself being the main person to write JavaScript. Don't get me wrong, I like being good a
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> I very much doubt that this is true. Regardless of whether it is true or not, both drain the battery. Flash probably does drain it faster, but I'm only talking from a user perspective. I will watch about five minutes of video online a
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I will, considering the battery lasts a day on moderate use anyway, and considering I'm the one using it. Do you use Flash on your mobile phone?
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I would still consider it performant, even if it does drain the battery. It drains it just as much as watching a video on the YouTube app will drain the battery. Although I do agree with your comment, I think that Apple's reasons for ditchi
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Flash works perfectly fine on my Galaxy Nexus. It drains the battery, but I use it all the time.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> You're charging a lot to deal with it, which incentivizes clients to stop asking for it. On the contrary, clients couldn't care less about how hard something is for us to do. Sure, if you're working for a creative agency and people ar
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> People can still keep using IE 6/7 for the shitty inhouse apps written for it by their company a decade ago, and use a damn modern browser for everything else. You should try working for an agency that handles large clients. A year ag
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Don't get me wrong. I agree with you, and I don't think it's really a problem. Hell, if it is it's not a problem to use both libraries, and to serve 1.x to those using older browsers. It's just a shift in the core mentality of what people v
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> 1.9 will be supported for as long as people care about to support it. This is what worries me. You only need to spend an hour on HN or Reddit to see that web devs couldn't care less about legacy browsers, even when most businesses nee
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Hello, fellow Bristolian! Most of the advice I'd give is already here. All I can suggest is that you tailor your lessons towards a certain goal. For example, if you were teaching Java to a struggling student they may need strengthening in c
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by EnderMB 14y ago
But the above point still stands. In silicon valley, sure, some people are writing on top of the JVM using Scala, Clojure, Jython and every other cool JVM based language around, but in the real world you'll find a lot of people are still us
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by EnderMB 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. I've worked with far too many freelancers that claim to know something in order to get business, only to then realise that what I'd paid for was hacked together; the kind of work that I wouldn't hire if this freelancer
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The second I read the title and noticed it was a Stack Overflow question, I knew that there would be an answer from Jon Skeet. I'm not usually prone to hero worship, but I've got a lot of time for him. His book C# in Depth is absolutely fan
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Out of interest, what kind of Web Development do you do? In my experience, if you are a PHP developer that primarily uses WordPress, or solely a front-end developer there are far more employers out there that are ready to shaft you. That be
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Absolutely. I joined a scheme in the UK run by Shell called Shell Step. After talking to one of their in-house recruiters they sent me to a medium-sized company for an interview and for nine weeks I worked as a developer in this firms marke
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by EnderMB 14y ago
More often than not, recruiters couldn't care less about what open source code you have out there. They only ask because they believe that amazing developers spends all their free time writing open source code for free, and being able to ma
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by EnderMB 14y ago
In itself, there isn't that much direct value to an employer unless your work in a Masters degree is directly relevant to their product/service. However, the most valuable part of an advanced degree is building your own knowledge and experi
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I work at an agency using ASP.NET, so I find myself regularly estimating for projects and small jobs. The biggest issue with our clients is that they will always argue how long things will take. One of our large clients has a SEO guy in one
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by EnderMB 14y ago
My biggest fear is that Community will get cancelled and that their fans will turn to Kickstarter in order to get Dan Harmon back on board to get their six seasons and a movie.

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