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by EnderMB 14y ago
Fantastic! I'm primarily a C# programmer and have first-hand experience of this being true.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I work for an agency that often picks up work from large agencies or in-house teams and most of the time I find myself using either Subversion or Mercurial. We use Mercurial for our own projects, but one client uses Git, which I use at home
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I thought the original Roadsters were only around £70k? Aren't the new signature models the ones that are around £90-100k? Obviously, the average person isn't going to buy a roadster, but £90k is still affordable for some senior-level types
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by EnderMB 14y ago
This is absolutely true. Despite what people think of Jeremy Clarkson and co the truth is that Top Gear is the most popular car show in the world by a huge scale, and it wouldn't be the first time that it has been said that the kind of powe
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Absolutely not. One of the guys in my CS class was 27 when he first started programming. Not only did he end up in the top of the class, he landed a good job at a huge consultancy firm and became a senior member of staff within about two ye
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I expected far, far worse. In all honesty, I know plenty battle-hardened, professional contractors that don't have personal sites this good. The only issues I can point out is some HTML validation errors, mainly with header tags that don't
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I appreciate that people will run XP/IE6 like an application environment rather than an OS for people to use, but by the time the new service pack hits it'll be coming up to 2014, when Microsoft officially ends support for XP, meaning those
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It depends on your site. One of my clients in the legal sector in the UK and Europe still gets 4-5% of its visitors visiting from IE6. You are largely correct in the bigger picture, but it's still surprising how popular it is in some areas.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It's important to note that Google's apps do not support legacy browsers any more. Last time I checked on my VM, the main Google search engine works perfectly fine in IE6.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The answers to this question will be skewed as a lot of people on here work at startups, with no interest or need to support legacy browsers. I work at a digital agency, a lot of our larger clients still desire legacy browser support (somet
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The reason why this happens to a lot of developers is because: 1) They have a LinkedIn or Stack Overflow account. 2) They have dealt with a recruiter before, either looking for work or from cold calls. I've had the (mis)fortune of both. The
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I am both a front-end and back-end coder for a digital agency. We have some huge clients that require legacy browser support (IE6 and above) so it's a mix of typical front-end stuff, a ton of VM's for testing and if we're working on a new b
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I believe the whole "all kids should code" bandwagon is over the top, mainly because to me coding at its most basic form is a skill that is acquired through equal parts of learning and experience, very similar to the likes of plumbing or ca
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by EnderMB 14y ago
London will always be the exception, but given the number of user groups already held in Bristol that manage to get around 50-100+ people in a month with ease I think that Bristol would be the natural choice outside of London. Whether a HN
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by EnderMB 14y ago
But if it's so easy, why has nothing changed after all this time? It's apparently not rocket science, yet all these intelligent people are going into teaching and the same methods are still used. Teachers continue to spend long hours after
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Out of interest, how many people from outside London go to these meetups? I'm in Bristol, so a bit far to travel.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
You're definitely not alone. I cannot stand anything getting near my eyes, so there is no chance I could ever wear contact lenses. I don't mind my glasses, mainly because I'm very short-sighted and really need them if I'm driving or walking
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> Yes, it is, and it have nothing to do with our funding. The way we teach is extraordinary inefficient and outdated. I don't disagree, but do you have anything to back this up? I ask because my girlfriend is a teacher, and teaching is
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Regardless of how good a developer is, there is simply no way that a single week will get a developer proficient in a different language to write sufficient code. Yes, any sane dev team will dedicate senior developer time towards getting a
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It depends on your definition of "know". I'm a .NET developer by day, and I've met numerous Java developers that have crawled into a .NET role, either as a contractor/freelancer or into a entry/mid-level role at a company, claiming that bec
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Anyone I know that has ever used ReSharper will struggle to work without it. ReSharper is one of the best tools I've ever used, and it makes writing C# a joy.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
That's what happens when you browse HN in the office kitchen during breakfast.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I listened to this, and watched him on BBC Breakfast. It was as painful as the article implies, and it is clear that he had barely even prepared for his interview outside of preparing a few lines of bullshit to spout about "the Blackberry e
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Crap Branded Apps(crapbrapps.tumblr.com)
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I am a .NET developer by trade, and any other .NET developers I know that have heard of F# love the idea of it and would happily use it. The sad part is that this is often as far as it goes. I think C# is a fantastic language, but if the de
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It's highly common for people on here to complain about how slow many modern websites are, mainly because they rely far too much on JavaScript or are trying to do too much on one page at one time. File size is a very real measure that needs
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by EnderMB 14y ago
In many ways, an apology is all they can do. Much like how the original post states, Steve Klabnik, Corey Haines and David Cramer's comments on this repository are out there, and now that includes the mob against them and their apologies af
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by EnderMB 14y ago
This is an idea I am currently working on, similar to SitePoint's old "Dust Me Selectors" plugin for Firefox, but running in the background for all selected sites until a set amount of time or the user is happy that they have exhausted all
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I should have been clearer. Both examples market themselves as full-service agencies. You're absolutely right that creative and marketing agencies skew their pay towards the creative and business sides. Sadly, in my experience, a lot of ful
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It has been my experience in agencies that designers are often the guys running the show at larger companies, with development often viewed as a commodity that is nice to have in-house, but could be traded away to another agency with little

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