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by EnderMB 14y ago
"Why would you test if someone can reverse a string if you're hiring someone to maintain and build on some shitty web app?" If that question can't be answered then your opinion on someones skill level is irrelevant. Also, if you've got time
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It's not about whether they can do it or not. It's about why knowing a skill that will take even a non-developer ten seconds to Google makes someone incapable of functioning as a developer. More often than not the people that spout that kin
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by EnderMB 14y ago
What a load of bollocks. If your job is to write methods to reverse strings then you are unqualified, otherwise I wouldn't give a shit whether a candidate can reverse a string. Why would I want to know if someone can reverse a string if the
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I agree entirely. A lot of people on here seem to be clutching at straws at best. They offer a lot of "evidence" into why women aren't programmers without actually knowing anything. In my head, positive discrimination is another form of dis
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by EnderMB 14y ago
As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), App.net users pay a yearly subscription to be a part of the service. We'll get a far better reading of the service once that year is up. In my experience of using annual subscription serv
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by EnderMB 14y ago
A less bold statement will be that they both fall flat on their asses. The HN/Reddit crowd is still a fairly closed crowd and no one else I know has even really mentioned App.net. Any time I bring up App.net it's met with the same "Twitter
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm the same, but if you look at the most listened to lists they tend to match the charts pretty closely. There's probably some kind of long-tail effect with Spotify, but a lot of people use Spotify to listen to what's popular right now, an
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I agree strongly with this article, but I think it's overstated some of its points. Yes, if I go to a Web Design commuinity like /r/web_design on Reddit I'll see pages of unusable web pages with hundreds of HTTP requests, 2-8MB of assets an
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by EnderMB 14y ago
If I were Google I'd be twisting Apple's melons pretty hard right now. I'd love to see Google release a Maps app containing some form of cool functionality that directly breaks the App Store's TOS. This leaves Apple with two options: 1) Rej
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by EnderMB 14y ago
iOS and Android aren't the simple beasts people make them out to be. They're still extremely complicated for the most basic of users. Also, who on Earth would you buy an iPhone if you didn't want to use it for its intended purposes? There i
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Nokia were the kings of mobile back when phones were simple, so why the hell haven't they ditched Windows Phone and made phones simple once again?! I bet there's a huge market out there for older users that want a simple and usable phone wi
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by EnderMB 14y ago
That's absolutely true, but hand on heart, how many Web Designers/Developers here really have a say on when they receive content? The chance to build a design around the content would be a fine thing for many of us.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I think I remember seeing a similar tool on Reddit a few months ago. I tried to Google for it, but couldn't find anything so perhaps it's not around any more. Either way, it'd be a very handy tool so I say go for it!
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by EnderMB 14y ago
If she's a Graphic Designer then I'd be surprised if she got any PHP gigs. That'd be for a developer. The best thing for her to do would be to get in contact with some local agencies. They're always crying out for local designers to come in
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm a .NET developer by trade with some very brief experience writing Java applications in Linux. My only real experiences with Linux is from my degree as since then I've been dedicated to .NET. Something I've wanted to do for a very long t
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by EnderMB 14y ago
> "a signal that I should worry about about building off other APIs and not the Twitter API." Call me crazy, but hasn't this always been the case? Relying on an API out of your control is fine if you're running a website, but if you h
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The best thing about a free lunch isn't necessarily that you'll be eating nice food (hopefully) and saving a bit of money. It's that it forces you to ditch your machine or your ritual and to spend some non-work time with your work colleague
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Like many students, I studied at a modest university with what I was told was a good CS programme. It turns out that the reason it's good is because it teaches students how to become the next batch of Java and PHP developers for local busin
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by EnderMB 14y ago
"It's been said here before, but I'm fairly sure the only people "disappointed" and "annoyed" at the many sites using Bootstrap are web developers. Of course we notice UI frameworks because it's our job to create websites." Are you sure you
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I think it is an accurate portrayal of HN and the results made me think "Yeah, I thought so". HN's issue appears to be that it promotes what younger people view as an aspirational life style. College grads and young techie types will read s
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm absolutely shocked that people are okay with this. One of the biggest problems I've found with recent graduates is that the programs they've come from have been nothing more than trade schools for Java and PHP developers, and most of th
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Wow, that's almost entirely the opposite problem I've found in Bristol (UK). There seems to be a lot of people that have stuck with Java after graduating from university and a severe lack of any mid-to-senior level .NET developers. Out of i
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Another story from the HN front page mentioned the value of a college degree in today's workplace. With all this pressure on tuition fee rises and the (wrongly) perceived lack of value in a university-level education it would make sense for
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by EnderMB 14y ago
"I build websites". I'm actually a developer for a full-service digital agency but when you get into developer territory it's rare that the conversation will go any further than "oh, that's cool".
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Many agencies build their sites to work without JavaScript.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Are you sure about that? I've worked a lot of shitty jobs in my time, and every single job I've ever worked at has had the 28 days as the minimum.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Using post-commit hooks to handle your deployment for you can have undesired effects if your scripts aren't perfect. I would recommend looking into continuous integration over this method. I've been using TeamCity for just over a year and i
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by EnderMB 14y ago
As many times as it takes for you to realise that you don't have power over everyone's IT department. Yes, installing a browser is trivial, but people are at this offices to do work. The argument is that these people shouldn't be browsing t
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Read the article. It pushes Progressive Enhancement, so if you are building an app that relies on JS your only choice is to either strip back the JS or ditch older browsers. My beef is with normal websites that don't support legacy browsers
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by EnderMB 14y ago
What you think about legacy browsers is irrelevant. If 5% of your clients users use legacy browsers then they'll not want to throw that market away just because their web developer is terrible at his/her job. If a company is making $1M over

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