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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm interested in how many people actually use their Surface Book as a tablet. I know a load of people with the standard Surface that use it like a tablet, but very few people that regularly use their Surface Book's detachable tab
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I wouldn't call the high-end Android market saturated. There are a number of players, but it's a market of compromises. If you want a stock Android experience, you go away from Samsung. If you want a headphone jack, you go away fr
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by EnderMB 7y ago
IMO, this is a problem that very few people like to talk about, because we all subscribe to the (correct) idea that a good developer should be tech agnostic. Sadly, those in charge of hiring don't seem to believe the same thing. I was
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by EnderMB 7y ago
During the last indyref, I'm fairly sure that anyone (British) living in Scotland at the time the referendum started would be granted Scottish citizenship, should they want it. Obviously, the circumstances have changed drastically, and
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by EnderMB 7y ago
It's a weird dynamic, and it's one that I would love to see researched, because being a moderator is a thankless job that doesn't really offer the use any real power - but evidence suggests that people will go to great length
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I really hope that we see a single-screen Surface phone in the future. IMO, Microsoft have done a fantastic job with the Surface Book. If they could replicate that high-end build quality while providing a solid feature set and a clean Andro
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Most of the issues I've had with Reddit have been down to moderators, rather than the admin staff themselves. I won't name the subreddit, because it essentially names the moderator involved, but I answered a question regarding web
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by EnderMB 7y ago
It's an option in many places in the UK, but people often won't give out their email for a receipt because it also means that you'll be signed up to someone's shitty newsletter. If I could pay on my phone and receive JUS
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I agree with you on private schools. My other half went to a private school, and her parents were in no way wealthy. She left state education because her primary school messed her education up so much she (alongside other kids in her class)
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I guess it depends who you ask. I preferred the Labour policies from the last GE, but outside of some pie-in-the-sky thinking about private education and universal credit, I think they have some solid policies. The average person doesn&#x27
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Regardless of whatever side you are on, you have to admit that we're currently living in extraordinary times in UK politics. A decade ago, the kind of things we've seen over the last 3-4 years would have been borderline unthinkabl
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by EnderMB 7y ago
This is a very weird criticism. I'm a Ruby dev, but I spent eight years working with C#, and I can't remember any times where a Ruby gem was more readily available than a NuGet package. If anything, I'd say there's less
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Purely anecdotal, but half of the jobs I've had in my career have come from Twitter posts, either from my replying to a Twitter post regarding a job, or me applying to a role via a link I found on Twitter. I've also hired people t
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Nope, not JP Morgan, although I did interview with them too and they talked about some of their Python systems and how they were currently in the process of porting to Python 3. I won't name names, but they're also in the top ten
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I often see your response to #2 brought up, and I would generally agree with it. With that being said, in my experience of working at companies that actively sell software, whether it's as a product or a service, you are still incredib
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I've never worked for a company of that scale, so I don't know how hard it'll be to find legacy developers, but I imagine it'll take at least several years to port a public-facing system to Python 3, if they were to star
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by EnderMB 7y ago
That's good to know, because I was a bit sad at the rejection, despite a chat with their tech lead setting off a few alarm bells.
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by EnderMB 7y ago
The biggest obstacle, at least in my experience, is actually getting that interview. In ten years of writing software, I've had a handful of emails/messages from FAANG recruiters, and they've never ended up in an actual inter
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I like your organism explanation. This is something I've learned over the past decade, albeit not at any company at the level of Google. The way I've often describe software to clients is likening it to Formula 1 cars. With a norm
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by EnderMB 7y ago
This is probably far more common than we'd like to admit. I've certainly worked in places where they'd rather I didn't get involved in the hiring process. These kind of places often heavily relied on external recruitment
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by EnderMB 7y ago
While the article is very "matter-of-fact" about the sunset period and what it means to those that still use Python 2, I'm still surprised that it's taken this long to finally close support. I had assumed that their appr
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Awesome - application sent!
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Would you consider software engineers that require a visa?
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by EnderMB 7y ago
99% of the time I run Windows 10. Despite the negative press that Windows gets on here, it gets the job done with zero issues, and any time I get a weird issue it's usually to do with permissions. I used to run Debian alongside Windows
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Laptop Model: Surface Book 1 CPU: Intel Skylake dual-core processor 3.4 GHz RAM: 16GB Screen: 13.5", 3000×2000 (267 PPI) LCD Personal Comments: I bought the Surface Book after waiting for years for a new MBP release, and despite owning
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by EnderMB 7y ago
While it's definitely something I wish he was harsher on, I remember him addressing it a few times and raising some good points and contrasts between the two - purely paraphrasing and probably not fully accurate: * Rogan felt that he s
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by EnderMB 7y ago
In all fairness, it's no different to any other major iteration of a framework. I imagine that a lot of Ruby developers will be telling their bosses about Rails 6, and trying to push towards it for multi-db support for large applicatio
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I like Joe Rogan, and I think there's a handful of reasons why people love him so much: 1. He has strong principles. This is evident when you look at his involvement in the downfall of Carlos Mencia, despite being a relatively unknown
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Having worked as a .NET dev for the better part of a decade, it's a mixture of things: 1. The cost of moving a standard .NET application to .NET Core. If the benefit is there, it'll happen, but for established code bases I don&#x2
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Weirdly, I've found TV shows to be a great place to find great artists. Even weirder is that American Dad got me into loads of bands, from My Morning Jacket to Wax Hang to These Kids Wear Crowns. I can name a handful of acoustic artist

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