EnderMB

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by EnderMB 7y ago
My biggest gripe with Freenode is that a lot of popular channels are silent. Hundreds of users, but all lurking with very little conversation going on. For me, the best channel was always #csharp. Every time I logged in, there was always a
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by EnderMB 7y ago
What seems to work for me is alternating between a mouse and a trackball when at home, or when my hands start to ache. It doesn't happen much any more, but I tend to use a trackball at home and a mouse at work, and my wrists feel fine.
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Rejected at the CV stage. Oddly, the only company where I've had anything close to a phone call is Facebook, although they reached out to me rather than vice versa, mainly because my CV had a range of different languages that I had wor
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by EnderMB 7y ago
It depends who you ask, I guess. There's a definite shortage outside of London, although few companies seem to want to up their salaries to attract experienced talent. One of the reasons I switched stack was because I would get recruit
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by DS, but I would strongly disagree that work in one stack is irrelevant to work in another. Two years ago, I took a role in a tech stack I've never used before, and in less than a month I was productiv
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Nope, this would be to move to London. I'm in the nice position where I can afford to move/live there, and since most top companies are limited to London it makes sense to go there if I want to maximise my earnings. So, this would
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by EnderMB 7y ago
How is that possible if you have any professional experience? Do I list my CS degree from a decade ago and only my most recent job? Similarly if I am applying for a .NET role (which I've got eight years of consecutive experience in) -
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Even if you don't like him, I recommend reading Russell Brand's autobiography, titled "My Booky Wook" - a reference to A Clockwork Orange. It's an interesting dive into a much-misunderstood character, going deep int
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by EnderMB 7y ago
In my current experience, it depends on so many factors that it's hard to say whether it's simply down to a shortage in experienced developers. If I wanted to get a senior-level job in my local area, I can do this pretty easily. I
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by EnderMB 7y ago
The quality varies wildly, and a lot of people have preferences with their kebabs - chilli sauce, garlic sauce, mayo, chillis, etc. It's pretty hard to mess up a pizza, especially if one of the main foods you deliver is pizza. Plus, if
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I have a CS degree, and while I agree with the general idea that you don't need a CS degree to be a successful programmer I'd say the biggest barrier to entry is in the start of your career - both getting a job and keeping that jo
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm surprised by all the negative comments here surrounding how Windows Server or SQL Server makes this more complicated, or whether the license costs are prohibitive. I worked as a .NET dev for nine years, and although I've never
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I couldn't agree more, and this list pretty much lost me right from the start. If you're fresh out of university, GitHub is useful because it demonstrates relevant non-academic code you've written outside of your studies. Aft
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Understanding BlueJeans’ approach to security and user experience(bluejeans.com)
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I like this idea, although I would also like to see a push towards the improvement of their tech team. IMO, these issues are rarely down to the people in the trenches, and more to do with a lack of budget or care from management. I would pu
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm not too bothered by the number, but am worried that a company will be able to talk their way out of punishment through misinformation. You only need to look at the latest Zoom vulnerability, and the Panera Bread data leak to see ho
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by EnderMB 7y ago
The sad thing is that Zoom will probably get away with not fixing this, or fixing it much later than they should. If you look on Twitter, anyone that has complained about this (huge) vulnerability is being redirected back to their blog post
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm glad to see a solid fine given for a data breach. I've worked on projects in this sector before, and it's a common story to others - client cuts cost as much as possible, until the risk of an inferior product has grown to
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Hmm, that's probably also a big part of it. A good professional-grade laptop can last for years. I've had my 1st gen Surface Book for about three years now and it's as fast as the day I bought it. Unless something breaks, I h
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Would you say that this is because the alternatives aren't as good, or because your workflow is tied towards using Mac? In my case, I think it's definitely the latter. For Ruby dev I could switch to Debian tomorrow and probably be
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'd be interested in MBP sales figures from the batch of MacBooks with the new keyboard/touch bar. From my perspective, despite a whole host of issues, very few people seem to have actually moved away from Mac's. I hear a lot
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I've always wondered about tools like this. AutoCAD was another tool we had around the house, and my dad always seemed happy enough to use that. In a similar vein, he's always been tied to his emails and teaching portals, but he&#
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by EnderMB 7y ago
My dad was a D&T teacher (woodwork, electronics, that kind of stuff), but had a background in carpentry and construction. The Corel suite of design products were his tools of choice, both in industry and when he became a teacher. To him
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Safety. I always use my dad as the perfect metric for this, because he fits the elderly tech stereotype perfectly. I can give him Windows or OSX and he'll usually butcher them into a mess. Their Mac is an absolute mess of toolbars and
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by EnderMB 7y ago
For me, it's a mixture of a few things: 1. Improvements on OSX have stagnated, and any new features that have been added over the past few years have been a side-product of iOS. With all the talk of the OSX team at Apple being scrapped
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by EnderMB 7y ago
A few years ago, I was holding out for a new MBP for ages, and when it didn't come I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Surface Book. I own the first-gen Surface Book, and it's probably the best laptop I've ever owned, Wind
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by EnderMB 7y ago
That's true, but I guess you'll get a feel of what that person values after working with them for a while, whether it's money, freedom to choose their projects, the ability to work on tricky sub-problems, etc. In my experienc
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Another big reason is money. I've done some Salesforce work n the past, on a booking system that needed to read/write with their Salesforce instance. Their Salesforce dev spent a lot of times in our office during the build, and af
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Alongside the other posts, they also offer basic ISA's, albeit rebranded through another company. I imagine they take a small cut or affiliate fee through this, though.
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by EnderMB 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with offering a contractor a full-time position. I've worked with CTO's that started out as contractors, who turned down the extra money to work on a project and business they believed in. If they say no

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