EnderMB

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by EnderMB 8y ago
Isn't the low success rate for H1B down to how it is used for consultancy roles, whereas large companies looking for full-time employees tend to have a very high success rate for "straightforward" applications? If not, then w
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've been wanting to move to NYC for years. I love big cities, and since I was a kid I loved NYC. I went on holiday there a few years ago, and it only reinforced the idea of living there. In practice, finding tech jobs as a Brit has be
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by EnderMB 8y ago
When I was at university, there was one guy that came along to study sessions who was getting his degree part-time. He was already a software developer, writing embedded system software for a defence company, so he was already an establishe
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I haven't, but I was working as the lead developer for an agency on a big-name client in the financial industry. My point of contact was their head of marketing, who said that all development had to go through the IT team. Despite havi
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I agree completely, and this is actually the main reason why I moved it to a coffee shop, because my office was lucky enough to be directly underneath a quiet coffee shop with comfortable seats, lots of table room, and most importantly a re
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Kryptonite. I actually had this a few years back, and this was my default response, without thinking. It got a nervous laugh, and we moved on before I realised it had slipped out.
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by EnderMB 8y ago
We had covered all of these eventualities. We had an uptime badge on the repo to say whether it worked or not, and we encouraged developers to tag us on a GitHub issue or email us directly if something seemed wrong. We were also keen to str
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Yeah, you probably would have failed, since you need to hit the endpoint to get the HR email address as a response. Literally, the only point of the exercise is to get that email address. It says that much in the description of the task, al
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by EnderMB 8y ago
In interviews I like to try and get a reaction, and the best way to do that is to sit down with a coffee or two (or three) and just chat about their experience over the last few years, in a judgement-free zone - dev to dev. In terms of an a
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've seen a lot of people suggest decaf. I go through periods where I drink a lot of coffee and when I drink none at all for months, and the only time I've ever felt withdrawal or headaches is weirdly when I've switched to de
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by EnderMB 8y ago
True. At the time, that was one of the things that worried me, as we were all fairly new (less than a year) to the company in question, and some of us had only been working together for a few months at most. This situation was quite unique,
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've been in a similar position in the past, where I had already been made redundant, but had been brought in to another team on a trial basis with a few other devs. While getting my machine set up in their office, I had been given ele
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by EnderMB 8y ago
This is the killer feature of GitHub for me. When learning a new language, being able to sense-check your code against what someone has done in the past has helped me understand how and why some things work the way they do.
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by EnderMB 8y ago
In my experience, you need to fix the major issues first, and that's the racism and sexism. Lay down policy to all employees, tell them you'll be backing it fully, and if anyone falls prey to it they'll be out of a job. Cultu
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've worked with a few, and they've been a mixed bunch. One of them was one of the nicest guys I ever worked with, and his mind had a real understanding for what we do. When he learned something, he learned it well, and understood
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've set some modest goals for this year. * Fix my diet. I'm fit, but my diet is awful, and I feel awful for it. Rather than just cutting out "bad" things I'm going to do some actual research into what I should be e
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I guess one reason it's less common over here is because it rains a lot, and it's a lot harder to leave a package in plain sight. In Bristol, I've known a few people have packages stolen from porches or from under recycling b
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by EnderMB 8y ago
At least with Chrome you have a rough idea of who will be using your data - Google. I use Gmail at work, and I have an Android phone, so I'd be fooling myself if I were to say that Google weren't tracking me already. With Firefox,
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I "wanted" Mozilla to win, in the last two years we've had the Cliqz and Looking Glass controversies, and a number of security reports based on decade-old bugs. Firefox is a great browser, but Looking Glass was enough for me
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by EnderMB 8y ago
For what Automattic want WordPress to be, WP 5 seems to be a sensible move. WP is a viable choice for the Squarespace and Wix crowd that want to build a website without knowing anything about how to design or code. These services are eating
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by EnderMB 8y ago
My last name is a word in the name of a popular drink company and depending on the domain extension used, I've had some real issues trying to buy a domain that uses my last name. The last domain I tried to buy was ".codes", a
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by EnderMB 8y ago
There are loads of content management systems that follow the same model. My favourite is Umbraco, which to date is still my favourite editing experience. If you can stomach .NET, it's probably the best choice for an open-source CMS av
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Given all the awesome tech to come out of Facebook, I often wonder why their platform can be so hard to build against. I want to like this move, but a platform is only as good as its API, and for years their API offers have been poor. The C
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Here's my take, after working for an agency that tried to introduce "on-call hours". I've mentioned this a few times on here, but I know a lawyer, and he's friendly enough to take a look over any contracts I sign at
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by EnderMB 8y ago
That's becoming increasingly more difficult on the Android side, with so many high-end vendors looking to remove the headphone jack too. Hell, OnePlus ran a campaign eight months ago laughing about others removing the headphone jack, o
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I think the BS is pretty much established from the comments, so no point adding to that. Last year, I spent a week in Toronto and I absolutely loved it. During a tour of the area, it was mentioned that the tech sector was growing, and that
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I have tried to contribute to open-source in the past, but have found the barrier to entry to be too great for me to make a meaningful contribution outside of "I want to contribute". Even friendly communities that welcome contribu
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Could you not argue that the move towards hiring developers from bootcamps is not a step towards on-the-job training? I know of very few examples of knowledge industries where you can go from nothing to "able to pass an interview"
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by EnderMB 8y ago
My issue with JIRA is not that it's bad. As you've rightly said, it's a lovely tool that does everything you might need for project-based work. My issue is that JIRA takes a long time to set up in an optimal way. I've wo
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by EnderMB 8y ago
This actually happened to me before I started my current job. I was leaving a senior-level role as a .NET developer, and was moving over to be a standard-level developer in Ruby and Python. I left mid-way through November, thanks to a ton o

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