EnderMB

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by EnderMB 8y ago
It would be a nice gesture, but I still don't believe people will forgive Microsoft. Microsoft are a different company to the one that tried to damage FLOSS. Those people want an apology from a strong Microsoft, not one they refuse to
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by EnderMB 8y ago
For the people that are still against Microsoft's involvement in mainstream technology, I don't think there will ever be a time where they'll accept Microsoft. That's not to say that their criticisms are unfounded. The m
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by EnderMB 8y ago
That's what I initially thought, but even with my rough estimates of around £8500 in NI from the employer, and around £9-10,000 in recruitment fees (assuming roughly 15% of the first year salary, which is already pretty high) - with al
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Their job posts say "up to 60k", so it's not just a bad title. It's a blatant lie. The main question, for me, is what point the article is trying to prove. The cynic in me believes that it's an effort to drive down
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by EnderMB 8y ago
So, has MyPinPad actually tried raising their salary offering to £100k? I find it very hard to believe they have, because that would be well-above the average for the area. In relation to standard Web Developer roles, it'd be over doub
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Outside of his work at Microsoft, I was mainly aware of him through his ownership of the Seattle Sounders in MLS. I live in the UK, where we have world-class football teams aplenty, but I think the Sounders were the first team in MLS that I
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by EnderMB 8y ago
That's good, although I'm a bit wary of what will happen to GDPR after Brexit, and whether it gives the government a mandate to reduce penalties for businesses not meeting security standards.
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I'd say that £500k would be fair, but still fairly tame for how dangerous this breach could've been. £500k is essentially how much it would cost each year to hire a team to fix these issues and maintain their systems. If £120k is
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by EnderMB 8y ago
That's no different to any other major European city. The difference was that in Barcelona you had to have pre-booked, otherwise things that usually aren't ticketed in cities like Amsterdam or London like parks aren't fully a
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by EnderMB 8y ago
The culture point was a shocking one for me. I spent a week in Barcelona and you had to spend money to do pretty much anything, and if you've not pre-booked it's likely that you won't be doing what you want to do until at lea
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by EnderMB 8y ago
That is extremely low for London. That's the salary I'd expect in Bristol, and compared to the rest of the country London is probably a good £15-20k on top of that. With all that being said, salaries are pretty low in the UK right
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I used to hate Turkish Delight until I bought my girlfriend some posh Turkish Delight for her birthday from Hotel Chocolat. This stuff was basically pure Turkish Delight in powdered sugar, and it was lovely. It had a hint of lemon and rose,
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've had similar issues in the past, and here's what I did to resolve them: 1. Get the others on board. I assume there are other developers in your team. Pitch your ideas to them, and not management, and get whoever is in charge o
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by EnderMB 8y ago
This reminds me of a bit in one of Bill Burr's standup shows, where he says that if a woman wants to make her boyfriend/husband happy, she should make him a sandwich, hand him a beer, and then leave him to whatever he was doing be
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by EnderMB 8y ago
This sounds just like my experience with the Surface Book. It's the best laptop I've ever owned, but the OS still requires some improvement. With that being said, for the first time in years I've felt that Windows isn't
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Absolutely. That selection of developers barely makes up a fraction of a percentage of the working developers out there across the world. In the UK, salaries seem to have gone down across the board from what they were a decade ago - even fo
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I'd be interested in hard data too, mostly because it seems absolutely true across multiple stacks. In my own experience, junior development salaries have dropped in the last decade and the number of people that apply for roles has inc
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Yes! I give blood regularly, and the only painful part of the procedure is having the side of my finger pricked to test my iron levels. Since it's on the side it doesn't affect me that much, but I feel it for much longer than I fe
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by EnderMB 8y ago
A mate of mine worked for a large bank in the UK, and his experiences were different to this. One of the managers was Oxbridge educated, so they almost exclusively hired CS grads from Oxford and Cambridge. In their mind, they were the cream
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I've posted about the Surface Book a ton of times, but I can't recommend it enough. I bought it when Apple delayed their MBP offering, and I'm glad I made the switch. As a Linux desktop, there were some teething issues with t
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I couldn't agree more, although I'd argue that there are two things that keep people using WP. 1. The UI. Most people know it, at least a little bit, so it is sold on the fact that it is usable. I'd say this is true in the sa
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Bristol is probably the biggest tech hub in the UK outside of London. It's considered an expensive place to live, but you can find affordable housing if you're willing to live on the outskirts in a less desirable place, with the a
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Umbraco. I was a .NET developer for many years before moving onto a Linux stack, but I am still yet to find a CMS that rivals Umbraco for ease of use. It's open-source, has a great community behind it, has cloud offerings, and has enou
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by EnderMB 8y ago
A lot of people seem to dislike Zed Shaw's books, but I think the book and the accompanying videos were great. It was less to do with the content, and more to do with the forced approach towards typing out every exercise, embracing fai
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by EnderMB 8y ago
If they've got a ton of money, they're likely to have a PA, so I'd consider reaching out them with an email or letter detailing exactly what you want. It won't be direct, and even the best case scenario is that the PA sa
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I live in a decent-sized UK city, but I think I'd struggle to find any roles where the company has. 1. Has interesting/non-soul-destroying work. 2. Has a NYC office that shares a development department 3. Has an open culture of re
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Yep, probably should've mentioned that above, since it's not a popular enough sport that everyone will know what it is.
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I'm very interested in this too (British - have always wanted to move to NYC). A few years back, I sent out some speculative applications to companies in NYC for senior-level roles, but didn't receive anything back outside of one
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by EnderMB 8y ago
I used to work out at the gym, but I got bored of it, and wanted to do something that would give me some kind of 'skill' at the end of it. So, I looked on Twitter, and found a post about a BJJ class near the office. I had my gym c
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by EnderMB 8y ago
Ten people is a lot for a Scrum team, so I think it's only natural that if you have ten people in a meeting it's going to take a long time, regardless of what people have to share. What worked for me the last time I had a large te

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