EnderMB

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by EnderMB 8y ago
Sounds a lot like me a year ago. For the past eight years I've been mostly working as a .NET developer, with my last two roles being senior roles with some form of leadership. If I stuck with my last job I would've probably been i
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The available content has been used in loads of different applications, from text analysis, to linguistics libraries, to spam detection. There's a lot of valuable information there, but it's not easy to get at it. A public API wit
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I'd love to see a full API behind Project Gutenberg, and ideally one that allows full querying of metadata and book text.
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Two very niche ones I follow on Reddit. /r/CasualUK: Light-hearted UK chat, free from politics. Very wholesome if you're from the UK, and a great distraction from what a shit-show the country can be at times. /r/bjj
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Seconded/Thirded. Hell, I have a CS degree, and my Maths knowledge is horrific. I didn't take Maths at A Level, so I stopped learning any Maths at 16. The course had Maths, but it's surprisingly easy to brute force a solution
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It's a fad, but I think most companies are well aware of this. For them, it's an excuse to sell a proprietary bit of hardware and to differentiate their offering from their competitors. It's pretty much what Nintendo have don
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I think you're reading into it a bit too heavily. At that company (small agency), at that particular time, the structure was flat, and this was isolated to a project he was leading. It was raised in a developer meeting, where I said th
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It's not strictly workplace training, but I once worked on a small website for an occupational physiotherapist, and as payment he came to my employers office and helped out with a load of health and safety stuff. We went over the stand
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Absolutely. In the case of libraries it was absolutely solid advice. Sadly, a lot of people didn't actually read the site, and they decided that jQuery was evil and shouldn't be used on websites at all.
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Haha, I remember when that site was released, and a few of our developers jumped right on it without actually reading the text - namely the second paragraph. > If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment t
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I've seen this a few times in the .NET world, mainly as a carry-over from Subversion when we had moved to Mercurial and git. Some mad genius in a company will write a fuck-ton of helper classes and utilities that take the heavy lifting
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Having switched from .NET to Ruby/Rails, I've noticed that different stacks tend to favour different design patterns, based on how much heavy-lifting the language and framework does for you. For that reason, I'd suggest picki
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I think the danger is more around how much alcohol you consume, especially if you do it around professional settings like user groups and hack-nights. If your name can be tied to a HN account, and your account of drinking at developer event
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Alcohol: Maybe a few drinks a month? I love going for a beer or three after work, but the older I get the more I find that I can't tolerate the day after. It's not even necessarily a hangover thing, but more of a stomach thing. Re
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I haven't done any Windows dev since last year, but I've often wondered why more .NET devs don't use Cmder. I've always been a fan of a full-screen console with split panes (tmux style), and other developers have looked
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The best advice I can give to you is that if you're giving a talk on something that you're not an expert on, then tell people you're not an expert. I gave a talk a year ago about Continuous Delivery, despite being a bog-stand
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I said this in a previous thread, but I'm surprised that Microsoft haven't jumped on the developer bandwagon after the MBP fallout. I'd put the Surface Book as ahead of current gen MBP's. The trackpad isn't as good,
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I'm a big fan of the Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip. http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/distraction-pieces-podcast/ You probably won't get much from it if you're not a UK resident, but I find h
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Agreed. I also have the 2013 model and it's a great machine, but it's starting to show its age now, and the keyboard on the Surfacebook is now light years ahead of the MBP. Unless Apple can release a laptop on par with the flagshi
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Agreed, especially when you're dealing with external clients. I've been in situations where internally we've been fine with a slipped go-live date, only for a CEO at a client to send an email at 4:50pm putting everyone on bla
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I'd be interested in knowing how many people switched from the MBP to the Surface(Book) due to delays and changes/issues in the MBP range. I bought a first generation Surfacebook a few years ago because I couldn't wait any lo
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Well, if you're looking for time-tested then ASP.NET MVC is s viable option. If you wanted to walk a bit more on the wild side, you could opt for .NET Core. It's not as mature as the main .NET framework, but over the past year a l
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When I was at university, there were a few older students that had come from careers in software development. They were split into two camps: One would study part-time over several years to boost the knowledge they already have. The other w
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A Computer Science degree isn't a magic bullet. I have a CS degree, and although I managed all my programming assignments just fine, I didn't really feel that I "knew" how to program for a few years after that. OOP took
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As a service, it's fantastic. The only issue I've had with Fastmail is if you ignore a new email notification on their Android app, you won't receive future email notifications. Not a huge problem, unless you're receivin
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I can understand the authors frustrations. I too have worked with loads of full-stack developers that have been fairly standard at both, or people that market themselves as full-stack, but are either Ruby/Python developers that can thr
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For the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the like, I think it's a great way to narrow the list down. If they get hundreds of thousands of applications a year, there's probably a good percentage of that group that "coul
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I've never understood why so many people recommend contributing to open-source projects if you are a CS student or beginner. It's a fantastic way to feel inadequate in your ability to write co
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Nintendo's weakness, for a long time, has been the lack of quality third-party titles, and I think they're fully aware of this. I think a lot of people buy a Nintendo console because they want to play Nintendo games. For a lot of
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Definitely, as long as they have the first opportunity to move into these jobs. I suppose the benefit of management is that it can apply outside of their line of work, but general manufacturing can too. The key would be to ensure that anyon

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