EnderMB

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by EnderMB 8y ago
From a tech perspective, I think it's a good thing to step towards automation for low-quality burgers, especially in chain restaurants where a recipe has been modified to ensure that the flavour is consistent across the country/wo
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Occam's Razor applies here. While you're absolutely right, it is far more likely that someone was able to do this because there is a lack of security in their software engineering practices. This isn't aimed at you, but I thi
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For me, it was when I reached a point where there was nowhere else in my area that excited me. For eight years, I had worked in both small and large agencies as a .NET developer, working on a whole range of sites - some tiny ones, mostly me
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Another reason I'd like to add regarding why so many software projects fail is a really basic one, but is ultimately the reason why most software projects fail. The budget isn't there. For many, building software is a race to the
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This was one of the main outcomes I was hoping for in the last HN thread on this acquisition. GitHub get the strong CEO they were hoping for, and one with solid credentials with interacting with the development community.
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It's why I'm surprised at the timing, since GitHub has had its own issues over the past few years, with a founder and other staff members leaving over harassment, and some questionable comments coming from members of their new tea
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I guess it depends what side of Microsoft we get working with GitHub, whether it's the friendly outreach side alongside the .NET Foundation, or whether it's the internal software team that want to integrate GitHub into internal to
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Absolutely, and this has been the case for many years. Microsoft has contributed to open source heavily for a long time, but it won't stop a lot of people that have been burned in the past from not trusting Microsoft.
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This was largely my thought behind the move. Given that GitHub is quite proudly built on Ruby, I can't see them wanting to switch things up from a tech perspective. GitHub is stable, and it's tech stack is capable of staying up de
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I spent eight years building software on .NET, so I have a lot of time for Microsoft, but I fully understand why a lot of people aren't happy with this news. It's been good to have a leader in open-source that is unaffiliated with
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I agree on the VSTS front, but a lot of people use Atom and I can see many of them being put off by being forced onto VS Code. Lately, based on comments made while promoting .NET Core, it sounds like Microsoft don't want to consolidate
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I've made this transition over the last few months. For the past eight years, aside from dabbling on my own, I've been a .NET developer. I've worked in startups, agencies, and good-sized companies, and have delivered more pro
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I think the dream for a lot of people is a Surface Phone, built on Android. From a privacy standpoint it'd probably be absolute hell, but the build quality of every Surface product I've used has been phenomenal, so if they could t
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I've made the opposite jump to you. I recently switched stacks and moved to a company that almost exclusively uses MBP's and OSX. To make matters worse, my first time using a Mac in anger was my first day on the job. A few months
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Outside of ReSharper causing issues, I can't say I've ever had any major issues with Intellisense being unreliable. If anything, Intellisense is often referred to as one of the best features of Visual Studio, and why people consid
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Alongside this, it's all down to risk. I have limited experience with financial systems (zero directly working with banks), but I've noticed a trend where institutions are willing to take huge gambles with the integrity and securi
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To be fair, the gopher does appear on their branding in place, just not where the blog post has shown. The agency page for their work on Go features an updated gopher graphic, and I think the home page looks quite nice. The branding booklet
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My experience is pretty much the same as yours, and I largely agree with everything you've said. One thing I'll add is that one of the reasons why branding is hard is because there is often a surprisingly large disconnect between
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For me, it was working on a solo project for a large charity in the UK. They were releasing a service in 18 months time that hooked up to a bespoke API, and I was very keen to ensure that we built something robust and simple. It was a lot o
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The enterprise market is a huge one for all involved in the chain. Drupal loves it because their tools get used on large-scale websites, and it differentiates them from the likes of WordPress. Agencies love it because the enterprise market
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Public speaking and the ability to pitch ideas is perceived as very valuable to client-facing businesses. In terms of career progression, a lot of companies are more willing to hand control to a developer that can articulate their ideas to
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Despite being a British citizen, I don't understand the university model all that well, but one argument I see being banded about over the creeping levels of control over UK universities is why the more elite-level universities haven&#
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This was always a running joke for the .NET devs I've worked with. If you need a fresh install of Visual Studio, SQL Server, or anything from Microsoft then you'll be waiting a while, so go make the dev team a round of tea/co
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For a long time it wasn't, but it looks like GitHub are slowly rolling this out to people. Given that Jenkins is pretty popular, you'd think that they'd be able to sort something out with GitHub to get bumped up the list for
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We have dockless bikes in Bristol, and we've had similar issues. The biggest issue I've found is that most services require you give up use once you park, meaning that you could use one to get lunch and then come back to see that
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Maybe a while ago, and I guess it's down to what sector you ask, some will say neither. Bristol has been touted as the second city for a lot of agencies, so a number of large contracts now go through the city. Outside of large business
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A mixture of both. The site had a ton of long tail pages for unrelated content with outsourced content and spam links set up from things like forum posts, and hijacked academic pages.
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Yep, you're right, but the way that the parent company was directing traffic was down to setting up a bunch of unrelated pages on the site with spammy links that direct to their main content. The company handled data on investing, but
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I'll piggyback off of this with an anecdote of mine that served me well, and was pretty much my grand exit from the SEO game. I joined a startup in 2010 when SEO was all the rage. I was the second tech hire, and my boss left pretty soo
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A lot of the fear I see on here about Microsoft makes me laugh. Many on here haven't got over the Micro$oft mentality from a decade ago. With that being said, there's a huge difference in acknowledging a company becoming more deve

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