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by ErrantX 11y ago
Really hoping it does...
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by ErrantX 11y ago
A lot of Amazon services seem to be "improved" by reducing prices (so, better hardware or technology underneath the hood). But I entirely agree; it's a good time for Amazon to look at the suite of products and make them a tad
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by ErrantX 11y ago
I am currently the head of a two person ops team, so we effectively share on-call all the time. In reality as the buck stops with me I am on call constantly. It's a drag and I really wish I hadn't been backed into this corner (par
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by ErrantX 11y ago
There's a bit of a dearth of executive technical roles within reasonable commute of me right now. Its not been worth pricing myself out of the market completely until I can cross the sector boundary (lots of PM roles in aerospace that
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by ErrantX 11y ago
I always tell them my salary plus £5,000. That establishes whether they are in my ballpark, doesn't give them any useful information, and ensures that if I do get a job offer my negotiating position is already up on where I am. So far
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by ErrantX 11y ago
Does the US allow "constructive dismissal" claims? In the UK, if you feel you are being worked out of a job the official advice is to quit, otherwise any claim of constructive dismissal becomes more complex.
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by ErrantX 11y ago
It's the wordpress problem; Magento has made e-commerce accessible to anyone with a shared webspace and the minimum of knowledge (speaking as someone who's company integrates with small businesses who use Magento). So it's ve
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by ErrantX 12y ago
I guess the important part is that they've proven they can hit the target. Thats the risky part of testing over land. One assumes that it's a recognised risk that at the point of actually landing there is a risk of explosion, and
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by ErrantX 12y ago
The FAQ answers this question. Basically; it was a long time ago, and the point of the story isn't in the detail. :) http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
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by ErrantX 12y ago
I think Night Watch is my favourite too. A little bit dark, and lots of deep questions about morality.
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by ErrantX 12y ago
I always ask for the easier Project Euler tests (or give them a couple) to do; the reason they are good test (IMO) is that they are too small a task to leverage frameworks and can demonstrate things like good approaches to engineering and
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by ErrantX 12y ago
One pain point that should be solved is this; changing jobs is expensive, or risky. If you don't time your notice period correctly you can end up having to last on a short salary. I know a few people who got into debt in this way. I re
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by ErrantX 12y ago
> What would the world be like if contract/freelance/part time/short term work were the default? I've heard this line a lot. The interesting thing is that there are areas, even inside tech, that this is the default.
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Empirical evidence of the number of friends who went to Asia for mid to long term and then came back within 2 years because it didn't work out. And the incident where I had to help a friend pay his airfare because he was literally stuc
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by ErrantX 12y ago
A related class of problems is code coverage with unit tests; I have a regular argument here as to why we "aim for 80% code coverage but in practice accept 50-60%"
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Bit of a bait and switch at the end: "Then save up $10k in case it doesn’t. Then book that flight." As with all things, often it doesn't work out and what you could end up with is (worst case) stuck somewhere in Asia with no
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by ErrantX 12y ago
The only chance Ulbricht seems to have at this stage, admittedly from where I am sitting, seems to be one where his team employs "defence through obscurity". If they can bog the trial down in technical details, question the witnes
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by ErrantX 12y ago
And I guess that's the point; if you can create that doubt, even if it's ridiculous, in the minds of the people who are deciding Ulbricht's guilt or innocence then you've won.
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Absolutely; this isn't really a defence in so much as it is attempting to nullify the prosecution evidence. They can get away with the argument it's introducing reasonable doubt that Ulbricht is the only candidate for being DPR, w
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by ErrantX 12y ago
If you get chance; visit Bletchley park. They do an excellent job of portraying the role of women during the war. For example, although it was in some ways quite progressive in recognising female talent and promoting them in a limited fashi
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by ErrantX 12y ago
News outlets seem to be wrwriting this up as a crash, and therefore a failure. But my thought is; holy crap they actually hit the target? Pretty impressive!
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by ErrantX 12y ago
There's a preview here: https://leanpub.com/writecopy/read But it might not be the best excerpt. If you email me (tom@errant.me.uk) I'll happily send you a gratis copy of its current form.
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Show HN: Soft-Launching my book on copy writing(leanpub.com)
2 points by ErrantX 12y ago|3 comments
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by ErrantX 12y ago
What kbart means is; if the DRPK/Korea link came later this flies against the fact that before anything else it was compiled on a PC with Korean locale.
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by ErrantX 12y ago
PHPUnit stopped updating PEAR in April, and actively destroyed PHPUnit on their PEAR repo at the start of this month (i.e. a patch version update that consisted just of a bash script printing a migration message...).
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Given that the freeBSD foundation receives approx. $400,00-500,000 in donations from less than 20 corps/individuals... I think rather a lot of developers would have to donate :) Are there 42,000 FreeBSD developers willing to contribute
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Link? I can probably help :)
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Amazon have been doing this for a while in the UK. Opening local distribution centres and using their own van. A lot of items I buy come from there now, a suprisong amount. I bought some tassimo capsules the other week and they arrived same
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Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it(phusion.github.io)
2 points by ErrantX 12y ago|0 comments
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by ErrantX 12y ago
Internally built framework. But we use external packages like AWS SDK (and so by extension Guzzle), Elastica, etc.

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