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by ErrantX 9y ago
You have to be a company. You also have to be regulated as an AISP or PISP (Account Information/Payment Initiation Service Provider). So there are some hurdles.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
I dont buy the theory that Optometery is such an expensive profession. Opticians here in the UK do well (definitely in the richer cohort of society) and you can get two pairs of glasses for under £100. In fact some of the bigger chains offe
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by ErrantX 9y ago
There is an adage I came up with when working in the IT security consultancy field: 99% of IT security flaws are people, and 99% of that is complacency.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
What about if there are a group of people who cannot do mid-to-high skilled jobs (whilst potentially controversial, I think this is accurate)? If we replace all of those jobs what do they do? I have always thought there is a far-future dyst
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Thw business addresses thing was so ridiculous, I had to start paying for weekend deliveries at one point after a driver turned up to the office 7 days straight outside of work hours. (and yes it was the same driver)
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by ErrantX 9y ago
I believe so. In some parts of the UK this goes all the way down to individual contractors, of the man-with-a-van type. As you can imagine this leads to a mixed exxperience because they are all self employed. Interestingly, about 18 months
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by ErrantX 9y ago
I suspect the ambition is less lofty. They know people use TR regularly to deliver and install Ikea furniture and they figure on taking a slice.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Find an agent. 100% best method. Except for that the only way is the "hard" way, requiring some luck, through things like writers room.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Because its the common mistake large companies make when implementing agile. As a C-level you want to know the roadmap for the next 12 months and waterfall gave you that. Agile can be a bit terrifying (ofc it shouldnt be), therefore certain
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by ErrantX 9y ago
It seems such a meaningless metric; of the three roundabouts around my town (one of which is very large, has no lanes and is surprisingly fast) there has been no fatal accidents as long as I recall (~8 years). There has, however, been plent
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Well you'd have 100,000 BTC which is handily also approximately the daily trading volume looking across all the exchanges (at a cursory glance; I expected it to be higher). So it would take more than a day but not a significantly long
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Capital One | Engineering Manager | Full Time | ONSITE | London I'm looking for a strong people manager AND brilliant engineer to take the lead of an existing team in our London office. As part of a larger group they will be delivering
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by ErrantX 9y ago
No, but you will find it sad. And I think what's more compelling is you will question the choices you make; is this really what you would do? I recommend playing it. It can be intense but incredibly powerful; simple choices like "
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by ErrantX 9y ago
> if you were simply to collect that data yourself, sell it on the open market, and spend a portion of the proceeds on the tax prep service, you would end up with profit, and the tax prep service would still exist. Economies of scale; th
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by ErrantX 9y ago
> Furthermore, it is the view of some senior bank people that I speak to that PSD2 will make such clauses in banking terms illegal. I'm not sure that's the case; I thought the FCA were pretty clear one intent of PSD2 is to stop
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Yes I suspect that's the misunderstanding; I was approaching this from a "boss" perspective, not a peer one. Peer-based reviews are critical.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Does that require checking all commits though? That sounds like micro-management which is a massive morale killer. Also; the team should self-organise on quality and help each other improve. I set the quality expectation and get enough data
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by ErrantX 9y ago
The latter also sounds horrifying; who has time to check all their teams commits? And what sort of motivation (or not!) does that drive into a team :/
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Write a lot. Have people read it; especially people with no incentive to just "be nice about it". Write a lot. A great tip to improve your writing is that sentences of varied length seem more natural. Write a lot. Ignore most of t
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by ErrantX 9y ago
I'd have a contrary view which is that yes you DO want your engineers to understand dev and ops (and sec and change etc etc) and actively be able to own a service through its lifecycle. Those engineers might have different focuses; so
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by ErrantX 9y ago
If the vacant land has a property on it then he sure does; the owner is liable for a portion of the tax on unoccupied buildings.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
1.5) convince mgmt they don't need a daily update any more
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by ErrantX 9y ago
It's interesting that a lot of us are assuming that pasting encourages the use of password managers. However; I worry that this is a very BIG assumption. Even in my IT-literate circles password management usage is low. In my non-IT cir
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Although its not much of a hurdle (as MS provide the hurdle too) don't modern large scale MS-based IT systems still rely on a local controller to push updates? This used to be the case with domain controllers a few years ago.
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by ErrantX 9y ago
Interesting; my perspective (working in the finance industry) has been that European banks are ahead of the curve with technology and, importantly, technology for customers. It sounds like maybe not?
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by ErrantX 9y ago
> There aren't many any more... ...in the US. In the UK its the opposite; the majority of checking accounts are free, some premium accounts charge a fee but generally come with rewards. Overdrafts; there are fees for unarranged over
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by ErrantX 10y ago
SuperCell and TrustPilot are big names....
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by ErrantX 10y ago
Cliff is one of the original nerds, it's worth reading the whole of kleinbottle.com for the amusing anecdotes and jokes. My favourite: http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm The Cuckoo's Egg is e
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by ErrantX 10y ago
I think its more nuanced than that. I am very shy, but I think have done okay largely through being ambitious, which cut through shyness at key times. A lot of people I work with are the same story I think
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by ErrantX 10y ago
> Teach your kids to read as quickly as you can, because then they can entertain themselves and leave you alone. Not just this, but educate themselves too. Best Child-Hack you can do is teach them to love reading.

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