Joe8Bit

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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Joined age 30/31
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Among many other things the experience gave me: * Empathy with the folks who's thinking was alien to me previously. I learned through doing their job. I could communicate with them and work in their context in a way that allows me much
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Good catch! QB is a wholly owned subsidiary (and it feels like a VERY different company) so I tend to think of them as separate entities. And yes consulting into operational role.
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
I knew that the only way I'd learn is by doing it a lot in different contexts. Which led me to strategy consulting. Which led me to McKinsey, due to it being the preeminent player in that space. I applied to a then nascent part of McKi
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Exited with two co-founders when our runway ran out. Sold our IP and assets for a modest amount to our main competitor. I realised that (as CTO) the main area I couldn't contribute to was 'the business' of running a successfu
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Interestingly, in the UK utilities are using GSM SIM cards in Smart Meters, and a mixture of SMS and data to monitor/send electricity usage.
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Very valid point, but I'm wondering if 'assembly' does more to the US to avoid the tariffs on the C-series; does that mean there will be less economic benefit for Quebec? For example, by assembly jobs moving to the US. They m
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by Joe8Bit 9y ago
Of course you're right, and maybe I phrased it poorly, my intention was to highlight the jQuery eco-system as the main puller of folks from ExtJ e.g. jQueryUI and the 10,000's of jQuery plugins that replicated ExtJS/Sencha
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It's interesting that in such an otherwise complete account of ExtJS that so little is made of the rise (and subsequent fall) of jQuery. The author rightfully talks about some of the (terrible) decisions made by the frameworks owners,
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A pedantic correction: web extension and add-on authors mostly can in browsers that auto-update.
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Chrome uses Blink (not WebKit), I beleive the parent was referring to Safari only.
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Also the UK, the only place where it's common is in corporate cards. The classic green corporate Amex uses this model, for instance.
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
Yes. Not that I disagree with the other way of paying, but it needs to be handled differently: * The 'pay someone to do X, which has Y value for us in return' is a very simple value proposition for even the most luddite of finance
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
I really think there's an opportunity to make it easier for companies (large and small) to pay for work on open source projects. The complexities I see (as someone who has done it often): * Knowing who (as an individual or an organizat
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
I don't recognise the 'different world' you describe. Practiced disciplined DR is a key part of modern software engineering at large and small companies across the startup/enterprise spectrum (in my experience). The popu
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
My intuition tells me it's a combination of: * They eventually will build one, but Indian consumers are (as of right now) less valuable to them (from an ad targeting perspective) than other geographies e.g. the economic/time/
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
James Kyle (who created Babel) wrote a 'Super Tiny Compiler' that's a really great (low barrier to entry) place to start. The inline docs are super well written, clear and extensive. It's also implemented in JabaScript.
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Easier in the sense they have less scale/capacity/capability to mitigate the attacks?
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From the website of the company the article is about ( http://what3words.com/ ) it seems they're targeting the use case of those without "adequate existing addressing". So an as MVP accurately/deterministi
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
Be sure to be aware of country support. HN is very US centric, but if you have plans for wide EU coverage for instance they can both pose challenges. When I looked recently Stripe was moving at a far more aggressive pace to comprehensive co
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
Fantastic point, I'd never thought to put this into the context of NI before. To emphasise what you've said, the root and brach reform that has happened in the RUC/policing in NI over the last decade (or more) can't be u
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by Joe8Bit 10y ago
Some feedback: * Make the price more readily apparent on the landing page * Tracking the '6,400 sites, apps and games' is great, but it would be good if I could find out if the ones I care about in that list! * Make the above the
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by Joe8Bit 11y ago
Completely agree. London really needs to embrace 'up' as a viable building solution. Apparently, a lot of it has to do with some archaic laws surrounding building in London, the 'Protected Views' one is of particular not
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by Joe8Bit 11y ago
Broadly speaking you're right, but in London in particular housing stock growth has been significant in the last 10 years but it has had consequently little effect on housing price deflation[0]. There are many theories as to why that
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In a theoretically perfect economic market you're right, but there is little if any evidence to suggest there is a causal link between economic displacement and wage growth. In fact wage growth at the low end has stagnated in London[0]
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I don't think many people would argue with the evolutionary nature of cities. I think what people would say, however, is that when cities change those with the least economic muscle tend to be the most adversely effected (e.g they lose
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It goes hand in hand with an increased cost of living (e.g. the nicer things get the more expensive it is to live there) which in turn causes a displacement of people and communities who lived there before the gentrification happened. In ma
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by Joe8Bit 11y ago
Up front: I'm one of the people that leads engineering in EMEA at McKinsey Digital Labs (MDL). So please recognise my biases here! I also hope this isn't creepy, but was browsing HN and saw your post! :D A couple of thoughts on yo
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AFAIK 'points, stories, epics, workflow' are generic 'agile' terms rather than specific to one particular tool.
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As a note: the above comments advice is probably specific to the US. In the UK, for instance, terminating someone for reporting sexual harassment is a very good way of losing a lot of money at a subsequent Employee Tribunal and getting your

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