anarchitect

11 ms·

61.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Three, plus a part-time contractor. One of the team is front-end so had little to do with replacing the Perl part. The truth of it is, in our case it isn't (yet) a full rewrite, and there is still a lot of functionality tied up in the
62.
by anarchitect 13y ago
It's coincidental that this should be on the front page of HN the night before my team and I release a big migration that has taken the best part of a year. The codebase he describes is an eerily accurate representation of where we sta
63.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Really nice, well done. I had similar half-finished attempts some years back, but it was never as slick as this.
64.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Brilliantly simple. I'd love to see some permanent/freelance and location filters for employers though.
65.
by anarchitect 13y ago
It's a great start. I'd love to contribute some places (around EC1) that I frequent if you take suggestions?
66.
by anarchitect 13y ago
For sure. I was once asked to remove my headphones even though they were visibly not plugged in to anything (I wanted to block out the noise from takeoff).
67.
by anarchitect 13y ago
I made a Bat For Lashes lyric generator some years back http://nickboyce.com/bfl/ , which will only make sense to people who know her music!
68.
by anarchitect 13y ago
By using grey for backgrounds you can still use black for shadows, as both the Sublime and Calendar examples do. edit - grammar
69.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Fair comment, but in this case the situation you describe is fairly accurate as it's a system that for various reasons my team don't have full control of.
70.
by anarchitect 13y ago
OP here, thanks for the comment. This topic is on my mind at the moment because I'm having to decide which features live and die as we migrate from a legacy platform to a new one. We're very keen to avoid unnecessary technical deb
71.
On technical debt, complexity and opportunity cost(easyart.github.io)
18 points by anarchitect 13y ago|12 comments
72.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Related: http://www.meettheipsums.com
73.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Take a look at what the GDS is doing here in the UK. * hire really smart people with up-to-date views on technology [1] * build on, and release new open source [2] [1] https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples [2] https:/&#
74.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Too often we forget that the coolness factor has benefits in itself. People want to use it. That really makes a difference. Visibility throughout the studio and its tactile nature are important too.
75.
by anarchitect 13y ago
The geek in me agrees, the art collector in me doesn't. For me at least, the moment you display "art" on screens, its significance is diluted. When it's not "permanent" it feels like decoration or worse, a scre
76.
by anarchitect 13y ago
I've worked for a string of online art retailers and publishers over the the last decade, and I'm a bit baffled by this move by Amazon. I just don't think it's a very good way to browse for art. That said, if you know sp
77.
by anarchitect 13y ago
Very impressive - I had no idea that this existed.
78.
by anarchitect 13y ago
We do a similar thing at my work. Mondays and Tuesday's we're maintaining our existing platform, then the remainder of the week we're excitedly developing a new one. We're a small team, and it's worked really well f
79.
by anarchitect 14y ago
When I decided to bring Rails into my team recently, I decided we should produce some prototypes in Sinatra first. With a single file it's easy to introduce some of the key concepts that are needed to understand Rails (especially for those
80.
by anarchitect 14y ago
It happens in mobile Safari IIRC.
81.
by anarchitect 14y ago
To take the head-scratching out of the start of a project, and to give apps personality, we use surnames of film directors.
82.
by anarchitect 14y ago
The company I work for (an online retailer) had no meaningful VCS until after I joined and introduced Git. Aside from the obvious software collaboration benefits, it's been particularly valuable this week when we have had to manage multiple
83.
by anarchitect 14y ago
Did you get to the root cause of the problem? We are about to trial Cloudfront on one of our sites and have discussed the possibility of it causing problems for some users.
84.
by anarchitect 15y ago
It seems to get worse every time I recruit (we're hiring, cheeky link - http://www.easyart.com/content/help/jobs.ghtml ). Every job ad I've written clearly says "no recruiters". Luckily, I don't have a phone number in this office. But in t
85.
by anarchitect 15y ago
Great work - this is really useful. How often does it update? (I just posted in one of the threads)
86.
by anarchitect 15y ago
London, UK. Full time. * Front-end Web developers * Ruby Engineers The Easyart group is the most prominent publisher, printer, wholesaler and retailer of art prints in the UK. Through our brand King & McGaw we supply beautiful art print
87.
by anarchitect 15y ago
Are PaaS providers like Heroku appearing as "Amazon" in the web host column? Would be interesting to see this broken down further if that's the case.
88.
by anarchitect 15y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen that one before! "King Lear is just English words put in order!"
89.
by anarchitect 15y ago
I've been using jLinq - http://www.hugoware.net/Projects/jLinq
90.
by anarchitect 16y ago
I wish I could, but that side of my brain shuts down after more than one drink.

More ›