andymurd

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by andymurd 10y ago
I have worked for five companies that have been acquired whilst I was there. None were startups, I was never an early employee. The first company I worked for was acquired within a couple of weeks of my starting to work there. It was a huge
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by andymurd 10y ago
Motivating factors are different for everyone so find what ticks his boxes. We had a chart of 7 faces which could be happy or sad, one per day for a week, that he fills in at the end of each day. He gets a warning when he first starts to ac
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by andymurd 10y ago
My son went through a similar stage when he was just learning about his own anger. Once we all realised that he didn't want to be angry it got a lot easier for everyone. We gave him words and guidance to let him analyse his anger, help
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by andymurd 10y ago
I worked on automation of some of the PA announcements used on railway stations in the UK, e.g. "The next train from platform 4 is the...". These were recorded sets of words and phrases that could be concatenated to sound quite na
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by andymurd 10y ago
NVD3's pie chart[1] is quite straightforward, some of the other charts in the library need work though. [1] - http://nvd3.org/examples/pie.html
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by andymurd 10y ago
Better tick that "high-priority" flag too. Your message is more important because it is from you.
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by andymurd 10y ago
Cool idea, but there doesn't appear to be any service there yet - just an email harvester. I would expect the site to use SSL too.
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by andymurd 11y ago
A lot of people (me included) use Slack/HipChat like a news feed, in which chat is an incidental feature. My servers, databases, CI/CD, bug tracker etc all publish to Slack and then (maybe) a human discussion will form around a pa
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by andymurd 11y ago
1. For me just a website, but I am not down with the kids 2. No idea. I can think of 2 or 3 times in the past 6 years when I would have paid for such a service 3. When would people pay to have a one-off run delivered quickly? First band gig
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by andymurd 11y ago
This. We have a simple Puppet recipe that creates a user, group and home, sets the correct permissions/groups and installs the public key. It will also remove users if they leave the company. The script reads all users' details fr
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by andymurd 11y ago
Great stuff. I would love to be able to use Mongoose.js with Postgres, it would massively accelerate my development process.
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by andymurd 11y ago
I've been using Skype since around 2005 and, since the Microsoft purchase, every update has made the product slower and more resource hungry.
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by andymurd 11y ago
It's great that we think about non-technical problems in a very similar manner. For example, when buying a home, we used a check-list categorised into the must-haves, nice-to-haves and undesirable features. We agreed that they were our
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by andymurd 11y ago
Everybody. Turn your question on its head - who here feels overvalued at work?
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by andymurd 11y ago
It occurs to me that a mischievous person could easily write a Firefox plugin to (over)write that header with random garbage. If enough people used the plugin, it would render Verizon's data useless.
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by andymurd 11y ago
After further digging, I think you are correct (for now). However that looks likely to change soon, as Microsoft certainly seems to drink the microservices kool-aid and want to mix and match Linux and Windows across hosts and tenants[1]. Th
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by andymurd 11y ago
Some googling reveals that Docker should be able to run a Windows VM on a Linux host but I have no experience of this. I would talk with the wercker guys about your requirements. They have a Slack channel and are very approachable.
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by andymurd 11y ago
Look into wercker.com - it works with docker containers so cross-platform python should work OK. They have some blog posts about Windows support too. It's currently free whilst in beta but I guess they expect to charge eventually. I&#x
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by andymurd 11y ago
We use JIRA at work, and there are good and bad aspects. My biggest peeve is that management always want to configure it to do time-tracking. This makes engineers hate the tool and lie to it, making it useless for bug tracking.
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by andymurd 11y ago
It is similar to: struct thing athing; struct thing *thingptr = &athing; Then there should be no confusion as to whether you write: athing.member = 12; or: thingptr->member = 12;
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by andymurd 11y ago
Oh how many things there are that annoy me. Here are just two: Number one has to be the idea that software development can be outsourced to save time. It takes the same amount of man-hours to develop the software plus about 40% more to mana
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by andymurd 11y ago
I totally agree. It doesn't feel like the writers block I used to get with college essays, but an over-abundance of choice. When working from home, I talk these problems through with my cat. By the time I have finished explaining thing
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by andymurd 11y ago
Awesome, I will give that a try.
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by andymurd 11y ago
Agreed - there's an opening for a great desktop software solution to manage all AWS services. Kind of like CloudBerry Explorer but for more than S3.
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by andymurd 11y ago
I often use the following pattern: Categorise the app's access to each DB table into one of the following types: read-insert-update-delete, read-insert-update, read-insert, insert-only and read-only. I've never had to worry about
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by andymurd 11y ago
I have been in exactly the same situation. I quit that job and now ask in job interviews whether they use Notes for email. My view is that Notes use is a symptom of much bigger underlying problems. No-one that has to send or receive email w
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by andymurd 11y ago
- Work is supportive of my advancement in coding, but its leveraged as a cheap way to automate processes You are the magical "DevOps". Put that on your resume and wait for the offers to flood in. Just tell prospective employers th
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by andymurd 11y ago
That's a great example - is it in a particularly windy area? I will look into installing something like that.
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by andymurd 11y ago
Agreed on both points. With planning restrictions, I hope that something small and noise-free could please the nimbyists. Something(s) the size of a Dyson fan on the roof-line would look cool. With regards efficiency, I think it's not
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by andymurd 11y ago
Thanks for the update - it does what I thought it would.

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