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by bendtheblock 16y ago
C - lack of online etiquette isn't a great start for a prospective employee of a tech company.
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Ask HN: Paypal Pro rejection - any ideas?
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by bendtheblock 16y ago
I think some of the infrastructure maintenance (and maybe general development too) is outsourced. About a year ago I was on a service management training course in London along with some Siemens staff who were working on the iPlayer proje
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by bendtheblock 16y ago
London-based agency We Make Websites are looking for Drupal freelancers based anywhere, more detail: http://www.drupal.org.uk/wanted/we-make-websites-are-searchi...
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A hierarchy of failure(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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by bendtheblock 16y ago
Yeah sure. It needs perseverance and, well, a bit of luck. The main thing that will help is SHREK: Say who you are : "Hi I'm [name] calling from [company], we're a web agency nearby that specialize in X." Note you may have to repeat this
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by bendtheblock 16y ago
Do you mean you want to be a freelancer for other agencies or to work directly for clients? When we set up our agency, here's what worked: - Get your own site set up so that you have a web presence and can start to build a brand. - You need
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by bendtheblock 16y ago
This isn't really an answer to your question, but my co-founder's brother works as a designer at Lego HQ in Denmark, where they have a huge warehouse filled with every block/piece/component in every colour available... That's what he used t
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Entrepreneurship is the truest form of meritocracy Great point - I worked for a big company before I had a startup, where they claimed to have a culture of meritocracy. The trouble is that large organisations are too standardized to ever
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Is this also what URL shorteners do?
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Not sure I follow the reasoning here. Can you explain?
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I always just assumed 'engineer' was an Americanization of the word 'programmer'/'developer'. Maybe that's just my British perspective. It's also down to my belief in some of the principles in the OP. I'd never heard 'software engineer' use
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
The sort value is a function of karma and age (so newer comments are higher up to start with).
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Even if you could run IE on Linux, it's probably best to test on the same OS that most IE users will be using. We use an old IBM laptop - with IE, FF, Chrome installed - for our Windows testing. Failing that, a VM is probably the best alter
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Great advice. One of the secrets is to do something you believe in, which is why having a startup is so good. The other is to have a close deadline, that work's for me anyway. A peppering of exercise and plenty of sleep also help. I don't b
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Make sure someone doesn't actually call whilst you're doing the on-phone-to-secretary trick...
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Managing a startup, it's hard to stay motivated 100% of the time. There are hacks for this, such as visualising success (both professionally and personally), or planning to meet your friends one evening to relax, or re-enforcing financial p
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I was about to post the same Ask HN yesterday, but for other UK. Anyone have any recommendations? We usually use PayPal or Google Checkout, but our clients often want to use their business bank's merchant service e.g. Barclays EPDQ. This ca
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Can I Destroy The Job I Love?(wemakewebsites.info)
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I don't see why this would make a difference. The only reason it would, is if the tenancy agreement of those private individuals banned them from using their space for commercial reasons. Even then, this would be a civil offence and not a c
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content. The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter int
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I read your comment this morning and it has stayed with me all day. There is definitely something more to people who create, as well as consume. Whether they be a knitter, gardener, musician or developer.
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Wireless electricity demo at TED... http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/wireless_electr.php So it's on the horizon. The speaker actually powers a mobile phone as one of his examples.
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
What's your industry?
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Why is this being down voted? The privacy concerns are valid but are the symptom of a different problem, which is controlling machine/network access. Previously I've worked in banking tech and this procedure was always followed (with data s
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I agree on both points here. If I'm ever feeling de-motivated I listen to a Mixergy interview and the story alone can make me focus on whatever it is I'm doing and see things in a broader context.
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New era of software (vs traditional) engineering proving tricky for Toyota(economist.com)
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
I know you're making a general point here, but for the example given, I think it's generally best to refresh your dev data from production regularly (maybe after each large release). That way you're always testing on data 'close' to the cur
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Yes that's a good point - I think in most cases you're probably right and simplicity (e.g. attempting to not show irrelevant information) is more important than the telling them that their toaster is toasting.
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by bendtheblock 17y ago
Writing up details and actions after an outage like this is a good practice for improving the perception of a service. The compliment to taking re-active action like this (e.g. informing users and make underlying tech improvements) is to tr

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