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by boothead 11y ago
Clearly we have worked in some of the same places! Very accurate!
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by boothead 11y ago
If we ever split up, I'd give her at least half of my money to look after my children :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
I agree that we do need more of that. I balk at the bombastic talk from the government, (who make the laws in the first place) that it's somehow immoral to optimize your tax affairs. I would much rather see them put simpler legislation
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by boothead 11y ago
You disagree with following the letter of the law and taking home extra thousands of pounds per year? Personally my attitude it that I'll apply whatever optimizations my accountant says I can without being too creative :-) Also, some c
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by boothead 11y ago
In general the big ones suck and have a boiler room mentality. Good ones in my experience: Oxford Knight Functional Works GQR Hays (They're big but have been good to work with) I'll add more as I think of them. If you're look
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by boothead 11y ago
Good advice, especially the bit about crunch. First time I contracted I let my accountant talk me into using their horrible spreadsheet. I couldn't make my self use it it was that bad and my accounts were a mess. Now my accountant (nim
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by boothead 11y ago
I think it's important to make a distinction between over engineering "features" and "properties". I completely agree that over engineering that takes the form of "this feature will be cool, lets build it"
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by boothead 11y ago
If you're interested in this domain and Haskell and have some free time, you might find hailstorm interesting [1] From what I understand of it - it's an implementation of apache storm in Haskell. [1] http://hailstorm-hs
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by boothead 11y ago
Nice! I've got ligatures in my Haskell with the default spacemacs set up, this font looks really nice. How is it implemented? One of the problems with Haskell code is that there are quite a few instances where the examples given are wi
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by boothead 11y ago
I came here to ask for a comparison between the two. I'll add the request here instead instead of starting a new top level thread. Both look really interesting!
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by boothead 11y ago
I looked at this a couple of days agao and I swear it was in the 470s... The US police have killed more civilians in 6 months than the UK forces lost in the whole of the Afghanistan campaign which lasted 14 years. I mentioned this on twitte
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by boothead 11y ago
I recently totally bombed a programming interview, and I always feel like I've done terribly, even if feedback afterwards is quite good. I'd be interested in hearing how you improved your performance in interviews, if you wouldn&#
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by boothead 11y ago
That's awesome! I've been thinking for a while that coops make a huge amount of sense for software development. Thanks for putting the lists together! BTW have you read http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/ ? It
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by boothead 11y ago
Thanks! How about deployment, monitoring etc? Any regrets on the stack you've chosen or changes you'd make? If I may also ask, how did you fund it, and what's your revenue model? I'd like to make the leap one day to havi
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by boothead 11y ago
The most awesome book I'm currently reading is "Custard, Cakes and Category Theory" by Eugenia Cheng [1]. It's already bringing some much needed back ground, some "why", to my much neglected maths education. On
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by boothead 11y ago
Just the one I asked below on how long/much it took you to get this together and the stack and tools used?
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by boothead 11y ago
I'd be quite interested in the amount of time/money that's been spent developing this and the tool set. What would people estimate as a ballpark figure for resource required to put something like this together?
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by boothead 11y ago
Thanks Stefan :-) I guess the takeaway here is that repeat business from the same client is rather nice!
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by boothead 11y ago
I'd be interested to know how you go about getting new business, if you wouldn't mind sharing?
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by boothead 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. If it wasn't $73 I'd definitely grab a copy. Why is Haskell "if you must" though? Are the others better at expressing code algebraically?
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by boothead 11y ago
You are correct sir!
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by boothead 11y ago
Paul Egoscue's books "Pain Free" and "Pain Free at your PC" are also very good. I'm really looking forward to Kelly Starrett's "Deskbound" to come out too.
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by boothead 11y ago
Reformulating an understandable bug report (“the Froobnicator class throws an uncaught exception when the input contains UTF-8”) into a long-winded user story (“as a developer, I want to be able to run this software without seei
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm reading this at the moment: http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/ Some extracts from the intro: "And it’s not only at the bottom of the pyramid. There is a dirty secret I have discovered in the fifteen year
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by boothead 11y ago
Patagonia gets a few mentions as a so called teal organization in this book http://www.reinventingorganizations.com . It's a great read if you want to understand how some of the counter intuitive bahaviours come about.
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by boothead 11y ago
How about AnyUnit?
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by boothead 11y ago
You might also find Charlie Munger's mental models useful: http://www.thinkmentalmodels.com/
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by boothead 11y ago
Make sure you keep blogging - I really enjoyed your last post on testing with Haskell!
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by boothead 11y ago
I've been doing the hour of code with my 7 yr old daughter. She really enjoys it, so much so that I now get bugged more to "do coding" than to help her with her homework. She's going to love this! As an aside - To all of
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by boothead 11y ago
Hey Pusher guys; how much of that flow went through Haskell? Are you using it for your main service yet?

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