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by d4nt 11y ago
This aligns with my person experience in a startup incubator. If I was a ruby/php/js guru willing to work for £25,000/year plus a bit of equity, I could take my pick of 100s of jobs.
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by d4nt 11y ago
Unfortunately, there are still many bosses who would be put off by a mental health issue in someones past though. In a former role, I interviewed a candidate who cited burnout as one of the reasons for a career change a few years earlier. A
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by d4nt 12y ago
Consider this example: I run the EMEA division of a multinational, I want to justify a bigger budget and/or get a bigger bonus and so I hire a data analyst to prepare some reports showing my division in a favourable light. The reports
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by d4nt 12y ago
News is an entertainment show. News editors edit actual events into an engaging narrative in the same way that reality TV shows edit the events that occur in their show's domain into a narrative. There is plenty of raw material to work
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by d4nt 12y ago
So are some aren't. I can buy a voice over on fiverr, I can send them a script and a few notes and get back an MP3 within 24 hours. Over the next 50 years these people are at risk of loosing their jobs to computer synthesised voices. I
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by d4nt 12y ago
I agree, some trades people will design solutions to problems, some people will just turn up and screw in pre-assembled units. The existing category will split into two.
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by d4nt 12y ago
I have a theory that the classification of working class, middle class and upper class will disappear as we go through the 21 century. They will be replaced with two types of job: 1. Jobs were you design things (code, graphics, marketing ca
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by d4nt 12y ago
I've noticed Family Guy do this quite a lot too. In an episode I saw recently (season 4 episode 4). Meg is turned down by a boy at school and ends up having a makeover at the mall (plot 1). Meanwhile, Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire
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by d4nt 12y ago
This relies on the assumption that there are things Joe wants that Bob can supply and vice versa. But as we climb higher and higher up the hierarchy of needs that may not be the case. We are already very effective at keeping people alive an
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by d4nt 12y ago
I find it strange that there's a debate about this. When it comes to cooking, medicine, law, architecture, hairdressing, design or sales, the best people manage a team and continue to practice themselves. When a dev team manager doesn&
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Show HN: Convert CSV files into MySQL insert scripts(database-import-scriptor.appspot.com)
41 points by d4nt 12y ago|46 comments
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by d4nt 12y ago
True, it is planned though. Feel free to vote for that feature: http://querytree.uservoice.com
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by d4nt 12y ago
After evaluating all the desktop html frameworks I could find, I settled on "node-webkit".
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by d4nt 12y ago
I built QueryTree ( http://querytreeapp.com ) as a response to this sort of problem. It's a domain specific visual programming language designed for working with tabular data. So people who want to build a custom query on a d
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by d4nt 13y ago
What you say is true, but I don't believe a contract of employment entitles any company to tell someone who they can or cannot date. If, for the reasons you describe, they wish to maintain a public position of "we not encourage da
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by d4nt 13y ago
The fact that the tech architect spent any time at all contemplating this issue is a massive red flag to me. Technical Architecture should be about making the right set of trade offs given the business goals of the system being developed. T
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by d4nt 13y ago
I was talking to a lawyer earlier today and she said something like "97% of Facebook's value is in their IP (intellectual property)" and I silently thought, no, their entire value is in the fact that they have active users. W
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Optimizing Your Customer Acquisition Cost With Better Metrics(d4software.co.uk)
1 points by d4nt 13y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 13y ago
This article kind of reminded me if this comic strip: http://xkcd.com/810/ What we're saying here is that someone offered to let the blog owner post some well written and original content on their blog, that would
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by d4nt 13y ago
I think that since adopting the 2D desktop metaphor, we've all started working with way too much data for it to be reasonably represented as a 3D world. The trend in OS design recently seems to be away from representing physical object
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The power of simplicity(subvertingthenorm.com)
1 points by d4nt 13y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 13y ago
This is very true. I once went to work at a .NET company which had built their own ORM and web UI binding framework. It was very nice back in the .NET 1.1 days but ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, the .NET base class library and the javascrip
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by d4nt 13y ago
At some point, I think traditional database platforms like Oracle and SQL Server will build things that make it easier to treat them like a NoSQL store (simpler replication, ability to distribute read only queries across multiple replicas,
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by d4nt 13y ago
Fortunately, the mega corps haven't started hiring their own police forces and locking people up who break whatever rules they decide are appropriate. If they did that, then I might reconsider what data I shared with them. The state is
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by d4nt 13y ago
I'm generally in favour of the 'learn to code' meme, but I think we've gotten too hung up on text based procedural coding languages and are not seeing the big picture here. I would prefer to define programming as "c
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by d4nt 13y ago
I get the feeling Colin may have already automated this and it's a bot posting these things.
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by d4nt 13y ago
You missed my (admittedly subtle) point. Yes, on the face of it, it gives a basic income to everyone. But you haven't magically made more wealth so your average tax payer has to pay somehow. Either through higher taxes, a devalued curr
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by d4nt 13y ago
We're already giving money to people with no job, this would effectively take money off people who administer welfare systems and give it to low paid workers who would then get benefits and wages.
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by d4nt 13y ago
"Just 27% of companies were able to secure outside funding within one year. Ultimately, just 36% of accelerated companies since 2005 added to their seed and angel rounds." "According to the New York Times, 72% of Y Combinator
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by d4nt 13y ago
Google, and tech companies in general, should not be trying to innovate despite the need to make money, they should be trying to innovate because of the need to make money. If Google have lost that culture of innovation because of a sho

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