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by erdo 5y ago
Not sure if this helps you, and you may already be aware of it, but in my gitHub pages markdown I have titles like these: ## <a name="boiler-plate"></a>Removing more boiler plate
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by erdo 5y ago
I agree, at least in my experience of android development, "Best Practice" often means: what I read on Medium, or what Google said. It's for people who aren't confident enough to admit to simply having a preference, or k
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by erdo 5y ago
Except we don't have anything like 50 years!
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by erdo 5y ago
When do you consider the left to have moved on climate? Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially. George Bush is famous for pushing cap and trade ideas in the late 80s early 90s for instance ClimateTown has a fairly entertain
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by erdo 5y ago
I think asking why is a great way to quickly find out if the person I'm talking to doesn't know what they're talking about (I'm thinking specifically of developer discussions here). You don't have to be rude about i
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by erdo 5y ago
This sounds like good advice, and that level of communication can certainly be missing sometimes. Quite a few software projects though are one off custom jobs where the requirements have never been implemented before (sometimes anywhere) an
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by erdo 5y ago
Some sales people work out how much the client is willing to pay, and that's the price. The deliverables are squeezed in to that price at a later date, by cutting corners if necessary - I think it's quite an effective way for comp
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by erdo 5y ago
> If you want to get _more_, ask a team what's making them slow and then prioritize fixing the things they bring up Exactly, the answers might surprise you
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by erdo 5y ago
Using the estimation session to highlight missing / poorly specified requirements, or discover external dependencies can be a worthwhile exercise IMO, the actual numbers are fairly worthless. For what it's worth, most places I&#x2
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by erdo 5y ago
I agree. Actually this is just fake estimation, it's really this: being pressured into commiting to doing 3 times as much as you can do. If the goal was a genuine estimate, the next year you would surely multiply your estimate by 3 an
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by erdo 5y ago
Take a guess, multiply by 2 or 3 according to what happened last time.
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by erdo 5y ago
I don't really know what you mean, those are just facts, among many that exist whether I read about them or not. And American politics is fascinating to me, so I enjoy it. American democracy is not out of the woods just because Bidden
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by erdo 5y ago
Or maybe you're not paying close enough attention. A few tiny examples: Texas, a state larger than the UK, just became a state where any resident can sue anyone else that helps someone access an abortion after about 6 weeks of pregnanc
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by erdo 5y ago
I think I might know what the OP means by respect. You see it in Thai dev recruitment ads, they sometimes mandate developers to be 27 years old or younger, the implication seems to be that if you are still a developer by the time you'r
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by erdo 5y ago
Personally speaking (and I say this as a Brit who really likes the US, and Americans in general whenever I meet them). I haven't tried to move to the US because of the slightly distasteful situation in terms of education, healthcare an
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by erdo 5y ago
Yeah I think that's it, there just isn't enough available space in soho and covent garden
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by erdo 5y ago
I think the tech jobs market in London is still better than in Paris for what I do, so possibly we agree? (I left the UK in spite of that not because of it). Depends what you mean by tech scene being better, if it's a shortage of tech
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by erdo 5y ago
Boris Johnson did some press event when I was at tech hub (I think he was mayor of London at the time). We told him our app was good. "Right, err, so I must download pingtune, _on_ to my app, got it" buffoon / plucky underdog
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by erdo 5y ago
Is this article down playing the effects of Brexit a little? I used to work in Silicon Roundabout and now I live in Paris, I know plenty of developers who've moved out of the UK because of Brexit, but none who have moved to the UK sinc
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by erdo 5y ago
Maybe in the US, but not in Europe. Health care and the education of your children is largely not dependent on your job. Shades of grey of course, I don't think university education is free in the UK anymore (it was when I was at unive
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by erdo 5y ago
Working on other companies' mobile apps, about half the performance problems I've discovered have been down to some accidental crazy, like initialising something you only need once, in a loop, in 3 different places (because the co
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by erdo 5y ago
An image summary of a movie maybe, not a movie poster though. Almost all posters feature the faces of the characters very prominently (presumably in order of screen time) that seems to have been skipped completely
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by erdo 5y ago
Wait. What? Was that a thing? I've only ever seen them in supermarkets to send cash upstairs. Was this in Paris?
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by erdo 5y ago
(Or yourself to maintain in a year's time)
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by erdo 5y ago
So much this
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by erdo 5y ago
Yep same, maybe 4 years just using ddg. About once or twice a year I'll try a Google search if I'm really getting nowhere (sometimes helps, sometimes doesn't)
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by erdo 5y ago
I just realised that the police are able to lie to you during an interrogation. I feel incredibly naïve (and yes, this probably is related to my white privilege - when I compared my experience of the police growing up with the experiences o
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The Great British Tea Heist(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by erdo 5y ago|0 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
How to x articles usually annoy me, but I think this was great advice. And not just for junior developers
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by erdo 5y ago
Why is this being down voted? It's fairly standard practice for a large company isn't it?

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