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by flurdy 12y ago
OKR. Enormous waste of a lot of time and effort, anti agile and demoralising. Proper shared team goals with no individual goals, and frequent non abrasive appraisals are 100x better.
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by flurdy 12y ago
There are consequences already, whether it is related or not. Andy Hunt withdrew his recent Minecraft book due to the Bukkit library being pulled via DMCA: https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy/status/51043730738906726
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by flurdy 12y ago
I was going to link to the mandatory reading of Joel Spolsky's canonical answer on splitting shares in startups between founders and beyond. But as Stack Exchange's policy of shuttering less popular subsites that is now lost in it
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by flurdy 12y ago
Better title would have been: Unintential pivot became a success
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by flurdy 12y ago
As long as it doesn't get forced onto 3rd party clients, even their own Tweetdeck, then I don't really care. For now...
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by flurdy 12y ago
I used to use Comic Sans all over the place, even though I knew it was frowned upon. I did it mostly to piss off my designer friends and colleagues, although probably initially just because I liked it when back then when there was not much
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by flurdy 12y ago
For reference this is a response to Typelevel's announcement yesterday: http://typelevel.org/blog/2014/09/02/typelevel-scala.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258255
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by flurdy 12y ago
Norway do suffer from a mild form of Dutch disease unfortunately. The oil industry dominate new investment. Although a lot of that is high tech solutions and can probably be used in other sectors, especially in related areas such as marine
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by flurdy 12y ago
For more a startup mostly tech career fair in London there is the popular Silicon Milkroundabout. https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ Milkround 8 is in November.
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by flurdy 12y ago
Might be sample size related. Or simply that Saigon is in much more demand than Hanoi and the ones that entered the data could simply have stayed in more expensive accommodation such as very central or in the financial sector.
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by flurdy 12y ago
"John, don't run." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
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by flurdy 12y ago
They do offer an internal hipchat server as a beta: https://www.hipchat.com/server Not total confidentiality but better.
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by flurdy 12y ago
Yes, but laws and privacy rules are not
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by flurdy 12y ago
stack exchange = solve my problem, help others, feel good. quora = find question, ask to log in to fb, close window.
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by flurdy 12y ago
Exactly. I don't buy ebooks from Amazon as they only offer Kindle books, whilst I want the epub version. DRM free and available in dropbox so can be read on my laptop, ipad and android phone at any time is key. Also feels good to pay t
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by flurdy 13y ago
Location: London/Hampshire/Surrey in UK or Remote, Full Time or Contract Stack Primary: Scala/Akka/Spray/Play/Java etc. All about me: http://flurdy.com https://github.com/flurdy ht
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by flurdy 13y ago
50% off the ride if you share the ride with another person, who pays the other 50%?....
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by flurdy 13y ago
Reading employees email is potentially illegal in some countries in the Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_privacy#Europe http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2005/10/feature&#x
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by flurdy 13y ago
That is the cost of the staff salary and benefits only. There are many other HR related costs. But I presume the main expense at Square is partially the production and distribution cost of the devices and most likely the biggest chunk is al
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by flurdy 13y ago
Stripe did not crush Square. Their core products are not competing in the exact same market. Stripe core is online processing of payments and Square is physical POS for everyone. There might be some overlap in the processing but that is not
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by flurdy 13y ago
Don't worry about test/challenges that are supposed to take X hours. That figure is more of a magnitude than specific time. I mostly spend 3*X on those I have looked at, and have mostly got through to an interview and offer afterw
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by flurdy 13y ago
Inactivity and not working is not the same. You can be pretty busy with personal or charitable projects whilst not working. So skills-wise it is not a problem if you keep tinkering and learning new stuff, although not if you just take a 6 m
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by flurdy 13y ago
Not sure if I enjoy SBT but Scala/Play/Akka is definitely great
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by flurdy 13y ago
Have to admit I use simpler tools such as DbDeploy, Flyway or Play!'s evolutions. They do the trick for smaller databases, but are difficult to retroactively fit in as the OP mentions. A great tip I also received once was to split migr
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by flurdy 13y ago
I do like micro services. As a general architecture for new systems, but also as wrappers around existing legacy applications. It makes integration and evolution of old applications a lot smoother with newer technology stacks. Once fully &q
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by flurdy 13y ago
You would think governments would also avoid such risk, but the top brass of Polish government all got wiped out when a plane crashed in Russia in 2010, including their President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pol
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by flurdy 13y ago
LA gangs contain a lot of people of which at least a few will be clued up on Bitcoin. And quite a lot more will be clued up now Dorian has hit main stream news. Also a few desperate out of work in heavy debt old IT workers might do somethin
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by flurdy 13y ago
Infinite scroll is fine, if it remembered state when you click on a link/article and go back to the scrolled page. They rarely do, and you have re-infinite scroll to wherever you where before. So frustrating every time.
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by flurdy 13y ago
That would assume you could adjust all the satellites' orbits. Whilst some satellites have proper propulsion, I think many just have minor systems to only adjust their rotation, and a lot have none. And don't forget all the dead o
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by flurdy 13y ago
The quote "I trust my team with this power, but can you?” resonates well with me and also why I similarly insist on removing restrictions and permissions on most tools etc. I trust my team. They are smart and reasonable people (whom ar

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