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by flurdy 13y ago
On HN? Yes. Definitely in a small minority. In the world, no, probably 99.9 majority
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by flurdy 13y ago
Obviously 'we' know that most github repos are mostly rubbish experimental garbage (at least mine are), but many startup recruiters that I have met have filtering/scoring on whether a potential candidate has a github account
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by flurdy 13y ago
They do, I was 35 when I got hired by my current startup. But they are less likely to hire 35+ for many good reasons. A 35+ is more likely to be have a higher salary demand due to more expertise and experience. An early bootstrapping Startu
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by flurdy 13y ago
Yeah that is about it. My private repos are replicated to bitbucket, with a couple of public ones. Most of my public projects are all on Github. Github is as you say popular, and has partially become a CV/resume replacement so that it
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by flurdy 13y ago
May be my Norwegian upbringing or that I now live the UK, but when I like an app I often give it 3/5 stars, which to me is "not bad" (which means "good" in the UK). 5/5 would be amazing life changing rating and
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by flurdy 13y ago
Unfortunately FT articles are behind a paywall :(
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by flurdy 13y ago
I doubt they will respond. I think they are unlikely to ever really find out. If they find out it is better for them to ignore it because an official response could be picked by main stream media and turn into bad PR for them. By ignoring t
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by flurdy 13y ago
Exactly, many large companies have a company policy that limits them to only confirm the dates and title at the company. Any further elaboration is prohibited (positive or negative) and a former colleague of my missus did get into trouble f
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by flurdy 13y ago
Due to the formatting and the use of Perl I had to check the date of the article as I thought it perhaps was a 10 year old article. But it was from last week. But that is current me being a slight code snob as I did use Perl as my prime lan
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by flurdy 13y ago
> Plus I have a family to which I have to tend to. Often they feel I'm just not spending time with them. Working 40 hours week plus 5-6 hours afterwards every day does not mix with having a family, or especially not if you got kids.
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by flurdy 13y ago
True, and Parkinson's Law will ensure it will take at least that time
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by flurdy 13y ago
I am Satoshi. And also Spartacus
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by flurdy 13y ago
Option 4: Say no. TPS reports can wait
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by flurdy 13y ago
You pair with people you like and do code reviews with people you don't like (misquoted from someone way smarter than me). With large teams, especially if distributed or partially outsourced, code reviews can ensure code quality. But a
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by flurdy 13y ago
Ive been ducking and diving to avoid my account being converted to BankId for years. My online bank prompts me to "upgrade" to it every month and wont let me say no. However if I abort the sign up wizard half way through it always
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by flurdy 13y ago
Great article about John Kay on why successful business are also great companies as direct approach does not pay (sort of): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7532933/Profess...
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by flurdy 13y ago
So glad more people than me frequently misspell pacakges...
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by flurdy 13y ago
Surely horses are poor at chasing cars?...
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by flurdy 14y ago
The Mafia. They control some of the Italian garbage and you are not sure what the garbage actually contain. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200... http://scienceline.org/2009/09/blog-easter-mafia-toxic-waste...
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by flurdy 14y ago
Agree. Stand ups are about syncing up, focus and helping each other, not status reporting to line management. I ranted about it this a few days ago: http://blog.flurdy.com/2013/04/i-dont-care-what-you-did-yest...
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by flurdy 14y ago
The only thing to take with you is that you need automatic regression tests against 3rd party APIs. That way when they change their behaviour or goes down you are alerted straight away. Hopefully those test suites would be running against 3
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by flurdy 14y ago
Cedar stack apps are herokuapp.com, but their older Bamboo stack is heroku.com. But I don't think you can create any new ones with Bamboo, thankfully!
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by flurdy 14y ago
I would have even looser guidelines, but still suggest some facetime in the office if possible. Mostly the team themselves should be able to mandate their own locations and hours to fit their needs. If they are productive... Some teams may
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by flurdy 14y ago
Github: Git, Subversion, Mercurial. http://hg-git.github.com/
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by flurdy 14y ago
48 weeks * 5 days a week is really best case scenario. You have included 4 weeks of holiday, but not sickness, training courses, conferences, company admin, next contract sales and worst of all bench time between contracts. My calculation a
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by flurdy 14y ago
.... And as it turns out they were abandoned in 2011. (Google translate to the rescue for most of you) http://www.postennorge.no/nyheter-og-media/nyhetsarkiv/nyhet... http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&#3...
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by flurdy 14y ago
The Norwegian postal service have been offering locker facility for parcels for awhile. Mostly in train/tube stations. I dont think they have been used much. While interested I never did use one when I lived there as they cost much more tha
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No, Google's Chrome isn't the world's leading browser - yet: see our map(guardian.co.uk)
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by flurdy 14y ago
The benefits of open book finances is that everyone is aware of how well/bad the company is doing. Not the usual cloak and dagger hush hush style, where no-one is aware they may actually be close to bankruptcy or that the actual money earne
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by flurdy 15y ago
FYI: Article refered to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874872

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