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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
There are two versions of you: the experiencing self and the remembering self. If you only pleasure the experiencing self then you make lots of short term decisions e.g. it's the experiencing self who enjoys the cake, but the rememberi
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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
Completely agree on the not going any faster point. The Mythical Man Month demonstrates this exact concept perfectly. The budget lever is still available in limited forms e.g. do you devote two engineers from the team to project A or three?
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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
The team I work in has a product manager, a designer, a cloud infrastructure automation engineer, as well as seven software engineers. Together we collectively advocate for our users and help with those tradeoffs. > As for "Ultimate
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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
That's non-negotiable to me. You can make a short-term decision e.g. this implementation will only scale for the next month, but automated testing, clean code, other standards must be maintained.
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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
As a manager I follow two principles that help me to prioritise tasks for a weekly sprint. First, every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two. So it's not about not trusting the development team. It's
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by lifebeyondfife 8y ago
https://lifebeyondfife.com/ Tech: some coding projects e.g. an old constraint solver in an Excel spreadsheet which helps pick a fantasy football team, opinions on software development, how I designed my wedding ring, and a
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by lifebeyondfife 8y ago
The date of Brexit at present is 29th March. One worst case scenario is that all aeroplanes entering/leaving the country are grounded. I think it's unlikely but it has been discussed in the press https://www.theguardian
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by lifebeyondfife 8y ago
No problem. The unpredicatable nature of weather in Scotland means that if it looks bright and sunny in the morning, you still need to leave your house with a jacket because you cannot guarantee that it won't rain heavily later in the
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by lifebeyondfife 8y ago
+1 to Edinburgh, from a biased local. Most (but far from all) startups in Edinburgh are based in the Codebase building: https://www.thisiscodebase.com/ . We also have a couple of unicorns that were started here, Skyscanner a
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by lifebeyondfife 9y ago
SKYSCANNER | LONDON/BARCELONA/SINGAPORE/EDINBURGH/GLASGOW/BUDAPEST/SHENZHEN/SOFIA | ONSITE | Senior Engineers/Principle Engineers/Data Engineers Skyscanner - the global, online travel search comp
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by lifebeyondfife 9y ago
Read about Stoicism. There's a quote - which is apt considering it's nearly Christmas - about what to give someone as a gift. I can't recall it exactly but goes along the lines of, "Don't add to a person's poss
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by lifebeyondfife 9y ago
*At what point does almost anything else you mentioned help the business?* Firstly, it's a market place. The business and investor need to find each other. To create the market place, you must understand that different invest
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by lifebeyondfife 9y ago
At the very highest level, you have two groups of people: investors and businesses. Investors have capital, and want to see somebody produce something extra with that capital. The main variables are the size of the capital, and the risk pro
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How much coding should a manager do?(lifebeyondfife.com)
2 points by lifebeyondfife 9y ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 9y ago
Echo Chamber Club exists to inform people with progressive views, alternative viewpoints on stories they wouldn't normally encounter within their own social media circle. https://echochamber.club/
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
> Would you be offering Linux support in the future? Answer can be inferred from my previous comment :) Seriously though, thanks so much for the interest. The tech stack is C# and WPF specifically which Microsoft does not appear to be ke
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
As someone who has spent the last 3-4 years on and off making a Football Manager game ( https://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Cm93 ) that started as a weekend project - I loved this. I recognise so many of the bullet points
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
Do you tend to swallow raspberries whole, or chew them first?
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
Parallel Processing Units?
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
As a PhD survivor, I liken it to a pyramid scheme these days. There aren't enough tenure track positions to have viable careers for all, so do not go into a doctorate program without considering your non-academia route to happiness and
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
First I'd ask what's the skill you want to gain? Do you want to learn how to setup Hadoop clusters and Zookeeper etc. on bare metal and understand all the maintenance of such a system. Or do you want to learn how to use the tool f
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How I became a data scientist, and why it didn't work out(lifebeyondfife.com)
9 points by lifebeyondfife 10y ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
Thanks for the interest. http://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Decider
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
As someone with an open source C# constraint solver hobby project, used by my former employer Moody's Analytics, I can see many similarities. However, I can see the differences... I haven't spoken about it at conferences, or enter
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
With you on Google lock in. I'm off all significant Google services except Gmail. Still waiting for a paid, web based mail provider with quality search.
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by lifebeyondfife 10y ago
I agree that we should choose the best in class wherever possible, but doesn't Apple assume that you're all-in? The reason I bought an Archos when the first iPods came out was because it let me treat the mp3 player as a portable h
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Insurance against LeftPad level events(lifebeyondfife.com)
1 points by lifebeyondfife 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Npm-rescue – protection against destructive upgrades and LeftPad events(github.com)
3 points by lifebeyondfife 10y ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
A friend of mine was involved in this documentary about a similar situation going on in neighbouring Nepal: https://vimeo.com/115894458 . Interesting and sad to see the human side of how unreliable access to such a basic hum
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Breaking into web development from the back end(lifebeyondfife.com)
3 points by lifebeyondfife 11y ago|0 comments

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