londev

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by londev 5y ago
I’ve only managed to get more advanced treatment in the UK (still nothing ground breaking) by having private medical cover in addition to the national health care. Thankfully as the national health service covers all the basic care it’s pos
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by londev 6y ago
Same here. I was tempted to buy one until I read about the guy who’s device is useless as Facebook banned him.
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by londev 6y ago
I’m currently travelling through Italy and I can have full strength 4G but almost no data connectivity. I don’t know how anyone manages to use their data allowance here.
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by londev 6y ago
I love working from home but I’m about 30-45 minutes out of central London and friends and family often ask me why I don’t want to go into an office in town for the buzz, it must be difficult working at home with a baby running round, etc.
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by londev 6y ago
I’ve not used Symphony for a year or so but it felt like the kind of thing my team could have built in a couple of months. I wouldn’t use it in the same sentence as Bloomberg, other than to say Bloomberg has nothing to worry about.
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by londev 6y ago
As an example of what exchanges charge for licensing the data (not including a feed for the data, just a licence to use it) I have to pay £18k/year just for a London Stock Exchange licence. Then I have to pay for the feed. Charging for
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by londev 7y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote for UK based company Helping support a legacy PHP app and dragging it into the modern day, or potentially superseding it by developing a suite of Wordpress plugin tools. We work with regulated financial services
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by londev 7y ago
The sooner the music stops on this monumental fraud the better. While initially starting the race and pushing the development of electric cars forward I’ve got a feeling Tesla’s implosion will end up denting people’s confidence in them.
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by londev 7y ago
Almost every one I know in the UK has their groceries delivered. According to the official stats it’s only 7% of grocery spend though.
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Someone is still maintaining the Space Jam website(spacejam.com)
64 points by londev 7y ago|21 comments
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by londev 8y ago
We’ve ended up with our own, not so much a framework but a set of commonly used mixins and set of SASS files - some of which might even be empty placeholders - that stop us trying to work out the same issues over and over. I treat it a bit
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by londev 8y ago
Musk can no longer pump his own stock. He has been as good as handcuffed by the SEC settlement. I believe he can no longer raise. The lack of insider sales and no raise over the past year, despite the precarious cash position, tells me some
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by londev 8y ago
It uses VINs registered by Tesla themselves now, weighted with a few other factors according to @tsrandall on Twitter.
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by londev 8y ago
Elon Musk and Tesla are still facing: - A DOJ criminal enquiry into the same 420 tweet - A whistleblower suit about misrepresentation of its rate of vehicle and battery production - Another whistleblower suit about covering up a large theft
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by londev 9y ago
At https://chartlocks.com we have around: 45% email 30% Google 20% Facebook 5% Twitter
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by londev 9y ago
I met a couple of their team at Golang UK last year, some great tech leadership there by the sounds of things.