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by madaxe 15y ago
Bath, England: We've got a variety of technical positions (developers, QA, Systems) at our eCommerce development shop building a cutting edge platform with plenty of nitty-gritty engineering and high volume sites on a SaaS platform. Further
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by madaxe 15y ago
Yeah, I've reached a special place. Modafinil to work days on end without sleep, grass to force myself to sleep when I know I really need to. I definitely need help, and I know it, but in the UK, the social stigma attached to seeing a menta
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by madaxe 15y ago
> I can remember having conversations with my parents where I'd bring home a 90% in a test and I'd get asked "what about the other 10%?" I don't think this was asked in a way to be mean. In a strange way, I think it was a weird way of s
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by madaxe 15y ago
People will do the minimum amount of work necessary for the maximal reward. If the minimum amount of work necessary is to just go "can't you just do it", they'll do just that. As to lumbering employees with this stuff - really, really can't
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by madaxe 15y ago
Aye, there's the rub. I'm desperate for us to hire someone else to at least share the devops/project management/administrative/account management burden with me, however my business partner runs the design side of things, and therefore does
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by madaxe 15y ago
See my comment in reply to singular. I used to be passionate about the arts, passionate about enjoying nature, good company, good food, travelling, enjoying life, and all the rest that matters. I've flogged it all out of myself, as if I don
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by madaxe 15y ago
Actually, I just wanted to see if, on a thread about Burn-out, anyone would recognise it when they see it. Evidently, not. I'm in the fun dichotomy of knowing damned well that I'm at the end of my tether, burned-out beyond belief, and not h
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by madaxe 15y ago
It's good to know that HN is going down the same drain that reddit went down. Since when did hard work and dedication to one's tasks become a bad thing?
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by madaxe 15y ago
It's fine once you adjust your value system to recognise that work is life, and that everything else is basically irrelevant. No family to speak of (apart from the ones who expect a monthly cheque from me (brother, aunt, mother)), co-worker
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by madaxe 15y ago
Lots of caffeine, and flogging myself as hard as I can to keep going.
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by madaxe 15y ago
What you describe there is laziness. Burnout is this weird concept that developers have invented to describe "I can't be bothered to keep going". 5 years, no days off, one 5 day holiday per year, on call 24/7 for the duration, and I'm just
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by madaxe 15y ago
You've been lucky - we host in their London DC and their networking keeps on vanishing, often for 20+ minutes. Moving to EC2 at the end of this month.
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by madaxe 15y ago
Don't forget that they'll have to cross a few dozen active fault lines, too. It's not going to happen.
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by madaxe 15y ago
This isn't good news. Yes, they're dropping the bill, but only because the newzbin2 case has made it clear that they don't need legislation to dick all over people, and in the absence of a legislative framework, they can make it up as they
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by madaxe 15y ago
But not to that insignificant blot, Europe. No consumers over there, from what I hear, just a gang of pirates.
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by madaxe 15y ago
Outside... the US? What do you mean?
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by madaxe 15y ago
You're lucky - one of our clients is an Australian e-tailer, with ~30% IE6 traffic - I'd just figured that Aus was really behind on the whole browser thing. Anyhow - agreed entirely, we support IE6 whenever theres >1% of visitors usin
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by madaxe 15y ago
Even better: Beware of assholes. They're everywhere, and you can't always detect them.
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by madaxe 15y ago
" we may need to legislate the principle of equal pay for less work. Personally, I support that principle." There has never been a more revulsive "principle".
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by madaxe 15y ago
I'm really curious as to what all the fuss is about, but google+ isn't going to be available on Apps accounts until Q3 2012, at least... It's unclear as to how they hope to drive business adoption (i.e. monetisation), if they're going to lo
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by madaxe 15y ago
Quite right.
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by madaxe 15y ago
Whoops, you're right, I'm talking utter crap!
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by madaxe 15y ago
Excellent article, and you've hit the nail on the head regarding confidence. When we first set out, we worked with small clients with small budgets, and equally low price expectations. We've grown swiftly over the last 5 years, and have gon
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by madaxe 15y ago
You should see the shit they design pharmaceuticals with.
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by madaxe 15y ago
Because most scientists write code in Fortran '77, which is interpreted, meaning that "code" == "program".
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by madaxe 15y ago
Definitely not. Queen's English here, and "Maths" is a simple concatenation of Mathematics, meaning "Codes" would make no lexical sense. Therefore, we say "Code", just like you.
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by madaxe 15y ago
Well, that won't affect me, because I'm a paying google apps user, which makes me a second class citizen without a profile. Good-oh.
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by madaxe 15y ago
What he means is that plenty of small airstrips have no ILS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system ) and just publish GPS glideslopes... and if you're landing in zero visibility and you lose GPS tracking, landing is going
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by madaxe 15y ago
Huh? That is the entire world. And Canada.
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by madaxe 15y ago
It carries on through undergrad and into post-grad. Even the best funded labs still have mountains of crappy equipment that everyone has to use, and one researcher who keeps everything that works under lock and key. On the plus side, it's a

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