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by mafro 10y ago
EDIT: for the commenters - I agree an hour is too much. Whacking out FizzBuzz in 15 minutes could have its place :) When I experienced FizzBuzz as a candidate I was coding onto a projected screen, and the test involved writing unit tests
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Neat. I wrote my own hacky little Python app to upload to dropbox, but they recently broke that with changes to the dropbox python library. I hadn't bothered to fix it :) I'll check this out instead - thanks for sharing OP.
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Office Dashboards with Raspberry Pi(simonfredsted.com)
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I completely agree with you - being unable to write FizzBuzz is a red flag. However, finishing FizzBuzz under interview conditions does not really prove very much at all about a candidate's likely success on the job. In the limited tim
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I agree with everything you say! Notice I'm not saying that the 12 Factor App is incorrect or bad - I think it's quite the opposite. It just concerns me that people treat it as gospel, and quote it like it's some holy work th
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by mafro 10y ago
This is exactly what I meant.
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I keep hearing this "violation of Twelve-Factor" statement. The Twelve-Factor Methodology is a sensible set of guidelines/defaults for building a modern app, as written by Heroku. Don't blindly follow it As It Was Writte
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by mafro 10y ago
Carsales.com.au is mostly a PHP shop, if that floats your boat. REA is a ruby shop. There are plenty of other smaller companies doing interesting work there, however! Source: was living there 12 months ago
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Right now is actually a really good time to buy. The changes made to the building regs a few years ago in several inner city suburbs meant that many new apartment blocks have popped up - driving down the price of everything. Supply and dema
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Please elaborate. This comment provides little to the discussion.
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Nurofen's owner got into trouble over this in Australia recently: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/14/nurofens-ma...
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"We have detected you are using an active AdBlock on your web browser. Please disable it. Do not worry, we will not bother you with ads. However, some parts of our website may not work properly or stop working, if your Adblocker is ena
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by mafro 10y ago
https://shop.pimoroni.com/ EDIT: took 10 seconds to find including this edit, but your point does stand :)
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How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life(theguardian.com)
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KeePass plugin to expose password entries securely over HTTP(github.com)
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How to Run a More Secure Non-Root User Container(projectatomic.io)
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Microservices Mindmap(ivoverberk.nl)
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SAS deaths: The savage beauty of the Brecon Beacons(bbc.co.uk)
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A Fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio(github.com)
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I don't buy that Ghostbusters success will hinge on the gender of the lead actors - the leads in the new film have a lot to live up to in Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
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State and future of Heka(mail.mozilla.org)
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This. I've shared this definition with a number of aspiring seniors over the last few years - Allspaw describes "senior" far better than I ever could.
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The Spanish cooking oil scandal (2001)(theguardian.com)
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Thought I'd tag my opposing anecdotal data point onto your comment.. I live in London. I've had maybe 50 next day Prime deliveries in the last year - none of which have been late, lost or other. They are very good at logistics for
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A tiny but valid `init` for containers(github.com)
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Because many people need a car to function (get to work, shops, take kids to school). Nobody needs a gun to function.
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Flaky Tests at Google and How We Mitigate Them(googletesting.blogspot.com)
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Completely agree. Although I am no longer shocked by this stuff from Apple..
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I have never in RL heard anyone call it "OS ten"
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Peer into your ECS clusters with Specs(segment.com)
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