mattbee

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by mattbee 4y ago
So this project was started in 2017, raised enough money from backers to get to (some) fruition, and was acquired within 18-24 months? Did its founders get a good payout from that, or were they just grateful to get funding to continue the
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by mattbee 4y ago
My swag lesson: everyone likes bottle openers! But international travellers can't take pointy/blady things back in hand luggage. I had a lot of those things left over after that show.
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by mattbee 4y ago
I don't begrudge a game pretentiousness (hello Metal Gear Solid). I do begrudge a game that has nothing to say. And The Witness was such an empty vessel - a technical tour de force that was flat and dead and full of frustration. The
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The Looker (love-letter to / parody of The Witness)(store.steampowered.com)
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by mattbee 4y ago
Ohhhh OK. I'd say don't post your actual ad because we will find you and give you more help than you wanted ;) Like maybe your team page is all white men, or your defence contracts are very prominent, or your CEO is a public do
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by mattbee 4y ago
Nobody can help unless you show us your actual ads, your company site etc. There could me a million little signals that are putting people off. You've also not said what your pipeline looks like - is there nobody coming in at the top?
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by mattbee 4y ago
As a writing manual, I am also a big fan of "First You Write a Sentence" by Joe Moran.
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by mattbee 4y ago
> I like how Signal just shows that the person exists as a contact. Whether they're awake or not, or active, or idle is opaque to me and I'm totally fine with that. Signal does show whether the recipient is typing, if you have
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by mattbee 4y ago
It's not just hackers you need to worry about. I joined Facebook in 2020 - immediately secured, 2FA switched on and all the settings reviewed. I lost the account in 2021 after I made the world's dullest post about the 12V system i
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by mattbee 4y ago
No, I took it as "asking for a friend"
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by mattbee 4y ago
And this particular model is so slow . Every button press takes the screen 1-2 seconds to react, that's assuming you're looking at the right one. Quite often the card reader isn't working and it takes about 90s to timeout;
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by mattbee 4y ago
Brexit was my catalyst to (re) claiming German citizenship - my father, sister & kids got it all at once. My kids will be able to work, travel and settle around the EU which I'd taken for granted when the first was born :(
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by mattbee 4y ago
Well done on landing the position but I wouldn't expect your transparency to be reciprocated from Deliveroo. I tipped a driver £15 through the app the other day, he turns up and thanks me for the £7.50. Shows me his end of the transact
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by mattbee 4y ago
The API for MTD stuff is very open: https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs... And because of that there's tonnes of approved software, including loads of actually-free services: https:/
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by mattbee 4y ago
Go also allows you to write nil-processing behaviour in your types: func (t MyType*) process(a int, b int) { ... } ... var example *MyType example.process(1,2) Will call the process method, even though the receiver is nil!
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by mattbee 4y ago
That definitely outsources the most painful part of the problem. Though I'd probably use a forwarding-specific service - e.g. a lot of people swear by SES, I've used smtp2go just for Hotmail deliveries, I'm sure there are oth
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by mattbee 4y ago
Skiller Whale | Software Engineer (Curriculum) | Remote | Anywhere in the world | £30-120k We’re looking for software engineers to research, write and test our teaching curriculums across many programming languages and technologies. Our sal
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by mattbee 4y ago
I still love the story of White Town who made Your Woman in 1997: https://www.wired.com/1997/06/white-town/ Both the single and my album were made with an old Tascam 688 multitrack tape recorder, an Atari ST
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by mattbee 4y ago
Ha, they remind me of the phrases in the "hidden insults" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_for_All_Occasions LATIN: Stercorem pro cerebro habes. WHAT YOU SAY IT MEANS: That's certainly food
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by mattbee 4y ago
Yes, this is a really good article, I think the tone is warranted! I'm writing a Go course at the moment - all the basics on channels, slices, pointers with all their warts - and am not shying away from saying "sorry this doesn&#x
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by mattbee 4y ago
Quantum Childminding is too real.
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by mattbee 4y ago
Yes! That site is great as a spot check, I've used it. But imo if gmx.de are silently binning my messages (and nobody else) it's their problem. If it's Gmail, it's my problem :)
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by mattbee 4y ago
Nobody who is anxious about a first contact with someone new will rely on email alone, anti-spam has made sure of that for 25+ years. You just can't measure whether someone _saw_ your email, which is all that matters to email users. U
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by mattbee 4y ago
I've run the mailu.io stack for 4 years off a Hetzner dedicated server. It's an easy stack to set up and update through several major versions. About 25 different mail users, friends and family who aren't in IT. The issues
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by mattbee 5y ago
I know how to think about UK charities, thanks mate, I am trying to offer perspective, experience and knowledge that's different to yours. I'm a trustee of a small UK charity, I do their books, I'm in touch with lots of other
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by mattbee 5y ago
Yeah that's not at all the same thing as a UK charity, which has to spend all of its money on charitable purposes. They are governed by a board of volunteer, unpaid trustees who can be personally liable for its misconduct. Here's
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by mattbee 5y ago
A UK registered charity has to have a "public benefit requirement" and has some fierce governance and reporting requirements, it's more than just a non-profit company. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-b
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by mattbee 5y ago
For an alternative, I get great service - not free but very cheap - from updown.io.
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by mattbee 5y ago
I'm the same, I loved the perfect polish of both games, they beg to be played with. My specific issue (in both games) was that I solved later puzzles by just exploring the problem space and not understanding the logic behind them. Lik
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by mattbee 5y ago
The author very kindly addresses my comment in a PS: I also, admittedly, allowed my cynicism toward my own industry and Wells Fargo to cloud my judgment; I didn't know the first thing about Apple Pay or Google Pay prior to this incide

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