mattmanser

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by mattmanser 7y ago
The Uber one is odd, US fined Uber $148m, the UK fined them £385,000.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Salesforce is awful to develop in. The worst designed language, terrible tools, poor feedback, inscrutable gotchas. An abhorrent mix of the worst parts of Java with the worst parts of SQL. Everything is utterly rubbish, there is absolutel
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I have aphantasia, I'm terrible with names but like you am excellent with faces. I think the three are totally unrelated.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
pg's always had a touch of functional fever. HN used to as well, every 2 or 3 years since it was started you'd have half the comments in a language discussion swearing blind that everyone was just about to switch to Lisp, then it
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Last time I tried MySQL with the EF the performance was terrible, the EF was outputting a load of nested tables that were fine with SQL Server, but absolutely abysmal performance with MySQL. This was a while ago. Have you used this personal
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by mattmanser 7y ago
As far as I can tell as a programmer in the UK, with several startup clients, it's very popular in Europe, and generally replaces Java's equivalent position in the US market. I guess there's only really a place for one strong
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by mattmanser 7y ago
If you'd have finished reading the article: Few people make the cover of Sports Illustrated after a run of mediocre luck. They appear after things have been going well, and if the good luck fails to hold then it seems like the SI jinx
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by mattmanser 7y ago
The vast majority of applicants were in IT, mainly developers, according to a quick search: https://www.investopedia.com/news/h1b-visa-issue-explained-m...
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Get reusable plastic ones and decant then.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
A lot of industries still have trade magazines. I've not been consulting for big business for a while, but often if you went into a large organization they'll have a copy of trade magazines related to their field(s) in their recep
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I think it's more because there's a lot of software that's too cheap to charge for, but has too many edge cases for the average programmer to get right. Logging is a perfect example, server-side logs are all handled by free f
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by mattmanser 7y ago
In the new one it's mostly all automated, with the app it imports your bank statements and you just need to match the payments to invoices and classify the expenses. Upload pictures of any receipts for expenses, etc. In my consultancy
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Not sure of your country but it's extremely simple in the UK. Here's what I did in the UK. 1. Create company for £15 on government website 2. Get bank account in company name, applied online, took 20 minutes. I had card and everyt
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by mattmanser 7y ago
How's any of that corruption? Regressive, short-sighted, unfair maybe, but I don't see the corruption?
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by mattmanser 7y ago
You've already said you never hire self-taught programmers so how would you know? We have a lot of self-taught programmers in my generation in the UK (I think mainly because of the BBC micro programme for schools a few decades ago). I&
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Haha, the opposite of what you're arguing is true. Anyone can get a CS degree without knowing how to program, you can make up the credits with all the irrelevant, purely academic, formal CS stuff. But no-one can be a self-taught progra
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Because it's using your domination in one market to destroy competitors in another, it's illegal. Hence the big fines that google is starting to get hit with, with some regularity.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I imagine the sea is extremely hard to work in and salt water is very corrosive.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
As no-one else has replied, randsinrepose always used to be popular around here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=randsinrepose.com&sort=byPopul... But these days I don't know. Everyone says they follow agile, or agil
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by mattmanser 7y ago
People were trying to find a way through the artic from the 16th century, 400 years before the first Geiger–Müller tube was made.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Browsers, mobile operating systems, ad networks, comparison sites, video hosting sites, image search, map services, etc., etc., etc. All of Google myriad of properties benefit from being able to limit competitors web page size, limit their
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Probably. I work with a site just like yours, and can obviously say only so much. But consider these things: The reason you're getting good hits on restaurant pages is that most restaurant websites suck. Many might have only a facebook
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by mattmanser 7y ago
Reddit implementing AMP seems such a bad decision, it defies the entire point of the site.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
It's hard to find them too, it's better to build something where they come looking for you.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I don't feel this is true. Think of the best DJs as curators, yes a lot will be the same, but DJs will help you discover new music and discuss that music too. The legendary John Peel of BBC Radio 1 being a good example. I still listen
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by mattmanser 7y ago
What a stupid argument. By the same argument all companies don't own their code or IP as soon as it's in someone else's hands.
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by mattmanser 7y ago
To be fair though, last time I went to Poland (Krakow 2011) they were super-racist. One of our friends was black, it was very scary at times. Lots of skin heads, random people spitting at our friend, getting followed by gangs of people. I h
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I find it hard to believe this actually caused a DB problem, updating an int column on an indexed table should have taken nanoseconds. Far faster than any HTTP calls should have been happening. Sounds like something was very wrong. Someone
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by mattmanser 7y ago
And who ever needs to think about that stuff? A tiny number of companies. Again, I just think you're not considering the vast majority of us here work in terms of thousands, 10s of thousands or millions of users, not the sort of scales
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by mattmanser 7y ago
I've fixed a lot of performance problems over my career. This is not true, and not what we talk about when we say it's almost always the db. The usual cause of database problems is a single big query that is causing a slow page, o

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