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by nbevans 10y ago
This. The OP is one of "those" people that just likes to find things to be faux offended by.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Presumably any reward would need to be approved by an executive other than just the IT director since clearly they have no policy in place. The IT director would not want his department's incompetence to be known higher up the board. A
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by nbevans 10y ago
This is very well written.
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by nbevans 10y ago
I wish the UK would block American SV firms in a similar way, to be quite honest.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Same. The current approach of placing a file on a HTTP endpoint is basically a joke, right?
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by nbevans 10y ago
I don't get it. The sample is re-running the Count() call. A reactive design would post an event.
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by nbevans 10y ago
Who designs mobile apps by slicing PSD files? Fire the developer who went along with that idea!
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by nbevans 10y ago
Whilst predictably this HN thread has turned into a bit of a flame war I would like to point out the article certainly made one indisputable point. That HTTP/2 is going to change how modern web apps are written all over again. So then
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by nbevans 11y ago
Is this actually a real thing or just a play on the dirty secret of hackathons?
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by nbevans 11y ago
I wish Azure would improve Blob Storage. It is really a shadow of S3's capabilities.
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by nbevans 11y ago
The same thing happened with REST, TDD and Microservices, etc. The term gets hijacked by people that are less than skilled at executing it. And unfortunately there are more unskilled than skilled people in software; so usually the hijacked
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by nbevans 11y ago
It's annoying the media has not even focused on the cyberattack element in all this. The theft and circulation of private legal data.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Yeah the post about React Native is fair.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Good lord that blog makes for tedious reading! It is like he is on a one man crusade to overturn decades of irreversible missteps with the practice of OOP. Rather than trying to fix an unfixable wrong the author should simply get on board t
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by nbevans 11y ago
But necessary.
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by nbevans 11y ago
HTTP and JSON are well catered for on .NET and Xamarin. Newtonsoft.Json is the most popular. And then HttpClient has first class support in Xamarin. In terms of view models... how long is a piece of string? There are literally dozens of app
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by nbevans 11y ago
Correct. The Xamarin API is 1:1 aligned with the native platform. To the point that it is almost entirely generated from automatic tooling with the odd "fix up" here and there. Xamarin Forms however is a framework that performs ab
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by nbevans 11y ago
It certainly killed off investment by people that had no money to invest in the first place. Which enabled Xamarin to create a base of over 500,000 of paying customers which tends to help when your business plan stretches about 5 years, to
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by nbevans 11y ago
Seems unlikely. Xamarin supports F# and C# and is aligned 1:1 to the native platform.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Our entire Xamarin codebase is written in F# so not quite sure what you mean by that.
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by nbevans 11y ago
We just spent almost £2k in February renewing our licenses, doh!
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by nbevans 11y ago
I love your last paragraph. Exactly what I was thinking. NT Subsystems were its party trick and its taken far too long for them to be introduced on the grand stage. I bet Dave Cutler is smiling his face off!
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by nbevans 11y ago
Being stuck in "lead web developer" roles for 13 years probably rules you out of being an influencer though.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Managers that don't listen to their own engineers... pretty sure there is a wise soundbite in there somewhere ;)
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by nbevans 11y ago
The article describes Concorde as "ill-fated". Is that accurate?
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by nbevans 11y ago
Haven't read the article in full but as a Stargate SG-1 fanatic, I can tell you there were numerous episodes where the plot played upon the number of bugs and design flaws in the reverse-engineered software that powered the gate on Ear
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by nbevans 11y ago
But still your point is what? I said clearly that they don't want help not that they are incapable.
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by nbevans 11y ago
But you've quoted me entirely out of context? That's not very nice. Worse than Diane Abott on Question Time last week.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Several of our customers (IT projects) are organisations for homeless. So I can tell you they do exist. Two types of referral exist: from the council, or a walk in from the street. There are also numerous TV shows that document the process.
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by nbevans 11y ago
Food bank use is increasing out of certain social classes realising there is free food on offer. Rough sleeping is by choice in the UK; if they want a homeless shelter there are plenty on offer, all government funded. All they have to do is

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