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by ollysb 13y ago
It's best practice to not use the term "best practice" these days ;) (sorry, couldn't resist)
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by ollysb 13y ago
We do a quick phone call screener and then do some pair programming. We only do half a day of pairing (for which they're paid for) but I find that this is the perfect place to do a stealth interview with the candidate. They feel comfor
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by ollysb 13y ago
How do you do deployments to production?
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by ollysb 13y ago
That's going to be incredibly handy, thanks!
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by ollysb 13y ago
The subtitles feature is a huge win for me. My partner is Spanish speaking so every film we watch requires a hunt through various subtitles sites(not being able to use srt files with likes the of iTunes is also a major issue when paying for
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by ollysb 13y ago
As long as you sync the songs first you don't need an internet connection to use spotify on the move.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Seems reasonable, the more information people have the more they are able to leverage the resources that they have available.
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by ollysb 13y ago
If you take the brackets and the closing tags out (use meaningful space) it's a hell of an improvement[1], . A format I really like (ok it's aimed at html not xml) is the slim templating language[2]. It manages to pack the same in
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by ollysb 13y ago
Seems like an ipad is pretty close to what you want. If you could project part of the screen and leave some left for nav, new slides etc. then you could draw at will and be able to jump around slides without having to disturb the audience w
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by ollysb 13y ago
ember-data is a great example of why promises can be useful. When a view is loaded you query your server for the model(via ember-data's api), but at this point what you get is a graph of unresolved promises. It then gets passed through
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by ollysb 13y ago
As I mentioned in the comments, those examples aren't actually equivalent, the callback version could be: var getData = function(callback){ showLoadingScreen(); $.ajax("http://someurl.com", {
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by ollysb 13y ago
From oxforddictionaries.com[1] Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘praise’. Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. [1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kudos
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by ollysb 13y ago
Yeah, I think this comes with experience. I started off testing everything but over the years you get a feel for which tests aren't going to add value over the lifetime of the project.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've heard many good things about this book, definitely on the reading list!
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by ollysb 13y ago
I read many tutorials and several books on TDD but never quite got it until I read Kent Beck's Test Driven Development By Example[1]. I also highly recommend his Screencast series on pragprog.com[2] which gives you a good flavour of th
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've been building my first full blown ember app since the start of the year. I haven't got up to speed with testing yet (as opposed to my usual cucumber/rspec combo with ruby). I can tell you it is painful! I'm used to
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by ollysb 13y ago
There's also a condensed version for free over at infoq[1](requires registration, but definitely worth it). [1] http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly
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by ollysb 13y ago
Perhaps because it's written with examples in java but I often feel like no one in the rails community has ever read Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design[1]. It's far and away the best material I've ever seen on how to organ
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by ollysb 13y ago
> JSON.parse("{\"date\":\"2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z\"}") Object {date: "2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z"}
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by ollysb 13y ago
How does this play with the current whistleblower laws? Presumably longstanding employees would be protected. Where do you draw the line?
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by ollysb 13y ago
For the love of god yes! a standardised date format is the only thing that really needs changing in json.
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DNA pioneer James Watson sets out radical theory for range of diseases(theguardian.com)
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by ollysb 13y ago
This is important because this is perceived as completely different by the public. The idea that someone is watching you through your computer will have a much greater impact than someone scanning your emails.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Your unit tests running parallelised in the cloud is what I'm hoping they'll get to at some point.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'd love to see a good pair-programming environment. Floobits has been having a good crack at this but has the disadvantage of having to co-ordinate both the git commits and the workspace edits on multiple remote machines. GitHub won&#
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by ollysb 13y ago
There's a feeling of a movement developing though. The NSA revelations have provided political will where it didn't exist before. They've perhaps created an atmosphere of the US versus everyone else. There are plenty of peopl
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid 2000 EM26 to fly close to Earth(theguardian.com)
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by ollysb 13y ago
Good point, I suppose it would just be a poor man's delegation really.
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by ollysb 13y ago
>> Adding an interface like IEnumerable<Player> to the team gives a nice syntax like "foreach(Player p in team)" It would be interesting to allow _private_ inheritance, i.e. a class inherits methods from a superclass b
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by ollysb 13y ago
There aren't many managers around that are going to feature freeze to pay off technical debt. In reality it has to be paid off as you come across it i.e. you're working on a new feature that depends on some code with technical deb

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