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by ollysb 13y ago
Adding to this, any structure involving a large number people is generally extremely change resistant. If you're looking for changes that go against the grain of the culture that you're working in then you might as well forget it.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've got this problem on a machine at the moment, what was the solution?
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by ollysb 13y ago
The lack of appreciation between people is probably a sympton of a deeper problem. Perhaps the environment is toxically competitive and forces people to play down other people's contributions. Maybe there's a lack of leadership wh
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by ollysb 13y ago
Given that America is a wealthy country that seems incredibly low. The legal minimum in the UK is 5.6 weeks per year.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Quirk implies that it's not very common, actually there's a large number of countries that do the same thing.
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by ollysb 13y ago
This feels incredibly hand wavy. I moved to Spain from the UK last year and one of the huge benefits for me is that the hours feel far more natural. I tend to go out fairly late in the evenings (usually 1 or 2), get up earlyish (around 9:30
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by ollysb 13y ago
I tend to vary the amount of refactoring I do depending on how much code is likely to depend on it. For instance I'd spend more effort in the DOM than I would in the controller (remember this is degrees of effort not lots/none). T
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by ollysb 13y ago
TDD does allow you scope for exploration work. If you watch Kent Beck's TDD screencasts[1] you'll see him follow a workflow where he's exploring an unfamiliar protocol. What's interesting is that he first frames his expl
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by ollysb 13y ago
Yeah, I'm incredulous that anyone could argue that VIP membership is obvious. There's a box that gives you the breakdown of the charges, Subtotal, Shipping etc. that doesn't include the VIP membership... In fact the only indi
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by ollysb 13y ago
Really great advice, would you mind if I put it up on pastie (obviously with attribution to you) so people can bookmark it?
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by ollysb 13y ago
This is probably a driver issue, if you're not using it try Poltergeist[1], a headless webkit driver. Because it's webkit it basically behaves the same way as if you were testing it yourself in chrome. [1] https://githu
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'm a huge fan of the gherkin format, it let's me sketch out a feature and then work through it methodically, testing as I go. But cucumber has a critical flaw, it forces you to think about code while you're writing. Because
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by ollysb 13y ago
I moved into an apartment not too long ago that was full of CFLs. For me I found the quality of the light incredibly bad, a bit like being under office strip lighting but not as bright. I replaced them all with Philips LED bulbs and am extr
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by ollysb 13y ago
The issue then would be deterrence, it would you could try your luck, in which case you could win really big, but if it didn't work out it wouldn't really matter because you wouldn't have lost anything that you had in the fir
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by ollysb 13y ago
I think the problem is that developers(including myself) tend to make estimates assuming that they're not going to find anything that makes them say WTF! Code is never perfect and it's extremely difficult to know how much time it&
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by ollysb 13y ago
Multiplayer fights are going to be bloody...
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by ollysb 13y ago
Anyone have an idea how this compares to crossrider from a functional point of view? It would be great to use an open source alternative but I'm wondering if there are any pitfalls to using trigger.io's browser-extensions.
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by ollysb 13y ago
That's going to be really useful for my workflow. I found this explanation[1] of how it works pretty decent. [1] https://coderwall.com/p/hh-4ea
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by ollysb 13y ago
It may not be possible to have a stable timeline that involves time travel i.e. if time travel exists, someone always ends up travelling back and messing up the timeline so that time travel isn't discovered. If timelines which include
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by ollysb 13y ago
Certainly there's way too much noise going on in that video. A minimalist approach could work well though.
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by ollysb 13y ago
It seems like it should be a setting on the browser i.e. if it's your own personal laptop then you probably want to always be remembered and if it's an internet cafe then the browser should never remember your password. Maybe the
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by ollysb 13y ago
Yeah, come on, imagine having a 3D version of your app running right in front of your face! I've been longing for this for as long as I've been a software engineer. Most systems have a pretty static architecture so they'd be
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by ollysb 13y ago
The problem here is that crowd-funding is a risky business and as things stand paypal has to shoulder that risk. What we need is a type of transaction where the payer/crowdfunder assumes the risk, i.e. chargebacks are not allowed.
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by ollysb 13y ago
It seems a bit late in the day to decide not to do business with you if they've already taken money on your behalf.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'm pretty sure most of the players don't worry about that until the cash stops rolling in...
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by ollysb 13y ago
A big part of the problem seems to be that these organisations are filled with employees that, while probably very good at what they do, don't have the skills to find a product that will fit the current market.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I can't really see how you can copyright a list of tracks. It's been a while since I bought a Ministry of Sound compilation but aren't they normally mixed? I can see a mix having copyright protection but if they are then aren
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Ministry of Sound sues Spotify for copyright infringement(theguardian.com)
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by ollysb 13y ago
My current side project is a web app to teach you to imitate sounds in a particular language. There's some fantastic resources here that will be very useful so thank you.
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by ollysb 13y ago
https://github.com/carlhuda/janus is a slightly more plugintastic distribution. There's a lot of plugins included and they've all been configured to work well with each other.

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