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by pm 12y ago
I used to call myself a owl too. Often I would be in a haze until late afternoon, then work right up until I went to sleep. Running a business with employees meant I had to shift to mornings (though no longer), but now I'm definitely
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by pm 12y ago
Working on a git GUI client called Rook, because I'm too unoriginal to do anything else, and I'm just sick of looking at all the ideas I could work on and not doing them. Oh and working on building a controllable PSU Arduino shiel
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by pm 12y ago
OP is totally correct for the most part. And knowing of his work (and having met him in 2007), he knows more than me about the passion it takes to get a project off the ground. That being said, there is the occasional point where a person
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by pm 12y ago
Not sure who PTC or EMC are... I worked at Bridgestone Golf for a few months (a tyre company that also made golf items, go figure), and because we were situated in their manufacturing plant, we were lucky enough to use SAP for our sales and
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by pm 12y ago
s/coud/cloud, presumably.
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by pm 12y ago
You can't really tell whether it's fucked or not - they could just as easily have decided it was time to codify the overarching values that have developed organically over time.
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by pm 13y ago
It's not reddit, Oliver.
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by pm 13y ago
It's a good idea, but don't be willing to take a pay cut.
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by pm 13y ago
Last century perhaps. There is nowhere near as much social shaming for women with children born out of wedlock in current Western society. It would be a dubious act, morally and statistically, to predict the likelihood of maternity leave
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by pm 13y ago
Then ask for marital status from men as well - Master and Mister. Unfortunately, they are abbreviated the same way, and the honorific Master has fallen into obsolescence. Or just don't ask for it at all. I find it better to let the p
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by pm 13y ago
I reject the notion that asking (or not asking) for marital status affects gender equality, in our industry or in society, in any meaningful way.
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by pm 13y ago
I've also seen technical debt accumulate when teams choose to build upon an "MVP" when the MVP was in fact just a prototype. Not nearly enough code is thrown away at the start of projects.
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by pm 13y ago
Both Pin and Braintree go through NAB; they seem to be the only bank that's willing to deal with international payment gateways (not sure why exactly). I know you can go through their API directly, but I'm not sure anyone would w
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by pm 13y ago
I've seen something like this happen before, where a person registered an offensive phrase as a business name on a mailing list and was getting mail for it because no-one bothered to check the name. The fact that the mail was qualifie
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by pm 13y ago
I'm intrigued that you have a person named Sugar working for you.
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by pm 13y ago
Nah, I got a handle on that a while ago. I know my skills and I know myself, it's just sobering to see so many of my motivations and behaviours described accurately. If I was convinced these programmer aspects were entirely negative,
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by pm 13y ago
To clarify, I've been many of these simultaneously, and I'm not sure that it's changed much; different circumstances bring out different aspects. Apparently, I'm a melting pot of neuroses.
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by pm 13y ago
I think I've been almost all of these at some point in my career.
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by pm 13y ago
Hosting SHOULD NOT cost that much with GAE. What's the bulk of your cost (I'm guessing DB writes)?
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by pm 13y ago
We've been ploughing through a redesign recently, and Thorax was on our shortlist of frameworks, along with Ember and vanilla Backbone, being "opinionated" and "battle-hardened. However, we found the documentation outda
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by pm 13y ago
Of all the things in the article, the guy's reaction to @EnjoyTheFilm is the thing making me chuckle. As much as I support this idea, I really can't help but laugh at someone's petty misfortune.
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by pm 13y ago
You make some good points, and HN has been such a boon for finding new services to integrate. Of course, if we could all do it in-house reasonably we'd all be doing that no doubt, but it's just not feasible, even for large corpor
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by pm 13y ago
Is NIH syndrome such a big deal with engineers that they need to implement EVERYTHING? I'm leading a team of 3, including myself, and I can't imagine a worse way to spend your time. Why would I spend precious hours re-implementin
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by pm 13y ago
Melbourne IT are also a waste of time. I don't know how they're still in business.
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by pm 13y ago
We have tall poppy syndrome, but there's also a great deal of Valley envy. There are as many naysayers telling us to keep our day jobs as there are sociopaths telling us to "fail fast and break things", the consequences be d
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by pm 13y ago
Indeed, I signed onto Xero when payroll didn't exist. Payroll is as hard, if not harder than doing payment gateways in different countries - everything's different for each country. But the first incarnation of (Australian) payr
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by pm 13y ago
In Australia, there was a company called Paycycle which filled in the payroll gap, which Xero subsequently bought out and incorporated into their Payroll offering for Australian companies. My theory is that Xero purposely crippled parts of
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by pm 13y ago
Best part is that now you can play FPSs using the mouse and DASH keys.
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by pm 13y ago
"Erin" sounds like "she" has an axe to grind with Justine.
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by pm 13y ago
Tackle those places with what?

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