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721.
by pyb 10y ago
In my experience, standups are meant as a sort of quick fix for teams that have communications problems, but they don't actually help.
722.
by pyb 10y ago
Is it odd that so few of them do ?
723.
by pyb 10y ago
My personal anectodal evidence is that the London lettings market is softening as well.
724.
by pyb 10y ago
Is it just me, or are some of their prices double the price at Amazon ?
725.
by pyb 10y ago
Well put. If the house, 'valued' by the government at 300k, is actually a '90k' house that will in fact sell for 50k, perhaps it's time to get real, save time and call it a EUR 50k property from the start. Everythin
726.
by pyb 10y ago
Where are you looking instead?
727.
by pyb 10y ago
London's tech industry relies heavily on immigration, as well as easy access to other EU markets. I'm afraid we'll see a big shift to Berlin and other places. I say this as someone who'd only reluctantly relocate from Lo
728.
by pyb 10y ago
Who owns most of the homes then ? Institutional investors ?
729.
by pyb 10y ago
I'd also like to see it navigate single track lanes in the English countryside.
730.
by pyb 10y ago
No bad, but it still needs to be taught to keep to the right. Unless this is how people normally drive in the US ?
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by pyb 10y ago
I find block editors, and more generally visual languages great, or awful, depending on the application domain. Scratch is an example of a great fit. The Lego Mindstorms environment is an example of a bad fit IMO. I'm not too sure what
732.
by pyb 10y ago
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
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by pyb 10y ago
I think we pretty much have all the context we need on Trump, Thiel's views towards Trump, pg and sama's views of the Trump situation, Thiel's role at YC. It's all public information. Everybody should be able to express
734.
by pyb 10y ago
I think we'll keep forgetting, and rediscovering Fordism for many years to come, unfortunately.
735.
by pyb 10y ago
I've worked at a few different places now and have never seen junior team members treated badly either.
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by pyb 10y ago
What is a 3WH ?
737.
by pyb 10y ago
TomTom also supply GPS for quite a few carmakers.
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by pyb 10y ago
This problem is so frequent that I try to remember to budget for 15 minutes, whenever I want to shut down my laptop.
739.
by pyb 10y ago
I noticed the cause was an upgrade : it had lost a number of my settings.
740.
by pyb 10y ago
My Windows 10 woke up and rebooted when it was it sleep mode. I didn't care that some applications such as Virtualbox were running.
741.
by pyb 10y ago
>> It's true: the developers with the best reputations don't get interviewed. They can get their pick of jobs just by networking. This is arguable. Personally, of the local (London) developers I look up to, not one of them i
742.
by pyb 10y ago
Yes, the myth is one thing, but reality is another!
743.
by pyb 10y ago
Agree that not everybody wants to work at Google. But it seems to me that today, it would be a first choice for many people.
744.
by pyb 10y ago
Agree that it's not a bad strategy for Google to hire the way they do. It is a bad strategy for most other companies though, as by running the same interview process, they'll get people who couldn't get a job at Google.
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Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend(danluu.com)
712 points by pyb 10y ago|423 comments
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by pyb 10y ago
Daily
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by pyb 10y ago
(My current rate is an awful £300, and that was hard to find!)
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by pyb 10y ago
In my experience, contract rates in London have been dropping like a stone in the last 2 years. I'm still not sure why that is, but feel forced to start planning my escape...
749.
by pyb 10y ago
Many managers produce negative value!
750.
by pyb 10y ago
Programmers and teachers are not really paid well in the UK !

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