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by swish_bob 8y ago
The bbc iPlayer does essentially this now. It creates a short one time code and you type it into a logged in account to activate the smart device. Of course, when you only have one logged in device and it's tied to a different room, it
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by swish_bob 8y ago
When I do this, I'm pretty upfront that it's not going to be "real" pair programming, but you can come up with a pretty close approximation. As you do it more, with the same problem, you start to understand what question
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I get where you're coming from, and am in a similar position. On the other hand, I've used a coding test to drop a company before (completed the test and refused to submit it, told them the test gave me enough information to know
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Much! Working metal is _hard_ and slow.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
They're useful to measure in that _changes_ to them are indications that something might be happening. Use them as canaries. For example, your velocity has changed. Why has it changed? Are you bringing new people up to speed? Have you
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Leather hinges and wooden nails are significantly cheaper in a society where your blacksmith (or his apprentices for nails) has to spend a significant amount of time making them. Not to mention the significant cost of the raw materials. Pea
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Even setting aside the years they had to become compliant, it still wasn't a good idea to store passwords in plain text before GDPR.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I'm quite fond of Gordon Ramsay's "Sunday Lunch". It's essentially a series of 3 course meals. One of the nice things is that it's laid out with instructions that assume you're doing the entire meal, so it
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Unless they decide to include it in the great repeal ...
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by swish_bob 8y ago
And paving in places with a lot of precipitation has some unpleasant side-effects.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
I'm confident that exposure to girls during Scouts is decreasing their likelihood of getting divorced, rather than increasing it. Or do you honestly believe that toxic masculine behaviour is correlated to staying married? I mean, I sup
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Rot. My boys both clearly gain from having girls in the Scouts and Explorers. In fact, the issues that my youngest's Scout pack are currently suffering from are pretty much all linked to the sort of crappy behaviour you get when boys a
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by swish_bob 8y ago
They need some way to validate things, and it turns out if the number isn't exactly the same when they run their samples they don't trust any of them. For at least some value of them. The founder at the last place I worked at
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by swish_bob 8y ago
To multiple different currencies at multiple valuation points. With optional exchange rate costs. It's a pain in the arse ... Source: worked on multi-currency fund tracking software.
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by swish_bob 8y ago
If you don't know what you're doing, how can you do it? I don't see how this is a TDD thing or not ...
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by swish_bob 8y ago
Chargeback fees are the card clearing services way of discouraging chargebacks/disputes. They charge everybody them. The large banks put way more money through them than you're talking about, and they have fairly high write-off le
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by swish_bob 9y ago
Except as a taxi operator (in London) they are required to report these incidents to the police if they are made aware of them. They appear not to, to the extent that the Met have complained.
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by swish_bob 10y ago
That's not _necessarily_ true. I've worked at a company that expanded far too fast, and laid off a sizeable number of people. They then got some serious focus on the areas that they could do well, made good money and grew more sus
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by swish_bob 10y ago
That's the IAB's standard viewable impression metric: https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/MRC-Viewable-...