teddyuk

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by teddyuk 7y ago
How does Facebook get billions and equifax gets millions? Equifax goes out and gathers your personal finance data without even asking, they literally take it whether you want them to or not. Facebook is data people choose to share freely. T
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by teddyuk 7y ago
For outsourcing like this to work you have to be very explicit about what it is you want and expect and then you need to check regularly that is what you are getting. I saw one app that was meant to be a three tier web app - it was two tier
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Ask HN: Is everyone on the internet particularly pissed off this week?
2 points by teddyuk 7y ago|1 comments
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Often hotfixes came with private symbols, Microsoft has traditionally been very slack on this. I’ve seen private symbols for sql server with the guid to switch editions published on the public symbol server for at least 6 months before they
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The London Contract Market Cycles Explained(profitable-contractor.netlify.com)
2 points by teddyuk 7y ago|0 comments
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I’m a generalist and it is awesome! When I get bored I rewrite my cv and maybe skill up a bit on my own time (or at work) and re-emerge as a new xxx I’ve gone from support to ops to development to ops to development to devops and I can tell
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by teddyuk 7y ago
yes but happens a lot - if you dont change it, it won't break (expept it will, every time because the reason you don't change it is because it is crap in the first place)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
This really is true, I worked on a project where we were meant to be getting hourly files into a data lake, the files so small we couldn't reach the recommended size of 256mb per file (compressed parquet in azure adls) - the files were
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I don’t really see what the problem is. I saw someone on twitter had their name as d:\avid or something then a few weeks later someone else I followed changed their name to c:\hris or something - it is a bit cheesy but not something to put
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Find somewhere else to work
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I just wish you could say “pivot this column” and have the database figure out columns it would generate - we can control exactly which rows are picked and I hate restarting to dynamic sql to fix this
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by teddyuk 7y ago
The thing about triggers being able to do anything, I have seen triggers make webservice calls - it was horrible and caused so many issues it was unbelievable
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by teddyuk 7y ago
Electron gets a lot of stick but you can write good looking cross platform applications easily. Until someone does something better that isn’t single platform it has to be here to stay
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I remember using C to call com components as a learning excercise - it was just that to see how it worked. You wouldn’t do it otherwise
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I have seen systems developed over decades and they are a complete mess, the worst had these components: - vb com+ - c++ dcom - c++ mfc - .net 1.1 winform - .net 4 - wpf - delphi Microsoft causes this by events like build which go “we ar
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by teddyuk 7y ago
3) ha ha
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by teddyuk 7y ago
This is such a common complaint!
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by teddyuk 7y ago
If you use ms sql server ssdt you use refactor/rename and it finds all references and changes them and then when you go to deploy it generates a sp_rename - 100% killer feature right there :)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
To help people find the content. They go to google “how do I fix blah” then a post titled “how do I fix blah” appears and they click it and their blah is sorted
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by teddyuk 7y ago
I’ve only ever worked on a handful of systems where performance was so critical we bothered with load tests. Almost every single enterprise database has a handful of users or so little data they can handle it by throwing money (hardware) at
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by teddyuk 7y ago
The thing that I get annoyed by is when the columns don't match the table names so something like: create table people(person_id int) This literally drives me to distraction and I want to throw my computer out of the window :)
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by teddyuk 7y ago
This - also things like "you can create a PR to change the microsoft doc's site" - FFS microsoft make so much money but the users are expected to maintain the bs documentation. This makes me so mad
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by teddyuk 8y ago
>> "and that is in fact Big Data." don't you mean "and that is in fact Big Mac Data."
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by teddyuk 8y ago
I'd like to see microsoft/mozilla/google collaborate on "THE" browser engine then all this compatibility bs goes away - they can all ship their own cruft and advertising but with a single rendering engine we can for
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by teddyuk 8y ago
I worked with a CTO once who was both determined that anything customer facing was the best it could be without being rude. If we didnt make the best user experience it would be rejected but we would work harder to get it right, if he was a
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by teddyuk 8y ago
is the performance worse than aws? https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/aws-ebs-latency-and-iops-the-...
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by teddyuk 8y ago
contractor salaries in london are sweet!
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Ask HN: Who is responsible for ads on Facebook, Facebook or people being faked?
1 points by teddyuk 8y ago|0 comments
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by teddyuk 8y ago
i was using wikipedia to with my son yesterday for a project and found it really annoying, so i'm in that list of people who hit the api but aren't in the list of people who seem to be "liking it"
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by teddyuk 9y ago
Also the companies aren't geared up to even know what they want so they can't even explain the complexities or even comprehend what needs doing. I have literally seen a multi-million pound project on the requirements "take ou

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