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by trhoad 5y ago
If anyone is interested in doing similar work at UK Parliament, we're on the same journey that UK Gov are on, although not quite as advanced yet so there's a lot of scope to shape what we're working on from an early stage: h
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by trhoad 5y ago
Oh nice! I thought there was some deeper meaning.
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by trhoad 5y ago
For that 10% fee, a Government department gets a whole host of DevOps support, all the contractual stuff dealt with, all the security vetting / compliance bits sorted out. The alternative is they can go and hire all those people to mak
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by trhoad 5y ago
Individual Government departments (or more accurately, individual teams or even individuals) procuring their own cloud services and creating a technical and bureaucratic FUBAR nightmare is exactly the problem the Gov.UK PaaS aims to solve.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Not sure why this is here (it's been in use for a while), but for the uninitiated, the GOV.UK PaaS is an abstraction over AWS that helps to standardise what has historically been a fragmented approach to hosting applications.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Nice idea but could do with a key. Why are some bigger? What do the colours mean? What's the blinking about?
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by trhoad 5y ago
The point of the map is to remind you that lighthouses blink? I thought it was to show you where the lighthouses were.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Strictly speaking, it's not a "whole OS shipped alongside windows". It's an interop layer to allow you to interact with GNU based operating systems from Windows. Linux (or Debian etc.) is the OS.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Unfortunately, Windows at work as of late. But I've been surprised at how not-that-bad it's been. With Webstorm + Windows Terminal + Chrome, I have an almost identical frontend workflow to my previous job on MacOS, and barely have
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by trhoad 5y ago
I think it proves how utterly ridiculous modern life is that we feel the need to pay someone to lie in a tank of salt water in order to feel better.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Very true. It doesn't matter how interesting and varied the work could be if there isn't any work.
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by trhoad 5y ago
What's a "bang"?
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by trhoad 5y ago
I would say that 75% of applications companies build for themselves could be replaced with a spreadsheet.
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by trhoad 5y ago
I really hope Rails make a comeback. Older versions of Laravel were superb - but when I went back recently I was shocked at what a clusterfudge had been made of shoehorning a frontend framework in.
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by trhoad 5y ago
> The requirement that people come to your company knowing how to use piss easy baby tools is an extremely dumb and lazy hiring practice. Sounds angry to me!
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by trhoad 5y ago
Imagine being this angry about a job listing mentioning a Python library...
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by trhoad 5y ago
Interesting take. Facebook is one of the few companies in the world I'd never work for.
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by trhoad 5y ago
It does seem strange. This is a problem that has been long solved elsewhere. I don't get the fuss over it.
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by trhoad 5y ago
A static React site, an Express backend, and a REST API is hardly exotic
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by trhoad 5y ago
> support and context-switch between too many stacks I don't believe this is the case at GDS, and wasn't the cause of the failure of the Gov.UK Verify project.
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by trhoad 5y ago
The UK must be one of the few countries left where you have to show (often paper) bank statements and utility bills to prove who you are (or simply that you live where you say you live), and in the process revealing all kinds of personal in
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by trhoad 5y ago
Yeh this didn't happen. > Hamilton said she didn't tell anybody about what had happened for a few days while she absorbed the experience. Sure!
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by trhoad 5y ago
And a great example of this? Airbnb. Pretty much disproved the entire post.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Not too sure about this take. By this logic, the car industry would be bankrupt - people don't buy cars that often. Isn't the real issue that the spend vs. frequency is off? If I spend (on average) $1 a day on an app, that's
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by trhoad 5y ago
Try telling that to the office cleaner.
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Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?
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by trhoad 5y ago
DevOps is a culture, where there is a mindset of "build it, run it, own it". SRE is a job title. A new job title for what used to called System Administrators, except Google called them SRE's so everyone else joined in.
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by trhoad 5y ago
This is hilarious, and sadly not that unusual. You really do meet some utter lunatics working in these sorts of agencies/software houses - it seems worse in the UK too.
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by trhoad 5y ago
$5 Digital Ocean droplet with the one-click NodeJS install: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs
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by trhoad 5y ago
> They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper". I think the demise of the publishing industry proves this point comically incorrect!

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