vermooten

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by vermooten 5y ago
never a day goes by without my mourning Google Reader
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by vermooten 5y ago
“Even if you DID get a first, what use is a degree from LEICESTER?” Sadly tis true :) speaking someone with a degree from Leicester.
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by vermooten 6y ago
MSc in CS at Manchester University. Life-changing.
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by vermooten 6y ago
To misquote Richard E Grant: Let the forking begin!
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by vermooten 6y ago
A.I.D.A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk
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by vermooten 6y ago
Great - but if you're depressed / anxious then it's harder to persevere.
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by vermooten 6y ago
Teams & SharePoint.
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by vermooten 6y ago
yes! awful p.o.s. I've seen Service Now mentioned but it was wonderful compared to Cherwell.
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by vermooten 6y ago
And simultaneously doesn’t.
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by vermooten 7y ago
I Tulsa. Shame I live in UK.
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by vermooten 7y ago
Good news for once.
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by vermooten 7y ago
"Are you on track to meet the deadline?" is the worst 121 opener, I can't think why it's on the list. Unless you're an old-skool command-and-control type of course.
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by vermooten 7y ago
I'm very disappointed if I move from a company that uses macs, slack, Confluence to PCs, MS Teams (horrible) and SharePoint (worse).
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by vermooten 7y ago
It's a thing of strange beauty, tremendous nostalgia.
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by vermooten 7y ago
Yes I do, and I'm still annoyed about Google Reader.
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by vermooten 7y ago
Hardly 'from scratch', I was expecting an ELI5 article.
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by vermooten 7y ago
It's still a Macbook Pro, by miles!
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by vermooten 7y ago
the book is a great read
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by vermooten 7y ago
Best metaphor I can think of is coral - humans are the coral and we exist to serve the biome, not the other way around.
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by vermooten 8y ago
In other breaking news: the Pope is a Catholic.
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by vermooten 8y ago
I worked at a company whose name begins with K ... exactly this happened. The 'old' UI was an ASP nightmare from the early 2000s but it contained all that the users loved. The new thing never took off, despite the CTO putting his
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by vermooten 8y ago
She needs to realise that times have changed.
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by vermooten 8y ago
I found I was being 12% less than my peers. My boss said yes I'll get you a pay rise to match. 6 months later, nothing had happened. It then took me 3 weeks to get another job paying 20% more. When I told my employer I had this offer,
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by vermooten 8y ago
I work to help build up their self-confidence.
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by vermooten 8y ago
Disengagement: we get emails saying how profitable we are, the directors drive super-nice cars ... but we get cost-of-living pay increases, no bonuses. Why should we be 'engaged'? Feels like we're getting ripped off.
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by vermooten 8y ago
I thought that TypeScript transpiles to JavaScript rather than compiles.
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by vermooten 8y ago
What are 'parking minimums'?
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by vermooten 8y ago
It's got zero (0) new features that interest me.
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by vermooten 8y ago
It brings it alive - sounds corny, I know, but it's true. The article depressed me, which had it just been a piece about statistics and policy statements would have left me cold. Interested to know why you're not interested in the
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by vermooten 8y ago
Thank you :)

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