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by colinhowe 3mo ago
In general, yes. I believe there's a difference between writing a performance review based on your memory/notes of how someone was doing 6 months ago vs getting into the weeds of a sample of PRs/specs and reviewing those from
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by colinhowe 3mo ago
Author here. This is valid feedback, thank you. This post was originally an internal post. Internally, I have credibility as "the guy that does his homework". That doesn't carry over to the broader internet! I think you'
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by colinhowe 3mo ago
Author here! That opt out issue is definitely not intentional, I just gave it a quick try and it worked for me in a few different browsers. Feel free to ping me on colin AT ashbyhq.com with any additional details and I'll see if we can
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by colinhowe 3mo ago
Author here. 100% agree with your sentiment. When we do performance reviews of engineers we take the time to comb over at least some of the PRs the engineer has written. We flag any patterns around code quality (regardless of whether it cam
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by colinhowe 3y ago
I think it's relevant, but it's not the only thing. My personal experience as a Brit is that the UK has a growing trend of anti-intellectualism and being innumerate is "cool" in certain circles.
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Async Postmortems in a Global, Remote Team(ashbyhq.com)
1 points by colinhowe 4y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 4y ago
Eugh :( Why couldn't that person have just let you know far far sooner? Some people just shouldn't be responsible for other people.
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by colinhowe 4y ago
I've had burnout. I was 12-18 months in a startup before I realised it was not at all the right fit for me. I was brought in as CTO to fix some stuff. I fixed that stuff and then realised that how I wanted the business to operate and h
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by colinhowe 6y ago
Thanks for this! It's almost a rite of passage for a startup to say that they're "revolutionising the world of blahblah"
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by colinhowe 6y ago
Hah. Lack of pay on job ads is one of my biggest bugbears! I've always been of the opinion that nice to haves just shouldn't be there. They don't help self-select in a meaningful way. The must haves must be actual must have
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in a job ad?
5 points by colinhowe 6y ago|7 comments
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by colinhowe 6y ago
I asked this some time ago and never found a satisfactory answer. There doesn't appear to be much research in this area either :/
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by colinhowe 6y ago
I'd say that's just awful UI. Looks just like a normal header for a block of text.
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by colinhowe 7y ago
If you're targeting developers then I suspect you'll find many of them have at least heard of the term raycasting from CS degrees at the least.
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by colinhowe 7y ago
Interesting! What makes it hard for you to develop trust? For me, I think that if I can't trust someone than I don't want them working for me in any capacity (office or remote!)
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Ask HN: Managers of remote employees, what's hard for you?
8 points by colinhowe 7y ago|6 comments
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by colinhowe 7y ago
> Report on first six months of scheme confirms no increase in pollution around the ULEZ boundary
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by colinhowe 7y ago
Except if you're already deep into work because you start earlier than everyone else then they just rip you out of your flow. They also tend to be longer than five minutes in terms of herding people to them etc.
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by colinhowe 7y ago
I got to 5 minutes. I have a kid so this was easy :D Once upon a time there was a banana. That banana was called bob. Bob the banana used to have fights with other fruit. His arch nemesis was Oscar the orange. Oscar was a very orange orange
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Making salaries transparent(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup CTO – Compensating Engineers(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup CTO – Technology choices(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 8y ago|0 comments
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How I run technical interviews(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 8y ago|0 comments
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Tech Debt and Impossible Mountains(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 8y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 9y ago
Just a brief addition to this as a user of APIs. Allow me to create a new token and have two tokens for the same account. This makes rotation of tokens without loss of service possible :)
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by colinhowe 9y ago
Resurrected my old account just to reply to this. I just started playing 9 months ago or so. I was sceptical as I've always felt poor at acting/drama. Turns out, it's really fun. You're not making a story alone. You&#x27
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London startup Conversocial raises $11m(conversocial.com)
3 points by colinhowe 11y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 11y ago
I've seen this happen at companies before. The other side I've seen is: HR bod: sorry, you can't give everyone a 5 on your team, someone has to have a 1 Manager: but, I've hired my team sensibly! HR bod: sorry, y
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Ask HN: London startups – are you in Old Street area?
2 points by colinhowe 11y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 11y ago
Seeing it bounce up/down from the UK... brief moments of "IT WORKS" followed by sadness. Long night ahead I think :(

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