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by dan_b 9y ago
Hold my beer: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/2014/08/m...
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by dan_b 10y ago
It's a blue collar job in the UK, coupled with the out-dated concept that individual contributors cannot earn as much as managers.
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Alastair Cockburn's Theory of Software Development [pdf](alistair.cockburn.us)
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by dan_b 10y ago
More importantly, are they hiring?
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by dan_b 10y ago
May I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?
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by dan_b 10y ago
Zurb Foundation. Though it is, literally, a foundation to build your own look-and-feel on.
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by dan_b 10y ago
...and that is a dealbreaker.
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by dan_b 10y ago
I started off with an Access database. Then we split the JET DB backend out from the front end and put that on a shared drive. Then we replaced the backend with SQL Server (without changing the front end.) Then eventually it all got migrate
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by dan_b 10y ago
Xamarin have some very smart people on the case.
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by dan_b 10y ago
You'd be surprised. There's a lot of shops out there who have never heard of CI/CD/Automated Tests/etc.
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by dan_b 11y ago
I was suprised to see how many Java applications run on Windows + MSSQL.
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by dan_b 11y ago
They're both created by the same author, Rob Conery. Frans has taken over maintenance of Massive 1.0.
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by dan_b 12y ago
Sometimes experienced devs come with bad habits.
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by dan_b 12y ago
I've seen people DJing at parties using two browser windows with Youtube.
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by dan_b 12y ago
The Windows network stack is built on BSD code.
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by dan_b 13y ago
ServiceStack is just plain awesome when it comes to developing web services, though it's gone commercial for v4 onward. Nancy is another popular alternative - it's basically Sinatra for .Net. Every time I go back to WCF I want to
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by dan_b 13y ago
Come say hello, we'll be the only guys in the room in suits.
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by dan_b 13y ago
Yes, I'm in. We'll be the only .Net shop in the room as usual.
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by dan_b 13y ago
You really should, I've got one at my office and one at home.
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by dan_b 13y ago
No love for IE at all by the looks of things.
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by dan_b 14y ago
Really nice smooth animation. It would be nice if the alerts appeared in the centre of the screen though... I find that jerking my eyes up to the top of the screen and then back down to what I was looking at quite intrusive.
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by dan_b 14y ago
The problem is, I believe, TFL won't open up their API without charging for it.
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by dan_b 14y ago
I'm sure Apple think they've got a patent on it already so why not use it?
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by dan_b 14y ago
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/RAIDing_Disks.aspx
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by dan_b 14y ago
It's a good thing they got rid of that chap's arm, or they would have got a cease and desist from HostelWorld.com http://blog.keepmebooked.com/2011/09/what-happened-to-our-ma...
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by dan_b 14y ago
I wrote to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority regarding misuse of the word "unlimited" as relating to broadband and mobile internet. Their response was that "as most people wont hit the limits, they can call it unlimited".
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by dan_b 14y ago
What happened to the B&N vs MS patent suit?
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by dan_b 14y ago
Very cool - got an SMTP error when I tried to sign up though. :(
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by dan_b 15y ago
I fixed this a while back: var clientManager = new PooledRedisClientManager("passwordblahblahblah@barracuda.redistogo.com:9287");
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by dan_b 15y ago
I believe Joel said that software licenses were a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

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