tcarnell

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by tcarnell 2y ago
After thought: Tech Debt is NOT a badge of honour, it's the opposite, it says "we made an engineering decision so bad that we now have to spend time and effort fixing/changing things which adds ZERO business value".
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by tcarnell 2y ago
100% agree. JUST_DO_IT (add value, fast) <-----------------------------------> WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS (enterprise arch etc etc) The BIG problem is the total misconception that: > JUST_DO_IT = bad engineering > WHAT_THE_BO
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by tcarnell 8y ago
ah, sorry! I've not been here for years actually, I always remember people posting tech/startup positions, but fair enough - I wont do it again.
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by tcarnell 11y ago
so Dont try to fix the problem, just limit the consequences. this type of action is likely to have the exactly opposite effect.
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by tcarnell 11y ago
oh, free burgers every Friday :-)
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Wanted: Linux Sysops, Fintech, Madrid, Spain(etfmatic.com)
2 points by tcarnell 11y ago|1 comments
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Seedcamp 2014 finalists announced...(seedcamp.com)
1 points by tcarnell 13y ago|0 comments
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by tcarnell 13y ago
Just another one of my little web apps, some might find it useful or inspiring... tom (APIHouse.com)
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Funky bookmark app thing(hiveslider.com)
1 points by tcarnell 13y ago|1 comments
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by tcarnell 13y ago
Why is 'email' not an option? Which is by FAR the most commonly used internal communication system - although I do NOT recommend it! http://teamstinct.com/but-whats-wrong-with-email
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by tcarnell 13y ago
Teamtinct.com - It is still in its early days, but works great.
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by tcarnell 14y ago
(although I am glad NOT to see Dyson on the list for producing excessively expensive vacuum cleaners with little or no perceivable benefit
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by tcarnell 14y ago
and Sony - because they just ARE an innovative company (the walkman/discman, betamax, minidisc, S/PDIF, bluray, professional broadcast and audio products. Philips I've already mentioned, but companies like Toshiba give us lots of innovation
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by tcarnell 14y ago
Or NASA for, well, especially 'Curiosity'
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by tcarnell 14y ago
or Microsoft for the XBox 'Kinetic' system.
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by tcarnell 14y ago
or Intel (whose modern power saving CPU's are probably inside almost everyone laptops? or Toyota for making practical hybrid cars PS: Although I enjoy Google products, they haven't 'invented' a single one. Search engines? Email? not exactly
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by tcarnell 14y ago
Another subjective list and a another misunderstanding of the word 'innovation'. Where are Philips who are pioneering high efficiency LED lighting, or TomTom that gave us the first decent GPS for cars? or Ubuntu that gave the world its firs
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by tcarnell 14y ago
Although just realised quite irritatingly that the local Web Storage is not shared across browsers - thus, you can not write data from Chrome then read it from Firefox - W3C, where are you when we need you!!!
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Really useful persistent text pad (HTML5)(apihouse.com)
1 points by tcarnell 14y ago|1 comments
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8 reasons not to use email at work(blog.teamstinct.com)
1 points by tcarnell 14y ago|0 comments
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by tcarnell 14y ago
Would also be handy to create a simple set of JMeter tests to ensure consistency across frameworks. I would would be keen to run the test against Contentigo, but not very keen to do this for all the other frameworks! I would hope that if a
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Ask HN: Is there a standard web framework performance benchmark test?
8 points by tcarnell 14y ago|2 comments
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Finally - CallMyApp is now up and running...(callmyapp.com)
1 points by tcarnell 14y ago|0 comments
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by tcarnell 14y ago
I am actively building 'TeamStinct.com' to solve team communication, and especially as a replacement for email. http://teamstinct.com/ I would be happy if anybody is interested in helping with the project?
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by tcarnell 14y ago
In essence, you can: - create/organize your data in hierarchically (lists of lists) - publish content at any point in the hierarchy - share data with specific people at any point in the hierarchy - generate QR codes for any point in the hie
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My new app - what do you think?(puntoshare.com)
3 points by tcarnell 14y ago|5 comments
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by tcarnell 14y ago
Just a little tool I knocked up that I have found useful for downloading from and browsing URLs that may not be published or easy to find. However, I think it might also be useful for generating arrays of data, unique test data and other pu
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A little tool to generate unique lists of text/urls(apihouse.com)
1 points by tcarnell 14y ago|1 comments
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by tcarnell 14y ago
oh, and not forgetting of course: - "'n' things every programmer should know'" - "why every programmer should learn [C|LISP|ASSEMBLY]" And can we just have a new section for the zillions of new "essential" JavaScript frameworks "we must lea
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by tcarnell 14y ago
hmmm, has anybody studied reading patterns of people when reading from a screen? It may be possible to fairly accurately estimate the probability of a section of text being read. For example if there are 6 comments on display at anyone time

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