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by thackerhacker 2y ago
The poll you link to says December 2023, like the article.
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by thackerhacker 3y ago
I asked about this 10 years ago and look at the sarcasm I received in response. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/142703
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by thackerhacker 4y ago
The story in the press about this insinuates David Cameron might have done this as it is apparently a Bullingdon Club (which Boris Johnson was also a member of) “thing”. It would be quite surprising for someone who went into Labour politics
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by thackerhacker 4y ago
You need to check out Space Giraffe by legendary hippy coder Jeff Minter https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2J9SxTp0UbE
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Big (tech) company bullshit(phillipcarter.dev)
6 points by thackerhacker 4y ago|0 comments
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by thackerhacker 5y ago
“I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now“
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by thackerhacker 5y ago
When I went from contractor to permanent at my last employer the goal-setting really stressed me out as I knew I didn’t want to be held responsible for something that might change. In the end I just decided to stop thinking about it to avoi
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Moving Buttons(specialprojects.studio)
1 points by thackerhacker 6y ago|0 comments
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Just Eat to stop using gig economy workers(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by thackerhacker 6y ago|0 comments
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by thackerhacker 7y ago
Tomorrow may also be groundhog day.
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by thackerhacker 7y ago
As a father of a 6-year-old I suspect that it will get easier and easier for you from here on in. The kids will start to do so much more independently and so so many things to lift your spirits you weren't even imagining. Have you c
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by thackerhacker 9y ago
I've been caught out a couple of times by describing something as trivial (or non-trivial) to people not versed in software-speak. They can either think you are dismissing the whole discussion in some way or just have no idea what you
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by thackerhacker 9y ago
You too could nail it. Just give up your job and draw stickman comics 3 times a week.
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by thackerhacker 10y ago
It's easy to get sucked into thinking it all makes perfect sense but there's a few pretty big implied leaps of logic. This spoof sums it up pretty well I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
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by thackerhacker 10y ago
He's saying that eventually when your feature surfaces as a UI the customer may not like it. To which I have 2 responses: 1. not all features need a UI to be useful 2. this also demonstrates the infantilising nature of scrum where no d
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by thackerhacker 10y ago
It's a long time since I've had to deal with "strict" Scrummers. But I do remember being utterly baffled as to the insistence on user features being ready by the end of a sprint, even for quite complex, technical compon
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Like Me, on Facebook (Eric Lippert Has Joined Facebook)(ericlippert.com)
7 points by thackerhacker 11y ago|0 comments
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by thackerhacker 11y ago
Vidados | Senior .net Engineer | London, UK | https://www.vidados.com We are a young startup with a small but very capable development team. We have very big plans for our activity holiday marketplace platform so need a talente
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by thackerhacker 11y ago
Vidados | https://www.vidados.com | London, UK | Full Time | Onsite | Front end designer / developer Around the world, many small businesses offer amazing activity holidays in great locations. Think wine-tasting in Bordeau
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by thackerhacker 11y ago
I played this a lot (on Atari ST - one mouse / one joystick - the mouser definitely had an advantage). The most amazing thing about it was how you could successfully set traps for your opponent even though they were looking at the same
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by thackerhacker 12y ago
Code Trip - London, UK (Remote welcome) C# Lead Engineer on new Marketplace platform Code Trip London, UK (allows remote) http://www.codetrip.co.uk ==The story== Over the last year we have written a new full-featured Marketplace
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by thackerhacker 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Out of interest, did you read the about page or watch the video? Is it expecting too much for casual visitors to do that (genuine question)?
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by thackerhacker 13y ago
We considered charge-by-the-error, but felt people don't like to be nickel-and-dimed. You'd disagree?
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by thackerhacker 13y ago
Yep - if you're totally organised and completely on top of your app, then there may be little need for a service like this (although I'd say there's still value in the graphs, the multiple alerting channels and all the other good stuff). We
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by thackerhacker 13y ago
Yup but only automatially. Our matching default to automatic but you can redefine the matching rules. Examples: 1. your exception messages contain the id of the entity you're dealing with "FooBar 1234 has broken". You only want to match t
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by thackerhacker 13y ago
OP here. In case people are wondering what the new approach is, Errordite allows you to look at your list of errors and by highlighting properties of the error define the rules by which errors are grouped into issues. See the video for a
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Show HN: Errordite, a new approach to exception management(errordite.com)
26 points by thackerhacker 13y ago|28 comments
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by thackerhacker 14y ago
ASOS (Camden Town, London) - Senior .net Developers - ASOS Marketplace ASOS.com is a leading and fast growing online fashion retailer. ASOS Marketplace launched 2 years ago with the aim of building a "Global Fashion Democracy"; a platform t
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by thackerhacker 14y ago
ASOS (Camden Town, London) - Senior .net Developers - ASOS Marketplace ASOS is a leading and fast growing online fashion retailer. ASOS Marketplace launched 2 years ago with the aim of building a "Global Fashion Democracy"; a platform to a
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by thackerhacker 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult

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