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by timblair 3y ago
This is actually an explicit decision, designed to maintain consistency of the user experience across GOV.UK services in terms of information architecture and content design. It's not something that departments choose to do (or not), a
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The software engineer’s guide to the Amazon behavioral interview(interviewing.io)
6 points by timblair 4y ago|3 comments
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The state of the sector: UK public sector domain security(stateofthesector.dxwcyber.com)
2 points by timblair 8y ago|0 comments
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by timblair 8y ago
An employee's use of a company-provided communication channel like Slack isn't covered by GDPR, but the company is liable for the content that's stored in their Slack account. Under GDPR, I, as a customer of Company X, have a
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Classifying and measuring tech debt in GOV.UK(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)
2 points by timblair 9y ago|0 comments
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How to open up closed code(gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk)
3 points by timblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by timblair 10y ago
Vaguely related: there's a great episode of the 99% Invisible podcast [1] about how two specific ice cream truck jingles are used to help deal with Taipei dealing with trash disposal. [1] http://99percentinvisible.org/e
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by timblair 10y ago
I don't agree with working like this, but I'd expect that you're generally going to get marginal gains from each extra hour worked (up to a point of exhaustion or burnout), especially in the short term, so it might make sense
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Progressive Versioning(allinthehead.com)
39 points by timblair 11y ago|15 comments
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by timblair 11y ago
I think you're confusing the who the "user" is in this case. It's not Joe Bloggs out on the internet who wants to see fresh content on your site; it's you, the web developer, working on your local machine, building
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by timblair 11y ago
Regarding (Slack/4)... I believe that toomuchtodo is talking about the following features within Slack: * Stars: the ability to privately star individual messages (so you can easily find them again) * Pinning: the ability to publicly h
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by timblair 11y ago
I can see this being a really nice idea to use across a team, if such a thing was offered. A few use-cases / benefits: * An agile team could use this as part of their retrospectives, and could track the data points across multiple spr
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The perils of programmer education in the bazaar(blog.practicingruby.com)
60 points by timblair 11y ago|37 comments
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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse(steveblank.com)
1 points by timblair 11y ago|0 comments
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What is a technical architect?(annashipman.co.uk)
2 points by timblair 12y ago|1 comments
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by timblair 12y ago
JSON API [1] is an attempt to standardise the request and response formats for JSON APIs, and it supports an extension which permits multiple operations in a single request [2]. Facebook have their own, similar method of supporting batched
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by timblair 12y ago
I took the article as to be more a case of using Redis as an example of a system which is reaching the limits of performance _given the current state of the kernel it's running on_, rather than a direct comment on the performance of Re
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An agile approach to self-improvement(teajay.be)
2 points by timblair 12y ago|0 comments
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It's time to start doing(teajay.be)
2 points by timblair 12y ago|0 comments
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Publishing our development standards(globaldev.co.uk)
1 points by timblair 12y ago|0 comments
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by timblair 12y ago
I saw this, but decided to donate anyway.
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by timblair 12y ago
Same here with the Slack integration: clicked on the link and got a "We couldn't find any hook with this id" response back.
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by timblair 12y ago
That's because it's the lowest common denominator. Anyone with Git on their system can use the command line and follow along. If you choose to use a GUI for your explanation, then you're likely alienating at least a portion
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by timblair 12y ago
The PATCH version is the "number of commits since last MINOR release (will be reset at 0 when releasing MINOR)" — https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/semantic-versio...
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Ruby 2.1 In Detail(globaldev.co.uk)
112 points by timblair 12y ago|12 comments
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Ruby Tips, Part 5(globaldev.co.uk)
80 points by timblair 12y ago|13 comments
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RabbitMQ: HA From the Front Line(globaldev.co.uk)
1 points by timblair 12y ago|0 comments
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by timblair 13y ago
Have a look at the previous instalment of the series: http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/09/es6-part-2/#let_declarations
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An introduction to ES6 Part 3: Destructuring(globaldev.co.uk)
24 points by timblair 13y ago|12 comments
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by timblair 13y ago
Care to give some examples where you think this is the case?

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