turkeywelder

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Show HN: Tracking iCal feed latency across O365/Google/Apple(sync.timetastic.co.uk)
3 points by turkeywelder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by turkeywelder 6mo ago
Love your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission capacity generally? I presume we'd saturate storage pretty
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by turkeywelder 11mo ago
Idiotic Brit here. Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expensive for us to use. We'd be happy if it was public
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by turkeywelder 2y ago
Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: c# .NET, React, Javascript, Typescript, SQL (Full stack .net dev) Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: garethterrace at gmail It's time for a new challen
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by turkeywelder 2y ago
This is why we have a flat "we won't fill in your forms" rule and only take card payments. We've lost some clients because of it sure, but we're a small team so it's fine. I think being up front about what you
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by turkeywelder 2y ago
Our parent company are having issues in UKSouth but we're spread across UKSouth and UKWest and not seeing any issues. Apparently Functionapps also having issues, but we're seeing nothing at the moment.
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by turkeywelder 2y ago
Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, .NET, React, JS, some Typescript, MSSQL, Gatsby Résumé/CV: on request - I don't have linkedin since the breach Email: garethterrace at gmail I'm a
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What Killed the Blackberry?(youtube.com)
4 points by turkeywelder 3y ago|0 comments
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by turkeywelder 4y ago
Raise it with the ombudsman!
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by turkeywelder 4y ago
Might not be very obscure but it was new to me. Ended up being really useful for finding out whether dates intersect a particular period and ended up using it quite a bit at work. Range Tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by turkeywelder 4y ago
We send a "weekly summary" email of who is absent in your company in the next week. At 9am on a Monday we send roughly 100k emails via Sendgrid and have very very low spam report rates. Transactional email for even relatively smal
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Ask HN: Azure users, are slot swaps broken lately?
1 points by turkeywelder 4y ago|0 comments
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by turkeywelder 4y ago
That's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.
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by turkeywelder 4y ago
I miss Grooveshark so much - Licensing issues aside it was one of the best UIs for music ever. I'd love to hear more stories about the backend
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
All the business knowledge is in Basecamp as that's where all the "work planning" is done. If you want to find out how a specific feature works, or how the decisions were made for that, go find the project in Basecamp, it&#x2
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
They've been having lots of issues lately. Broke our entire login flow by setting multiple set cookie headers. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/30ptcb3b0s2w Support taking days to get back to us. Not sur
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
Hello from a fellow UK HR (ish) company. This looks like a strong start - payroll is hard! Good luck, we all need to band together to get rid of these insane portals of horrible UX
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Ask HN: How do you transfer domain knowledge to new starters?
12 points by turkeywelder 5y ago|7 comments
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
> •users feel that their experience is diminished as a result of the decisions we make with respect to the frequency, prominence, format, size and quality of ads that we display; They should show short video ads in the language you'
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
If anyone's in the sauce shipping game, try and get the Huy Fong one distributed in the UK. The market here is dominated by "flying goose" sriracha which is good, but not the same as the Huy Fong and there's a fair marke
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
ohh that option thing is well hidden, thanks for that. Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
> Like the first time after a boot/login? More often than that - I knew it'd ask on fresh boot, but this is after switching users or just a night where it pretends to sleep. I'm still tracking it down and figuring out the
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
In our use it was perfectly fine, it'll run fine with 4gb of ram and a Celeron. I wouldn't want to do hardcore software dev on one because they're usually low end screens and CPUs, but as a "here's a safe machine yo
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by turkeywelder 5y ago
Recent M1 user here - I had a PowerPC mac back in the Leopard/Tiger days. I thought OSx would have come on leaps and bounds since then. It's....more or less unchanged. As well as this crazy installer thing, there's quite a bi
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
I'm starting to lose faith in cloudflare lately - we're on the business plan and there's been some really strange UI bugs in the dashboard where it looks like state just isn't reflected properly (Access and Load Balancin
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
that'll never happen - WhatsApp is almost WeChat for Europe, it's ubiquitous and the network effect is so strong you'll really struggle to get masses of people to switch away fom it. 99% of people outside of the HN bubble wil
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
We did the same, it's I think one of our best moves because everyone just gets the same price, nobody feels like they're missing out and it's super easy to administrate so we can concentrate on the product, not the pricing.
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
Nothing at all wrong with it. It's just something we haven't done yet. Priorities, features and bugs all battle for our limited resources.
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
As a consumer I'm really not a fan of these techniques. I'm biased but our SaaS just has one price, no annual discount, no messing. It seems to be working out. I think people appreciate the straightforward approach when everything
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by turkeywelder 6y ago
It's good for captures, but awful for annotations. Try the following: - Draw a straight line on an image (you have to pick the ruler, then draw along the ruler) - Drawn an arrow on an image (not freehand) - surround something with a bo

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