dan_b
Re:Ask HN: Recommended CRM solution for a SaaS startup?
on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:30AM (#15384568)
Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines
on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:42AM (#12932203)
It's a blue collar job in the UK, coupled with the out-dated concept that individual contributors cannot earn as much as managers.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:21AM (#12589025)
More importantly, are they hiring?
Re:Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:56AM (#12588866)
May I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?
Re:Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub
on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:31AM (#12547173)
Zurb Foundation.
Though it is, literally, a foundation to build your own look-and-feel on.
Re:Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core
on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:11AM (#12435699)
...and that is a dealbreaker.
Re:Two Spreadsheets, Microsoft Access, and a Pulitzer Prize for Public...
on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:53AM (#11992942)
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 migrated to an ASP.Net backend + single page application. It's still running 8 years later. Access is an incredibly flexible tool.
Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:31PM (#11401120)
Xamarin have some very smart people on the case.
Re:We only hire the trendiest
on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:28AM (#11327345)
You'd be surprised. There's a lot of shops out there who have never heard of CI/CD/Automated Tests/etc.
Re:Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements
on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:41AM (#11066537)
I was suprised to see how many Java applications run on Windows + MSSQL.
Re:Massive 2.0: A Postgres-Centric Data Access Tool
on Monday April 20, 2015 @10:55AM (#9408489)
They're both created by the same author, Rob Conery. Frans has taken over maintenance of Massive 1.0.
Re:Ask HN: What's up with junior developer salaries? (UK)
on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:08AM (#8555664)
Sometimes experienced devs come with bad habits.
Re:Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads
on Thursday August 21, 2014 @06:38AM (#8206690)
I've seen people DJing at parties using two browser windows with Youtube.
Re:Ask HN: Why is the Windows hosts file in such an odd location?
on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:23AM (#7748192)
The Windows network stack is built on BSD code.
Re:The architecture of Stack Overflow [video]
on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @07:06AM (#7056551)
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 stab myself in the face.
Re:Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July
on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @10:49AM (#5905844)
Come say hello, we'll be the only guys in the room in suits.
Re:Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July
on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:36AM (#5904919)
Yes, I'm in. We'll be the only .Net shop in the room as usual.
Re:The Mac Pro from an audio pros perspective
on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:51AM (#5899960)
You really should, I've got one at my office and one at home.
Re:Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over
on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:48PM (#5895844)
No love for IE at all by the looks of things.
Re:Alertify.js
on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:50PM (#4844311)
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.
Re:Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999
on Thursday August 16, 2012 @11:57AM (#4391910)
The problem is, I believe, TFL won't open up their API without charging for it.
Re:Making Chrome better on iOS
on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @05:22AM (#4222787)
I'm sure Apple think they've got a patent on it already so why not use it?
Re:I Don't Need Backups, I Use Raid1
on Friday June 01, 2012 @08:25AM (#4053021)
Re:Redesigning the hotel icon
on Monday May 28, 2012 @09:59AM (#4033337)
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...
Re:Verizon to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:19AM (#3986270)
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".
Re:Microsoft Reduces Nook To An App For $300M
on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:54AM (#3908823)
What happened to the B&N vs MS patent suit?
Re:Learning VIM while playing a game
on Monday April 23, 2012 @07:41AM (#3878283)
Very cool - got an SMTP error when I tried to sign up though. :(
Re:Redis 2.6 is near
on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:25PM (#3629967)
I fixed this a while back:
var clientManager = new PooledRedisClientManager("[email protected]:9287");
Re:Stack Overflow running short on space
on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:22AM (#3561127)
I believe Joel said that software licenses were a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.