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JazCE··on How programmers should write their resumes
Would you/they discount people who have >5 years experience working for mainstream organisations that might have "grown a software division out of necessity", but no github activity?
JazCE··on How programmers should write their resumes
Fully agree. I wouldn't discount anyone for not having a github project. I have a life outside of work, i enjoy going out and being with friends and family. I spend most of my waking hours during the week at my machine coding, it's not something I want to do at the weekend, and that doesn't make me a bad coder.
JazCE··on MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines
I think you're the only one who understood my comment.
JazCE··on MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines
The remarks weren't made with the intent of being cold and insensitive, though i admit i'm not the most sensitive of people.

edit: who knew asking about human/cultural behaviour was so frowned upon.

JazCE··on MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines
point taken, but it does seem very extreme. did this happen during 9/11?

edit Also, are the families of NZ nationals, Australian, French etc behaving the same as the asians?

JazCE··on MH370 assumed to have crashed with no survivors, says Malaysia Airlines
I'm more intrigued by the reaction of the families. Is this a normal reaction from Chinese families?
JazCE··on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Infographics
I'm not a designer, so i speak as a consumer.

I disagree with complements on the look of this. I kind of feel it's misisng something, which i can't quite pin down. perhaps it's the look of the maps, that they don't quite match the rest of the feel. The sources text in FF28 W7x64 doesn't look particuarly good, not very ledgible.

maybe it's just an overall static and clinical look that i don't quite like (which is odd as i do like industrial design).

I think it possibly needs a bit more art direction. but i'm a consumer so what do i know.

JazCE··on Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor
Would love to hear the reasons why you decided against markdown, it was something I was just discussing at the beginning of the week with my team (who work on news sites).
JazCE··on My autonomous Lego Rover at CeBIT 2014 in pictures
Ahh awesome. I'm more a lego/technic enthusiast, but don't quite have the space for lego anymore, so I just enjoy reading the lego blogs and seeing other peoples creations.
JazCE··on My autonomous Lego Rover at CeBIT 2014 in pictures
It'd be nice to see some detailed photos of the rover. I assume the laptop is part of the rover, but it would be great to see beneath the laptop.
JazCE··on Why open floorplans are bad for programming
more like: why open floorplans are bad for me personally.

this is not something you can blanket statement like: eating asbestos is bad for your health

JazCE··on Working in UK
I'm from Cardiff, It's a beautiful city and admittedly it does have a few big tech companies to work for. There is a decent polish community there too.

However, Cardiff is not a big big city, so it doesn't have hundreds of tech companies, and you might hit a pay ceiling faster in Cardiff than you would in London, however, the cost of living is also lower in Cardiff than London... Swings and roundabouts. Bristol is an hour or so's commute though with more tech firms.

JazCE··on Ask HN: Why are you using recruiters for recruitment?
I can understand the case for hiring a recruiter for a small business (what I would consider less than 50 employees), where a HR department might not be a permanent fixture. But when I see recruiters for Fortune 500/50 etc companies, I do wonder what's going on there.
JazCE··on Show HN: Email Templating API
Missing out on Dotmailer http://www.dotmailer.co.uk integration which would stop me from using it.
JazCE··on Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code
This is essentialy the same as: Minister of health is not a surgeon.

I do think there is actually a need for a political party whose MP's are actually made up on members of the professions they'll eventually represent (By which I mean they won't represent the actual industry, but the people, but you would have a minister of education who has actual practice of being a teacher or something).

JazCE··on Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO
merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7177388
JazCE··on How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia
To all the other commentators, this isn't about wikipedia, this is about a tool that can be used by copyeditors to help them enforce house style and grammar rules.

If you work for a magazine publisher, it's likely you have 2 lines, a web line and a published line. The web line might not go through the copyeditors/production/subeditors before it goes online whereas the published line will likely go through those people/departments. By adding this into the web line, it can help enfore the rules of the publication so that web and magazine both match up nicely.

JazCE··on Show HN: Luna Delivery – night packages for London
the American way!
JazCE··on The complete guide to centering a div
Shame that demo's take you out of the site.
JazCE··on Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in 24 countries
(disclaimer, I work for a news agency) I would agree that anything that recaps a news article/press release without adding significant analysis would just be blogspam. By all means link to your blog if you're adding more than a paragraph of thought on the original subject, if not, link to the original article. But hey, HN is a democratic site, so y'know, whatevs.
JazCE··on Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in 24 countries
This is blogspam, you're trying to pull people to your personal blog, where you've written a paragraph (least amount of effort) with a copy and paste of a few paragraphs from the original article.
JazCE··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
>Consider John Doe. John is an ordinary internet user who's heard of bitcoin, but has no iota of how it works and 0 control over it. Will John trust his life savings with it? No. I think that's pretty obvious.

err consider John Doe... He doesn't give a damn if his bank is open source or not. John Doe is not your target, people who use BitCoins (and I don't mean lemonade selling girl scouts) are your target.

JazCE··on The Inverse Power of Praise (2007)
wait what... cursive penmanship is a thing? i thought it was just a joke from cartoons.
JazCE··on Common Regular Expressions Made Simple
I'm gonna be That Guy and say that the e-mail regex isn't upto scratch and probably should not be included.

generally, very good.

JazCE··on Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router
Scala wasn't a learning exercise then?
JazCE··on Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router
You're right, but i think the point you're missing (and i don't mean this in a rude way) is that they had a system built in scala, somehow, but now no one on the team knows scala.

They lack an architectural oversight, that they should really be using one(ish) language rather than a big mix of languages so that this doesn't occur again when no one on the team knows GO because the project leads taken a new job.

JazCE··on Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router
I tend to agree. The post makes a point of saying "we had a router built in scala, but no one on the team knew how to maintain it".

It seems they're allowing team members to play with "language of the week" (lotw), build something that's then used in production without the rest of the team knowing the lotw, that member moving on and then rebuilding it in a new lotw 6 months later. no doubt this GO implementation will go the same way at a later date.

I'm not opposed to using a lotw in production with other languages and such, but it needs to be done in a thought out manner with the whole "what if the project lead gets hit by a big red double decker" mentality.

JazCE··on Getting website registration completely wrong
Is this a better workflow?

1) user form consist of a) username b) e-mail c) password d) retype password

2) if all of the above is ok, and not already in use, allow user access to site

3) if running an e-commerce site, or something that depends massively on their e-mail address actually belonging to the user. a) allow user to see e-mail they specified at login somewhere (my account) b) make user retype e-mail at point of purchase c) make user confirm e-mail before purchase, and change e-mail if no confirmation has been sent (obviously a,b and c are either/or type statements)

alternatively, if older users are the problem... first 1/2 of Logans Run anyone?

JazCE··on Measuring heart rate with a smartphone camera
I had been wondering about this myself. Thank you for the breakdown. Most interesting.
JazCE··on Formance.js – Library for formatting and validating form fields
if it can't validate emails according to the RFC's don't include email "validation"
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