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Tangiest

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About Tangiest

Software developer and eejit. I'm based in Northern Ireland, with over 15 years of experience, primarily in .Net and SharePoint.

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    I've worked a number of software roles (around 10 in the last 15 years) in the UK. Only been asked to sign away my working time directive once, and that was for an American owned c…

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    Comment #30472279

    Thanks for the links, I missed these discussions!

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    Ask HN: How to prepare for a major downturn as a developer?

    I've been reading Scott Galloway's recent post on a possible future downturn: https://www.profgalloway.com/down-round/ His post, focused on startups in a bear market, got me thinki…

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    I've been following this series of posts on this job search (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003106 ), and this post really resonated with me. I've experienced interview…

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    Comment #25991054

    The United Kingdom's very own version of the ICANN debacle.

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    Comment #20458876

    Terence, I love how you are throwing it back on others to protect their social media account names from being snatched by people like you. [Edit] Corrected typo in Terence's name.

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    Comment #20458867

    Agreed. As someone who follows Terence's blog, I was surprised and disappointed to read about this nonsense. It certainly screams entitlement.

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    Comment #15283610

    Interesting article, has similar concerns to those raised by Cathy O'Neil in her book 'Weapons of Math Destruction', and also by Tim Wu in The Attention Merchants. Those of us work…

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    I like the fact that this is a simple, easily measurable metric that can give you a very good idea of the quality of your application. In fact, I'm now trying to think of what simp…