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Bytemark (a UK hosting company) have an anonymous hiring process which they've documented at https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/full-process which gives them as much confidence as poss…

Related, but Nissan have been running the GT Academy which takes online racers and turns them into real ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT_Academy - the first winner of GT Acade…

Ah, I was getting a loop saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" which would then take me to choosing a subscription which after selecting the Basic (free) one would take me b…

OK, so Workspaces appeals to me (C# developer for a small company, no IT team, working from home) as redundancy - at present, if my laptop goes bang everything is backed up in "the…

Was it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11673058 (My url isn't your url) ?

My personal choice at the moment is Ruby with Roda[0] and whatever ORM meets my needs best, or even skip the ORM and use the DB adapter directly if it's something quick and simple …

A better replacement in my opinion is Dynamics CRM (biased as I'm a Dynamics CRM consultant) ... speed of development is quick, runs everywhere with just one set of code (web, desk…

Yes, I'm in IRC channels for a LUG (general social chat) and a hosting provider (low-priority support things, plus more technical-based chat), plus I idle and am in the top-10 "idl…

Lanyrd was developed while the founders (Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) were on honeymoon, and was subsequently accepted into YC (Jan 2011) and has since been acquired by Eventb…

For personal use, I use BigV[0] and for a pet project which deals with reasonably large datasets I picked up a Hetzner dedicated for $cheap in their Server Auction[1] with 32Gb RAM…

Bytemark (an incredibly awesome UK hosting company) actively discourage working overtime and state it in their employment page https://www.bytemark.co.uk/company/employment/ DISCLA…

Clickable: http://breakmates.co.uk

Hi, I read a blogpost from FogCreek that was posted here this week (original article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8959036 and story http://blog.fogcreek.com/random-meet-ups…

Personally I just use Account Tracker on my iPhone to keep track of expenses and seeing how much money I'll have left at the end of the month (it's by Graham Haley on the App Store…

It's working with the Schedule data from National Rail (under their Open Data - http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/SCHEDULE ) - the "full" file for initially populating your d…

Ruby at the moment - my original (monolithic Rails) v0 version takes about 5 hours to process it and create database records with ActiveRecord - that's about 600,000 records - the …

Not fully (ie in production) however a new side-project I'm working on which has many processes I'm building each as a micro-service, with RabbitMQ handling the messaging, Bunny to…

If you were UK I'd plug Bytemark - they provide bare-metal servers where they look after the hardware, you look after the OS/software ( https://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/dedicated…

At the moment, just manually typing it out from the official price-list

Hi, This is related to an Ask HN I posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464118 ) - to summarise, I'm a primarily C# dev working on extending/customising existing off-the-…

So, background is I'm primarily a C# and VBScript dev (mixed with T-SQL and domain-specific program knowledge) but I want to expand my knowledge, primarily I've been playing with r…