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smiler

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About smiler

mail [at] smiler dot me dot uk

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    Comment #45798291

    Combining a Linux capable CPU and MCU is not new or that weird... I think a Cortex A9 and Cortex M4 appeared on a combined SoC on the IMX6 platform around 10 years ago. Plenty of u…

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    Comment #39401131

    I think my company was told a year ago to not use IoT Central as it was going to be deprecated. They also made ThreadX open source a few months back. Be interesting to see what els…

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    Comment #22245618

    I integrate into SAP for manufacturing and the users can certainly do every transaction they need to do to account for cost and shipping product and keep finance / supply chain hap…

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    Comment #22245604

    The cost/implementation of SAP is so big that the decision to use it can only be signed off at C-Level. Any company who is looking at SAP is likely doing business in the US - Sarba…

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    Comment #11400138

    It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft buy Jetbrains

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    Comment #9733107

    He was already there.. he's continuing in the same role

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    Comment #9261721

    Can you link to Brewer's article please...

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    Comment #9261710

    Are you using SQL or ?

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    Comment #9171534

    Sounds good. Does your company hire remote? :)

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    Comment #8512723

    Considering that people like to sleep on planes and the flight attendants / cabin crew will get people to close the blinds / dim the cabin lights as quickly as they can, this will …

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    Ask HN: What are your top tips for leading a software development team?

    I am taking on a new role at my current place of work and have been given a team lead role - a team of 10 people - mix of permanent staff and contractors. What are your top tips fo…

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    Comment #6503462

    Joe! Using American lingo already I see :)

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    Comment #5738146

    And thirdly, Yahoo did not force any of these companies to sell to Yahoo. Yahoo made an offer and they accepted.

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    Comment #5688954

    What did you not like about raven?

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    Comment #5679631

    Personally, being British, having looked at the sheer diversity of jobs in the US job market for software developers, the UK job market really doesn't seem that exciting.

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    Comment #5643834

    Yup. Click on "Council Tax" on the homepage... then "Can't find it? Other council tax services"... then "See your council tax band" (Rounded red button)

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    Comment #5625180

    Not every solution has to work for every country. This would be very nice for the UK and our address system works great.

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    Comment #5487536

    I've used a few BI tools and it blows everything else out of the water - this is the first tool I've come across where I feel like end users could actually create the reports they …

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    Comment #5465485

    I think crowd sourcing should be for gaining knowledge you don't have yourself. It should not be a replacement for being lazy - you can google tour dates for all those bands and co…

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    Comment #5346320

    One of the founders is a friend - very interesting social enterprise idea

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    Comment #5340858

    Yes you're right - this post has no discussion of what governments might require of a business from a legal standpoint

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    Comment #5339172

    You cannot search for "c#" - it strips the # out

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    Comment #5324536

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong (IANAL) - but in the UK it is "loser pays" - ie Tesla will be liable for the BBC costs.

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    Comment #5139489

    Was this a subtle reference to IBM and their involvement with Nazi Germany?