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tcarnell

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About tcarnell

Tom Carnell - CTO & Co-founder ETFmatic Ltd - UK/EU robo-adviser

Tom Carnell

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    After thought: Tech Debt is NOT a badge of honour, it's the opposite, it says "we made an engineering decision so bad that we now have to spend time and effort fixing/changing thin…

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    Comment #40561702

    100% agree. JUST_DO_IT (add value, fast) WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS (enterprise arch etc etc) The BIG problem is the total misconception that: > JUST_DO_IT = bad engineering > WHAT_THE_BOO…

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    Comment #16828927

    ah, sorry! I've not been here for years actually, I always remember people posting tech/startup positions, but fair enough - I wont do it again.

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    Senior Front ender – fintech, Madrid

    Hi all, I'm the CTO of ETFmatic (pan-European robo-adviser / digital asset manager), we're building up our dev team and we really need a great frontender! The role You’ll be part o…

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    Comment #11030699

    so Dont try to fix the problem, just limit the consequences. this type of action is likely to have the exactly opposite effect.

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    Comment #10718042

    oh, free burgers every Friday :-)

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    Comment #6819697

    Just another one of my little web apps, some might find it useful or inspiring... tom (APIHouse.com)

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    Comment #5945326

    Why is 'email' not an option? Which is by FAR the most commonly used internal communication system - although I do NOT recommend it! http://teamstinct.com/but-whats-wrong-with-emai…

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    Comment #5945324

    Teamtinct.com - It is still in its early days, but works great.

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    Comment #5123752

    (although I am glad NOT to see Dyson on the list for producing excessively expensive vacuum cleaners with little or no perceivable benefit

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    Comment #5123747

    and Sony - because they just ARE an innovative company (the walkman/discman, betamax, minidisc, S/PDIF, bluray, professional broadcast and audio products. Philips I've already ment…

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    Comment #5123737

    Or NASA for, well, especially 'Curiosity'

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    Comment #5123731

    or Microsoft for the XBox 'Kinetic' system.

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    Comment #5123719

    or Intel (whose modern power saving CPU's are probably inside almost everyone laptops? or Toyota for making practical hybrid cars PS: Although I enjoy Google products, they haven't…

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    Comment #5123710

    Another subjective list and a another misunderstanding of the word 'innovation'. Where are Philips who are pioneering high efficiency LED lighting, or TomTom that gave us the first…

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    Comment #5109026

    Although just realised quite irritatingly that the local Web Storage is not shared across browsers - thus, you can not write data from Chrome then read it from Firefox - W3C, where…

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    Comment #5077743

    Would also be handy to create a simple set of JMeter tests to ensure consistency across frameworks. I would would be keen to run the test against Contentigo, but not very keen to d…

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    Ask HN: Is there a standard web framework performance benchmark test?

    I want to benchmark my web framework 'Contentigo.com', I want to see how it compares to CodeIgniter, Symfony etc. Has somebody written a good, clear set of benchmark tests that I c…