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About tcarnell
Tom Carnell
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Comment #40561776
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…