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jallardice | 7 years ago | on: Field notes: London, England (2018)

I think it depends on the area - I've seen it happen twice in broad daylight on Clerkenwell Road near Farringdon station over the last couple of years and it's happened to a friend of mine near Waterloo.

jallardice | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

I'm the co-founder of a web-focused consultancy which works with larger, "enterprise" type businesses to fund work with much smaller companies, usually pre-seed startups. We hire more experienced engineers to work on the ground with the larger clients and we actively hire more junior engineers to work alongside a small number of experienced people on the startup projects. We find this offers solid on-the-job training for the juniors as they rapidly get exposure to a wide range of skills and technologies without necessarily being hampered by legacy codebases, massively complex change management and deployment processes and office politics.

jallardice | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you start your business?

We network at meetups, conferences and other events, so through word of mouth mainly. The active engineering community in London is fantastic at helping to spread opportunities.

jallardice | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you start your business?

A colleague and I left a large UK company and started orangejellyfish (https://orangejellyfish.com), a software consultancy with a focus on the web and JavaScript. The real push to start it came when we realised that much of what we both wanted to achieve in terms of craftsmanship, maintainable code and training in new technologies for engineering teams not yet exposed to them, was not going to be possible. We knew that many businesses do have a desire to improve those aspects of their engineering teams, and when we came to an agreement with a company that would become our first major client we decided that the time was right to both commit ourselves full-time.

We've doubled in size from our initial 2 in the last couple of months and with many more prospects on the horizon we're hoping to add a few more to that over the course of the next year!

jallardice | 8 years ago | on: Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems

I chose a lab-grown diamond to have set in my fiancée's engagement ring. It looks stunning, is significantly larger than I would have been able to afford if sticking to "natural" stones, and nobody can tell the difference. It's certified by IGI, which most people will tell you is not a good thing (you would generally look for GIA certification, and GIA refuse to certify lab-grown diamonds), but if you find a stone that is graded highly across the board by an IGI lab (colour D or E, cut Ideal or Excellent and clarity >VS1) it seems unlikely you'll be disappointed once it's set in a ring.

jallardice | 10 years ago | on: How do Promises Work?

You don't even have to resolve the promise via a callback for that to be the case - you can use the static resolve method. This is really useful if you have a function that can sometimes return a promise and sometimes a "normal" value.

    Promise.resolve("resolved!").then(result => console.log(result));
    console.log("next statement");

jallardice | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Flex

I was thinking the same thing. I recently had something from Amazon delivered by a woman (same as you mentioned, no uniform or any indication she was with Amazon at all) who turned up with 2 young children who got out of the car and were running around in the car park outside my flat while she came in to deliver a package. I was confused at the time but this would definitely make sense.

jallardice | 11 years ago | on: Bhutan's dark secret to happiness

Apparently so... I've never encountered pages like that on the BBC site before though:

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes.

jallardice | 11 years ago | on: Using ES6 with npm today

You're right, this would have been a good final section. However it's pretty straightforward as Babel compiles `export` syntax to Node's `module.exports` format by default which means you can require them in the usual way. It also compiles `import` syntax to the normal `require` calls.

jallardice | 11 years ago | on: Using ES6 with npm today

I've not had any problems with importing non-ES6 modules into ES6 code. To use Express for example you can simply do `import express from 'express'`. If you only need access to one or two properties of the exported object you can use the destructuring syntax to just get references to them: `import { hash, compare } from 'bcrypt'`

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: JSLint, JSHint and ESLint Error Explanations

I'm the maintainer of this site. It's been around for a while but has recently undergone a major update. ESLint is a new addition and more messages are now covered. A simple API has also been introduced to make it possible to get explanations or run code against any version of any linter via HTTP. Any comments, thoughts and ideas would be welcome.

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: How to intentionally get denied entry into the United States?

I think you need to view this from the perspective of the individual in question. She just posted this comment:

> I have said "No" but being a Pakistani girl there's nothing I can do. I was even forced to marry that guy who is 15 years older than me. And I would say goodbye to everything but I have to wait for the right time. I'm being mean though, I need my family right now to support me until I finish my school. And then it will be up to me. I know I sound selfish but it's nothing compared to what they've done to me and my life.

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Atom

I just got an email inviting me to download the beta. The only download link in there is a button labelled "Download For Mac".

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Github Down...

Of course, but it's still an inconvenience. No time for delays! But then again I'm sitting here commenting on HN, so I can't really talk...

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Ghost Launches to The Public

A community has to start somewhere. Ghost is a brand new platform but I'd be surprised if a strong, active community didn't grow relatively quickly. It's gained 800 stars on GitHub in the space of about 3 hours.

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Ghost Launches to The Public

> I wonder if there's any generally useful tech inside Ghost

One of the nicest things about it (aside from the use of node and express, which is very nice IMHO) is that it's open source so you can start looking through the code to find out.

jallardice | 12 years ago | on: Ghost Launches to The Public

There's a link to the GitHub repository which I believe is all that is currently available. You can clone the repo (or download an archive of it) and install the platform from that.
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