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New comment by tcarnell in "[dead]"

tcarnell — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:54:03 +0000

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 things which adds ZERO business value".

New comment by tcarnell in "Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?"

tcarnell — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:42:56 +0000

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_BOOK_SAYS = good engineering

In reality, the quality of execution is independent of the development approach - you can make a complete mess of either approach, however, the WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS approach WILL cost you a LOT more time and money to discover your team has messed up it and WILL cost a lot more time and money to fix.

My experience is that, just as your product evolves & grows, your engineering strategy should evolve and grow. There's a good reason why fortune 500 companies will have enormous IT teams, using enterprise cloud technology... and there's a good reason why successful tech start-ups do the exact opposite.... but hopefully, the startup will become a fortune 500 company.

New comment by tcarnell in "[dead]"

tcarnell — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:26:14 +0000

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.

New comment by tcarnell in "Google to point extremist searches towards anti-radicalisation websites"

tcarnell — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:15:30 +0000

so Dont try to fix the problem, just limit the consequences.

this type of action is likely to have the exactly opposite effect.

New comment by tcarnell in "Wanted: Linux Sysops, Fintech, Madrid, Spain"

tcarnell — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:36:03 +0000

oh, free burgers every Friday :-)

Wanted: Linux Sysops, Fintech, Madrid, Spain

tcarnell — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:34:51 +0000

Article URL: https://etfmatic.com/careers#linux_administrator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718033

Points: 2

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Seedcamp 2014 finalists announced...

tcarnell — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:19:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.seedcamp.com/2014/02/meet-the-teams-seedcamp-week-london-february-2014.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182715

Points: 1

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New comment by tcarnell in "Funky bookmark app thing"

tcarnell — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:26:31 +0000

Just another one of my little web apps, some might find it useful or inspiring...

tom (APIHouse.com)

Funky bookmark app thing

tcarnell — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:26:11 +0000

Article URL: http://hiveslider.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819695

Points: 1

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New comment by tcarnell in "Poll: What chat service are you using for internal communication with your team?"

tcarnell — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:23:34 +0000

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-email

New comment by tcarnell in "Poll: What chat service are you using for internal communication with your team?"

tcarnell — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:22:25 +0000

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

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:29:17 +0000

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

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:23:28 +0000

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 mentioned, but companies like Toshiba give us lots of innovation with things like disc drives (I cant remember Starbucks ever developing a new type of fast, energy efficient storage media, although that did give us the 'mocha-choca-frappa-latte')

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:20 +0000

Or NASA for, well, especially 'Curiosity'

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:14:00 +0000

or Microsoft for the XBox 'Kinetic' system.

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:09:05 +0000

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 'invented' a single one. Search engines? Email? not exactly a Google innovation.

New comment by tcarnell in "50 Most Innovative Companies"

tcarnell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:02:25 +0000

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 decent GPS for cars? or Ubuntu that gave the world its first decent free operating system? or eBay, still the leader in global re-cycling... and I'm sure there are loads of companies that make amazing scientific and medical innovations that I am unaware of.

New comment by tcarnell in "Really useful persistent text pad (HTML5)"

tcarnell — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:41:09 +0000

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 are you when we need you!!!

Really useful persistent text pad (HTML5)

tcarnell — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:36:57 +0000

Article URL: http://apihouse.com/web-toolkit/quick-text

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109015

Points: 1

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8 reasons not to use email at work

tcarnell — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:57:19 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.teamstinct.com/2013/01/8-reasons-not-to-use-email-at-work.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5100177

Points: 1

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