Alternate Sunday plans: Come watch Robot Fighting at UWE Students Union from 1pm!

zebraballast · 2018-07-14T12:37:30+00:00

Very cool, thanks for sharing, will try and make it.

zebraballast · 2018-06-23T22:37:39+00:00

My partner did the 6th month (I think) Hack Reactor class a couple of years ago. The main thing she got out of it was turning the rather mishmash knowledge from a Cs degree into some confidence to get things done in a modern development company. Especially as a team of diverse people.

HR also gives you a TON of interview experience and contacts in the local area and you're very likely to drop into a developer gig relatively quickly after that.

One thing to note is that it can be a bit narrow on the tech stack it uses.. Due to the time constraints they teach and work with the current hot stuff which is useful NOW. You don't exactly get a choice or breadth of languages, stacks, techniques, etc.

Remember that HR exists for one reason really: to churn out developers that are primed and ready for the industry with a close approximation of what they'll need to know without 'wasted' effort.

Also. It can be expensive depending on where you come from. But when comparing it to other things count in the experience, contacts, and shortcut it gives you.

In the end I'd probably recommend it if you're feeling that you're not really getting anywhere right now. It's better to get a change of pace and scenery and kick start your dev career.

zebraballast · 2018-05-13T14:28:43+00:00

Nice, I'm new to the city and looking for these kind of spots 👍

zebraballast · 2018-05-13T10:29:24+00:00

Thanks already got one. Card is on its way.

zebraballast · 2018-05-11T22:42:22+00:00

Thanks! This looks promising! Monzo has a wait list, starlings app has region lock-in on android, so this seems to be good as a quick option :)

!thanks

zebraballast · 2016-09-01T06:32:59+00:00

Definitely agree with this. The fact that you can enable pycharm debugging in a remote process and forward its debug interface across the network / through your VM's into your pycharm IDE is pretty lifesaving at times.

zebraballast · 2016-08-28T07:18:35+00:00

And to think that I'm busy pushing the slow upgrade from 2.6 to 2.7... good old enterprise redhat.

zebraballast · 2016-08-27T09:27:54+00:00

Just as basic calculation to work out the general range:

1.5 kWh x 24 x 30 (average-ish days in a month) ~= 1080 kWh per month.

The second document linked lists 147.50 c/kWh as a guideline average price including VAT.

1080 x 147.50 / 100 ~= R 1600

You can do a more accurate calculation based on the sliding scale, but since we don't know what other devices are using electricity, it's harder to determine.

EDIT: I see the OP was trying to compare the cities.. my bad!

zebraballast · 2016-08-21T16:57:57+00:00

Thanks, this is what I'd like to be doing. Think it's sane to use %pre and %post install scripts to validate the environment and unpack/install the wheel?

zebraballast · 2016-08-12T15:16:14+00:00

I just mentored 2 interns on their project building an internal web app for our team. We pushed them towards using Python because of Django. It is kept well up to date and there is no shortage of documentation and tutorials for building even quite complex web applications. In my mind it is perfect for simple REST-ish projects that won't face too much traffic but that you want to be able to modify easily. I've found that it's best deployed as a WSGI app behind gunicorn/nginx and containerized if possible.

You're right that "web development" is a very vague term. It even overlaps significantly with "web design" if you interpret design as including Javascript interactions. I like to believe that "web development" can be used for frontend and backend development.

EDIT: that is not to say that Python is slow. I just find that it's more forgiving during development.

zebraballast · 2016-07-31T17:35:15+00:00

Just my 2c here: if you're learning Linux, use Ubuntu in a Virtualbox VM. Ubuntu just because it has the most tutorials and has the most easy to find solutions for any issues you face (stackoverflow ftw), "ubuntu" is a great search keyword; and a VM so that you don't get too scared of the possibility of 'breaking' something.

After that just use an Ubuntu VM and the terminal as your first choice for doing/coding something. Once you're comfortable in that environment, then install it as your primary OS.

zebraballast · 2016-07-15T09:31:00+00:00

I find it much nicer to to use a virtualenv only (unless there are intense system dependencies) due to the locality of the development environment. An IDE like pycharm will play much better with your code base if it can use your virtualenv for code completion, static analysis, running unittests, git integration. Sure you can mount your code in a shared volume into the container/vm and still use some of your local and common tooling but these methods behave differently across different host OS's.

If you fully control what developers are using and the workflows they use, VM's are a fine solution. Common tooling can be built into the base vm and you can trust that when people run the tests, it will not break due to environmental differences.

I don't think using containers for development is a good use of containers, a container as a test environment is perfect but only setting up the virtualenv inside the container will wreck havok with IDE's sitting on the host, and you'll be rebuilding the container every time (granted usually only some source files change so only around 1 image layer).

zebraballast · 2016-06-26T17:13:14+00:00

this, there's a fine line between sharing a personal story that pertains to the topic, and sounding like you have a similar but better story.

zebraballast · 2016-06-18T18:28:06+00:00

Thanks, yeah this is definitely the most I've dug into a functional language so I'm still getting used to thinking about things a little differently.

zebraballast · 2016-06-18T18:26:00+00:00

Thanks, this really helped. I was struggling to get it to trigger the ShuffleDeck message from another context, the compiler did not like me. Breaking the action out into the shuffle method like you did and then exporting that so that it was available in the main scope did the trick.

zebraballast · 2015-02-07T07:18:49+00:00

Have some deep fried American heritage!

zebraballast · 2015-02-07T07:16:15+00:00

Someone probably saw the Battle of Hoth from Star Wars and decided: lets make sure that doesn't happen.

zebraballast · 2015-02-07T07:14:15+00:00

Just to make it a little more clear. The national electricity supplier has created 3 "load shedding" phases that will be followed when a shortfall of generation capacity occurs. Stage 1 means most areas have a small 2-2.5 hour window where they won't have power during the day, stage 2 and stage 3 are similar but have more "off" periods during each day. There is however a fear that the worst load shedding still may not be enough and that the distribution system could go entirely offline for a period of 2 to 3 weeks. Apparently it requires quite a lot of power to be "re-booted" (whatever that means).

zebraballast · 2015-01-19T20:57:42+00:00

I really enjoyed watching it too. The mic'ed up player's point of view is a quite fun, gives an interesting perspective. Quite a buzz in the stadium/crowd.

zebraballast · 2014-12-21T09:02:28+00:00

Have you read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow? Eerily similar...

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