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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 10h

Well yes, but they pair of ensemble pretty much so the time. This is much more about staying in touch with the wider company than the team directly being worked with on any given day. So we are talking HR, marketing, sales, accounts etc as well as tech.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 14h

Great article. The Tories need their Kinnock if they are going to get out of the cult-de-sac* they've gone down.

*Auto correct but I kind of liked it.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 14h

The problem seems to be that the 28-30% that are in to the flag waving CW thing are *really* into it.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 19h

The Tories are ideologically committed to Brexit, Labour are only electorally committed to it.

I've said before that this means that Labour need to give Brexit a go and that this would last until approximately half way through their first term. Starting to see indications that this is the case.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 20h

They've made it pretty clear they don't want them back.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Oh they do that kind of thing as well, but the daily check-in for a fully remote team seems to work.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

I'm reminded, as I often am, of a sign I once saw on the wall of a bank in India "the cost is soon forgotten, the quality is remembered forever"

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

IIRC someone said at the time

"marches like this are rarely on the wrong side of history"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Brexit march: Million joined Brexit protest, organisers say - BBC News

"Put it to the People" placards and banners spell out protesters' demand for a say on the Brexit deal.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Depends on the value you want. I've worked in a fully remote company with a full company standup (smallish, 30 people) disciplined to 10 minutes. It's a cross-team bonding exercise as much as anything, generally well liked and attended, though attendance optional but encouraged.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Surely it depends which side you are on?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

They say it's better than the alternative.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

I'd always used it in the context of a "hatched, matched and dispatched" suit, for those of us that only own one suit and wear it on those occasions. These days though it increasingly isn't used for the dispatch, which oddly has become the dress down of those formal occasions.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Oh joy.

"Some agreements have involved complex circular financing arrangements"

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Measuring risk in the AI financing boom on.ft.com/3ISA09n | opinion

Measuring risk in the AI financing boom

A shift towards debt raises the potential fallout from the data centre spending spree

on.ft.com

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Newspaper circulation these days puts them more in fanzine territory than the primary source of general news they were in the past?

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Last time we used the time bought by appeasement to rearm.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

This is what electric monks are for.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

I think there's a radicalization sweet spot for fairly smart people who haven't seen the rewards (money or status) they feel they deserve. They may be objectively successful, but it's their own perception that matters. Wonder if early years overpraising inflated their expectations.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

Also from Adams which helps I think

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1d

We're not in the centre of the milky way. As Douglas Adams put it, we're

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy"

And as you say look up you don't see the city, imagine you could also look down, no city lights down there.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 2d

Funny how the gap turned out to be just don't be a giant toad.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 2d

"We don't have any automated testing"

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d

"The country's losing competitiveness."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 3d

Party if what made it the best was FoM made it a melting pot.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 3d

And yes, this is my point.

Whenever I say “AI” I mean “AI in software engineering.” I do think it’s silly to completely ignore it. And I’m not saying it’s magical or always use it. But experiment with it if you’re a tech professional and decide when to use, when to ignore

bsky.app/profile/lizt...

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 3d

I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have.

enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 4d

Breathe - Pink Floyd 9/10
Breathe - The Prodigy 8/10
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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 4d

An interesting thing that I always notice about LibDem support (at least in 1st preference) is how consistent it is across age groups compared to other parties. Thoughts on why, wondering if you havewritten about this at all?

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