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Comment · 3 years ago
SEOTesting | Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote (Around GMT) | £37.5k | https://seotesting.com
SEOTesting.com is an online SEO tool used to improve search traffic through testing & experimentation.
- Run SEO tests to see what works - Track the performance of pages changed - Tie your work to results in an exact and impactful way
Job Spec: https://seotesting.com/blog/developer/
Comment · 4 years ago
I will see what I can muster
Comment · 6 years ago
I created Post Maker to scratch my own itch of having plenty of Social Media Scheduling tools but with no content being shared for the majority of the time.
Using a pretty simple syntax you can generate, 10s, 100s and 1000s of posts with links/media/hashtags which can be exported to CSV and then brought into your favourite Social Media Scheduling tool
Comment · 7 years ago
It reminds me of this sketch on YouTube - Sticko!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58zzs4hzEIg
Comment · 7 years ago
I really love the conciseness and accessibility of 'Two Minute Papers' - "Awesome research for everyone. Two new science videos every week. You'll love it!"
Comment · 8 years ago
I have been using DOT diagrams a bit recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag... - I like it because I can put into source control too
Comment · 10 years ago
Do you mean Lorem Ipsum? - http://www.lipsum.com/
In MS Word you can generate is by typing the following and pressing enter
=lorem()
you can put # of paragraphs into the method to add that many e.g =lorem(5)
you can also use =rand() to put in some random help stuff text
Comment · 11 years ago
I would definitely agree with this comment too. I work at a large law firm, now managing a team of developers. I've been in the industry for ~6 years. HN is not what the majority of programmers do.
I started off in IT procurement and worked my way up by showing how I can add value to doing things like you said with the tools around me (Excel, VBA).
If you can demonstrate that you want to solve their problems that's far more important than being a language\framework specialist.
Stability, reduced risk, maintainability, solid track record are more valuable to companies than just using new technologies - these come in and out of fashion - good developers solve problems not just use technologies
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not been coded too well, try selecting C#, not happy.
Comment · 12 years ago
People in the UK can't read this... Now I want to know more
Comment · 12 years ago
There must have been a lot of plugging and unplugging JIBO to create their video!
It does look neat though.
Comment · 12 years ago
Why is the lego photoshopped onto a family playing dominoes?
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes