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www.alastairgould.co.uk

Currently a F#/C# Developer in Birmingham, UK

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Comment · 10 months ago
We also do 25 hour days.
Comment · 10 months ago
Lots of high paid roles are like that in reality
Comment · 11 months ago
The game industry inherently unsafe. Studios go in and out of existence constantly.
Comment · 11 months ago
Most .net projects are web API, and backend applications.
Comment · 11 months ago
The problem is that many games and software still only work on windows.
Comment · 11 months ago
You'll find a lot open source leaders, and CEOs of companies like framework are not progressive, they are libertarian. Which people mistake as progressive because it's often very socially liberal.

Trying to pressure them won't do do anything, because goes against libertarian values to force collective values on individuals.

Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't that literally every distro? They're just curated pre installed packages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Zoxide normally aliases to z. Is this not z?
Comment · 1 year ago
When you have well off parents, you can literally be sent to prep schools which drill for these tests.
Comment · 1 year ago
Because this is what companies want, and they pay us. So that's what we do.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can't be multiuser
Comment · 1 year ago
Nix is hard to get into. The lang is weird, and I'm a functional programmer. It's not very well documented. Flakes just don't seem to be documented at all? But are used everywhere?
Comment · 1 year ago
I like DHH because I like his taste. However there are lots of people like him.

However he seems to have the ability to build movements, and I don't know why.

Comment · 1 year ago
Can be fun sometimes. Especially if you rowdy team and debates start happening.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've set the bridge as background Daemon so I barely know it's there.

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