turkeywelder
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Developer at Timetastic
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Comment · 1 month ago
Repair costs are very high (and take ages) and most of them are expensive cars outright which puts the premiums up.
Performance being pretty high on even a basic Tesla doesn't help things either. The insurance market in the UK is very expensive anyway and any excuse to wind up premiums they'll gladly use.
Comment · 7 months ago
Love your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites
How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission capacity generally? I presume we'd saturate storage pretty quickly so is it just a case of running more grid wiring from Scotland to say.. Manchester?
Comment · 1 year ago
Idiotic Brit here.
Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expensive for us to use.
We'd be happy if it was publicly owned because then at least the insane profit from ticket sales might possibly just maybe make it into investment in the railway instead of someone's bonus.
Comment · 1 year ago
Location: Manchester, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: c# .NET, React, Javascript, Typescript, SQL (Full stack .net dev)
Résumé/CV: Available on request
Email: garethterrace at gmail
It's time for a new challenge. I've been working on https://timetastic.co.uk full time since 2017 and have worn many hats from setting up an API, to setting up blogs and websites, to building features, to design, debugging, vuln scanning, DNS, Email setup and everything in between.
I've been in software for 16+ years and have worked in SaaS, B2B, internal tools and all sorts. I thrive in small, productive teams where I can get deeply involved and get things done.
No recruiters, no gambling/betting.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is why we have a flat "we won't fill in your forms" rule and only take card payments. We've lost some clients because of it sure, but we're a small team so it's fine.
I think being up front about what you will and won't do really helps. They still ask for procurement forms and stuff but we can at least deny it and set an expectation.
https://help.timetastic.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/115003288769...
Comment · 2 years ago
Our parent company are having issues in UKSouth but we're spread across UKSouth and UKWest and not seeing any issues. Apparently Functionapps also having issues, but we're seeing nothing at the moment.
Comment · 2 years ago
Location: Manchester, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#, .NET, React, JS, some Typescript, MSSQL, Gatsby
Résumé/CV: on request - I don't have linkedin since the breach
Email: garethterrace at gmail
I'm a full stack dev, I work best in C#/.NET with React and really like smaller companies. Starting to look for my next opportunity after 10 years working on Timetastic. Only decided to start looking today, so still writing up the CV!
Cheers
Comment · 3 years ago
Raise it with the ombudsman!
Comment · 4 years ago
Might not be very obscure but it was new to me. Ended up being really useful for finding out whether dates intersect a particular period and ended up using it quite a bit at work.
Range Tree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_tree
You give it a range of dates and it'll tell you if any intersect so if you're looking for "how many people are absent in this time period" you can really quickly find out by using a range tree.
Comment · 4 years ago
We send a "weekly summary" email of who is absent in your company in the next week.
At 9am on a Monday we send roughly 100k emails via Sendgrid and have very very low spam report rates. Transactional email for even relatively small SaaS companies can get high very quickly.
As much as us in the dev world rely on Slack and try to avoid notification overload, my experience is most people want things as an email.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.