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Amplifi | Data Engineer (mid-senior) | Remote (UK) | Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help us make data central to our customers and our decision making. This is the first hire in this area, and you will have the opportunity to shape our strategy and system design. Ideally looking for someone with some software engineering background, who knows how to start simple and iterate.

At Amplifi we are shaping how banks, insurance companies, global payments providers, and more deliver more effective communications to their customers, and stay compliant with changing regulations and internal governance.

Apply here: https://amplifi.worksmarter.co.uk/jobs/amplifi/data-engineer...

Visa sponsorship is available, but candidates will need to be already present in the UK.

American living in the UK. Go back to visit family in Northern California ever year or two. On the way out (Heathrow) we can get a Pret or similar for more or less the same price as in central London, say £5-7 per person for a medium sized meal. And there are well over a dozen options of similar restaurants.

On the way back (SFO), it’s basically Burger King or one of the airport sandwich shops, and $20+ per person.

I don’t know the details of why it’s one way or the other, but clearly it doesn’t have to be like this!

Geek - obsessive consumer

Nerd - obsessive creator

I must have heard this somewhere but I can’t recall where. In any event, I think most of us are a bit of both but personally I strive to be more of the latter.

1. I don't understand how you can merge/deploy quickly without good test coverage. Unless you don't mind breaking things in production.

2. Feature flagging is pretty key to make the described process possible, and about halfway down it turns out of course this post is really an ad for a feature flagging SaaS product. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, but worth knowing that the motive behind this is to sell you a product.

I was sort of hoping this was someone using Stable Diffusion to render actual Street View content in a BotW style… next project?!

Economic growth does seem to track population growth (globally). Once population decline begins, will be interesting to see what happens.

That page never shows outages. I think it's hardcoded.

A dumb TV. Please someone make a dumb TV that otherwise is high spec

Things my son (2 and a half) likes to watch on YT:

- Lorry trucks (semis/big rigs) driving on the road/motorway

- The tube/trains/subways coming in and out of stations

- Large excavators digging in quarries and loading dump trucks

The videos are usually pretty slow paced and calm, and we're happy to let him watch in small blocks (5-10 mins max) from time to time. He's shown no interest in typical cartoons, kids shows, etc. I'd love to cut off YT completely, but are there other places to get this type of content for him?

I lost some but not most of my movies. Same for apps. Music was the worst, but on Apple Music so not purchases (just had to re-add a lot of things to my library).

It has to do with how the individual content (film, app, song) is licensed. If the same content has a separate license in the new country, it won’t carry over.

Also note this means it will depend on the two countries you are moving between (ie. I went US > UK, and I would guess there is a lot more licensing crossover between these two countries, whereas two others may not have so much).

It’s funny that he wrote this now living in the UK. As an American living in England for the better part of a decade now, it still shocks me how much grades matter in the hiring process for professionals with many years of experience. If you don’t get a first or at least a 2:1 in uni, and/or do poorly on your A-levels, it will hold you back for the rest of your life here

“Enter the Zoom world, leave reality for a while” should be the subject line for most meeting invites

I'm guessing most people who do either have not worked in waterfall IT projects that preceded widespread Agile or they're part of "Agile" teams that do waterfall development in two-week chunks with daily standups.

I haven’t come into an organization in the past 15 or so years which wasn’t using _some_ form of Agile (generally Scrum). It’s fairly likely anyone who has started their career in software within that timeframe may never have experienced how things were done in the past.

That said, there is certainly always room to improve, which is a critical piece I see teams often miss in Scrum. The two-week cycle isn’t just about planning and doing whatever it takes to hit the commitment. It’s about a) the business having a cycle they can plan to if priorities change and b) the team having a regular feedback loop they can use to help understand where they are doing well and where they aren’t.

Missing a sprint commitment is fine. Missing the commitment for multiple sprints in a row means something is going wrong. This is an opportunity to learn and improve, and the sprint retrospective at the end is as important if not more so than the planning meetings.

And then make time in the sprint to implement improvements in the process, tech, whatever is needed. We use 20% of the sprint time as a rule on this, and move that up and down periodically as needed.

Vivobarefoot makes some great ones as well, and some look normal enough to wear to an office. I have their running shoes and hiking boots as well, all are great!

https://www.vivobarefoot.com

incompatible data formats and plenty of non-digitized data

This is exactly what many with a cursory knowledge seem to think a blockchain will solve. Unfortunately, these are generally challenges people have to talk about and resolve via mutual agreement and compromise; you can't simply throw code at the issue.

If you're in the UK, try Muji

Growth Street - London, UK - Full Time, on-site

Growth Street is looking for enthusiastic, ambitious software developers to join our technology team to build the tools behind the next generation of SME finance. We are a lending platform which connects small businesses with much-needed credit facilities for working capital, and use our technology to speed up and improve the human processes, but never replace them entirely. We're building a set of tools to not only help us make credit decisions around a business, but also feed back useful information to the owners which can help them focus more on the growth of their business.

Growth Street is licensed to sponsor Tier 2 migrant visas in the UK, and experienced candidates for this role may qualify for the the senior developer shortage occupation which greatly speeds up the sponorship process. We'd love to hear from candidates from around the globe; 40% of our current team started life outside the UK.

Please see the full posting and get in touch via our jobs site at http://growthstreet.co.uk/careers/

6 people in a 3 bedroom?

Globally, it's not.

I'm afraid you might be a tad ambitious regarding the weight the UK market carries with global corporate interests, as compared to the Chinese

The main problem here seems to have been a lack of understanding that it's essentially a requirement now in the UK to be set up for EIS/SEIS if you want to raise money. Investors expect it.

We've been through several rounds of fundraising, and as an American from the bay area over here, it's definitely not the same environment as you hear about from YC companies, etc. raising in the Valley. But the UK/European market is absolutely smaller and more fragmented (language barriers alone are massive) so opportunities are not nearly as large. You also don't have the same degree of FoMO[1] going on, as there just haven't been enough big exits. I wouldn't expect that climate to change any time soon, or with any expedience.

But definitely be registered as a company in the UK, and set up for SEIS[2]/EIS[3], if you want to raise money here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out

Edit: Links to relevant docs on gov.uk

[2] https://www.gov.uk/seed-enterprise-investment-scheme-backgro...

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-enterprise-in...

If you think you've done market research, but you haven't spoken to your customers directly (in person or by phone if in person is not possible. no email), you haven't done market research. And if you can speak to your customers to do research and discover their problems, you can sell them your solution if it's a good one.

To underscore what others have said, if you want to have any success, you have to sell this yourself.

and started by trying a "gallbladder cleansing."

Can you elaborate on what this is?

Question for someone who may know:

Obviously "mass extinction" does not mean "total extinction of all life", or else we wouldn't be here. Do we have any idea to what degree the bio-diversity of the planet was reduced in prior occurrences?

and the difference in fare between Uber and the black cab was 8%

When not on surge pricing, UberX is generally 50-60% discount on the price of a black cab in my experience. Being able to get home for £7 after a night out is amazing.

If Amazon wanted to start pushing more into local markets (or different kinds of products), they can make a fortune off this data, and that's why they can afford to undercut companies like Square. It's a long term play.

Possibly. Alternatively, Amazon seems to operate under a business model something like: 1) enter an existing market with a product offering that is at best the same as the competition 2) undercut said competition with unsustainable pricing until you drive them all out and have a monopoly 3) raise prices, profit

Can anyone chime in as to what Propeller does (did)? Looks like they shut down the site as part of this? (probably an aqui-hire?)

To a degree I think in B2B you have every right to be quite a bit more risk averse as an investor, and demand to see a solid revenue stream coming in. In B2C you can bet on the idea of "explosive" growth, but that's much less likely in B2B. The flip side of that of course is that you should be seeing a lot more revenue per customer in B2B, but the quantity of customers isn't ever going to hockey stick in the same way you might hope for in the number of users in a B2C product.

Quite a roller coaster of experience for 22! I'm sure we'll see great things from Nikki in coming years.

You kids doing startups in your early 20s have so much going for you! I wish I'd not waited until my 30s to get on this train, there's a lot more to lose (and less time to sort something out...)

To be honest, often I found delivering work on time and being easy to get along with trump doing good work to a large degree (particularly being on time). That is to say, if you are easy to get along with and deliver on time, but your work output is nothing special, you can still get by pretty well. But if you are unpredictable or a jerk, your work quality needs to be better than 99% of your peers to get by similarly.