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  • Red Bull Rampage: What’s The Motivation?
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    Most advertising platforms have tracking integrations to register the sale, so the cookie they drop when they serve up a banner gets picked up when you hit the advertiser’s site and complete a checkout (this is a often called a conversion) but if you don’t complete that checkout, they’ll do something called “re-targeting” because you’ve already shown interest in WidgetX the hypothesis is that your propensity to buy is higher than average. (They can’t _know_ that you’ve assessed and discarded their product)

    Similarly, vendors of similar competing products can know through the advertising platform that you’re a punter interested in door latch vendors so will target you for some period of time, not knowing that you’re only interested in _transit_ latches. That’s poor media buying!

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    Yep, that’s it. mudguards by far and away most important on a commuter, Then it’s tyres, chainring, fork in that order of importance IMHO

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    Never mind the sidestep, how’s the rucking? Black, 21mm studs FTW.

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    Plenty of negativity here. Assuming you want to code, many of these bootcamp places have arrangements with exactly the kind of progressive employers that probably already offer the flexible working arrangements you seek. I can only speak for the London market, but it’s hugely biased in favour of the candidate. Once you get 1-2 years under your belt and some solid achievements on your CV any employer worth working for WGAF about a degree. I don’t.

    Edit – help desk is known as hell desk for a reason. And it can be harder to breakout from there to proper “engineering” roles. Tread carefully

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    We hired a couple of folks as software engineers making career transitions in their mid-late 30’s after a 12 week maker’s academy course. They’re both impressive. It’s a solid starter for someone switching to an engineering career.

    Maker’s Academy

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    Following up on the wages thing. It’ll vary a lot by language and sector. Competition for the best talent can be pretty intense. In London, you should be looking at +30k coming out of a bootcamp. The LinkedIn salary survey tool is a good quick resource.

    LinkedIn

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    +1

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    Saw this last month in Tasmania. Had no idea what it was. It was quite unnerving until we figured out what it was!

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    We went to Les Gets last year with kids of 7 & 10 – plenty to do and less “busy” than morzine. Stayed in a self catering chalet that was recommended on here. Only good things to say about the whole trip. We’re going beach this year, but I’m hoping mountains in 21 http://chalet.hotelalpina.fr/en/

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    Zendesk can watch an inbox? Get the email sent to mailbox.that.zendesk.watches@my.co and configure Zendesk to parse the ID out of the subject. I’m pretty certain Zapier _can_ achieve this if ZD can’t manage on it’s own – where are you getting stuck?

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    I’m also curious as to why folk wouldn’t just rent time on a big fast computer somewhere else?

    Because time is money, why would you travel to use a computer when you can own one yourself?

    I assume the original suggestion is to use a similarly specified machine in the cloud, where you only pay when it’s actually running. No travelling needed

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    Data safety and integrity – next priority

    What data? If it’s your documents, spreadsheets etc I’d highly recommend doing everything in g-suite. Impossible for a stolen laptop, errant cup of coffee or failed disk to expose a flaw in your backup process. Has the benefit of allowing people to collaborate on a single doc, rather than 2020-strategy-20191122-v2.6-Geoff-changes-latest.doc

    If you’re talking about confidential or PII data that’s making it’s way in to sales force, you’re relying on their security practices and whatever data validation they offer.

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    You really, really don’t need any on prem kit other than laptops, printers and conference gear. Run for the hills if a local IT firm wants to install Windows kit in a Mac environment.

    60+ people across 3 locations and we running quite happily as cloud natives.

    For similar use cases to you we use Gsuite, Slack, Notion, Zoom and Fleetsmith for macs. Look at Zapier as well for automating stuff in a sensible fashion. You might consider CharlieHR or Bob for people management and something like Workable if you’re hiring. Hi spot is cheaper than Salesforce and probably an easier learning curve.

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    Got my then 6yr old an FTX outlaw last Xmas. We’ve had some fun with it, but probably too big/fast if I’m honest. He’s doing a bit better with it now, but we’ve had a new motor and several suspension parts this year. I’ll let him have the new shell when the crashes become less frequent 😂

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    You’ll want studs.

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    What does your business do and what are you good/not good at?

    There are plenty of off the shelf tools that charge a per-user fee that you can stitch together with something like zapier a few hours work to remove a lot of repetitive tasks.

    We are ~60 people and our “office” SaaS budget is somewhere around $150/head/month covering basics including IDE licenses, help desk, crm, HR, finance, recruitment and sales. The last two are particularly pricey.

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    E13 + hope will be lighter, having run Zee’s and SixC’s on same bike at various points can’t say I notice any difference in stiffness

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    Look at hired.com or talent.io. upload/create a CV and the businesses come to you. Usually through their internal people team or tech team direct if they’re really small.

    If you’re looking for a c# or infrastructure/devops job, the answer is STW, pm me.

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    Long time ago now, but did Vancouver to Calgary via Okanagan valley (nice contrast to the big mountain stuff and vineyards if that takes your fancy), Jasper and Banff. As others have suggested, Jasper is a bit nicer than Banff and the log-cabin lake lodges are stunningly beautiful. Makes sense to fly out of Calgary if you can, keeps the backtracking down.

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    Top suggestions everyone, will take a look, keep them coming!

    Given I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy two spectacular bike verbier trips in the past, I fear that the good lady would suspect the worst if I float that idea…

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    +1 for zedel, it’s huuuge, so should be easy to get a table. There’s a foxlow on golden Square too, which might be worth a look

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    You only need to be more secure than the least secure bike in the shed. I found this out the hard way when my SS, rigid, 26″, full guards pub/station bike got nicked instead of any of the far nicer bikes at the station…

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    I’m going for multiple drones popping up from locations, invading briefly on autonomous routes then being left for dead. The in-out nature makes tracking difficult and authorities don’t know when/where next one is coming from. I’d assume there’s been some sort of “ransom message” that means it’s unclear how many drones exist or when the next one is coming. Perps could have planted drones weeks ago, so unlikely to appear on CCTV

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    Detour towards Canterbury and hit the Granville? (Assuming you want food)

    http://www.granvillelowerhardres.co.uk

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    Hey @robingrant – the Tuesday and Saturday is still about, work and family means I’m not out with it that frequently at the moment. @nedrapier and @gribble should see you right though

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    Once you’re past scratch, python is probably the easiest to jump into

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    Link to article missing?

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    Xf9005 is LCD not OLED. I went for LG B8, £1500 from richer sounds. Fk me, it’s a step up from a 32″ 10 year old Samsung. I think there’s a Phillips OLED with ambilight knocking about at a good price right now.

    [Edit] also, LG doing £500 cashback on some models at the moment

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    Blacklock soho for chops, brindisa Soho for tapas worth a look

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    Riiight, got keys today, gone from no garage to a double. No need to store cars or garden tools, so it’s all up for bike store/workshop/gym grabs.

    Getting practical, the floor is bare concrete. I’m thinking get it painted first job. Can someone recommend a good paint brand?

    From there I want wall mounted storage for the bikes (5 in the family at the moment, but room for 6-8 would be good) and a work bench, with peg board. Any recommendations for bike storage and places to shop for a workbench?

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    Have a look at http://tide.io

    Doesn’t take long to set up, 20p fee on each imbound payment and £1 for cash withdrawals IIRC.

    You get a debit card that you can use for business payments and the app works well.

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    Try pycharm if you want a full featured IDE

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    Race Face ARC 30? under 500g, about £70 a rim?

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    The industrial design is brilliant – that mech would look great on an UNNO…

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    Did this recently and used Tide. Much like Starling and easy enough to set up in 5 minutes

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    Arguably OOP in the Gang of Four sense is giving way to a more “traditional” functions approach as stuff moves towards micro services and serverless architectures, there’s no need for clever ways of designing systems to be infinitely extensible and live for a thousand years if you can throw away your lambda and write a new one in a day. Learn Python or Javascript.

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    awww….. Up there today and the end playground bit of the main DH lines is all taped up and being logged.

    They’ve probably done about 30-40% of the work so far. At the moment both of the gaps are still there, and some of the trails in that section look like they might still be ridable. No machinery around as far as I could see.  Anyone know what’s going on?

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    have a try of google sheets instead; free & works well for most usecases – you can make it work offline as well

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