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2017-06-16
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dominicm06:06:08

Morning 🌞

yogidevbear06:06:57

Had a major code and feature release last night. All in all it went pretty smoothly πŸ˜„

yogidevbear06:06:39

Months of hard work finally out there for our users to critique

dominicm07:06:35

That's great πŸ‘though doesn't that earn you a lie in?

yogidevbear07:06:51

Not a chance lol

yogidevbear07:06:08

I said I might take the afternoon off today and my boss was like, no, he'd rather have me working through other known issues and being on hand just in case. Plus it's summer and the sun wakes my 4 year old son up waaaaay too early πŸ˜‚

yogidevbear07:06:23

No rest for the wicked, I guess

yogidevbear07:06:13

On a side note, does anyone here know of any part time remote administrative/office work (e.g. 15 - 20 hours per week) that my wife could possibly do for their company? She's looking for something that will bring in a little bit of money each month (around Β£700) while she works on getting her dietetic practice off the ground. Please DM me if you think you can help her out.

thomas07:06:45

morning 😼 mogge

Rachel Westmacott09:06:46

I always thought zakly was spelt with an apostrophe thus: 'zakly

mccraigmccraig10:06:35

it probably is. i eschew english grammatic and syntactic convention in protest at it's general idiocy (and i am deliberately using an apostrophe in possessive it's as a genitive case marker, as is traditional http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=its because tradition should be respected especially when it is directly opposed to Tradition)

thomas11:06:59

my dad always claimed that in the 17th century if you could spell a word in only one way you weren't considered creative. Shakespeare, for instance, managed to spell a word in two different ways in the same sentence.

Rachel Westmacott11:06:09

his own name was spelled in multiple ways

thomas11:06:04

thus very creative

mccraigmccraig13:06:51

one thing i noticed while living in norway - teaching kids to spell is not a thing - you gotta teach them to read and write, but once they can do that, spelling is just obvious

otfrom13:06:31

not enough words stolen from other languages then. πŸ˜‰

mccraigmccraig13:06:43

well, you don't have to steal the spelling too @otfrom - cf. katakana

otfrom13:06:50

English has been stealing a lot for a very long time tho

mccraigmccraig13:06:08

katakana seems to be at least 1200 years old, which is also quite a long time... there must have been some point in the history of phonetic languages where everyone agreed to start using letters phonetically - and that never happened in england for some reason

mccraigmccraig13:06:24

perhaps the same reason that london town planning never happened after the great fire

otfrom13:06:33

ah, they did use it phonetically and then they stopped

otfrom13:06:50

so, blame dictionaries

mccraigmccraig13:06:06

how can i blame dictionaries ?

otfrom13:06:13

(lots of this in anglo saxon, Middle English and Middle Scots and it carries on until Samuel Johnson)

thomas13:06:46

I also read somewhere that the first people using the printing press in England were actually Belgiums... and they made the spelling up eg. busy spelled like it is... and no bisy which would make more sense in someway

mccraigmccraig13:06:21

we should all stop already with our silly spellings and switch to using the IPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet - it's already in all the dictionaries ! πŸ˜„

thomas13:06:07

let's just use emoji

thomas13:06:59

schwa is a sound.

glenjamin13:06:09

it’s a vowel in IPA πŸ˜„

thomas13:06:18

hhmmm ok... I thought it was the "eeeuuu" kind sound.

thomas13:06:32

learned something new today

mccraigmccraig15:06:51

i see a pinned item in this channel asking what do we think the etiquette is around job offers on this channel? Yes or no? @otfrom - what was the answer ?

otfrom15:06:40

@mccraigmccraig I don't remember. Was going to ask again

otfrom15:06:50

I'm ok w/it as long as it isn't via a recruiter

mccraigmccraig16:06:54

ok, well here goes - i have jobs going πŸ™‚ - Yapster (a mobile messaging service used across 44 countries by retail workers within a growing number of brands - including Ann Summers, CaffΓ¨ Nero & Superdry) is looking for Clojure/Script developers to help us build our platform. The positions are permanent and home-based, with a weekly London office day. Full details here: https://www.yapster.info/jobs-developer

otfrom17:06:22

is that weekly office day mandatory?

otfrom17:06:45

@mccraigmccraig and would you take a contractor?

mccraigmccraig17:06:10

it's flexible @otfrom , i don't mind occasional exceptions and i don't mind moving it around - but i do want to get everyone in the same room regularly

mccraigmccraig17:06:54

and after some umm experiences we are definitely favouring permies at this point