Torn

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by Torn 10y ago
Sometimes, in google drawings to talk about code or systems architecture in the abstract
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that, again :) Hiring at an e
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by Torn 10y ago
Google do provide a privacy checkup screen where you can review and tweak your settings: https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup/1 And you can opt out of ads here https://www.google.com/settings&#x2
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by Torn 10y ago
Unrelated to OP, the instances where you're scraping HN 'who's hiring' threads seem to be missing the job title lines. Would you be able to take the first line of the posts as job title? Thanks
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by Torn 10y ago
There are many sites that check if something is down, asking HN probably not the best way to go about this! http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/github.com.html
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by Torn 10y ago
+1 for the minimizing into one bundle thing. Sets of assets are loading sequentially which is slowing page load down. Your code in each js file seems self-contained, so a simple in-order file concatenation into one .js file as a build step
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by Torn 10y ago
Out of interest, what's wrong with soy protein?
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that, again :) Hiring at an exper
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by Torn 10y ago
That's not quite correct - it might be fair to say 'machine learning researchers are likely to be gamers', but it's not fair to say 'gamers are likely to be machine learning researchers'
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by Torn 10y ago
It's also an interesting business model. Core platform tech and then consultancy. A LOT of hand-cranking integrations and massaging data, presumably that's where they make most of their money - billing hours to agencies with deep
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by Torn 10y ago
Just because code is transmitted to be executed by browsers doesn't mean it's free from copyright or other intellectual property rights.
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that, again :) Hiring at an e
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :) Hiring at an experien
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :) Hiring at a senior le
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by Torn 10y ago
Looking at the gzipped size on cdnjs - react minified 43.2kb - react-dom minified 723b
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by Torn 10y ago
I've seen some pretty janky pages on eBay.com, and the windows 'Turbolister' software is one of the worst things I've had the displeasure of using. eBay is sufficiently large, and old-enough, to have substantial tech deb
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :) Hiring at a senior
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by Torn 10y ago
Are you looking at virtual memory / memory-mapped files?
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by Torn 10y ago
I can ask - send me your cv and the sort of roles you're looking for, and I'll send it to the right people to answer
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by Torn 10y ago
Small amendment - we're also hiring in Glasgow, for anyone looking for tech jobs in Scotland.
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by Torn 10y ago
I believe so - yes. Send me an email with your details and I can find out from our recruitment team.
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by Torn 10y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :) Hiring at a senior level in lo
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by Torn 11y ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to x10 that :) Hiring experienced people in lots of key di
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by Torn 11y ago
Can you please remember the 'dark mode' setting? A cookie or localStorage flag would be really easy to do.
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by Torn 11y ago
London software engineers can command higher salaries than elsewhere in the UK. I hear the salaries are less than in SF though. Cost of living (rent) may be a little lower to match.
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by Torn 11y ago
Nice. I'm surprised someone hasn't setup a script to enumerate them all. The ids all seem less than 6 digits
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by Torn 11y ago
Pretty impressive valuation for a UK company. There aren't many tech unicorns operating here.
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by Torn 11y ago
Here's a google link to be able to read the original FT.com one (click top result) https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ft.com+skyscanner+fundr...
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by Torn 11y ago
Right - the important thing is recognizing that their development processes (or lack of them) has lead to this situation. Treating the symptoms is no guarantee they won't end up in the same situation in the future.
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by Torn 11y ago
Archive.org mirror from Aug 29th: https://web.archive.org/web/20150829043424/http://www.struct...

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