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by alexjarvis 12y ago
SEEKING WORK – Remote London & Brighton, UK Full-stack engineer with iOS and Scala/Java experience. Also a startup founder with creative design skills and product experience: http://meep.io/download Seeking part-ti
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by alexjarvis 12y ago
Enjoyed this piece. You could argue that a few of the new features in Swift do offer more concise syntax e.g. inferred types and the ability to use map/filter – leading to reduced lines of code similar to ARC (but not quite as transfor
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by alexjarvis 12y ago
Use https://crate.io It is built on Elastic Search and I've recently built something large to store time series data with it. We actually migrated away from Cassandra and ported out application from it because it didn'
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by alexjarvis 13y ago
Had a friend who was recently in a similar situation minus the YC part and basically it turned out to be a massive waste of time (and legal fees) when they decided he wasn't the 'right fit' for their culture. It was more of a
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by alexjarvis 13y ago
The best advice I ever received was over 2 years ago whilst on holiday in Canada. A dude there said that he'd spent $6000 CAD on mining equipment (GPUs) and had made a cool $15000 - but he said that he would have made more if he'd
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New unit to tackle online piracy and counterfeit crime (UK)(ipo.gov.uk)
2 points by alexjarvis 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
I'm sorry, but I've seen both sides of the coin here and think that in the right situations, having a suite of automated-tests to give you confidence in an application is invaluable. Especially when you consider the alternative, which is ho
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Show HN: DubSub - Distributed PubSub(github.com)
3 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|0 comments
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Support for optional trailing slash(play.lighthouseapp.com)
1 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
This is awesome, especially like the part around 48 seconds after changing something -"You'll notice this happens... IMMEDIATELY"
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
This is nice to see. I wonder how it compares to HAProxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ which also works with SSL and Secure WebSockets (wss://).
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
The examples were extremely helpful for me actually. Thanks Stephane! Looking forward to the next release to make reading/writing BSON easier. Reckon we could steal some of the awesome JSON macros stuff from Play for simple cases?
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
More like death by kittens
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
As a founder and programmer, I found this post really interesting and well written, but rather than lamenting about how it must be impossible to do both roles where eventually you will have to give up programming - why not just accept that
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
Yes, Scala's improvement from 2.9.2 to 2.10 is better than the improvement from JVM 6 to 7 with this benchmark. Especially for the Eratosthenes test where the time halves from ~1494ms to ~704ms. The largest percentage improvement from 2.9.2
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
Nice post, I just used your benchmark to also compare running Scala in JDK 6 and 7 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862035
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Scala Benchmark comparison with JDK 6 and 7(engineering.panaxiom.co.uk)
7 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|2 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
The author couldn't be more right about picking an asynchronous driver. It makes me wonder how long it will take for the official MongoDB drivers to adopt this approach too. I've been using ReactiveMongo for Scala for the past two months an
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Mongo Base64Id Shell Enhancement(engineering.panaxiom.co.uk)
3 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but you could argue that by granting it to some 'evil' clients, that he is invalidating his statement, proving that it is just a joke, and just laughing at everyone that asks for a special licence. Furthermo
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
I would also quite like to see this happen.
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
Surely there are some old xserve's knocking about on ebay?
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
I think that this has probably been taken a little too literally. It would be interesting to get the original author’s opinion.. I agree completely with Sehe’s comment about the terms of the statement not being clearly defined and thus no j
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
Shame it's written in PHP
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Sublime Text 2 with SBT and Play 2(engineering.panaxiom.co.uk)
3 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|0 comments
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Reactive Scala driver for MongoDB(reactivemongo.org)
5 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
It would not involve humans directly, but collaboratively and unknowingly, they would be coerced into selecting the most efficient variant, for the benefit of the app designer.
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
So would you be interested in a similar service if someone were to make it available? :)
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Ask HN: What do you use to A/B test your mobile app?
8 points by alexjarvis 14y ago|4 comments
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by alexjarvis 14y ago
about bloody time!

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