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Memrise | Software Engineers | London UK | Full-Time, Onsite, Visa sponsorship and relocation available | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers! We've got: * An impactful mission - Memrise helps
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Memrise | Software Engineers | London UK | Full-Time, Onsite, Visa sponsorship and relocation available | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers! We've got: * An impactful mission - Memrise helps
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Memrise | Software Engineers, Data Engineers | London UK | Full-Time, Onsite, Visa sponsorship and relocation available | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers! We've got: * An impactful mission
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Memrise gives people learning superpowers! We've got: * An impactful mission - Memrise is an application helping our users achieve confident, real-world language skills & connect with new cultures. * Exciting technical challenges f
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Memrise | Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers, Product Manager | London UK | Full-Time, Onsite, Visa sponsorship and relocation available | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to
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Hi! Great to hear you love it despite the couple of bugs :) Direct link to the bug submission form, thanks for the report https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzJ36mrPczSj_whITr...
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Memrise | Software Engineers, Data Scientists, UX Lead | London UK | Full-Time, Onsite, Visa sponsorship and relocation available | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to help anyone achieve
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Memrise | Full-Stack (Python) & Mobile Engineers | London (relocation available) | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to help anyone achieve confident, real-world language skills in jus
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Memrise | Full-Stack (Python) & Mobile Engineers | London (relocation available) | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to help anyone achieve confident, real-world language skills in jus
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Memrise | Full-Stack Developers | London (relocation available) | https://www.memrise.com Memrise gives people learning superpowers. We aim to help anyone achieve confident, real-world language skills in just a few short months;
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10y ago
My experience is that it is drastically easier to port C extensions than to port python code itself - the C API hasn't really changed a lot and it's usually very easy to reason about C code due to it being more strongly typed than
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10y ago
I don't find it baffling. You flatly cannot build a company without capital. On the other hand, you might be able to build a company by treating good employees badly, because the employees are either a little naive or they really do va
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10y ago
it will if it's the host /traffic/ that is compromised
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10y ago
I think that the stigma is less than it was, and these days people are quite interested if you're working on a cool public facing service. No, what we do isn't really /cool/ and you will still bore them if you get into d
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10y ago
You were able to not work for two years, twice, because of the software money. What is the difference between you and this guy?
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10y ago
Orange juice has a drastically higher GI than oranges because your body more rapidly absorbs sugar from juice than from pulp. It's not just the quantity.
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10y ago
That isn't a cultural fit question, it's a behavioral interview question.
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10y ago
This is the simplest, most conventional business explanation and what their MBAs would be thinking. They won't have many particular incumbent advantages if / when self driving cars arrive; all their carefully tuned business model,
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10y ago
Market cap != economic driver.
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11y ago
no. well, live-coders do by definition .. but for everyone else, it's just an ineffective way to work, even if you are a good programmer. people really do use graphical programming tools like max/msp.
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11y ago
Yep, if it's technical work that requires a large amount of learning and investment in employees, the company will typically move mountains to keep you if you are good.
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11y ago
Do you have some sources demonstrating that google and facebook are using them in scaled production? My impression was that presently these were more for research and prototyping. I would have thought that if you were going to run prod syst
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11y ago
They cant share data as efficiently as threads because they don't share the same address space.
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11y ago
Everyone in the blogosphere (and at my own company) writing non-app-specific layers on top of selenium suggests that there is scope for a higher level framework that can be used on top of selenium. Or that the selenium api is too thin a lay
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11y ago
GNU make. Keep in mind that in addition to the build steps, it's common to break out to sed, grep, and shell to get basic string operations done due to extremely limited capability of make itself. On cygwin, this is slow for large proj
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11y ago
The learning curve can be climbed, but I am concerned about cognitive overheard of this stuff while trying to write a program affecting productivity. I'd like to know how much the author's proposed gc takes the friction away.
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I still have the scars from libraries implementing implicit conversions in c++. The question is - for people reading the code at the call site, how easy is it to grep for what's actually happening? I guess this rust trait at least hang
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16y ago
I read the Guardian as a primary news source as I have a great interest in world politics and it's the best source - their wikileaks coverage was pretty exceptional. nyt is ok but I find the layout too busy and there's rather a lot of obscu