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by scanr 13y ago
London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion) Optim.al ( https://www.optimalsocial.com/ ) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics, data scienc
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by scanr 13y ago
Have you looked at ClickMeter? I wonder if this kind of functionality is harder to find because it may be harder to monetize.
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by scanr 14y ago
I've worked with programmers who are both positive and care deeply about solving problems. It was very pleasant working with them. I aspire to be as positive as they are. Also, nothing makes me happier than improving or fixing broken things
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by scanr 14y ago
Java 8 looks good enough to make Java a reasonable candidate for Java.Next. Especially given that there doesn't appear to be a clear winner between the alternatives (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin etc.). Java 8 seems to have borrowed a lot
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by scanr 14y ago
* Docs are pretty bad * I invariably need to log onto the instance itself to find deployment bugs during development (that said, it's great that I can do that) * Using their AMIs is the easiest but you may find
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by scanr 14y ago
Even though it's relatively primitive compared to some of the other PaaS providers out there, I really like AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Here are some of the reasons why: * You only pay for the underlying AWS services * ELB + EC2 + RDS
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by scanr 14y ago
Linkedin is very motivated to design their interface in such a way to ensure that they collect as many members and connections as possible. In other words, I believe they specifically design their interface so as to make it more likely that
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by scanr 14y ago
London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion) Optim.al ( https://www.optimalsocial.com/ ) is currently hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on a variety of projects that cove
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by scanr 14y ago
They may be explainable but do you really want to install an app that _could_ keep track of the numbers you call and then send them back to a central server? In this case it is the BBC, so its probably only likely that the british governmen
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by scanr 14y ago
While I was writing that, I realised that it may come down to the definition of what constitutes a long method / variable / class name. I have usually found that the IntelliJ defaults are enough to make the names meaningful. For Ruby, the i
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by scanr 14y ago
> Clarity can usually be addressed with longer variable or method names, but there's a strong culture against that in nearly ever programming community. It would be interesting to see a list of those that discourage long method and vari
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by scanr 14y ago
That may well be the case. I haven't benchmarked regular IO vs. NIO recently. Certainly when I did before, there wasn't too much in it but I did get more reliable latency from NIO and the rest of the stack is non-blocking so it's a neat fit
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by scanr 14y ago
This article: http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-b... claims that it's based on the $999 X7A, so perhaps still higher than a $600 price point. It's mostly speculation at this point, though. Very entertaining. What'
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by scanr 14y ago
I think vert.x looks pretty cool and was just about to try it out before this. I'm doing some work that requires a neat Java based NIO web server. I've done a lot of work on top of Netty directly but vert.x looks like a nice higher level ab
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by scanr 14y ago
London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion) Optim.al ( https://www.optimalsocial.com/ ) is currently hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on a variety of projects that cove
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by scanr 14y ago
The price point is very interesting. It's way above console prices and will probably slow down adoption. That said, it might not matter to Valve. The console manufacturers _have_ to get a certain scale quickly to be able to establish an eco
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by scanr 14y ago
There are suggestions that it is possible (potentially easy) for a user to get symbols into the params hash.
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by scanr 14y ago
I'd really like to know the stories behind some of these. Why is favicon the second most searched for entry in Wikipedia in China?
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by scanr 14y ago
I just had a thought. What if Myhrvold has realised that the only way that the patent system can be changed is if he brings innovation to a halt completely using Intellectual Ventures. Only he can't tell anyone because he believes that if h
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by scanr 14y ago
I'm not sure this is the conclusion that I would draw. It appears you're measuring technological progress by the gap between what is available in the 3rd world vs. what is currently available in the 1st world. I would argue that making $50
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by scanr 14y ago
The New York Times site was why I installed NoScript for the first time.
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by scanr 14y ago
I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product? There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).
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by scanr 14y ago
Thanks for responding! And I'll update my response to the backwards compatibility to say that I see the value in having a closed set of clients that you need to test for backwards compatibility. That said, these are some of the things that
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by scanr 14y ago
Here's where I've found REST very useful: It makes for predictable APIs for consumers and it means API producers have a checklist of things to implement to consider their interface 'complete'. It also provides a consistent way to think abou
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by scanr 14y ago
Braintree have made an interesting choice in keeping their REST API private and requiring customers use their client libraries. I think they could both have client libraries that they promote as well as a public REST API. Breaking down thei
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by scanr 14y ago
What happens when you have a good IDE and a good programming language? I say we have both!
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by scanr 14y ago
I use Skype quite regularly. I'd much prefer to move to Google+ Hangouts but there are a few things that make using it more painful than Skype: * More people that I'm in contact with have Skype installed vs. have Google Voice and Video inst
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by scanr 14y ago
The updated wording would have been to replace the word 'positive' with 'constructive'. I'm curious, if you look back at your original comment, do you not think that it is rude / insulting as opposed to constructive?
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by scanr 14y ago
On reflection, I could have worded that part of my comment better. I completely agree that constructive criticism is useful. I just think that we can be civil about it.
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by scanr 14y ago
> This is an abomination That's pretty rude. > Do we honestly need a "framework" to use the background-color and float properties? This story is on the front page, so there are obviously some folk who would. I quite like it, and if

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