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by bensummers 7y ago
Haplo | London | ONSITE | Software Developers (all levels) We build applications to help universities manage their research on top of our open source information management platform. Haplo is a small bootstrapped company, founded over 10 ye
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by bensummers 7y ago
Haplo | London | ONSITE | Software Developers (all levels) We build applications to help universities manage their research on top of our open source information management platform. Haplo is a small bootstrapped company, founded over 10 ye
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by bensummers 8y ago
I choose fossil at a time when it wasn't clear which one of fossil, Mercurial, or git would "win". I choose it because it had a very clear and easy UI, guided you towards a way of working that is suitable for small teams (ie
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by bensummers 8y ago
Because it's hard to do well, and you have to build everything with it in mind. We've been very successful with a strategy of hiring new graduates and training them. This is what we've done: https://www.haplo.com&#
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by bensummers 8y ago
Oh yes, that's one of our techniques for finding graduates. I was just wondering about how this job board was going to do it, as "who will see this" is the key question for someone considering posting a job on it.
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by bensummers 8y ago
Haplo | London | ONSITE | Graduate Software Engineer Are you graduating this summer? Haplo will help you get the best possible start to your career as a software developer. https://haplo-services.com/jobs/new-graduates
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by bensummers 8y ago
How are you getting lots of new graduates to look at these jobs? My company is _very_ good at getting new graduates off to a really good start to their career, so I've seen all the various sites and services for finding new graduates.
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by bensummers 8y ago
Haplo | London | ONSITE | Graduate Software Engineer Are you graduating this summer? Haplo will help you get the best possible start to your career as a software developer. https://haplo-services.com/jobs/new-graduates
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by bensummers 8y ago
My company has put a lot of effort into helping junior developers get a really good start to their careers. To a certain extent, you have to structure your work to enable this. I'd suggest seeing the support as a wider thing than just
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Senior Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE This job is interesting because... * You get to think about the nuts and bolts of how web applications are developed. You’ll be building APIs, creating reusable components, and worki
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Senior developer: https://www.haplo-services.com/jobs/senior-developer This job is interesting because... * You get to think about the nuts and bolts of how web applic
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Senior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you an experienced generalist developer looking for a place you can write your best code and help an enthusiastic team learn? https://www.haplo-services.com&#
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Senior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you an experienced generalist developer looking for a place you can write your best code and help an enthusiastic team learn? https://www.haplo-services.com&#
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by bensummers 9y ago
https://www.icanlocalize.com/site/
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by bensummers 9y ago
This was interesting to program. Apart from having to use assembler (which was no big deal in '95), you had to structure your program as lots of tiny objects which communicated through messages. There was no obvious way of running a pr
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by bensummers 9y ago
fossil on the server gets low numbers of writes, and not many reads. And being a distributed system, most of the SQLite action is on the client.
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by bensummers 9y ago
Oracle Java is based on OpenJDK. It's not a separate implementation.
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer you can be. We're looking for three new developer
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by bensummers 9y ago
If you're not having luck with UK ISPs, try https://www.aaisp.net.uk/ They have technical people running support who talk to customers as peers. Also you can use IRC if you don't like the phone.
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer you can be. We're looking for three new developer
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer you can be. We're looking for three new developer
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by bensummers 9y ago
The last two questions are little more than "what is the name of the algorithm I should use to solve this problem?". This doesn't test understanding in any way. How is it useful to determine whether someone can work on the ex
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by bensummers 9y ago
On the last two questions, I'm curious why the ability to memorise which algorithm to use is a useful skill for a professional software engineer, let alone a useful interview question. Isn't the best answer "I would look up t
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer you can be. We're looking for three new developer
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The Future of OmniOS(lists.omniti.com)
3 points by bensummers 9y ago|0 comments
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by bensummers 9y ago
APFS doesn't do proper checksumming on data, and won't mirror or RAID, so it doesn't have the data recovery properties implied by the article. http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/ap
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How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)(nytimes.com)
517 points by bensummers 9y ago|253 comments
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by bensummers 9y ago
Haplo -- London, UK -- Full time, ONSITE We build research information management systems for universities, on top of our open source Haplo platform: http://haplo.org - We're looking for: 1) Junior Software Developers (3 po
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by bensummers 10y ago
Make sure you don't mean "how do companies make sure they only hire people who are clones of their existing staff?" The answer lies more in making your company somewhere where anyone can excel, then looking for people who sho
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by bensummers 10y ago
Haplo -- London, UK -- Full time, ONSITE We're looking for: 1) Data Engineer - build tools to integrate & clean data from multiple sources, work with clients to set up feeds of information - https://www.haplo-services.co

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