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by cantlin 5y ago
I currently work at GDS, and I don't recognise what you're describing. There are lots of problems, but Java 7 doesn't have much to do with any of them.
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On Pace(cantl.in)
1 points by cantlin 6y ago|0 comments
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Right-sizing product and engineering teams(cantl.in)
1 points by cantlin 6y ago|0 comments
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Junk Time (2017)(hackernoon.com)
2 points by cantlin 6y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 10y ago
Condé Nast International | Software Engineers | London, UK | Full-time | ONSITE, VISA We make Vogue, Wired, Ars Technica, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ and lots of others. We’re in China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Russia, Italy, France, Spain, Germa
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by cantlin 10y ago
Sure, there are a bunch of places and ways you can do this. For a start, companies of all shapes and sizes have or are building internal data technology teams. Almost any large company wants to do things with data that exceed what they can
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Brexit Blues(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by cantlin 10y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 10y ago
We spent a lot of time talking about that balance. The thing to remember is that these conversations are happening in the context of an industry that's in structural decline. You have ever lower print revenues, and Facebook and Google
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by cantlin 10y ago
At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn't rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial independence was important. We implemented our player on top of video.js, and mo
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by cantlin 11y ago
The strategy of proxying real usage to a second code path is incredibly effective. For months before the relaunch of theguardian.com, we ran traffic to the old site against the new stack to understand how it could be expected to perform in
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by cantlin 11y ago
Centralisation of process isn't just about dollars for data. Yes, for the business model to work, the company has to gather a lot of data that it can look at all at once. But that's perfectly possible to do through a network of se
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Your Product Is Your Product as Users Describe It(medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 11y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 11y ago
Typically there'll be a CMS flag available to powerful users (editors). That's how it works at the Guardian. It sets a boolean (shouldHideAdverts) in our content API[0], which we use in templates[1] to suppress commercial logic. T
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by cantlin 12y ago
As the author was kind enough to pick us as an example, here's some background on what some of those requests are doing. hits.theguardian.com points to our Omniture implementation, which is the main tracking suite used for macro-leve
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Guardian desktop site temporarily unavailable(theguardian.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 12y ago
Looks like that list hasn't been updated since our domain switch. If you really want to block our internal analytics (which are in practice fairly harmless) replace "hits.guardian.co.uk" with "hits.theguardian.com".
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by cantlin 12y ago
"It seems to me then that the purpose of cerebration sessions is not to think up new ideas but to educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts." For me the best m
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Hello. It’s 2014. Welcome to the human race.(medium.com)
2 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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All your KPIs are probably wrong. Or, how to optimise on being valuable(at.cantl.in)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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Isis video claims to show beheading of British hostage David Haines(theguardian.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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BuzzFeed comes not to bury newspapers, but to improve on them(theguardian.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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The Internet is Still a Consumption Platform(medium.com)
2 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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Home Icon(github.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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Minecraft: how a change to the rules is tearing the community apart(theguardian.com)
3 points by cantlin 12y ago|1 comments
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Adventures in content: from Antarctic Rescues to European Bison(next.theguardian.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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by cantlin 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up - I'll get that fixed.
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by cantlin 12y ago
Indeed, it's evolved over time as I've needed more from it but the UX has wound up pretty awful. Adding a personal statement for example involves finding and pressing the oh-so-very-intuitive "add block" button at the bo
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by cantlin 12y ago
I made a similar thing a while back. My resume in PDF: http://hackerb.io/cantlin.pdf In MD: http://hackerb.io/cantlin.md In JSON: http://hackerb.io/cantlin.json You can generate a decent ch
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WWDC 2014: Apple to preview iOS 8 and new Mac OS X in San Francisco – live(theguardian.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments
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What does the Guardian have that Twitter doesn't?(medium.com)
1 points by cantlin 12y ago|0 comments

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