loopbit

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by loopbit 11y ago
It's a very, very long shot, but could it be that you have virtualbox 4 installed? With 10.10 and 10.11 I had the same issue, caused by the kext from virtualbox. Removing it and installing version 5 solved everything and haven't h
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by loopbit 11y ago
I'm no longer the CTO, but I'm still friends with the rest of the founders and lend a hand every now and again (I'm still a shareholder in the company). Drop me a line at malonso [at] loopbit.com if you want :)
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by loopbit 11y ago
I buy a product or, more often than not nowadays, pay for a service for the features. I keep using the product/service if it's stable. I have no use for a service with loads of nice features that don't work.
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by loopbit 11y ago
As someone that got to fifth year of a computer engineering degree[0] to drop off with only 2 classes left, I agree: There's stuff you learn in uni, thinking that you'll never use it again and, suddenly years later, it's the
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by loopbit 11y ago
Hey, sorry I didn't see this before. You can go to www.loveandrobots.com, any example using upswing image files should use fabric.js
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by loopbit 11y ago
We used fabric.js as well to create custom laser printed/engraved products. As with you, our first iteration was just standard javascript with jQuery, but fabric.js made a lot of things much easier.
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by loopbit 11y ago
It might be because English is not my first language and that rule doesn't exist in my mother tongue, but I've always written like that (also, I don't use the Oxford comma and I won't, it just looks weird to me). It occu
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by loopbit 11y ago
Technically Aol is Verizon now ;). Cheers from an ex-Aoler.
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by loopbit 11y ago
Ooops, yes, as the other comment says, I forgot to mention it was in programmer's view. Otherwise the number shows correctly.
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by loopbit 11y ago
Just for fun, I've tried that with the OSX calculator (in El Capitan, in case that matters). When I paste the number in the article (17281580835365214242) into it, it shows as 9223372036854775807. Typing it by hand does the same, when
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by loopbit 11y ago
I live in Dublin, don't work for Google but I have many friends that do (as well as in London and Zurich). No, they don't pay anything close to that. Actually, AFAIK, in Dublin the salary that Google pays for developers is on the
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by loopbit 11y ago
Very, very well said. >> I'm a jack of all trades master of none. >> I've always taken that as an insult rather than a compliment. "Specialization is for insects", Heinlein.
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by loopbit 11y ago
As someone that is 37 and hasn't got a degree, I can tell you that most of those requirements are bullshit. Send the CV, get an interview and prove the interviewers that you are capable of taking the responsibility. And yes, I've
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by loopbit 11y ago
Good luck finding a entry-level job, any entry level job in Spain that pays you more than 900€ per month in Spain, Italy, Portugal... even France and maybe, Germany (although I have less information there). From what I see, you might get 2-
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by loopbit 11y ago
Actually, as an European (as in, in a completely different environment than SV), I'd recommend the opposite with a small tweak, add "small company" to the startup meaning. Most big companies I've worked with in Europe ha
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by loopbit 11y ago
I wish I could. Cost of living, taxes, benefits... even the "culture" of the country (for lack of a better word) all play a role, but when you are working in a distributed team for an american corp in a different country and see h
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by loopbit 11y ago
Actually, as an executive of a company that opens a subsidiary in the states (in case your startup is a success and decide to expand there) you can apply for the L-1A visa which can fast-track you to get the green card (we are talking 6-9 m
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by loopbit 11y ago
All I can talk is from my personal experience, but as the founder of a startup that sells physical goods online, we've had no issue with fraudsters. At all. Granted, we are quite small and our volume of sales is not massive (Hey! Small
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by loopbit 11y ago
Just a couple of minor clarifications: - Athelion is a plugin for Apache Nutch, which is the web crawler part and has been open source for a long time. - As far as I can tell, Athelion parses structured data (microformats, microdata, RDFa..
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by loopbit 11y ago
Cool read, however, I feel the need to point out that 20 years ago, javascript in the server wasn't "too soon", it already existed. In 1995 Netscape had the Netscape Enterprise Server[0] that ran javascript for server-side sc
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by loopbit 11y ago
I immediately recalled this: https://xkcd.com/1053/ It looks like today you are one of the 10.000 people learning about this strip ;)
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by loopbit 11y ago
Depending on the index size (and type of queries, and schema, and expected performance...), 2GB might be more than enough. Solr does a very good work in caching results, query filters and so on in memory. Apart from that, it's disk bas
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by loopbit 11y ago
Yep, and it took me years to learn that lesson :)
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by loopbit 11y ago
Again, maybe I've had more bad managers than the average (in my 17 years of professional experience I've had 2, maybe 3, good managers), but there's no guarantee that will happen. Maybe in areas like SV, where good profession
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by loopbit 11y ago
Genetic algorithms are not brilliant, but their results sometimes can be. I remember reading and article[0] about a researcher using genetic algorithms on FPGAs. One paragraph stuck with me through all these years: "Dr. Thompson peered
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by loopbit 11y ago
Maybe I've had more than my share of bad bosses, but I don't really agree with you here. I must say, also, that in my experience, it does depend on the company size, culture and abilities of said managers more often than not (big,
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by loopbit 11y ago
Didn't know about policeman and looks really, really, nice. Will definitely give it a try! I love the idea of writing my own rules. As for including jquery from google, of course and for good reasons, even from the user's perspect
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by loopbit 11y ago
Then learn Chef/Puppet or something like that and write/reuse recipes to install and configure whatever you need to configure. I haven't set up an environment manually in a few years: I simply have my own recipes for the type
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by loopbit 11y ago
It's not even America, look around you: Germany has great opportunities for people with developing knowledge, Netherlands, England, Ireland... On the other hand I know France is in that situation, as well as Spain, Italy... But a part
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by loopbit 11y ago
Not an expert in cancer by any means, but I know a thing or two about leukemia and race, sex and age are, precisely, the most common 'risk factors' that are looked into.

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