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by oesmith 5y ago
Staff SWE at Google UK can get you to 400k+ (depending on stock grants / stock price gains).
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by oesmith 9y ago
I've been doing this for nearly five years now, so I've gradually built up a system that works for me. Usually I'll use one of two devices: * Asus Chromebook Flip (C100PA) * iPad Pro 10.5 with keyboard cover When I'm dev
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by oesmith 11y ago
I'm looking forward to Google opening an office in Bristol. Until then, I'm stuck on a daily commute from Bath to London. The commute sucks, but I couldn't stand living in London (nor SF or the bay for that matter).
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by oesmith 11y ago
Skynet, like the UK military satellite comms network? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)
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by oesmith 12y ago
Pro-tip: you can use "brew info [package-name]" to lookup the post-install info that flashes up after a homebrew install. $ brew info cassandra cassandra: stable 2.1.2 http://cassandra.apache.org Not i
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by oesmith 12y ago
Same here. I'm using the mobile web versions of Facebook, Twitter and G+ on my iPad and iPhone and I'm not (yet) missing any of the features of the native apps.
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by oesmith 12y ago
There's also j2objc, another interesting tool for creating a common layer for iOS and Android apps. https://github.com/google/j2objc I'm playing with it for a personal project, and as long as you're not
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by oesmith 12y ago
The last paragraph of the article: "Because of its sample size (1,801 people) and choice of topic, Pew’s study might not be a fully accurate example of social media’s silencing effects, but it’s definitely fodder for discussion – if yo
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by oesmith 12y ago
.. not to mention that there's a lot of overlap between aerospace and F1 engineering. Plenty of the engineers (even the trackside ones) started out studying aero engineering.
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by oesmith 12y ago
+1, I live in a semi-rural town of ~10k residents and I get 75Mbps / 15Mbps fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband. The infrastructure is owned by the incumbent monopoly provider, but the service over the top can be supplied by any one of a nu
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by oesmith 13y ago
Premium economy? I usually fly between LHR and SFO on BA premium economy. It's usually sub-£1000. Compared to economy, the seats are wider with more leg room and the meals are better. It's a pity they still fly creaking old 747s o
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by oesmith 13y ago
Google Webmaster Tools' "Fetch as googlebot" feature is useful in debugging these problems. See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fetch-as-googlebot-tool-hacked...
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by oesmith 13y ago
Looks like a hacked wordpress install. http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/four-malware-infec...
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by oesmith 13y ago
I'm reading on an iPad, so the risk of system infection is negligible. However, I just switched on my home VPN and the links disappeared. Time to talk to someone in netops, methinks.
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by oesmith 13y ago
Is this a test of whether anyone actually reads these articles? Every 3rd paragraph has a viagra spam-link inserted in the middle of a sentence.
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by oesmith 13y ago
Summary: Unit testing is hard, so it's not worth the effort.
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by oesmith 13y ago
I think many go programmers would disagree with you, and C++ programmers who've discovered clang-format too. Bikeshed discussions about formatting quickly go out the window when you have an automated tool that can settle all arguments.
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by oesmith 13y ago
How about taking a look at the Google ObjC style guide? https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide... I'm not convinced by private properties either. Use ARC and just define your ivars in th
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by oesmith 13y ago
Exactly my first thought too!
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by oesmith 13y ago
I wonder why Google's Closure Compiler hasn't taken off more in the open-source world. At the cost of some mandatory comments to help the compiler, it's able to analyze and remove unused library code from your application.
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by oesmith 13y ago
Don't forget, those teenagers entire families are now on Facebook. I concede that the actions of teenagers might be an indicator of what's to come, but the world has hardly 'moved on' yet.
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by oesmith 13y ago
FYI, there's a typo in the code screenshot. s/versoin/version
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by oesmith 13y ago
31, and the oldest I can find is from mid-1998. A small piece of C++ code to replicate the "cool" then-new docking windows in Visual Studio. http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-d/docking/article.php/c
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by oesmith 13y ago
This argument applies to any web service. There's no guarantee that a $5/yr paid web service isn't profiting from your data the same as anyone else. Why only make $5 when you could make $35? It really boils down to who you ch
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by oesmith 13y ago
Yes, if all you want is to confirm that a TCP connection has closed and flushed correctly, then AFAIK, that's entirely possible with a [shutdown, select, read] sequence. I struggle to understand why an RPC system (as detailed in the ar
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by oesmith 13y ago
> The reliability signals this app needs are built into both TCP and the socket programming interface, from what I can tell. The application-layer acknowledgement it wants appears duplicative. An ACK only suggests that a segment has reac
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by oesmith 13y ago
London's an awful lot better than most of the rest of the UK. I'm on a similar package as the post above, but only since moving to London. Working anywhere else in the UK, I'd struggle to get half that.
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Test remote javascript APIs with Capybara and puffing-billy(oesmith.co.uk)
1 points by oesmith 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Introducing puffing-billy - stubbing for browser interactions(github.com)
3 points by oesmith 14y ago|0 comments
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by oesmith 14y ago
Yup, the real best practice is to use your judgement and choose the right test for the job. If it's something that you can see in a browser (and the results are visible too), then it's a candidate for an integration spec. You really shoul

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