oliland

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Profiling Python Memory Leaks with Doctor Thread(engineering.citymapper.com)
2 points by oliland 8y ago|0 comments
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by oliland 8y ago
Citymapper | Data Science and Software Engineering | London, UK Our mission is to make cities usable. We're combining one of the world's most loved transport apps with new kinds of shared mobility services. Citymapper is a great p
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Moving Millions of S3 Keys with AWS Batch(engineering.citymapper.com)
1 points by oliland 8y ago|0 comments
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by oliland 10y ago
Seems biased to sort alphabetically. I clicked away without ever reaching B!
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by oliland 13y ago
That sounds truly awful. How did you manage to enjoy your ice cream without wifi?
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by oliland 13y ago
Let me get this straight: Instead of entrusting my ISP with my preference for porn, I'm entrusting you. I fail to see how this is any better. You're a recent compsci graduate and I'm sure you have good intentions. Can you exp
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by oliland 13y ago
I was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours with your phone. The bonus part was where they used the
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by oliland 14y ago
This answer purports a myth that compilers are magical black boxes, the sum of millions of hours of intense academic research that "you will never understand". Replace "compiler" with "computer". Doesn't that make you angry? Answers like th
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by oliland 14y ago
Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal! $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)
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by oliland 14y ago
If your bottom line is gross revenue, why not just A/B test your pricing? In an app store this is really simple. Pitch the app at a different price tier every week (ideally during a stable period with no major public holidays or obvious sea
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by oliland 14y ago
Unit testing (and by extension, TDD) is easy in Objective C: Just test your models. Your models are (should be) the only thing that makes your app unique.
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by oliland 14y ago
I made this with my classmate from Edinburgh Uni. Thanks for submitting it!
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by oliland 14y ago
I also don't Facebook will think highly of the fact that they hide the like button once you have pressed it.
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by oliland 14y ago
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRC_b4g7Sg
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Gary Connery successfuly lands wingsuit without a parachute(itv.com)
1 points by oliland 14y ago|1 comments
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by oliland 14y ago
This should work with Flash on Windows, but requires Flip4Mac on OSX: http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv
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by oliland 14y ago
Friends of mine are currently assembling the boxes that he will land in: http://imgur.com/iKwmX Interview with Gary Connery and his wife: http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460 Unfortunately it's live from the house of c
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Watch Live: At 1pm GMT, a British man will try to land a wingsuit.(news.sky.com)
1 points by oliland 14y ago|8 comments
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by oliland 14y ago
Can you point me towards a sort function which will sort my data in the most appropriate way, every time? Some sort functions might cover 99% of cases for web development, but not for other problems. The computer is not magical.
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by oliland 14y ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
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by oliland 15y ago
I tried to learn Ruby and Rails at the same time, but found it stressful to learn Ruby's elaborate syntactic sugar and Rails' enormous API at the same time. For me it certainly helped prototyping my application in Sinatra first and then div