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by pretzel 7y ago
Lexical Labs | Full time Lexical Labs read, review and automatically mark-up contracts so that lawyers can review them quickly. There is a lot of tech going on to support this - NLP, ML and lots of UIs. We are looking for a junior full stac
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by pretzel 8y ago
> Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy. Is it? I would have thought it is the commonwealth looking after the people that make it! Surely for countries
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by pretzel 9y ago
In my experience there are a couple kinds of product management. There is very user focused product management, and technical product management. User-focused PMing is making tools that work for people - working with marketing, UX and clien
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by pretzel 9y ago
> and would gladly pay the same amount again. Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...
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by pretzel 10y ago
There are a few new features over the last 5 years... * Merge checks * Build status (finally...) * Audit logs * Inline editing From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they
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by pretzel 10y ago
... which is kind of annoying if you sleep on top of one. Endless tocking away on a hot summer night where you can't sleep is kind of like water drip torture.
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by pretzel 11y ago
What I don't get is, if it is such a simple aircraft - pretty much an airliner with the passenger section being a bomb bay - and we're pretty good at making airliners these days - why don't they as a short term stop gap just
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by pretzel 11y ago
It would be nicer if this wasn't tied in to a server implementation, so it could be a standard react component that specifies a couple of handlers as PropTypes. Would make it much more easier for people to reuse it!
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Porting your Javsascript to ES6(medium.com)
1 points by pretzel 11y ago|0 comments
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by pretzel 11y ago
Just throwing this in here - we already do this at my work with a thing called office vibe [1]. Everyone seems to like it . [1] https://www.officevibe.com
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by pretzel 11y ago
Started doing start body weight training this year inspired by these progressions [1]. The problem I found with having to do weights or going for runs is that you need to leave the house and can't just do it right away every single day
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by pretzel 12y ago
Qubit - London - Full Time Qubit enables people to personalise their websites by connecting a data-store of visitor state to a framework for UI components that make it really easy for marketers to make use of their data. Having recently got
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by pretzel 12y ago
Qubit - London, New York, Lahore - Full Time We just announced our Series B funding this week by Accel, Balderton & Salesforce and we're using that to grow, so we are looking for all types to come on board! Software engineers, DevO
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Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition(blog.sumall.com)
106 points by pretzel 12y ago|61 comments
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by pretzel 12y ago
I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
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by pretzel 12y ago
That's where I've got all my initial seed data from already!
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by pretzel 12y ago
That's really cool! The problem seems to be that for all these things the data isn't stored anywhere in an easily digestible format. It would be great if you could query something and procedurally generate any of these graphs.
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by pretzel 12y ago
I've got a project that is trying to do just this sort of thing, check out https://retred.org You can go to a time and place and see exactly what kind of events were happening at that point of time. I haven't opened it
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by pretzel 12y ago
There are ads and then there are ads. One of the things that the company I work for, Qubit, does is to validate that the tracking tags that vendors put on people's websites drive an uplift. We talk about one of our clients doing it her
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by pretzel 12y ago
Try using git blame. It tells you what change caused a line to happen. I often use it to find out exactly what issue caused a seemingly crazy bit of code to happen. As the code goes away, so does the commit message - not necessarily so with
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by pretzel 12y ago
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Do you have an eye for beauty? Do you know when you should be using SQL vs no-SQL? Do you want your code to effect 6,000,000 people a day? Qubit is personalising the web, and we need more engineers to wo
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by pretzel 13y ago
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into new markers! There's a bunch of jobs listed here: h
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by pretzel 13y ago
Thanks - as you say, if you search for a thing you will see the events with lines between them showing the progression of events in chronological order. You can use the time bar on the top to alter the date range, and there are "favour
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by pretzel 13y ago
https://retred.org is a repository of (right now historical) events. There wasn't a good place where you can view and (soon will be able to add/edit) historical facts, not to mention cutting it up in various ways to se
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by pretzel 13y ago
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into new markers! There's a bunch of jobs listed here: h
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by pretzel 13y ago
And what's interesting is they seem to be hiring a whole lot more [1]. If they are hiring a "growth hacker" they must be close to having something that's out in people's hands. [1] http://workinstartups.c
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by pretzel 13y ago
Airplanes are almost automated and pilots seem to be just there as a safety backup: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/oukoe-uk-britain-pi...
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by pretzel 13y ago
Just reloading the db at the moment... You'll see some data again in 30 minutes (fingers crossed)
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by pretzel 13y ago
I've been playing around with a wikipedia layer on Google Maps - http://retred.org - code here: https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander . It's just a couple weekends play at the moment, but t
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by pretzel 14y ago
Yes - default settings of 3rd party cookies is an obvious start.

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