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Solving Distributed Consistency with Git: Bitbucket Smart Mirror Farms(atlassian.com)
1 points by rikf 6y ago|0 comments
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by rikf 6y ago
I think the main use case is high frequency trading.
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by rikf 9y ago
Surely the reason this isn't a thing is because the watch needs to be charged every night?
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by rikf 11y ago
This is awesome and I don't wanna hate but the question has to be asked why c++? There are tens more languages that are more modern and "aspirational"
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by rikf 11y ago
Interesting that apple seems to be following the same model as they did with their mobile devices in terms of developer functionality. Their view seems to be to start off really tightly locked down and then gradually open up additional feat
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by rikf 11y ago
I dabbled in scala for a while a few years ago and ultimately decided not to invest the time becoming an expert in it for the following reasons. 1) Slow compile times, I really value fast feedback and if it takes me over a second to compile
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by rikf 12y ago
Seems like they actually use RP-1 (rocket fuel) as the hydraulic fluid so that it is burned as fuel after it has been used. This means that the hydraulic fluid isnt "dead mass"
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by rikf 12y ago
I wonder what the sable referred to in the job description is referring to? Could it be SableVM.SableVM is a clean room implementation of the JVM but is no longer being maintained. http://www.sablevm.org/
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by rikf 12y ago
I agree with everything you said. Here is an interesting lwn article from when the azule people originally tried to push their change/enhancements upstream. http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/ Seems like either t
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by rikf 12y ago
You can actually get an iPhone 4S replacement battery + tools to change the battery for less then $10 dollars. Certainly a-lot cheaper than replacing the whole phone. Here is one for $9 http://www.ebay.com/itm/1430mAh-
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by rikf 12y ago
Aqua (GUI) and Terminal (CLI)
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by rikf 12y ago
As a London native for almost 10 years I cant tell you how many times I have been ripped off by black cab drivers taking longer routes then they could have. I also cant tell you how difficult it can be at certain times to find a taxi to tak
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by rikf 12y ago
I think there are two many lessons that can be learnt from this story. 1. Stay focussed. 2. Keep your team as small as possible.
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by rikf 12y ago
The biggest take away from that article for me is that they are offering the fix for free to current owners. How many other car companies would do that? Unless they where required to by law which is clearly not the case here.
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by rikf 12y ago
If your writing tests after the unit then you not doing TDD right. TDD is not designed to be a good technique for developing algorithm's but rather for designing OO systems and discovering the collaborations between various objects wit
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by rikf 12y ago
In the UK at least I think its only a matter of time before either google or apple but in a huge bid for the premier league TV rights. It would give them huge penetration for there TV offerings almost over night.
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by rikf 13y ago
Have you tried IntelliJ? I haven't used netbeans for years but for me IntelliJ is light years ahead of eclipse. I would be interested to hear from anybody who has tried both for a reasonable amount of time.
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by rikf 13y ago
I am amazed that people would go through the effort to counterfeit a £1 coin, you would literally need to counterfeit millions of coins to make the enterprise worthwhile and then how would you launder them all? Obviously the benefit is wort
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by rikf 13y ago
It should be possible to determine fake from real accounts using various statistics like number of likes per account average number of time between likes etc etc, with all the brainpower at Facebook I am surprised they haven't signific
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by rikf 13y ago
You get a hell of a-lot of R&D, talent infrastructure and pretty much anything for $16B think Facebook with its engineering talent would find it fairly trivial to replicate the tech. The big consumer internet acquisitions are very rarel
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by rikf 13y ago
I like the happy hippo behind the mba on the landing page :) All in all its a great introduction to the service, really well put together.
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by rikf 13y ago
Looks very useful to me. One things I would do is make the permalink visible as soon in the flow as possible.
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by rikf 13y ago
It seems like only the early employees get cool nickname I thought github has an eglatarian culture?
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by rikf 13y ago
If your apps biggest selling point is that its named after a commonly used noun then I think you have problems. Its a similar concept to idea vs execution. We saw the same thing at the start of the internet revolution with domain squatting.
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Streetpong [video](streetpong.info)
230 points by rikf 13y ago|86 comments
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by rikf 13y ago
I was going to post the same thing, have always like the idea of hashcash and surprised it hasnt recieved greater usage specifically for things like captchas although in the case it would be a reverse captcha :) edit Could potentially be
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by rikf 13y ago
I wonder how you would deal with the extra heat output in a desktop state.
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by rikf 13y ago
I dont think they are killing ready because of the cost to maintain it. I think its more likely a strategic move to push people onto plus.
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by rikf 13y ago
The only recruitment process I know of that works is. Step 1) Send the candidate a small unattended coding test they can do in a couple of hours. If they pass great if they dont offer them feedback. Step 2) Invite them in for a pair program
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by rikf 13y ago
I a, pretty certain they will pad the envelope so it's not immediately obvious that there is a key in there.

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