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by scottostler 4y ago
Alta | Lead Front End Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full time | www.alta.so We're hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer at Alta, an AI-powered no-code tool to build mobile apps. * You’ll be joining a fast-growing early-stage startup based in the
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by scottostler 7y ago
Yes of course, but companies will prefer to work with middlemen rather than directly employing individual contractors because it makes legal and accounting easier. There’s often a lot of hurdles to employ an individual directly, like requir
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by scottostler 7y ago
That is a lot of trees, but a decade’s worth is a lot of emissions
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by scottostler 8y ago
I’ve been told the answer is interchange fees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
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by scottostler 10y ago
I use Swift professionally and have written some Rust for fun, and like both languages a lot. I find Swift to be faster to write, not least because it's easier to manually prevent retain cycles than to write borrow-checker approved cod
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by scottostler 10y ago
I liked this quote from the article: "People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things." I can't claim to know what BI would look like if widely implemented, but I think it's preferable
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by scottostler 11y ago
This looks really useful. Thanks for sharing There was a missed opportunity to name the app 'Shirk', though
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Cloudera Acquires DataPad Technology Assets and Team(cloudera.com)
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by scottostler 13y ago
The reason companies don't loudly proclaim this kind of thing seems pretty simple to me. Companies must simultaneously communicate with many different parties: employees, customers, investors, the board, governments, etc. An effective
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by scottostler 13y ago
Really liked this article. I'm curious about the professional QA – how did you find the tester, and what sort of things did you ask him to test?
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by scottostler 14y ago
Yes, and also DCIntrospect. They're encouraging, but don't currently compare to what you can do with, say, live-editing css or with a Javascript console. Not that I've used it, but RubyMotion is making progress on a related front. A live RE
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by scottostler 14y ago
Awesome, will definitely give this a shot. It's great to see iOS development tools pick up tricks from the web world. Personally, I can't wait for a Firebug-like tool for live debugging and tweaking of UIView hierarchies.
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by scottostler 14y ago
Nice! And that's an awesome logo.
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by scottostler 14y ago
By this point, isn't HTTP a pretty standard acronym in the web-dev scene? :)
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by scottostler 14y ago
If you take a look at the benchmarks further down the page, the real improvement seems to be that mongo does a better job of yielding during page faults. That provides an improvement even with a single database.
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by scottostler 14y ago
FWIW, heroku does. The first heroku slice for a project is free, with the caveat that it'll be spun down during periods of inactivity. I imagine that most hobby users of heroku (say for a weekend hackathon) aren't paying anything.
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by scottostler 15y ago
As an app developer, I'd love to not write custom code for each photo sharing service. This seems to require using the chute hosted platform, though. Can the library be used without the service?
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by scottostler 15y ago
I don't disagree, but when I watched for about 15 seconds he was inserting printlns, trying to debug something related to sprite collisions. So I'd guess he still does some of that. But the better answer is probably that he's been making ga
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by scottostler 15y ago
I'm curious about this as well.
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by scottostler 15y ago
Presumably it writes to a transaction log, and is memory-resident in the same sense that Redis is. Which is to say that the dataset is kept entirely in memory, but also has a persistent representation on disk.
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by scottostler 15y ago
We're using Scalatra for our company's http service, and it's been great. Simple, good documentation, works exactly as promised, and the irc room (thanks Ross Baker!) has been extremely helpful. If you use Scalatra for a major project, thou
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by scottostler 15y ago
When programmatically accessing the photo library assets, the app can read the location data embedded in the photos. The app can alternatively use iOS's standard image picker dialog without asking for location permission, but the standard i
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by scottostler 15y ago
Even though Lunascript the reactive web language has been scrapped, Luna the reactive web Javascript framework is still plenty interesting. Building a web framework is much more reasonable for a prelaunch startup. However, that's from a quo
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by scottostler 15y ago
Who would have guessed Anonymous could act as a trading signal?
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by scottostler 15y ago
Looks promising. I need to put together a dashboard, and this might be how I do it. As an aside, it's always great to see more usage of PEG.js.
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by scottostler 15y ago
I like the concept, and there's a lot of directions you can take it in if you want to keep working on it. Our team had a similar theme ( http://psyche.cc ), though we focused on images instead of text.
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by scottostler 15y ago
Presumably, the kind of person who would start their own HFT company is earning more than 85K/year out of college. Close to double that if they're a trader at a bank, potentially more if they're at a smaller firm and do well. Still, 200K af
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by scottostler 16y ago
I don't know anything about the High Rise tower except the wikipedia summary, but it doesn't seem similar to the Tower of David at all, except for the two skyscrapers lacking working elevators. The Tower of David inhabitants manage the lack
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by scottostler 16y ago
A 2006 NBER paper claimed that when taking into account a wider set of taxes (state income/sales taxes, federal/state corporate taxes, payroll taxes, etc), the US has roughly a flat 40% tax rate across all income brackets. relevant msn arti
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by scottostler 16y ago
Vagrant is a great tool and I'd love to move my projects over to it. Here's hoping the 64bit Windows incompatibility can be fixed!

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