This is awesome. Care to share some details on the implementation?
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After my second year at uni I felt that I should just quit and get a job. Everything I needed for landing a job in the industry, I was getting from my own side projects. I wasn't learning about things like scalability, or robust system architectures, or code deployment, yet half of the interviews I went through expected me to know about them, even if it was for a graduate position.
I still haven't used the vast majority of the theory I was taught at uni, but sometimes, when you come up with an elegant solution and trace it back to that 'Computer Vision' course you've done at uni, it feels like it's all worth it. As others said, coding skill is very important but when you know the theory you know where to look for solutions.
We thought we'd share some things we did at AngelHack London. Before attending, I scoured the nets for posts like that and thought the community might appreciate this.
It's also shameless plug for our hack Penny :)
Thanks!
As for the product, is this a direct competitor to Gumroad?
(1) There's no need to add a "created" field on your documents. You can extract it from the _id field by just taking the first 4 bytes.
(2) If you are storing hashes (md5 for example), you might want to consider storing them as BinData instead of strings. Mongo uses UTF-8 so every character will be at least 8 bits whereas you can get away with 4 bits per character.
Other than that, it's descent and free!
We are a fashion analytics startup. We help retailers, designers and merchandisers make concrete decisions based on data.
Some facts about our product:
- We track more than 2 million products across 100+ retailers every day.
- We perform color analysis and machine learning to extract information and categorize products correctly.
- We do sentiment analysis on millions of fashion-related tweets.
- Our web app is built in Backbone.js and our stack is Python, Django, Mongo and ElasticSearch.
We need smart hackers to work on product, analytics and data warehousing.
We have a nice bright office in Old Street, just off the "Silicon Roundabout", we were a Seedcamp 2010 winner and we are backed by great VCs in Europe.
All our vacancies are listed at http://editd.com/jobs.
Get in touch! :-)
(1) The original: https://github.com/geoffwatts/zmqrpc (2) A rewrite I am working on: https://github.com/alexmic/zmqrpc
Back works as expected - it takes you to the previous page you were at. Fragment identifiers don't break the back button. That's all from a user perspective's point of view, which is mostly all that matters in the end.
If you look at this from a technical standpoint, then back is a refresh of twitter.com, yes.