joefreeman

Isn't 'origin' (not 'master') the convention you're referring to?

"You are strongly encouraged to backup a database before excising data."

"Rochefort Trappistes 10 is my favorite beer and I was drinking it while doing the initial implementation at sunday night"

I guess here: https://tombs.io/

(The coin mining doesn't work for me though - looks like my ISP (Virgin Media) is blocking the coin-hive.com domain.)

EDIT: Oops, didn't fully read OPs comment. More stalking... Probably this one: http://canvaslegacy.com/, but it's down.

Sounds like the assumption is that the lack of focus means that the first password got sent to Slack? But it seems more likely that it was the second entry of the password that was sent to Slack, and it was just that the keyboard input was being buffered? (So the first password-enter eventually got processed, and then the second one got processed but after unlock.)

It's fairly common for companies to send automated e-mails from a separate domain to try to mitigate the impact of spam filters. ceo@company.com doesn't want her e-mails to be marked as spam just because some marketing e-mails are being sent from noreply@company.com.

Sherry Turkle's book, 'Alone Together', is split into two parts - the first is an investigation into how people (mostly children and the elderly) interact/bond/etc with robots of varying sophistication - starts with Tamagotchi, Furby and My Real Baby, PARO, and goes onto research-level robots. The second part applies similar thinking to social media, which is why I picked up the book. But I found the robot stuff interesting. I think my main takeaway was realising that the robots don't have to actually be technologically advanced for people to form bonds with them. Interesting read anyway.

Yep. And the same argument applies to their apps. We need an open standard with an app built by a trusted third party.

Bit off topic. The article mentions a book about ants. Any ideas what it is?

Ironically I'm seeing several auto-playing ads (with sound) on this article.

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HireHand is on a mission to improve work in the 21st century. We know a growing number of people want flexibility when and variety where they work. We know businesses – small ones in particular – really struggle to find staff. We make life better by connecting those people with those businesses. Our industry focus is food retail – we got our start in the vibrant street food and pop-up scene. And we are London based, growing fast and backed by a top-shelf VC and angel investors.

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HireHand | Mobile developer (iOS/Android/React Native) | Old Street, London | https://www.hirehand.co.uk

HireHand is a venture-backed staffing platform changing the future of work by filling the growing demand of people who want more flexibility and variation in when and where they work. We started out over two years ago in the street food industry, and we've been showing steady growth as we've expanded into more hospitality-related industries like fixed-location restaurants, bars, cafes, etc. The challenge at the moment is scaling the matching of 200+ jobs per week with our pool of workers. We assess the skills of workers, they let us know every week when they're available, and then we match jobs with workers as they come in using a custom ranking algorithm.

We want to build a mobile app for iOS and Android devices. This will allow us to streamline the process of engaging the individuals doing jobs on our platform (e.g., inviting them to jobs and confirming hours). You will be responsible for developing our Android and iOS app from scratch using the technologies you see fit. React Native seems like a good fit, but we're open to alternative approaches.

As developer #2, you might be interested to know who you'd be working with. I graduated from Imperial College twelve years ago, worked for a company building group chat software (kind of like Slack), then worked for SwiftKey (mostly server-side things; before they were acquired by Microsoft). I spent some time travelling/freelancing, and then joined HireHand when it was all being run out of a spreadsheet.

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I wonder whether the Oxford Circus crossing is actually just an attempt to reduce the number of pedestrians walking around the outside edges of the junction - it's pretty disorientating coming out of the Tube and not knowing which corner you're on, and the entrances seem to get in the way of pedestrian traffic trying to cross non-diagonally.

I guess it's not very clear that the percentages are confidence in the predictions (right?), rather than genetic percentages (i.e., a cross-breed dog being 50-50% of two breeds, which would be super impressive).

There was a recent StartUp (the podcast) episode about slap bracelets: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/you-have-to-invent-something...

He means that tax on any additional income over £50k (actually, over £45k) is taxed at 40%.

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We're looking to hire someone to join me as our second developer to help build out the existing platform (Ruby/Rails), and/or potentially take the lead on a mobile app. The process will involve a short phone screen; a short take-away problem; and an onsite interview (we'll discuss your solution, go through another problem, let you meet the rest of the team).

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> Most of these things the HN crowd obsesses over are [not important]

Maybe 'most', but some of it is important in terms of developing your skill set. It can be difficult to know which bits are going to become important (popular), so learning about as much as you can will a) increase the chances of you learning about something that will become relevant, b) getting better at filtering out the noise.

The Dictator's Handbook is a great book if you're interested in the difference between autocracies and democracies. Also, CGP Grey's 'The Rules for Rulers' video is a good intro if you only have 20 mins -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

I discovered recently that the default install of vim on Ubuntu (and I guess Debian in general) includes some customised configuration (/usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim), which makes it a bit harder to grasp what's going on.

I've also had a great experience with Dell customer support (also in the UK). Half my screen was flickering (think it must have got knocked in my bag), posted on their support forum, they sent a guy out to my house to replace the screen, no charge. Much better experience than I ever had with Apple.

I think this is more about feeling heavier than it looks. Pretty sure it's heavier than my 13" MBA though (despite being smaller, area-wise).

I think the main difference with the developer edition is that it comes with an Intel wireless card. Also maybe some different BIOS settings. And obviously Ubuntu preinstalled.

I mostly used Macs for about ten years, but I don't like the direction the ecosystem is taking (cloud, app store, etc.), so recently switched to an XPS 13 (developer edition) running Ubuntu. (I actually also gave an SP4 a good chance for a few months, but couldn't get on with Windows.) It's pretty decent (both the laptop and Ubuntu) - sometimes wish the display was brighter or speakers louder, but depends on the environment. Nice size, bit heavy, but feels solid. Wifi was a bit dodgy before updating to 16.10 - seems fine now though. The HD screen is nice (once you change the scale setting; there's a problem with the touch screen not working after sleep though). I've never been much of a keyboard snob, but this keyboard is so much nicer than a MBA.

This looks cool. But are the builds happening remotely on the Exponent servers, or have I misunderstood that?

Edit - brentvatne just answered this: "we handle builds for you when you want to ship to the app store, before that you can just use the Exponent client".

Does this suggest that the first person got sent 7,618 e-mails?

There seems to be something up with the display driver in Windows relating to sleep. Sometimes after I login, Windows proudly tells me it's recovered from a display driver problem. Other times the screen just won't turn on (the keyboard lights come on, and the IR light that Hello uses comes on), so I have to keep restarting the machine. I'm guessing this will get fixed eventually though. Only seems to happen after disconnecting from the charger.

I went through a similar process recently after getting fed up with Apple's direction. I ended up getting a Surface Pro 4. The build quality seems good, battery is ok. The software/drivers are terrible - it rarely wakes up from sleep, and I don't get much delight from using Windows. Hoping Linux support improves in the near future.

I really enjoyed Kevin Kelly's 'What Technology Wants'.

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