mkonecny

Lucova Inc. | Toronto | Backend Developer | Full Time | Onsite

https://www.lucova.com/

> Lucova Inc. is an emerging technology company headquartered in downtown Toronto with a North American presence. We bring technology, data and people together to enhance the human touch-points in the world of offline commerce - think IoT for physical stores. Our tools help brands realize their customer experience aspirations by turning customers’ smartphones into intelligent Bluetooth sensors that interact with the in-store point-of-sale infrastructure - informing staff of their customer’s presence on arrival, enabling hands free payments and generating opportunities for brand moments.

We're a Ruby + Java based company with a small group of developers looking to add an additional backend developer to our core. Our culture is great and you get that startup feel while working with experienced developers. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems and loves to get their hands dirty at every opportunity (if you full-stack then it's a major bonus). We are located near Adelaide and Spadina. Our dev team is small enough that you have the opportunity to have a major impact.

Apply at https://www.lucova.com/careers

Given the condescending tone of this article, you'd think the author has some data to back himself up.

How do you obtain someone's IP address over Twitter? This can't be real.

Please don't post these comments here. It's not relevant to tech discussion.

My exact thoughts as well. Perhaps they have to use OpenJDK instead of their own implementation in order to use the protected Java API?

All this "smart" learning software feels really gimmicky to me. Anyone remember Windows Vista had this heavily marketed feature that would "learn" how you use your apps at certain time of the day, and therefore allow you to launch them faster by pre-caching a few minutes before your expected launch. This feels similar.

The Nest thermostat I have at home promised to save me energy by learning my schedule, and heating the house only when needed - I had to turn this off because it never really worked. People do not inherently have a predictable schedule anyway.

The leaving for the airport in 15 minutes example in this article is similarly contrived.

Perhaps using multiple types of batteries will be useful in the future, but I'm not sold on the software learning part ATM.

Previous Nexus 5 was released in 2013. Last year was the Nexus 6 (6 meaning it was 6 inch device)

A ton of designers or developers are doing work with graphics or compiling on the go - both very CPU bottlenecked operations, and the Xeon is targeting this audience.

Me personally I do a lot of Android development, and waiting 20 seconds to compile each time I make a change is a huge bottleneck.

The last few OS X versions have been notorious for the amount of bugs they introduced (both general software and driver issues)

Coming from a company that only sells on a narrow range of hardware, these is even more unacceptable.

I have only recently realized the effect a well designed project website can have on the users impression of your project.

I'm sure the code/design quality of jshon is great, but the website design/layout doesn't reflect this.

The current look of your website looks like a website from the late 90's, and may as well implicate that the project is no longer maintained.

Was this more of a blackbox re-implementation, or is more of a 1:1 code port?

They lost me at "satellites receive signals from your phone". An entire article on GPS and they can't even get the basic premise of how it works correctly.

You can simply encrypt the phone yourself (there's a simple button in the settings menu).

Can someone explain the benefit of this over using a list in redis and using a blocking pop. Only thing I can think of is that it uses HTTP so you may be able to get around some port restrictions in your infrastructure, but that is probably a very uncommon case.

Does anyone have a simple example of how this would work? I can't wrap my head around code evolving during runtime for any arbitrary binary change.

Perhaps you haven't used Linux in a while? It runs on almost any hardware I can throw at it. Just upgraded to a brand new laptop, and just swapped in my old SSD, and everything just worked.

Renderers and other "old technologies" has nothing to do with SSL. Typically you insert a reverse proxy in between the client and server to handle SSL encryption on the fly - it is completely transparent to the server stack.

The internet doesn't exist solely in the US. It spans GMT -5 through GMT -8. There are countries that are up to 16 hours ahead in time..

Doesn't necessarily make it more secure, but will increase the confidence that it is the most secure through peer review. Any company will say their products are secure/the best etc. - proof is what makes those claims legit.

How do the engineers account for earthquakes on these trains? I could see it being quite disastrous if one were to occur while this train travelling at 500km/h. Also I wonder what the efficiency is given that the train needs to push through the thick atmosphere at 0 altitude compared to airplanes which fly at their top speed in a very sparse atmosphere.

He meant for example what data points would the phone use to know you're working out your triceps?

I'm not sure anyone here has watched the entire video. The lawyer catches on real quick to what Bill Gates is trying to say, and it appears like Bill Gates is being overly semantic to try and avoid answering the question.

Later on around the 30 minute mark is when Bill Gates begins to stutter and constantly avoids directly answering the correctly phrased questions.

You assume they are communicating with 127.x.x.x. Some implementations are smart enough to detect a loopback with any IP address.

It's a brown metal bar.

Would the moon ever need a "boost"? Even though it's probably not hitting any air molecules from Earth, it's still colliding with tons of space debris a day.

This has nothing to do with Python or C. More likely he has a bug in his code.

The designer will usually provide very high quality PNG's/PSD's. It's up to the developers to scale it down to the optimal size for each device.

One of the arguments is flawed:

> According to a 2006 French study, pedestrians are 1.4 times more likely to receive a traumatic brain injury than unhelmeted cyclists.

To fails to take into account that almost everyone walks, but very few cycle. The fact that it's only 1.4 times greater goes to show how common cycling head injuries actually are.

Yep, costs some money to revoke, and in light of heartbleed, they probably made some money. But I like the fact I can re-issue unlimited certificates forever, and pay for revocation only when the rare heartbleed-like vulnerability happens.

A few years ago you might also ask why would anyone give out $5 certificates? It's not any more work on their part - it's a extra parameter sent to their certificate generator.