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Dart 1.5

news.dartlang.org

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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

googleblog.blogspot.com

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Behold the Bankruptcy of Software Patents

blogs.computerworlduk.com

1 pointsby dboydil y a 13 ans0 comments

Samsung Loses Bid for Obama Veto of Apple-Won Import Ban

bloomberg.com

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The Nudge Debate

nytimes.com

1 pointsby dboydil y a 13 ans0 comments

Kill The Euro, Win A Prize

npr.org

1 pointsby dboydil y a 15 ans0 comments

What’s Your Economic Outlook? (live interactive view of submissions)

nytimes.com

1 pointsby dboydil y a 15 ans0 comments

Chicago’s Ruby Developer Crisis

nuts.redsquirrel.com

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Gov2 Prelude- 3 Cool Gov Technologies

infovegan.com

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Agribusiness and Infobusiness

infovegan.com

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Don't Let the Municipal Crisis Go to Waste

infovegan.com

2 pointsby dboydil y a 16 ans0 comments

Nuts & Bolts: Storage

37signals.com

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Friday Challenge Find your oldest forum posting/email on-line...

reddit.com

2 pointsby dboydil y a 16 ans0 comments

A rant about Ruby 1.9 String encoding

github.com

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The Next White Whale

cringely.com

21 pointsby dboydil y a 17 ans16 comments

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Leach fields are not uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field

il y a 7 ansdiscuss

Lendeavor | San Francisco, Columbus, Remote | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Executive Assistant (San Francisco, CA)
  - Office Manager (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Back-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Front-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Engineering (San Francisco, CA)
  - Director of Human Resources (San Francisco, CA)
  - Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Sales Development Representative (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Sales (San Francisco, CA)
  - and many more...

More details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Senior back-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior front-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Lead Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Credit Officer (Columbus, OH)
  - Member Success Specialist (Columbus, OH)
  - Loan Funding Coordinator (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Accountant (San Francisco, CA)
  - HR Director (San Francisco, CA)

More details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time, REMOTE | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a technology-enabled lender to healthcare practices. Practitioners — primarily dentists, veterinarians, and optometrists — use Lendeavor’s online platform to seamlessly start, acquire, expand, or equip their practices.

Practice owners are some of our economy’s most highly educated and hardest-working entrepreneurs — yet starting, buying, or expanding a practice takes too long and costs too much. We’re here to change that.

We’ve built software that takes complicated transactions — like buying your first practice — and makes them simple. As a result, our members spend less time applying for credit, and we spend less time processing it. This efficiency drives faster funding and lower rates. Going forward, we’re ruthlessly focused on simplicity, customer experience, and efficiency.

Current Stack: Rails, Postgres, Heroku

Open Positions...

  - Product Manager
  - Experienced developers (especially backend)
  - More developers

More Details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

il y a 9 ansdiscuss

My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is...

> The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.

il y a 10 ansdiscuss

That is in the lama book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do).

> Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.

edit: formatting

il y a 10 ansdiscuss

It would screw up high-noon for a lot of people. However, getting the US down to two time zones would be much less problematic, and achieve most of the benefits you'd see from one time zone...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/daylight...

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

Looks great. Your formatting on the result page is messed up in my browser (chrome on osx). You can see a screen shot here...

https://annotate.driftt.com/view?i=99nffsejxeiittq%2F2015-08...

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

San Francisco, CA REMOTE

Lendeavor helps people get small business loans. Since the beginning of 2014, we've helped bakers, consultants, builders, sneakerheads, doctors, and brewers get the money they need to grow their businesses. We've curated the alternative lending market, gathering the best options into an easy to use platform where borrowers can compare their financing options side by side.

We are hiring are second, third and fourth engineer(s). Come join a small and exciting team! We're looking for strong developers that have experience with Ruby and Rails and/or Javascript (ideally with experience in a JS framework like Ember or Angular).

https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

That's less than 1% over one week. The APR would closer to 15-20% (depending on salary, pay frequency, etc.).

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is applied to a larger machine?

Yes, I realize that this is not an entirely fair comparison. However, the parallels between this article and the "war on general purpose computing" seem relevant...

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

il y a 11 ansdiscuss

3/7 == 0.42857

il y a 12 ansdiscuss

As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)...

https://evernote.com/clearly/

Note that you don't need a evernote account to use this (I don't, and it just works).

il y a 12 ansdiscuss

I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of your app.

I do allow same-party interaction and cookies. (i.e., anything from montagebook will work.)

You may want to set your third-party analytics services to be asynchronous, so they aren't a single point of failure for your entire application.

il y a 12 ansdiscuss

This desk doesn't look like it does very low. When I do sit, I like my desk to be almost on my lap, so that my arms hang straight down, and my elbows are very close to 90 degrees. I find this very comfortable. However, it means the desk itself has to go fairly low (mine is at 26.5 inches or 670mm right now).

Point is ... if you get a standing desk, make sure it works when sitting just as well as when standing. Check the 'lowest height' and compare it to what you use.

EDIT: I am impressed with the removal of the stabilizer between the legs. That's a great feature.

il y a 12 ansdiscuss

Just started using OpenStreetMap on the weekend. I found Mapbox[1] to be very easy to get started with. Their plans also seem to specifically benefit the 'small user' (I.e., free developer account). At the same time I have to assume they serve big customers well too, since Foursquare is listed as a customer.

I'm no OpenStreetMap expert (yet), so maybe a CloudMade Mapbox comparison isn't entirely fair.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/

il y a 12 ansdiscuss

Exactly the same...

I was hired by my college to build a grade management system in my second-to-last year there. I was in a hurry due to a lunch meeting with other IT staff at the University, forgot to add the where clause, and suddenly every single student was a Computational-Science major (mine).

Funny part of the story was that the moment it happened I uttered "oh shit." My boss, who sat beside me, said "what'd you do?", and about 15 IT staff from other departments walked into the office to go out for lunch. I'm sure I was an interesting shade of red.

I had to explain what I did in front of all these people. My boss laughed out loud, brought the system offline, and simply said: "well, after lunch we get to test our backup process." We went for lunch.

Two valuable lessons I learned...

People make mistakes, that isn't a problem, it's how they respond that's important.

Don't try and solve hard problems when emotions are running high. If shit is going down in production, the most important thing to do is to breathe, and get a glass of water. That little bit of time helps a lot.

il y a 13 ansdiscuss

Hat-tip to roadie. I am absolutely amazed at how well it works, and how much work it removes in producing HTML emails.

il y a 13 ansdiscuss

Related post from a couple days ago (re: Valve's SteamOS)...

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745386

And, from that article...

> Sony may have lost between $4 and $6 billion on PlayStation 3.

il y a 13 ansdiscuss

I tried to create an account the other day and they explicitly required a mobile phone number they could send an SMS too.

I suspect that different people see different behavior.