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bluespot.io | Full-stack Software Developer | London | Onsite

We are a small London-based development consultancy, approaching our first birthday with a good year behind us and even better one in front. We build web apps, and provide expertise on the best processes for building web apps, for a range of clients, from small startups to government departments.

Right now, we are looking for an experienced full stack developer to join us.

We work in small teams, which typically consist of two developers, one “product owner” from the client side, and one agile coach / project manager / scrum master. We work using a simple but powerful agile methodology that encourages collaboration, delivery, reflection and improvement. Each week, we plan and deliver completed features to our clients, with our aim always to have teams working together, not in silos or staggered across iterations.

We would like to talk to people experienced in any technologies/languages, but at the moment our go-to server stack is Ruby and Ruby on Rails / Node.js where appropriate. We love React and Redux in the browser and find React Native makes us incredibly productive when creating native apps. We believe testing is imperative to creating a healthy project and commonly use RSpec and Capybara with Ruby and Jest, Jasmine or Mocha with JavaScript.

We like to work in a casual, friendly atmosphere. We value social collaboration both with colleagues and our clients, so working from our Soho office (by the way, Soho is awesome) with hours of 10am - 6pm is the norm, but we are flexible with those hours and with days worked at home.

We are a family and life friendly office, we understand school runs, doctors appointments, errands, and that hobby you love that means you need to nip off a bit early today. We trust you to cover your work with your team and your client in a responsible manner. The same goes for holidays.

Too many agencies use a model where increased success only serves to makes their founders richer. If you came to work here, you would be become a member of our share scheme and be included in the company's profit sharing.

Salary will be negotiable based on experience, but typically in the range of £40k - £60k

Please see full job description here:
http://bluespot-io.breezy.hr/p/9d5e965b267c-software-develop...

If you’d like to chat to us about the role, please apply through the link above or do get in touch at jobs@bluespot.io
I think if your app is a cluster that requires a quorum, 2 AZs just isn't enough - you need to be running in 3 to be tolerant to one going down.
It seems the biggest complaint was compatibility with other proprietary software.
Yes, it seems clear from the downvotes that you need to explain your dismissal.
No, you are not. I also stumbled into Kennel Gulch before I actually figured out how to read again.
Shopify CEO digs in against Breitbart backlash
I have nothing against being the guy who spends time pointing out small, or even irrelevant errors, but there is no error to correct. I think this is just a misinterpretation on your part, either stemming from not reading the article to understand what the author described as 'cost disease,' or perhaps you did not understand my use of quotation marks around cost disease in my original post.
I'm pretty sure that effort fed into the JVM.

It did. Much later than the introduction of the JVM, however.
It's really more the individual reporters. Eric Berger, for example, puts out a lot of great and balanced space-related articles.
They might be alluding to some of the specific examples in our blog post. Like, mbstring.func_overload, or chr() being a great way to leak crypto keys via cache-timing.

These sort of things aren't obvious and can very easily (and justifiably) be blamed on the language itself.

A lot of PHP crypto libraries are very cavalier about using functions without understanding their implementation details.

https://github.com/devi/Salt/blob/fde775cf52402013efce812759...

https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/ab1da5ac1f2fa60b...

https://github.com/zendframework/zend-crypt/blob/9b7da4a6d4d...

Fortunately, most cryptography libraries these days just wrap OpenSSL and rarely implement their own ciphers or hash functions.
Vim syntax highlighting is painfully slow on long lines, which makes it unusable as a Markdown or Tex editor unless you enable automatic explicit line breaking at 80 or 150 characters, instead of letting paragraphs wrap naturally.
What Does the Met’s New Online Collection Mean for Art Students?
My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.

If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO's plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and "pushing" the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they'd have restructure the bones of the company at great expense. The great expense part probably doesn't work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very "term-y" and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.

They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.

But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.

Rational decisions all around.

Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.
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Why not make a site that proxies other sites, but retransmits them as fast-loading? Isn't traffic=dollars?
The specific claim was not that pfSense merely used the technology, but also that they were hostile to a variety of community projects, including OpenBSD itself.
The problem is that we will still need vital services that computers are still indeterminatably far from accomplishing.

Let's say we go full Star Trek and get replicators (with the seemingly limitless energy that is a hallmark of the series unless it's a "dilithium" episode). Great! All the physical needs at the push of a button!

But people will still need to develop the replicators, manage supply chains, and so on. Even if a machine managed most of it, people would have to know how to step in when the machine fails, because they will.

Bigger problem: medical services. It takes a FUCKING LONG time to become a doctor, and for good reason. So would the many layabouts freed from labor be entitled to top-notch medical services?

We're kind of stuck with the shitty system we have until we have far greater technology than we do today to solve our problems. And that assumes that population growth doesn't spiral out of control and that the climate plays along for long enough for our species to get its collective shit together.
Some of you guys have no idea how lucky you are to have good, fast and reliable internet.

I've been around computers since 1998 and it's been 4 weeks since I have a good enough internet connection to watch my first 1080P internet video
I think you should read the Wikipedia article I linked. Simply put, diseconomies of scale refers to inefficiencies that occur in large organizations.
Most of this "cost disease" is simple inflation. But we've been fooled into thinking that "inflation" is a single number defined by a government committee, when really it's a general concept applicable to any sector where currency is infused. For instance housing valuations haven't outpaced inflation, they are inflation!
Even if they start asking for passwords, you can almost certainly rely on them not considering the impact of 2-factor. You could give them the password knowing full well that without confiscating your phone for the duration of the trip they can't get into the account. Plus what is to stop you changing the password once you get through border control, or just denying you even have a social media account, suspend it temporarily before travelling.

This seems to me just another excuse under the guise of anti-terrorism to pry into people's private lives.
Lifetime earning parity...

Let's make three assumptions:

* person in IT has zero education debt (per your example). Not likely, but okay
* retirement at 65
* no promotion, pay raises
* education debt is at zero per cent (but since we're saying the IT worker has none, it balances a little)

IT worker has 38 years of useful career at $85K. Earnings: $3.23M

Physician has 30 years of useful career at $175K. Earnings: $5.25M. Minus $250K in debt and we have $5M.

I'm not sure how the IT worker at $3.23M is "way ahead" of the physician at $5M...?
It's analogous to delay line memory, and a common joke people when they encounter that idea of storage (which is rather clever).
> For most users, however, you’ll probably find it costs you around $10 per month to maintain the Usenet service in this manner.

Which is more than a dedicated cloud backup service like Backblaze or Crashplan. Genius.
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If BI leads to near-full employment, by eliminating poverty traps and subsidizing unskilled jobs, then that's not necessarily a problem.

BI doesn't mean entirely dropping all other forms of contingent social support, such as child care allowances, pensions and disability benefits, so if people genuinely have a reason they cannot work that can still be covered.
Prorating salary based on your location always seemed unfair to me. According to it the value of the work I produce would change if I travel to another location, which doesn't make any sense to me.
Pure coincidence, I chose the main color when I was driving for the holidays, so I guess I saw too many trees on the road ;-)
What about UX? How you drag and drop that?
Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform
The Ethereum conference in Paris
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My take, as someone who sells a visual web-app creator (see my profile):

If you want it to work well, the UI model of a visual editor has to match up with the data model of the application behind it. Visual Basic worked so well because the objects you manipulated in code were the same components you dragged and dropped onto your window.

We already have way too many (and too complex) representations of application state in a typical web app. I count six:

Tables in a database
-> data model in server code
-> JSON over HTTP
-> data model in client code
-> HTML/DOM
-> visual layout

It's hard enough to make a WYSIWYG editor for the final transformation (HTML -> visual layout). But trying to WYSIWYG the whole "code -> HTML -> layout" flow is basically impossible. This is why I think you won't see a workable GUI editor as long as we stay chained to today's overcomplicated HTML/JS web stack.

What we did with Anvil (https://anvil.works) was to build a simple UI model from the ground up. We avoid HTML and JS, and provide discrete components that can sensibly be dragged and dropped in a GUI editor, and sensibly addressed from code. This means we can bring back 1990s innovations like autocompleting UI code.

But right now it's like having your hand in a cookie jar. As long as you hold onto the full complexity of HTML, JS, Angular/React/etc, you're never going to get that simplicity you want.
Just a book recommendation: If you want to get a feel for Nabokov (and his depth), have a look at the "Annotated Lolita" - the editor points out so many details and allusions as to make your head spin.

https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...

For something ever so slightly lighter, consider "Pnin"; for some heavy (but delightful) going, consider "Pale Fire". Bring time and a drink.
IPFS, Freenet, Zeronet... maybe more significantly Maidsafe is trying to do this with a cryptocurrency so you get paid a bit to store files. It's a quite clever idea.
Usually whenever I see one of these "expose" posts on Gizmodo, it's usually an employee that was a miscreant/unhappy person.

The other theme that doesn't get exposed, is that the employee in question has the same attitude no matter where they work.

I was working at Best Buy/Geek Squad when they had their big "unhappy employee" expose, and my last point was very true.

There are plenty of happy employees at all these companies, people (especially Giz) loves the bad story.
Let's suppose there is an indisputable 10 point IQ gap between the mean Green person and the mean Purple person that couldn't possibly be explained by confounding factors like, oh, say the legacy of Purple people, who are the dominant group in the society in question, treating Green ones as subhuman for centuries.

So what? Why don't we focus on getting to a situation where all the people have the same opportunities (access to education, nutrition, equal treatment under the law, etc, etc, etc) and THEN we can worry about precision policymaking based on the differences.
His argument seems to be that, like many Republicans do with climate change, many Democrats dismiss problematic science out of hand as a "conspiracy". I don't see how doing exactly that serves as a rebuttal.

Your post comes across as sheer aggression, communicating the same concept as "fuck you".
>Proper work is not just a source of money, but also a source of pride and a feeling of purpose / usefulness. And UBI alone cannot replace this.

That can also be used as pro-UBI argument to countering the argument "With an UBI everyone would quit there job and society would collapse."

>"We are sorry, but in our AI-fuelled, robot-driven world you are useless. We have no need for you anymore because you can't program deep neural networks. You just don't have what it takes to be a useful member of our society

Well, if robots actually can run everything one day, that is just what they will be told. UBI or not.

>Not all people have a bucket list of things they would want to do in their spare time, like contributing to cool open source programs or writing the next Harry Potter series.

If they do not want to do one of these things, they can do something similar to what they do now in their job. Or do they not want to do their job? That is quite a cognitive dissonance. Neither wanting to do it nor wanting to stop doing it.

If they want to be told to do something against their will, they can find someone to draft them to something. Most open source projects could draft people to do something (If they can't contribute to an open source projects, they are useless after all in the robot driven world). I have 1800 unread mails about my open source project. I really could draft some people to check them out.
Wow, you are correct. Verizon does not seem to sell Windows 10 phones right now.
I see. So kind of an outliner meets markdown?
Not quite. But I am saying I've always found better candidates.
> Just looking at the syntax it strikes me how inconcise and it is.

And you recommend Javascript instead? Interesting.

> Why would I want use Go for the backend

Fast, built-in concurrency, enough high level concepts and structures to support fast development, and really easy to deploy.

The last part is probably the greatest. It supports simple host-based deploys, tiny docker container deploys, and eliminates the typical dependency conflict problems of Python and Node.

It's also pragmatic enough to make it easy to develop in for developers across the skill bell curve.
actually you do all of them, all of them help to overfitting
Software developers prioritize happiness over high salary
A 30x return is easy - rare, but easy. Repeating it, however, is damn near impossible.

Options trading, which he was good at, went haywire on that day. Anybody in a decent position with options made crazy returns. But their timing had to be good. If you bought a short-dated, just out of the money SPY put the day before, and sold it that afternoon, you made a killing as far as percentage return.

The number of people who had that or similar trade probably numbers in the thousands. But the reason you don't hear about them is it was either to hedge a larger position, or a small speculative position, and making $50,000 doesn't make headlines.
The old "prices will rise to absorb UBI" argument. That takes a profound distrust of the free market to even imagine.

As for supply curve, wake up and notice how industry is changing. In the last 10 years, automation has been explosive. Factories coming back to America from overseas don't do it because somehow labor has become affordable. They do it because robots are cheaper than even Chinese and Indian labor.

The robots are ready to lift the yoke of labor from humanity. As expected, folks are reacting with panic and alarm. Yes, it'll be different. But perhaps not the apocalypse that keeps getting threatened.

And yes, we can provide everyone with necessities by handing out checks. We've been able to over-produce food, clothing and many other things essentially without limit for decades. The rest is not going to be far behind.
This is unfortunately not a new issue: https://github.com/josegonzalez/real-aws-status
Apropos of anything else, a lot of the definitions are weird.

I came here on a K-1 Fiancee visa. Which was, ostensibly, a "non-immigrant" visa. Though it allowed the ability to live, work. And to remove conditions on permanent residency by submission of a form.
Much less frustrating — maybe, but not always economically feasible.

In case with some (actually, a lot of) projects, people who can code will have to spend 100% of their time coding features. Tools Selenium IDE strive to offer a 'good enough' solution for cases when you're trying to automate the work of manual testers or have less technical members of your team involved into UI testing. And tools like Screenster turn 'good enough' into a working solution.

Visual regression testing is, imho, another case for tools like Screenster (http://bit.ly/2kXEEFV), even though I know that, technically, you have some of this functionality with Protractor (http://bit.ly/2kune0t).
We had a nice discussion about this at Camp Smalltalk back in the day. In Smalltalk, everything is an Object, and we even use Objects to define Objects. In a proper relational server, everything is a table, and the tables are themselves defined using tables. SQL database servers are also very dynamic and everything is changeable at runtime, until you start restricting things. Even that last part is parallel to Smalltalk.

There are some things you can do as an advanced VisualWorks developer that look like queries of the codebase. You can search on one predicate like "sender of #message:" and take the intersection of that with another search, and have that pop up as a custom browser.
I actually did replace the battery of a zelda cartridge on GameBoy when I was a kid. The battery wasn't even the right size and barely fitted inside it, so I had to use some tape to hold it together.

That day my older brother treated me like a genius. (That day only)
"having work" isn't the only metric, the pay is relevant too. Presumably, the pay for these individuals is competitive?
Built-in SQL support for Hugo static site generator (2015)
That depends on how you measure value. If you're talking about the sheer number of dollars, then obviously this amount is changing. But money is not particularly useful on its own so I believe the idea is to normalize the effective value of money based on location.
Hmm. Most languages have some equivalent to chr() and ord(). And clunky unicode support isn't exclusive to php.
Best changelog I've seen in a while.

>Why call it 3.0? Mostly because I felt like it.
Could you be a bit clearer about the "issues down the road" we're concerned about with overuse of context, or with use of context for non-request-scoped dependencies?

The end of your article advocates a little bit for just accepting code reuse, and the getter/setter/subfunction thing comes perilously close to GoF Java style for my taste. Further: I have seen, routinely, on pretty much every project I've worked on, serious production faults from errors and omissions in duplicated code. I'm not sure I've seen equivalently serious production faults (really: any faults) in overuse of things like "context".
You can bypass PERM via NIW.
Same here! :)

I first assumed this article was about that glitch, but apparently that one is known as "the Select Glitch" (because you press the select button to pause / open the map).
I'm old too but you should think harder about this.

You can learn from bitter experience, and you also can learn from the detailed accounts written by others. Don't begrudge the youngins the chance to learn from other people's experience (and mistakes).

It's a ton of work to manage these kind of leadership changes, so the incremental cost of also writing about it for an hour or two isn't much.

So no, to answer your question, it wouldn't have ruined anything to write something short and sweet like your example.

And yeah, if he had taken more time he could have made the post shorter.

Grumpy Friday!
This is not "governed federally". Making a state eligible for Federal assistance is not the same as being a legal requirement. How you confuse these things is an example a simple comprehension failure or possibly someone who doesn't understand US law to any degree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red shows a handy little map in the bottom right highlighting the differences between states.
I was under the impression she made a chunk of money at Microsoft, and so doesn't have to support herself off City Council work.
In that particular case, I reckon such a clause would run afoul of various regulations prohibiting discrimination against a protected class (specifically, a racial/ethnic minority). Thus, there's no "right to refuse service to black people" to reserve.

That aside, my point is that this is a very common clause for online businesses, and the existence of such a clause - again - does not mean it has to be enforced. Plenty of companies add all sorts of things to their terms of service / privacy policies / EULAs / etc. to cover all sorts of contingencies, and this seems very ordinary and mundane in that context.
I was wondering whether that would be brought up - that link is actually to a friend's run, as far as I know he still holds the record for fastest finish of that game, although I don't think he actively tries to defend it anymore.
It is sad for sure, he is clearly very skilled but because it doesn't fit into the framework of the national curriculum for computer science or IT he is getting bad grades. It just goes to show that grades aren't everything, I just hope he can apply those skills and make it in the industry doing legitimate work not malicious work. Some employers are quite good at seeing past grades so fingers crossed for him!
You might start by not conflating The Left™ (which I assume you mean by 'your side') with Hillary supporters.

I'm probably considered a wishy-washy, bleeding-heart, virtue-signalling, liberal cuck (or whatever the hell the current deliberately antognistic buzzwords are) but I actively disliked Clinton and to a slightly lesser extent Obama.

People need to stop painting eachother with broad brushes. It's naive sports-team tribalism that gets us nowhere other than a highly polarised and aggressively charged shitshow.
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In Washington we are advised pretty strongly that Oregon has this but California and Idaho very much do not.

(Incidentally, highway on-ramps are considered one way streets for the purpose of this law.)
Wouldn't that be illegal?

If you trade fast enough it still works. Nordstroms took a hit for few minutes before coming out slightly ahead.