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Alphalend (www.alphalend.com) - London - First non-founding developer(s)

=== TL;DR ===

We believe that banking should be driven by the latest and greatest technologies, not legacy systems. As technology evolves, banking processes should evolve in sync, not lag behind. That is our goal here at Alphalend: to supercharge consumer lending and revolutionise the industry’s standard practice . Technology moves fast… nothing you read below is set in stone and everyone who joins our team is expected to continually drive us to do better. If this sounds like you, please get in touch: contact@alphalend.com

=== Who are we? ===

We are a small, passionate and energetic team of exceptional people funded by some of Europe’s most respected angel investors. Our vision is to move banking into the 21st century. We have the plan, the backing and the skills to make it happen but we need additional talented devs to push us further and faster.

=== Who are you? ===

You are a leader: you imagine, share, collaborate and create. You have the skills and experience to improve and evolve our development strategy, but most of all you always want to keep learning. You relish the idea of joining a fast-growing company that is using cutting edge technology to redefine the world of retail banking. An understanding of IoC, its benefits and drawbacks, quality testing and experience working in early stage teams are the key skills required given our current setup. Our technology stack will evolve, however, so you should love to experiment, always striving to find the best means to achieve the goal at hand, and always be keen to explore new technologies that would improve our product.

=== What we offer: ===

Market-leading compensation

25 days holiday + public holidays

Whatever equipment you need to get the job done - you choose

Flexible working hours whenever possible. Occasional working from home

7th floor office with the best view of any office you’ve worked in, guaranteed

Opportunity to be our first non founding developer, take a key role in recruiting the team and evolving our development strategy

=== Technology: ===

Platform built on Symfony 2.4

Doctrine2 using MySQL on Amazon RDS. Doctrine migrations for DB updates.

PHP5.5 and Apache running on Amazon EC2

Testing with PHPUnit. Coverage currently around 30%, ideally you can help improve this. BDD lover? Please teach me!

Jenkins used for automated build and deployment

Git for version control

Lots of 3rd party APIs used to gather data (REST and SOAP)

Machine learning (fuzzy logic and neural networks) for the most intelligent risk assessment and pricing possible.

Extensive analytics driven marketing.

No legacy code, all written in the last 6 months

=== How we work: ===

Our development methodology is currently very agile and approaches continuous deployment. We regularly do several live deployments per day. A feature implementation would go something like: Feature branch -> implement -> code review -> merge to development -> test on dev -> merge to master -> deploy to live.

=== Interested? ===

email us at contact@alphalend.com
You seem to be overlooking the point. Would it be morally permissible for me to scribble down arbitrary rules and enforce them on you if I had an army with which to ensure your compliance?

Laws are just arbitrary rules decided on by a small group of people, much like they were with Kings and their inner circles. Laws are enforced in much the same way too - there's no practical difference between getting assaulted by the King's Guard and getting assaulted by men in blue costumes.
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I didn't find it ironic because those are people who are quite likely to go out and do the opposite, which is to focus on money or some other extrinsic motivation.
Promises _are_ an async value. By yielding promises you're doing exactly that :)
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You are actually seeing the dedicated IP "custom ssl certificate" charge ($600/month). Check the cost with and without that option. I just used your exact numbers and the monthly cost is $0.73 without that.

Note that doesn't mean you cannot serve your resources over HTTPS. It just means you cannot alias something like "cdn.yoursite.com" to the cloudfront cdn, you will need to use the cloudfront https url.
Indeed; 've always found "cold brew" or "toddy" coffee incredibly boring and empty. (Which makes sense, of course; so many of those flavors are extracted by heat.) I'll mix it with some milk and simple syrup on a hot day, but it's still not really coffee to me.

But you say "nowadays" - I wonder what changed. I'd be surprised if there was a significant shift in technique. A general move to a different roast? Perhaps just your tastes preferring a more acidic coffee?
It prevents me from printing, period. It's better than it used to be years ago, but still there's ton of work to do every time I want to plug into a new printer, and half of the times it doesn't work. I know that it is probably due to my lack of knowledge and experience, but I'm not frustrated enough to sit down and figure CUPS out for good.
I am in the UK so probably not your target market, sounds like a good idea, I assuem there is a market for people who may temporarily need a macbook for testing or something. Who do you see as your market? Also whats ort of costs are you looking at? I cant imagine most people only needing a macbook for a week, and renting one out for 3 or 4 months must get you close to purchase price or a second hand model. Does it come with support for people who have not used a mac before? Do you see it as a try before you buy? How do you ensure secuirty of data, i assume you advise customers to undertake a hard reset before returning the product to you?
My views don't have to conform to whatever constraints you expect them to. I'm just telling you what I really think.
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>> "they clearly recognize the need to pay someone to provide that polish"

I don't see anyone offering to pay for polish. Can you point to these instances?

I've been active in the LT community for most of a year and don't recall _one_ offer to pay for any bug fix or feature. If anyone has such a request, please make it in LT's github issues or mailing list and I'll consider looking into it.
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I don't really remember those two talking about startups being gameable in the way that PG is talking about megacorps. Most of the reasons they prefer bootstrapping vs startups are around the idea that bootstrapping has a predicable model for success. Where as your chances of a successful exit in a startup are like winning the powerball. Even PG notes that one good exit covers the losses of hundreds of other investments and that they still don't really know how to pick winners (they just happen). Startups that take VC are also kind of designed to fail early so as to not waste too much investor money. The other pro for bootstrapping seems to be around the idea of "freedom" from bosses. In a megacorp you work for like 14 bosses. In a startup your bosses are the VC's. As bootstrapper you work for yourself and the people that pay your for what you produce.
And for my thoughts on working there (written a year ago but still true):

http://blog.natefinch.com/2013/11/working-at-canonical.html
Tangent- Poking around this site brought me to a page listing ways to help out in digitizing records of the past. Going through that led me to a site that's transcribing old revolutionary war era war department documents, which I promptly signed up to do. I love poring over those kinds of records and I'm really excited to find a way to be useful while I'm doing it.

There's all kinds of volunteer transcription projects going on-

http://publicdomainreview.org/building-the-digital-cultural-...
Looking at the valuations of the likes of Snapchat I think it's pretty safe to assume that B.S has already taken over.
yes - please do.
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> My views don't have to conform to whatever constraints you expect them to.

That's why I asked about your views "over and over", because I wanted to find out how your value system works. There is no need to get testy. It's true that I disagree, but this discussion happened mostly because I wanted to find out more, not because I wanted to display your views in a misleading light. Peace.
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CP/M abstracted IO operations and allowed you to write applications that where machine agnostic. This was a big deal at the time since there were a large number of BASICs that were incompatible for doing low-level operations.

As an example Reddit's /r/retrobattlestations had their annual BASIC week[0] where they take a BASIC program and port it to a bunch of different machines. As you can see they have 11 different versions.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2fn1zq...
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Thanks a lot ! As for discarding the consumer startup metrics, of course not, but having worked in a high-growth consumer startup before with millions of users, I am a bit lost when I see number 3 or 4 orders of magnitude below what I am used to.
Thanks !
Whenever I see someone using significant whitespace as a downside of any language, I can't avoid thinking "man... I wouldn't like to see your code..."
If I could choose I would choose Ruby over Javascript ANY DAY (I am not saying that is better, just that sintax is easier to pick for an hobbyist as me).

But I can't. JS is everywhere and I don't have time to learn several programming languages.

CoffeeScript was a way to make JS more enjoyable to me. You can say that CoffeeScript is still another language to learn but once that is related to JS, you learn both simultaneously, killing two birds with one stone.
Nice list. Though it would make it easier to scan if the domains were floated left and not in columns like a newspaper.
Yeah, they were:

1) Refers to fireball hot enough to blind and cause second degree burns, and references two nature papers which say the energy discharged is inconsistent with airburst models http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/06/chelyabinsk-m...

2) Residual radiation of fragments wouldn't be expected, as the Gazelle system uses neutron bombs, not uniquely in ABM systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb

Fine - it's not definitely the case that this happened, but there's enough information floating about to make it far more than plausible.
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We all need to calm down, get humble, and stop declaring victory at every
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It's been a while, but I thought that CUPS filters were just executables with an input stream and an output stream, so you could write them in whatever you wanted?
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From their site:

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Dollar a Day makes no money, in any way, from donations on this site. Dollar a Day was built by a team of (almost entirely) volunteers.
Money and time aren't always fungible, but since you consider them additive in your argument lets assume they are for this discussion.

Starting software engineers bill out at $100 an hour. If you spend 5 hours a week reading the news, the total cost per year in terms of your time is $26,000. Thus the cost of the newspaper itself is 1.7% of the overall cost. The claim that a price cut to something that only contributes 1.7% to the total cost is going to make reading the newspaper worth it is ridiculous on its face. The same rebuttal applies for differentiating between newspapers.

Also, there is a strong argument to be made that businesses should not be targeting or care about people who think a 1.7% price cut makes a difference.
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I just failed to understand why you were surprised that in my views I assign value to people and not some external entity does.

The opposite will be actually weird.
I think it is useful to separate out the concepts of substance abuse from substance addiction. If the article just dealt with who experience powerful cravings and withdrawals (the most common definition of addiction, and the most useful as far as I can tell) then it would be much more insightful. Instead it seems to equate addiction with heavy use and recklessness.
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The last paragraph of this comment rather ruins it; there's no overwhelming evidence that intelligence is more "nature" than "nurture". The phenomenon is more likely to be reversion to the mean.

Having said that, buying your way into a job is a ridiculous situation that I thought we'd got rid of long ago along with buying commissions in the army.
Sure, but the weakness is exploited using physical connection between the device and a computer ( I remember one or two jailbreaks in history were opening a pdf or something like this, but nowadays those are history as well ).

And when you actually exploit this weakness, next phase is installing apps that can exploit your whole phone.

Back in time I was keen on jailbreaking my device, because I wanted to see bash prompt and do whatever I want with it, but nowadays I left this for non-used devices that I have. I'm pretty concerned with security after the whole NSA revelations and I believe my device is more secure if it's not jailbreaked.
Sounds similar to the Dutch situation. No handholding in university. Lots of opportunity to fuck up all by yourself. I never understand people who call it "school", because it really isn't. If that's what you want, there's also the "hogeschool" which also counts as higher education, but practical, professional education, whereas university is called "scientific education". The actual level of science varies a lot of course, but mainly you've got to do more yourself.
Well this is an easy paper to summarize: Be good at everything , read everything, talk to everybody in the field, don't ever sleep, and be able to dilate time to fit everything in!
"Residual radiation of fragments wouldn't be expected, as the Gazelle system uses neutron bombs"

"Neutron bomb" is another name for an "enhanced radiation weapon" - basically an H-bomb designed to give off large amounts of neutron radiation. So you would expect anything close to the explosion of such a device (and therefore exposed to a very high neutron flux) to have pretty clear indications that would be easy to test for.
I'm interested to know what value TS/CS devs get from their code translating to "legible" JS?
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The concept of 'dog years' has always interested me. I recently quipped to some friends that if there's 7 dog years in a human year, there's 2^y computer years in a human year; so a 6 year old computer is 64 in computer years.
Yes and with ease for the first two. Yes, but you may have to write some Nix code for the last.
Are you sure humans age more slowly than chimps? I thought they basically live to the same age?
Capture functionality was very expensive, and thus uncommon, until about 15 years ago. It was around that time that Tektronix came out with their low-end TDS200 model scopes starting at around $1,200. That was an amazingly low price at the time.

My analog Tek 442 is probably about 25 years old and still going strong. I hardly consider it antique.
My main gripe with significant white space is that it forces a specific level of formatting that is generally less attractive and readable then what I would otherwise use.
Your articles were SUPER helpful when I added multiplayer to my game, you may be the reason I succeeded in it, alongside Valve documentation. Thank you so much for writing them!
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I always found this article about how the Source Engine handles networking fascinating: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...

Really shows how hard just a few of the challenges of making a multiplayer game are.
According to that graph, social mobility in Germany isn't lower than Scandinavia at all. It's lower than Denmark and Finland, but comparable to Sweden and Norway. Income inequality is higher, though.
Yes, I think you're agreeing with me?
I love it. Looks stunning, and is straight forward to use.
Really nice, might use it for an upcoming project. It's a little buggy in the current state though and no mobile editing support kinda hurts.
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correct - but they are non portable. Which means that all the nice features that Mac drivers have are not available on Linux (or the printing is screwed up, etc.).

I wish there was some way to make portable/obfuscated filter drivers, so that vendors could ship them and be usable on all CUPS platforms.
Here's a good blog post on the subject:

http://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-performance-tuning

If you want to use paramiko (like Fabric does), you can -c paramiko too. This mode came first, but -c ssh offers more features and can be just as quick.
Submission note: this submission was inspired by another recent post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399587 and is on a similar theme, though again mainly focussed on AI research.

A PDF version is also available (linked below), but I thought it'd be best to submit the original HTML version for mobile readers, and those who prefer not to use PDFs.

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~chase/cps300/resbible.pdf
So a meal plan is like an subscription to meals? Why don't they sell it normally? How much is each meal with that plan?
In our Mensa at the university we pay between 1.50 and 4€ per meal (exclusive drinks).
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I think this is a very interesting service because I usually buy laptops, but I only actually use it as a laptop 10 days a year while traveling. If the cost on the order of $10-20/day I would consider buying an iMac, and renting the laptop for conferences.

No mention of what software will be included. I consider MS Office to be mandatory, but that is probably it for a short term loan.

About the survey:

"Go Again"?
Do I get entered multiple times if I fill out the survey again?

I am also not sure I agree that more cats is better.
First time post from long-time lurker. Be kind.

Back In The Day (just to show how ancient I am), I personally debugged the first peer-to-peer (vs client/server) networked simulation protocol on the DARPA SIMNET project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET

Interesting stories notwithstanding (anybody else here ever got to drive/fire a tank, and have fellow engineers get dosed with CS gas, as part of a software engineering job?), when time came to standardize this research protocol as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulat...,

we tried to get them to generalize the protocol thusly: http://www.google.com/patents/US5623642

The work was supported by a DARPA small-business project, so the IP was left with the company in hopes of commercializing it, and maximizing dissemination. The attempt to get the ideas incorporated as part of the standard was singularly unsuccessful. More's the pity, as I think it would have really helped make the simulations more capable of simulating a wider array of physical phenomena.

The commercial uptake was equally unsuccessful. I experienced some culture shock when proselytizing (again, unsuccessfully) at game development conferences.
Great article. It has been a few years since I last laid out a board in KiCad, the biggest thing I remember is that importing parts and footprints took a lot of work and it wasn't a very straight forward process.

Does anyone have a good workflow for managing and exporting parts so that people can go and download your cad files and libraries to reproduce your board?
I'm surprised no one brought up the bigger picture of which types of education Germans pay for and which they don't.

While going to university has been free for a long time in Germany (and will be again according to this article), German parents pay for kindergarten and day care.

In most countries, it's the other way around and I'd gladly pay for my kids to go to university than pay for the much more basic education before primary school. I paid up to 500 Euros a months for my son's kindergarten. (This is is maximum amount, but that's another story...)

This is why I don't get that students were so eager to demonstrate against the introduction of tuition, claiming education is then reserved for rich people. The same argument could be brought up against payments for day care, but no one will acknowledge that. (I guess this is because students are willing to plan for family after the degree.)

Reversing this situation would result in better integration of kids from families with immigrant background which is a far better goal than to make higher education more accessible, regardless of money.
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It's a term value investors use for investing in "net nets", i.e. companies that trade below their net cash position. The idea is "if we can buy the cash at a discount and get the (crappy) company for free, at some point the market will pay at least for the full cash value".

The approach was made famous by Benjamin Graham and used by Warren Buffet in the first phase of his investing life.

Nowadays it's harder to find "net nets" as everybody and his dog can run a screen to find those companies now, so they get bid up above their net cash position most of the time.
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The hardware was not quite standardized at that time so CP/M had a layered structure consisting of a BIOS, BDOS and the command line processor. The BIOS was the hardware abstraction layer and was ported to the specific combination of hardware. The BDOS provided the file system and the command line processor provided a standardized interface. On top of this you would run the BASIC interpreter as an application.
I'd do all of it, and then pull it apart with machine learning.
Does anyone else find the 1 pixel shadow on the text off-putting? I had to see why the text was blurry on purpose. Found the shadow and disabled it.
Please elaborate. Usually, significant whitespace only forces code at the same nesting level to have the same indentation, it doesn't specify what that indentation should be.
why aren't there any share tools on this site?
Generally it's UDP. Nobody would use websockets unless they had to run in a browser or similar VM.

C++ would be the default choice, but Eve Online uses Stackless Python which seems to have worked well for them.

The Quake3 server source (pure C) is available for your inspection, and there's a good analysis of how it works here: http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/network.php
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While I agree with you, I'm having a lot of trouble handling unicode and windows' latin-1 encodings...
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