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Haplo | London | ONSITE | Software Developers (all levels) We build applications to help universities manage their research on top of our open source information management platfor…

Haplo | London | ONSITE | Software Developers (all levels) We build applications to help universities manage their research on top of our open source information management platfor…

I choose fossil at a time when it wasn't clear which one of fossil, Mercurial, or git would "win". I choose it because it had a very clear and easy UI, guided you towards a way of …

Because it's hard to do well, and you have to build everything with it in mind. We've been very successful with a strategy of hiring new graduates and training them. This is what w…

Oh yes, that's one of our techniques for finding graduates. I was just wondering about how this job board was going to do it, as "who will see this" is the key question for someone…

Haplo | London | ONSITE | Graduate Software Engineer Are you graduating this summer? Haplo will help you get the best possible start to your career as a software developer. https:/…

How are you getting lots of new graduates to look at these jobs? My company is _very_ good at getting new graduates off to a really good start to their career, so I've seen all the…

Haplo | London | ONSITE | Graduate Software Engineer Are you graduating this summer? Haplo will help you get the best possible start to your career as a software developer. https:/…

My company has put a lot of effort into helping junior developers get a really good start to their careers. To a certain extent, you have to structure your work to enable this. I'd…

Haplo | Senior Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE This job is interesting because... * You get to think about the nuts and bolts of how web applications are developed. You’…

Haplo | Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Senior developer: https://www.haplo-services.com/jobs/senior-developer This job is interesting because... * You get to think abou…

Haplo | Senior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you an experienced generalist developer looking for a place you can write your best code and help an enthusia…

Haplo | Senior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you an experienced generalist developer looking for a place you can write your best code and help an enthusia…

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This was interesting to program. Apart from having to use assembler (which was no big deal in '95), you had to structure your program as lots of tiny objects which communicated thr…

fossil on the server gets low numbers of writes, and not many reads. And being a distributed system, most of the SQLite action is on the client.

Oracle Java is based on OpenJDK. It's not a separate implementation.

Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer…

If you're not having luck with UK ISPs, try https://www.aaisp.net.uk/ They have technical people running support who talk to customers as peers. Also you can use IRC if you don't l…

Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer…

Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer…

The last two questions are little more than "what is the name of the algorithm I should use to solve this problem?". This doesn't test understanding in any way. How is it useful to…

On the last two questions, I'm curious why the ability to memorise which algorithm to use is a useful skill for a professional software engineer, let alone a useful interview quest…

Haplo | Junior Software Developer | London, UK | Full time, ONSITE Are you early on in your career, or graduating this summer? We're a great place to learn to be the best developer…