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Ah I don’t believe that was available last time I used it - I’ll check it out thanks!

I wrote a java port of the python counter many moons ago [1]. Will have to resurrect it! [1] https://github.com/leemorrisdev/foundationcounter

Yep most of the FIX connections I've seen are connected for most of the day, long outside trading hours. Tag 103 has specific error codes for the exchange being closed.

I'm always suspicious when news articles embed tweets as "evidence". The one case that sticks out for me was Tim Hunt losing his job because of his joke at a conference. I wonder i…

> Should we blame Michael S for wasting hours of his life hitting a small button? We could. Yep we could, and we should. I'm all for personal responsibility, and this feels like se…

> I am against writing unit tests in general > How often have you seen a program crash? If it was developed by a large software company, chances are it was written using TDD. Clear…

I like the sound of this. As well as giving the candidate ample opportunity to show what they can do, it'll also be representative of the actual work they'll be doing in that role …

Falklands have around 3,000 people who actively WANT their home to be a British Overseas Territory. Argentina's claim to them holds about as much water as my claim to Buckingham Pa…

His complaint about returns is curious, not sure if it's country specific. I returned something to Amazon a couple of weeks ago in the UK due to some missing parts. I printed out t…

I normally just call myself a developer, although engineer is so widespread in the industry now I wouldn't mind that either. I can't look at someone with a straight face when they …

My first reaction to this was that VPN usage will explode, but I'm not sure how a VPN server hosted in another country would work with their desire to effectively ban encryption. I…

Can someone who does more UI work than me explain why you would want to future proof css like this in the first place? Even forgetting the undesired outcome and lack of testing, it…

The problem with applying analytics to Martial is the limited dataset - he only made about 50 appearances in his career before joining United. It's looking a good bet so far, but i…

I'd love to see something like this available in running stores (if it's not already). I've done the treadmill + video camera test in the past, where someone looks at slow motion v…

I'd be interested to see if anyone can recommend recruiters in London. I've had nothing but bad experiences over the last few years so tend to ignore them now, but it'd be good to …

Agreed. It's laid out in such a simple way it's easy to navigate and read. I can fit 25 posts on the screen on iPhone 6 which is nice for browsing - ihackernews makes everything bi…

We solved this in a roughly similar way to a real stock exchange: the order book is persisted entirely in memory, in Go. What happens if your process crashes? how do you rebuild th…

I love what Netflix are doing right now but I wouldn't ever work there. It sounds like the Hunger Games, with employees desperate to show they're "A" players. I'd be terrified of h…

I believe Google Spanner obsesses over timestamps quite a lot to deliver distributed transactions with something called TrueTime [1]. [1] http://research.google.com/archive/spanner…

It'll be interesting to see how Amazon respond to the inevitable complaints when Clarkson does a "Clarkson". The BBC used to fall over themselves to apologise and give him another …

Does anyone know how they colour correct these images? I'm guessing there isn't a robotic arm holding up a test card in front of the camera :-)

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I give so little thought to many of these things. I have a Spotify subscription, I'm watching the Football on Sky Go which use…

Should be called "temperature" rather than "weather". 21 degrees and...raining? sunny? any cloud? Wouldn't call it beautiful - the ascii art is really distracting.