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Element | https://element.io/ | Web, Android, iOS, Backend, Product, Designers, SRE | full-time | London UK, Rennes FR or Remote (worldwide) Element is the startup which employs th…

Dev teams also benefit a lot from having an async way to discuss bigger issues that require thoughtfulness and long form answers, especially remote teams. There's a reason mailing …

> putting all of their $$$$ into a single web client with very bad performance, not caring for other platforms; hrm, maybe this was true a few years ago? Element currently develops…

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Great suggestions - thanks. The information architecture of Spaces as presented in Element isn't perfect, and is at the top of the list of improvements we'd like to make as we iter…

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Pending async waits have stacks to preserve too

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IN MICE. https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice calls out headlines like this regularly.

This is entirely correct, and it also true that there are more opportunities in the startup world to build something meaningful and exciting from scratch and to have an unforgettab…

Yes, but nobody under 35 realises they're perpetuating it until its their ass getting upped and outed like everyone else

You're right - my comment was sloppy! Still, given "20+ years of experience" represents all programmers of ages, say, 45-65 - or two decades worth of CS graduates - I feel that coh…

It's a structural problem. If everyone expects 20 years of experience people to be principal engineers, and only 5% of roles are principal jobs, then after 20 years 95% of engineer…

It may be that the system allocator is making an excessive number of syscalls to do work, whereas most custom allocators will allocate in slabs to avoid this. You could try using d…

Memrise | Frontend Engineer, Engineering Manager | ONSITE | Full-time | VISA for EM | London | https://www.memrise.com Come teach the world languages! Memrise is regularly featured…

Yep, and async support is causing a shakeout of the existing ecosystem too - could take years before the dust settles. It'd be so nice if a major vendor picked up the language and …

Our (London based) company will be 100% working from home starting next week to try to pre-empt the effects of covid 19 infection. It's common for people to work from home, but we …

I very much experienced this with our django application and traced the problem back to django's dev server polling for fs changes at 1hz. Apparently this is enough to spin fans wi…

We're using kotlin native, after considering rust for a bit. It's been working great, we've had it in production for about six months. Main advantages are * kotlin is a nice langua…

Those countries already have fibre - are you saying 5g is better than fibre for streaming gaming?