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Citymapper | Data Science and Software Engineering | London, UK Our mission is to make cities usable. We're combining one of the world's most loved transport apps with new kinds of…

Seems biased to sort alphabetically. I clicked away without ever reaching B!

That sounds truly awful. How did you manage to enjoy your ice cream without wifi?

Let me get this straight: Instead of entrusting my ISP with my preference for porn, I'm entrusting you. I fail to see how this is any better. You're a recent compsci graduate and I…

I was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours …

This answer purports a myth that compilers are magical black boxes, the sum of millions of hours of intense academic research that "you will never understand". Replace "compiler" w…

Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal! $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

If your bottom line is gross revenue, why not just A/B test your pricing? In an app store this is really simple. Pitch the app at a different price tier every week (ideally during …

Unit testing (and by extension, TDD) is easy in Objective C: Just test your models. Your models are (should be) the only thing that makes your app unique.

I made this with my classmate from Edinburgh Uni. Thanks for submitting it!

I also don't Facebook will think highly of the fact that they hide the like button once you have pressed it.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRC_b4g7Sg

This should work with Flash on Windows, but requires Flip4Mac on OSX: http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Friends of mine are currently assembling the boxes that he will land in: http://imgur.com/iKwmX Interview with Gary Connery and his wife: http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/arti…

Friends who are with him at the moment who are assembling the cardboard boxes which he will try to land in. It will be very interesting to see if he can pull it off! Edit 1: Non-si…

Can you point me towards a sort function which will sort my data in the most appropriate way, every time? Some sort functions might cover 99% of cases for web development, but not …

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra

I tried to learn Ruby and Rails at the same time, but found it stressful to learn Ruby's elaborate syntactic sugar and Rails' enormous API at the same time. For me it certainly hel…