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Comment #20327608
Lexical Labs | Full time Lexical Labs read, review and automatically mark-up contracts so that lawyers can review them quickly. There is a lot of tech going on to support this - NL…
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Comment #16977344
> Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy. Is it? I would have thought it is the commonwealth lo…
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Comment #16516194
In my experience there are a couple kinds of product management. There is very user focused product management, and technical product management. User-focused PMing is making tools…
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Comment #15241439
> and would gladly pay the same amount again. Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...
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Comment #13356767
There are a few new features over the last 5 years... * Merge checks * Build status (finally...) * Audit logs * Inline editing From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new Nothing that ke…
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Comment #12468541
... which is kind of annoying if you sleep on top of one. Endless tocking away on a hot summer night where you can't sleep is kind of like water drip torture.
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Comment #10686688
What I don't get is, if it is such a simple aircraft - pretty much an airliner with the passenger section being a bomb bay - and we're pretty good at making airliners these days - …
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Comment #10105030
It would be nicer if this wasn't tied in to a server implementation, so it could be a standard react component that specifies a couple of handlers as PropTypes. Would make it much …
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Comment #9706599
Just throwing this in here - we already do this at my work with a thing called office vibe [1]. Everyone seems to like it . [1] https://www.officevibe.com
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Comment #9355309
Started doing start body weight training this year inspired by these progressions [1]. The problem I found with having to do weights or going for runs is that you need to leave the…
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Comment #9127274
Qubit - London - Full Time Qubit enables people to personalise their websites by connecting a data-store of visitor state to a framework for UI components that make it really easy …
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Comment #8397194
Qubit - London, New York, Lahore - Full Time We just announced our Series B funding this week by Accel, Balderton & Salesforce and we're using that to grow, so we are looking for a…
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Comment #8118889
I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
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Comment #8114859
That's where I've got all my initial seed data from already!
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Comment #8114244
That's really cool! The problem seems to be that for all these things the data isn't stored anywhere in an easily digestible format. It would be great if you could query something …
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Comment #8113783
I've got a project that is trying to do just this sort of thing, check out https://retred.org You can go to a time and place and see exactly what kind of events were happening at t…
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Comment #7927890
There are ads and then there are ads. One of the things that the company I work for, Qubit, does is to validate that the tracking tags that vendors put on people's websites drive a…
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Comment #7853694
Try using git blame. It tells you what change caused a line to happen. I often use it to find out exactly what issue caused a seemingly crazy bit of code to happen. As the code goe…
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Comment #7829140
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Do you have an eye for beauty? Do you know when you should be using SQL vs no-SQL? Do you want your code to effect 6,000,000 people a day? Qubi…
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Comment #7325193
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into ne…
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Comment #7169616
Thanks - as you say, if you search for a thing you will see the events with lines between them showing the progression of events in chronological order. You can use the time bar on…
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Comment #7169538
https://retred.org is a repository of (right now historical) events. There wasn't a good place where you can view and (soon will be able to add/edit) historical facts, not to menti…
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Comment #7163468
Qubit - London (+ New York web devs) Qubit has just had our 4th birthday, and we're looking to really grow our engineering team (somewhat) internationally, as we expand out into ne…