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I think the main use case is high frequency trading.

Surely the reason this isn't a thing is because the watch needs to be charged every night?

This is awesome and I don't wanna hate but the question has to be asked why c++? There are tens more languages that are more modern and "aspirational"

Interesting that apple seems to be following the same model as they did with their mobile devices in terms of developer functionality. Their view seems to be to start off really ti…

I dabbled in scala for a while a few years ago and ultimately decided not to invest the time becoming an expert in it for the following reasons. 1) Slow compile times, I really val…

Seems like they actually use RP-1 (rocket fuel) as the hydraulic fluid so that it is burned as fuel after it has been used. This means that the hydraulic fluid isnt "dead mass"

I wonder what the sable referred to in the job description is referring to? Could it be SableVM.SableVM is a clean room implementation of the JVM but is no longer being maintained.…

I agree with everything you said. Here is an interesting lwn article from when the azule people originally tried to push their change/enhancements upstream. http://lwn.net/Articles…

You can actually get an iPhone 4S replacement battery + tools to change the battery for less then $10 dollars. Certainly a-lot cheaper than replacing the whole phone. Here is one f…

Aqua (GUI) and Terminal (CLI)

As a London native for almost 10 years I cant tell you how many times I have been ripped off by black cab drivers taking longer routes then they could have. I also cant tell you ho…

I think there are two many lessons that can be learnt from this story. 1. Stay focussed. 2. Keep your team as small as possible.

The biggest take away from that article for me is that they are offering the fix for free to current owners. How many other car companies would do that? Unless they where required …

If your writing tests after the unit then you not doing TDD right. TDD is not designed to be a good technique for developing algorithm's but rather for designing OO systems and dis…

In the UK at least I think its only a matter of time before either google or apple but in a huge bid for the premier league TV rights. It would give them huge penetration for there…

Have you tried IntelliJ? I haven't used netbeans for years but for me IntelliJ is light years ahead of eclipse. I would be interested to hear from anybody who has tried both for a …

I am amazed that people would go through the effort to counterfeit a £1 coin, you would literally need to counterfeit millions of coins to make the enterprise worthwhile and then h…

It should be possible to determine fake from real accounts using various statistics like number of likes per account average number of time between likes etc etc, with all the brai…

You get a hell of a-lot of R&D, talent infrastructure and pretty much anything for $16B think Facebook with its engineering talent would find it fairly trivial to replicate the tec…

I like the happy hippo behind the mba on the landing page :) All in all its a great introduction to the service, really well put together.

Looks very useful to me. One things I would do is make the permalink visible as soon in the flow as possible.

It seems like only the early employees get cool nickname I thought github has an eglatarian culture?

If your apps biggest selling point is that its named after a commonly used noun then I think you have problems. Its a similar concept to idea vs execution. We saw the same thing at…