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Alta | Lead Front End Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full time | www.alta.so We're hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer at Alta, an AI-powered no-code tool to build mobile apps. * You’ll be j…

Yes of course, but companies will prefer to work with middlemen rather than directly employing individual contractors because it makes legal and accounting easier. There’s often a …

That is a lot of trees, but a decade’s worth is a lot of emissions

I’ve been told the answer is interchange fees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee

I use Swift professionally and have written some Rust for fun, and like both languages a lot. I find Swift to be faster to write, not least because it's easier to manually prevent …

I liked this quote from the article: "People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things." I can't claim to know what BI would look like if widely imple…

This looks really useful. Thanks for sharing There was a missed opportunity to name the app 'Shirk', though

The reason companies don't loudly proclaim this kind of thing seems pretty simple to me. Companies must simultaneously communicate with many different parties: employees, customers…

Really liked this article. I'm curious about the professional QA – how did you find the tester, and what sort of things did you ask him to test?

Yes, and also DCIntrospect. They're encouraging, but don't currently compare to what you can do with, say, live-editing css or with a Javascript console. Not that I've used it, but…

Awesome, will definitely give this a shot. It's great to see iOS development tools pick up tricks from the web world. Personally, I can't wait for a Firebug-like tool for live debu…

Nice! And that's an awesome logo.

By this point, isn't HTTP a pretty standard acronym in the web-dev scene? :)

If you take a look at the benchmarks further down the page, the real improvement seems to be that mongo does a better job of yielding during page faults. That provides an improveme…

FWIW, heroku does. The first heroku slice for a project is free, with the caveat that it'll be spun down during periods of inactivity. I imagine that most hobby users of heroku (sa…

As an app developer, I'd love to not write custom code for each photo sharing service. This seems to require using the chute hosted platform, though. Can the library be used withou…

I don't disagree, but when I watched for about 15 seconds he was inserting printlns, trying to debug something related to sprite collisions. So I'd guess he still does some of that…

I'm curious about this as well.

Presumably it writes to a transaction log, and is memory-resident in the same sense that Redis is. Which is to say that the dataset is kept entirely in memory, but also has a persi…

We're using Scalatra for our company's http service, and it's been great. Simple, good documentation, works exactly as promised, and the irc room (thanks Ross Baker!) has been extr…

When programmatically accessing the photo library assets, the app can read the location data embedded in the photos. The app can alternatively use iOS's standard image picker dialo…

Even though Lunascript the reactive web language has been scrapped, Luna the reactive web Javascript framework is still plenty interesting. Building a web framework is much more re…

Who would have guessed Anonymous could act as a trading signal?

Looks promising. I need to put together a dashboard, and this might be how I do it. As an aside, it's always great to see more usage of PEG.js.