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Software Engineering. Data Science is a useful skillset for everyone to have, but the majority of the work in any practical data science role is in getting the data in the right pl…

Caviar | San Francisco | iOS, Full Stack | Onsite The Caviar team is hiring! We're looking for an iOS specialist and a full stack generalist to join our team. We're building the wo…

Caviar | San Francisco | iOS, Full Stack | Onsite The Caviar team is hiring! We're looking for an iOS specialist and a full stack generalist to join our team. We're building the wo…

Caviar+Square / San Francisco, CA, USA / Full-Time / On Site https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/95339782

About to start a new heavy client-side interaction project, and I want to start it with the right structure so I can move fast and easily maintain it. I've been looking at the foll…

No Ward Bell. You're wrong. Also, why does everyone seem to be emphasizing this fantastic new technology, HTML5? HTML5 is just good ole fashioned HTML with a few new tags. I assume…

this is awesome. well done.

no, but again, that wouldn't be that hard to add.

This is par for the course for Zynga who have made a successful company by stealing the lunches of creative companies and developers. Don't be surprised when an evil company acts e…

this is hardly something brand new, this looks bettter and works just as well : http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/ I'm sorry but progressive enhancement of a select tag into an au…

I'm a self taught developer as well. I started with the front end because I had a decent design sense and attention to detail. If you can care about pixel perfection, I think it's …

I totally agree. It would be way better if JavaScript implementations were standardized. It would also be way better for developers if all computers had infinite memory. It's just …

If you use 1 JS script on your site, i'll agree. What happens when you include 3 of these though? 10? 15? Suddenly you have tons of duplicate code, trying to implement getAttribute…

Not everyone does, but it is used by over 49% of the 10,000 most visited websites making it the most popular JavaScript library in use today. I'm not saying a standalone is invalua…

So, one thing I don't quite understand: If I have jQuery on my page (which I imagine now at least 50% of websites do, though that's just a guess) why would I want to add another sc…

if apple can survive without steve jobs, techcrunch can continue without arrington. and, just out of curiosity, why do you say sadly? whats your HO?

I think this is actually pretty exciting, if I understand it correctly. The computer revolution was led by a better understanding of semiconductors; materials led the way. It may b…

On the double edged sword of technology. Looking for feedback.

why is this the biggest thing we're trying to solve? can't we use these incredibly powerful algorithms to solve a real problem? there are so many restaurant recommenders out or com…