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Thriva | Full Stack Engineer | Onsite, London, UK | Full-time We’re building the world’s first preventative healthcare service to address the 1 in 4 unnecessary deaths. In 5–10 yea…

Thriva | Full-stack engineer, Lead engineer | London, UK | Full time - ONSITE | thriva.co At Thriva, we are on a mission to empower people to take control of their health. We think…

Thriva | Frontend engineer, Fullstack engineer | London | ONSITE https://thriva.co We are on a mission to empower people to take control of their health. We’ve started by making th…

I'd venture a guess that that the liquor store and the restaurant do this for "accounting purposes" and the diner is living in the 80s. As I say though, I'm sure it varies based on…

Cash can actually be fairly expensive for businesses to handle. It needs to be insured, transported and often banks will charge fees for depositing cash into a business bank accoun…

There are lots of early stage startups these days that, on the surface, are easily replicated. The fact is though that they were the ones to do it first/successfully. This isn't to…

Choose something that interests you and something you want to use yourself if possible. If you can also try out a new language or some new technologies along the way, even better. …

Droplet (dropletpay.com) - Ruby on Rails developer (Shoreditch, London) Droplet is a funded, fast-growing startup working to overhaul payments. We have mobile apps, web apps and a …

London, UK - Droplet Droplet is a fast growing and funded mobile payments platform. We are looking to hire engineers to join our small team based in London. We are mostly Ruby/Go a…

Thanks for all the hard work Steve. I have been waiting for ember 1.0 to really give it a proper go but I'm looking forward to it. It seems like a slightly steeper learning curve t…

>However, a lot of people I talk to are moving to pure JS front-end + REST backend. In this world Rails doesn't deliver any particular value (in my opinion). I agree with this but …

I think it's slightly different because droplet is an actual word in itself. If it was drop-pay (bad example), then I might agree.

I built fetchful.com a while ago which is an attempt at this (as well as generating preview text). After a lot of testing, and a few hundred thousand generated previews, it can be …

It would be possible but I'm not sure that would be that much more useful than just sending a separate request for each url. If there were lots of them, they could just be looped t…

No paid plan at the moment, but if was something that people were genuinely interested in using, I would consider a (very cheap) paid plan. It will be sticking around 'as is' for a…

It does follow redirects but I think javascript redirects are causing a problem occasionally, still a couple of issues I need to work out. The occasional url does not get parsed pr…

No problem, do let me know if you decide to use it at all, I would be interested to see. I'm no javascript expert so my jquery examples with tooltips etc are pretty basic, I'm sure…

It's similar, but I would like to think it's slightly faster due to it's simplicity. Also, as far as I can tell, embedly is not so good at finding relevant information from sites w…