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Bluebeam Atlas | Front-End & Back-end | Dallas, TX | Onsite | Full-time The construction industry is adopting technology at a feverish pace. These days you won't just see people ca…

One thing I love about this practice is how simple some things can be, for example daemonization; with Ruby you need the monit and daemons gems, with dpkg, you just need a config f…

On the roadmap, depending on your definition of "streaming" (e.g. buffer streams, websockets).

Yes exactly, that's the idea anyway. Has a few nice features on top such as controlling the network latency and expiring recordings (useful when working on a project supported by a…

Netflix | Software Engineer | Ruby, Java, Javascript (Ember & React) | Los Gatos, CA | ONSITE (No remote) Join the Studio team at Netflix. We are a relatively new team within Netfl…

I was about to say the same. I've made a lot of version 2 applications, and version 1 usually has this magic that always causes unintended side effects. Even if it doesn't bite you…

Interestingly, Roku was create by Netflix, at first it was Netflix TV, but they spun it off.

You know what would be interesting? Doing this on our own DNA. What if that 0.1% difference between us and chimpanzees, was caused by such a capsule injected into a chimp by an ext…

Couldn't the same have been said before with the phone industry? The tablet industry?

I find at times like this, it's good to offer an alternative perspective as well, as public criticism of a product can be easy to take personally. For what it's worth, I found the …

This would be very cool for automating parts of AWS. Inclement weather coming? Or an earthquake? Start spooling up servers in another region.

Ah okay, I just tried it again and it worked as you describe.

Okay, so I filled out the apply form on a whim, and there's not response to tell me that it went through. No confirmation on the site itself, no email, nothing. And a lot of "Comin…

Isn't one of the big problems with solar collection towers, heating the fluid at night? They've been researching different types of salts and fluids that stay hot longer, so they c…

Just the ones that you rarely have to deal with, but you do have to deal with. Like your insurer's site, your bank's, if you're in college and you have to take tests online, that t…

Did what Firefox did to IE? They treated Firefox as a slow, bloated, antiquated browser; a browser too in your face with too many security holes. In other words they built a better…

I find that trying to ask my question at StackOverflow is the best way to improve. Because I have to think about how best to word my problem, and really make it clear and concise. …

What if someone else uses the same URL I did? For example: i.tap2tab.com

Agreed. The narrator just got finished saying, "...over the din of the internet.", and then in the very next sentence they show little notifications with "connect to your social ne…