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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I was in the middle of writing a script to pull down all the metadata from a GitHub repository when I stumbled upon their Migrations API[1]. Designed for moving organizations to GitHub enterprise, this feature creates an archive with everything in a set of repos: issues, pull requests, git repo, wiki, comments, attachments to comments, milestones, etc. It's in preview with no UI, and afaik no existing client library supports it, so I hacked together a quick tool to make it easy to use.
Comment · 11 years ago
There are a whole range of options, if we have enough warning and invest in the technology[1]. My personal favourite is the gravity tractor:
> One more alternative to explosive deflection is to move the asteroid slowly over a time. Tiny constant thrust accumulates to deviate an object sufficiently from its predicted course. Edward T. Lu and Stanley G. Love have proposed using a large heavy unmanned spacecraft hovering over an asteroid to gravitationally pull the latter into a non-threatening orbit.
And the same technology could be used to actively "capture" asteroids for fun and profit
Comment · 11 years ago
Agreed. I'm extremely impressed by the quality of that video. Reminds me of the original Surface teaser[1] in that it's surprisingly ambitious and self-confident marketing, for Microsoft.
Comment · 11 years ago
Great product idea. I was quite taken aback by how similar the UI and UX is to Airbnb's though [1]. Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing - it's a much nicer interface than most hotel comparison sites - but it's extreme to the point of brand confusion. My first instinct was to check if this was a spin-off business!
[1] Triprebel vs Airbnb UI: http://imgur.com/a/FALP0
Comment · 11 years ago
> because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means
Comment · 11 years ago
Great work. Looks like Dublin, Ohio is getting categorised as Ireland though: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/country/2015/3/Ireland
Comment · 11 years ago
ServiceFrame - Dublin, Ireland - Full Stack Software Engineer
ServiceFrame improves the quality of outsourcing relationships. Outsourcing brings together two organisations in an unusual alliance to deliver a set of services. Objectives are misaligned, cultures and sometimes languages differ. Until now, this has resulted in fractured communication between the two organisations, and eventually in failure. ServiceFrame establishes clear and consistent communication between the two organisations, better control for the customer, better margins for the supplier and a higher success rate for both.
We're looking for full stack product developers; people who are as happy designing and implementing new UI features as they are building out distributed data integration systems in AWS. Self-starters who can own the development of features from day one. People who are passionate about quality and can deliver. People who are brave enough to fight their corner and big enough to know when they are wrong. People who like to put themselves in our customers shoes and who are able to think big. People who are innovative and also able to simplify.
We currently use technologies like C#, CoffeeScript, io.js, Docker, AWS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Handlebars, Stylus. We believe in functional programming, SOLID principles, DRY, testing, continuous deployment, REST. We don't care if you know our specific stack already: the right kind of developer will pick it up quickly, and show us how we can improve it (Haskell, React and etcd would be easy sells, for example). Our development process relies heavily on GitHub, Slack and emoji.
More information at https://jobs.github.com/positions/d891f6da-ce4b-11e4-9534-f8...
If you're interested, contact us with your CV and cover letter at [email protected]
Comment · 11 years ago
nearForm[1] sell node.js consulting and software to enterprises like Condé Nast, Universal, Intel and Qualcomm. They organize NodeConf Europe[2]. They're bootstrapped with 100% year on year growth so far and projecting 200% growth this year (according to the article).
One of the interesting things here is that they're Irish, but instead of setting up in Dublin (home to the EU headquarters of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Airbnb, Intercom, etc) they've decided to set themselves up in a small town in Waterford, a county with a population of 114,000.
I spoke too soon: seems like https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb supports it