killing_time
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Comment · 5 months ago
Is it strange that I immediately interpreted ETTWS to be Estimated Time To William Shakespeare?
Comment · 4 years ago
It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button.
Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter.
There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some reason you're exploring a different server and find someone there you want to follow. In that case you still click the follow button but have to provide _your_ username@server string which triggers the necessary back-and-forth to get the follow relationship set up.
Comment · 9 years ago
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires
We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :)
Hiring at mid to senior levels in lots of key disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack and frontend, designers, product, iOS & Android. We are growing in all of our European offices - in particular, London and Barcelona.
Our tech stack includes Java and Python for backend microservices, JS (React) for frontend, and we're deploying with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS. If you're experienced in these technologies, you'll find interesting challenges to work on and solve, as part of a great team.
I've been here for a year (one year today!) and am really enjoying the breadth and depth of the work, the quality of the people, and the amount of care that the company takes to give us a comfortable and productive working environment.
You can see our current open roles and apply at http://grnh.se/jitlcd1 - or ping me an email at richard (.) north [at] skyscanner.net for a referral. I'd be very happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can.
Comment · 9 years ago
How about Cloudburst?
Comment · 10 years ago
I use the Chrome and Firefox docker-selenium containers in Testcontainers [1][2], my project for running containers to support JUnit tests.
I created this after numerous issues with PhantomJS compatibility and debuggability; Testcontainers instead uses the real browsers, and also offers automatic video recording of test sessions and VNC access for debugging.
Headless chrome support sounds like a good step forward, but if visibility into what's going on is limited then I feel there's going to be some way to go. Perhaps chrome remote debugging support?
[1]: http://testcontainers.viewdocs.io/testcontainers-java/ [2]: https://rnorth.org/26/better-junit-selenium-testing-with-doc...
Comment · 10 years ago
Developer here! This library arose out of frustration with running Java tests that had some kind of non-Java dependencies - e.g. databases and web browsers for UI testing. Testcontainers lets you add Docker containers to your tests, linked to the lifecycle of the test rather than having to be externally managed from the outside. I've found it useful, and hope others do too.
A few blog posts outline some of the ways the library can be used:
* JUnit integration testing with Docker and Testcontainers [1]
* Fun with Disque, Java and Spinach [2]
* Better JUnit Selenium testing with Docker and Testcontainers [3]
[1] https://rnorth.org/24/junit-integration-testing-with-docker-...
[2] https://rnorth.org/25/fun-with-disque-java-and-spinach
[3] https://rnorth.org/26/better-junit-selenium-testing-with-doc...
Comment · 11 years ago
I'd be really grateful for one if you still have any up for grabs. My email address is in my profile.
Thanks in advance