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Comment · 7 years ago
Lexical Labs | Full time
Lexical Labs read, review and automatically mark-up contracts so that lawyers can review them quickly. There is a lot of tech going on to support this - NLP, ML and lots of UIs.
We are looking for a junior full stack Node.js/React dev as our first full-time developer hire in London, UK.
If you'd like to work at a small startup with big dreams to change how law works email [email protected] and let's have a chat!
Comment · 8 years ago
> Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.
Is it? I would have thought it is the commonwealth looking after the people that make it! Surely for countries with large sovereign wealth funds (especially those derived from the country's natural wealth), it makes sense to care for the people for which it is meant to provide!
The whole redistribution lens is a very specific way of looking at things.
Comment · 8 years ago
In my experience there are a couple kinds of product management. There is very user focused product management, and technical product management.
User-focused PMing is making tools that work for people - working with marketing, UX and client teams, to make sure you have a good Product/Market fit.
Technical PMing is more about making sure that you are building things the right way - making sure that the underlying models that your tools utilise are close to reality and understanding the roadmap that you will need to hit so that your releases will always be useful. It different from an architects role who is fed the information about the domain, the technical PM needs to synthesise this for the tech team to build, but there is a lot of overlap.
For engineers, it makes a lot of sense to become a technical PM, via being a team lead/architect, managing your devs more and coding less, and understanding more about why you are building what you are building that how what you are building it, and working with other PMs. From there, you do become more and more part of the design process, going up the food chain as it were, closer to the source of your user stories.
It's not the quick way of doing it, but PMs who understand the entire ecosystem are obviously more well rounded and may well be more effective than ones who have fallen into it from client management or marketing!
Comment · 9 years ago
> and would gladly pay the same amount again.
Looks like I'm going to have to. Only free upgrades to people to bought after 2013...
Comment · 9 years ago
There are a few new features over the last 5 years...
* Merge checks
* Build status (finally...)
* Audit logs
* Inline editing
Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity.
/not a bitbucket shill
//just don't like inaccurate comments.
Comment · 10 years ago
... which is kind of annoying if you sleep on top of one. Endless tocking away on a hot summer night where you can't sleep is kind of like water drip torture.
Comment · 11 years ago
What I don't get is, if it is such a simple aircraft - pretty much an airliner with the passenger section being a bomb bay - and we're pretty good at making airliners these days - why don't they as a short term stop gap just turn an airliner airframe into a bomber?
With modern materials, avionics and engines you could have a aircraft that flies faster and more efficiently, thus able to fly further and for less ongoing maintenance cost. I also imagine training would be simpler, if it meant they didn't have to train pilots with slide rules...
Comment · 11 years ago
It would be nicer if this wasn't tied in to a server implementation, so it could be a standard react component that specifies a couple of handlers as PropTypes. Would make it much more easier for people to reuse it!
Comment · 11 years ago
Just throwing this in here - we already do this at my work with a thing called office vibe [1]. Everyone seems to like it .
Comment · 11 years ago
Started doing start body weight training this year inspired by these progressions [1].
The problem I found with having to do weights or going for runs is that you need to leave the house and can't just do it right away every single day with a minimum of friction. This reduces motivation and makes it less likely to keep going.
I just get up 30 minutes earlier and go through half of this every day, alternating pushes and pulls. It's really simple for me and don't have any excuse to stop doing it, unless I'm a little delicate from the night before - but I find that even that gets blasted out of the system fairly quickly.
Haven't changed my diet or lost any weight, but I'm sure my muscle to fat ratio is a lot better. Definitely feel stronger and more energised than I was before.
[1] http://www.startbodyweight.com/2014/01/basic-routine-infogra...
Comment · 11 years ago
Qubit - London - Full Time
Qubit enables people to personalise their websites by connecting a data-store of visitor state to a framework for UI components that make it really easy for marketers to make use of their data.
Having recently got Series B funding, we are really ramping up our development team and are looking in particular for:
* UX designers and
* full stack Javascript engineers.
Our product is based around making technical problems easy for non-developers so we really like having UX experts working closely along side our engineers as we release new iterations of our product.
Our tech stack is constantly growing with new tools that help us work better: at the moment we are excited by Flux, React.js, SuitCSS and finding smart ways to deploy our SOA backend, based around Node.js.
We help each other grow with 1:1 mentoring, coding dojos and pairing. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.
If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at [email protected], telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after.
Comment · 12 years ago
Qubit - London, New York, Lahore - Full Time
We just announced our Series B funding this week by Accel, Balderton & Salesforce and we're using that to grow, so we are looking for all types to come on board! Software engineers, DevOps, Data Scientists, Web Developers, Technical Product Managers and a whole heap of non-tech jobs as well: http://qubitproducts.com/content/qubit-jobs
Qubit is all about having a central hub of data to improve your website - a good summary is here: https://medium.com/venture-capital-growth-hacking/point-solu.... We work with some of the biggest companies in the UK and are rapidly expanding into the US and EU.
We use the latest technologies to power this (Storm, HBase in various JVM flavours, AWS, Backbone & React.js). We ship several times a day. We help each other grow with dojos and pairing. We deal with cutting edge statistics. Our systems that handle process billions of data points per day. We open source as much as we can. We are constantly striving to improve our coding and our development processes.
If that sounds like your sort of place - drop us a line at [email protected], telling us a bit about yourself and what you are after!
Comment · 12 years ago
I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
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