vikram

6 yıl öncediscuss

Break work down, so it can be done in a day by a developer. Track daily, i.e. switching to Kanban. If someone gets stuck ask another to help them, don't have too much work in progress at any time.

vikram

7 yıl öncediscuss

Summing lists != IO

vikram

7 yıl öncediscuss

Summing lists isnt IO

vikram

12 yıl öncediscuss

Frontend and Python developers | London, UK | Picturehouse cinemas

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd is looking for Python developers and front-end engineers.

Requirements

  - Python, html, css, javascript programming experience  
  - Ability to self-lead, a lot of the time you will be deciding for yourself what to work on.  
  - Ability to look at big picture architecture as well as small details code.  
  - Any experience in DevOps is attractive as we handle the full stack.  
  - 1-2 Days/week in London (Typically at Hackney Picturehouse) every week, rest from home.

About the company

  - We have a relaxed, family-friendly culture.  
  - We contribute to open-source projects  
  - We have real customers, who care about the product and use it every day  
  - Free cinema tickets, tickets to premieres,  
    discounts on food prepared by the chef, free soda  
    and barista made coffees  
  - Flexibility in hours and home working (2-3 days/week)  
  - We use python for almost everything  
  - Full stack cinema system from POS, ATM to public websites, and internal admin apps.  
  - A distributed, fault tolerant system so different parts of the business continue to sell in case of failures.
  - We sell 25K+ tickets and 30k+ transactions every day across 60+ cinemas.
 - We send around 500,000 emails a week and run quite a few websites.

If you are interested, drop me a line - vikram.b at picturehouses.co.uk

vikram

12 yıl öncediscuss

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd (Hackney, London, UK) =======================================

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd is looking for Python developers and front-end engineers.

Requirements

  - Python, html, css, javascript programming experience
  - Ability to self-lead, a lot of the time you will be deciding for yourself what to work on.
  - Ability to look at big picture architecture as well as small details code.
  - Any experience in DevOps is attractive as we handle the full stack.
  - 2-3 Days in London (Typically at Hackney Picturehouse) every week, rest from home.

About the company

  - We have a relaxed, family-friendly culture.
  - We contribute to open-source projects, with any non-sensitive code being available for ope

n-sourcing - We have real customers -- who care about the product and use it every day - Free cinema tickets, tickets to premieres, discounts on food prepared by the chef, free soda and barista made coffees - Flexibility in hours and home working (2-3 days/week)

What Python is used for:

  - We use python for almost everything
  - Full stack cinema system from POS, ATM to public websites, and internal admin apps.
  - A distributed, fault tolerant system so different parts of the business continue to sell i

n case of failures. - We sell 25K+ tickets and 30k+ transactions every day across 60+ cinemas. - We send around 500,000 emails a week - We run quite a few websites.

If you are interested, drop me a line - vikram.b at picturehouses.co.uk

vikram

14 yıl öncediscuss

Newman Online. London, UK.

We are looking for a Python Developer. We allow plenty of home working, but if you do come into the office, you get free tickets to the cinema we work above (and free barista made coffee).

There's a lengthy description at https://jobs.github.com/positions/9f7647ee-3c66-11e2-961a-fb... but in short we want someone with a lot of Python, who isn't scared by legacy code, and who doesn't require managing. We offer a lot of flexibility and freedom for the right candidates.

Development is run by developers, so we use sexy technologies when they are appropriate. We let people choose what they want to work on, but sometimes we all have to chip in on the grotty stuff.

Do checkout the advert or email us at [email protected] with any questions.

vikram

14 yıl öncediscuss

You are the management. It's always your fault. If you didn't actually write the bug. You could have trained the person who wrote the bug. You could have reviewed her code. You could have not let them check it in. You could have not let them work on the feature. You could have not hired them.

You could have fired them.

All this helps you do in a twisted way is figure out who you should fire. Chances are people will leave long before that.

Even though I'm not the boss of my team. Our policy is that it's always my fault. I find it liberating. Gives me an opportunity to learn from all our mistakes. And there is no finger pointing. Unless its at the management. As its always the managements fault.

vikram

16 yıl öncediscuss

Get a oven thermometer every oven is different, and you want temp of atleast 220 C, wood ovens have temps of 500 C, so the higher the better. I would even put the grill on. And put the tray into the oven while it preheats.

For the dough... Instead of room temp water use cold water (even ice cold water). For the second rise, leave it in the fridge overnight, the idea is to let it rise slowly for a long period of time.

After 2 minutes of pizza being in the oven. Spray with water, I just use the garden water spray. You want mist rather than a pool of water. This will reduce the temp a little, but will give the crust, without having to burn the pizza.

vikram

16 yıl öncediscuss

Paper and the text editor.

vikram

16 yıl öncediscuss

If you are happy with the IDEs then just use them. Having learned both vim and emacs over the past few years. I learned emacs so that I could use slime with lisp. Vim so that I could edit stuff on any server. Emacs has a big learning curve, vim is a bit easier to get into. If you use a mac you can try textmate, I've heard good things about it. On the vim side macvim, gvim are pretty good.

vikram

16 yıl öncediscuss

Is the objective for him to come in on time? Or for the work to be done? I guess you are having buyer's remorse. Do you guys have a way of seeing progress in the product? That would be the first thing I would do. This way you can see if the working habits need to change or not.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

Though I don't have any opposition to TDD as a technique, I have an issue when some developers believe that just because the code has tests it means that it works and if the code doesn't have tests it doesn't work.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

1.6 Billion people (quarter of the world's population), live without electricity. All of these people live in the developing nations. Without progress, these nations can't bring basic things like a glowing light bulb to large sections of their population.

I don't know if the chinese leadership is pragmatic or not, but it sort of makes sense to help your population today, than to help the planet in 50 years time.

I don’t think the choice is

Having lived in India and the UK, I'd say there is already a massive difference between India and UK, in terms of what we used. In India even if you can pay for water/electricity you just don't have access to it, there are regular power cuts in the summers as much as 8 hours a day in most cities. Running Water is available for a few hours a day. Most rich people drill a well and have a pump which pumps water into an overhead tank. For electricity, the rich have diesel generators, to run their homes.

In the UK, I've never experienced a power cut, never had any water shortage, no cut of gas to the house.

There just isn't any infrastructure in poorer nations. If you are poor you are on your own. If you are rich you are still on your own, but you have the resources to fix the problem for yourself.

I think it is important that 1.6 billion of us get electricity some time in the near future.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

Does one need to be an expert to follow the argument and form an opinion about it? If that was the case then why don't we let the experts make decisions, not just provide information.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

excellent work. love it. Like the favorite feature. works really smoothly.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

Use hunchentoot, it's got a simpler api and documentation too. I used to use UCW, then I abandoned it in favor of hunchentoot.

http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

There are different types of complexities.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

In uk most banks now transfer money within 2 hours.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

I would like to pick the color rather than enter the RGB numbers or the name.

vikram

17 yıl öncediscuss

I'd let the spam come in the first instance and not publish the link, based on rules, or algorithms once you have more data. Later on you can block certain ip addresses. Also try creating a blacklist to get you started.

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