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if it's built, I suspect we may experience what living on Mars would be like.

Totally agreed. I dare to download an Electron app these days. Some days I wish it was 1997 and all apps were native :)

You're using Windows, I believe?

This app is so native neither CMD + W nor CMD + SHIFT + W closes the Whatsapp window - yay!

Since when it became fashionable to use a wrapper of your web site? "Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications, better keyboard shortcuts, and more." I think Firefox is perfectly capable of doing any of those. I just hate it someone comes up and says 'Look we built a native app' I'm sorry but no you haven't! If I wanted to use your web page I can do that I don't need you to wrap it and ship it as a native app. Disappointed.

Saw this earlier this morning but just had to use it and boom! It worked perfectly. I really like the idea of using things on the console and the user interface is nice and sleek. would love to see this getting even better over time!

Will the rate stats include the history of rent increases? Or for that matter how the landlord behaved when the previous tenant moved out? Rental market in London is an absolute car crash. Most of us don't even bother doing anything about how we're treated and so the next tenant will have no way of knowing what they'll encounter within or at the end of their tenancy. I hope this app will make some difference but the best fix to London rental market bug is to move out of London.

Apart from the highly rewarding business model I've gone through exactly the same path as you have. I have no appetite for coding now. But at the same time I don't know what else I can do. I don't want to give up the lifestyle I have now but starting from scratch will mean getting a pay cut. It's a vicious circle.

For some reason, I didn't see this yesterday but I'm glad it's been re-posted (even though it's redundant) this will be a very hand tool!

Great combination! I might finally get some work done today, thanks!

This depends on how people learn and perceive information. If I hadn't learnt programming before I was taught Maths and Calculus, I probably wouldn't have understood some of the basics like Functions, Matrixes and Series etc or it would have taken me quite a while to grasp the idea.

For me Maths is boring. It's abstract and you don't have any interaction whereas programming is more fun for me. I never truly understood some of the physical and mathematical concepts I was taught in school and uni until I came across programming/software development problems that are solved with those and only then I realised how useful they can be.

This was a joke guys.

Are you being slightly passive-aggressive? That's what I understand if I see "Thanks" instead of "Many thanks!"

Well said. I was once asked to do a almost 1 and a half day long coding test without even given any indication on how much money they're going to offer me and where exactly I would fit in the organisation. And they asked it after about 5 people spend an our interviewing and grilling me each. Seeing that I've got 8+ years experience in software development I thought this is just ridiculous.

This is really mind blowing.

I see what you mean but try looking at it from this perspective; dinosaurs are extinct but we know they lived. and how do we know it? because we found fossils. So if find fossils, does that mean dinosaurs never went extinct? Or if the birds evolved from dinosaurs is a true statement, then that should mean they never went extinct, right? What I mean by "extinct" is exactly how the dictionaries define it "no longer in existence".

Interesting thoughts though. And you are right, I never thought of Excel as a programming langue if I'm honest.

Am I the only one who thinks pair programming just makes you sleepy?

Giving away access to my Gmail account just so I can visualise my Uber rides is a bit too much I think!

I wouldn't be that sure. Similar thing happened to me in the past. Two phone interviews (one with HR, one with a developer). Asked to go for a face-to-face and they asked me to do a coding exercise in an hour but what they wanted would've taken a good few days to implement.

Anyway, my solution worked. We went through my code and discussed a few possible performance improvements. I was also asked a few theoretical questions which I answered confidently and was under no pressure at all.

They got back to me two days later just saying 'no'. No feed-back whatsoever. It was because the two developer who interviewed me were the world's most miserable developers and the moment they walked in I could tell they have no interest in talking to me or interviewing me. Not even trying to engage in small talk. I wasn't going to take it even if I was offered the role because I wouldn't want to work with them. And they probably found me too friendly and sociable and instead wanted to work with an introvert.

Bottomline is it all comes down to the chemistry. This sounds like I'm talking about romantic relationships but it's more or less the same whenever you're about to join a new social group. That's why all these coding exercises, in my opinion, are just a waste of time.

Brilliant video. It's definitely a lot better to see the basic principles and evolution of those principles in action.

All I want is air-cooling as I'm sure the number of using the tube by 2020 will increase by 70% and we will still have to cram in...

I'm sorry to say I did run a piece of java code to see how it handled creating many threads.. Didn't mean to cause any harm. I was just curious.