vikram

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.

Summing lists != IO

Summing lists isnt IO

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.  

  - 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.

 

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.

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

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

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

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 jobs@newmanonline.org.uk with any questions.

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.

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.

Paper and the text editor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

There are different types of complexities.

In uk most banks now transfer money within 2 hours.

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

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.

Get the little schemer. It shows basics of functional programming. Download PLTScheme it's easily the best environment for scheme. Try the examples to get a hang of it.

Management is to general. What specifically do you want this person to do? Build plans? Make decisions? Make sure the office is clean?

If it is shape our business. I would say you need someone with a background in what you guys are working on. I think it'll be difficult to find this person out of your core group. One of you needs to do this job for the time being.

It works fine. But doesn't have sb-threads enabled so, at best you can use it for fun or development. Webservers like hunchentoot will give errors if you open a second request at the same time.

The way to fix this is, to do a which sbcl to find out where it's installed for me it was in /opt/local/ then download the source from http://www.sbcl.org

In the sbcl folder create a file called customize-target-features.lisp and put the following code in it...

(lambda (features) (flet ((enable (x) (pushnew x features)) (disable (x) (setf features (remove x features)))) ;;; Threading support, available only on x86/x86-64 Linux, x86 Solaris ;;; and x86 Mac OS X (experimental). (enable :sb-thread)))

now sh make.sh and then export INSTALL_ROOT=/opt/local/ and sudo sh install.sh

Try sbcl

if you get an error that it can't find the core then copy the core in output folder in sbcl to where it says it can't find sbcl.core

that'll give you sbcl with threads on macosx and Aquamacs that loads it in a fraction of a second.

Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans has a bunch of recipes which deal with meditation. You could probably get it on http://safari.informit.com I think the first couple of weeks is free.

Fourfold Breath is the basic technique. Or google pranayama yoga. I idea is to control your breathing and through that control your being.

I didn't write a lot of the libraries. Maybe 50% of the code is mine, most the algorithm implementations, the rest of the stuff is picked up from previous projects or existing utilities that lisp programmer's have written.

The reason one uses lisp is because the team is small. Very small like 1 person. So sharing isn't really that much of a concern.

I agree that it makes it harder to start. Which means that very few people stick with it.

Last project I worked on had 9154 lines of lisp code out of which 4800 lines are utilities, that I've accumulated and written.

The utilities cover everything from hash, list, string, files, function, a simple version of prolog, some algorithms like bloomfilter, suffix-tree, a simple bayesian filter implementation and a lot of stuff makes writing code easier.

So it's pretty normal to have a large set of utilities that you prefer. It sort of ensures that the code doesn't become to large.

I use (hput hash key value) and (hget hash key) a couple of functions, which I have. So it's a bit verbose than hash[key] = value or hash[key]. But it lets me write stuff like...

(defexample cineworld-cinema-page

  (:record :cinema-listing

    (:name "ENFIELD")

    (:record-loop :film

     (:name "BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA" "BRIDE WARS")

     (:director "Raja Gosnell" "Gary Winick")

     (:starring "Andy Garcia, Drew Barrymore, Piper Perabo, George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis"
		"Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen")

     (:record-loop :date

      (:day "Mon 26 Jan" "Tue 27 Jan")

      (:record-loop :time

		    (:listing "11:10" "13:30")))))

  "http://www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/22")

Lisp has support for {} syntax for hashes. It's just not built in. Use a reader macro.

A friend of mine created http://www.muvium.com/. It lets you build the device virtually using java.

I'm going to make a different kind of statement here. Something that I've learnt from my CL experience.

When I think about solving a problem by writing new software, I ask myself, is a run of a mill problem like a website which serves data, or making use of a bunch of libraries to do something. Then use rails/django, I use django/python.

If I don't know what the solution will look like and I don't think I'm going to need existing libraries. I'll use CL everytime.

Horses for courses. Nails and hammmers.

I think CL is suitable for projects which are fluid and have a very few people working on them. Speaking from personal experience 1 person can get an awful lot done in CL, very quickly. Compared to any other scripting language. I've worked with CL, Python and Ruby. There are certain things that I think are impossible to write in Python.

I started by writing a domain-specific crawler which extracted certain information from a bunch of sites. But the sites I was crawling changed their design mid way. So I then ended up writing a program in CL, to which I describe the data that the site has. E.g. Name-of-city is "Edinburgh", Address is '15 Market Place, ED12', First-Movie-name is 'Bend it like Beckham', First-showing-date is '15 Jan', First-showing-time is '14:20'. The program then produces a function which when give a page from this website extracts this information in the form of an alist so that it can be pushed into the database.

Funnily enough the my site which shows this data runs on django.