oliland

Citymapper | Data Science and Software Engineering | London, UK

Our mission is to make cities usable.

We're combining one of the world's most loved transport apps with new kinds of shared mobility services.

Citymapper is a great place to work with a small and dedicated team.

We are hiring for all roles, including data science, web, iOS, Android, backend engineering.

Our tech stack keywords: Python, golang, C++, React, Kotlin, Swift, Tensorflow, AWS.

All roles at https://citymapper.com/jobs

Or contact me at oli at citymapper dot com.

Seems biased to sort alphabetically. I clicked away without ever reaching B!

That sounds truly awful. How did you manage to enjoy your ice cream without wifi?

Let me get this straight: Instead of entrusting my ISP with my preference for porn, I'm entrusting you.

I fail to see how this is any better. You're a recent compsci graduate and I'm sure you have good intentions. Can you explain how your "private proxy" servers work, so that it's infeasable for an attacker, or even yourself, to know which websites I've accessed?

ProTip: Saying "we don't store logs" doesn't really give me the proof I need.

This isn't how the internet is supposed to work.

I was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours with your phone. The bonus part was where they used the intensity of the light as a Z-axis, so by moving the phone closer / further away you could build a 3D light painting in the canvas.

This answer purports a myth that compilers are magical black boxes, the sum of millions of hours of intense academic research that "you will never understand".

Replace "compiler" with "computer". Doesn't that make you angry? Answers like these do nothing but prevent people from learning about them.

If you are interested in compilers, here's Edinburgh University's notes from the course "Compiling Techniques", probably a good place to start. Don't let internet tough-guys stop you from learning.

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ct/

Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal!

    $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

If your bottom line is gross revenue, why not just A/B test your pricing?

In an app store this is really simple. Pitch the app at a different price tier every week (ideally during a stable period with no major public holidays or obvious seasonal variations). One week will make more money than most. That's your price.

Unit testing (and by extension, TDD) is easy in Objective C: Just test your models. Your models are (should be) the only thing that makes your app unique.

I made this with my classmate from Edinburgh Uni. Thanks for submitting it!

I also don't Facebook will think highly of the fact that they hide the like button once you have pressed it.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRC_b4g7Sg

This should work with Flash on Windows, but requires Flip4Mac on OSX: http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Friends of mine are currently assembling the boxes that he will land in: http://imgur.com/iKwmX

Interview with Gary Connery and his wife: http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460

Unfortunately it's live from the house of commons at the moment, but a lot of skydivers will be watching with eager eyes to see if he can arrive at the landing area safely and uninjured!

Edit 1: Flash only link - http://news.sky.com/home/sky-live-tv

Edit 2: The jump has been rescheduled to 3pm GMT.

Can you point me towards a sort function which will sort my data in the most appropriate way, every time?

Some sort functions might cover 99% of cases for web development, but not for other problems. The computer is not magical.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra

I tried to learn Ruby and Rails at the same time, but found it stressful to learn Ruby's elaborate syntactic sugar and Rails' enormous API at the same time. For me it certainly helped prototyping my application in Sinatra first and then dive into Rails once I understood more quirks of the language and it's web stack.