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jph98on Google Drive Accounts – Unannounced File Limits for Accounts

Relatively underhand change by Google early last month to limit all Google Drive consumer accounts to 5m files/folders regardless of whether you've reached the storage limit or not - paid or unpaid.

Causing chaos for lots of people, especially if you're utilising Google API's for storage and document editing for your own apps.

This was not announced, is not documented and was rolled out without notification.

jph98on Ultraleap – tactile sensations projected onto your hands

I tried this tech back a year ago at a tech fair - not compelling, nor particularly accurate either.

jph98on Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

In my experience of senior positions, they're typically ignored if you apply through Linkedin. You're better off going direct with a nice cover letter.

jph98on Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine

Leveraging a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm for music information retrieval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=JIR6HJISrtY...

jph98on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

For somebody who has to do "company" or "engineering team rescue", this is awesome and hugely important to me.

jph98on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)

Location: Bristol, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, React (+ Native), Python, Java

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanholloway/

Blog: https://medium.com/@jonathan.holloway

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D7LpdfSMI8qTdp1YwBT6Sjqp...

Email: jonathan.holloway@gmail.com

Software engineer, data engineer, product manager, engineering manager/CTO looking for contract work (remote or SW England based) primarily. Relocation eventually for the right role.

jph98on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

Elephant Healthcare | London, UK - Full-Time | https://elephant.healthcare We’re a startup in Shoreditch building a healthcare management platform for Africa/Middle East markets. Heavy data/analytics platform, responsive web with mobile clients to follow. Tech stack is AWS, MongoDB, Node/ES, Rambda, React, Redux, RxJs. Looking for the following people for engineering:

    * Mid level front-end engineer
    * Mid level back-end engineer
    * Senior Engineer (Platform) - with approx 50% spent doing back-end engineering and devops with the team.

Up to 50-90k GBP with equity and benefits depending on experience.

Email us with any questions at jon dot holloway at elephant.healthcare

jph98on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113144

Ometria | London (UK) | Full-Time | https://ometria.com

Ometria's mission is to stop impersonal ‘one size fits all’ marketing campaigns and make the way retailers communicate with their customers more personalised and engaging. We are bringing the technology of the hyper-growth retail giants, like Amazon, to many more retailers utilising advanced data modelling and machine learning techniques, and this involves processing many millions of data points quickly and reliably.

We’re building out a B2B SaaS platform to support this using Javascript and Python (Flask services) on AWS and Kubernetes at scale.

Open roles are as follows:

- Lead Site Reliability Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/8605A40E4F

- Senior Python Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/DD178A47E6

- Product Manager: https://www.workable.com/j/1BF3115981

- Machine Learning Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/E0C3A6993E

Tech Stack: JS, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres, Redshift - https://stackshare.io/ometria

jph98on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

Blis are looking for several engineers to join our engineering teams working on location/behavioural solutions for programmatic adtech.

We're around 30 engineers building out a data platform using Spark, Scala, Python with Druid, Cassandra and PostGIS. We build API's and apps using JS/JVM tech.

Tech We Use: Scala/Java/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Ansible/PostgreSQL/Cassandra/Druid/Redshift/Luigi

Qualifications

- 5+ years of commercial software development experience. - Experience with JVM technology (Scala a plus, but not essential) - Rapid development, aptitude for picking up new tech quickly - Excellent communication skills

https://lnkd.in/dJuiQ_r

jph98on Ask HN: Who's mentoring?

Leadership, Software Teams and CTO Related Services | London | Jon H | Jonathan.holloway@gmail.com | jonathanholloway.co.uk

Interim CTO and software management. Mentoring for software teams and engineering management. Hiring, growth.

Interested in helping companies from startups to mid size : )

jph98on Game Genie declassified: That summer I played 230 Game Boy games

POKE 47196, 201

jph98on The Teradrive – A Sega Mega Drive and IBM PC Hybrid

A friend of mine owned one of the latter Amstrad MegaPC models, same sort of thing but based on the 80386SX processor. It was pretty cool - http://www.segaretro.org/Amstrad_Mega_PC

jph98on GCHQ: Can you find it?

My impression is that they actually pay the tech people pretty well to be chained to a desk...

jph98on Javapocalypse

Nearly £700 really?

I spent £100 on Geecon last year.

jph98on R 3.0.0 Released

Release Notes - http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/base/NEWS.html

jph98on Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master

Yawn!

jph98on Java 7 is now available

No no, closures (basic) are part of Java 7.

jph98on The reverse job applicant

I sympathize. It's horrible being in this position when you first graduate, rest assured - somebody will give you a break, I assure you that. Some advice

1. Clean up your CV, make it look more for professional and less arty.

2. Stress the open source project and dev blog in interviews along with any books/resources and interesting language features/features you're currently using at the moment.

3. Don't wait for somebody to come to you. A good approach is to approach employers directly rather than using recruitment agents or middlemen. You will find somebody who will give a break. Recruitment agents are the scum of the earth, but sometimes very useful - I didn't find them so useful when starting out.

4. You weren't unemployed for two years - I can't stress this enough. You worked on open source projects during that time and learned a whole bunch. Right?

Good luck with the job search : )

jph98on Compute command-line arguments with Apache Commons CLI

There's also JCommander - such is the myriad of random Java frameworks for achieving the same thing.

http://beust.com/weblog/2010/07/13/announcing-jcommander-1-0...

It's annotation based though and looks to be a bit easier to use Commons CLI - which is what I currently use on projects.

jph98on 2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo

Baidu also has search results relating to the subject:

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=Liu+Xiaobo&n=2

jph98on What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

No no, it's not the attitude it conveys, it's the attitude it encourages in the way developers act.

jph98on What developers think when you say "Rock Star"

A rock star is somebody who plays in a rock band!

There is no such thing as a rock star developer. It's a stupid stupid term. You have no inherent connection with rock music, you are not famous and don't have thousands of adoring fans. I'm convinced that a number of balding, pony tailed idiot developers and snotty college grads think they do - but you don't - get over yourself.

Stop using the term, right, now, it's stupid, seriously.

I'm not going to get started on "code ninja". Jesus... WTF comes up with this rubbish.