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raystar··on Ask HN: What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?
I used https://twitter.github.io/scala_school/ to learn, I found it useful.
raystar··on What Orwell discovered in the North
In chrome, right click on the tab and click mute.

Annoying that it is hidden though.

raystar··on Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1
To save other a search I found out how here: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/remapping-caps-lock-ke...
raystar··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
Goals for Giving are looking for a junior full-time web developer to work on our new online charity fundraising application (http://www.goalsforgiving.com).

Candidates must have an understanding and knowledge of HTML/CSS and Javascript. Additionally, exposure to Ruby/Python/PHP, Command Line experience and a familiarity with TDD (we use RSpec) would be great.

Bonus points for PhoneGap/iOS or Android development, Node.js, Redis, Mongo or Scala knowledge.

You will be working alongside our lead developer, helping build out from our current MVP into broader and richer application.

The position will be based in East London.

Email jobs@goalsforgiving.com for more information.

raystar··on My response to "CoffeeScript means giving up on JavaScript"
Interesting, would you care to expand?
raystar··on Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
How is Chocolat?
raystar··on Bike ride, accident, and ambulance trip tracked on Runkeeper
While I do not condone what Agro Biker did, I did chuckle slightly.
raystar··on Ask HN: image scaling on the fly
From their site:

You can pass other info in the outputs hashes, like labels, your own ids, or whatever. That extra info will be passed back to you in the response JSON.

So I assume it is a case of emailing them and asking for an exhaustive list of what can be passed to their api, the documentation definitely needs work.

raystar··on Ask HN: image scaling on the fly
There is http://imagejuicer.com/, that seems to do what you want.
raystar··on Rails 3.0: Release candidate
Quite simple, I rewrote a medium sized app in about a day, and actually fixed a few things too.

I found it really easy to upgrade from either rails 2.3.x or merb.

raystar··on Let's End Programmer Bigotry
I'm unaware that the wage for a PM is the main motivating interest for most, in this case David Cameron being I assume at least moderately wealthy, the comparison is flawed I feel.

I don't agree that paying MPs more would create an environment for less corruption, I have so far seen little restraint in human greed, and even those at the very top of the pay scale are not above eking more out of the system.

What would help with corruption, would be a more open lobbying system, restrictions on the jobs MPs can take after leaving parliament and ensuring members of the cabinet cannot be employed when they have obvious biases, a former oil company head being minister for energy for example.

Also as is obviously the case in many industries, Health and Social Care being one, the private sector model does not always make sense.

raystar··on Let's End Programmer Bigotry
By what measure is 65k a small amount of money, from what i remember the average wage in the uk is ~26k, and many full time workers earn much less than this.
raystar··on Ask HN: Has iOS irrevocably fallen behind?
notifications in IOS need to be completely redesigned, they are terrible at the moment, and trivial things can completely interrupt a tweet/game/email.
raystar··on Do programmers need a union?
Have you any examples of this?