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Scalyr - Java Backend Engineer - San Francisco Mid-Peninsula (on-site) - $140-180k, 0.7-1.5% equity

We're looking for our fifth engineer, and it's a rare opportunity - the equity, influence, and fun of an early-stage company, with stability, great pay, and a low-stress, engineering-driven culture. We have great backers, strong traction, and an 11-digit target market.

At one level, we're a server operations tool: log analysis, system metrics, dashboards and alerting. Underneath, we're building a super-high-speed distributed columnar database that enables interactive (subsecond) exploration of terabyte datasets; fronted by a lean, mean web UI.

Users love our product, because it's fast, powerful, and straightforward. We love building our product, because we get to tackle fun challenges and we have customers who appreciate it. I've built half a dozen startups, including Writely (aka Google Docs), and I can honestly say this is my favorite so far.

If you're interested in working on large-scale data filtering and aggregation, distributed systems, and extreme performance - drop me a line at steve@scalyr.com! Or stop by https://www.scalyr.com/careers for more info.
This is fucking dope.

Since watching the Ted talk about patient capital from jacqueline novogratz I've been fascinated with the concept of pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, for consumption in Africa.

It'd be really cool to study what kind of impact could be achieved on the disease epidemic in Africa if more pharmaceuticals were produced there. "Pre-FDA" approved plants at cheaper costs look like a nice large-scale step.
Ticket Evolution - New York, NY - FULL-TIME, INTERN

http://www.ticketevolution.com

Ticket Evolution is an API company building technology to power the secondary ticketing industry.

Our stack consists of ruby/rails, javascript(backbone, node, react), postgres and redis. We are hiring engineers of all levels (Frontend and Backend).

About the job:

* Startup that is financially stable.

* About 10 devs currently and growing.

* Fun startup environment.

* Good comp and all the expected benefits.

* Lots of autonomy (choose the best tools for the job).

Check out http://ticketevolution.com/about for more info about us.

If interested please email jobs@ticketevolution.com
> Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features).

That's why I personally want emacs on my phone and tablet. I don't know yet the best way to expose its functionality with a touch interface, but it's still, hands-down the best way to edit information.

Maybe something where a tap in the minibar offers some sort of helm- or ido-like command-picking mode, and with taps on the side to enable quick execution of text-editing commands? I dunno, really.

> That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc.

Emacs can handle formatting, tables and pictures if you want.
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Lombard, IL, USA - Full-Time - ONSITE

We are looking for a full-time computer science teacher for our private high school. It's a small school and you'd be taking over as the head of our CS curriculum teaching Python, Java, Scratch, and HTML/CSS to eager and smart 8th through 12th graders.

Must be highly-passionate about programming, have real-world work experience. Previous experience at another school or college is preferred but not a must.

You must absolutely love teaching others, passing on knowledge, and shaping the minds of young students. IT-related careers are definitely the future and it's a great responsibility and a grand privilege to directly influence the career paths and thinking processes of the next generation of creative persons looking to be leaders in tomorrow's world.

Visas are unfortunately not available. Must be a native English speaker. If you're interested shoot me an email at mqudsi@NeoSmart.net
Upswing | Austin, TX | ONSITE

Upswing is looking for a Backend Software Engineer with experience in object-oriented programming and SQL. We've grown 5x over the past 2 years, and are looking for a sharp mind to join our tech team. Fun environment, great benefits, and lots of career opportunities!

https://angel.co/upswing/jobs/94821-backend-software-enginee...
applicable username.

also witty
So this is like True Dungeon gone mainstream?
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Connexity - Camarillo, CA (Los Angeles area) | on-site | http://connexity.com

Are you interested in learning advertising tech from the inside out? (Yes, I know ad-blocking is all the rage these days. Come be part of the solutions by enabling sensible display ads.) We're looking for a savvy individual who takes their personal development seriously and seeks to make a huge impact.
You'll be working alongside a tight, driven team right in the heart of the profit center. Our division of Connexity works in online display advertising (aka "banner ads") through real time bidding, and we run 50 to 100 million impressions each day. Our total transaction volume is between 5 and 10 billion per day, and I'd bet you a burger we've served ads on nearly every site you've ever visited.

#About Connexity:

Our team is sharp and works well together. We enjoy perks such as daily paid lunch, a 9/80 schedule (to get every other Friday off) and unconstrained vacation; the culture of our team recognizes and respects the importance of your non-work life. Also, Ventura county is a pretty nice place to live/work (unless you hate temperate coastal weather). If you've got Rails or other relevant web app experience, that's a good start. More importantly, you'll be eager to learn display advertising inside and out. Attitude, ambition and sound judgement trump experience with a specific set of tools.
We're a small team within a medium-sized organization, and we work hard to keep the small-team vibe while availing ourselves of the best bits from the mother ship.

#Position 1: Rails + exposure to Scala, Hbase & Kafka

We need someone to contribute to our Ruby on Rails app. It's used to administer hundreds of advertising campaigns across hundreds of publisher sites. It's not just boring CRUD. It provides a ton of control and insight to the team that operates our clients' campaigns; it's truly the heart of our display advertising business. The business folks will know you, and you'll find that excellence will stir up a tremendous amount of appreciation for your work. This role is a great way to learn advertising tech at scale as well as other tools. In addition to Rails work, you'd get hands on experience with Redis, Hbase, PostgreSQL, R and Scala. Several on the current team started in the Rails app and have moved into other areas of interest (low-latency RTB bidder written in C, sophisticated reporting pipelines or novel optimization algorithms).

#Position 2: Data Savvy, Impeccably Responsible, Scala, Storm, Hbase & Kafka

We need someone to help build our data pipeline and optimization systems. You're comfortable working with distributed systems. You have a firm grasp of data structures, operating JVM systems at scale and generally building reliable systems. We need someone with sound judgement and above-average clarity of thought and word to help drive us forward. If you've wanted the opportunity to build systems that comb through billions of transactions a day, please reach out to us.

-- Unless you prefer to start with a HR-oriented chat, you can reach me (a lead engineer on the team) at david.larsen@connexity.com.
Interesting sarcastic, insulting proposal. I'm tackling just that issue within my own company now, and it's incredibly difficult. I'll explain why.

The main issue is that once you exceed a certain number of developers, the problems become more human than software. It's not the software problem we need to solve, and our solution to the human problem thus far is highly individual and anti-system, riddled with ineffective processes, "communication problems," and "culture issues" that we believe are someone else's problem that we can do very little to fix even as leaders. These are the root cause of quality issues, and without looking at the whole system—and indeed, creating a whole organization capable of looking at the whole system—the quality issues will continue dependably.

The final issue is that when it comes to people problems, everyone has their own beliefs. Ideas are easy—ideas can be explained, processes implemented, software designed—but beliefs are hard. If I were to write to a VC outlining these ideas (which are W. Edwards Deming's ideas circa 1950, Joseph Juran's ideas circa 1980, and Peter Sholtes's ideas continuing into the 90's, and the foundation of the current Lean movement in software, education, manufacturing, and healthcare)‚ what would really change? I can make a convincing argument, but I would be in for a 1-3 year conversation about beliefs about management and people, depending on the person and their adaptability and openness to new ideas. It's much easier to simply do it, and I'm trying to do as much as I can in the context of a growing company at present.

Plus, there are companies who are already into this stuff. Pluralsight integrates Deming's philosophy into their management and onboarding. Check them out.

Someday I will start my own company, and these concepts will be at the foundation. For sure. Until then, I'll try my best to shift some perspectives.
Just a thought - if the ad network uses js code (hosted on abc.com and xyz.com servers), which loads images from the same domain (but it loaded in on a server-to-server link, and cached and served from the the domain you're visiting). Can they not just set a tracking cookie for that domain that they control with a unique ID, tied to browser fingerprinting, which is transmitted to the ad network?

So you visit abc.com for the first time, get an ad image served from the same domain (but was provided from the ad network), have the cookie set, the ID is noted by the ad network.

You then visit xyz.com, a new cookie is generated, which can be tracked by the ad network as the ID is the same.

So you now get tailored/tracking adverts without any third party domains being accessed by your browser...
That isn't the case anymore, and it is becoming less the case as time goes on. Life? Sure, but every country at least pays lip service to that now. Pursuit of happiness? A pretty, but vacuous concept. Liberty? The only concept of the bunch with any teeth, and, since the Irish, German and Jewish immigrations of the 1800's, a concept in decline.

America is no longer a nation, rather it is a multi-ethinic empire, held together by force and historical momentum.
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C++ 15 years, C# 7 years, Windows, OSX, iOS, embedded, videogames, and a lots more.
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This polarization has been documented.

And seems to produce a higher incidence of autism too, if the anecdotes are to be believed...
Ha ha. I've noticed there's a particularly active British contingent as well who make sure to add a media section that cites primarily British media sources or usually in article about inventions and stuff will add a section to show that the actual origin was some obscure British inventor who had invented it before everybody else. Judging from the slant of many articles I've noticed, that country seems to be a little overrepresented among contributors on English language wikipedia (relative to other English speaking countries)
Interesting article but I hate to say that I completely lack objectivity when it comes to Trump. I can usually be very objective but not with Trump... I just can NOT stand Trump and I think he will be the ruin of america and our Nero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero

It blows my mind that he is so popular in the polls - what's wrong with people?

In any case, I still stay optimistic and hope my fellow americans are smart enough to not vote an idiot like trump... Unfortunately there are no good candidates, evil Hilary, idiot trump, inexperienced carson and a bunch of other bozos... sad :(

Maybe we should import some qualified immigrants to run for president.
The level of detail in the article is insufficient for us to be arguing over this.

But having worked on government software projects before, I am aware that some fraction of them are dominated by office politics and contractor ass-covering rather than any desire to provide some benefit to the public in exchange for its tax dollars.

Absent any additional facts that would contradict, my default assumption is that peon employee was reamed for making his superiors look bad, rather than any genuine technical or legal limitation.

Here's what I saw in my head.

Dev: Mind if I watch how you use this program for a bit?
911: Nah. Slow today.
Dev: Hey, what's that mean there?
911: That's a priority call.
Dev: What's the difference.
911: Real emergencies, instead of cat stuck up a tree type calls.
Dev: People actually call 911 for that?
911: You have no idea. People call when their drive-through order is wrong.
Dev: Wouldn't it help if those were, like, highlighted, or something?
911: Yeah, but they told us it couldn't be done on this system.
Dev: I bet I could do it.
(30 minutes later)
Dev: See, look. I knew I could do it.
911: That's great! Go show this to Mgr!
Dev: Hello Mgr, look what I did! The dispatchers love it!
Mgr: You're a loose cannon, Dev! Turn in your badge and gun right now!
Dev: Wait... what?
Mgr: You have to follow the rules in this department, Maverick. Lives are at stake!
Dev: I literally feel like you are speaking a different language right now.
Mgr: If you so much as pick your own nose without approval, your ass is mine.
Dev: I'll just be going now, thanks.

In this fictional scenario, the boss isn't mad because the dev changed the system, but because he had already told people that what was done was impossible, or had to wait years until the next major upgrade version. The end-users discover that there is a layer of resistance between them and the developers, which exists only to resist change and make it more expensive. When someone sees that a feature they have previously been denied can be implemented by some punk kid the same day, it undermines the authority of management.

And it interferes with that deal where management enters the feature request on behalf of the end-users, the crony-packed development contractor quotes eight weeks and $50000 for it, and some punk kid still does it in one day, but with a bunch of other people skimming off the top at taxpayer expense. That gets rolled into a periodic upgrade package that the end-users are conditioned to fear, because it always interferes with their work for at least a week.

That's just the stuff I make up in my head when I don't know the whole story, because that's what matches up with my anecdotal life experience.
So...micromanagement and frequent status meetings work. Ugh.
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Problem: most regular users have horrible asymmetric internet connections, and it certainly has not improved at 50x/decade as stated. As I recall, I had 2Mbit/512kbit cable in 2000, and now I Have 10Mbit/1Mbit.

"Youtube, Netflix, and a lot of other services put a very large number of boxes close to consumers to provide high-bandwidth low-latency connections. A side effect of this is that any company that owns one of these services has the capability of providing consumers with infinite disk that’s only slightly slower than normal disk.[...]The most common counter argument to disaggregated disk, both inside and outside of the datacenter, is bandwidth costs. But bandwidth costs have been declining exponentially for decades and continue to do so."

I have, at best, 1 Mbit upstream at my house. The author states:

"A typical consumer 3TB HD has an average throughput of 155MB/s, making the time to read the entire drive 3e12 / 155e6 seconds = 1.9e4 seconds = 5 hours and 22 minutes."

but my upstream connection is three orders slower (in spite of costing the same amount). How am I supposed to get my data to the provider? Just emailing an attached photo is already painful...

These are really intersting ideas for business and the data center, but I think the author is out of touch with how bad consumer internet service is for us regular chumps.
Likewise, always seems to be London. Plenty of tech companies in Manchester so hopefully this will increase.
I dunno, a google search for "underscore pete" yielded this page as the top hit: http://underscorepete.xyz/post/article/dick-stream

The page is something about "The dick based streaming platform you never knew you needed", with the singular statement: "Dicks, dicks everywhere".

Seems pretty appropriate to this whole mess if you ask me!
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Currently in my company we are using this software http://www.reportportal.com/ but we are looking for alternatives. The best thing of this software is that it has an editor where we can use sql to do the dashboards, so that is a must. Anyone knows any other similar software?
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Fusion reactors can use different fuels based on how good they are at containing plasma.

Right now, almost all research is directed towards the easiest possible fuel that requires least powerful containment, that is, Tritium (H3) and Deuterium (H2). Deuterium can be separated from water, and Tritium can be bred from Lithium using waste neutrons.

T+D is inexhaustible, but also quite expensive as both separation and neutron breeding are relatively expensive. However, as a fusion reactor consumes tiny amounts of fuel per unit of energy, a T+D reactor could potentially still run profitably.

If we get better at containing plasma, other fuel choices become available. Most important being Boron + Hydrogen, which would be inexhaustible, cheap, and produces minimal neutrons during fusion, making it easier on the equipment.

However, free fuel doesn't mean free energy. The cost of all nuclear power, including current fission power, is utterly dominated by the capital cost of equipment.
Maybe creating complex, multithreaded systems should better be left to AI. It could be able to track all the required factors for correctness in a way we humans mostly can't do.
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I've consulted with many high profile clients in the Bay Area including Funny or Die, One Kings Lane and Manilla.com.

I'm not interested in an any sort of front end work or UI enhancements.

Please contact me if you have any initiatives that are mission critical to your business (payment processing, large scale refactorings, scalability issues).

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I predict this will happen with self driving cars. They will very rapidly lead to pay per journey uber style. They will also easily be able to do deliveries (arrive at home when you do, wave phone/enter pin to unlock delivery box).

Rather than go to multiple stores, each surrounded by a large car park, it would be more desireable to go to a collection of stores that are colocated, pick out what you want, and have it delivered as you get home so you don't have to carry it around.
MNX Solutions | Monroe, MI | FULL_TIME, ONSITE

MNX Solutions is a server management and cloud hosting provider (https://mnx.io). We are looking for an experienced Linux admin to assist with our infrastructure and consulting services.

* Ansible is a key component of our methodology. We expect experience with a configuration management solution such as Chef, Puppet, or Saltstack.
* 3+ years Linux experience preferred.
* Juniper networking, and SmartOS experience would be a bonus!

Please reach out and introduce yourself via email to hr@mnxsolutions.com and reference this posting.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Toronto) No recruitment agencies.

I've helped hundreds of web and phone apps in my career. I've largely been the driver of user interface design and user experience. My approach to UX/UI is pragmatic with clean and straightforward design. I often prototype my concepts in Python/Flak/Jinja or Angular. I'm very good at taking the project ideas and adopting them to fit the specific business and product needs.

- User Experience (HIG, Wire-framing, User Stories & Paths)

- User Interface Design (Concept to Optimized)

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Peace Plus for iPhone and iPad | New York, NY, USA | Remote | Part-Time | Contractor | https://www.footbits.com > https://bit.ly/peaceplus

Footbits is a mobile application development studio. We are looking for a talented iOS developer to work on part-time basis or as a contractor. We are based in NY but allow remote workers.

Some exposure to Python and Django would be helpful, too, but definitely not required. An ability to grow as you go is MUST. We are constantly iterating and shipping our product. While we love to experiment, we also want to be remained focused on our core goals.

We are currently angel-funded and looking to grow by 10x in next one year. An ideal candidate is someone looking to grow with the company.

Submit your github, resume, side projects etc. to contact@footbits.com to be considered.