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Serious Mumbo | Phoenix, AZ | Onsite preferred| Full Stack, Front-End

Work on a next generation HTML5 mail client, decentralize email itself. Fulltime equity position for talented dev.

you = {values: ['privacy','open source'], skills: ['node.js','express','redis', 'mongo','react.js','angular']}

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The time axis is being eroded by the speed of delivery. If I order something from Amazon on a weekday, I almost always have it the next morning. For me, there is a very small window between "want it now" and "want it by tomorrow morning". For me currently, that window is basically just restaurants and groceries, which could be eliminated with better planning.

The in-store value add is a real thing, and what I think a lot of stores are going for, but for most things, the best they can do are knowledgeable salespeople, whose knowledge will never be as useful as research on the internet. I can only think of one other example where I really want a good salesperson besides ski boots: "important" clothing, like a nice suit, that benefits from professional tailoring.
The article says India is following in the steps of Germany and UK.
I'm not aware of a policy in Germany that pushes government organistaions into using open source software. There are city administrations, like Munich, which switched over to Linux on their own account. Though that is nowhere near a national policy.
What is the author referring to?
Using ZeroMQ as a Video Transport Protocol
All this is definitely true everywhere in the world though.
Besides, Tesla did it - why not Apple too?
Wow... thats an amazing conclusion
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That's a good point, I suppose it's possible someone just recreated it as a joke. At this point I wouldn't put it past either the CEO _or_ some random internet troll.
I don't think the question is whether "intelligence correlates positively with success". That may be true but doesn't reveal much about society, IMO.

The more interesting question is which correlations are strongest. I can't find a link, but I read a study that came out a few years ago that showed the biggest correlation with financial success was the parents' income levels. That is, controlling for the intelligence of the parents, an average-intelligence person born to wealthy parents was more likely to be financially successful than an above-average-intelligence person born to poor parents.

That may also be obvious, but it has more effect on the veracity of the common view of our society being a meritocracy.
Shows are expensive to make period it just depends what is your "catch", drama's can be also very expensive to make especially historical ones Broadwalk empire has nearly the same budget as GOT, Rome (the HBO & BBC one) was the most expensive show ever made besides friends which had a budget of over 10M$ per episode because much of the cast was being paid over 1M per episode.

It's not always the budget it's also the production Firefly managed to make very good use of VFX with relatively "small" budget, BSG didn't had an explosive budget either, Star Gate had also a relatively small budget with the VFX heavy episodes having less than 400,000$ effects budget they just used it rather well.

On the other hand you can have very high budget shows looking like B-movie quality, Terra Nova, Falling Skies and Fox's attempts at scifi Almost Human (which was a freaking amazing show and Fox exec's need to pay in blood) and their current Minority Report shows are very expensive but have very low quality looking effects.

And if you want the best example of how budget can easily be misused well then Agents of Shield had a 14M budget for the pilot and even the per episode budget was considerably lower it was still pretty damn high and they still managed to completely cock it up both in the visuals and the story/plot departments.

IF they'll build a solid production team hopefully there are some folks at Paramount Television that worked on previous shows and are still either alive and or working in TV production and give them budget and creative freedom to work then we might get a good product, if this is going to be brand managed like AOS then it's going to be completely bonkers.

AOS is tethered to the cinematic Marvel's universe and it's it's biggest flaw, it's plot is completely dictated by the movies and it spoiled Cap 2 for me and just became a running joke.

Agent Carter was considerably better because it was set back enough in the past that they can do anything without having to tie it in with the movies.

And this is my biggest must have for this show, either put it in the original canon, reboot it again, or throw it so far away from the movies that it couldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole or don't make it at all.
Yeah, and yet the prosecutors in this story are saying they don't even have an obligation to let you know when their case has been shown to be fraudulent.

My point of eyewitness testimony is that it would truly convince the DA but wouldn't be valuable evidence in the trial. They could say "I think I saw him elsewhere" to be truthful but say it in a way that didn't give it enough weight to counteract the other, conflicting (because you weren't really there) evidence.

If this came out, the DA would not even face censure or reprimand, let alone firing or criminal charges.
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Right now developing a new backend for Kotlin is much harder than necessary because the compiler doesn't have any IR and any desugaring passes - in other words, each backend has to work directly with the full AST (annotated with types etc., but still using all language constructs).

We plan to rework this post-1.0, after which building a new backend will be much more feasible.
A system which integrates git-hosting with Amazon's Route53 DNS infrastructure.

I've not touched it for a while, but it managed to handle around 20 million queries last month, and at least one DNS-update a day on average.

I need a prettier website, but the technology pretty much just works and hasn't been updated in a long time. I keep meaning to delegate the website-redsigne to my partner.

https://dns-api.com/

In open-source work I've spent the past few weeks restarting my console-mail client, with integrated Lua scripting. The rewrite gives a much more unified API, and a lot better implementation.

Delegating more work to the Lua side of the application makes it more flexible, more customizable, and more interesting to develop for:

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2

Still early work - since you can neither compose a new email, or reply to existing ones, but the core is good for viewing things. (It is a modal email client, with a user-interface that is somewhat like mutt.)
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Star Trek Continues http://www.startrekcontinues.com/ yet. It's financed by donations and has imho very good acting and dramaturgy.

James Doohan's son Chris even impersonates Scotty. (Stays in the family, I guess...).
I believe you can simply zoom, using ctrl-+ or ctrl-scroll wheel. It's a common pattern that works across applications in windows and OSX, but for whatever reason isn't implemented in the file menu of Ubuntu systems. Maybe for open-source-y political reasons or maybe because component X of Y system included in the file menu already uses that shortcut. It doesn't matter - the existing knowledge of how to zoom in is useless, and you're stuck figuring out the new system.

Again, it's just one example. Others are far worse: try to figure out how to play a song or some other audio into a skype call by piping data directly into the mic input channel. It's pretty trivial in windows, and there are third party tools with easy to understand GUIs if you can't figure it out on your own. On Linux you'll be futzing with jackd configs for hours.
Someone else pointed out elsewhere that maybe it was just a troll recreating the profile and not Livecoding themselves. I suppose that's possible, too.
Yeah; I'm excluding the campy Sci Fi from this -- any of the low-budget movies that the Syfy channel made, for example. They weren't intended to be good or even draw a large audience, and they did pretty well considering their budgets. But they didn't have the baggage or expectations that the "Star Trek" name brings with it.

And even with Dr. Who, most of the action takes place in the present day -- which helps with saving money on costumes and sets.
TOS is definitely YMMV; my wife flat-out can't stand it, while she will watch TNG with me. And as you point out there just weren't that many episodes, and they establish a base that all of the other series refer back to, so I agree it's worth watching all of for all but the most minimal run-through of Star Trek.
A list of useful resources for K-12 edtech startups
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Our current platform is based on Wordpress / Woocommerce, and needs continuous improvements, mostly on the frontend.
For this we are looking for a webdeveloper / frontender with Wordpress experience, and a feel for design.
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Part-time (TBD)
Email me at the address in my profile.
No one is denying content providers the right to monetize by blocking ads. The onus is on them to find a business model that the market will support.
WebStorm 11 released: better TypeScript support, Flow, Angular 2, and more
>"This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run Star Trek series has gone before – directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access,” said Marc DeBevoise

[emphasis mine]

Sounds like it is going to be on TV.
Actually, attaching a value to human life is a key operational feature of several federal agencies. There really isn't much way around it when you have a large enough jurisdiction and a wide enough selection of interventions. The FDA, EPA, and Department of Transportation use ~$9 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Life_Value_in_th...
Interesting, thanks. Internal competition. :)
Objection: they already have a "devops team", which according to numerous blog-posts and pundits in the ITosphere means they can't possibly be 'doing devops'. :-)
I feel like your staffer should have noticed what you were doing; every time I've done one of these, the staffers were usually fairly attentive, and would guide us away from the inadvertent red herrings like this.
>In my experience, 10 years ago the policy was "Don't use it".

Well, for academic purposes, it still is.

But then again, as then, it's still used for those purposes now, despite the policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape
Is It Harmful to Use Music as a Coping Mechanism?
Honestly, I feel like High School teachers don't like Wikipedia because it's overpowered. What's the point of making a research assignment when Wikipedia already contains all the research a student could want?
I love how you accurately summarized a 10 page paper into a few concise sentences understandable most likely even by those on the low end of the intelligence distribution.
Sense - https://sense.io - San Francisco - Backend Engineer (Go, Docker, Kubernetes)

We're building a next-generation platform for data science and big data analytics. We're looking for a backend engineer to help scale our data science infrastructure and accelerate new initiatives. You should value reliable code and have experience with with Go, distributed systems, Docker, and cloud orchestration tools. This is the ideal role for somebody that wants to join an early stage startup tackling a deeply technical domain. We're a small team but have some of the largest companies in the world as customers.

Competitive salary and significant equity.

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The broadcast networks have been in the process of expanding that fee:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13181362/1/cbss-tough-stance-...

Given the quality of digital broadcast and tendency for it to overlap cable service areas, it's pretty ridiculous that they manage to get anything. It wouldn't be so hard for a consumer friendly TV to transparently switch between sources (well, except for the cable companies making sure not to put consumer friendly features in their now required boxes).
It's been made clear to me now that I need to look closer at greylisting in postfix before mails are passed to the proxy_filter.

But if you're interested I'm talking around 62k mails a day. My experience with this amount has led me to use 64G RAM on each MX but that's only to handle a certain incident with very high load. Usually RAM usage is much lower than 64G and there's plenty of IO cache available.
I've been using Kotlin for a little while, as the backend language for the side project/maybe-startup I'm working on. I went with it because of my troubling tendency to write Scala code I can't read three weeks later, and in that I think Kotlin's a big success: the Java interop is good (still some weirdness around DI frameworks and non-nullable types, which is unavoidable if you're using something like Jersey with HK2), the language itself has most of the niceties I want, and I find that the tooling is really pretty good in general. And the Kotlin community, in my experience, has been really good (aside from...sigh...yet another Slack chat to be in), unlike the continuing and perpetual disaster of Scala whenever certain members of the This Should Be Haskell mafia are allowed near anyone who's just asking a question.

I miss things from Scala once in a while, but they're usually me being way too cute with my code anyway--good for tiny personal things, not for something I'm hoping I'm looking at three years from now, not just three weeks from now.
The majority of citizens in a democracy are fooled into thinking they have any influence in their government's decisions:

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial
independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no
independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of
Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."

http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fil...
Every one I've gone to, the "tech" was incredibly minimal.
> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude.

Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever done worthy of ridicule.
NREL Innovation Improves Safety of Electric Vehicle Batterieс
The premiere episode is going to be televised. After that all future episodes will be CBS All Access-only (at least in the US).

It's the old drug dealer sales approach: you always want to make the first hit free.
Android|Web|Firmware Engineers – Poynt.com - Poynt, Co. – Palo Alto, CA (ONSITE)

We’re a series B funded startup in Palo Alto building the world’s first Smart Payment Terminal. Our mission is to build an affordable future-proof Payment Terminal for every small business with an open commerce platform that enables connected commerce.

We’re looking for full-time Android, Web and Firmware engineers that are highly motivated in building and maintaining:
- awesome in-store checkout experiences for merchants and consumers
- Poynt OS - our secure version of Android,
payments firmware as per EMV and PCI requirements
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We’re a team of Xooglers, Ex-Amazonians and Ex-PayPals. We have commitments for all across the world to replace the traditional (brick-looking) single purpose payment terminals with our Poynt Smart Payment Terminals.

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Please, do provide an answer. And I mean a real answer of real things they actually did, that is comparable on Windows and Linux, as opposed to marketing crap someone else told them about that they then mis-stored in their own heads as false memories.

My experience is that there is no substantial difference in the amount of "fucking around" you have to do with Windows or Linux. I had to install custom graphics drivers from third party sites, install custom keyboards, mess around with random settings, especially after upgrades between different OS versions.

Please show me an actual study instead of talking about personal anecdotes.
Thanks. We will launch our beta on feedcred.com in the next weeks. But we haven't setup a dedicated blog or social media yet. I must admit registering a company and marketing are things I have to do my due diligence on very soon.
If I were opening a book store today, I'd do two things:

1. I'd put Amazon affiliate links everywhere. If you want to buy it from Amazon while browsing my store, go for it. I'll just get a cut of the sale via my affiliate link.

2. If you buy a Kindle version via Amazon, I'll discount you on the hard copy that you buy from my store. That way you'll have both versions, if desired.

I have absolutely no idea if this would be effective, but I think one thing booksellers are going to have to do to stay competitive is adopt something like this, where you're not shutting the customer down. I'm one of those people who browses the store and then buys on Amazon, but that's mainly because I have a Kindle with hundreds of books, and I only buy hard copies of my favorites. If a store enabled that -- and profited from -- then that would be awesome. I'd love to give a small kickback to my local store for showing me what's available, even if I bought it from Amazon in the end.
Spektrix | London, UK | ONSITE

Spektrix' mission is to help arts organisations be more successful through better ticketing, marketing and fundraising.

Looking for DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer (https://www.spektrix.com/careers/devops-engineer/), Front End Engineer (https://www.spektrix.com/careers/front-end-engineer/) and Technical Project Manager (https://www.spektrix.com/careers/technical-project-manager/)
>> for a normal sitcom or drama, costumes can be bought off the rack and shots can be done on location or on a sound stage with easily-sourced furniture / decoration / etc.

Worth noting: for sitcoms, staff costs are often as high/higher than the SF shows that make it to the screen. For example, actors on _The Big Bang Theory_ are rumored to earn $1m per episode each. Ditto other shows like _Modern Family_.

Likely there are relatively few Sci Fi shows because the Sci Fi writ large has yet to figure out how to connect with audience sizes beyond a niche. If they achieve mainstream reach, the cost of the sets will not matter as much.
Ticketmaster
Senior Software Engineer - Hollywood/Los Angeles, California

We're improving Ticketmaster from the ground up. We need smart, ambitious engineers to build out our infrastructure for high demand ticket sales and global API services.

The Role:

We're looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer who can thrive in a fast paced environment to join the newly minted Distributed Commerce team. We are building new API products that enable third parties to sell verified tickets off-site, on many of the largest platforms and websites in e-commerce and online media. As a key member of a small, dedicated team, you will be responsible for developing new technology that is completely independent from legacy systems. Our group's goal is to sell more than 10M+ tickets in 2016, utilizing purpose-built transactional and content APIs, as well as developing SDKs and transactional widgets that will empower mobile apps, social networks, and 3rd-party ticketing partners while increasing the exposure of the Ticketmaster brand.

Technologies and standards we use, which you should be familiar with:

Java, Spring, Cucumber, Maven, Git, Linux, Docker, REST, OAuth, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3)

Qualifications:

- 5+ years professional hands on software development experience, with 3+ years specifically utilizing Java and 2+ years of web services applications/systems experience

- Experience with high-volume applications/systems requiring 24/7 uptime

- Experience in developing loosely coupled systems (REST APIs, SOA, microservices)

- Experience with Amazon Web Services

- Strong software development process background Scrum and/or Kanban.

Email ryan.aviles@ticketmaster.com for details.
What gives you that impression? The second family now has a $250k asset and a $200k debt, so they're worth the same. If you wait ten years and one of them collects 1% interest and the other gets their house value doubled then there's a difference.