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Flexport | Fullstack Engineers, UI Engineers + Frontend Engineers | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite

"Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of." - pg

Our mission is to bring the world free trade through technology. We're creating the logistics platform that will empower the next generation of entrepreneurs to reach markets around the world. Our close-knit Engineering Team is tackling interesting challenges related to democratizing trade.
Code is released almost everyday or whenever business requires. Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend,we use React for the views,organize the data flow with Flux architecture,and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

UI Engineers
Check us out if you:
-Are passionate about building beautiful,intuitive web interfaces that absolutely delight users;
-Bring a strong product intuition, a deep empathy for users,and an obsessive focus on details;
-Have been called a UI Engineer,Product Designer or Frontend Developer before;
-Have Design in your background and love coding.

Fullstack + Frontend Engineers
Check us out if you:
-Take a product-first approach to building software;
-Care about the real world functionality of your programming;
-Desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity;
-Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals
-Know modern javascript frameworks

To apply email Kristen@flexport.com or check out our AngelList at https://angel.co/flexport/jobs.
Yeah, meant that the other way around.
I don't know why he didn't offer to host it for the two-week period in exchange for reimbursement for the cost of running the service, or cost+20% if he wasn't feeling charitable. That seems like the obvious mutually-beneficial solution. And if they turned him down, then it's purely on them at that point.
If anything, a service being free means there will be more unreasonable support demands. Things being free tends to make people not value it, and thus not value the time of the people working on it.
M1 Finance - Downtown Chicago, IL (onsite only)
www.m1finance.com
Your money when you need it, invested when you don't. We are a Chicago based automated investing start up.

We are looking for an onsite ANDROID ENGINEER to join our all star team of engineers and help to build our application from scratch. Must have Android SDK & have published at least 2 consumer facing Apps to the Google Play store.

To get in touch with us, send your resume to Amy @ a.mccoy@m1finance.com
So I found this README hard to understand, as someone who doesn't work with CL on a daily basis (but is familiar with lisps like clojure, and having used SBCL before).

I'm worried about how bad fragmentation is, and why a tool like this is even needed. This is a "full stack environment" for CL web development? I don't even know what that means... not all lisp dialects are similar so why are they stuffed under one tool that treats them like they are?

There's so much about this tool I don't understand, but maybe that's fine, since I don't use SBCL or any lisp dialect(other than clojure) very often on any real projects
The line about how the engineers view the tests as an optimization problem really resonates with me. When the results of tests administered in an artificial setting becomes the primary method of assessment, such a trend will inevitably emerge.

Take school examinations for example, in highly competitive environments where test scores alone are the major determining factor, students begin to consider the benefits of forgoing comprehension of the material for rote learning.
Search google for something like "microsoft tech support phone number"?
It's over. Stop trolling me. That was an article about the decline of menta health care and the absurd rise in prison populations that went along with it. Which is half of what we were talking about. You are either a troll or an antipschiatry zealot.
Can you provide the source? I would also like to check.
IRC is constantly evolving as a protocol, and v3.3 is currently work in progress, so improvements are being made. See http://ircv3.net/
Sokanu.com (Vancouver, Canada)

Looking for a front-end and a back-end developer. Full-stack obviously appreciated.

Our stack is Postgres, Python (django), Redis, React, Backbone.

Our team is super casual, supportive, curious. Email saeid[at]sokanu[dot]com if you have any questions.
I've been programming for ~25 years and I still love programming. Last night I resurrected my old Xeon 8-cpu server and spent all night trying to install centos on it. Turns out my specific bios needed special settings to boot from USB.

My goal is to learn vagrant and spin up vms to handle variable load tasks. I want to be able to process website data using Hadoop and store the various outputs to my database. It's not novel but it's all new to me and I'm excited.
If you don't want to use Slack for FOSS projects then don't, but if you do, go for it. This is what OSS is all about, Freedom, use what you think is right. Diversity is good, maybe people leaving IRC will lead to innovations in IRC that address it's 20 year old deficiencies that have never been addressed.
Phil Kennedy continuing the grand but dangerous tradition of self-experimentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation - From the Chemistry section Until recently, it was common practice among synthetic chemists to taste newly prepared compounds. The purpose was to provide an additional characteristic for identification, taking advantage of the selective chemical receptors that form this sense. However, as one might guess, this practice also led to numerous fatalities and near-fatalities.

There are many examples in medicine section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medici... which also resulted in fatalities.
It would take a massive amount of resources if you're in a rush. What if you just lob a rock with a couple of steering thrusters towards a star using a solar sail? When it gets to the solar system, it tracks towards the nearest inhabitable planet, and does the thing that big rocks do.
The only way security issues are ever fixed is when reporters call them out on it.

Or do you think Stagefright on Android would have ever been fixed if the exploit wasn't publicly disclosed? The threat of public disclosure is the only thing security researchers have as leverage to get a company to do the right thing.
That link goes to a job search form rather than a particular listing.
5/10.
Finally working on my dream project, a medieval rpg. Was scared off by Breshenham's algorithm to doing web stuff in the noughties, followed by small iOS titles this decade. Slowly getting to be a competent 2D game developer. Taught myself graphics and am proud of every small victory. Love the programming aspect and the literary aspect of story & world creation.
Why only 5/10? Because ...life, bills, health, taxes,drama etc.
That's very tautological of you, but I'm guessing English isn't your first language.

A sense of entitlement is an English idiom for "having too high of expectations", and typically associated with narcissism. Expecting to not be displaced from your home after 20 years is not a sense of entitlement or narcissistic.
Not everyone is interested in money.
...or an inconsequential assemblage of organic molecules; forming and disintegrating in the blink of an eye.
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {

(* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * printf)("C is awesome\n");

return 0;

}
Whatever is on the knockoff nanos now seems great. cg340 or something. 5 years ago I had a hell of a time trying to unlearn parallel port crap and figure out all the ftdi hype, aaand now I don't have to worry about it. Stupid move ftdi.
IRC's time has passed. There's a reason that these alternatives are winning.
This is an extremely narrow view of the human experience.
Except not really, and it hasn't changed in any significant way in over 20 years.

Having a standard and a committee usually means that something has stagnated, not that it is alive and improving.
> If that limit can't be broken, it would massively slow down space travel though.

Yes. So? I reiterate my previous argument.
I've only been doing this about a year but I have to say it was the best decision I have ever made. Like some of the other here have said, I have never found an industry quite like it. Not only is the profession lucrative, exciting, and in constant demand, but it also has the best community around. I mean how many other industries have an open-source community like we do where we actively try to help each other. Every other profession I have seen is basically dog eat dog.
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Python, Node.js, Meteor, HTML5/CSS3/JS (lots of past frontend work
with SCSS, Rails, Flask, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
Some Scala, Java, and Go as well.
Résumé/CV: https://wheat.co
Email: hello@wheat.co
New York, NY

http://AllTheRooms.com combines hotels with Airbnb, Couchsurfing, VRBO, camping and Groupon. We let travelers search among every option on the planet to find their perfect place to sleep.

MARKETING EXPERIMENTS LEAD
We need someone to try out all the marketing channels we haven't properly explored. You will be discovering where people go before they find a place to stay, and you will run tests there, supported by one of the best and fastest tech teams in online travel.

PRODUCT DESIGNER
Do you have strong opinions about beautiful products, plus experience with customer discovery and UE? Do you love travel? We need you and you will love it here. We will continuously deliver your vision and you will help millions find a place to stay.

Email wbeckler@gmail.com for details and to apply.
Olo | Product Manager | Full Time | NYC

Are you passionate about customer experience and interaction design, technical enough that you want to understand “how it really works” in order to explain it to others, and super organized so that you can design a long-term product roadmap/game-plan to achieve all of the company’s product goals?

At Olo we develop an online food ordering platform used by many of the country’s largest restaurant chains, reaching millions of consumers. We are looking for a talented product manager to join our team. You will play a significant and visible role in driving the evolution of Olo’s existing products and the definition of new product offerings. Your success will enable Olo’s dominance of the digital ordering market and build a stable of delighted clients.

Responsibilities

Contribute to ongoing definition, prioritization and planning of the Olo product roadmap, incorporating product innovations, client feedback, and internal requests.

Create detailed product specifications and/or UX mock-ups, in conjunction with our UX/UI team, for the engineering team when kicking off new feature projects.

Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product, ensuring that product updates achieve desired goals.

Work closely with Olo technology partners and affiliates to ensure effective collaboration.

Conduct competitive research in the product space to inform the product roadmap.

Work closely with the Sales team to create product-sales collateral (demos, documentation).

http://www.olo.com/careers.html

Please feel free to reach out to me directly at johnball@olo.com
In my experience, I like IRC (been using it for ~10 years), but sometimes there is a lot of noise. For example, the Angular.js IRC channel devolved into a flood of bad questions with not enough information to help, and some entitled users. Many in the Angular community ran away to Slack in response. Code snippets aren't as nice either in IRC vs. Slack.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but IRC is lacking (and sometimes blocked at workplaces) & Slack seems to solve most of the issues, but it not wanting to support large open source communities is an issue as well. There is a hole in tools available.
This comes off as a snobbish article IMO. I don't want to discredit the work the author has done, but it's all over a communication tool, one that many of us have adopted in other environments. Having open source projects on the same platform as our other groups is simply a matter of convenience for the project organizer.
I built a Slack bot to digitize movies, so everyone in the house knows when to swap discs, figure out tracks and post to the TV hub.

https://github.com/jeremywohl/moviebot
> If you look around you and see a big open room of people futzing around with headphones -- take the hint. You're the clerk of the 2010's.

Good point.

Whenever this topic comes up I wonder why would a business risk de-valuing one of its biggest investments (payroll) by creating a potentially productivity killing environment. But if programming is now considered a cost centre (like clerks were in their day), I wonder what would be considered the profit centre of a software company?
"Unsuitable" is far too strong a word. It was ok for generations to follow the K&R examples, and now it somehow suddenly became "unsuitable"? I'd say it's just "somewhat more tricky" and "got a slightly steeper learning curve", that's it.
Retail managers certainly act that way, but I wish it weren't so. The one thing that has the potential to bring me to a brick and mortar store instead of buying online, is the chance to talk to an employee who is an expert on the product. Sadly it doesn't happen too often. Usually you get someone with enough brains to operate a cash register and no more than that. Ask a good question, you get a blank stare in return. Or they tell you to google it. And because they get paid garbage money, they often can't even afford to buy the product they're selling, so they don't have firsthand experience with it. Could be so much better...
Evil coder is making it easier for his family to buy stuff from our site, better send him a cease and desist!
I assume that because in this metaphor we are the baby. Reduce the scenario to, say two small human villages that just discovered each other, and it's not so hard to see how our tendency is to overrun and destroy, either by intention or by mistake. That's certainly something that has played out over and over again in our history.
This is also the premise of David Brin's short story "Lungfish".
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Refinery29 Just Launched an App – And It's Going to Simplify Your Morning
Hello! My name is Maxim and I provide mobile solutions for Any Size Businesses. Since 2012 year I specialize in native Android and iOS applications development.

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk (GMT +6)

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Mobile Apps, Android, iOS, Java, Obj-C/Objective-C, Swift

Résumé & Portfolio: http://goo.gl/vzQgMS

Email: public.belsky at gmail.com
I wish we would write Go apps following that lovely pattern, but without opening a DOS box, ie like a Windows app.
C is a beautiful and pure language. It is like the Latin of programming languages. I recommend everyone to at least learn it.
This is not entirely surprising. A large swath of their wealth was created via the government's help, and they get that help by creating falsehoods that no one checks into. That seems to be standard operating procedure in politics today -- say whatever makes the people agree with you, because most aren't smart enough to see the follow up the next day pointing our you're a liar.

And this isn't limited to conservatives, the democrats do it just as much.
I'm at the start of my career but am starting to notice some of the downsides you've experienced. Any advice on how to avoid some of the trappings?
Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units
And how much are you paying per year for those people?
I doubt that's something they want to do:

“these communities are not something we have the capacity to support given the growth in our existing business.”

Though I do think they realize that getting these communities on there spreads the word about Slack and that is a good thing.

As a reverse on your first point, and something I didn't know, it looks like those folks who don't want to get rid of their IRC clients can connect to Slack:

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connectin...
I wouldn't want him as a customer (or anything) either. I regret even reading his posts.
I used to landscape - and if it were practical, I'd go back to it. There was a lot about that work that was very satisfying. I wouldn't give up on programming, but it would be something I did just for fun and/or side profit.

Do you know people who do that kind of work? I spent three years working with a decent sampling of them. Sure, some feel that it's drudge work and that they're stuck doing it for lack of options. They get through their day doing the minimum necessary - you can find those types in our field as well. But a lot do take real pride in what they do, and in doing it well.

Of course many if not most would take an office job for more money if they opportunity were there - but that doesn't mean none of them derive pleasure and satisfaction form the work they're doing.
Which languages ?

How common is it for people to get better understanding by travelling in other programming cultures ? My personal experience goes this way but I rarely hear it.
A Leap into the Past – IRC
So all of the things you've noted, IRC is perfectly capable of doing. It's just that no one has built the interfaces (or the bots) for doing so.

It sounds like someone needs to make an IRC client that is approachable to encourage a new generation of people to be interested?

Also, the article is trying to make you aware of a fundamental reason to NOT use slack for FOSS -- it's closed source.
> I think I'd be a gardener too if it paid the same.

this is exactly my point
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: after November 2016

Technologies: Node.js, Java, Scala, Swift, MySQL, Mongo, C#, front-end web dev (js, jquery, angular, react, css3, less, etc)

Resume: https://felixmilea.com/resume.pdf

Blog: https://felixmilea.com/

Github: https://github.com/felixmc

Email: felixmilea@gmail.com
I don't think people are saying everyone should have private offices, which I agree is not feasible from an economic standpoint. Nor have I seen any studies saying that private offices justify the costs of themselves in increased productivity gained.

But there are ways that offices can be designed to be less likely to disrupt your work. Maybe grouping a few people in a private office instead? Or set "quiet hours"? Have designated "quiet rooms" where talking is prohibited? I feel like there are a lot of things that can be experimented with or try that are not a huge expenditure.

And I know putting a dollar amount saved on productivity with innovations in workplace design are harder to show, but I think it's a widely known fact that interruptions affect knowledge work and peoples ability to focus. So if someone who should be working on focus work is frequently being interrupted every 30 minutes by noises and people asking questions and it takes that person 15 minutes to get back into the groove each time, it's easy to see just how many wasted hours there will be.
I see what you are getting at, but in an infinitely large universe, those events may be infinitely distant from us.
IRC is fine if you package it right. IRC is just a protocol anyway. Slack is way more convenient versus IRC + etc. However, we can change that.
Katasi - Boulder, CO - Full time - ONSITE

Katasi is hiring a senior software developer in Boulder, CO.

The company's goal is to stop distracted driving via software that knows when your phone is in the car and disables texting and data.

We're building a high performance back end system (Java8, Camel, RabbitMQ, Mongo, Node) and corresponding mobile applications (Android, iOS).

Small team, interesting problem. Feel free to review the job posting below or add comments/send me an email with questions.

http://katasi.com/company/#link-jobs
Who asked them? And who audits that software? And what happens to Microsoft if some "bug" messes with the results? Hundred million dollar lawsuit by the party, I would hope, yes?

People should be outraged about this "Microsoft generosity". They're letting a private company put itself in the middle of the election process.

First off, election software should be open source. Period. If Microsoft is offering it "for free" anyway, why hasn't it made it open source? I mean, they are so generous and everything already!

Second, no private company should have access to that data or be able to influence that data in any way. If the party wants to offer the service online to see real-time results, then it should do that itself.

Third, the software should be audited by independent academic experts.

Anything less than these three points is an absolute outrage if you actually care about democracy.
M1 Finance - Downtown Chicago (onsite only, remote not available)
www.m1finance.com
"Your money when you need it, invested when you don't." We are a Chicago-based automated investing start up.

We are looking for an ANDROID ENGINEER to join our all star team and to help build our application from scratch. Must have Android SDK & have published at least 2 consumer-facing apps on the Google Play store.

To get in touch with us, send an email to Amy @ a.mccoy@m1finance.com
Uh, no. So much no.

So many things are better than IRC. Even Jabbr.net is better.
Our civilization has had radio communication for 100 years but we're well on our way to environmental collapse within the next thousand years. The milky way is over 100k light years wide. By the time our signals reach any other potential civilizations we'll be long gone. If the average civilization broadcasts for a thousand years but they're tens of thousands of light years apart, communication is not be possible within a civilization-span.
Isn't there any way to "mount" a custom protocol on top of the IRC protocol, like Microsoft Comic Chat did in the nineties? If I recall correctly they encoded custom commands in plain text the client could correctly interpret to draw the comic panels.

That way the slack-only features could be offloaded to another open source service or protocol.
This is a thread about a bug in Microsoft Edge- no surprise that the majority of comments are dissing Microsoft.

Just because other companies/products have similar bugs doesn't make this bug or Microsoft any less asinine.
The positives listed in "Problems with IRC that Slack solves" are significantly stronger than the negatives listed in "Problems with Slack". By a lot. No wonder FOSS projects are choosing Slack!

I also like how the "IRC is better for your company" section doesn't actually give reasons as to why it's better. It instead lists multiple services you can employ to achieve the features Slack provides out the gate.
> Except that we've been pumping radio waves out of this rock as loud as we can for decades.

It's true but there is a possibility that human radio activity does not last that long. We choose to transmit information using electromagnetic waves that propagates in every possible direction when there is no alternative, but it's a massive waste of energy and we may not continue to do so forever.

As a matter of fact, an increasing amount of communications travel through optic fibers, which are not observable from space. (And that's also why they're efficient)

If that's a correct prediction, we won't be pumping radio waves out of that rocks for more than a couple of decades. This is nothing compared to the age of the universe and may very well be missed, even if there's someone to observe.
I know NixOS is not based on containers. But you can containerize any environment (same in Guix) for sandboxing purposes.
Can downvoter explain? A question is asked, I answered. Is a JIRA developer browsing HN :)