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Quizlet | Android Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, https://quizlet.com/

Full-stack Web Engineer

Quizlet is a pioneer in education technology with tens of millions of active users and HUGE growth ahead. We’re seeking talented and experienced developers who want to build learning tools that empower students and teachers globally. We’re backed by Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Venture Capital, Altos Ventures and Owl Ventures. Our business model is strong and got us to profitability before raising venture capital money. Come join a small team of engineers building and deploying new products to over 20 million active users a month.

The Role

Each engineer at Quizlet gets the opportunity to punch above their weight — owning entire projects and striving for excellence and quality in design, architecture, performance and user experience. Being a member of a small, nimble team tackling big problems means that you can get creative about what technologies you deploy.

We are scaling rapidly at Quizlet. Over 20M users a month depend on us for their daily studies and demand innovative new learning tools and games. This means big engineering challenges that require smart, creative people to solve them. What are you passionate about? What technological challenges excite you? Whether it’s building robust APIs, deploying front-end performance improvements, architecting new search infrastructure, or designing new learning games, the odds are we have a challenge here you’ll be excited about.

Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate should have:

- Years of proven experience building their own websites, web apps, or other independent or professional software projects
- A strong CS background and ability to pick up new languages and skills quickly
- Experience working in a team environment on large-scale systems
- A passion for writing clean code and a desire to constantly improve as an engineer
- Be deeply excited about the impact his or her work could have in the lives of students and teachers every day

Web technology: ES6, React, Stylus, XHP, Hack/HHVM

Quizlet’s Team Culture

We’re extremely proud of the powerful impact our study tools are having on people’s lives across the U.S. and the world. Our focus on quality, usability, and performance across all platforms has helped Quizlet grow organically to a top U.S. web brand with top-ten education apps on iOS and Android. We regularly visit classrooms across the Bay Area to see Quizlet’s users in action. We believe in teamwork and communication, and we believe in each other — every member has the confidence and flexibility to take a stab at new problems across functions. We love technology and we love helping people. Come join us!

How to apply: email tim@quizlet.com with your resume and link to your Github profile.
reheating fish in a microwave is another classic horror.
The solution for open plans offices is to give everyone a real office.
Well, yes... But it's probably being used to troubleshoot a bottleneck in postgres being triggered by a higher level language application.
I've never heard anything bad about them

Been a Hetzner customer for years now
Practical experience in such an institute providing such data. FTP servers for files just run, http servers tend to do more things than just serving files. This could be separated out of course but in _practice_ they aren't. Setting up the http server right and not touching them is the hard part, not the actual http protocol part.

i.e. I do accept that http is a much better protocol than FTP but that social and organisational reasons lead to FTP being more stable and dependable in the field for large file download than http servers.
In my experience, It's never time which is the problem, it's mental attention.
Having 4 hours of free time at the end of a tiring day is meaningless if you don't have the mental energy to actually use it.
Thumbtack | https://thumbtack.com | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

Thumbtack is a local services marketplace that connects millions of customers with the right professionals for anything they need done.

We are a friendly, ambitious team of 100+ engineers in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food, backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. Together, we are disrupting a $700B market in the US alone where word of mouth is still the status quo.

We're looking for engineers and SREs interested in working with Go, Scala/Spark, PHP, Angular, iOS, Android, and AWS. We're also looking for data scientists interested in predictive modeling, machine learning, and experimental design and analysis. Join us!
BBC – Capital – Western manners: The latest Chinese status symbol
I am the grandson of a bootlegger and the son of alcoholics. Doesn't make a me a bootlegger or an alcoholic. The fathers of both President Clinton and President Obama were despicable men; this does not make those Presidents despicable men.
Use of 5 yen coin in nuclear accident investigation
"This here" is a drop-in replacement for "this", and is mainly used as an emphasis marker in the South and West. Adding more words that do not add to the meaning of the sentence makes it the same idea, but more of it.

Compare:

We have a communication failure.
What we've got here, is failure to c'mmunicate.

"Have" is the base word. "Have got" is the same as "have", but with more "havingness" somehow. "Have got here" is also "have", but with so much "havingness" that you might find yourself unable to get rid of whatever it is without a severe beating. And with "what <subj> have got here is", well, you're just going to get shot.
Her husband, Michael Conway, is the managing partner at McKinsey's Philadelphia office.
It sounds more like a corrupt core.

"Cave here. It's Christmas time, and you know what that means: Christmas bonuses have been suspended until further notice. We've gotta pay the judgement on that pesky class-action with something. But don't let that get you out of the Christmas spirit. The lab boys have come up with a way to stay festive by hooking up the Christmas Core to the lab's PA system. So enjoy free, continuous, computer-generated Christmas music from now until January 5!"

"Cave again. Apparently the Christmas music has been causing some employees severe emotional and psychological distress. We've had reports of people sticking their heads into active particle accelerators and drinking Repulsion Gel to get away from the sound. So until a full investigation has been conducted and the Christmas Core thoroughly debugged, we are discontinuing the Christmas music. We do not need another class-action on our hands, folks."
Should Lawyers Learn to Code?
First time I hear about Elasticluster. Regarding cluster provisioning, auto-scaling is critical for cost and convenience. We managed to do this with a simple job queue that outputs a CloudWatch metric that in turn controls an auto-scaling group of spot instances. Works like a charm but AWS Batch should make this redundant.

We took a look at Airflow, which looks nice, but we haven't had a compelling reason not to use Luigi.
For reference: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-apm/
$379(preorder)/$529 August 2017? Hope that you can ship before CHINA can duplicate. Neat device, surprised if you dont have an offer from Amazon or Apple yet.
Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | https://convoy.com/

We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors. Read about us: http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/superstar-investors-back-convo...

I'm employee #2, and I've been here since we were borrowing desks at a local startup incubator. We've grown a lot since then, but we still have a tight-knit, high leverage engineering team. I love arriving at the office in the morning - I get to work with the smartest folks I've ever met. No company I've ever been at, including Amazon, has felt like this much potential for impact.

We would love more engineers, up and down the stack, and anywhere on the generalist <-> specialist spectrum. We use pretty cutting-edge tech (React, React-Native for mobile, TypeScript + Node for backend), but we're a lot more interested in engineering chops than any particular tech skills.

If you're in Seattle, reach out and grab coffee with me or one of our other engineers. The last 18 months have been a wild ride, but we have years and years ahead of us to build a logistics titan!

Some, but not necessarily all, of our open jobs: http://jobs.convoy.com
Yeah, and very little has changed since then. If I remember correctly, Nestle's response to the baby milk controversy is held up as a example of how companies can tackle PR issues by involving themselves heavily in setting rules for their own industry, simultaneously making sure that the new rules don't actually obstruct them whilst looking like they're doing something about the problem. This is often seen as a positive example to imitate by utter scumbags.
A primitive version ... but it does look a LOT like it
The article says that Condé Nast would not say whether David Remnick editor of The New Yorker would report to Anna Wintour. While I have no opinion on Anna Wintour, I think that The New Yorker is pretty nearly the best that exists right now.

After Bloomberg bought BusinessWeek it became better than The Economist. If Condé Nast is in blame the industry mode, or if it's going to start making short-sighted decisions claiming necessity, hopefully someone else can take care of its best properties.
Pretty sure what's going to happen is we're going to pay for news, at $100/year or so, like we pay for Netflix.

You can probably get 100,000 people in a small city to buy that (given proper branding/marketing), and that's enough to hire a local newsroom of about 100 people.
Oden Technologies | Data Engineering | New York, NY | Fulltime, Onsite | https://oden.io/

We are an IoT startup creating a hardware / software platform for Industry 4.0 [1] factories. We collect data from industrial machinery and analyze, aggregate and display it so that manufacturers can make more product with less material. There's a lot of exciting things happening at the company and now is a great time to get into a small (8-person) team working working on a lofty mission that will revolutionize an underserved industry.

We're looking for a data engineer with experience in building realtime and batch processing data pipelines. We ingest tens (soon to be 100s) of millions of data points daily and do complex aggregations and calculations that help our customers to hone their manufacturing processes. If you have experience with lambda architecture, timeseries / graph dbs and cutting edge data engineering technologies, we need your help ASAP.

Feel free to reach out to me directly: mykola@oden.io

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0
Financial problems at Conde Nast could also be trouble for some of their other publications, which may be more popular amongst this crowd, such as Ars Technica, Wired and The New Yorker.
The iPad Game That Took 9 Years to Finish, a Masterpiece
I feel that product hunt can easily make money by having sponsored postings. However, that may upset part of the community.
VirtualMouse of Whitestorm framework. Picking objects in 3D apps
I didn't even notice my mistake until I received the machine. Oh well, USB-C is a nice to have but not mandatory(HP blocks eGPUs anyway). Skylake vs Kaby Lake is a very small difference, except for the graphics.

Except that BestBuy also made a mistake and sent me an I5/8/256 version(silver instead of Ash silver). Which was promptly returned. I've used the refund to buy parts for a desktop ITX PC on Newegg. I'll be using a chromebook or whatever when I can't be bothered to sit at a desk.

The Spectre is a beautiful machine though.
About Nexiona

• software development company focused 100% on professional IoT
• young company but growing very fast (currently 17 people expecting 30 before the end of next year)
• HQ in Barcelona, office in UK and looking forward to open on GE, FR and US very soon

Positions

• Backend/frontend developers, system administrators, product manager... Open positions and apply details: https://goo.gl/EiiXGY
• keywords: rabbitmq, mongodb, python, flask, elastic, graphite, extjs, javascript, nodejs, ansible, raspberry pi, arduino, embedded, docker, cloud, agile, scrum, etc.
• Interview = culture [1h] + tech: interview [1h] + tech: coding project presentation [1h] + final: onsite interview [1h]

Final notes

• g33k p30pl3 and nice atmosphere
• remote work but fully connected with workmates
• one week per month we spend time together in our Barcelona office

Apply here: https://goo.gl/lYwyej
Although you will have to shell out 600$/Month if you need to support HTTPS for browsers that do not support SNI
> They are truly ignorant enough to be content with video games.

While I understand the sentiment and may have even expressed similar feelings when younger, the reality is a bit more nuanced.

It's more like they hit walls and repeated failure when trying to move up the ladder and eventually just gave up. You may not have been around for that, but it did happen.

And yes, there are plenty who are so persistent that they never stop trying and eventually do experience some level of success ... but that doesn't excuse a society which is openly hostile to those who want to do better and instead shoves a government check in their mouth.

Have that happen to you often enough and you'll choose to play video games instead too. At least with video games, success is just around the corner. They were designed with you winning in mind.
Clojure for Lisp Programmers
Local by Flywheel (Mac App for Wordpress Local Wordpress Development)
Escaping the Cycle of Scarcity (2013)
Wow, those income numebers are insane. Was that a sarcastic infographic or was it serious one?
Dark Sky | iOS Engineer | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE

Company: The Dark Sky Company specializes in weather forecasting and visualization.

Role: We are looking to hire a great iOS Developer to join our team at The Dark Sky Company to build and maintain the next generation of innovative consumer weather apps.

https://darksky.net/jobs/ and shoot email to aa@darksky.net
I somewhat wonder if this will be used by malicious websites for cloaking. For those who are unaware of the term, cloaking is used by malicious websites/ads to render different content to search engines and bots than for real users to avoid detection by those automated agents.
Death by famine probably, or as war casualties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Dark Sky | Android Engineer | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE

Company: The Dark Sky Company specializes in weather forecasting and visualization.

Role: We are looking to hire a great Android Developer to join our team at The Dark Sky Company to build and maintain the next generation of innovative consumer weather apps.

https://darksky.net/jobs/ and shoot email to aa@darksky.net
How often are people on a budget the target of serious ddos attacks?
The time of day is also an important factor in smart pricing.

Usually everything goes up when people is not asleep or at work.

Like if prices were different at the mall when it is full.
I now they do that, but I figure the environmental footprint of that is probably much worse that peeling off the foil, dumping the coffee and recycling the aluminum is pretty high.
Fascinating. But there is something wrong with this analysis and I can't quite figure out what it is. Maybe there's a presumption that efficiency leads to happiness - it's not explicit but I'm sure it's hinting at it.

I'm a big believer in not trying to fit too much in. As the author says, there are only so many hours in a life time, so actually experiencing it rather than trying to fill it is perhaps another way to look at it.
Appointlet (https://www.appointlet.com/) | Mid/Senior Full-Stack Developer | Portland, Oregon | Onsite/Remote | Full-Time

Here at Appointlet we’re helping teams bring their calendaring/scheduling into the 21st century. We’re a super small team working on a product that’s already profitable, but our journey is just beginning.

If you love the idea of getting in early and building a product (not just code), you’ll be right at home. You’ll be our first developer hire, and would take ownership of our Python/Django-powered JSON API and the various Javascript applications orbiting around it.

Interested? Email me: jared@ our domain listed above
This fills out the last row of the current table.

What comes next will be interesting. Will it be a plain row? Or will there be another block like the p-block and f-block (the g-block)?

It might not be possible to find out, because the elements might not live long enough to stop being ions and fill their shells.

Or maybe we'll find an element in the island of stability somewhere there and we'll use that to find out.
I don't think it's likely that I'll convince you otherwise, but my experience -- having grown up in a very poor community -- could not be further from yours.

Despair is exactly the word I would use to describe the feeling of not being able to make your bills and not being sure if you'll ever be able to save enough to afford moving to a more prosperous place. I'd say the majority of my friends and acquaintances at the time felt that way, too. The only reason I was ever able to escape was luck; my grandparents had to rescue me from a variety of financial disasters that would be extremely minor for somebody not on the edge of being able to make rent. It's amazing how much damage getting a $25 parking ticket because you had to work late can cause when you're working a minimum-wage -- (at the time: $5.15/hr) -- job. Lack of aspiration is definitely not the problem; lack of hope definitely is, though.

I don't mean to engage you in a debate about this, though; it seems like you have already made up your mind. I just don't want your comment to go un-challenged.
Stanford has its own MOOC site which seems to offer an equivalent course:

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...
You can go around thinking contentedly to yourself that basic income advocates are total idiots (and that those on the academic side, in particular, are outright frauds, and functionally illiterate in the field that they claim to have gotten their advanced degrees in) if you want to. But I might recommend doing some basic research on the topic, instead.
Lol ok, yes you seem to love marketing, you would like it.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

I'm an experienced developer, working as a freelancer for 1,5 years. Developing stuff since I was 15. My main stack for last 4 years is Ruby on Rails as full-stack. I have developed and managed from medium to big sized projects. I have entrepreneurial mindset; started, failed and learnt a lot from numerous projects. Experienced with building MVPs in short period.

I'm an active open-source contributor and free software volunteer. I give Ruby on Rails classes as volunteered for more than 150 hours/every year. I'm also an instructor on Codementor and HackHands platforms.

GitHub: https://github.com/beydogan

Codementor: https://www.codementor.io/beydogan

HackHands: https://hackhands.com/mehmet/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mehmetbeydogan

Contact: mehmet.beydogan[at]gmail

Keywords; rails, javascript, react, android, ios, devops, dokku, docker, linux, postgresql, html, css.

I'm interested in exciting projects, building MVPs rather than bugfixes.
You're spot on regarding the app and FreeBSD performing very well. Don't disagree with you one bit. Also, great link on the Netflix CDN work, they're doing some really fascinating stuff. It is nice to see the openness.

I work directly with both of the gents who gave this talk about 100G networking[1] (on Linux) and still find that much of the actual cutting edge research is done on Linux. Perhaps I'm biased! I've also been to one of Mellanox's engineering offices (Tel Aviv) to speak with their engineers at my previous employer 7-8 years ago. They told me they do most all of their prototyping and initial development on Linux, and RHEL to be specific. Then then port to other platforms.

Maybe I was wrong on some of this, but my use case (due to my employer's industry being finance) is lower latency, where Linux absolutely and positively crushes anything else.

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/100G%20Networking%20Toronto_0.pdf
"Immutable.js is still used heavily both within Facebook and in the broader dev community."

That does not mean it is alive. It certainly looks like it is dead (dead as in it is commonly used when referring to a project that was abandoned), specially since it is backed by Facebook and the last commit was a change on the readme file done in Sep 19, 2016 :/
I think the problem is when such administrative work interrupts the intellectually productive work.
I'm really not trying to just be argumentative, but if you'd just look at the stylesheet you'd see it doesn't come down to that. There is no real attempt to give a good experience in a mobile context. And when it comes to basic responsive typography, there really aren't that many variables at all. Whether a screen is 320, 435, 515 wide, etc - a single query context could serve all those needs.
Justworks Inc: New York City, NY - Fulltime - Onsite Only - Will relocate

Security Information Engineer - Front-end & Fullstack Engineeers!
http://bit.ly/1NMwpCp OR email jobs@justworks.com
I keep track of my own time quite well and don't really agree with the article at all in fact I started coming up with my own outlandish solutions. One of them is that I segment my sleep like people used to do before the Industrial Revolution. When I get off work I sleep for 2-3 hours and then go to bed much later for 3-5 hours. I've found that I used to waste more time preparing to try and sleep for 8 hour blocks than doing anything else. Now I just go to sleep when I'm actually tired along with the creativity boost you get between 1-3am when you segment your sleep. I'm not distracted during those hours because no one is still awake to distract me and the time becomes more useful.
There's a lot of interesting data in the article, but some of the visualizations remind me of this:
https://xkcd.com/1138/.
As PM for this project I can say it's super exciting. The team is awesomely sharp, the architecture is super impressive, and this is by far the most exciting performance monitoring and feedback system I've been involved on surpassing the work I've been involved in on Oracle's performance monitoring and tuning system and Embarcadero's DB Optimizer and Quest Foglight and Spotlight.
Justworks Inc: New York City, NY - Fulltime - Onsite Only - Will relocate

Security Information Engineer - Web Developers: Front-end & Fullstack
http://bit.ly/1NMwpCp OR email jobs@justworks.com
I guess that might explain the "Have you ever changed the value of 4 accidentally" question from the hacker quiz I found so fascinating as a kid.
From the looks of things, both are "fast enough".

What I'd like to hear more about now is ease of use - I'm told that with Kafka you have to be quite careful around planning the number of topics / partitions you'll use up front. Does NATS improve on that?
The risk is that a well funded company gives away their product, drives all their competitors out of business and creates a monopoly, then jacks their prices up. It could be viewed as anti-competitive.

That being said, I also think this is overkill.
Vihart: A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide
I think Betalist will be next as well. But I'd think AL/PH would try their own BetaList like section.
On the research front, going back prior to Dapper is x-trace: http://www.x-trace.net/wiki/doku.php

and their follow on work, Pivot Tracing: http://pivottracing.io/

(which got a best paper award at SOSP'15.)
My guess is the incumbents paid off politicians to make regulations benefiting them. Common thing. Microsoft has the lead on that in Washington.
"According to a study done by the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA)"

Quick, before reading the article, what do you think they found?