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EBlock | Intermediate/Senior Android Developer | Toronto, ON | ONSITE

EBlock is the fastest growing startup in the dealer-to-dealer car sales space, and we're looking for an intermediate/senior Android developer to join us. We require someone that can work independently, quickly, and who can jump into an existing project and hit the ground running. We currently have an existing Android app on the Play Store (link below), and are looking for someone to help with a feature heavy update for the next major release. This will be a permanent, full-time, in-office position with a market competitive salary.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eblock.auc...

Required Skills are:

-Rock solid grasp of Java.
-Know your way around Android Studio.
-Very strong in pixel perfect custom view design. Can you be given a .PSD and reproduce it exactly?
-Comfortable with event-driven, asynchronous code. Eg. You receive a push notification for an update. How would you download a payload based on the id in that notification, then download an image based on that payload, then rotate the image, then animate it onto the screen, then show the user a dialog, then make another network call based on the input of that dialog? How do you elegantly handle an error anywhere along the way?
-Less is more development philosophy.

Bonus Skills:

-Experience with GraphQL.
-Experience with the Kotlin programming language.
-Any back-end development experience with Spring Boot, and/or SQL heavy applications.

Contact:
Adam Erb (adam.erb@carmigo.com)
Nonstop stirring of a hornets nest more like it.
Unpacking DMVPN and making most of DMVPNs
So legitimate users that paid good money for their licenses will now be forced to use a blocky slow streaming video solution instead of fast responsive interface on their Xeon/64GB RAM equipped workstations... AND pay perpetual monthly subscription for something they owned before?

I see that going down well with your actually paying customers :)

Remember, you're not gaining money when you're screwing over paying customers to hunt people who aren't going to pay anyway.
>If you're sending me a bill, you need to provide a way for me to resolve an issue such as this.

not if you want it to provide real security.
I know it's a rule; if a user can add content, someone will add porn, but why add porn to maps?

Were people putting a pin in and commenting with a naughty pic? What does that mean?
It's a Lincoln MKZ. A number of partners helped us with the conversion, including AutonomouStuff and NVidia.

And yes - we're running student code on the car, around a test track, and we'll send you the results (I think a video feed as well). It's your final project in the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program.

I can't wait to watch the first time a student's code drives it around the track.
There are still a few other reasons of using non-LE certs: extended validation TLS certs (the ones with greenbar + company/entity name), SAN TLS certs, etc.
I agree with your point, but realtors are protected but layers of legislation. In many areas the realtor groups almost operate like the taxi cartels.
This is quite different in Australia where notaries public are appointed either by the State Supreme Court or by an Archbishop. Almost all of which of which are solicitors or barristers, sometimes retired from practice.
Good communication skills and positiveness. Technology alone doesn't do anything.
Redfin with its smaller cut of RE transactions on the seller side combined with the ability to circumvent MLS with it's own listing system could be the begining of the end for agents.
Both technologies can "work" right now (5-10 yr design and construction time). The trick is getting the economics to "work" within even an order of magnitude. Source: I'm a geologist and my dad is a plasma physicist researching fusion power.
The tl;rd: Use common sense.
I'm guessing it's pretty hard to scale, given that it is effectively a remote session like RDP.

It would be interesting to see a local demo that pairs with WebAssembly, though.
Arcade game developer here.

I loved the game concept of ABA's "Defeat Me": http://wonderfl.net/c/9ykQ . SHMUP where each enemy is a copy of you. Round 3 you fight a clone of Round 1, Round 2, mirrored.

but I disagreed with several major design decisions:

1) Rounds were too difficult (a deadline came in very fast, the bullets were nearly the size of the ship)
2) Player movement & weapons changed rapidly (speed & number of shots per spread was a modulo on the level number
3) Losing meant you retried the same level.. at that point in the game, you basically be stuck. I wanted the game to restart.

I improved on the game with pixel-perfect collision, weapon animations and other design decisions like letting the player screen-wrap around the edge but not the clones, regaining time on the deadline when you killed a clone and more.

I even experimented with a co-op, 2 variants of 1 Versus 1 mode and a Replay site before removing them for the core experience.

I made the game because I wanted to play it. Making money was a secondary goal but I'm proud of the game and find it way more fun than most games I've played. How many games do you know that have an AI procedurally determined by your movements?

Revenue earned: 3 * $10 on "pay what you want" from itch.io. 1 from a friend's friend who overhead on a Skype chat that I made a game, 1 from an indie developer at a games meetup and 1 from a friend when I sent them a link.

+ < $100 from iOS sales (I switched from the iOS app to Desktop (Win/Mac/Linux with Eletron packager) for a better experience and more fun coding.

I think it's cool that $10 was the amount chosen by 3 people who didn't know each other as a valuation for the game. However it's disappointing that all 3 were people who knew me.

I sent out ~100 emails to game reviewers with download links and got 1 brief article but no revenue.

Why: Discovering games is hard. Marketing to people who would like this kind of puzzle-y arcade game is difficult to reach without looking like a spammer or spending $.

Differently: Not try so many weird experiments with gameplay and focus on the core relentlessly + Playtest more.

Iterations: 2 prototypes from TigJam. 2 more iOS versions then another re-write for an App Store launch. 2 Javascript versions (the latter being launched) + 1 seperate version for multiplayer.

Time: Hundreds of hours. Maybe a thousand? A lot of this was done earlier on when I was less experienced with programming + design. I playtested a lot

Lessons for Game Developers: Playtest often, stick to the core relentlessly. Carve away crap that doesn't fit no matter how cool it is or fun to make. I spent too much time iterating on mobile interfaces when gamepad controller support was far superior and passed "the bar test" (give to strangers at a bar and watch them cheer other strangers on as they pass the controller around).

Play [1], An old trailer [2]

[1] http://QuantumPilot.me (redirects to itch.io)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy_GBLM_6Qs
I don't mean it fits the CEOs interests, but rather the people who spread this around.
I was going to comment how upset I was that the article about the films didn't credit the title to Brautigan's influence. Thanks for posting the poem.
I know that a lot of universities (mine included) introduce programming through object oriented programming so this could be a problem for a lot of people going into university without much if any programming experience, much like I did. I've been interested lately and reading more about functional programming though.
yeah beatport tried and failed to get into streaming a while back too.

Pledge music and indeed Patreon are both doing good things for unsigned artists and I see potential for some crossover.

One of the major problems with beatport, is as they are the biggest and oldest store for electronic music, they take 50p on the £ and will only deal with "distributors" who generally take another 30% or so just for uploading your music. which leaves the label with roughly 35p in the pound to split with the artists. which is a terrible deal.

Also they don't offer any kind of promotion except for the charts. which are rubbish too. if an artist has a release, they will make a chart and put a few of their friends tracks in, it doesn't help with discoverability for most independents. the only thing which really helps sales on beatport are a banner. and that is curated by a person who works at beatport. which is flawed.

So yeah, in my opinion nobody out there has nailed it yet and there is still opportunities in this area. I'm confident that if you offer a service which is beneficial to independent labels and DJ's then they will use there social media influence to push fans to buy from you rather than beatport/itunes/etc. It's not a unicorn, but I believe it could easily be self sustainable (I'm hesitant to use the word profitable, as I'd rather it was profitable for the labels & artists than the platform, as long as the platform didn't lose money of course).
What are entrepreneurs of failed startups doing?
I used to think the same way, but then I bought my first house and my realtor was insanely helpful. The entire process is filled with random quagmires that I would have never known how to manage otherwise.

Someone with more experience may be more able to go it alone obviously, but my realtor was invaluable.
seriously curious as I am about to pay 10k+ for selling my house. what are they doing that is so special?
I'd like to offer a different perspective. I read this story in high school in class.

Kafka intended to be a chemical engineer, but he studied law at his father's request. He had talent for writing, but stuck being a clerk drafting legal documents.

I had (have) a very similar story. At the time I read Kafka's "the process" and then consecutively this story, I had felt helplessness in insufferable amount. Computers were all that interested me, I believed I was really talented, I always believed that İ had a calling.
But in real life, I had little prospects for getting into college, although I was a real good student.

At the end I conceded like I always do, and started Law School.

I guess Kafka's trying to say that don't be a conformist, stand up for your self.
The protagonist (of the Process, which includes this story as far as I can remember) had a job (but he didn't like it), he had a girlfriend (but he didn't care for it). He didn't enjoy life, he
He believed that he had to accept everything imposed upon him and this got him killed.
Slow climate mode reconciles historical and model-based estimates of sensitivity
Really fun to read. I grew up in Schenectady, played Schenectady youth hockey and later got a job with GE in downtown Schenectady. It was there I started using Java (v1.0.2) building rich client apps using AWT (Swing didn't exist yet). One app was for building a pricing engine for steam turbines. Good memories.
Isn't the main value of a realtor the ability to provide access to the home for sale, monitor the visitor, and provide insight in regards to the construction & quality of the home?

I don't think most people expect the realtor to recommend random homes based on the buyers preferences, as most people use services, such as RedFin, to narrow down the homes that match their best fit.
You don't really buy eBooks. You can't resell them after all. You're just renting them.

I'd look up some of the free tools out there and backup/un-DRM your Amazon/Nook/Google e-books. There are some guides out there for extracting your books notes as well.
A more relevant metric is net new household formation. The rust belt and southern metro areas you see the decline since 2000 are fighting a losing demographic battle.
Yes, and no.

Good mathematicians and scientists that I have personally known have a wide variety of styles of understanding and thinking. The first and most basic divide in mathematics is between people whose natural inclination is algebra versus analysis. The best at analysis seem to have a deep intuition like what you project. The best at algebra operate pretty directly with symbol manipulation.
That's what happens when your government dumps money into banks, which dump it into mortgages, to increase spending in a struggling market.

It's like drinking alcohol to ease the suffering caused by a mental health problem. You just make everything worse.
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>"is it possible that, since this was a process that probably spanned multiple transactions and weeks, he had some help that was less than competent? Doesn't absolve him of anything, and it didn't! His company was fined. But it pokes a hole in the "mustache-twirling" narrative.

From a 2015 article in the Guardian:

"Patty Gerstenblith, a professor of law at DePaul University who is an expert in cultural heritage, confirmed to the Guardian that she was asked by the Green family to explain to them how import controls for ancient antiquities worked in 2010 – a year before the tablets arrived in Memphis. Gerstenblith said that she went to some lengths to set out for them the potential pitfalls.

“I read them the riot act,” she told the Guardian. “I explained to them how the system worked in the interest of trying to discourage them from doing anything illegal. I knew they were building a collection, so I was concerned they might be doing something they shouldn’t, even out of ignorance of the law.”[1]

The "moustache twirling narrative" goes something like this:

"The reason that he thinks the Green family might have broken international law or avoided ethical standards in the antiquities trade is to promote their overtly Christian beliefs — beliefs they fought for and won at the Supreme Court last year in their landmark case on the religious freedom of employers with regards to government mandates on healthcare.

“In their hearts, [I think] they think they’re doing the right thing,” Al-Azm said. “They look at this cultural heritage and they have a close affinity to it. They feel that this is something that touches their deep core beliefs, and they see it in an area or a place that is dangerous or unstable. So they can justify this sort of activity by saying I’m doing something good for posterity.”[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/28/hobby-lobby-...

[2] https://thinkprogress.org/experts-believe-hobby-lobby-stole-...
Yes.

But I doubt CO2 capture and sequestration makes any sense with coal. Might work for really efficient natural gas plants which emit half the CO2 per thermal unit of energy and can be made nearly twice as efficient thermodynamically, meaning that for the same unit of electricity, you only need to sequester a third to a quarter of the CO2.

...but still would be incredibly expensive. You're going to be better off with solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear in a broad mix with a few hours of grid storage to smooth things over.
How many new multimillionaires does China produce each year?
Indeed. In fact, the footnote for that chart acknowledges that:

> Income differences narrow when all taxes and transfers—such as health insurance and in-kind government benefits—are included

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where... expounds on a few of the things that have caused household take-home pay to stagnate. The tl;dr there though is:

> Average household size declined substantially during the past 30 years, so household income is being spread across fewer people. The mix of household types—married versus single, young versus old—also changed considerably, so the “median household” in 2006 looks quite different from the “median household” in 1976. Finally, the measure of income used by the Census Bureau to compute household income excludes some rapidly growing sources of income.

Which is all to say that it's a bit more complex than a few charts might immediately make it look. Income inequality has certainly seen an increase, but it's incorrect to characterize it as the upper decile bleeding all the benefits out of the rest of the economy.
Google's 'moonshot' factory spins off geothermal unit
As they say:

Hindsight is 20/20
Boston Consulting Group’s DV to Host Hackathon for Blockchain Apps
Let's check the first paragraph of the readme…

> Here are the screenshots of working example on an iTerm2 terminal (Mac OS), oh-my-zsh with powerlevel9k theme and powerline nerd-font + awesome-config font with the Solarized Dark color theme.
Buying a house is among the largest purchases of many peoples' lives. It could be worth the $5,000-$50,000 (~6% of value in U.S.) for the piece of mind. People are used to using realtors. I don't think enough economists and business people give culture enough credit for its impact on businesses and finances. It's common enough that if the buyer tries to make direct contact with the seller, all parties are startled and the deal falls through entirely.

Next, there are established network effects in the real estate industry. Companies that have tried to offer a flat-fee house brokerage service at scale have been met by massive resistance from existing realtors, who then dissuade their many buyers and sellers from even considering those services. I think this has been a brick wall for a long time.
Have you ever sold a home? Potential buyers will drive you nuts with all the stupid questions they'll ask. A good realtor has the communication skills to move you along to a sale much faster.
I hope this company sees nothing but success.

I bought my house through Redfin last year, and not only did I save ~$5k in commissions compared to a conventional realtor, I also felt the process was much smoother and more pleasant than other times I've interacted with a conventional realtor.

It's simply absurd that in an era where any buyer can view photos of a house for sale online real estate agents still expect to receive 6% commission on the sale of a house.
You know, I could have written something like "On Linux you can get colored output from `ls` command ..." etc. without ever mentioning GNU at all. I went out of my way to say "GNU coreutils" (also because it's possible to install these tools on Mac and other *nixes) and you're still unsatisfied? Sorry, but that looks like you're being overly pedantic for no good reason.
And that's worth 3%? The issue with realtors is the exorbitant fees they still charge.
That doesn't make sense, though, because if your buying power remains stagnant, but you suddenly don't need to buy health insurance with that buying power (because it's handled in the form of pre-takehome compensation), then hasn't your net buying power increased?
Maybe so, but why is that worth a 3% commission on the sale price, on both sides of the transaction?
GNU wasn't hackers in the meaning of 2010s hackers. It took smart individuals and years to come up with something tangibles. Same for Linux.

I cannot compare anything in the casual software world, no matter how complex it is, to driving a car in streets. It's bridging physics and AI. Maybe hotz has a point and other SDV module vendors are as fake but that's irrelevant.
Frank Luntz is kind of a modern wizard with coining friendlier terms for politicians to use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Use_of_language

You might recall the whole rephrasing "global warming" as "climate change" thing too

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.c...
As a former Google Cloud employee, I think "stakes its future on TensorFlow" is overstating things. Maybe "Google executes clever strategy with TensorFlow, reaps rewards" is a better headline.

This is exactly the same strategy that Google is running with Apache Beam / Cloud Dataflow - make an API that can run anywhere, then make it trivial to use that API on Google Cloud. I think TensorFlow is doing better than Beam because TensorFlow is more of an advance over the previous state of the art than Beam was, and because Google has managed to grow a community around TensorFlow.
Fill in the gaps with blue, and you have something very similar to the population density map of the USA: https://mwlibertyfest.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/us-pop-dis...

This seems to reflect the "graying" of rural America: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-gra.... Younger generations are moving to denser areas, driving property values up. This isn't a bad thing per se (denser populations are more environmentally friendly), but is probably driving some of the division in the USA today.
Cutting the fees in half.
"I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the need for a software engineer and charge a reasonable flat fee to bolt together some libraries and handle all the related details.

Why do we even need software engineers at this point? Everyone can find the libraries and open source tools they need online nowadays. Why does anyone need to pay a whopper paycheck to some middle-man?"

You're paying for someone's expertise, like in most industries.
Any idea why reddit blocked you?
EXACTLY. Sorry if I was unclear.

ICO as a way to convert "Internet Points" into something of material value and reward users directly for contributions is incredibly fascinating to me.
Isn't this basically Redfin? It might not be a flat fee, but it is a reduced fee. Also intermediaries are still needed for guidance and walkthroughs, its not like viewing homes online is all there is to it.
I built a personal data self tracking app (quantified-self stuff) and I still use it but no one was nerdy in quite the way I was to want to track things similarly. https://uyday.com/
They're measuring "open rate" by putting links or images in the email that have uniquely identifying information, right?

As much as I'm frustrated with Gmail's spam filtering (I also use a personal email server, and it's annoying to get my personal email filtered by Gmail), I absolutely loathe seeing that tracking information in links, even if it's from a mailing list I specifically subscribed to. Often times they're newsletters that are also available on the web. I'd rather just go to ddg to search for the web version to read.

Of course, that's probably a case of https://xkcd.com/1105/
"military grade encryption" - so strong, the military doesn't use it for soldiers' emails.
If you hate it so much, why work at a company that produces mediocre software?
“Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It’s a pseudonym for ‘no coal,’” the CEO of Murray Energy, the country’s largest privately held coal-mining company, told E&E News.

...

“It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration,” he said last week. “It is just cover for the politicians, both Republicans and Democrats that say, ‘Look what I did for coal,’ knowing all the time that it doesn’t help coal at all.”

People saying "you can make clean coal power, it's just really expensive," are saying essentially the same thing as this article. Over 90% of American coal is burned in power plants. Coal's big selling point is (was) producing cheap electricity. Once you make it clean, it's no longer cheap; see last week's declaration of surrender for the Kemper clean coal plant. It was 3 years behind schedule, $5 billion over budget, and still unfinished:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/06/7-5-billion-kemper-...

It's just going to burn natural gas now.

If you can't build new dirty coal plants in the US, and new clean coal plants cost significantly more than other clean electricity sources, then coal output will slowly decline another ~90% from last year's lows. Metallurgical coal is still going to be used for a long time but companies like Murray Energy would be doomed.
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The overwhelming majority of cases never go to trial. Too often the accused can't afford to make bail, can't afford to be stuck in jail for potentially years while they wait for trial, can't afford competent legal counsel, and end up pleading guilty to whatever crime they're accused of whether they're guilty or not. The types of appeals that you mention in your other comment are not representative of the bread and butter of the US criminal legal system, which is plea bargains.
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