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WP Engine | Multiple Positions | Austin, TX and Limerick, Ireland | ONSITE | Full-time

WP Engine is building the WordPress Digital Experience Platform. We've surpassed $100 Million in annual recurring revenue and recently closed a $250 million investment from Silver Lake.

Our current tech stack is primarily Python, Ruby, & Go, running on GCP & AWS. We have opportunities to work on our container-based hosting platform, our service layer, or our UI and developer tools. This is a great place to grow your career!

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AppNexus | Software Engineers (Real Time Platform) | New York, NY | Full Time

AppNexus is a technology platform that powers the real-time sale and purchase of digital advertising. Over the past three years we've seen explosive growth and are now processing upwards of 6 million requests per second. Out of the 300+ billion potential opportunities daily, we generate more transactions than several major stock exchanges and credit card companies combined. This results in 230 TB of data each day which is processed, analyzed, and fed back into our decisioning engines. With a maximum latency of 100 milliseconds and an average load of 3.4 million queries per second, these engines need to respect hundreds to tens of thousands of seller and buyer rules while optimizing for various KPIs in real-time.

We are looking for developers to join the real-time platform team focused on creating our next generation marketplace. The ideal candidate would have experience building low-latency highly distributed systems and multi-threaded event driven architectures, a strong understanding of CS fundamentals, and a desire to work in a highly collaborative environment.

Open positions are: Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer II

See: https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/careers/open-roles?cjobi...

Stack: C/C++, Golang, Java, Python, Aerospike, ScyllaDB, Postgres, Kafka
The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value
Usually either dumb reasons like "we thought so" - someone's incompetence that would be highly inconvenient to uncover, not to mention expensive in terms of lawsuits - or purely cost driven reasons.
I create DigitalOcean droplets on-demand via their API and roughly 10% of the requests just fail with a generic error message, and then get into an error state with "failure to create droplet."

It's... pretty frustrating, so I'm looking for a new provider with a simple API.
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SEEKING WORK, Austin, Tx or remote

Highly experienced in the design and development of instructional content and applications in mathematics and physics for a higher ed audience. Seeking collaboration in all phases of design and development with universities and other creators of instructional content with the goal of improving instructional processes and techniques. Experience includes highly successful time in instructional design in academia, as well as significant private sector development.

- Instructional design
- Visualizations and simulations
- Scientific computing and numerical methods
- OpenGL, WebGL, GPU computing
- Web based or installed applications

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Email: akluge@vizitsolutions.com

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It may have been triggered by one of the sets of "stickers" available as alternatives to emoji. I've browsed through them and while they all seem PG-13 or tamer to me, I can see how someone with sensitivity towards suggestive cartoons would be offended. There are a few with female cartoons showing cleavage, and at least one that is obviously targeted at furries.
As someone that digs in this data for a living, personally strongly believe this should be on by default for all browsing. The example they give is an insanely bad design for healthcare.gov and I would absolutely not want to find that type of data in my analytics telemetry.

It is very useful to know where your traffic is coming from, but that’s usually viewed at a higher level than the querystring params being shown. In some cases, this may restrict you from knowing which article the person was reading on the given site before clicking through to yours, but if that’s so important, there are other ways to instrument source tracking.
It was good until it lasted.

Although it was a bit inconvenient, I had a chance to try out a few homemade ethnic meals that I have no chance of finding in a restaurant. Eating strangers’ meals was strange, but I bet it will become a thing in increasing sharing economy.
Perfection Salad (1988)
Tokes4folks.com – An interesting group chat for stoners
I mean sure, for some of us beach vacations are free bc we live in LA or Florida, but for most of the country it'll cost in the thousands.

Ditto skiing with lift passes, travel, and lodging. Having a local hill is the exception rather than the rule tbh.
It's not really a like for like comparison. The S8 has been out for a while and has had its price cut down as a result. You always get better value for money if you stay slightly behind the curve and don't buy the fanciest, newest thing going.

The iPhone X price is still ridiculous, don't get me wrong, but Samsung phones are pretty damned expensive on launch, too.
The last thing I want from an external supplier of something I depend on is to have them driving my development and release cycle. I'll expend the resources to upgrade to your latest version when it's worth my time and cost.

Edit: I'm speaking to the vendor here, not you, of course...
> Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company.

My BS radar goes off when I get asked for a 2nd interview, or any 4 hour group interview. Thanks, but no thanks. They did you a favor.

These interviewers are crazy, and have zero proof their convoluted process produces better hires than a single 30 minute coffee interview. They just don't want to admit they don't know what they are doing. As if the heavens will open up and god himself will shout down "He's the one!", if they just have enough rounds to get there.
I seem to recall one of the iPhone keynotes saying that the iPhone is most popular camera (as in most photos taken in a year) presumably by looking at EXIF. That sounds like Apple is aware of content creators using the iPhone.
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This interesting blog post argues in the affirmative: http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
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We're a relatively new startup, but we're profitable and growing our business like crazy. We have roles open for senior Backend and Frontend engineers, as well as some more jack-of-all-trades positions for Sales and Tools engineers.

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With big brand type stuff, I'm getting the impression that alot of ad spend is not ROI calculated. Businesses just kinda say, okay we're gonna spend X% of our revenue on ads and that's that. So, ad blockers won't influence that. I remember hearing on NPR how they went to some business that had been spending millions every year on advertising for countless years, it had always been that way so no one questioned it and then they proved that all their ad spending had 0 impact on their product - the managers were floored.
It's usually framed as the Build Vs Buy question. When do you stop your search for an adequate ready-made solution and just build it yourself?
Heh at that point, I'd say they're being cheap to the point of not being practical. A slightly greater chance of restoring that finger to full use is worth a lot more than a few hundred bucks if you're not seriously low on money. But yeah, their cheapness probably has something to do with why they have so much money stored up.
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Piestar | Senior Software Engineer (PHP) | Full-time | Manhattan, KS | ONSITE

Our fast-growing bootstrapped SaaS manages large collaborative research programs in higher education, with a special focus on data collection, monitoring & evaluation, and aggregating reports for stakeholders. Our client list includes NSF, USAID, USDA, and NIH-funded programs.

We're hiring a senior software engineer to bring experience to our small enthusiastic development team. Both our founders are technical, but we are ready for someone that can focus 100% on product without distraction (I promise to personally protect you from meetings and fluff).

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Advertising industry insider here:
I am seeing a lot of misinformation in this thread. Advertisers have been using (installs / In-app purchasing / shopping cart tracking) to calculate ROAS (ROI) for YEARS. And the modern targeting is actually pretty good in general.

Only big brand advertisers (like Clorox/PG/etc) evaluate ad spend on the impression/click level. This is not the norm (unless you want to lose your shirt to bots/fraud). We have made it a long way from the blunt-instrument advertising of past years. Full disclosure: there may indeed be a 'changing-of-the-guard' happening with regard to brand advertisers waking up to the available tech, but that is a different story..

Overall, this is a non-story. Many corporations were slapped with a massive bill after the passage of Trump's tax cuts. Not just Google. So with that liability, of course PROFIT dropped. But the REVENUE is what you want to look at for these 'bubble' discussions (and that is strong), so nothing to see here...
...I'm gonna need a /s for sarcasm or a /s for serious here. I can't tell which this is.
Hilton definitely doesn’t own a lot of those hotels or suites.
I breaks a lot of things that do hotlink checks.

Maybe only allow a referrer from the same site policy?
These are solid, chewable vitamins. Presumably the action of chewing is enough to handle the topical application? I think there was a prescription from a dentist, which presumably would prevent children who have fluoridated public water from overexposure to fluoride.
Strange they've updated the main docs to 5.x yet their master branch is still on 4.x without a 5.x release.

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
Flagged this as the headline here and the headline on the blog post do not match, and the one here is not accurate and misrepresents the post.
Dotdash | New York, NY | Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Growth | Full Time Onsite

As a Senior Software Engineer, Growth you will build the tools that power our content strategy. You will work closely with Agile teams in New York and Eastern Europe to build databases and applications that empower our writers, editors, and growth team. You will have significant autonomy over your code and contributions.

About Your Contributions:

- Take over as tech lead on existing analytics application (Django/React)

- Architect and build new web applications and internal tools

- Work with and help lead a team of remote developers

- Manage and maintain the ETL pipelines that power our insights

About You:

- 5+ years experience building web apps and APIs

- 2+ years experience data engineering in Python

- Excellent with: Python, PostgreSQL, AWS

- Tech lead/application owner on multiple projects

- Experience with distributed team

- Bonus: Modern Javascript (we use React)

About Us:

Dotdash's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the fastest-growing publishers online, and its brands are the fastest-growing in their respective categories. Dotdash brands include Verywell, The Spruce, The Balance, Lifewire, ThoughtCo, and TripSavvy.

http://jobs.jobvite.com/dotdash/job/oh5L6fwX
Looks like AWS is their Golden Goose, with 64% of their operating income coming from it. ( The retail side must be operating at very thin margins. )

> For the quarter, AWS sales jumped 45 percent year-over-year, while generating $1.3 billion in operating income, a whopping 64 percent share of Amazon's total operating income.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/amazon-earnings-q4-2017.html

Closed at 1,390.00 down -60.89 (-4.20%)

After Hours (after earnings announcement): 1,477.99 up +87.99 (6.33%)

Saw the close and thought the bull run was correcting. 2 hours later, it ups another 88$. Wow.
Yep. As technology changes, so do the mediums by which advertising takes place (i.e. print -> radio -> TV -> online -> social).

As long as there are imperfect markets and unequal distribution of information, there will be advertising. How that advertising is performed will continue to change drastically over time.
Why is Los Angeles in your keywords? :)
That 230 PE ratio, matched against mediocre earnings growth vs the outsized valuation, is more than enough to raise serious concerns about the viability of maintaining such an extreme valuation.
In the U.S., apparently both "Phillip" and "Philip" are equally popular: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

Edit: I'm glad you made this comment. I only know people with the name "Phillip" but I constantly find myself double-checking how their name is spelt before I refer to them (in text). I chalked it up to me being a bad friend but I guess it doesn't help that I might be seeing enough of the "Philip" variation to get confused.
Lots of sites use it to prevent other sites from stealing bandwidth
> Bandwidth is one of the problems. If a typical IPFS node is a home computer than it has 10x upload speed compare to the download speed. This is going to limit how somebody can access content from IPFS.

This can easily be addressed by choosing hosts which have gigabit upload links if you are hosting high demand files. Personal computer backups may opt for hosts with 10mbit upload that offer much cheaper storage. It may not be possible to do so atm, but eventually the platforms will get there. It's still very early and most distributed storage technologies are nowhere near complete.
If anyone else, like me, thought eBay owned PayPal:

> On October 3, 2002, PayPal became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay. On September 30, 2014, eBay Inc. announced the divestiture of PayPal as an independent company, which was completed on July 20, 2015.
Triage | Developers (Rails, ML/AI, iOS, Android, React, FED), Designers | Remote | $60-100k + equity

Triage (https://www.triage.com) is applying artificial intelligence to medical imaging to make health advice more accurate, affordable and universally accessible. Triage has developed an app that can instantly detect skin cancer and other skin problems. We are looking for talented software engineers to join us.

Our goal is to save lives by making skin cancer screening universally accessible. 1 in 3 cancer diagnoses in the United States is for skin cancer and 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. The five-year survival rate of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, declines from 98% at its earliest stage to below 20% at the later stages. With Triage it is now possible to snap a photo and instantly see visually similar conditions, including deadly skin cancers like melanoma. As an early stage member of the team, you will have a great opportunity to influence architecture and product direction.

Technologies: Rails, React, Python, Tensorflow, Keras, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL/Postgres

Send us a note to learn more: jobs@triage.com or visit https://www.triage.com/careers.
Does anyone here use Adyen? We use Stripe but are starting to consider options that may increase conversions.
Further to this, corporations are (composed of) people[1]. Apple is paying out dividends this quarter and the shareholders will pay taxes on those dividends. Corporate taxes are an expense to a company that leaves them less money to spend on other expenses, including R&D, hiring, lowering prices, and competing for labor.

[1] The “composed of” was obviously what Romney meant in the 2012 campaign, not an obscure argument about corporate personhood.
In civilized countries the cops do not expect everyone to carry a loaded firearm.
I don't think you can ever describe a person's name as spelled correctly or incorrectly. It's spelled how they spell it. It's their name, not a dictionary's. Variations in spelling are perfectly natural and for names in particular are incredibly common
Interesting to compare with the Bartle types [1]. Richard Bartle categorizes players of online games into categories based on what their primary motivation is. (Players are usually some weighted combination of the four.)

The types are achievers (people who want the highest score), explorers (people who want to understand the game world), socializers (people who are there to hang out with other people), and killers (competitive types who aren't satisfied with winning unless someone else loses).

"Loyalty to a social group" sounds like socializers. "Loyalty to a person" could also be characteristic of socializers. "Loyalty to a vision" is absent from Bartle's types, presumably because people generally view games as entertainment and don't look for meaning in them the same way they look for meaning from work. "Money and perks" seems kind of similar to achievers, or to killers if their primary motivation is not just to obtain wealth for their own necessity or enjoyment but rather to gain more wealth than their peers.

Bartle's explorer type doesn't seem to have a clear equivalent, unless one considers the pursuit of knowledge to be one form of loyalty to a vision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...
Alibaba did $25.3B on singles day, for comparison.
It's strange that page mentions rate limiting of 60 requests/min, 10 requests/sec. Are you sure the pricing is 100 requests per month?
Adyen will be better if you have more consumer cards vs. business cards being charged. Nearly 100% chance of this, otherwise Stripe may win.
Or, you could have chosen to not break the RefControl extension, that did this and a lot more.
Buridan's ass
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Apple’s beusiness is riskier, as iPhone’s advantage is slowly vanishing while the price is hiking up. If they can’t convince people to change iPhone every 2 years, their business will be affected drastically.
Right, you can write a function that returns its argument plus one, but it couldn't e.g. evaluate `e` more than once (which both C and Rust macros can).
It's relatively easy to debunk/prove your point about targeting. Test both on the website you control. At the very least you can geolocate the visitor and present an ad in the most appropriate language about a product in their local store.

I'm pretty sure targeting would win by a wide margin.

Google ad guys are the best in business, and you're basically implying they are in a weird targeting cargo cult.
ah.

Hmm.

I worked at intel in the 90s... Ran the game lab - when they came out with the Celeron, they created SIMD instructions - and they paid (bribed) game companies to optimize their games against the instruction set - fofr $1MM in marketing bonuses.... (i.e. "play gameX on intels celeron based PCs and achieve X% performance gain")

And all of this was to prove that they could produce a <$1,000 machine that a consumer would want (the basis of the celeron proc)
A good way to pick battles is not to fight most of them. There are so many solutions that don't have any real problems...
garbage post for overpriced training you can learn on Youtube.
Bug trackers are one of those areas where a lot of companies should build there own. Everyone has there own workflows and information to capture and end up either conforming their process to the bug tracker or spending more time configuring the bug tracker than they would to build a new system from scratch. Those uber configurable systems always suck to use.

Ones like JIRA can takes weeks to setup for your org and include their own query language. All of this complexity just to do something so simple is not rational.

As long as you don't over engineer it then it's only a days work to get something up and running and it's a great project for interns.
Absolutely. There's memory unsafety bugs that'll allow you to ROP, and probably otherwise valid code that doesn't need unsafety that'll speculatively hit user memory in current kernels.

But in the context of trends, we're moving towards User^Kernel memory mapping with features SMAP. That idea combined with kernel changes to holistically enforce separation boundaries more effectively along with cache partitioning AFAICT leads to potential end game win on this front.

Edit: And to be totally up front my major side project is adding a BPF/seccomp esque virtual machine into a formally verified kernel, so my head is in that space.
Not exactly what you ask for, but just as a note: I had to add Polish online train ticket service to the whitelist in Smart Referer add-on, as it always fails with meaningless "invalid site call" error otherwise :P
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I think it's due to dubious "security" implementations, including at least one that was (?) present in a rather notorious PHP message board software package [1]. I'd be surprised if this survived all these years later, but then I've also seen some custom session handling code in my travels that did something similar even as recently as 2-3 years ago.

Some image boards do it to prevent casual hot-linking, as my sibling poster notes.

[1] https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8396
>They're all paid for by taxes.

Thanks for the reminder; and to think that I've spent a lifetime just assuming that public infrastructure grew out of the ground, like grass.

Look, I said I wasn't trying to change the guy's mind or debate. This isn't anything new, we've discussed this about a million times and I'm sure we'll never agree on the proper role and scope of taxation. My statement was simply a counterpoint to the completely undefended and unqualified idea that "Eluding taxes is super-unethical."

>And what country did they live.....

Ah yes, the cosmic effects that we must pay tribute to because we happened to be in the right place at the right time. If we're headed down that route, "America" deserves about as much credit as the invention of mathematics, or at the very least, the computer. Maybe we should thank Steve's mother. We can go down the line infinitely. The point is, people create, build, and make things, and it's those people that should be attributed and credited.
I've had an implant for 25 years, and the bone around it is normal.