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Earth Aid - Boston, MA - Full-time Data & Rails Engineers

Earth Aid ( http://earthaid.net ) was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're newly venture-backed by Point Judith Capital as well as strategic and angel investors who have built and scaled some of the most successful businesses today. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. We have offices in San Francisco and DC, and we're now consolidating our dev team and HQ into an awesome brand new headquarters in Boston.

We empower households to track & contextualize their electric, natural gas, and water utility usage. We value data, clarity, focus and beauty. We are looking for people who do too --- people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. We want the best and the brightest. People who work hard and play hard. People who want to make an impact. This is an opportunity to not only work with a dynamic group of people, but also the opportunity to build a platform that's revolutionizing the way we look at energy consumption.

To learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fun company culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones, check out: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net

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Data Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change & the future of energy. Analytics: Use tools like mapreduce, hadoop, and AWS to drive insight into energy usage. Performance: Store the world's energy data in a way that makes it easy for web engineers to create experiences on top of it. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Reliability: Build tools that make it easy to know what is happening throughout the system and that allow Earth Aid to be constantly available for our users. Security: Create an infrastructure that both allows us to be certain that our user data is safe while at the same time allow the flexibility to perform analytics and quickly iterate.

Ruby on Rails Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change and the future of energy. User Growth: Create a clear and impactful experience that drives us toward many millions of users. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Product design: Envision and execution on product features and entirely new products. Visualization: Create beautiful and meaningful visualizations that impact consumer energy usage.
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I can understand if the reasoning is in bad faith but downvoting merely for disagreement seems like abuse.
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| but more an indicator of the lack of trust from the public in MS consumer products

That seems hard to believe when Windows 7 sales are through the roof, XBox and Kinect sales are through the rough and so on. And Microsoft used to disassociate their name from the XBox line, but that was years ago.

Most people don't have a beef with Microsoft.

As an aside, could you give a mini-review of your WP7 phone and go into why you prefer it over an iPhone for daily use?
Is it strange that I like the extreme rarity of certain items? You don't ~need~ any particular item to beat the game, or be amazing. When weapons and buffs are procedurally generated, it realy doesn't matter. But, if you desperately want the "Flawless Arcane Hammer of The Middle-Aged Gods", then you can sell your current items.

Oh, and another thing I just thought of as I was writing this. During that time that you're searching for the "Priceless Crossbow of Ill-repute", you're going to find other, extremely rare artifacts which you can then ... sell yourself, or trade! So instead of having to search through all possible procedurally generated items for the "Flaming Katar of Fiery Doom", you can quest on your own and find items and then sell one or many of your artifacts that another player wants, and ... get the item you want.

How does this system fail again?
SF, CA : ROI-DNA web consultancy

We're looking for devs to join a rapidly growing web consultancy. We're a group of friends who came together to help all kinds of web business increase their awesomeness. Initially, we focused on marketing + strategy, but clients always wanted help with implementation, so we started doing a bit of dev work. Now we're doing lots of dev work from building mobile apps to simple JS tweaks to full-stack rebuilds to large CMS implementations.

Anyways, if you're game to play with lots of different technologies and clients, give a shout. And we're looking for all kinds of dev help. We'd love you to join us forever and ever and ever, but we're realistic: consulting is often a temporary thing as you plot the next steps in your career and that's fine with us. We're also happy to help you increase your runway if you're working on your own thing. Need awesome design work, some strategy, a bit of social media advice? We're happy to help you when you help us.

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I might be biased as well since I learned smalltalk+ruby about the same time prior to objective c. I personally find smalltalk derived OO much less painful than the java/c++ counterparts. But thats just my opinion, they both get the job done in the end.

I'm curious how it fries your mind exactly? Fries like Haskell in that it makes you learn different paradigms or fries as in challenges base assumptions on how things like OO/etc... work?
Folk are focusing on the two changes that make this more like chrome (tabs in title bar, and apparent removal of search bar.) There's more going on here.[1]

* Simplified, customizable graphical menus. No idea how well this will work, but it's only a mock-up at this point.

* Removal of the forward button, merging the back button with the URL bar.

* Refinement of per tab UI. In chrome you still get the browser chrome on pages like preferences or history.

* A change in browser chrome when entering fullscreen mode. (Chrome just over-lays the standard UI when you mouse to the top.)

[1] If anyone knows the context for these images, would be nice to link it!
Tools like mencoder, On2 Flix Engine, and GStreamer are alternatives, but they share a lot of code with ffmpeg (including the ubiquitous libavcodec).

If you want to avoid this altogether, you have a few options, though none of them are as strong as ffmpeg, like Quicktime, Microsoft (Expression Encoder etc.?), and enterprise software or hardware (Rhozet, Inlet, etc.). But I wouldn't be surprised if enterprise appliances even incorporate libavcodec today.
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The dev tools' UI[1] looks amazing.

http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/devTools/devTools.html
>The taxes they pay to the states in which they do business cover their use of the roads, no?

Yeah, and they cover grade school education, which FedEx doesn't directly use at all. That was my point about how taxes work.

Regarding your point about regions,

A) The tax is on the consumers, not on amazon.com (or equivalent, proper noun provided to eliminate pronoun confusion).

B) Whether or not amazon.com 'exists' in that region, they're certainly doing business in it, no? Otherwise there'd be no taxes to collect. Brave new world, used to be it was impossible to do business somewhere you didn't have a shop, mail order was nothing close to the web. That's why tax codes and enforcement methods need to be updated for the 21st century. It's less competitive and less capitalist to have different tax codes for the same goods (or even different goods, IMO, with rare exceptions).
I fear this might make the argument for taxing virtual goods stronger. There have been some real money systems (livegamer) out there but never on such a large expected release title.
Google's mission statement is: "Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
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Yeah. Show me one company which doesn't have a mission statement like helping people, curing diseases, feeding the hungry...
Curious, since I only recently started using a mac. How does firefox not act like a native app?
+1 for linking to (new to me) checkvist. Keyboard shortcuts done extremely right.
looks pretty impressive. the fact they do manipulation in JS and don't touch markup or CSS is a great thing
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Robot Flaneur: navigate the world by strolling through Google Street View.
Zemanta, Slovenia, EUROPE

Zemanta is changing how writing process works. Text editors stayed the same for last 20 years and it's time to make them smarter. Zemanta analyzes text being written in real time and helps the author with suggestions.
You can check a basic demo at http://zemanta.com/demo

We're looking for:

* frontend engineer (Javascript): Creating user interface for Zemanta's personal writing assistant
While authors write their text, Zemanta analyzes it and displays suggestions inside their existing CMS. You'll be creating interfaces that integrate smoothly into existing content management systems and provide whole new way to author text. We are looking for combination of knowledge of JavaScript inside browser environment and familiarity with CS foundations like basic algorithms and data structures.

* backend research engineer: Research and development in natural language processing and information retrieval. Implementing and evaluating new algorithms in word sense disambiguation, trying out ideas to improve document-to-document search. Languages are Python, C++ and Java. Strong computer science background is a requirement, .

* backend infrastructure engineer: Scaling out the crawling infrastructure, help with the tooling for researchers (scaling on Hadoop), constantly improving deployment processes, logging and monitoring.

Zemanta’s research and engineering team is in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Our team is international. City is lately becoming a small start-up hub, so there are plethora of events related to tech, business and similar. You’ll have a hack of a time in Slovenia, we promise!

Address: jobs@zemanta.com
PPC ads in Google SERPs are a great thing because they're keyword-based, highly relevant and targeted.

The problem with ads starts to happen when we get into behavioral targeting, remarketing/retargeting, data exchanges, etc. This is where things get a little creepy. People don't want profiles built up on them with all of their likes and dislikes so that display ads can be better served to them.

What's worse is that Google has been testing out banner ads on some of their other properties like Google Image Search, and Facebook-style ads are showing up in Gmail (see the Groupon ones?).

I'm worried that some day the Google we know and love will end up looking like Yahoo around the late 90's, littered with banner ads.

I remember people making a switch back then to Google when it was banner ad-free and had great search results.
I'm glad they finally got rid of that extra search bar, it was ugly and clunky and useless. Any word on when this changes happens for real? I would love a better looking firebug delivery device.
Chrome on Windows has a flag that you can set to get vertical tabs, but it's a flat list (no tree style).

Tree style tabs are the #1 reason I use Firefox (though many of Chrome's other advancements are mighty tempting).
Internet Explorer users have below average IQ
More thoughts on the state of HTML5 audio, codec wars, and the politics
it feels a bit like:
damn those scientists/engineers trying to solve complex problems with a one one-size-fits-all analytical/reductionist toolbag; some problems are really hard!
What we need is to use our one-size-fits-all Structured Dialogue Design!
Safely sync Google Docs with SecretSync and SyncDocs
Us gays also use Android, y'know ;)
Thanks for your feedback! This are some very good points you make. We will definitely add a diagram like that to our page.

Regarding your questions: We take the pain away of managing all these different channels. All the incoming messages are stored in suplify and you and your colleagues can reply right there. And you can see what your colleagues wrote.
I really hope this new tab layout doesn't mean Tree Style Tabs is out of the picture.
JSONP - give it a REST
Do you specifically seek out these jobs so that you can use Clojure? I'm working with Clojure on a personal project for image-processing, and I'd like to find a job where I can do more with it than just late-night hackery.
Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community
Journalism. (Rutledge on the aftermath of his NYT redesign)
Instructables is joining Autodesk
I'm not sure what people like about Personas (or the equivalent in other browsers). It always stands out, distracts, and for me even messes up the great website I may be viewing at the time.

I'd be much more interested in a CSS extension that lets websites 'bleed' their background into the browser chrome.
These aren't design blueprints. I don't really know why the OP linked to a set of images without any commentary, but it's obvious from the URL that these were part of a presentation. Showing exactly the same changes on every OS wouldn't have been very useful in that context.
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Vancouver, BC

SilkStart is looking to expand our team
UI/UX and Back End Developers - We use mako, html, javascript, jquery, sass for our UI and pylons/mako for our back End

If you're interested please get in touch with us at jobs@silkstart.com
I hope they allow people to keep the old current look if they'd like. I'm more tired of changing constantly then anything, and I love the UI in firefox now. Not that new ideas shouldn't be tried, just that what's not broken shouldn't be "fixed". And I personally don't like chrome because it seems to simple, so trying to turn into Chrome isn't going to win my vote. (but hey, it's about what the mass wants right?)
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We're big fans of magic, so we will definitely consider this. ;)
Legally, others still must pay the $40. It's just
that they get to pay it at the end of the year as
part of their the "USE TAX" line item in their
state taxes. They don't avoid the expense: they
are deferring (er, perhaps, ignoring? the law).
What rot. The banker is a middleman, it's true, but a very necessary one. The bank connects people who have money (old people) to people who want to borrow money (young people), allowing house-sized quantities of money to be borrowed and paid back over a period of decades in a way that lowers risk and maximises accessibility for the depositors. If it weren't for banks, then most young people would be (essentially) unable to afford to buy houses.

Heck, if it weren't for banks we'd probably live in some kind of Jane Austen world where the vast majority of the land is owned by a few super-rich families and the folks who don't inherit money have no way of getting ahead.
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Yes, I should have been more clear. I don't think individuals should pay direct taxes to the Federal government. I prefer the pre-16th amendment scheme of apportioning amongst the states.

Regardless of today's law, I am currently of the opinion that direct taxes should be collected at the most local level possible with each community paying it's parent an apportioned amount for the service, privileged, and protection it provides.
Personally I just hover to see where a link goes at times, but chrome's method of showing the link at the bottom after N milliseconds is more than sufficient. It doesn't need to permanently take up pixels otherwise.
Could this be the new iPhone 5 design?
Well, here's one for Exxon Mobil (first I chose)

Exxon Mobil Corporation is committed to being the world's premier petroleum and petrochemical company. To that end, we must continuously achieve superior financial and operating results while adhering to the highest standards of business conduct.

It clearly states how they intend to make money.
If you had twenty different UITableViewCells in a nib that had twenty different pictures then I admit the loading of these cells will cause the scrolling to stutter if you do it in cellForRowAtIndexPath:.

However I just finished an application with a UITableViewCell, defined in a nib, that had 3 labels and a image. The labels depend on the data that the row was displaying and the image was the same in every row (it was a custom disclosure image).

One of the table views that that used this cell had 100 rows and it loaded and scrolled without a hitch.

Most of the slowdowns people experience with scrolling is if they have transparent cells and/or they don't load lazy load images on a background thread.

I agree that if you've tried all sorts of optimizations and you are still experiencing slow scrolling then painting the contents manually will probably be faster but it is IMO more work then 99% of people need to do and, like naz said below, there can be accessibility issues.

When Loren Brichter wrote that 3 years ago it was a much bigger deal. The iPhone 3G was extremely underpowered compared to most of the devices people run iOS on today.
> How exactly is it bad to connect people with things they want and need?

Ads aren't always about giving people what they want or need, because there is that clever hack of creating the need in the first place. Besides, even if ads were really about satisfying existing desires, there is also the problem that people don't necessarily want or need the things that are right for them or for society.
Actually, you do: In Chrome, you can turn off search autocompletion for the top bar. It will search history and bookmarks, but not contact Google.
The demo is great but the same question remains : What about animations ?
Why exactly is this harmful, i.e., who is harmed and by how much?
Not to mention, it may solve their jailbreak problem, at least temporarily.
Filed under "Differences between Google and Zynga"
Cape Town, South Africa. REMOTE ok.

All round JS centric developer to work on our own SAAS products.

We have a thorough job spec on our site: http://www.cognician.com/jobs/software-developer.
> I don't think copyright is compatible with the Internet. It's time for everyone to realize that. Times change, and some laws become obsolete

You got that completely backwards. See Breyer's essay and Landis and Posner's analysis of it, both cited here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uneasy_Case_for_Copyright
> Hardly ever? :-) Maybe it is more about advertising then I realize.

That's a broad interpretation of "hardly"... Clearly some people in some non-advertising projects are at some point going to care about some ad metric in some way, so "never" would be inaccurate. That still doesn't mean that there's any significant amount of effort spent on non-ads people on ads performance.
Clicking their site http://www.meridianapps.com/ leads to "App Engine Error: Over Quota. This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later"

Ouch!
The kind of control Apple seeks (to what purpose is irrelevant) is doomed to fail. You simple cannot control a device once it's in the possession of an 'adversary' (which in this context seems to be the owner of the device).

Once the attacker (again, the owner of the phone who wants to jailbreak) has possession of the phone, he has complete control over it. I wonder if Apple has this internal posture that they should make appearances of caring about jailbreaking (for the benefit of the carriers and their contracts) but actually it's not such a big deal.
The multi-armed bandit solution has seen most real world use in medical trials. Randomly assigning patients to treatments when you have more information available is highly unethical, as it can literally result in extra loss of life.
Never call anything "intuitive". Chances are overwhelming that it isn't for the majority of people.

For the programmer himself, even a "change into meta-workflow-hyper-mode" may seem intuitive, but for someone who never has used a computer, even the moving and clicking of a mouse is _not_ intuitive.

"Intuitive" is a completely subjective concept. A reviewer or user may say "this feels intutive to me", but the programmer or designer cannot sensibly use that word in any stronger way than "I hope that it feels intutive for a large part of my intended audience."
What is your infrastructure like? AWS? shared hosting? self hosted?

Are you using any interesting solutions for storage of the video?

Are you using any interesting solutions for streaming the video?
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I see wasted pixels...
I launched this little project: http://notationtraining.com

It is very simple and fast way how learn to read sheet music notation.
Wow. I never expected that much negativity for the Android side. I've dabbled in both but haven't done Android since over a year ago. I was (and still am) really looking forward to using Eclipse and reading Java. I just get very tired of XCode.
The purchaser has always been responsible for the sales tax. However, in America, almost all taxing jurisdictions implement a withholding charge on the merchant, so that the merchant collects the sales tax owed by the purchaser on the purchaser's behalf.

Quill v. North Dakota, the SCOTUS case to which you refer, was about a sale-order catalog's obligation to withhold the sales tax for purchases by out-of-state state customers (in the case, customers in North Dakota). SCOTUS ruled that North Dakota did not have the jurisdiction to impose a withholding obligation on Quill because it did not do sufficient business in the state to have a "presence". However, after the case in various speeches, several of the deciding justices noted that if Quill had had a greater volume of business (on the order of an in-state retailer), the outcome would probably have been different.
Wireless snooping WASP drone impersonates cell phone towers
I'm disappointed in the discussion here. Any comment that remotely alludes to any information that might contradict the US gov official story is being downvoted. Why are people resistant to entertain opposing viewpoints on this story? It seems unscientific (and bad journalistic practice) to rely only on one source.
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There are people consistently on my list whom I never interact with.
I think he's actually somewhat correct about multi-threaded programming, at least in some areas. Multi-threading works (aside from all the problems Yegge mentions) when you're dealing with multiple cores in a single box, but it doesn't scale at all well across a distributed system. As a counter-example, Map-Reduce has exploded since Yegge's post, as a way to get practical parallel speedups for certain kinds of tasks, without even having to think about race conditions, deadlocks, etc. Now Map-Reduce isn't useful for all the same problems as multi-threading, so one isn't going to replace the other, but it's just an example of an area where the multi-threading paradigm fails.
Firefox does the same, now. It's almost like Chrome's but it doesn't expand to show the "middle" of a really long link after a second.