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San Francisco, CA / Montreal, QC or REMOTE

Xtranormal (http://www.xtranormal.com/) is looking for someone who loves to build for the web and is happy owning projects and products from detailed definition through implementation (front- & back-end) and maintenance.

We're a 25ish-person, largely technical company with small offices in Montreal and SF. We're very open to remote hires.

We're using python/django, mysql, javascript/jquery, flex, VB.Net (!), and so on and so forth. Specific technical aptitude is far less important than a willingness to learn and a desire to build great stuff on the web.

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It's a bit unclear from the article whether the woman is a channel moderator

I only corrected the claim that moderators have any administrative privileges, unrelated to the case at hand.

If we consider that Anonymous is an organisation

Except it isn't, that was my point. Anonymous is more akin to something like a subculture. Do we prosecute everyone who considers himself, for example, a Punk, just because some other members of the Punk movement have done questionable things?

and people who are better informed than us.

And that is the problem. No one of the people who make decisions in these cases even understand Anonymous, how are they supposed to be "better informed" than us?
I suspect that the sample size is too small to really draw any reliable conclusion.

Having said that, you are on the ground. You see and talk to them. You definitely have a good idea of what you are talking about. Me, i'm just a guy half way around the world feeling pretty bad about it - and hoping that this is not true.

You touched on so many points that i endorse and recommend heartily. Programming is coding. It's hands-on. People have to sit in front of a machine from day one, hour one of their learning. People learn from writing crappy code, and debugging crappy code till the code starts to work. People learn from making their own mistakes. People should learn that programming cannot be memorized and repeated ad nauseum on exams.

I remember the kind of folks i interviewed when i was starting a company in india in 1995. I was horrified at the nature of rote memorization in many schools and collages. I made a decision not to hire any one with a CS degree as i felt that i would have to spend too much time making them unlearn bad habits. I then decided to go out, hire students with no programming background, teach them coding from the ground up. Teach them to solve problems one step at a time. Teach them the joy of debugging. And they turned out to be great.

I suspect that every country, region, city, place might have to go through an evolution of programming culture, but the internet and it's legions of programmers gives a great way for beginners to short-circuit their learning process.

Let us know of ways we can help, as well.
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Dropbox

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- Intern - Software Engineer
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Well the memory available to the processor for state is finite, too. Thus, every classical computer is a finite state machine.

That said, some programs have state that is more finite than others. :-) Deep down, a "state machine-based design" is a mindset of the designer.
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I'm working on it: http://github.com/seppo0010/deck.remote.js
Look to the international editions.
These are often shipped from India - quite thin paper but the same content:

http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780136042594
Lacking tangible skills, it's hard to evaluate whether someone is a "great computer scientist".

Can you be a "great artist" if you can't even draw? How about a "great architect" if you don't know how to build a house?

Possessing the basic skills in your field of study, I think is a prerequisite for acquiring the advanced skills and the ability to contribute to the state if the art.
Mixpanel is hiring. We write Python, C, and serious amounts of Javascript.

You can find our jobs page at http://mixpanel.com/jobs/

We're moving into a new office today: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4426180253_21043a8ab9_b....
Opps, thanks for telling us, we have changed it and it should be working now. Glad that you liked the concept!
San Francisco, CA (INTERN as well as full-time):

Yelp is hiring: http://yelp.com/careers

We're primarily looking for hackers, product managers, and sysadmins.
Where I live bootstrapping is a necessity rather than an option. Founders and early employees carry tons of risk, and once the business is profitable the idea of taking funding on worse terms than are available to much riskier early-stage startups in the US is laughable. Companies grow organically because it makes the most sense to fuel growth with revenue.

Given that the vast majority of startup financing in the US is late-stage, it seems to me that a lot of companies that take investment in the States are doing it to de-risk participants, exactly the same thing that happens when pre-revenue founders take funding to pay themselves salaries. I think this is a good thing, but the insinuation that the rest of the tech world is building digital surf shops because we are beach bums who don't understand scalability is insulting and inane.
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Full benefits. Lots of vacation. Great people to spend your day with.
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(Also we love Zombies)
Totally agree with you. While you need to fairly sure you are on a path that is capable of providing you with a decent return at some point, the fact remains that you have to absolutely love the journey, otherwise there are a lot easier ways to earn a living... I'm involved in my third startup experience (one decent-ish consulting biz (not really a startup but a new biz nonetheless), one ecommerce biz that went fairly big (in UK terms) and then blew up, and now a social commerce play), and I still get the same feeling of being a kid in a candy shop that is just not present when you are doing (much better paid) work for other people.
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IBM has been on a buying spree for years, mostly driven by Steven Mills from their software group. They are actually very smart about it; they acquire most companies early on when they are still comparatively cheap. They usually buy them not because they need to for competitive pressure but to shape or build out future offerings, avoiding having to pay a premium later on.
Is it really so unreadable? It's not crystal-clear like perfectly linear code as you sometimes have to follow the flow of the state machine through various functions, but syntax-wise once I discovered structs and typedefs, managing state was simple and concise.
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Colin, I'd like it if you're stop muddying the waters about my take on SSL/TLS.

I am not a fan of the HTTPS/TLS CA system. You know I'm not.

I am a "fan" of TLS, as much as anyone can be a fan of a protocol. Most if not all of the smartest crypto protocol people in the world have taken shots at TLS. Roughly once every 3-5 years, one of them finds a new vulnerability in TLS, which, when fixed, makes the protocol stronger. That's gone on for roughly 15 years now, making TLS the soundest cryptosystem available to developers on the whole Internet.

You don't like TLS. I get it. You think TLS is too complicated, that it has too much negotiation and too much statekeeping to reason about its security. I think that's a reasonable position to take.

You used to advocate that people write their own encrypted transports to avoid using TLS. You don't do that so much anymore. When you used to advocate that, I yelled about it, because you were wrong. Predictably, when people† write their own encrypted transports, they make grave errors that cause their cryptosystems to blow up.

Now you advocate that people use things like spiped, your new encrypted transport. That's fine too. I'm not recommending it, but wouldn't flag it if I found it on an engagement.

There you have the entirety of our engagement on the issue of SSL and TLS. Note how the Internet trust model doesn't factor into it? That's because we agree on that issue and there is no reason for us to argue about it.

† never mind.
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Lax police boarded the plane just before it took off."

I agree. It is quite sad but the cover up was clever.
Awesome! I love OCaml and this is a great way to get some apps running in the browser. I particularly like the simple OpenGL example with the 3D globe. Great way to get your app onto multiple platforms quickly.
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(Remote or Buenos Aires)

I work with a team of 3 devs and a designer codenotion.com (it's a silly page for now).

We work across the full web stack: html/css/js/php/python/sql/deployment.

We are also generalists, happy to code non-web projects.

Feel free to contact me: mike@codenotion.com or all: development@codenotion.com
The browser PKI is not a fundamental part of how SSL/TLS is used in non-browser applications. For instance, enterprise software that uses TLS routinely rely on static access lists (for instance, of digests of self-signed certificates) to authenticate connections.

The reason browsers have the crazy PKI model is that browser SSL/TLS has to scale to the entire Internet and allow new sites to come online with only days or hours or minutes of advanced warning.
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We make mobile games for ios and android. We are seeking Flash/Flex developers (big plus if you used Flex 4.5), Lua developers (Corona SDK), and Game Designers.

We prefer to work with someone local (we are located in the San Francisco Bay Area) but wouldn't mine trying something remote.

If you are interested please shoot us an email at admin@mirandabros.com, please include a resume. If you worked on games in the past, please include links to them.

Thanks!
Perhaps they figure it is better for users who need to reach their email while offline to use Google's offline web app occasionally instead of moving to POP/IMAP altogether.
This doesn't really explain 'how' you got burnout. What was the reason?
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Here's a slightly different take on Bolton & Watt http://mises.org/daily/3280

I think the key takeaway is that the patent was retroactively extended; so the idea was already created. If the extension was necessary for funding and development, then a case can be made for granting temporary monopolies for anything regardless of the inventor (the idea already exists, so we should find the best implementer) - I think most would be against this idea.
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We're looking for Django developers, copywriters, and front-end developers (we're big fans of responsive design and rich apps. Backbone.js, jQuery, experience with the PhoneGap API's are a plus). We mainly develop web applications for businesses, but we have a healthy portfolio of customer-facing sites and mobile apps.

We're based in the UK, so ideally we're looking for people within 4 hours of GMT, but we can be flexible for the right person.

Rates and CV's or portfolios to jon@testled.com
A six-digit lower end of the range seems to be the point at which they reject range searches (or it errors, perhaps by exception).

This range works: 99999..1000000

Increment that first digit and it will fail though.
SEEKING FREELANCER, San Francisco Bay Are, remote work is possible but we prefer local

www.mirandabros.com

We make mobile games for ios and android. We are seeking Flash/Flex developers (big plus if you used Flex 4.5), Lua developers (Corona SDK), and Game Designers.

We prefer to work with someone local (we are located in the San Francisco Bay Area) but wouldn't mine trying something remote.

If you are interested please shoot us an email at admin@mirandabros.com, please include a resume. If you worked on games in the past, please include links to them.
Are these alerts over Gmail traffic or the whole internet?
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Your "preview" felt a lot like GMail's "beta" did. You had fully released it and were evangelizing it, the only thing you've done now is removed the label and hiked up your pricing by an astounding amount.

This is a bait-and-switch, plain and simple.
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I'm always skeptical of these technologies. I recall see another article on Hacker News about a Y.C. startup (Launchpad Toys I believe) that predicted the future may not be about robots, but rather virtual reality. Personally I believe we'll have both :)
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This is so subjective - everyone's experience is different. While I agree that large companies have a tendency to accumulate overhead and slackers things have changed significantly over the last few years.

I started out working at several startups and they were orders of magnitude worse in terms of politics and personality clashes. Also, it was hard attracting qualified engineers. On the flipside, it was very clear what my contribution was and I felt very responsible for the success and failure of the company.

I've been at HP for 11 years now and it's changed from somewhat bloated to very lean. We've had pretty thorough housecleaning efforts in recent history as have most mega companies. Bureaucracy has never been a problem where I've been (I'm sure it's different in other divisions), the smaller project teams feel a lot like working at startups with the added benefit of very good equipment, etc.
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and a part 3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941688

and a part 4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2950413
Though i am inclined to agree with you i do think this distinction might be appreciated in the context. What i mean is, when a person is starving he doesn't really care if his food is from a 2 hat or a 3 hat restaurant.

Having said that, i view programming as a tool which is to be used for solving problems. But i would expect a CS major who wants to work in the industry to be really proficient with his or her tools, and that includes programming.

A CS Researcher might be able to get away without any knowledge of programming in a university setting, but could be out of place in the real world unless he focuses on a speciality which is in high-demand.

I once had the experience of sub-contracting work to one of the best universities in my country and found that both the students and the professors involved with the project were not familiar with coding. Thankfully i could train them on coding with minimal effort since they had a background in rigorous mathematics.
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Sorry to hear that this guy did not make his dream grade. A lot of us have had that experience where you don't get the job of your dreams or get into the university you love...

This is common and part of life, but if every time you fail, you give up, then its not productive.

Recently, I have been thinking that no specific job can define you as good or bad programmer. No school can really define how intelligent you are or how much passion you have for a topic. These institutions can help you discover them but a lot relies on you to really make it happen.

All the best to author of this article, I really hope he breaks out of this low and gets back to doing what he loves.
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Truthfully (and, sorry, quite bluntly) I can't imagine this seeing any success or going anywhere. There are already places for people who want to do things (e.g. answer surveys) to earn points (aka prizes), if I want to do this then I will go to those sites, not wait hoping an advert appears.
San Francisco, CA (H1B, INTERN no problem)

Scribd (social publishing, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired TWO people from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript

* iOS

* Machine Learning / Data mining kinds of problems

* Product managers, from web or mobile backgrounds

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you.

We're well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very flat organizational structure that gives a lot of product ownership to engineers, and a really terrific team.

Last month we launched our first iPhone app, called "Float", which hopes to make reading a better experience. If you're a fan of reading apps like Instapaper and Reeder, you're already familiar with what we're doing. See http://tcrn.ch/pCwT4c for more.

Feel free to email me directly: jared@scribd.com

Jared
Some people are talking about the "expected value" of being an early employee, which is a very valuable view. I'd like to focus more on the best case to give a sense of what you can hope for if everything goes right.

I was fortunate enough to be an early engineer at LinkedIn after I graduated college. I was one of the first few engineers hired. I'm not an amazing company picker, and I barely knew what a startup was at the time -- I just got lucky because I knew one of the cofounders.

I received a decent option grant (especially for a kid just out of college!) and stayed at the company for two years. My options got diluted approximately 50% during the various funding rounds. Right now, LinkedIn is a top 20 website in the world, and there's a consensus that its current stock price is "very optimistic". My net worth on paper ends up being a couple of million. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. However, I also want to point out that there are only twenty "top 20 websites", and most of them aren't going to change anytime soon. So if you're one of the first few engineers at one of the 10-20 companies that's going to go from nothing to huge in the next 5-10 years, then you can view a few million -- perhaps 10-20 million -- as being the best that you can expect. And there are literally a few dozen, or maybe 100 people that will get this kind of success every decade. There is little skill involved here. It's all about getting lucky.

Furthermore, people forget that it takes time for value to build. It might take you 4 years to get most of your stock options and decide you want a more stable job or a change of scenery, but it might take another 10 years for your company to go public or get sold. You're giving up a big chunk of your 20s for the potential of a few million in your mid-late 30s -- but you could probably save close to that much anyway with good spending habits and better paying jobs.

So if you want to be an early employee at a start-up, it's an awesome experience. But you should do it because you love it, because you're passionate about the product, or because you cherish the learning opportunity. You shouldn't do it because you think it will make you a gazillionaire.

(just to be clear, I did love my time at LinkedIn -- I made some great friends, learned a ton, understood that startups are the kind of places that I like to work at, etc. I'm really happy I was there, and would be even if the company hadn't become a big success)
It is perfectly possible to use TLS without relying on Verisign. Nothing in the protocol depends on Verisign. The protocol was built in such a way that you can run your own CA, or run no CA at all and have your system manually manage self-signed certificates.

Browsers won't run without the Verisign/Thawte CA system. That's not an SSL/TLS problem; that's a browser problem. Browsers exist in a complicated ecosystem involving banking and credit cards, cooperation between hostile software vendors, and the most massive installed base of users in the history of the world.

Don't conflate the problems that browsers have with the attributes of the SSL/TLS protocol. If you need to create an new kind of encrypted transport between two endpoints on the Internet and choose almost anything other than SSL/TLS, you might as well write your own block cipher while you're at it.
In the last few weeks I've tinkered with the idea of doing hardware hacking. This and the plug-computers look like they have an interesting future. Where do you start to learn to hack real hardware? (I can do Arduino stuff, but seems like there is a big jump I don't know how to make.)
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I was checking the source code for http://thepatentpledge.org/ and noticed a reference to favicon.ico which is not there (returns a 404 Not Found): http://thepatentpledge.org/favicon.ico
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Cause someone asks for it (or demands it)?

Buttons to change font sizes are anywhere in a browser's default chrome, therefore 99% of people don't know you can do it.

In general, I think it's dumb, but have been on the receiving end of "add font size buttons". No amount of "but you can just hit ctrl-+" does any good.
AOL Mail users would probably be clicking on AdWords ads like crazy...