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Marketing Intern...Chicago, IL

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That's awesome! I was just recently one of the organizers for Startup Weekend Puerto Rico and we did not expect to have people paying at the door, even less having people paying with credit cards. Thankfully the venue had one of those terminals to process credit cards, took us a while to get it setup, unfortunately the person was too impatient and left. Didn't cross my mind to have had setup Stripe for that occasion, but that would have been great. We are using Stripe for our soon-to-launch startup, http://getblimp.com. After using things like Recurly, I didn't hesitate to use Stripe, its pretty awesome and simple, plus not having to worry about a Merchant account or additional monthly bills.
I, also, cannot edit the doc at the office. I agree with you 100%, the language and platform is not what the client needs to be concerned about -- its the features, business cases, and what they 'need'.

If this is one of those anti-Microsoft zealotry things, then I'm really disappointed. Their tool chain may be proprietary, but with things like NuGet and .NET MVC spawning from inside the belly of the beast, I can't vilify them one bit.
I would love to see the WTF look on Jobs' face when he first saw this device. What was Microsoft thinking?

The iPad works because it gives you a simpler way to do the simplest things you would otherwise do at your desk. It fits into your life quickly and effortlessly and it's priced to be a discretionary purchase. This is all essential for a new product category.

Microsoft thought that architects were going to pay probably over $1000 for this bizarre device to do work on it?? Highly trained people doing specialized work don't usually alter their workflow unless there is an obvious need and a proven solution. If they focussed the entire product on a single vertical then maybe they could sell a few. But an all-purpose creativity device with no 3rd party apps? That pie is in orbit.

EDIT: don't agree then?
No, it takes about changes that have already been made, solicits further comments on both procedural and substantive issues, and shows an organizational commitment to FOSS. What were you expecting? This is way more outreach (and feedback) than has been available previously, and you're unhappy because the administration isn't falling at your feet, it seems like.
This article is a great example of misdirection, summed up neatly in this quote:

That’s because the liberal arts majors like to express their disdain for the shallow business and finance majors who make all the money.

Nonsense. The 1% aren't there because they are exceptionally savvy and went to business school, they're mostly there because they were born into wealthy social networks. The implication of the article is that the other 99% chose their lot, and that if only we all went to college and studied a lucrative craft, we'd all be wealthy. All the while he lauds college grads and their wealthier lifestyle, Brooks incredibly ignores the possibility that maybe wealthy people are more likely to go to college in the first place. Maybe his 'Red Inequality' is just more 'Blue Inequality' after all.

'Red Inequality?' More like red herring.
Hmm, interesting idea. Obviously a parody, but it makes a few valid points, that's for sure.
Good to see a local gang representing!
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Cambridge, MA Panjiva (http://panjiva.com) Hiring engineers -- UI/UX, frontend, backend data mining/algorithms. Full time and internships available.

See http://panjiva.com/jobs
My first thought was "well Asia and India will certainly be pleased". But that's not true. They don't care about our "intellectual property" at all. They'll just make. We just won't.
What elitist attitude? Agree, we all have to start somewhere, and the basics --a relational DB and a synchronous framework are fine somewheres to start from.

Now, when (and if) you know enough about those, by all means move on to NoSQL etc.

Note, though, that I'm taking about people using it in production and not knowing what the compromises are --the "Mongo DB is webscale" and "node.js is damn fast" people.

I have no problem with people that are just using it to play/experiment with (though, they too would have to understand the compromises eventually).
The buggy multi-touch was the worse thing on the Nexus One, and was very falsely advertised on some sites. I really thought that it had a working multi-touch solution before I paid the mountain of importing fees to get it into Canada.

I do still like it too, it just could've been that much better without much more effort put into it.
What nutritional guide lines are they following though? FDA recommended?
This is a very refreshing look. They've really simplified and glossed over a lot of the details of email going on underneath. I wonder if they were able to do this in a way that still has all the features of the original, or else what didn't make the cut.
Noah -- I'd love to get your thoughts on how to make it easier to include people in our project. Would you be willing to send me an email? john dot woods at marcottelab dot org.
TL;DR - We heard you, we just didn't listen. We aren't changing anything. In case you didn't know, though, President Obama is awesome.
Google exerts influence through others
Experts Exchange currently displays its answers for free at the very bottom of its pages, but it misleads visitors into thinking that they have to pay for access. Unless you scroll through about eight pages' worth of filler, you would never know that the answers are there. And EE would love for them not to be there, but search engines won't index them otherwise.

That's actually an improvement from some of their earlier tactics, which involved cloaking (serving one version of the site -- with the answers -- to search engines and a different version to everyone else). The only reason they're not still cloaking is because search engines have gotten wise to their methods and won't tolerate it.

In short, Experts Exchange is willing to mislead people and search engines in any way that it can get away with. So, at least in EE's case, the fact that Google has tightened the screws is great.

(I should mention that I understand EE is a business and is trying to make a profit -- but profiting from deception is what really riles me.)
Assuming enough of the OS X underpinning is still present in iOS, this would be trivial to implement--it's just a matter of Apple deciding to expose the event handling stuff in a public API. (I'm not sure how it works currently in OS X--last time I looked into it, it was still a descendant of the OS 9 "Internet" control panel, only without any UI at all....)
I'd kill for a mail app that properly handles my Gmail labels.
>This bill is a direct assault on a free internet and a shameful attempt by copyright lobbyists to destroy net neutrality.

Shouldn't have used that term here. This petition just lost any Republican/Tea Party support it might have had. And though there may be some overlap, this isn't really about Net Neutrality vs. the telecoms anyway.
Relevant enough question IMHO, despite the downvotes. Chris Pine's book Learn to Program has a good reputation, and it tackles both of your goals: learning to program, and learning Ruby. The second edition is set to be released in five days.

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Pragmatic-Programmers-Ch...
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
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hipay.me looks really cool! If I were doing consulting work right now I would totally consider using it over paypal for invoicing and payment.
People don’t buy your product because it’s easy to use
Its not allowed only for Agents, as there have been past incidents when mass booking is done by agents and normal customers don't get any tickets.
Siemens Ltd., Bangkok Thailand

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- Minimum of 5 years experience in web applications development

- Solid knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Ajax, JQuery, X-HTML and CSS

- Good knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and Object Relational Mapping

- Experience with agile development, and ability to work with minimal supervision

- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, enjoy problem solving and take enormous pride in work

- Good English communication skills, both verbal and written

- Bachelor degree, major in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or IT related field

Qualified Thai nationals and Local Residents please submit your resume (incl. cover letter), availability, present and expected salary.

You can apply via this URL
https://jobsearch.siemens.biz/career?company=Siemens&car...
[Marketing] You can use interviewstreet.com (YC S11) to screen and hire programmers.
Newark, De (Close to Philadelphia )

SevOne

We are a Network Performance monitoring company that focuses on speed at scale. It actually really interesting work solving problems involving huge distributed data sets in ways most people don't deal with ( This is not a Hadoop style data )

Back End Developer - Mainly C , but also a good deal of SQL and PHP

Front End Developer - Mainly Javascript with a good deal of PHP.

We are still what I call a small company but we have grown over 500% since I started. The atmosphere is very much what you would find in a small start up and we have worked hard to keep that atmosphere as we have grown. full job descriptions are on http://www.sevone.com/company/careers or E-mail me at dkozlowski@sevone.com
I would say that there could very well be strategic advantages to being part of a "black" incubator. Peer encouragement/validation, communication, shared experiences, etc. As I understand it, culture is a big part of any startup, and a culturally-oriented incubator could attract people who mesh well together.

I am also a black programmer, yet my experience has likely been a bit different. I've found considerable social and professional benefits to working and networking with people who look like me.
Some additional perspectives on OOP
really stop using alexa. http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/anti-web-analytics/
I like challenging people like you because then I end up learning a lot of semi-interesting things like how Costco picks their locations.

I can't deny that Facebook has contributed to the growth of the internet, but I very strongly think that if Facebook didn't exist that the internet would've grown just as large in just as much time. Something else would've filled the hole that no Facebook would've had.

In hindsight I thought you were saying that Facebook had a very direct effect on the size of the user base for (say) Reddit, and tried to argue against it with a post probably too big for most people's egos, but hearing this example clears things up for what you meant in your first post.

My example was very much shitting in the wind too, sometimes I get carried away writing and things turn into mini-stories.
Until the SCOTUS decisively overturns Federal Circuit precedent, it counts as "the courts". Yes, it seems that the SCOTUS isn't pleased, and things are looking up, but current national precedent is that software is patentable. I believe this is based on some interpretation of congressional intent, and Congress has not stated that it does not consider software to be patentable but, rather, that in some cases at least it should be. I have seen this line of reasoning used in court decisions I have looked over.
Agreed.

It amazes me when people see a bad result and insist that there must be a bad person behind it all somewhere. Do people not realize that more evil will come from a bad system full of good people than will ever come from a few bad people in a good system? Germany wasn't bad in WWII because of Hitler -- there are a million little Hitlers running around the world at any given moment. Germany went bad because the Weimar republic was in such a state of disarray [insert long discussion here] that armed political gangs thrived.

People see the problems with the patent laws and content industry and they insist on "attack!" when the only thing that will do is make the system less stable and open to more of the same exact kinds of things they're upset with in the first place.

Why do we insist that every story have a villain?
I agree that Anandtech serves a niche market, but I feel like most other review sites kind of serve the same niche, but more poorly. What I mean is that a gadget reviewer's experience is so far different from a normal consumer's as to be almost informationless. Gadget reviewers are always looking at new things, never have to use the old things for very long, and their use is probably not representative of most people's use. (For example, when reviewing an Android phone, why does it matter that the UI is different from another Android phone? This only matters for a gadget reviewer who has to switch between phones all the time. Most people will choose a phone and stick with it for at least 2 years. They'll learn to use that UI. They will rarely encounter other UIs.)

I think Brian Lam's Wirecutter[0] takes a step in the right direction. Gdgt[1], which has been around for a while, seems interesting, too, as it's user-generated content, so the experiences rendered are those of self-chosen peers.

P.S. For some reasons, I always read your username as the first word of the comment, so it always sounds in my head like you're saying, "Ugh, Anandtech does awesome..." In my head, you're quite an irritable fellow. There's someone else named "yawn" who always seems bored.

[0]: http://thewirecutter.com/
[1]: http://gdgt.com
Overall a good article. Though it's got this whopper:

A DRAM package is then stacked on top of the SoC. Avoiding having to route high-speed DRAM lines on the PCB itself not only saves space but it further reduces memory latency.

Uh... come again? DRAM latency is a function of the analog circuit inside the chip, not the wires you connect to it. At best, you might be able to drive the chips at a higher transfer frequency (but even then, the limit is probably on-package in the DRAM, not due to board trace problems). But that has at best a minimal effect on latency (you're shrinking the handful of transfer cycles at the end of the read).

The advantage of the PoP configuration is precisely that it saves space -- quite a bit of space, and it's a great trick. But this bit is just way off.
too bad apple doesn't support OpenSSH and PF development.

http://www.callfortesting.org/macpf/
I had an interview with these guys a couple of weeks ago for the front end web dev position.

The interview had been scheduled for a week at that point. After arriving, the person I was supposed to be interviewing with comes out late and tells me they already filled the position a week prior and didn't bother to tell me.

Turns out they're still hiring for that position? Lying to prospective employees isn't nice.
San Francisco, CA - Kontagent

Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Account Manager, Sales, Full-time, Part-time, Intern, Contract

New Office Pics!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69285966@N05/

Let's face it, as an engineer you can work ANYWHERE. You are in demand and if you're good you know it. You don't want to take the time to interview unless you know a company will be good for you.

At Kontagent, we believe that culture is everything. We have a strong community here and people are excited to come into the office. We're tackling big problems, but more importantly we're having uuuuubber amounts of fun doing it. Honestly, its a blast. Your co-workers will be some of the smartest people you know, but also some of the nicest.

We have:

- A game room for the Rockband literate

- A kitchen stocked with delicious food and drinks

- Nerf guns

- Wine and Cheese Thursdays

- Clients that can't run their businesses without us

- A new office with incredible views

- Catered lunch daily and team lunch Fridays

- Beer

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That so-called solution also ties the hands of honest reformers. Obstruction of regulatory function is just as subject to corruption as an excess thereof. The notion that the payor is morally pure is absurd; public choice theory shows that large entities like corporations and unions have every incentive to rig the process by exploiting the rational ignorance of the median voter.
Not interested in switching companies just now, but you guys do nice work -- my girlfriend and I used data from your site (through my insurance provider) to haggle down the price on a Subaru WRX this weekend.
Steve graduated with a CS and EE degree from University of Washington, and I (Eddie) graduated with a Math and Economics degree from UC Berkeley.
Los Angeles or Bay Area or Shanghai preferred, but remote work is possible for exceptional candidates. Full-time only. If you're interested in working remotely, you must live in the U.S. H1B is okay.

Factual aims to be the place where people meet to share, improve, and mash-up data. Our vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that big companies, startups, and developers can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition.

We have a terrific team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). Last year we raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers and partners include Facebook, Loopt, SimpleGeo, and Newsweek. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.

We currently have about half a dozen job openings, from data engineering to software engineering to system administration. For the software engineering position, you would ideally know Java, Clojure, and/or Ruby, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NoSQL, algorithms, infrastructure, and/or Hadoop.

If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it's just starting up, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.

http://www.factual.com/jobs or you can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com. Thanks for reading!
Bank of America nixes $5 debit card fee
London (UK) and Boston (US). Graduates and interns please!

We're a 100-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. Some of you may know us from our sponsorship of Hacker News meetups in London. We're focussed on hiring graduate developers and interns at the moment. See http://devblog.timgroup.com and http://www.timgroup.com/careers.

Note we recently changed our name from youDevise to TIMGroup but we're still the same folks!
The G1 Garbage collector isn't certified for realtime operation. If you want a Java VM that's certified for HARD realtime, you can check out IBM's latest real time GC policy that I believe came out with IBM's Java 7.
Cool, that was going to be my next question. /me subscribes
Deploying Hubot to Heroku like a boss
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

HotPads is hiring software engineers and web user interface developers to work in our San Francisco office. We're a small, lively company building and running a popular map-based housing search engine that's used by millions of people each month, so we need driven individuals who want make an impact on the way people find housing.

dpeters@hotpads.com
> ... it matters exactly not one bit that I try to pass myself off as a solutions architect or a business problem solver, except for possibly some awkward glances back and forth.

Exactly, if he came to our shop to interview for an engineering position but would rather talk about making 'dreams come true' instead of algorithms or systems design, we would kindly show him towards the door.

Engineering shops don't like bullshit. If you are interviewing with HR sure, use business-speak all you want.

But perhaps the fact that there is even an HR dept. that will digest business speak like that, is a sign that you are interviewing at the wrong company.
"Oh Wow": the life and death of Steve Jobs
This is the third or fourth petition with a massive, lengthy non-answer I've seen pop up on the site. I'm generally an Obama fan, but this is just unacceptable.

Looks like it's time for a "Answer petitions with something meaningful" petition.
Mary-Jo Foley: Why 'Windows 8' Isn't What I Thought It Would Be
SciRuby "were?" We rebooted the project a few months ago. Making some progress. sciruby-dev at googlegroups dot com, and #sciruby on IRC.
'Excerpts Exchange" is pretty much dead-on.
It looks good. But the one thing I do notice is that the screenshots they've provided in the blog don't have a strip of ads running down the right hand side of the page. I'll be interested to see what it looks like with those in.
"a realtime system must have a deterministic time to complete a task".

Incorrect, a realtime system must only have execution times below a certain threshold. malloc/free is just as non-deterministic as GC allocated memory (in practical systems). If you put effort into it you can make malloc/free do really stupid things too. If I wrote a program that allocated and freed the right size strings the program would eventually crash.

With any sort of modern CPU it would be almost impossible to produce non-trivial programs with deterministic execution times. I'd hazard a guess that there are very few 'realtime' programs that couldn't be written using the JVM. If you can do HFT on the JVM it's realtime enough.

To make systems with deterministic execution times you'd have to start looking at extremely limited processors that lack RAM (or have really exotic ram that doesn't refresh), as well as removing other resources that are essential to building software the modern way.

All this proves is that for this particular problem the JVM is probably unsuitable for a realtime system. The fortunate thing is that I don't think any real time program actually needs to allocate strings in this manner.

In all seriousness most of the reason that the JVM is not used on realtime systems is because there aren't very many cheap CPUs capable of executing java byte code that are certified for operation in the harsh environments that a lot of realtime systems operate in. My friend builds realtime systems and he codes in C because that's the only compiler available for the CPU.

He'd start using Netduino in a heartbeat if it could survive being next to an electric generator inside the Hoover dam.