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ClassDojo

FULLTIME or INTERN in PALO ALTO, CA

We're an edtech startup funded by some of the biggest names in the valley, and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. You're an amazing software engineer who wants to have a real impact on the world.

We are helping millions of kids achieve their full potential. We want you to help us do it, with a great team, in an awesome environment, with all the perks.

If you're a strong JavaScript hacker who wants to use node.js to change the world, apply here:

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Or email jobs@classdojo.com

We are looking for:

Lead Software Engineer (node.js)

Lead Front-end Developer

Lead Visual Designer

Developer internships
Ideally full time. We work with a few really awesome contractors now. But these devs need features and bugs spec'd out. We're hoping to find someone to share the workload with.
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looks like somebody didn't like it when boss said "no, you can't put the new accounting system on heroku"
Good points. In regards to CSS I think it's important to specify exactly what you mean though. I've seen this implemented dangerously where they simply position the form control off the wide (left:-4000px). This is vulnerable to browsers auto filling!

However hiding it completely with display:none should be safe and is what I think you mean.

In our case, just hiding it works fine. We can upgrade this to a CSS solution if we need to upgrade it though. The main point is if your doing something, you're ahead of the herd enough for spammers to generally leave you alone.
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Cambridge MA, Outbrain (http://www.outbrain.com) is seeking a full-time Research Engineer.
Outbrain is a Web-based startup providing content recommendations on a large number of premium publisher sites (e.g. Boston.com USAToday, Slate and many more) and countless blogs.

We're looking for a talented engineer to work on some of the most interesting aspects of our recommendation algorithms.

You'll need strong Java development skills, plus background in machine learning, information retrieval, or natural language processing.

Send your resume to jobs@outbrain.com
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The most charitable explanation would be that they have no way even to know if they're doing it, and the tendency of large systems under such conditions is to degrade in efficiency.
CCs are convenient but the dark side is that every transaction you make is being recorded, with a certain probability of being held against you at some point in the future.
Apple denies claims that Siri is anti-abortion
Unless I'm mistaken, data goes from web server -> Amazon -> Kindle Fire, not server->Fire->cloud->Fire. The whole point of rendering in the cloud is to reduce latency by having fewer requests over the cell network.
While I like the terminal... I don't want to be one.

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Factories stall worldwide, U.S. jobless claims rise
New developer tools experimental APIs for Chrome extensions
You're not that isolated. My brother was born in Ede and I still have family there.

Here in France, the web is highly concentrated in Paris (I'd say 80% of all the activity), so it's not uncommon to have geographical disparities.
Personally, I love the transcripts even though I listen to the interviews, because going back and reviewing what somebody said in an audio file is a royal pain. If I want to remember what that service was that so-and-so recommended, it's five seconds of skimming the text versus several minutes of scrubbing around the audio and listening for a little while to see if I'm at the right part.
Unbelievable! Spread the word. This needs to be fixed!!
I also had a nightmare managing programmers in the Philippines, 75% from my incompetency, 25% from other factors. Having my guys w/in a few feet is invaluable to me now.
Shameless plug:

I recently beta launched http://exquisitejobs.com/ a job board where all jobs are hand picked, and only the best hackers/freelancers/applicants get in (invite only) to ensure the highest quality for all parties involved.

Corresponding HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3244078
The original list didn't mention anything about branching: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html.

I agree that agile development eliminates some of the needs for branching, but I think there are still many useful ways to add it into your workflow.
tl;dr version - take a Z-corp printer, add some 3D robot parts, let people 'construct' a robot by putting together the parts on screen, and then print it.

This is a great way to get one of these printers and have it pay its own way while you're paying it off. There was a company that paid for several of these machines by printing world of warcraft character models (not easy since the WoW guys didn't really take into account making these things for real)

The Z-machine uses a sintering process (bits a material are laid down and then flash heated into solidity) and has the feature that it can do basic colors.

Slowly but surely I think we'll find the materials and the technology to make this stuff generate things we need 'on demand' at a cost that is comparable to mass production.
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Looking to work from home, spend more time with the family.

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Python/Django/jQuery, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I have a research background, data analysis, playing around with NLP right now.

I run a django dev shop, currently taking gigs. Here's my portfolio:

* http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html

* http://www.cloudshuffle.com/

Contact details in my profile or the link above.
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Berlin, Germany - http://www.sofatutor.com/

We're still looking for both Ruby on Rails developers and a strong frontend developer (ideally also with a Rails-dev background). Additionally we're hiring for several positions in our marketing and editorial teams.

sofatutor.com is an educational video platform and one of the largest education startups in Germany. We're a small technical team building a fast-growing online platform to help students study for school and university, using Ruby, Rails, Amazon Web Services and a bunch of related tools and services. So far, the team is mostly German, but we're working in English for most stuff anyway and would love to get more people from abroad to join us here in Berlin. (We'll help with the German bureaucracy, residency status etc.)

Full job descriptions (in German) at http://www.sofatutor.com/jobs, but feel free to contact me directly if you're interested, know someone who might be or simply have any questions (colin@sofatutor.com).
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Intern & Fulltime. No remote, sorry.

Also drop me a line if you want to hear about the "Hacking a Technical Interview" class we're running.
The federal government pays it's rank and file with seniority fairly well, but it's executive staff are under paid as are several occupations EX: Optometrist's making ~60% as much as they would in the private sector.

I think it's best summed up as: The federal workforce is disproportionately comprised of scientists and high-end professionals and these workers earn less than their counterparts in the private sector. with the not so minor caviot that rank and file workers are over paid. What's less obvious is output from federal workers; it seems like a few people get the majority of the work done, but you tend to see that in large private companies as well.
I very much wish it wasn't the case that carriers had influence over phone OS's.
Dwolla is not part-owned by a credit union. It has an investor that has credit unions as customers. From what I can tell, the company has encouraged this false impression to escape regulatory scrutiny.

ACH is also not free.
If my local server providing a vital service goes down, I catch hell.
If my cloud server providing a vital service goes down, I catch hell and can't do anything about it except bitch at customer service who has their own set of priorities and a TOS protecting them from any meaningful action on my part.

So, what's the right option there?
These lists always seem to miss what I consider to be one of the most important elements of a co-founder: You have worked with them before. If you're starting a company with someone else it is absolutely critical you have worked together and operated under stressful conditions before. This is the #1 reason most startups will see 1 or more co-founder leave.

If you are a technical person starting a company and you don't know any business co-founders whom you have worked with then don't bring them on as a co-founder. Find another technical co-founder and make your first hire the business person. This will give you time to build out the product and understand more of what you need.
Looking at the latest Wikileaks release (http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html) it makes me think that this Carrier IQ thing, if it is used for getting to our personal data, is just a pixel in the complete picture.
I'll answer with a Koan, it's author long forgotten (if you know him, do tell me his name!):

A UNIX wizard hears cries of torment from his apprentice's computer room where the apprentice is studying, and goes to investigate.

He finds the apprentice in obvious distress, nearly on the verge of tears. "What's the problem?" he asks. "Why did you cry out?"

"It's terrible using this system. I must use four editors each day to get my studies done, because not one of them does everything."

The wizard nods sagely, and asks, "And what would you propose that will solve this obvious dilemma?"

The student thinks carefully for several minutes, and his face then lights up in delight. Excitedly, he says, "Well, it's obvious. I will write the best editor ever. It will do everything that the existing four editors do, but do their jobs better, and faster. And because of my new editor, the world will be a better place."

The wizard quickly raises his hand and smacks the apprentice on the side of his head. The wizard is old and frail, and the apprentice isn't physically hurt, but is shocked by what has happened. He turns his head to face the wizard. "What have I done wrong?" he asks.

"Fool!" says the wizard. "Do you think I want to learn yet another editor?"

Immediately, the apprentice is enlightened.
Wow, this sounds really intriguing. I took a computational imaging class this semester and am enthralled by it; I find a lot of my personal projects end up in this territory. What sort of hours do you expect an intern to put in?
On this topic of stdin, stdout - wouldn't it be neat if - instead of signals - there was an input channel called stdctrl that you could send control messages in on.

Glad to read about the scenario at your last place - I've never seen this in action.
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San Francisco. We're in the same building as Yammer and Tech Crunch

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Who we need:

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- Tinkerers: We A/B test everything because those little tweaks add up.

- Motivated and self directed people who enjoy making something new.

- For more detail check out our jobs page: http://www.shopittome.com/jobs

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- Competitive salary & options, medical, dental, vision, a nice selection of free food & drink.

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- We even let you choose your operating system (Ubuntu, Windows and Mac represented) and IDE (Vim, Textmate and Sublime represented)

- Millions of adoring (mostly female) fans.

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Please include code and english writing samples.
Would a job search engine that has a section for just YC startups be worthy of being included in this list?

http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups

I wrote this a while ago, but nobody ever seemed interested. I haven't seen if anyone thought this would be useful for 2+ years, so maybe the tides have changed...
There's nothing preventing compilation of Scala to other architectures. Indeed Scala compilers targeting the CLR and LLVM are under construction. Naturally that doesn't alleviate the problems baked into Scala to deal with JVM idiosyncrasies.
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Can diagnostic mode be turned on automatically/surreptitiously in iOS?
London - VC-backed startup looking for great Ruby/Python devs.

https://gocardless.com/jobs
It's somewhat disconcerting that clicking through to some of these files, I worry there's probably some government agency somewhere along the round trip recording the fact that I've read Wikileaks documents, and that could be held against me any time in the future.
This pretty much exactly describes the experiences that our various teams have had. We've tried all manner of software tools over the years (Jira, since we use that for bug tracking already, Jira + Greenhopper, Agile Zen, Pivotal Tracker) and we pretty much always end up coming back to having cards on a board. Every tool ends up feeling too restrictive, too big brother, and too TPS-report-coversheet. The point starts to become "get the right data into the tool" instead of "use the tool to help us do our work."

We generally end up putting everything in Jira anyway for historical and statistical purposes, as well as for visibility when people are working remotely, and it simply ends up as someone's job to make sure Jira is in sync with the physical board every so often.
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I would have preferred to see more options for the US. It's a big country. The Pacific Northwest region in particular, seems to be gaining some entrepreneurial fire, but maybe I'm just biased.
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Can't see the phpBB-esque forum, so I'll have to take your word for it, but I'm interested in hearing what elements of their current homepage seem amateurish and what you think they're missing that would inspire trust.
Yes, it's a form of arbitrage, and decidedly unsexy. It's also potentially very lucrative.
I'm curious, have you used Plan9? If yes, how long did you use it?
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I'm primarily a Python/Django developer. I do backend & frontend work, HTML/CSS/jQuery, linux admin, etc. I take a pragmatic, get-things-done approach. I've got iOS, PHP and Adobe Flex/Flash/ActionScript experience as well.

I can take on full projects, soup to nuts, or work with your existing team if you just need a little extra help.

My portfolio and more info (including contact details) are at http://brooklynsoftworks.com. I'd love to talk with you.
The rebellious nature of Unix sharing in the early days taught an important lesson for would-be sharers today: either take pains to make sure your software can be used by anyone who wants to, or risk being shackled by lawyers and corporations who don't want it to be used.
Very true. Even making the digital physical (say, printing out an email and putting on a stand on your desk) can be blown off.

I can certainly buy crappy tools screwing up a process, though - much of my job is making existing tools less crappy and less disruptive to processes (or replacing them).

The answer is probably to use simple tools - whatever gets the board or what you need in a convenient form without taking up much time. Stuff that doesn't have to be polished and that you determinedly don't spend much time tweaking and enhancing. I don't want to use pen and paper and a physical timer by my desk, but I don't need a "Pomodoro Technique(tm) Management System" when I can just use org-mode and a little timer script.
It really depends on your quality within title. For example USA today probably considers waffle house cooks making 6 Per hour the same as a government cook working at the state house. There are far more low end cooking jobs by percentage in private sector.

Another thing the USA today article over looks is living expenses. Almost all professional government jobs are in big cities with high cost of living.

It is commonly known that at equal skill level you will make less pay for the government.
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I have a Samsung GalaxyS running Android on Rogers (rogers.com) up in Canada and there is no CarrierIQ installed. Maybe we need to create a spreadsheet so we can track which phones / providers have this installed.
Thanks Todd! Todd's is awesome guy to work with and has a great knack for machine learning and large-scale system design. Definitely check out Cloudera after you've applied to Factual =)
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Is it not well known that these companies do what they do? I dunno, a lot of the files are just brochures. It doesn't seem very leaky to me. I guess I'm not terribly surprised. Now if they had files that point to concrete instances of the adverse affects of these companies, that'd be more leaky.
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Rails/JS/Coffeescript/Titanium & some Obj-C developer/designer with a bunch of experience in frontend and backend work.
Latest thing I've built:
http://ontheroadapp.com iPad app + backend/frontend (still WIP)

Can also do PHP - wordpress/joomla.

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Emacs shell mode was my first thought too. It doesn't try to implement a new standard for pipes, though. The idea of using invisible control characters as metadata is interesting.

(My biggest complain about shell mode is that it's impossible to send certain characters to the underlying process, TAB being the most important one, so you can't rely on built-in tab completion behavior.)
Weak typing and implicit coercion are not the same thing. They're not even close to the same thing. Haskell does (things equivalent to) implicit coercion when it adds a floating-point Number to an integral Number and nobody (sane) says Haskell is weakly-typed.
It made sense for Entrepreneurial US Citizens to leave the U.S. since 2003 (when I moved my family of 5 to Vienna Austria), so it's already too late (not so easy to renounce US Citizenship now, new draconian financial reporting laws for expats and new laws which prevent taking assets out of the country kick in 2013).

In 2013 I will renounce my US Citizenship to gain Austrian Citizenship. I have thought long and hard about this. I am proud of the principles the US was founded on, which are trampled on each and every day in Congress, by the President, and in the Supreme Court. I am proud of those who sacrificed for the good of our country, who sacrificed to preserve those rights and to bestow them on me upon my birth. Those sacrifices are dishonored and spit upon daily by our politicians, and their kleptocrat corporate owners.

I will always love the United States, and the majority of it's honorable, kind, and caring people. However I have no love of this totalitarian nightmare which is our government.

Our government is illegitimate, despicable, and dishonorable.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."

People don't talk that way anymore.

Beautiful, huh?

- No idea what you said. - It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. "

National Treasure - 2004

"Because you are the president of USA, sir. Whether it is to your character ... Of the oath that you have taken To the Constitution to protect. Of the weight of history That rests on your shoulders. I believe you Are an honorable man, sir.

Gates, that sort of thing People do not believe anymore.

They want to believe in it."

National Treasure Book of Secrets - 2007

Getting a VISA in Austria is straightforward, and Vienna is the best city in the world for quality of life (Mercer 2009, 2010, 2011).

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Rules for Migrating to Austria Red-White-Red VISA

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I am a big fan of plain text documents. Where I work we have a tool that collects requirements and then they can all be exported into Word. The problem is that the tool takes these one and two line sentences and produces a document out of them. In between each blurb there is about 3-5 lines of redundant boiler plate about who wrote the two lines of text and when. It is almost unreadable in that form. Things like keeping a consistent verb tense/voice go out the window.
When I come on to a new project I like to see a well written document that has an introduction and several well written pages. I can read that and get the rest from the code.
The issue is that we don't need expensive tools to write text files.
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Sure, in 2008. But what about now?
One key point to keep in mind is that this article is specifically speaking about startups, not mature organizations, so obviously some of the modifications to the original test and added points won't be universally applicable.

I think the best point Eric Reis adds to the original test is the last point in the article: "Do your programmers understand the product they are building and how it relates to your company's strategy?" Such a crucial point in startups, especially when they start to grow quickly.
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I thought it was pretty cool. I enjoy hearing about these things not because I want to get into affiliate marketing, but because I can use the same techniques to get people to my own products.

When you are playing both sides, your profits are much higher and more stable in the long-run.

I thought it was interesting that he mentioned "wickedfire.com". This is a known black-hat seo hangout and 99% of the things they mention on this forum are unethical and border-line illegal.
> It is commonly known that at equal skill level you will make less pay for the government.

As much as the politicos would like to claim otherwise, I have never heard of anyone taking a govt job so they can make more money.
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Urban Airship is also looking for highly motivated interns. We don't have a structured program, but we're willing to consider interns if you're good. We do a lot with mobile development, geographical data, and high-volume systems. We have sent billions of push notifications to smartphones and it's growing even faster now: http://urbanairship.com/5-billion/ Email me at ben (at) (company name) and say you saw us on HN.