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MyEnergy - Boston, MA - FULL TIME: VP Eng, Data & Rails Engineers

We're building the consumer side of the universal energy internet, and we're looking for talented engineers to bring it to life. Working atop datasets never before accessed and assembled in the same place, you'll build experiences and interactions that make a difference here at home and the world over.

MyEnergy, formerly Earth Aid, was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're venture-backed, with strong strategic partners and investors committed to our vision of building the people's energy internet. 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're currently hiring for:

* a VP Engineering to lead us in tripling our team => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/vp_engineering

* Rails Engineers to take ownership in dreaming up and building out new front and backend functionality => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/rails_engineer

* Data Engineers & Scientists to embark upon ambitious projects leveraging machine learning and AI => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/data_engineer

* and UI Designers to make the whole of the user experience astounding => https://www.myenergy.com/careers/ui_designer

We've just opened up our new HQ in a sunny two story loft by Faneuil Hall in Boston, and we offer very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, a fun company culture, and a small arsenal of office helicopter drones. If you might like to join us, send us an email to introduce yourself to jobs at myenergy dot com
SEEKING WORK - Remote

UI Designer & Front-End Developer

Proficient in:
- Visual Design (Photoshop)
- HTML(5)
- CSS(3)
- jQuery
- Wordpress
- New iOS design (iPad and iPhone)

I'm currently accepting work. Flexible rates (I work well with start-ups and small companies) and reasonable turnaround time.

Portfolio: http://www.ryanglover.net
Get in touch: me@ryanglover.net
SEEKING FREELANCER-
- Remote
- PHP/CSS/Javascript/Jquery
Contact Via profile
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco or Remote

Lead DevOps Engineer looking for a new part-time client. Very knowledgeable on running highly scalable and fault tolerant open source systems on Amazon Web Services. Resume @ www.elijahchancey.com
Can't visualize. What situation prevents you from plugging a headset into your laptop? Was it a privacy issue?

Anyway our 'local guys' in Mt View are all in the same room, and are almost always headset-on and available. It takes some discipline, sure.
Software Developer, Rangespan <http://www.rangespan.com>; (Paddington Area, London, UK)

Job Description:

Rangespan is looking for software developers and data scientists to join our growing team. As an early technical team-member, you’ll have broad and hands-on responsibility for design and development of new and extraordinarily scalable systems and web services for retailers and suppliers. Rangespan believes in quantitative decision making and automation; data science is core to the business and has influence over all parts of the company.

Software Developers should have:

- a BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

- Fluency with Python

- Proficiency with Django, MongoDB and MySQL

- Experience designing and building REST Web Services

- Bonus points for those with catalogue and machine learning skills

Data Scientists should have:

- a MS or PhD in computer science, computational linguistics, statistics, applied math

- Experience with HDFS, Hadoop, Hive/Pig

- RDBMS and NoSQL experience (ideally MongoDB and/or HBase)

However, what we're really looking for is someone who fits with the team and will be productive from early on. Most of these requirements will be compromised for the right candidate. Go ahead and convince us of your fit.

Founded by ex-Amazon executives and engineers, Rangespan is an ambitious e-commerce and supply chain software company making it easy for retailers to offer deep product selection. Rangespan is located in Paddington, London.

Contact Information:

- Contact: Christian Ricci

- Email: chris@rangespan.com or jobs@rangespan.com

- Web: http://www.rangespan.com/jobs/

- No contract or agency offers.
I think it all boils down to solving well-defined tasks with minimum possible effort and time spent, and keeping in mind that the end goal is the product, not the code.

For me, the understanding happened in similar order:

- First, as a beginner, I solve all problems with minimum effort possible. The goal is the product.

(It's not real programming, but working with CMS that involves writing code sometimes.)

- Then I see the way to make much cooler and more “custom” products—with a web framework. In order to be able to do that, however, I need to start doing real programming.

- Learning programming, I find that what I was writing before was pure crap. I also forget that the product is the end goal, and care instead about writing code.

- Lots of LOC but few finished projects after I discover that code actually doesn't matter much. Instead, other stuff does—like speed, communication, measurement.

- Learning to make and deliver products with minimum possible effort—that's where I am now.
Looking Back, and then Looking Forward
Could not find my (simple) android app (id=gr.hotspots).
Searched it by name and id. Nothing at all.

Maybe the undocumented API they refer to is just a scraper?

Other than that, it could work.
Discoverability in the Android market is a problem.
San Francisco:

Software Engineers, OpenStack Engineers, Sales Engineers

Midokura - http://midokura.com/careers.html is looking to grow our SF team! We are working on network virtualization technology, and need some more hardcore infrastructure engineers to help us grow. Now is an awesome time to join the team.

Any Questions, mail me at adam@midokura.com
It's a fairly comprehensive article, but it does seem to veer too far into "This happens and then this happens and then this happens" without providing a great deal of insight. There's oddness like "the Memory Management Unit (MMU), if it exists", when we can pretty much take as given that it does for the platforms he's discussing. And then "Some speculate that this feature is maintained in order to ensure that the platform can boot legacy code such as MS-DOS" - isn't the author in a position to give us facts rather than speculation?

I did learn things from this, but it's not especially well written. I think there's still plenty of scope for a series of articles that explains this with more background.
After about 12 years in the industry, I started my own consulting company. Does it count as a startup? I'm working mostly alone, and sometimes teaming up with other freelancers.

Got a University degree, and happy about that. It taught me to work on the problems in a structured way, no matter what subject.
Agreed with much of this!

However I disagree with "that's the nature of software engineering. You never stop learning and evolving."

The reason: burnout. My guess is that at least 10% of developers begin to lose enthusiasm for coding after a few years and then at some point either change jobs, become managers, or just have very little motivation to learn having seen the futility of it all. They may be forced to continue to learn, but may do so at a slow pace.

Why? You write code and after years or less, it can be thrown away or unused without much of a thought. You see that many of those driving projects really don't have some sort of higher purpose, and other than some perceived business need, must of it is just "wouldn't it be nice".

I feel that it is sick for a person to continue blindly learning new technology just for the sake of it. You need to have a reason. Jobs was not my favorite person in the world, but one thing he did right was to believe in what he was doing and why he was doing it. Without this, any evolution is worthless.
55 year old preparing for out of work
I’m a 55 year old Classic ASP programmer preparing for job loss. I’m wondering how to prep in today’s market. Should I be worried? What languages should I learn?
No small companies, big 3, google, yahoo, bing.
Infographic: Value of Cloud Computing Services Through the Years
cloud computing: past, present and future
Sorry for replying to myself but I forgot to mention the most amazing detail about Schneider's design: the article was also talking about how you can keep the lasers, cooling, power adapters etc -- basically, everything big and noisy -- in a base unit that can be stashed away somewhere on the floor, maybe under the sofa kind of like you can do with subwoofers. The light from the lasers is piped to a projection unit through glass fibre. The projection unit then only consists of the mirrors and some control circuits and thus can be miniaturized down to almost nothing. So no need to hang a big apparatus from the ceiling like you have to do with the current generation of projectors.

(I don't remember if this was actually implemented in their 95 prototype or if it was just on the roadmap -- probably the latter.)
nobody will understand it in the search context :)
everyone knows how to google, and nobody knows how to duck
How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead
> Not only that, but I can only wander how the article's author managed to tie suicide, autism

There are a number of correlations between autism and suicide risk factors. Being male; social isolation; lack of support structures; etc.
Write code, expecting to iterate. Organize it with large strokes and plenty of wiggle room.

Then if its 'good enough', leave it at that.

If it needs work later, anybody can do it - you didn't make it too dense or compact or concise to easily reinterpret or diagnose.

Its not just a good idea, its pretty much an obligation if you are paid to create it. Keep personality out of it, complete it on time and under budget, move on.
Which field are you consulting in and subject did you get a degree in?
NYC (Midtown East) - https://www.novus.com/

Novus is building the next generation of real-time financial analytics platforms. We offer difficult challenges, a no-bullshit work environment, and competitive compensation.

We're looking for bright and motivated engineers to fill multiple roles, namely: front end, back end, and quantitative developers. You get extra points if you can combine two (or more!) roles into one.

If making immediate impact on the product & working alongside business users is your thing, e-mail me! max at novus dot com
for me that point has arrived with Lion
SEEKING WORK - remote only, I'm based in Montreal (Eastern Standard Time)

Web developer (php, css, html5, js, jquery)

Samples: http://rrrewind.com http://qranberry.me

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertomartinez
Mountain View, CA
https://www.sococo.com/jobs.php

Sococo is creating a social collaboration tool and ecosystem, currently targeted at Enterprise installations.

We use a variety of tool chains on a variety of targets (desktops, mobile, servers) so don't be shy, you probably have skills we need!
Computer Architecture Wiki
SEEKING WORK - Minneapolis and remote. iOS and Mac developer. mronge at mronge dot com
I think my statement warrant more explanations before people misinterpret it.

I still read. But I made a decision not to read too much like I used to in the past. In the past, I used to read tons of books an do less. The problem with that is that I only absorb 10%-20% of the books and simply forgot the rest. My workflow was probably as follow: read book, done, tinkering for a day or two before starting to read another book. Repeat the cycle. (Doesn't matter what book it is; productivity, technology, etc).

I also change my perspective on which books I should read. Gone are the days where I get easily excited when someone said "hey, this book is a must-read for developers/entrepreneurs". Only to find out that there's another book written in the 70's, 80's, or 90's with less pages, boring title, and colorful cover that explain things in a much better, simplified, and to the point.

Hence my statement of "not to waste too much time to just read".
Falsifiable hypotheses – the solution to torturing your data.
Consulting: network technologies and software development

Degree: applied maths. That's not exactly Computer Science, as CS was not taught well in Russia back then.
Procedural Textures in HTML5 Canvas
Nice roundup but I found something more interesting and advanced here: http://www.cssbuttoncreator.com/

It deserves to be included in that list.
Seeking Work - Remote - based in Taipei, Taiwan

I'm an experienced editor, content developer, and technical/ academic/ business writer for hire. My specialty is writing in English for translation into Chinese (Traditional/ Simplified). Also, I'm particularly good at re-writing into native speaking English that Chinese speaking writers of English write.
Company: www.typewriterninjas.com
Email: daniel.boles@typewriterninjas.com
Frankly, I don't understand at all why you got downvoted here. Agree with you. The only issues I see now are a possible China hard landing or a massive jump in energy prices. For the second, one should act harder toward renewable energies, for the first just hope it's not to hard and wait...
CreateDM, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.

iOS Developer , we have a full job listing on our website at http://createdm.com/jobs/
These guys as in publishers or Apress?

I thought Apress is a totally different company altogether?
I don't know about you, but it was the most interesting thing I've read all day.

As far as I'm concerned the writer is more than welcome to post comments of this quality of any length and I'll happily read them.
I like owning music. I would not like to pay a fraction of a cent every time I listened to a song, even if it were cheaper--I would be aware of spending money.

I remember the days before the Internet. I kept busy and had no idea I was deprived. Today, it's not hard to imagine running LoseThos for a few hours not doing the Internet for a while.

Get this! I just looked at the C64 manual and it tells how to program! Binary shit for 20 million average people. They typed programs from magazines and tweaked them.

That was cold war time. Now, we want people dumb.

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Comment guy above is in denial on God.

NewsStory below about supermodels... here's the secret: highs and lows balance. Be miserable and hard working for a while and something will turn-up. Might not be what you expect. I find this unmotivating -- stupid game I don't feel like playing. Being aware of thew rules might affect things, I'm not sure. BEing a chump, whatever that means might be stupid.

I donno, but I know most successes happen after misery or stress or incredible hard work. God is just.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT

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will be again alluded to in our chapter on Geographical Distribution; for
instance, the fact of the productions of the smaller continent of Australia
now yielding before those of the larger Europaeo-Asiatic area. Thus, also,
it is that continental productions have everywhere become so largely
naturalised on islands. On a small island, the race for life will have
been less severe, and there will have been less modification and less
extermination. Hence, we can understand how it is that the flora
Yes, in that example the "achievement" is meeting their net worth and spending criteria.
Seeking Work - Remote

- Front-End (HTML5/JavaScript|jQuery/Backbone)

- Back-end (PHP|WordPress)
This article makes some great points, but the internet itself is not just a composition of the services on the net or the products that use the net. The net itself is very much NOT owned by its users. With China restricting what its population can see and hear, and U.S. threatening to do the same with SOPA, users should realize that the internet as it exists today needs work. Amateur radio is a much better model. That put the power to communicate almost solely into the hands of its users. For the net to get like that, people need to be less focused on new SAAS apps in startups and more focused on technologies that make us free to communicate.
Nice read. I really appreciate his comments about over-engineering to the point that nothing useful actually gets accomplished. I've seen a lot of that.

And really the over-abstraction is wasted time. I've seen things added because "we might need them some day". These things take days or weeks to add and then never are used by customers even after many years have passed.

The over-abstraction seems to be a drug to some developers. They can't stop doing it.
Easthampton, MA (US)

Developer Support Engineer for Atalasoft/Kofax

We make .NET SDK's for document capture and imaging. Job is to help our customers use them. Help us determine if customer issues are bugs, report them, get fixes back to customer.

Not posted yet, so contact me through profile if interested.
> Is it wrong in a society that supposedly values free speech to express this belief?

Absolutely not! But there's a difference between expressing it here and on some other site. There are plenty of sites for political debate, from free-for-alls with all included, to various flavors ranging from neofascists to anarcho capitalists to communists and of course everything else in between.

I'm skeptical of many such sites producing anything other than volumes of vitriol, because many people do believe other people's positions to be 'insane', and if that's where you're starting from... it's difficult to find common ground.
SEEKING WORK - DC metro or remote.

Experienced iOS and Mac developer. iphone.apps 
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CUDA Textbook - IAP 2009 CUDAMIT / 6.963
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410374 is a pretty good response.

The article is something by Krugman, meaning it's basically politics/economics and therefore not a good fit with this site.
not startup specific but I try to filter out jobs posted elsewhere (recruiters/jobs boards) so still a useful resource for job seekers.

http://jobstractor.com/
Tips - new - radiaton: Started the year with Courage and Confidence
Founder And Former CEO Of McAfee.com Lands $1.5M For ‘Grokr’
> Technically speaking the monarch could overrule any objection (afaik the process is not defined by any specific law or regulation, just built on convention)

The UK doesn't really have a constitution in the sense that the US, France, Germany, etc. have a constitution. Power changes all the time, and has gradually gotten more democratic over the last 200 years.

In theory, all power is from the Queen/King, which they give out to Parliament. In theory

In practice Parliament has the power, and if the Queen/King over steps their bounds it's either sorted out by war (Parliament vs. the Monarch (English Civil War in 1640s)), or Parliament kicks out the Monarch and gets someone else in (Glorious Revolution of 1688 when they got rid of the Catholic King and invited the Prodestant Willian of Orange in).
I agree, but the author attempted to work with Atari to license Battlezone. Also, the game has been out for a while without complaint from Atari. These both seem to make Atari seem less of a victim.

As an aside, Atari is really Infogrames. The real Atari is no more.
A.K.A. the save Mickey Mouse from the public domain act.
Madison, WI - (REMOTE possible)
Circuit - http://circuitapp.co

Circuit is a collaborative webapp for designing and building electronic projects aimed at the exploding Maker/hobbyist market. We're going to disrupt hardware with a tool that makes things 10x easier & faster. Launching Q1 2012.

We need a passionate all-around programmer, experienced with creating advanced frontend interfaces as well as backend systems. Mainly would be doing a large amount of challenging HTML5, Javascript, and using PHP (Cake) & MySQL on the backend. Big bonus points if you have graphics programming experience and hardware background: microcontrollers, designing PCBs, tearing things apart, and familiarity with the Maker movement.

Interested, questions? jobs@circuitapp.co
2012 Alan Turing Year
Better learning through velocity. How to learn actionably and faster.
IBM Cloud Computing: Overview - United States
It changes the way we think about technology.
Are your positions open to people outside the UK but willing to relocate?
Funnily enough, I just got my Dreamhost bill for the next year and was thinking of switching to Bluehost due to cost. Not any more.
one way to think about this is code as a "consumable" instead of as a "durable" good.

There is an essential difference between a paper cup and a glass.

Say you are throwing two outdoor parties a year, but otherwise will not serve more than 8 people. The best solution, if you start with nothing, is to buy a set of dishware for 8, and then throwaway plastic cups and plastic knives twice a year ad hoc.

Code could be seen as similar. There is one-off bad solutions, that are no better than a paper cup. You can't iterate on them (like washing a plastic cup) because it starts to fall apart.

Then there is glassware. It's more expensive, but durable.

So, one approach is to look at your resources and your immediate and expected future needs, realize that better code is more durable but more expensive, but that there is nothing wrong with "consumable" code that you can't wash more than once or twice before it starts being "a mess".

Just because "code is forever" we tend to think of it as not being consumed after being used for its purpose, but due to the nature of engineering, in fact thinking of it in terms of just that is quite appropriate, in my humble opinion.

Once you realize this difference, you can make strategic investments into durable and consumable code. You usually can't fortify a paper cup, nor turn a plastic cup into a glass one, though, so often this is a decision to make several times over the lifetime of your "household"! :)

For personal use, if you have very little money (time/resources) there is nothing wrong with starting with paper, buying plastic and then glass or ceramic, spending, overall, three or four times as much money as if you had just bought a beautiful antique set of dishware for yourself to begin with. Often, though, that is not the real situation: realistically, you could "do without" for a while, and then buy a durable good you won't replace.

These are difficult investment decisions for households, individuals, and companies.

Don't discount renting, either! In this case, that could be analogous to licensing someone else's software.
Same exact experience here but with a different publisher - I also agreed to be a technical reviewer which I ended up regretting after reading the prose and code.
Halifax, NS (Canada) - http://www.goinstant.com

Senior QA Engineer
Senior Web Developer
Web Developer

http://goinstant.theresumator.com/apply/

GoInstant is a venture-backed startup building a unique co-browsing tool that allows two or more people to surf the web at the same time. It requires no downloads, plugins or installs. People connect in 3 seconds or less and share a web experience in real-time.

We’ve raised $1.7M from top tier investors in Silicon Valley, including Freestyle Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, Steve Anderson, Reid Hoffman, Yuri Milner and Ed Sim. They are the people who have helped build Facebook, Twitter, Playdom, Heroku, Linkedin, GotoMeeting and more.

We’re currently in private beta with some of the world’s largest B2B SaaS vendors and e-commerce sites, and expanding quickly.

GoInstant is a small, tight knit team building a technically complex and sophisticated system.