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Windows Phone 7 App Developer - C# + Silverlight
WhatsApp Inc - Mountain View, CA

We are looking for engineers to work on our Windows Phone Client Team.

We are looking for engineers who enjoy writing compact code for mobile phones and are passionate about user experience. Using your start-up mindset and your experience developing native mobile apps, you will create new, awesome features used by millions of current WhatsApp users. You must have the ability to work in a very small team and self-organize feature prioritization and delivery; own release and QA cycles of your code; and have strong C# programming and debugging skills.

Client Engineer requirements:

•	BS in computer science or equivalent.

•	Strong C# programming and Debugging skills

•	Strong understanding of C#, application architecture and object-oriented design

•	Experience developing native WP7 mobile apps is strongly preferred, but not required. LINQ, Silverlight and SQL Server client code have strong cross over utility with Windows Phone development.

•	Working experience with TCP, Messaging, IM, Push APIs

About WhatsApp, Inc. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows, and Nokia smartphones. In addition to basic messaging, WhatsApp Messenger users can send each other unlimited images, video and audio messages as well as participate in groups.

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by two ex-Yahoo! engineers. We are located in a spacious office in downtown Mountain View. We are profitable, funded, and we offer very competitive compensation packages.

Other reasons to join us:
- work side-by-side with the founders
- unlimited supply of latest (and even unreleased yet) smartphones
- fully stocked fridge from Whole Foods
- herman miller embody chairs - frequent company paid lunches and dinners
- open space, collaborative environment'

Please send resumes to baspland@whatsapp.com

WhatsApp Inc is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or veteran status.
From a developer's point of view there is nothing to do but just move on. From an organisational point, Microsoft has made it very expensive for people who wish to stay on the same stack.

The reason is MS needs to kill technologies in order for their new ones to gain critical mass. This has been done multiple times since VFP, VB6. The problem is no one has the money to redevelop the same app multiple times. Sometimes, developers are just fodder in the scheme of things.

Of course people will argue that the stacks themselves are still going to be around, but the ecosystem dies. No one produces new components for VB6 anymore. It used to be a thriving one. Another is the absence of performance fixes for WPF (search for Scott Barnes' (ex-MS Silverlight PM) rants on WPF). I've hit one with a Silverlight Grid which freezes with 1000 rows on MSIE due to assistive technology kicking in. These are never going to be addressed when a stack is put on ice.
You built that in less than 20 seconds?!!! Damn, you guys are good.
Learn jQuery In 30 Days
100 year old gamer uses Nintendo DS to keep her mind active
Just to update, I've pulled all of the latest Bootstrap docs, and it's working for me, in both the 2.0-wip and master branches. I'm curious if you're still having trouble with it. E-mail me (charlie@monotask.com) and I'll see if I can figure it out.
Where are all the SFDC Dev's
Does anyone know where to find SFDC developers?
NY, Boston, Austin, Seattle. Not necessarily in that order.
Right. In a lot of ways cool spotters is a competitor. I think the main difference is that we're focused on connecting people to the show itself rather than an individual celebrity.

I believe our design and positioning is also better than CS. We're looking to move to working directly with designers rather than creating a big community of people who upload random snapshots of shows/celebrities. There are a lot of designers out there who would love more exposure and we're hoping to give it to them.
Wow, thats pretty interesting; the earnings per share.

I would love to see that compared to users. Especially if new users flattened out somewhat compared to increasing revenues.

I am not sure, but I dont think that FB userbase went up by 4.5x in the same period as did revenues.

That means they are getting far better at monetizing the users/advertisers are willing to spend far more to advert to the users, than before.
You are absolutely correct. That's one of PayPal's main weaknesses. I am not sure how Stripe is dealing with it; though they probably have to go through a similar screening process, which isn't foolproof.

I am a co-founder of a nascent third party payments aggregator (TPPA) called PayGuard (currently in stealth mode - Beta version is being built), and our system inherently includes automatic fraud prevention; so we not only save money by eliminating the screening process, but we also save by virtually eliminating all 'dispute resolution'-leading scenarios.

As far as a comparison for Stripe, they seem to be similar to Braintree, but geared more towards early stage online merchants. The following link may answer some of your other questions:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-using-Stripe...
Scientists confirm first 'frequency comb' to probe ultraviolet wavelengths
While I don't know the specifics, it is very common for insiders to sell shares to new investors during later rounds. If I remember correctly, most of last year's goldman deal was from existing shareholders and not the company itself. So there is also a lot of opportunity to unload shares without using the formal markets as long as management is cooperative.
Except HTTP hasn't proven itself, except to a growing set of specialist programmers who don't know any better. The web is hideously unreliable. People have become accustomed to reclicking links and reloading pages. Aside from hyperlinks, the only "innovations" of the web already existed in a more efficient form in operating systems decades ago.

As for REST, I'm sure it's nice for some things. However, if you think interoperability is going to magically spring out of it you're ignoring the lessons of XML, which that having an (ostensibly) human-understandable format is not going to magically allow machines to become more interoperable. All it will do is allow people to make bad guesses about the meaning of documents instead of reading the documentation.
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Your Job: You’ll work directly with our customers, their teams, and our engineers to distill requirements & develop project plans, design solutions, and keep projects running smoothly. You need to understand application development & project management and be able to communicate technology in human terms. A background as an engineer or some other technical role is preferred.

About Us: Citrusbyte is a highly specialized custom software development consultancy. We are brought in to build large software / technology projects such as ad networks, health platforms, business platforms and more. Our work is typically from concept through launch and beyond. We practice agile development, use small teams ( 2-6 ), and focus on developing a team of A players.

Apply: jobs@citrusbyte.com
> I wouldn't by into such an ownership structure

I would under some circumstances, but there are absolutely no circumstances under which I would be prepared to invest in a company where one person has majority voting power. At least with Google, no single person's psychotic break can bring down the company.
Keep in mind that ~35% of ALL students want to be engineers or scientists (as of 2006: http://www.heri.ucla.edu/nih/downloads/2010%20-%20Hurtado,%2...).

Also 60% of them drop out (or switch) within 5 years.
Can You Name This Cluster Bomb?
Data Journalism Developer Studio Users Google Group Is Now Live
Here’s Facebook’s cap table with ownership for Zuckerberg, other early investors
"In the first quarter of 2012, our compensation committee discussed and approved a request by our CEO to reduce his base salary to $1 per year, effective January 1, 2013."

Awesome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_muscle_stimulation seems to indicate that this is both a relatively common practice and generally regarded as not very dangerous.

While Wikipedia is, of course, neither a primary source nor entirely reliable, I've also been unable to find any references to nervous atrophy in the literature or via a cursory Googling, so any links that could be provided would be awesome.
Because in almost every article about Chinese Labor practice it was filled with details describing how horrible those dormitory livings were, using colorful words like slave-labor, soul-crushing etc.

But to a lot of Chinese people, living in the complex certainly is not nice, but not unimaginably horrid either. I spent half of my college years with 7 other dudes in a room about 130 sqft, for example.
3.711B in revenue and 3,200 employees at the end of 2011. That puts their revenue/employee numbers only slightly lower than Apple & Google, but beats Amazon. Impressive.
>I'd really like to hear ideas of how we can stop this racket;

The law not only has failed, but the lawmaking process has become 100% corrupt, therefor one should consider options that are not lawful.
This is discussed on the Kinect blog here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/archive/2012/01/20/...

"As I mentioned in the original post, the Kinect for Windows device has new firmware which enables the depth camera to see objects as close as 50 centimeters in front of the device without losing accuracy or precision... The lenses on the Kinect for Windows sensor are the same as the Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor, so near mode does not change the field of view as some people have been speculating."
Is 12 months enough? Especially when you consider enterprise software vendors need time to test as well.
This article is not meant to be a Backbone introduction. I was just exposing some solutions for some problems that we had on building big Backbone apps. The best way to learn Backbone IMO is to start hacking something easy while reading the source.
Facebook’s net income and revenues: $1 billion on $3.71 billion in 2011
Have I been wrong 40+ years when I've been saying "cast IN stone"? If so, what is the etymology of that phrase? (I was at least in my teens when I was told the saying was "for all intents AND purposes" instead of "for all intensive purposes".)
Facebook Timeline Movie Maker
$1 Billion in profit => $1/(user year) in profit for 2011, correct?

That's pretty darn good money, but not a huge amount more room for user-growth. They'll grow by having new businesses/making current ones more profitable. New business would have to be monetizable (eventually, at least), current businesses would either have to convert better or become less costly to run.

Facebook is full of some smart cookies - it'll be interesting to see how they accomplish those paths.
Facebook to File $5 Billion IPO: Report
Looks like Capital IQ is already using Hadoop for their infrastructure.

http://strataconf.com/strata2012/public/schedule/detail/2258...
Tips and Tricks: The Final Fantasy XIII-2 game guide
That's something we are looking into. We think that there will be different optimal image formats depending upon the use case (i.e., are you sharing an illustration or a photo). We want to see what those use cases are before optimizing.
HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic)
You're not going to get in on the IPO price. That's for the banks who are selling to their very top-tier clients before it even starts trading on the exchange, basically.

Look into what is involved in buying stock in any American company from the EU. If you're still interested, you can pick up a few shares after it's trading on the exchanges.
Run an application from the terminal but independent of the terminal
I never understood why management sometimes take $1 salary. Doesn't the IRS see that as non reasonable compensation?
I'm trying bootstrap in my latest project, but have to say was surprised the first time I viewed it with IE. Even with IE9 the navbar and buttons look poor. Any advise?
Hiring SF: Sr. Javascript Engineer, Sr. Back-End Engineer and Sr. LAMP engineer

Looking for full time expert Javascript engineer at Wikia.
Strong scaling and performance experience for back-end.
Sr. level LAMP(PHP) engineer for web features and applications.

Reach me @ kit@wikia-inc.com
There is an index that tries to measure innovation called the Global Innovation Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index_%28INSE...), interestingly Israel comes in at 14th, you'd think they would be number one if this article is to be believed.
Do you know of a real-world working example of a HATEOAS system? This strikes me as an AI-Complete problem.
All of those numbers will be preliminary, they won't actually decide on number of shares offered and offering price (which determines their claimed valuation) until just before the offering. It depends on market conditions and what the large institutions say they're willing to pay.
> it is very common for insiders to sell shares to new investors during later rounds.

Since when? Way back in the dark ages (2003), it was seen as a lack of faith in the company if the insiders were selling.

It is the paradox of the sale: If you think the stock is about to double or triple, why would you part with any of it? Sensible folks would go get a loan, esp with interest rates so low.
Interesting, and I would love to play around with a Cr-48 (maybe I'll get one off eBay), but I am so tired of people mis-using the term "brick".

Bricking a machine means it is permanently ruined. You cannot turn a brick back into a computer. Thus the term bricked it.

If you just need to reinstall the OS, that's not bricked. You just nuked it. It can be rebuilt.
FB Credits: the Internet’s reserve currency?
>> This works nicely with the key/value idea that you should denormalize your data.

I wonder if the NoSQL crowd is affiliated with the REST crowd. :)
Investment by Microsoft values Facebook at $15 billion (2007)
The Hacker Way
At first, I thought that was a poor choice, too. However, <i> has come to mean that something is to be interpreted under a different voice or mood. You are providing augmented meaning. To further color a bit of text with an icon, I think, is in the spirit of the rfc.

Notice, also, that the rfc talks specifically about classifying the alternate meaning, appropriately, with the class attribute.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-i-element
Does MongoDB have any advantages over using de-normalized tables within PostreSQL?
Marc Andresson has shares. Never knew he was still in the tech game
Since SOX? A perspective I've heard echoed by a few venture firms is that allowing insiders to sell a portion of the shares allows a bit of the pressure to come off and lets them focus on longer term value instead of wanting to rush into a liquidity event. Could be BS, who knows, but it's certainly happening.
Facebook IPO By The Numbers
That's great background information. I wonder what the primary driver of switching out is
Any particular ear plugs you use? I find many earplugs to be uncomfortable.
It's official: Facebook files for $5 billion IPO
One of the people I admire as a mentor of my avocation (writing) has the following rule on her blog:

>>My website and my weblog are an extension of my living room. You are an invited guest. Have a seat, settle in, and enjoy talking to the amazing group of guests who are already here.

>>If you cease to act like an invited guest, which I define as someone who is here to enjoy the give and take of intelligent conversation, I’ll mark your post as spam, delete it, and block you from posting again. I am under no obligation to leave garbage on my site. The First Amendment mandate for Freedom of Speech protects your right to say what you want without government intervention. Private speech, which is what you have here, is not a right, but a privilege, and you earn it with every coherent, intelligent, reasoned post you write.

For the full list of her rules, here is the link http://hollylisle.com/blog-rules/

I think that analogy of your blog to your living room is powerful. It creates a powerful visual. Not many people (even if they do so on the internet) would walk into someone's living room and say what they have no quams of leaving in comments sections of people's blogs.
Apple Store employee reportedly being spied on via iMessage bug
Really? It's more like "Here's a link, click on it and enter your name and e-mail address" then accept the java applet. Takes maybe 2 minutes.
I got drunk with Ben last night!
85% of revenue is from advertising. So either Zynga controls 80% of all non advertising revenue (aka the remaining 15%) or that 12% figure includes advertisements served on Zynga pages.

Is it reasonable to conclude that Zynga constitutes 80% of FB's credit ecosystem?
Does anyone put San Diego in there? I'm having a little debate with friends from SD. Just curious?
Show HN: Platform for making android apps betters
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A person could easily get into the habit of using oh-my-zsh plugins and themes without reading or understanding them. I'm not saying that it's universally the case, just that it's possible. With that in mind, it might not be too difficult to include malicious code therein. It also is a good way to "introduce" non-existent bugs. If I'm not mistaken, this is the reason that the zsh Debian maintainers have refused to consider including it in main.
> have actually been harmed by the presence of features in the language

I am harmed routinely by too many features. I've been coding C++ for 11 years and I still end up scratching my head when I end up in foreign territory. Even his code at the end of the article which I think is supposed to be illustrating some kind of simplicity looks like a giant hairball of mess to me. I've ended up devolving to using a small subset of C++ features in my code which I know inside out and is sufficient for my needs. Others all seem to do the same but they arrive at a different subset. Java on the other hand seems to be so feature deprived and simplistic (minus generics, but they are almost an anti-feature) that no matter whose code I look at it is extremely obvious what is going on.
Calculus II is my guess.
Very pythonic. Me likes!
Clickable https://www.zubhium.com/
Popular names from ssh break in attempts
San Francisco, CA, Full Time, H1B

Tapjoy is the leader in discovery, engagement, and monetization services for mobile applications. Our turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users, drive engagement within their applications, and create incremental revenue by providing an ad-funded payment method.

The Tapjoy ad marketplace spans over 10,000 apps and 280 million global consumers on iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and other emerging mobile platforms, delivering more than ~1 million advertising actions per day to developers and brand advertisers. Tapjoy is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Tokyo. Investors include InterWest Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, D.E. Shaw Ventures, Rho Ventures and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

You can view open positions at: http://tapjoy.jobscore.com/list

We are looking for frontend, backend (or fullstack) engineers. Designers, UI/UX folks are also welcome.
A lot of people doesn't notice this, but when all you have to do to start charging people is include a couple lines of Javascript then the game totally changes. Imagine being able to charge (or just put a donation button) on all those weekend projects you see advertised in HN!

I think that as soon as they start expanding outside the US the market for web applications will radically change.
WhatsApp Inc - BlackBerry App Developer – Java-ME
Mountain View, CA

We are looking for experienced BlackBerry client engineers to work on our Blackberry Team.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about the BlackBerry user experience. Using your start-up mindset and your experience developing native mobile apps, you will create new, awesome features used by millions of current WhatsApp BlackBerry users. You must have the ability to work in a very small team and self-organize feature prioritization and delivery; You will own release and QA cycles of your code;

Client Engineer requirements:

•	BS in computer science or equivalent.

•	Strong Java programming and Debugging skills, with an understanding of Java-ME limitations

•	Experience developing native BlackBerry apps is strongly preferred, but not required

•	Working experience with TCP, Messaging, IM, and Push APIs

About WhatsApp, Inc. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia smartphones. In addition to basic messaging, WhatsApp Messenger users can send each other unlimited images, video and audio messages as well as participate in groups.

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by two ex-Yahoo! engineers. We are located in a spacious office in downtown Mountain View. We are profitable, funded, and we offer very competitive compensation packages.
Other reasons to join us:
- work side-by-side with the founders
- unlimited supply of latest (and even unreleased yet) smartphones
- fully stocked fridge from Whole Foods
- herman miller embody chairs
- frequent company paid lunches and dinners
- open space, collaborative environment

WhatsApp Inc is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or veteran status.

to apply please go to the following link http://jobsco.re/wSDfNx
Sadly the answer is yes (it is reasonable to assume 80% of FB's credit ecosystem targets Zynga assets). Check out Zynga's S-1 (since, thanks to the deal, most of zynga's revenue comes through FB credits, and those numbers will have been discounted because of FB's cut)
> The US is already entrenched in foreign intervention through anti-terrorism, anti-genocide, anti-torture

Google "black sites". Apparently transporting people to bases in other countries in order to detain and or torture them is ok for the US side... Trying to extradite people who have never been to the US is considered fine too.

I don't care about what industry was affected here - US should have no such control over other countries and no such influence on their legal system.
I hear Austin, Boulder, London, Portland, when we talk "startups"

NY, Wash DC, Seattle, Boston when talking about more established.

If you live in any of the above confirm or deny?