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Mountain View, CA (Intern, H1B welcome) - Room 77
Software Engineers, Mobile Devs (iOS, Android), SEM/Analytics Modeler
See complete list here: https://www.room77.com/jobs.html

Room 77 is a VC-backed hotel search engine that aims to bring power and transparency back to consumer. We're well funded ($10M+ round in 2011) and have a lean and mean team in downtown Mountain View with tech and business veterans from Google, Facebook, and other tech giants.

We're looking for software engineers that have no problem working the full stack front to back and don't have any specific language preferences. We're looking to solve big problems in this space and have tons of interesting and challenging projects for you to work on.

Love building algos and driving massive amounts of traffic? We're looking for someone who wants to help lead our SEM traffic acquisition in-house and isn't afraid of huge keyword accounts and building systems to automate analysis and bidding. We're fairly new at the automation thing so you will help lead the design and spec and even coding (if you can) of this system.

Valley-style benefits include free lunches/snacks, stock options, competitive salary, 401k, subsidized medical/dental, travel allowance ($1k per year), hotel discounts (travel agent card), and fun team outings year-round.

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>The flip side of patent protection is this is what encourages drug companies
to spend the multiple years of drug research and drug approval to develop new
antibiotics.

That's patently wrong (pun intended).

At least in Europe, a major part of the income of the pharma concerns come
from the government[1] - and as such indirectly the public. Furthermore, most
of that money doesn't even go to research. but into marketing and other things
which have nada to do with research. Pharma concerns generally spent only about
15% of their budget on actual research[2].

Furthermore, this system encourages the development of treatments instead of
cures. It's a lot more profitable to bind a patient to a daily mix of pills
than it is to give them a shot that cures their disease. Or develop other
completely unnecessary shit, like all these "Anti-Aging" products.

This system is all sorts of fucked up, and it's ignorant to claim that it's the
only alternative. I'll make the bold claim that without medical patents, we'd
have already gotten rid of AIDS and severely reduced the mortality of cancer.

[1]: http://www2.piratpartiet.se/an_alternative_to_pharmaceutical...
[2]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
I mean that it's unheard-of for judges to be literally bribed as this implies. This guy is posting his research digging things up - a very interesting read: if he had found anything!

But he didn't. The steps he took are worthless and don't deserve so much as a mention. This would be like me googling your username and some illegal activity, finding that I couldn't find your username on any forums dedicated to that illegal activity, "but still." Come on. The steps I took are worthless and aren't worth mentioning.
Well. The definition of AI, should not be the sophistication or success, but the intention.

A chess AI is little more than a recursive search for a maximum return, or a database search. There is not really anything distinguishing it from any other algorithm. Just the intention of the developer.
Denver, CO metro (Englewood)

This or That Media is looking for a software engineer with experience in Java, Hibernate, and Spring.

We are a small team that gets a lot done. We offer health insurance, competitive salary, stock options and private offices. We lack pointless meetings, overhead and cubes.

If you are interested, please send your resume to Matt, tech at thisorthat.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Text cache.
All this drama reminds me of this excellent phrase:

https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352

Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better
while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.
http://www.canvasdemos.com/2009/07/09/game-development-tutor...
Etsy - Remote - Seller Economics

We're building tools to understand Etsy's marketplace and help Etsy's 800,000+ active sellers operate better, more efficient businesses. We need hackers who can learn enough economics to ask the right questions, enough about large-scale data analysis to find the answers, and enough about how our users think to present the answers to them in ways they'll understand.

Etsy has offices in Brooklyn, NY, but being remote is the default for this team. Contact me at avi@etsy.com if you want to talk.
Helsinki, Finland

Umbra Software is looking for C++ programmers to work on computational geometry middleware for AAA video games. There are currently open positions for a graphics programmer, a QA engineer and an infrastructure programmer.

http://www.umbrasoftware.com/en/company-new/jobs/
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance in and around Europe.

I mainly do consulting for web projects and LAMP stack development (PHP, MySQL, memcached, jQuery, Wordpress) but also Node.js and other backend tech.

Skills overview: http://udos.name/

Current open source project: http://hubbub-project.org/

https://github.com/udo
No, check the timeline history. Apple did not start this. The smartphone incumbents did, after Apple started eating all the profits.
From that link:

Back then, five years ago, there was no C, so it was a choice between BASIC, Assembler, or Pascal.

Things already changed quite fast in the eighties...
All that the blockchain does is say that code UVW signed code XYZ. Tracing that to individual transactions is a lot tougher, especially considering that one person can have multiple randomly generated bitcoin wallets. Who's to say that when 123 signs 456 that he didn't pay for some service somewhere, as opposed to just sending coins to another wallet under his control?

There's no "who". There's a cryptographic hash that may or may not be under the control of a specific person at any given time. If you're smart, the only link an attacker can make is that you used your traceable money to purchase BTC sent to this wallet. Once that BTC leaves that wallet, the chain is broken, because you have no way of tying an identity to that second wallet.
Mobile gaming is already huge. They are mostly casual games, certainly, but they are selling quite well.

Also, I have been to a steadily increasing number of offices in recent years where everyone had laptops (typically Dell, I think) with docking stations and monitors. This is usually to make it easier for presentations, attending conferences/training days and working from home.
It's almost as though the findings are not a random glitch.
Oklahoma City, OK metro, YouVersion (remote welcome)

YouVersion, The Bible App, is looking for a highly talented, insanely passionate, Jesus follower, who wants to use their skills to impact and change the world as a software engineer and is intimately familiar with Python/PHP, RDBMS, building systems at web scale, and Git.

http://www.lifechurch.tv/jobs/176-youversion-software-engine...
SEEKING WORK - Preferably in Chicago NW Suburbs or Milwaukee

Natural born computer nerd who likes python, php, online development and user experience consulting. Moonlighting as the president of a LLC-S and a C-corp (currently seeking funding for patented/copyrighted work).

I'm not much on the actual developing side anymore since there are people better than me who can handle that, though I am pretty darn good at making sure your user experience is perfect.

What most people miss the essential steps on corporate pages, sales pages and every other type of page that helps their readers/viewers move happily and properly through their sales/marketing funnels.

I'm not all too interested in which technologies are used so long as they are safe, secure, PROPERLY DEVELOPED and well maintained.

I'm looking to work with companies and people who own companies that are stable and finally need to grow or growing and need help in getting things right. I'm not interested in working with small businesses anymore. Only funded start-ups, larger small businesses ($500,000 and up in gross profit to owner(s)), medium and large businesses.

I don't have a portfolio but you can check out my personal site at:

http://piotrkrzyzek.com/blog

My consulting companies page: http://chykalophiagroup.com

The C-corp doesn't have a site yet.

I've worked with Department of Defense contractors, helped bring a complete fashion business from zero into life and profit, and have partnered with international telecom companies on side ventures for fun.

I'm part of two local Chambers of Commerce. An active Ambassador (the guy at the chamber who meets and greets you and shows you the ropes) at one.

Working on another in-house project where we now joined the Chicago Lean Start-up Challenge. http://frespiration.com or the old site at: http://mag.frespiration.com

Writing one infoproduct: http://quantumfanpages.com ... but stopped for now due to Facebooks constant API and business changes. Little time to keep up with it. Need a ghost writer for it!

Working with an international Start-up to bring their whole company online and deliver their SaaS properly to the UK public (London area only at launch).

As a side note, I do have an insurance license that I don't use.

I'm available on LinkedIn, Twitter and preferably by e-mail.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/piotrkrzyzek
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/piotrkrzyzek
Quora: https://www.quora.com/Piotr-Krzyzek

eh, and many more online profiles.

Best way to reach me e-mail me directly at piotr @ piotrkrzyzek.com
or call (GV number) at 847-929-4718
Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model
Do yourself a favor, learn PowerShell if you have to work on Windows.
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb978526.aspx
Go Native On The iPhone
I try to make sure anything I talk about is well researched, because an baseless opinion is worthless [...]

...

Jeff doesn’t seem to know much about PHP. I’d guess he’s read some posts about it [...]

Maybe some actual research would have removed the guesswork from that assertion.
META QUESTION,

How hard has it been for you to hire? Curious developer seeks more anecdotes to complement pet theories regarding current labour market.
"Patent law is a game of kings."
Clearly not current law in California, or Apple itself would have started to distribute its $100 billion cash hoard as dividends under Jobs, instead of just letting it pile up. (Tim Cook announced this spring that he'd be giving out half of the money in dividends and stock repurchases, but he wasn't under any legal pressure to do so.)
The block was first put into effect some time the night of the 27th-28th[1]. It was then lifted, so it may have been a test. The story was published at 3:32am EST / 7:32am UTC on Friday the 29th and the block was put into place soon afterwards.

[1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230364950457749...
posting 2129 requests takes approximately 25 hours with 200ms latency :) There is a better way :D
yup, i feel the same here, he's angry, and don't say much.
IMO the author is right: truly anonymous publishing is an unattainable goal for most people today, because they have little choice but to rely on one or more third parties to obtain all the layers of hardware and software necessary to publish online, and such third parties either cannot fully protect or ensure the protection of their anonymity or (more commonly) need to know the identity of their customers.

However, I disagree with the author about the impossibility of buying bitcoins anonymously. Bitcoins can be purchased anonymously via local dealers and over-the-counter venues. One sends cash along with a Bitcoin address; one gets bitcoins delivered to an address in the blockchain in return.

Examples: http://www.tradebitcoin.com/ , http://localbitcoins.com/ , http://bitcoin-otc.com/
Citation needed. How on earth is bad discovery beneficial to Apple? With the size and profitability of their app store, they have the most to gain from good discoverability. That's why they acquired Chomp. Smart money says that the acquisition is going to lead to much-improved discoverability on the iOS App Store.
That's oddly similar to network access in Ender's Game.
San Francisco, CA - Fulltime

Thirst Labs (thirst.co) is a well funded startup aiming to make consuming social media easier by using natural language technology to understand what is being said.

We are looking to fill 3 positions - iOS developer, Rails developer, and Natural Language/Data scientist.

We offer competitive salary and equity, benefits, a ton of food and drinks at the office, and a great working environment.

Email me at kunal @ thirstlabs.com if interested!
I don't know about GAE specifically but I'd be very surprised if it didn't see the same time as the rest of Google. They would have had to do work to make that happen.
> Surely we're not going to say we've "decomplected" them?

Simplified.
What are the differences needed to build a smartphone for the developing world markets?

In other words, what really sucks about smartphones in the developing world right now? Also note, that this is very likely to be different for different markets, and that the developing world is not one market, but many.

For one thing, I suspect that there are places where charging every week would be much better than charging every day. The device should also be designed as a standalone device, and it would also need to be backed by cloud infrastructure situated to create favorable latency and bandwidth for each market.
Note the use of the word "accessible" in the original post. This is not a synonym for "pretty" or some way of demanding a particular aesthetic style for its own sake. The reality is that some degree visual impairment is not at all uncommon and that difficulty with contrast can result from any number of conditions.

I'm not sure about the original poster's statement that that site isn't accessible. I haven't tried applying a stylesheet from my browser to it, and I don't use anything to enhance contrast of text in web pages, as my vision is not impaired in that way. There's an argument to be made, though, that modern websites use coloring, layers, and a bunch of other things to achieve layouts, looks and feels to the extent that if you want to see content as it is presented, or to even find it readable or usable at all, you'll have a hard time with applying styles using your browser.

Believing that just because the web can be used differently to black-type-on-white-paper in a wide variety of ways means that every way of using it differently is virtuous is pretty mid-2000s web 2.0 logic. Contrast is useful, and its proven track record for rendering text is no mark of antediluvian shame, of irrelevance or datedness.
SEEKING work as your Technical Project Manager.

I am a technical project manager - unlike most of them I'm also a coder. However, I'm looking to oversee a project that includes recruiting technical talent (possibly remote) and managing all aspects of technical development. Excellent references, including with a YC company.

I am the only technical interface you need between business and product.

You can reach me at: yctechmgr@gmail.com
because the first one was a runaway success right?
Agreed, but it's really a short-term win. Long term, python will need to (and I think it will) get better statistical libraries, that make R so great.

Statsmodels is a step in the right direction.
Koding.com, SOMA, SF

We want to date, not hire.

http://blog.koding.com/2012/06/we-want-to-date-not-hire/
This works for any kind of writing. And it doesn't matter if you publish it or not.

Well if it's good writing, or useful writing, it's better to publish it because it might be useful for someone else.
London - UK

Disclaimer: I'm a developer myself, I made this list out of necessity while looking for a job in London last month.

Last "Who is Hiring June 2012" didn't have any jobs in London!

http://roundabout.io

The list is far from comprehensive, but if you're a developer in London you should definitely have a look at it, there are more than 30 startups listed, and not all of them post in this thread.
>Currently, Google has the best infrastructure to do that, but Apple seems to care more. I live in Holland, for example. No siri, but at least we can buy content from iTunes. Google isnt selling anything but apps in its playstore.

I'm not sure you appreciate the issues at play with licensed content. The iTunes Store opened in 2003 and was restricted to the US for over a year. Apple expanded it into international markets very slowly, over several years time, and didn't even move outside the western world until just last year.

My point is that it takes quite a bit of time and effort to address complex international issues with content licenses and rights holders. Apple has spent almost a decade working on this and they're only recently getting to a level of international ubiquity. Whereas Google has been at it for barely a year, but is moving pretty quickly as far as I can tell.
There's a valid point in his statement. Its just that you haven't thought about it deeply yet. A dozen OEM's including HTC, Samsung and the rest, have about a 50 phone models in total (assume 50 for simplicity). Atleast one phone model from these OEM's is under litigation and/or have been banned w.r.t patents. Apple, is a single company with just 2-3 phones and NONE of these phones have been banned yet. This must mean 1) ALL the phones, with various flavors of Android are some how violating Apple's patents OR there is something unfair happening here. The possibility of about 50 (remember, we're assuming 50 is for simplicity) phone models violating a single company's patents is just ridiculous. This must mean these makers of these 50+ phone models haven't thought about these patents OR it clearly means something unfair is happening. To assume, these WELL-EXPERIENCED (Eg: HTC) Phone makers of these 50+ models haven't thought about these patents is plain stupidity, which leads us to the conclusion, there's something unfair going on.
The tablet isn't aimed at street beggers.
It's aimed at schools to try and reduce the cost of textbooks - and ultimately teachers.

But since the Indian govt is involved it will end up being a massive sink of corruption, favours to suppliers and a total lack of investment in the resources, training and infrastructure needed to actually make it useful - pretty much like any govt "computers in schools"project in any country for the last 30 years

Since you can buy no-name chinese android 2.2 tablets for <$70 retail subsidizing this to $40 isn't really such a big deal
I would have said that the most targeted audience (of a petition) IS the average person. Who is flooded by choice and will take a bad image into account when deciding what to buy.

Us techies we tend to be more selfish and buy what we need more than what is trendy, what is not etc...
Besides the hyperbole of the title, this article is flawed in that products sold within the US must comply with US law. If a copyright holder hasn't given permission for usage of their copyright in a specific country or territory, than products bearing that copyright can't be sold within that country. Otherwise, copyright would offer no protection since I would simply have to set up a factory in Mexico and I could infringe all I wanted and then sell those products in the US with impunity.

These are the same laws that prevent counterfeiting. If I own a copyright or a trademark for something I created, then how is it fair to me that my work be stolen? For example, if I record a great song and spend thousands of dollars in the studio, how is it fair that others can profit from that work without me getting compensated?

Don't misunderstand, I'm not talking about fair use, I am talking about people receiving money (i.e. commercial gain) by stealing the labors of others. That's straight up theft.
Quirky.com - Full Time - NYC

Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We just moved into a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (might be the coolest office you'll find in NYC). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year.

We're looking to hire rockstar rails, front end and back end developers. More details here: http://quirky.theresumator.com/apply/

If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com. Relocation is available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
In case of Motorola vs. Apple, it was Motorola that sued Apple first. See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184714
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Brazil

Back-end/non-web work. I'm an ACM ICPC world finalist and my main languages are C, C++, and Python.

I'll be in San Francisco at the end of the month; meetups or on-site interviews are possible.

Github: https://github.com/lessandro
Email: lessandro@gmail.com
Can you point to a specific case? From what I can tell, the first two major cases were Nokia v. Apple and Apple v. HTC, in October 2009 and March 2010, respectively (and Nokia's not really part of the current kerfuffle of suits).
1) Looking at your previous comment, you are an Apple fanboy. So you probably know NOTHING about what's happening here and you just want to support apple for Fuck's sake.

2)You don't live in the US. So keep your hard-to-believe's to yourself.

3) Read 1) again.
Same for me. It is not so much a denotational state but a highly focused experience to process and reflect on what has happened that day (or the day before... I am not so much an earlybird...).
Apple wasn't playing the game, and got attacked by smartphone incumbents and their proxies. Apple countered, and is indeed pressing the counterattack.

As an aside, Samsung's slavish cargo cult aping of Apple designs is unnecessary. They could come up with non look alike packaging or connectors, for example, but they are deliberately imitating down to the last detail, even in their TV commercials. This across the board play signals an intent, and may be influencing judges as much as the arguments. Could be why the coin flip court cases seem more often than not to land Apple's way.
The target in this case must be the other 58.4 percent, then.

Not everything has to wait for the poorest to catch up.
I clicked through in the slim hope that this post would be a revelation about Atwood's actual identity (which one? what color?) but, no, it's just pitiful and insulting nerd chest thumping.

I hope (a) I've saved others an otherwise irresistible click and (b) that's it's obvious that I flagged.
MacBook Air and the latest MacBook Pro with Retina display and of course the iMac.

For iMac and MacBook Air, upgrade options are available but they are pricey and non-trivial.
I see how you can use this :) It's actually a pretty great idea for some scenarios so kudos on that!

TBH, I still think Django is overkill for a static site, there are templating systems and frameworks that would be far lighter (flask + jinja ?) - especially given that you really don't need any dynamic usage at all.

Still, great work on creating and releasing a tool that makes your (and possibly others..) life easier!
Version controlling The New York Times.
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