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Are you consistently the most senior person on your development teams?
Are you the person that everyone else turns to when they need help?
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The Position: We need a rock star java developer to help enhance Gaggle's web and mobile tools. You'll work from home and the hours are flexible. We are seeking a full-time programmer for 40-50 hours per week who ideally will continue with Gaggle for at least 2 years.

We want someone who can actually do the work as opposed to someone who wants to manage others. We are seeking someone who can solve problems on their own and write solid code that holds up under high load.

You will be joining an existing team of five senior java developers who also work remotely. Our developers want to code, not manage others, hence they only want to work with someone who is already a great developer.

This is the ideal position for an experienced java developer who is looking for a lifestyle change.

The Company: Gaggle.Net is a provider communication and collaboration tools for students at K-12 schools throughout the USA and Canada. The system provides a number of unique safety features so that schools can monitor and maintain the accounts for students. Gaggle was founded in 1999. The company is profitable growing at about 30% annually. We are not venture capital funded and thus we do what's best for our customers and employees.

In addition to email, other services provided include online forums, a java chat system, digital lockers, blogs, calendars, homework drop boxes, social networking features, user web pages, texting support and iPad applications. On average over 70,000 users per day log into the web site to access these features. The company's primary offices are in Bloomington, Illinois. However, the servers and related hardware are housed in Los Angeles.

What you will be doing: You'll be responsible for adding new features, tracking down and fixing bugs, and architecting and developing new systems.

The Technology: The Gaggle system is a custom-built jsp site running on Apache/Tomcat on Linux. The jsp pages use a Struts/Dojo infrastructure. We are looking at a switch to GWT). Our data is stored in clustered mySQL databases.

Qualifications: 5 years of solid experience coding java based systems. The ability to work independently and manage your time is important.

Technology You Need to Know: You should have an excellent understanding of the following technologies, or be able to learn those you're unfamiliar with VERY quickly: - JavaScript, AJAX, and Dojo Toolkit - Java 5, JSP, Struts - Hibernate, Spring, JavaMail, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Eclipse IDE, ANT, and CVS.

Please Only Highly Qualified Developers: Our development team is very picky about who we hire. If you are interested send us a brief note and your resume to techresumes@gaggle.net
very nice, and very nice docs as a whole, is this built on top of an existing documentation framework, or is it a completely in house tool?
> criticism

There's a line between criticism and what happened to her. Are you seriously comparing a cartoon mocking non-specific trolls* to sustained abusive material (and doxing) aimed directly at an individual target?

*One of the trolls in that picture is most likely male, the others (smaller ones) are really non-descript and genderless. Are you sure this isn't just a case of you using "male" as the default gender for an androgynous picture?
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I'm particularly excited for iCloud syncing when it comes out on the app store. It's really nice to have my last read tweet synced across my iPhone, iPad, and soon to be Mac.
"This laser-based scanner – which can be used 164-feet away — could read everything from a person’s adrenaline levels, to traces of gun powder on a person’s clothes, to illegal substances — and it can all be done without a physical search."

Instead of searching you by hand, they will now search you by laser. The latter sounds much more invasive since it has the potential to reveal a lot more information about you, much of which will be completely irrelevant to security.
Please provide alternatives to fb login. What are other ways to vet someone's identity or prevent outsourcing firms from creating profiles?
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For real. I tried to find a way to point that out without sounding snarky, gave up.
Getting the hardware is not a certainty. Kickstarter does not guarantee that you will get anything out of the projects that you give money too.
Just because you want change doesn't mean you should expect to get it, and yes people have a right to freedom of speech, even the speech you disagree with. Be a grown up and deal with it, you don't get to ban what you don't like.
The media industry has a fair bit of money to fight off these libel suits. Most of the normal people hit by them? Not as much.
It's far easier to get 4 people into 4 separate rooms than it is to get them all into the same room.

In other words, physically proximate group play is the exception; the rule is remote group play.
I think part of it is the escrow model. If you preorder something directly from the creator, but not enough other people preorder it to make the project worthwhile, everybody could be in a sticky situation. With Kickstarter, you don't pay until enough other people also sign up to make the venture workable.

There's no doubt also some psychological stuff going on. Donating to Kickstarter in exchange for a finished product is probably much more appealing than directly preordering. In both cases you take risk, but in the former case you acknowledge it up front, and can feel good about helping the project even if they somehow fail. In the latter case, you'll just feel ripped off if they fail.
You can imply something without saying it directly.
Yup, you're correct. It worked well since there were only 2 of us and we were working and separate parts most of the time. Updates were always instantaneous and we always knew when someone was working on a file because we would get a notification as soon as they saved a change. Not the best setup, but it worked for us.
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Well, not bloating your system with a bunch of new and updated programs is certainly a great way to keep your system footprint light.
The game was made by one person, yes. But it's a little misleading to emphasize that this was "one person" when they were representative of the massive amounts of anti-feminist sentiment that was sent her way. If you look through the random sampling of comments her video garnered, it's hard to claim that the video game "changed the frame of the discussion" that was already well underway.
yeah, that's absolutely true. Some people prefer to get the title of business development so they feel like they are doing something higher level and justify their education/credentials.

I've noticed also some startups don't call people sales people because then at conferences people aren't turned off by meeting a sales person. I'm not opposed to these tactics but just wanted to point out the functional/true differences.

Most startups are actually selling a better/different version of what does exist. Very few startups are truly category defining so as a result they are mostly doing sales. Business development as a result for most startups is really for getting distribution versus getting customers.
Her cause is different because her documentary wants to explore stereotypes of female characters in popular video games. It's not about how this leads to ... whatever you think she claims this to leads to.

The outcome of her exploration is 'expectable' because it's self-evident. I'm an avid gamer. To put it mildly, in comparison to video games, Isaac Asimov's portrayal of female characters had more depth, grace and truth in them.

Considering how abysmal Asimov was in this matter...
Perhaps. Tell me what you think of this article: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...
I thought Android 4.0 (ICS) had gamepad support. During ICS launch last winter, they demoed it with XBox controller.
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You're making it sound like she's saying _all_ men are trolls, when in fact it was aimed at the people harassing her, which are probably 100% male.
Yeah, this feature has been requested a lot. And one person even commented on using NFC to have even finer control of automatic tracking. For example, having a NFC tag in your car detect when you get in and when you arrive and get out of your car. Tons of really cool ways to make this App even better.
The lack of notification (my dock is permanently hidden and the app doesn't have a menubar icon) is such a deal breaker for me.
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Specific skepticisms are quite warranted, I agree, and time will tell. All the same, it seems worth remembering that as Kickstarter has some success, it is probably going to be making enemies who will use their established positions to, at the very least, trash-talk it and anything coming out of it.
True, but it would be a lot better if he was saying this before everyone else in the universe realized they were lagging on innovation. Also, I feel like they're making a mistake by specifically pointing to Apple - they're lagging behind multiple companies in multiple markets.

When you spend all your time talking about one competitor, you're admitting they're beating you. Market leaders don't call our their competitors by name. (See: Coke, Pepsi.)
It would be great if you could defend your position without using the logical fallacy of the false dilemma.
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Similarly, all the people complaining now were silent when Charles Carreon was the subject of internet hatred.
Looks like some looney cult. Check the section on UFO's http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_code-et_ufo

I think this HN post is just a spam trying to bring people to their site.
Duly noted. Thank you for the tips!
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First of all, your assertion that people should care about politically incorrect jokes is both baseless and irrelevant. Whether you think people should have a sense of humour or not is a matter of opinion, not fact. But I wasn't sharing an opinion on it, simply pointing out that the majority of people do not share the view of the hypersensitive whiners on SRS.

As for the content of that subreddit, go look for yourself. Current front page:

1. Obvious joke
2. Pretending it isn't possible for women to be privileged
3. Being offended at the notion that teenage girls are attractive
4. Obvious joke
5. Being angry at finding a woman attractive
6. Obvious joke

I think the pattern is pretty obvious here.
Do you know someone there? Would love to chat.
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Did you catch the part where it said the Census Bureau paid IBM $33.3 million for the poo bucket that is the American FactFinder? Ha ha. That was my favorite part, too.
I was afraid those editorial annotations would get me in trouble with my neutral stance...

"Pop culture critic" is in quotes, as that is how the author describes herself in the kickstarter video. I italicized "video games" to emphasize the triviality of what is being studied, not to trivialize the actual study (Though you could argue that's still what I'm doing).
But it's not a donation at all in many cases. Frequently, you give money in exchange for a product, promised at some future time, generally for a discount over the ultimate retail price. That's an investment, with the finished product being the reward, and the risk being the potential failure of the project. Yes, Kickstarter calls them donations, but when people are putting up money in exchange for a promise of being delivered a product, it's hard to believe that's what they really are.
good pt -- yep, I didn't spell that out well, but yes, that's the pt of the rafts.
You really get multiple crashes in a day with the official twitter client???
I find it interesting that a feminist would rather invest her time studying social phenomenons involving videogames and legos in detriment of issues such as women being forced to marry their rapists or even killed because of them. Additionally, I'm not sure why she needs backing for this project. She clearly has a high quality camera and the means to produce high quality video footage, as presented in the kickstarter page.
Bare minimum, guys.
I think RPi released schematics, see link. On a side note, I bought two of em, not because I have any idea of what to do with them, but because a)open, and b)cheap. Just got my first one today!

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1090
Hong Kong already does this. Practically all their pay phones are WiFi hotspots operated by PCCW. In fact, it's hard not too find a WiFi hotspot within 100m in Hong Kong.
You made an assertion for which you lack "the proof to back it up". Isn't that exactly what you're claiming ought to be a tort?

No, I'm talking about libel laws. From another comment lower down:

"There are two versions of defamation, libel and slander. Libel is when the defamation is written down (including email, bulletin boards and websites), and slander is when the incident relates to words spoken."

Just to clarify, from Wikipedia:

Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image

Under the UK laws, fair comment is a valid defence. Again from Wikipedia:

This defence arises if the defendant shows that the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held, even if they were motivated by dislike or hatred of the plaintiff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law#Fair_com...

So it's not like you can't comment on anything.

I think less interesting conversations would happen if this wasn't true.

The libel laws have been around a long time, and apparently from 2006, writings on the internet have been seen as being public enough for prosecutions to take place. Have you noticed a drop-off in internet conversations from British contributors since then?
> The fact that it was a post about misogyny that sparked it was probably just incidental. It's the fact that she demonstrated sensitivity to language and had an online presence made her the perfect target for such an attack.

Yes, I have some insight, I believe, into the responses she received. There is an internet culture which violates taboos and cultural sensitivities in the most shocking way possible. This culture is rooted in centers like 4chan, somethingawful, ebaumsworld, etc. It is very much "trolling".

The goal is to spark the outrage. Mission accomplished. It is a mistake to think that the ideas they express are deeply held. Rather than reflecting the personal beliefs of the troll, they are calculated to attack sensitivities. The exact nature of the sensitivity is a reflection of the victim and not the perpetrators.

This is explicitly not blaming the victim. The point is, it would be misleading to extrapolate a targeted campaign to make one person feel bad, in terms of that to which she is most sensitive, to society at large.

If she were a minority in some other respect, or had a physical disfigurement, or she had expressed some other sensitivity, it is my belief that the internet trolls would choose the most shocking violations of that other sensitivity to send her way. If I am correct, and you want to extrapolate this behavior to a larger society, focus on the aspect of "trolling" and not the specific manner in which this troll was executed. It's my belief that there is no there there.
Linkedin maybe?

What if we let developers create portfolios without social identies. Then, if they do want to be notified about freelance gigs they would need to connect their Fb/Linkedin.
Anyone have any insight as to how Go will avoid the garbage collection latency issues that arise in some situations with other GC languages, such as those that run on the JVM or CLR? I ask this in particular since Go is frequently mentioned as a C++ alternative.
This is pretty telling. You're right on all points from a developer's perspective, and their line seems to be nothing more than "we're leveraging the big, wide, Android game ecosystem!"

I think anyone with hardware or Android game development experience should be healthily skeptical of the tall promises and minimal explanation coming out of this Kickstarter. I love a good chunk of optimism as much as the next guy who loves games, but the fervor seems to really be distorting reality and setting up an inappropriately adversarial tone to these HN discussions.
The trolls are why it was funded to 2600%. She didn't ignore them, she didn't delete their posts. She used them to drum up publicity and sympathy. She doesn't want to ignore them, they are her best ally. That's why the "after 4chan stopped trolling her, she got some people to keep reposting the troll comments anyways" conspiracy theory is so popular.
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Yeah, I went back and edited that--Android 4.0 does have gamepad support, but that doesn't mean it supports Ouya's and I want confirmation that it does, as well as details about a lot of other developer-specific stuff.

The Kickstarter feels very consumer-focused, which is great but they still need to have games to sell to people.
And the reverse, not OK for ML, looks like this:

% ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
| | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32">

on an old (white polycarbonate) iMac.
Have you seen any of her work? She hardly preaches the "correctness about rising above evil men". In her existing Youtube videos, which talk about film and TV, she simply calls attention to potentially troubling aspects of the portrayal of women that are often ignored. I certainly don't agree with all of her criticisms, but she's not breathing fire. Her commentary is thoughtful enough to be part of a legitimate conversation.
didn't mean to post this as a troll. Just wanted to show my exact feeling at that point.

But again, it's possible too that they might have come up with these features coincidentally. And I agree code templates are not a new idea.

What I have really learned from this situation is to see these things positively. Good ideas are just a good start. What really makes the difference is the underlying execution and the vision behind.
Lion doesn't have Rosetta is one decent reason.
You aren't seeing a random sampling though, she deletes any comments that are critical of her work or her funding method. She only leaves comments that are supportive, and ones that are abusive trolling.
Trust me, the problem is not that I don't get indie gaming. I was an indie game dev for four years, I shipped a few dozen games for the Danger Sidekick (fun remakes of Rampart, Wolf 3D among others). I get that simple gaming is fun.

I am just very, very, skeptical at their budget for delivering such a beast.

BTW, there is a huge indie game scene on the XBOX, which so happens to be pretty darn cheap, have great development tools and state of the art controllers.

Sure they run $200, not $100, but you also get a world class game console (which you probably already have!) as part of the package.

Seriously, check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live_Indie_Games
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Can somebody give an example of a complicated electronics Kickstarter project that has shipped successfully?

I don't mean to imply anything, I always enthusiastically back these things. I'm just curious. In one year of Kickstarter pledging history I've only received two T-shirts (for well over $1000 worth of "purchases"). Some pens I ordered a year ago are on their way now ;)
As of right now (an hour after the story was submitted), there is not a single top level comment here sympathetic to the woman in question. Interesting.
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True, but I don't really see how that is particular to this project though. And I've had good luck with other $100 hardware products on KS.
While they are probably mostly male, they are certainly not 100% male, I know a woman who was part of the trolling effort. Also, we should look at the other side of the coin also. 90% of the people supporting her and funding her videos are male also.
You can use an Xperia Play, which has slide out game controls, although ICS + Bluetooth controller would be a better route. Almost no games will ever be written for Ouya alone anyway, they'll just be written for Android in general and if Ouya is lucky have a few small tweaks for them like hiding the on screen controls. I've seen games ported from gaming handhelds to Android and the porting company didn't even add support for the D-Pad buttons on some Android devices. Just tossed in on screen touch controls and that is it. Game developers just won't, in general, put much time at all in customizing the game for a specific Android device.
The problem is that this space gets oversaturated easily and the fallout is quick and brutal. Remember the Jaguar? 3DO? Dreamcast? The Phantom?

All of them had fan support and all of them failed in the marketplace (and the "open source" Phantom never even made it to market).

There's less vendor lockin with consoles now. Fewer titles are platform exclusive. Online services are much important than they used to be (notice there's little to no mention of this in the promo video). The question becomes bigger than, "How does this console compete with the Xbox?" (which is already a HUGE question), it becomes "How doe this console compete with Xbox Live?".

This product is going to be openly competing with big, established players with lots of cash and decades of experience. And it's not just the big 3 console makers. They're competing with SmartPhones and iPad gaming too, basically any electronic gaming experience you can having sitting on the couch in your living room.

Fans of hackable linux boxen and hardcore gamers are always super enthusiastic, but I don't think that demo is large enough to help a company succeed in the way this company needs to succeed.
Donations aren't locked until the time limit expires. I pulled mine today.
The level of thought that even marketing teams dont use in their pitch is truly inspiring. My kid brother said he wished he had seen this video before the start of his summer internship.