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TORONTO / SAN FRAN - FULL TIME - PYTHON, JS, BACKBONE, NODE, REAL TIME

Top Hat Monocle (http://www.tophatmonocle.com) is hiring for a few roles:

* mobile dev (iOS, Android)

* sysadmin/infrastructure developer (rabbitmq, selenium, fabric, ec2)

* Front End (javascript, backbone)

* Back end (python, django, javascript, node.js.)

We're a profitable (and valley VC funded) education startup that helps make class more engaging. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

We also hire interns so please feel free to apply for that as well (paid of course.)

Our dev team is in Toronto but we've also got an office in San Francisco so if you're really good we would be open to having someone work from there. If you're not based in Canada or the US but are willing to relocate feel free to contact us, because we do cover relocation expenses and will help you manage the work permit process.

Send your resume/github account to mike at tophatmonocle dot com.
Mountain View at Google

My team is hiring a Python/JavaScript developer to work on internal developer tools on a small tools and infrastructure team at our HQ in Mountain View. Specifically, we are building tools responsible for the production and maintenance of thousands of Google's websites.

Apply via the following application (the role in the JD isn't exactly the one I described, so please mention you saw this post on news.ycombinator.com to get your application routed to the right place!):
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/mountain-view/eng...

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Requirements:

* Strong Python knowledge.

* Experience building web applications and web services (RESTful).

* Experience with NoSQL databases.

* Experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

* Excellent attention to detail and knowledge of web application design best practices.

* Excellent leadership and organizational skills.

* Excellent ability to communicate with diverse groups of users and developers.

Preferred:

* Experience with App Engine (and Django).

* Familiarity with content management systems and/or web site production tools and related processes.

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As a member of our tools team, you will work on a small team of web developers and collaborate with marketing and engineering to develop the web applications and systems that create, manage, and serve Google's web sites.

You will be working on all aspects of our internal site development tools: developing systems and services that support the main application, working with developers to spec out and design new features, and ensuring that our systems are stable and fast. You will communicate with our users (webmasters, web developers, designers, localization, marketing, product management, etc.) to come up with creative ways to enable them to build and manage thousands of high-quality web pages.

You will work independently but also take direction and participate in a close-knit team-based environment. We regularly write and review design docs for major and minor features and have open discussions about application design. We release our primary application daily and have high test coverage and code health.

You must be passionate about the web and be excited about enabling Google to build and create the absolute best web sites possible!
It doesn't matter. This presentation not for devs, but for managers to convince them to invest into mobile technology and yet Google do not tries to do that just right there. That what was surprising for me.
I was an early Slashdot guy (# 1311), haven't posted in a year, but it was my top-3 tech news/opinion place for over 12 years. I still remember the (pointless) KDE vs. Gnome wars, the Microsoft Halloween memo, etc. I held the Toronto area Slashdot 10th anniversary party back in 2007 at a pub near U of T.

After Rob left last year, though, I felt the community shrunk a lot, and it doesn't quite have the character it used to have.

Hacker news does have a similar vibe to 1998-2002 Slashdot... instead of Microsoft vs. Linux being the dominant meme, it's Apple vs. Android. Though there are way more Apple supporters hanging here than MS supporters in the late 90's. Generally HN is more adult due to the moderation approach, but lots of posts degenerate into slug fests anyway.
Introducing Post Forking for WordPress
I built one of these:

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...

and I've been using it since early July and spend most of my day at it. It has significantly helped how my back feels by the end of the day. It's plenty sturdy (I actually bought two of the tables: one for my monitor and keyboard, the other I cut the legs down to the same height as the keyboard on the other table. I put my laptop on this one).

I also have a Steelcase Leap chair I bought in February which helped with the back too. I still use it for writing in my notebook every couple of hours.

I stand barefoot on a cheap backpacking foam pad which I cut in half. I keep a pair of flipflops at my desk if I need to run around the office. Every so often I'll do some leg stretches. I'm considering buying a quality antifatigue mat, but I'm making this work for now.
After using Oracle 15 years ago, then mostly using mysql, I had to use Oracle again last year and you know what? It's crap! OCI is a ridiculous, error-prone API that takes a bunch of code to do anything at all.
It is the weekly females in tech industry time again?

At the risk of derailing the thread, why do so many people want to get more women into programming? Isn't that just as misguided as trying to get more men into nursing? Just because we strive for gender equality doesn't mean every job has to have exactly the same gender ratios.
is this the netatalk/avahi for iOS?
It is sort of a followup to the previous post:
http://blog.jessitron.com/2012/09/confessions-of-woman-in-te...
At first I thought she got angry about an relabeling of the women's room, which would be ridiculous, but I think what she means is that it is not OK that there are only so few women. Could be worded clearer...
>That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!"

Oh please, calm down. Closed the tab.
If you read the article, she's complaining that there aren't enough women at conferences, not really about the bathroom situation.
Single pedestrians/runners are almost never a problem. Even couples are OK. What can be risky is when you have a group of 3, 4 or more - they tend to be focusing more on each other than their environment and when they get startled they will often all jump in different directions.

[NB This isn't a serious problem, but I do spend a reasonable amount of time on cycle paths trying to co-exist with other path users on civilised terms!]
My point is that native applications are the only way to take proper advantage of the hardware.

You cannot try to bend something thought to display documents into some kind of application, and they complain about lack of hardware acceleration.
I think she isn't complaining about the toilets, she is saying that she didn't realize how few women were in attendance until that point.
And where Python entered production usage in the late 90s and was building up a huge community and a base of code and continued building that base all the way to the present time, Haskell didn't really begin that until around the mid-200xs. It may be an older language in calendar terms, but in terms of libraries and tooling support it's basically 5 years old or so.
AppHero, Toronto:

We're looking for an iOS Developer and a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team at AppHero.

AppHero helps consumers discover the most relevant and engaging apps based on personalized recommendations. We learn about users' interests and preferences from Facebook and by detecting the apps installed on their device, then recommend apps they'll love.

We've raised capital from some of the top investors here in Toronto, but are still a small team (4) and can offer generous equity (along with competitive salary).

We're looking for an iOS developer excited about building native apps on iOS using Objective-C and the iPhone SDK.

We're looking for an engineer with experience with natural language processing to join our team and help enhance our recommendations.

Please reach out to me directly if you're interesting in learning more about AppHero! jordan {at} apphero {dot} com
"Project management" is the worst possible domain with the worst possible customers to try to sell a product in.

Let them use excel, they deserve it. Seriously.
I don't think she has a problem with the fact that men got 92% of the bathroom facilities. Especially when it was logically justified. I just think she was disillusioned by the fact that there were so few woman at the conference that a decision like that could be justified.
Did you actually read the article?

She's wasn't upset that there was less bathroom capacity for women, but rather that this illustrated the (in her view) woefully meager representation of women at the conference.
What to Choose for Cleaning – Part I - Jerico0's column on Newsvine
Very good book about the tech industry: "rework" by the 37 signals guys.

Other very good non-tech book I've read recently: Walk the Amazon.
We are a European company with (sales) offices in Madrid and France. And we have Dev colleagues from Australia and the US.

That said all Dev colleagues at least understand German. So currently you would need to learn German. But that might change.
Should you be continually trying to beat your personal best or raising your trough performance level. What's a better approach in the long game of life?
I think it was more of a trigger for the realisation that 97% of attendants are men. i.e. when you're so male heavy you need to convert bathrooms, there is a real problem.
Citing the pharma industry as a strong patent success story is a dubious place to make a stand. There is a lot less good science behind pharma than most people think: http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_kno...
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Paris, France. Full time or Internship
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Joshfire (http://joshfire.com) has the best team of HTML5/JavaScript gurus in Paris. We won Node Knockout 2011 in the "Completeness" category.

We are also the organizers of the local Hacker News meetup (http://parishackers.org), the largest JavaScript conference in France (http://dotjs.eu) and some other cool events (http://tedxparis.com)

Our main work areas are :

- Our Joshfire Factory, the Wordpress for apps (http://factory.joshfire.com)

- Our Internet of Things R&D lab (check our website for prototyped objects, http://joshfire.com)

Simply put, we are looking for the best web developers in France and Europe. You should be a hacker, highly technical, adaptable, social and energetic to fit in our commando team.

Send your resumes and github profiles to jobs at joshfire.com ;-)
I thought Go was supposed to be a clean language, but these seem pretty warty. My String[] really is substitutable for an interface{}[] within the context of a function that doesn't modify it, but there seems no way to express this. That error message when parsing a time is obscene. The way you register a JSON unmarshaller is very magic. And the subtlety about nil I see in a sibling comment seems very unfortunate. (I think I'd actually prefer sql-style "nil != nil everywhere" to "nil == nil only if they're of the same type")
Check out the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive. I put one in my MacBook Pro and it's a screamer. Almost as fast as a standalone SSD.
I had the same initial reaction, but I think that the bathroom situation isn't the point at all, just a symbol of the shrinking number of women in the field - which is what she's actually concerned about.
I usually sleep with my glasses and my iPad under our pillows in an attempt to keep them safe from our marauding Burmese cats who love to chew on expensive items.
We are talking about Oracle here, so chances are it's going to cost the same or more than the traditional on-site db server and admins.
Makes me think of the write-only storage medium used in space ship black boxes in the Gap series by Steven Donaldsson.
Someone posted this chart[0] on the mailing list[1].

It pretty-prints a chart that shows the different nil comparisons, and what they result in (true, false, or n/a being an error caught by the compiler).

[0]: http://play.golang.org/p/7GohUdfIsD
[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/zvqvEZk53Q0/di...
Because Slashdot actually provides the facilities to do so. If I could browse +5 HN comments then believe me I would.

As others pointed out, even +5 /. browsing leaves you with a stilted half-conversation where you have to expand lower-rated comments to even understand the points being made in the replies. Even worse, often times you'll find some really great comments moderated into the ground there just because they aren't politically correct. Good debate and logical thinking aren't very appreciated there, just snarky comments and closely following the prevailing groupthink.

I could make the same argument about HN.

You could try. I don't think that it would be a particularly good argument. Slashdot's vicious trolling, moderation stalking, and general nastiness is something that I saw way too many times. Discovering HN last year was a huge breath of fresh air. I appreciate it and won't be taking it for granted any time soon.
If you think "This is borne out of a massive incorrect assessment of the pharmaceutical industry. It takes a tremendous amount of money to bring a drug to market, billions." you might also think Hollywood accounting has anything to do with the actual cost of making movies.
None of these have to go through Mozilla if you don't want them to. You can host your own copy of the JavaScript shim and setup your own identity provider to authenticate against and it will Just Work.
If you click on "Fernverkehr" you'll notice that actually only 90% of intercity-trains have been within the 15min window.

Every 10th train was late for more than >15min.

Yes, Regios may be better. That doesn't help when, for example, you need to catch a plane in a different city.
Mozilla has the only implementation at the moment as they are still developing it, but the intention is that any email provider can provide this in the future. They have not written themselves into the spec. In fact they have commented that the more successful this standard is, the less important they become.
I think she forgot Ada Byron when she said there were no important women in computers this millenium.

EDIT: No "keynoters, the language designers, the authors of seminal texts" in this millenium. And there was Grace Hopper too.

Double edit: Admittedly, anything in 1xxx is technically the "last millenium". My mistake.
No, but I do with my android phone.
Then you missed the point of the article - she was upset when she realised that they had to convert toilets as there were so few women. Her upset was about the lack of women at the event, not at the toilet arrangements.

It could have been more clearly explained, and closer to the start of the article, but if you read the rest of the article you would have seen this.
For everyone trying to figure out when they signed up: a poster named MyLongNickName linked to some research he did showing which UIDs correlate to which years.

http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
I would love to use this, but apps I work on are both web browser based and native clients. Persona does not yet work with native apps (Android, iOS native apps); it only supports browser based auth right now.

Browser only auth doesn't get me all the way there. I can look at wrapping UIWebKit, or whatever, in my apps, but I bet I am just asking for some hurt. :-)
I am not familiar with CardSpaces, but a considerable difference between OpenID and Persona is a matter of anonymity. With OpenID, your OpenID provider (e.g. Google) can track you as you log to your various accounts. By opposition, with Persona, the Persona provider does not get any meaningful information that can be used to blow your anonymity.
Yep, that's one and the same. Thanks!
I think those are the best solution for intersections with semaphore lights. Stop signs might require something else.
When you realised that "this doesn't make sense", that was the time you should have asked "or is it me..."

As for women in IT, I can see why IT would want women, but I can't see why women would want IT.
Technology is banned from my bedroom. Books and a Casio watch - that is all that is allowed.

Much healthier for the mind from experience!
> That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!"

What? I can understand being frustrated but that reaction doesn't seem constructive at all.
do you remember altavista.digital.com?)
It's not ok that only 3% of people present liked peanut butter! I'm going to make it my mission to get more people that like peanut butter into conferences.
It is actually pretty interesting that so many commenters here short circuited into thinking she was complaining about the bathroom situation.
Haha, I find it funny that they're called the RIAJ, as though they are in collusion with the RIAA.
Boston/Cambridge MA - FULL-TIME - on location
BetterLesson (http://betterlesson.com), Education technology. Ramping up. Front-end devs (Bootstrap, OPP JS, SASS), devops (AWS/LAMP), designer, management. Also hiring non-technical program managers, community management etc.
Birchbox is growing by leaps and bounds. We're hiring software engineers at all levels. Birchbox gives engineers freedom to innovate as we make awesome product discovery services for our customers.

The tech team at Birchbox is responsible for maintaining and improving the company's customer-facing site (http://birchbox.com), managing hosted and cloud infrastructure, and closely supporting other teams (logistics, marketing, et al.) in our 60+-person company. We work with a wide variety of open-source technologies: Debian-based servers; Chef deployments; Ruby on Rails and Java services; Python scripts; and PHP and Perl too. The size of our team and the breadth of its responsibilities means we rely on our engineers to be self-motivated and quickly follow through on tasks without requiring close supervision. In return our engineers are given leeway to use their own initiative.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web interface designer currently in Tokyo. I work with companies around the world on improving site usability and conversion rates.

HTML5 / CSS3 / Photoshop

http://nylira.com
"That day in the Family Restroom I threw a fit. Hurled my water bottle at the wall and screamed, "This is not OK!""

How exactly after this do you expect anyone to take you seriously?

Gender equality isn't about having just as many women programmers, and it certainly isn't well servered by having tantrums over the bathroom arrangements.
SEEKING WORK - London, UK or remote

7+ years experience with .NET technologies
My latest piece of work(still in progress) is wordsearch puzzle,http://nonstopwords.com, done using KnockoutJS, Asp.NET C# MVC4, MVVM

My full resume http://victorantos.com/resume.aspx
Did I read that correctly?

Not only did talking about twitter come before talking about exercise, but both sections deserved 3 paragraphs each?
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SEEKING WORK - mostly remote

I solve problems using software, including:

Teaching computers to identify characteristics of
images and text with little or no human intervention
Building prototypes
Building complete products
Fixing problems with existing software
Adding features to existing software

I have more experience with web and server-based applications than desktop or mobile, but I'm adaptable and can work with the technologies the project requires.

A few languages and tools I've worked with lately are: Javascript, JQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Python, Django, Ruby, Rails, Lua, PHP, Java, Haskell, Clojure and C++.

Though I'm not looking for work as a full-time sysadmin, I can set up servers and deploy apps to them. I have basic experience with EC2 as well. I can go from nothing to your full-stack application running on a server without outside help.

Here's an example of a web application I built for a client: http://renthubnyc.com - EDIT - looks like the client took this one offline. Demo on request.

And here's my github: http://github.com/zakwilson

You can reach me by email at zak.wilson@gmail.com
Yeah, unintentionally link-bait-y title of the type that I was ranting about. Crap.
Byron and Hopper lived in the previous millenium...
The Slashdot moderation system is still fantastic. One thing I noticed recently:

As a popular story gets more and more comments, it gets more useful on Slashdot and less useful on Hacker News.

This is due to the overall UI and the moderation system. Slashdot had to implement functionality to deal with low S/N. Browsing on +5 lets you quickly get shallow overview of the interesting discussion in a short time even for stories with hundreds or thousands of comments. At the same time, you can easily burrow down on threads that seem interesting to you, e.g. see a +5's post (grand-) parent, its siblings and rebuttals. The moderation also makes it more feasible to find new ideas for a story you read in the past, and of course you can easily sort by date.

On Hacker News, when I visit a popular story, I usually read the first couple of screen pages, depending on my interest, that is the most highly ranked posts and their replies, which are sorted inline with them. I'm sure I miss a lot of content further down the page, not to mention on the other pages, which I never read.

And when I revisit a story that seemed interesting to me -- something I often did on Slashdot --, I am completely lost on HN. Finding posts that are both high-quality and new is way too much work. Sometimes I still do it, but I spend a lot of time seeing posts I had already read. Really, the only way I end up keeping up with previous discussion is when I keep track of replies to my own posts (which works better on HN than it does on Slashdot).

As HN's S/N is going down, finding good posts will continue to be an increasing problem. I know there are user scripts that both enable collapsing threads and hiding/marking read posts on Hacker News. I guess I should look into those. But for a truly effective solution, you'd need to know how the posts score. (I think Slashdot's system of capping comment score at 5 is also much superior to HN's solution of hiding the score.)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/27/cameron-...

Women (and other humans) are allowed to be angry about both perceived and actual injustice. TFA isn't even an actual emotional outburst. It's a reasoned account of something happened to the author.
The Plural of Data is Not Analytics
Probably to practice being calm and relaxed, and to build deeper relationships with other people.
Show HN: inuit.css—lightweight, Sass-based, OOCSS framework
Is Apple clamping down on third-party app promotion services?
I think it is telling that I never see helmets left locked to bikes in public. Even if it is as safe as you suggest (and going by the amount of other worthless things that have been stolen off my bike, it is not...), the fact that the general public does not perceive it as such is what is relevant to the discussion.
Since apple changed the checksums for itunes I can't use this to put music on my iphone on linux .. it's pretty crap of apple :/
Err. Both of them lived and died in the last millennium.
Sounds like you need a drawer.
I totally did too... I was a bit disappointed because I expected a nice article and not some random guy complaining about people trying to do something.