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New Haven, CT

Digital Marketing Agency looking for talented backend developer.

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Ppply here

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/digitalsurgeons/web-developer/a...

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* LAMP stack
* PHP, OOP, Frameworks (CodeIgniter, Laravel, Zend)
* CMS - ExpressionEngine
* Youthful group of peopl, FUN PEOPLE TO WORK WITH!
* Big clients (Game companies, big names)
* We like your attitude and desire to learn more than your resume.
* Perks n' stuff, kitchen and amenities, etc

We’re Digital Surgeons, a digital-first creative agency working with well-known progressive brands pushing the bounds of digital marketing and brand experiences.

We have a great, fun, and hard-working culture; we hope you're someone who enjoys working with fun people and making new friends at work.

We have many varying client projects, from short-lived campaigns to long-lasting projects. We'd love to work with someone who wants to work with clients and brand names and push the bounds of consumer experiences.
As a sci-fi nut, I've often thought that we're unlikely to be able to talk to aliens if we can't even manage a crude dialogue with intelligent animals on earth (not even our closest relatives in the ape family.) Sure, we can instruct a dolphin to put a ball through a hoop, but we've made almost no progress in understanding their speech. Stuff like this[1] suggests that some information is being conveyed between whales, but does it qualify as language?

And what about our definition of 'language'? It's not the same as it was a a millennium ago. James Gleick's book "The Information" talks about the fundamental changes in human thought that came about after the development of writing. We think completely differently now that we have a concept of stored ideas. Could it be that writing has made it impossible for us to communicate with animals that don't have it?

But a lack of altruism as a possible reason, though? Fascinating. Chimpanzees have developed tool use and even a way of 'teaching' other chimps what they've learned[2]. Is this contradictory?

[1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9457000/945...
[2]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688904/posts
Awesome, but apparently the sign up page is broken.
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

Sharing over social media is driving an ever-increasing percentage of web traffic. But with mobile clients and HTTPS, traditional web analytics isn't working anymore. We know we can do better, so awe.sm is building full-featured social media conversion tracking and analytics. We tell our customers the value of their social traffic in a metric that's meaningful to them, whether it's page views, signups or dollars of sales. Our APIs allow app developers to integrate social data into their products, without building their own data collection and processing infrastructure.

We're an engineering-driven team building products primarily for other developers, so we're passionate about providing an amazing experience for developers. To help us get there, we're looking for a Developer Experience Lead. By that we mean somebody who will really own that experience: somebody who understands deeply how to get the most out of awe.sm, and has the communication skills to get that information to developers. That will mean representing awe.sm at hackathons and other developer events, and being the primary point of contact for developers building on our platform. We want you to find the pain points before our customers do, and feed that information back to the engineering team, so we can adapt our product to real-world needs. We also want you to do anything else you can think of that will help: building demos, writing client libraries, expanding our documentation, or working one-on-one with clients who have novel problems, to see how we can expand the platform to meet their needs.

We want you to eliminate friction from integrating awe.sm with our customers' systems. You need to be an engineer first, but also a puzzle-solver, a pattern-finder, and a great communicator. There's no role more critical to our growth right now. (We are also hiring back-end and full-stack engineers.)

http://totally.awe.sm/jobs?source=hackernews

We're 13 people right now. We have a cool new office with awesome views ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/seldo/6326815086/in/photostream ) in the heart of the Mission. We have catered lunches, and full health, vision and dental coverage. We use an IRC server for team communication and are agile in the sense that we move quickly and react fast, not in the sense of having attended an overpriced training course.
Little-Known Facts about the France vs. Google dispute
I'm a programmer who tends to agree. When I see jobs at companies who say crap like "we're revolutionizing the taco space by making it social!", I roll my eyes.

Yes, what the world needs now is more data streams about individuals' taco-eating habits, produced by people who are distracted from their tacos by their smartphones.
Interesting research, although it seems like it has a very narrow view of what talking means. I can't speak chicken, but I have been around them enough to know that they have several different sounds that can be combined to mean different things, such as predator approaching, behave, etc.
FB's answer should be "Move you store onto FB and all these great things can happen" vs side by side tabs theory.
A good friend of mine worked for BirchBox, a subscription beauty service for women and men (Birchbox men), as an intern last summer. From what she told me, the work they did to create a community around the service helps the company beat out gorillas such as Amazon. For instance, people will record themselves opening their Birchbox order and post it on Youtube (do a Youtube search, the top unboxing I get has 57,996 views). I think Manpacks also plays to the community, as evident by them tweeting with the fellow who wanted safety razors.
PopCap Games - San Francisco, CA

We at PopCap's San Francisco, CA office want your BRaiNS...

... to make games with us!

We are hiring one more full-stack (in-your-face game to behind-the-scenes backend) software engineer for our San Francisco office.

We have a fun, relaxed work environment and a team of incredibly great senior software engineer generalists -- you will learn to work with the full software stack for everything we make. We care a lot about building high quality games and some of the most innovative software in the world to support them.

If you don't yet live in San Francisco, visiting our office should convince you to make the leap. Then we can move you out here.

I'm a full-stack software engineer there, email me and we can talk about you joining us in making great games: bjordan@popcap.com
Predicting Hurricane Sandy
Engineering disciplines are characterized by extensive standardized formal study, conformance to best practices, and regulation.

Actually, this is only true in programming pop culture. In reality, different engineering disciplines vary widely in the degree to which these features are present.

In my opinion, none of those listed are even especially central or important. (And as a result, I'd argue[1] that software development, as currently practiced, fits quite comfortably in the broader stable of engineering disciplines.)

[1] http://www.zerobanana.com/essays/reclaiming-software-enginee...
Could Microsoft replace Steve Ballmer with Scott Forstall?
The problem in summarizing news manually is that it takes too much effort for a human to do it. The efficiency may be good, but as many news pass by, his efficiency will go down. (assuming that he's only the one summarizing)
Just a bit of feedback: the part where you get somewhere close to describing what your company actually does[1] is very well buried. And the rest is incredibly vague and sounds very much like the stereotypical startup pitch you parody in your opening sentence. Your pitch has all the points of a stereotypical SF startup: vague platitudes about the future, a list of “top investors,” “building something that matters”, stealth mode, claiming you're not like all the other startups. Frankly, your whole comment is one of the best pieces of satire I've seen on this board.

Not only that, but a service that archives my life sounds like… Facebook timeline.

I realize you guys are stealth, but if you want to attract people by claiming that you're building something that matters, you might want to actually tell us what you're building.

[1]: ”And then boom suddenly your whole life shows up as an archive. I just can't get over this. So stunning. You've achieved what few could.“
How in the world do people have time to make things like this? I've been trying to find time to clean my garage for a year.
SEEKING WORK

I am a self taught designer/developer who believes in creating pixel-perfect designs and in writing clean, standards-compliant code. I have considerable experience working with Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Javascript and Ruby on Rails.

Personal projects:

- Resumonk - http://www.resumonk.com - UI Design + Front-end + Ruby on Rails

- Engem.me - http://www.engem.me - UI Design + Front-end + Ruby on Rails

- QuotesCube - http://www.quotescube.com - UI Design + Front-end + Ruby on Rails

- Airball - http://airball.in - UI design + Front-end + Desktop app (using TideSDK)

Skill set:

- UI Design (Photoshop/Illustrator)

- HTML(5) / CSS(3)

- JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone)

- Ruby on Rails, Sinatra

Links:

- Portfolio: http://bharani.herokuapp.com

- Engem: http://engem.me/bharani-muthukumaraswamy

- Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/netastica

- GitHub: https://github.com/bharani91

Please feel free to drop me a line at <bharani91[at]gmail.com> or get in touch via skype(bharani.m91).
Hey James,

Can't find an email for you, drop me a line I might have some work you'd be interested in. (my email is on my profile page)
Open graph spamming, arbitrary rewards for inviting your friends, Facebook ads, cross-promotion, SEO... sounds exactly like Zynga.

Seriously though, hopefully this well shed some light on why Zygna uses the techniques they are known for -- they work. Amazingly well. Anyone who spends time in this industry discovers that pretty quickly. And it's really hard for upper management to see those upward kinks in the graph and say "please stop doing that."

The problem is that you have to become pushier and pushier over time and this leads to a slippery slope.
Any jurisdiction with contempt of court, basically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court
As an aside, I think this is the best "We're shutting down" writeup I've seen. No complaining about how hard things were, no plaintive pointing of fingers trying to politely (or not) place blame, just a straightforward statement of facts followed by a well worded request to try to take care of your team.

Kudos for that, and best wishes to all involved.
Show HN: I am tired of traditional Social Networks so I created this
Hi Guys. I am tired of traditional social networks like twitter and facebook where you just read people's status instead of hanging out with them. So I created Doshmo to make hanging out with your friends easier.

Check it out at www.doshmo.com and let me know what you think.
Actually he makes the opposite (wrong) causal argument that because of popularity these styles caught on and became the "language's style". Nothing to do with popularity, it was all predetermined in the vendor's libraries.
Seeking Internship - anywhere / remote

Looking for an internship in iOS before I start studies. Developed Dive Into iOS (http://diveintoios.com) and started a teaching company in Singapore (http://pragmaticlab.com) Primarily good in iOS, but willing to learn and pick up new languages/skills.

http://sidwyn.com/Resume.pdf
" We will consider those who can relocate quickly at their own expense."

Great selling point. I will let all my itinerant web developer friends know about this one....
I for one think that if the law was drafted "properly", there is very little police can do about it even if the ministers (who supposedly use them) are pissed off and want the police to do something about it.

Such cases happen even in USA, where certain people are charged for misdemeanor's which are not uniformly enforced across the population. An example I can think of is the Eliot Spitzer-Call Girl in DC scandal.
What is google doing that is competitive to this?
Par4All is an automatic parallelizing and optimizing compiler
The article doesn't mention jurisdiction.

I don't think that the nightmare of having local governments pass legislation binding creators of things that can be downloaded in their jurisdiction is fully appreciated.
OK, I totally agree about the time vs money tradeoff, but in my case I was taking extra time to special order something which 5 minutes' experimentation showed was unnecessary. Same could be said for an audiophile looking for perfect speakers instead of buying whatever is at the store.
Radius - San Francisco, full-time, H1B welcome

Radius Intelligence provides data and tools to help companies reach over 20 million small businesses. If you've been following the presidential election at all, you're surely aware that small businesses are important to our economy. Small businesses account for a staggering 99.7% of all employers in the U.S. For the past decade, they've created 65% of all new jobs and have employed over half of all private sector workers. That's what we're about.

We're looking for engineers to work on our web application as well as our data pipeline, plus designers, data analysts, ops, sales, marketing and more. The highest priority job openings we have are:

Sr. Front-End Developer: http://jobscore.radiusintel.com/Szqm8s

Software Engineer for Test: http://jobscore.radiusintel.com/SzqULR

Interaction Designer: http://jobscore.radiusintel.com/SzqtkG

You can find us at http://radiusintel.com and if you have any questions, feel free to mail me at chris at radiusintel.com
I'm not going to give you my name and email when you haven't told me anything about your site.
I guess the judge can always ask Apple to replace their front page with a grovelling statement that they were in contempt of court.
Emergent One - Remote (US) - Full Time

Emergent One automatically generates REST APIs for existing applications and databases. We're a new startup devoted to making APIs better and more prevalent. Although we're a small team, we are growing fast and moving even faster.

We are looking for a Software Engineer that is passionate about developer communities, REST, and of course, building and consuming APIs. The role will be a combination of development on our developer portal solution and our core tech behind generating APIs. You’ll be helping build the API that generates APIs. In fact, that API generated our own private API (so meta!). You'll have a huge impact on the company and customers as a very early member of the organization, and be introduced to a large range of cutting edge API providers.

http://www.emergentone.com/jobs/

===Responsibilities

* Lead development on a robust developer portal solution for APIs we provide

* Contribute to the core solution that generates APIs

* Gain a deep understanding of the Emergent One platform

* Help troubleshoot problems in our customer's API design

* Work closely with customers to design solid RESTful APIs

* Build up a resistance to mildly brain melting meta-ness

===Qualifications

* 3+ years experience as a Software Engineer / Developer

* Experience developing applications built on APIs

* Deep awareness of RESTful API design and HTTP standards

* Strong knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns

* Experience on a remote team a plus

===About Emergent One

* Ruby on Rack core, js / backbone frontend

* Funded Seed Round, TechStars Cloud Alumni

* Remote organization - work wherever you want!

* Choose your own hours - we're results driven first!

* Regular (friendly) debates and gaming sessions

* Founded by 2 ex-Rackspace developers

Email us at jobs@emergentone.com
I don't buy it.

Look at a pack of lions or African dogs hunting. They engage in lots of kinds of cooperative behavior. But, you say, they only do so because there is something in it for themselves? Well the same is true for most humans.

If you want something more than idle speculation, I'd suggest reading up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2 for a gene that we KNOW is needed for speech in us, which differs in close relatives.
Exactly. I see nothing wrong or made up in that. All the presented information are facts. They are saying in a way, we lost, and here are the facts. In a case May be the the Judge should order the Prime Minister for an Public apology and if he does not like it, apologise until he likes? This is just stupid. And this isn't a Apple's is right or wrong issues with Samsung Copied or not either.
The right to anonymous speech is something we hold pretty dear here in the US. It goes back all the way to the anonymous publishing of the Federalist Papers.
Seattle, Full time.

IOS/Objective C Dev/Architect/Lead

Gratafy is seeking an expert iOS developer to lead iPhone app development and enhancements, and support our already established iPhone app. This role will directly interface with the founders, other developers, as well as business development and marketing functions. Gratafy is a highly collaborative, agile, and fast-paced environment -- your contributions will be visible and highly impactful.

Gratafy is a VC funded startup located in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. We are a growing team, building a social gifting platform focused on giving and sharing experiences. Gratafy allows users to instantaneously send gifts to Facebook friends at a rapidly expanding list of partner local and national restaurants, nightlife establishments, and hotels. We launched at the end of October and have been featured on ABC, CNN, as well as other media outlets.
Haha! Coincidence?!
This service doesn't work without Facebook/Instagram though...I think thats an important distinction because a hub/central provider will be needed. For photos it'd be hard to replace facebook (considering it owns insta too)
Sold on Sass
About 10 million a month.
I don't think inviting your friends and get a reward should be tied to Zynga (and/or frowned upon) - this tactic has been used by many companies, ie: Dropbox. I personally like it.

It's Zynga's pay-to-win/continue concept that I have a problem with. That's the reason why I think Zynga is 'evil'.
You're a businessman.

To simplify this even more, you believe more in talking about the beautiful houses you've built and how happy the families are in that house. Whereas there is a full sub-culture of those who want to talk about how they found the newest type of wood for making 4x4's or how fast their new hammer swings.

As if my analog can get even more carpenter like...I wrote about this topic more generally recently: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/06/29/the-cyclical-nature... I think often we find ourselves obsessing over the importance of the hammer and believe discussions around the hammer are important and therefore warrant endless discussions, meetups, etc.
Hi, patch author here. Two of the falcon patches address the same two issues as my patch series. One caches the expanded $LOAD_PATH (which is expensive to compute mainly because it involves allocating a lot, typically hundreds of KB, and the Ruby GC isn't very efficient), which my patch #4 does. Another speeds up searching the $LOADED_FEATURES array -- his patch keeps it sorted, while my #3 leaves the array unchanged but maintains a hash table pointing into it.

The main difference between the patches is how we maintain the needed invariants, as both $LOAD_PATH and $LOADED_FEATURES are visible to Ruby code and actually mutable from Ruby code. The falcon patches put singleton methods on each of those arrays, wrapping the methods that mutate arrays in order to make them maintain the invariant. This is a very general approach that could implement any desired behavior, but it is relatively complex in the number of cases it has to explicitly handle.

My patches instead take advantage of a feature of the Array implementation to keep a snapshot of each of $LOAD_PATH and $LOADED_FEATURES, and on each 'require' call detect whether they've been mutated. If they have, we rebuild our invariants. This has an advantage in simplicity -- the Array implementation already must track when an Array is mutated, and we just piggyback on that. It can cost more time, but never much more than the status quo (where we must effectively rebuild all the state on every 'require' call), and in normal usage people rarely mutate $LOADED_FEATURES at all and mutate $LOAD_PATH in only one or a handful of bursts, rather than alternating mutation, require, mutation, require many times. So in practice it should be almost as fast as if we never had to rebuild.

NB that funny_falcon himself, aka Yura Sokolov, is participating in the bug thread, so you can read his thoughts there.
SEEKING WORK: Cincinnati/Dayton/Columbus or Remote

I'm an iOS/PHP developer in the Midwest that specializes in apps that integrate into web services and their backends. This last month I built one that does GPU-enabled image processing, and Android app that plugged into Facebook, and a web app for storing, accessing and summarizing financial documents for a Midwest VC firm.

Email me at jon@z-prototype.com and we can go over your idea for free, no strings attached. Unlike others I don't charge for or set a time limit on meetings - meetings are always free, because I want to build you the product you want. You pay only for time I spend coding.
Hey Zabar
Yeah although 4 million users is awesome, I totally appreciate that 4 million is nothing compared to Zynga who have 290 million MAU's (you'll see I refer to this in the blog post in 'caveats', bullet point 2
Cheers
Howard
Public Sector Person Identifiers
Knowing one's heritage is just as important as knowing the lingua franca. Neither should be diminished in favor of the other.
True, but my point is people are already doing it at the start of the pipeline. Think what happens when Reuters decide to make a SaaS offering of their summarized content. Even regardless of that, you can hire a battery of professional summarizers instead of PHDs and do it pretty well.

Where this doesn't apply, and where I do think you're completely right is non-news articles: think blogs, tweets (although there's not much to summarize in 140chars), product descriptions, scientific articles, etc. These things are produced in much more volume and much less workflow around them.
Correct. Right now you need Facebook or Instagram (also, kinda, Facebook). It's a traction thing.

I'm already working on an app that will bypass social networks altogether and connect you directly with your recipients without the need to post pictures anywhere.
Kudos. Just plain awesome and so recursively witty.
Hi HN,

After reading this article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463875 a couple months ago, my sister and I (both engineers) wanted to do something proactive. We both identified with the people in the article. Me being the older brother who always heard things like "I don't think I'm smart enough" coming from my sister as she took engineering and math courses. And for her, having successful women role models in her chosen career were extremely important to helping her succeed. We both want to do our part to closing the gender gap, so we created Girls Love Math to pair girls taking math courses with women in industry. We would both appreciate your feedback and word-of-mouth promotion!
Rackspace is hiring. I've been here a year in the Austin office working on new cloud products and I have to say it's the best place I've ever worked. The Rack is very family friendly with great benefits and lots of cool folks.

In my team we're looking for a Java dev or two for the Cloud DNS product, but we have openings for all kinds of stuff building on OpenStack.

All the details here: http://rackertalent.com
Curiosity rover samples Martian soil, finds materials similar to those in Hawaii