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San Francisco - Thumbtack - Software Engineer, Product Designer

Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed on Thumbtack, and we connect those businesses with new customers everyday. We're well on our way to being profitable and looking for two more souls to join the adventure.

We're "disrupting" the services industry and have been covered in many major media outlets: WSJ, NBC News, Washington Post, CBS, Inc, USA Today, and hundreds more.

Our small team is dedicated to excellent engineering and design. We eat meals together everyday cooked by an in-house chef. We work in a beautiful old warehouse in SOMA. We play ping-pong (if that's your thing).

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering and http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

Email chris at thumbtack with questions.
You're paying to outsource the obligation to remember to order shirts.

Shirts are a little different, but I use it for stuff like razor blades that are consumable.
Hi!
John here from Minus, an image sharing platform based out of midtown NY.
We are looking to hire multiple positions including fulltime iOS Engineers and Android Engineers in our NYC midtown office.
Competitive compensations and you get to build and work on our brand new app!
Please learn more from http://minus.com/pages/careers
You may reach me at john@minus.com and http://john.minus.com
Thanks!
I've driven in countries where no traffic laws are enforced. People still pick a side of the road to drive on.

And it isn't because it's superficial and fashionable. It's because there are underlying logical reasons for doing what the rest of the herd is doing.

Likewise with sticking to coding conventions for a language.
Klout is hiring in San Francisco, CA (Fulltime, H1B ok)

We're looking a seriously-talented operations engineer to help us create cutting edge systems and tools to manage, maintain and monitor all aspects of the Klout production, staging, and development environments. Our environment is an intense combination of modern software and tried and true technologies including and leveraging Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, HAProxy, redis, memcached, Node.js and Scala. We'll challenge your scalability chops with our high volume consumer site traffic coupled with the Big Data challenges of processing over 10 billion data signals a day for over 400 million users on multiple petabyte clusters.

Apply here if this sounds exciting: http://bitly.com/SAkkFL

We’re also looking for a seasoned infrastructure engineer with Hadoop experience, someone who can both implement elegant solutions to Big Data problems and lead by example. You’ve architected highly-scalable, distributed systems efficiently using open source tools -- and maybe even contributed to some. You’re well versed in the challenges of dealing with petabytes of data on a daily basis and the opportunity to crunch billions of social signals a day excites you.

Problems we’re working on:

-Scalability and Infrastructure: Building infrastructure to collect, store and process hundreds of millions of social interactions per day
-Real-time systems: Real-time data infrastructures to process large volumes of data

Apply here if this sounds interesting: http://bit.ly/Pp0EUE
Me: we have to get home before the hurricane.

My wife: hold on, I have to get a picture of WAWA.

Me: ... why?

My wife: I checked in!

Me: But why do you need a picture?

My wife: so the timeline looks good!

Me: ...
Post Sandy, Uber Scrambles to Convince Users It’s Not a Scrooge
Hulu clone that actually has all the shows I want.
Thanks - I'll take another look on the next project and see how it compares
Product / Market fit for some of my friends (whom I sent it to)

Basically, young parents with kids and [grand]parents who aren't going to join FB. Perfect fit.
This is a great use case. My sister-in-law gave her mom her Facebook account login so she can see pictures of the grandkids without having to sign up for a Facebook account.

This would be so much better.
Floating speed/red light cameras in the sky!
Tesla Motors

Palo Alto, CA | Full time | Manufacturing Test Engineer

I know most of the job postings here are looking for software positions, but I'm sure there's some people with hardware and test experience as well. Tesla Motors is looking for an experience manufacturing test engineer. We're looking for a generalist, equally comfortable looking at a schematic or at code.

You will be responsible for implementing a PCBA functional tester for a manufacturing environment.

BSEE (MSEE preferred)
Thorough knowledge of C/C++
Familiarity with Labwindow CVI, (labview desirable)
You should have a good understanding of microprocessors and analog circuits. Knowlege of schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium preferred)
Knowledge of Java, python, MySQL, C#, and XML desirable,

We're looking for experience with test station deployment, stability, and repeatablity in a manufacturing environment.

Addtional desireable skills: SPC, DOE, NPI, ICT, agilent 3070 basic

Contact me, nmartin at teslamotors.com if you are interested.
Online LOC Counter
A cool, easy to use, online lines of code (LOC) counter.
Here are a couple more open positions...

Crocodoc (YC W10)

San Francisco, CA | Full time | Director of Product

## Description

Crocodoc’s next-generation HTML5 document collaboration platform reaches tens of millions of users, and our business is profitable and growing fast. Our customers include Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Yammer, and we're funded by investors including YC, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and top angels from Silicon Valley.

Right now we're inundated with sales inquiries from SMB customers who want to embed documents within their web and mobile applications. We’re looking for a multifaceted candidate to take charge of our SMB product and blow it out of the water. This is a key leadership role with enormous growth potential.

## Responsibilities

- Talk to LOTS of prospective customers (both product managers and developers)

- Develop our SMB product offering

- Optimize our pricing plans and product tiers

- Develop a scalable sales process and design a self-service experience

- Develop user acquisition strategy (everything from inbound marketing to direct sales)

- Qualify leads, own our sales pipeline, and close lots of deals

TL;DR: you must be capable of growing our SMB product like crazy while wearing many hats in the process.

## Qualifications

- World-class ability to communicate with clients and develop customer relationships

- Experience with SaaS and/or B2B technology solutions

- Basic technical experience (you’ve written a web app) required

- Sales experience (you’ve closed deals before) strongly preferred

- Startup experience (you can set own agenda and thrive in a fast-paced environment) a plus

- Product experience (you understand principles of UI and UX) a plus

- Product marketing experience (you’ve been responsible for user acquisition) a plus

This is a tremendous opportunity to own an entire product from soup to nuts. If you think you'd be a great fit, please contact us at jobs@crocodoc.com or visit https://crocodoc.com/jobs/.
If I'm required to put "the surgeon general has determined that smoking causes cancer" on the cigarettes I sell, then I'm required to put that message there.

I am not following that law if I add "but the surgeon general is a stupid head" right after that. Or "but smoking is totally cool in Europe."

I have plenty of other avenues in which I can try to persuade people that the surgeon general is a mean poopy head that they should ignore.

It's insulting to pretend not to understand this, which is also how the judge feels.
Hey dude. Awesome demo. Wanted to be a counter-voice to all the commenters here complaining about having to resize the window to make this work. You've got lots of upvotes so clearly people like your work. The only people commenting are the pessimists.

The resize thing is a cool hack. I wonder if anyone has ever made a game with window resizing as the control mechanism.

Finally, if you do you want to get rid of the resizing, maybe an easy way would be to simulate it by covering the un-animated part of the window with a curtain (Mario style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shieldsokc/5388817583/).
Berlin, Germany ("H1B") - StorageRoom - (1) product manager, (2) growth hacker

We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).

You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies.

We already have a team of incredible developers that are working on the next generation of our service. We are looking for a (1) product manager, (2) growth hacker to help us on the business side of things.

Interested? Please send an email to sascha@thriventures.com and tell us why you are the right candidate.

P.S.: The company language is English and living in Berlin without any knowledge of German isn't a problem at all.
+1. My comment was really about my personal feeling of what is useful and interesting.

I would dismiss the "social tacos" job, but would happily write code to control toy robots. :)
This seems to contradict results that show animals have a sense of fairness, like http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_moral... .
Apple releases iOS 6.0.1 with improvements and bug fixes
I don't know. I have found some of their resources really helpful (like the articles you can get from the accel.io part) but i haven't engaged with the community too much yet. They seem like great folks though, so hopefully it will grow? Dunno.

What do you do?
The article starts by presenting the false dichotomy that programming is either an engineering discipline or a "craft" which the author defines as something learned informally through self-guided study. (Can't engineering disciplines be learned through self-guided study?) Then the author makes some comment about how BASIC "became popular because it was popular", and then I realized I was reading the ramblings of an idiot and I stopped reading.
I did not think any thing good will be in "top number post" However, I am glad I clicked through. Some really cool stuff there.

Moqups looks AMAZING!!!! https://moqups.com/
I started off that way. I only reluctantly agreed to start programming to "get things done" for clients. I decided I'd be a solid "business programmer", only interested in coding to solve problems.

Unfortunately, discovering technical things proved to be too delightful. Nowadays, I'd much rather spend time figuring out something, playing with algorithms or doing something technical like reverse engineering, rather than actually trying to delivered a production system.

There's joy in solving problems. A 15-minute script saving an employee _hours_ of work a day - that's awesome. But production, finished, systems usually seem to end up with all sorts of boring "cruft" to deal with the imperfections and craziness of the real world.
I'm not sure if I fully understood your comment - You've used Zeus in production?

If in reference to just improving speeds all across the board - recovery after deploy is the #1 priority for me. Rolling restarts feel like unnecessary complexity in deploys.
SEEKING WORK - {USA | Caribbean} {American Citizen} {English/Spanish} {Remote Only}

Why me?

Last month I shipped a complete MVP. From zero to done in less than 30 days. My focus is on shipping and getting things done. I am a generalist with full-stack knowledge from back end to front end.

What I have worked with?

Languages include, but are not limited to: Python, PHP, Common Lisp, some Ruby, JS, embedded C and SQL/NoSQL.

Frameworks:

Flask, Codeigniter, Slim, Symfony2, RoR (limited), Jquery, Bootstrap and others.

What have I built?

Online payments (using Stripe integration), Content management systems, custom administrative software, e-commerce solutions, and many more.

I also work with Hardware. Will do arduino with no problems.

Right now I'm also developing Nuuton (nuuton.com), an information engine (with a search engine as the heart of the system).

Rates? Very affordable.

- I can do daily or hourly. Hourly requires a minimim of 20 hours. Hourly rate is $60/hour for engineering projects. Daily rate is $400, with a minimum of 3 days.

I'm never overbooked, and am a full-time freelancer. Always available on Skype, email and/or telephone.

Email: orangethirty@nuuton.com
Skype: orange.thirty
Telephone: email me for details.

Wait, I do offer other helpful services.

Do you need to finish or publish the documentation for your project? Don't waste your time trying to do it yourself. I can, and will do it for you. Currently have completed a technical documentation project. Working on another one as we speak. Nothing is too big or too small.

Rates are $50/hour with a minimum of 20 hours for this type of service. Documentation in English or Spanish. Will translate English documentation to Spanish for the same rates, too.

I'm also a copywriter focusing on the tech industry. My work has been featured on several startup websites discussed in HN. Rates are $500 per landing page. Maximum of 2000 words. You get ten different headlines for testing. I can sell your product with ease. Get in touch.

Free offer:

I will offer a free 30 minute consultation if you mention this ad. Let's talk about what you need done.

P.S. Don't be afraid to get in touch. My inbox is always open.
Without hard numbers on how easy it is to make a living off apps in the app store and apps on the web, all we're doing here is waving our hands. The few studies I've seen on the matter show that most of the app store income is concentrated into the hands of a select group of developers fortunate enough to have their apps featured in the top 10 for their category. http://www.kontain.com/plat4m/entries/98334/apps-dont-genera...
A radical change is not gonna happen with any fire or so that you mention. The path to achieve it is what Mr. Kejriwal is doing right now, and the time to get there will be the next decade or so. You think a street revolution is gonna help India right now, or a structured approach with a long-term vision..
I'm not sure I agree. I feel the roots herald from the great education push of the 90s, where we saw a new found hyper-focus on training to specialize to almost the micro level before being worthy of doing any job. In software, that meant being a developer wasn't good enough, you had to be an expert in, say, Perl to be even considered for the job that used that technology.

I feel we have more recently started to back away from that mindset as we have realized that general software developers are more valuable than <insert specific technology> specialists, but you still see job postings boasting about the software stack being used as a throwback to the way it was once done. Possibly because the people involved are still largely stuck in the old mindset. The mid-twenties to early-thirties group of developers grew up during that time period, so they see it as just the way it is.
I'd like to check out their site but on the other hand I don't want someone seeing "manpacks.com" in the DNS resolution logs here at work.
yes, this is essentially what I meant. I guess I could have used better players in the analogy, but it was just a quick response.

It's hard (unreasonable?) for someone to admit guilt when many others are shouting that they are in the right.
Write it Down
You can do that on Amazon too, though only on consumable items where they think it'll be likely. If there's a "Subscribe & Save" link at the right, you can choose to make the order recurring instead of one-time, with intervals ranging from 1-6 months. Random example of a product that has such a feature: http://www.amazon.com/Gillette-Fusion-Manual-Cartridges-Coun...
If what Apple claims is true, that it takes 14 days to update a few sentences on its website, how long to fix Maps?!
This is a bit too simplistic. The rule of three really should apply to similar patterns that emerge naturally in the course of implementation.

His example code consists of two four-line functions that share a common if-else control structure but call totally different functions. That's not copied-and-pasted code, and it's not enough similarity to warrant generalization even after three or four replications. (And it would be better modularized away completely using inheritance or delegation, instead of a state machine.)

When it comes to copying and pasting identical blocks of code that actually do something, even having two copies opens you up to copy-and-paste bugs. Waiting until you have a third copy is too late. Don't ever copy and paste.
There are "uncomfortable realities" associated with native development as well, such as the cost of porting to other platforms, forcing users to upgrade their hardware to stay current, app discoverability issues, etc.
YC Winter 2012 security startup (stealth) - Palo Alto, CA - First Hire

We are building a multi-platform security application + SaaS that solves a big problem for businesses and end-users in the domain of cloud storage and sharing. Our product is in late alpha, has users, and we are currently ramping up to support more platforms over the next 3 months.

We are looking for a strong generalist hacker who is comfortable mucking around systems code but can also work on front-end and UI as required.

What we're looking for:

* Plenty of C++ programming experience, especially systems code. Any platform is okay (Windows / Mac / Linux), as long as you are not biased against working on another platforms if required.

* Great object oriented design and API design skills.

* A security mindset (see http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m...)

* Bonuses: Windows low-level expertise, JS wizardry, iOS (or Android) experience

Apply with links to stuff you've done or built to oakenthrones@gmail.com.
> "When the authority (i.e. government) treats you like a child (i.e. outdated patent laws) then why should you act anything but childish?"

Ever hear of being the bigger man? Encountering a child is no reason for an adult to act like a child.
Live Now - Steve Huffman Hangout on YouTube
Aggressive Mobile Apps Want Many Permissions They Don't Need
Crocodoc (YC W10)

San Francisco, CA | Full time | Director of Business Development

## Description

Crocodoc’s next-generation HTML5 document collaboration platform reaches tens of millions of users, and our business is profitable and growing fast. Our customers include Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Yammer, and we're funded by investors including YC, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and top angels from Silicon Valley.

At Crocodoc, we’re fortunate to interact regularly with some of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies. We’re looking for someone with the hustle, product sense, and BD experience to help close our next wave of company-defining partnerships.

## Responsibilities

- Starting, negotiating, and closing strategic partnership deals

- Managing deal flow and our sales pipeline

- Conducting outbound prospecting and inbound lead qualification

- Working with the CEO to negotiate key deals

- Identifying and developing new business opportunities

- Providing feedback on the product roadmap based on existing/potential customers

## Qualifications

- Direct experience with SaaS and/or B2B technology products

- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage your own agenda while working closely with others in a cross-functional role

- A great product sense and a knack for customer development

- Experience with technical products and/or a background in CS is a big plus

- World-class ability to communicate with clients and develop relationships

If you've got what it takes to lead business development and build relationships with top brands in Silicon Valley, we'd love to hear from you. Warm introductions to our CEO, Ryan Damico, are strongly preferred. Otherwise please contact jobs@crocodoc.com or visit https://crocodoc.com/jobs/.
It basically means an undefined vacation policy. It's good for employers they don't have to pay out stored up PTO days and they can keep whatever real soft limit they want in their heads that they set culturally as the management.

You don't want to look like your taking too much time off and be abusing the policy.

It is good although that sick days tend not to count for these limits.
Someone here on HN told me to do that.
Chat with Steve Huffman and Udacity about Using App Engine
Errr... not really a valid analogy surely?

I've done varied load of stuff from kernel hacking to Javascript widgets. Now most of my professional work leans more towards low-level and backend stuff in C, but that doesn't mean I can't turn my hand to other things and understand them quickly. The principles are the same in most cases.

Carpentry and electrical work are separate disciplines. Systems programming in C and web-frontend hacking in CSS/whatever are would be just like using different types of wood and knowing which joins and what adhesives go well with them.

There's no need to limit yourself to one tool is there?
No, I'm the same way. Or at least I've started to become that way.

Conversations about all the cool technologies someone has used in their stack bore me. Or hearing about the wonders of automated testing. Etc, etc.

I find it quite useful, though, to be able to understand tech and also know how it sounds to the muggles. I'm a "business guy" with a CS degree. It's pretty valuable these days to be a translator between the two worlds. In fact, that's precisely what the startup I run helps people with (or aims to).

A lesser benefit is perspective. Guys like us are naturally "duct-tape programmers" - we don't enjoy coding for it's own sake, so we prefer quick 'n' dirty solutions. To be fair, most of the time things should be built properly, but sometimes the duct-tape approach is better.
They don't have to.

I believe it's done for two reasons.

1). Suspense during their events
2). To keep people from buying the older devices that they are about to discontinue. No reason to have to field support calls for people wanting to cancel/return their newly purchased items.
They have a CollegeHumor sketch (on startup stereotypes) as their introduction on AngelList. I'm confused.
Zombie film shot by physics students at CERN
New Updates on BigMarker.com
This is a sperm telling you how to fertilize the egg. Swim fast, be fit, etc.

How about all the other companies who try the same (completely obvious) tactics and don't reach 4M users in 6 months?
The site has now switched to taking registrations of interest for our upcoming courses in the new year - please sign up to that if you're interested at all in this approach.

Like a lot of startups have found, it's hard to know exactly what you've got until it's already underway - and your input will drive the direction this goes.

To answer a couple of points that have come up: (a) Participants on this first course will be using Ubuntu Server LTS, but the course material is based around them having _two_ servers one Debian-flavoured, one RHEL-flavoured. At this level its more about getting them familiar with Linux as a whole, assuming that they may need to support multiple versions. (b) In my day job I act as sysadmin for 20-odd production systems, ranging from PC104 systems running Slackware, to RHEL 6 systems, (c) I've run many technical training courses in the past.
Every browser has a built in search feature, which offers a variety of providers. IE doesn't default to Google.

I'm not sure why people here are acting as if Bing, Yahoo etc. don't exist and don't offer a decent service that would be adequate for the internet to continue functioning without Google.
Kind of ridiculous. Samsung obviously did copy, the court just ruled that it didn't merit an infringement ruling. I mean, does anyone think, really, that Samsung didn't set out to copy all of Apple's products? Wouldn't it be better for all (except Apple) if it was spelled out that Samsung copied them but it is ok?