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This is who we are and what we do.

Not me.

I'm one of those programmers who's been doing this for a million years and would much rather talk about my customers' issues than my own.

To me, programming is just a means to an end. The real issue has always been solving the customer's problem, whether I had to dig deeply into the architecture, use fashionable high level tools, or just resort to pencil, paper, and duct tape. Some of my most rewarding accomplishments have been decidedly "low tech".

I usually find programming meet-ups boring and language centric threads here on Hacker News pointless.

I realize that most programmers don't feel the way I do...so, if programmers are outliers among normals and I'm an outlier among programmers, does that make me an outlier squared or an inlier?
Working with Hibernate Criteria Query
SEEKING WORK - Netherlands/remote

I'm an experienced professional dev with 10+ years of experience shipping software in a variety of sectors -- from high traffic & enterprise web apps, triple A game titles and Unity games to CDN's and desktop software.

Available for new projects from December. I'm happy to talk about any project, but am most interested in web apps, mobile or Unity.

My primary skilset: webservices & platform integration (Facebook, QuickBooks, etc.), C#/Unity/ASP.NET, PHP/MySQL, JavaScript (back-end & front-end)

Portfolio & resume: http://www.dave78.com

Email: davedx@gmail.com
When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain
Funding Gates (NYC) - Full Time, local or remote (local preferred; relocation provided). Ruby/Rails or JavaScript (Ember.js) experts.

We're a Series A funded (all private, no VC) b2b startup going live in a week. Our mission is to keep small and medium sized companies ($100k to ~$25M rev) in business by helping them get paid on time, every time.

We import their accounting data (invoices, customers) and give them timely alerts, help them triage their receivables problems, use our own secret-sauce to predict customer quality (can they pay on time, etc.), and a whole lot more.

Our aim is to be an outsourced receivables management platform for every small and medium sized business in America (international later, as the rules and regs are a lot more complex - the product will work).

We're looking for amazing developers to work on our main product, a ruby-on-rails JSON backend to an ember.js frontend. You should be a full-stack generalist proficient in either Rails or JS. Developers at Funding Gates are smart, humble, honest, friendly, optimistic, and caring, and we don't tolerate working with jerks. We're not looking for rockstars, ninjas, or bros: we value teamwork over heroics, collaboration over silos, and pragmatism over dogma.

We have a strong engineering/hacker culture, offer unlimited vacation and a Results-Only Work Environment (http://gorowe.com). We are offering above-average salary and for the right people, significant equity.

You can get more details at: http://www.fundinggates.com/jobs/

Contact me at rogish@fundinggates.com. I look forward to talking with you!
Toronto, Canada. Full Time. Ruby Developer.

Write awesome code  and help people get laid at Avid Life Media. :)

We're a leading social entertainment company that operates some of the most vibrant social networking and dating communities on the web.

As a developer, you’ll join an elite team working on properties such as CougarLife, Established Men, and ManCrunch. You’ll be involved in all stages of developing the products. You'll help create new product ideas, guide the product roadmap and spec out what the next generation will look like. We look for individuals who thrive in an environment where they will work creatively, take initiative and deliver on commitments.

For more details: http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/job/ruby-developer-toronto-on-ca...
While the name says 'dead programmers,' he doesn't specify that a programmer must have died to reach that status.

2 of the examples he provides are living.
How about a coupon manager.
For example I scan all the items I'm buying at a store using the app, and it finds all the coupons available from that store or manufacturer. Than I hand over the phone to clerk, who scans it, and all the coupons are applied.
Agreed, although improving load times all across the board is surprisingly helpful. It can make restarting your app in production after a deploy faster, for instance. If anything it just makes you happier in dev if you're running some Ruby command outside of Spork or Zeus.
Of course, it's easy to appreciate free speech when it is done by people you sympathize with. It's much harder to do it in case where it's done by people you disagree with. That's why US has First Amendment and that's why, so far, the Supreme Court was very reluctant to allow any restrictions, even in case where political pressure is massive - such as the CU case. Unfortunately, the executive branch is not as adamant in protecting the Constitution as the SCOTUS are - see the recent case of Hillary Clinton promising to arrest and prosecute the maker of the infamous "Innocence of Muslims" flick.

It is by now a demonstrable fact that free speech restrictions are a slippery slope. You start with the laws that prohibit "bad" speech or political speech by "bad" people - and voila, in short time you get bloggers arrested and filmmakers jailed because somebody powerful didn't like what they said. The law is always written against "bad" people, but whoever gets to enforce it may have very different definitions of "bad" than you do.
Seeking Work: Chicago, IL (or Remote)

I'm not actively looking for work, but if you have a really interesting, low-level C or C++ project for Windows, Linux, or Mac that I will find challenging and intriguing, let me know!

I specialize in lower-level development, and love finding nifty solutions to difficult problems. Lots of experience in handling/serving heavy-load/high-request code on limited resources (backup applications, web servers, etc). I'm mqudsi@neosmart.net, you can see my work online at neosmart.net and on the neosmart or mqudsi github pages.
The author seems to think the programming community is limited to web development, or cool new techniques and languages. There is a vast amount of slowly or non-evolving programming, from maintaining legacy COBOL banking systems, to writing groundbreaking technology with mature languages like C.

People who write code for SpaceX or use Fortran at CERN to solve the mysteries of the universe probably don't see this "pop culture" and the constant pressure of using the latest idiom. All you can say is that some aspects of the industry act like this, in which case you're not really saying a lot.
The real question is "is it permanent?"
It's not about money, it's about the paper trail. Who's responsible? Who is spending the money? Who is donating the money?

These are basic things that need to be made obvious.

Buy all the ads you want, it's fine with me. As long as I know you are the one buying the ads.
Burlingame, CA (next to the San Francisco airport)

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD - https://www.collaborativedrug.com) is the first real SaaS informatics platform. Every day, scientists around the world use CDD to manage, analyze and collaborate around their data. This type of collaboration is crucial to research on under-funded diseases like Tuberculosis and Malaria and strategic for many players in the industry. Our long list of customers includes academic labs, biotechs, pharmas, government agencies and worldwide foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

We think the world has seen too many ugly scientific applications. We care about usability and details. Our team ships code quickly and iteratively. We think design and community management are as important as great technology.

We believe a few great people can make a big difference. We strive to embody our name and empower every CDD employee to do their best work. This means working collaboratively, and giving every person ownership and responsibilities.

++Senior Software Engineer++

As an engineer, you will have a huge impact on how we design, build and deliver our application. You should be a generalist and enjoy working across the software stack. Our current technologies include Ruby (Rails), MySQL, Javascript, Java, and Solr.

We look for engineers who love finding efficient, thoughtful, and highly useable solutions to a variety of technical and product challenges. You should strive to write efficient, maintainable code and you should enjoy fast iterations.

Sample projects include:

* Designing a flexible model and flow that allow scientists to invite collaborators and selectively share data with them.

* Building and maintaining an API for third party developers and integrations.

* Developing interactive graphical representations for the analysis of chemical and biologic data.

* Optimizing import, export and computation of large data sets.

To apply, please contact work@collaborativedrug.com with your resume, cover letter, and links to things you’ve built.
Looks like this is on the top of my "next to buy" list.
... linode
Apple has peaked — for real, this time
Certain sections of Indian laws and its constitution were blindly lifted from UK's laws and its constitution.
Seattle, WA | Front End JS/CSS Developer

About Us

We are a Seattle start-up that builds markets for and distributes premium multi-media content. We create tools and services that help companies around the globe manage, market and sell their products.

Job Description

You will be creating and improving a suite of cutting edge client side applications by consuming our server side JSON APIs and integrating them into client side rendered views. The candidate will also work with design lead to build an immersive and polished experience for the end user. They will work on multiple projects, from concept phase through testing and launch. We work in an open, collaborative environment and seek someone who enjoys problem solving and straying outside the routine.

Required Skills & Experience

- Javascript MVC and best practices

- CSS preprocessors

- JS Templating

- HTML5 API

Bonus Skills & Experience

- Backbone & Underscore

- CSS Grids

- Require & Optimizer

- Chrome/Webkit Dev Tools

- UI/UX Background

If interested, feel free to email me at blake@blakeowens.com with any questions and send along your resume, github account, or website.
The answer to that is the answer to its converse: Why are people rich?
Scribd - San Francisco, H1B, INTERN are welcome

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website, YC '06) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired THREE full-time people and several interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including one just last month ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (we recently switched to Coffeescript and are loving it)

* iOS

* Android

* Machine Learning / Data mining kinds of problems

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, analytics

* DevOps and web infrastructure

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We're working on a giant new product launch now that we're really excited about. If you're interested in eBooks, I'd love to tell you about it.

Generally we're looking for full-time and INTERN hires (junior year or older) who want to move to SF. H1B and relocation are no problem. For DevOps and back-end infrastructure roles, we also have a significant remote team and are open to REMOTE candidates.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
Not a dumb question - only reason was because I wanted an excuse to play around with css animations and see how powerful they are in their current state.

SVG would probably be much more robust as a solution (as would canvas have been) - I think the demo shows more than anything that CSS3 animations need slightly more reliable support across modern browsers before they are a viable choice for doing some really nice things with them.
Good article; learn from our pre-internet-age elders while we can; google spoiled us.

(I had to hide the left edge of the browser window, the animated sliding social buttons were very distracting as I scrolled. Perhaps I'm getting elderly.)
Off-topic, but does anyone know what sneakers Nick D'Aloisio is wearing in the video with Stephen Fry?

Looks like they have a slate gray upper, white soles, and a prominent logo on the tongue.

Edit: For anyone who's wondering, they're Gourmet Footwear[1].

[1] - http://gourmetfootwear.com/
Announcing the release of Phalcon 0.6.0
Man trying to build a helicopter from trash parts for the last 50 years
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web+Mobile UI designer and front-end developer.

4+ years of experience with designing usable interfaces with a focus on increasing user conversions.
Designed patio11's site which increased his conversion rate and profit:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/04/19/ab-testing-is-frustratin...

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...

Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/Jquery. Knowledge of Ruby, Rails and BackboneJS.

Portfolio: http://www.madebyargon.com

Pricing: $45/hour, or negotiated fixed price projects.

Email: inlith@gmail.com
The Newton quote was less an expression of humility than a dig at Hooke.
We use github as one filter for developers applying to matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) but I'm weary of using it as the ONLY filter.

Many developers use github as a private repository of code (by choice or by necessity from their clients) or don't use github at all. Does either of these make them a bad developer? Not in my opinion.

I understand you have to draw the line somewhere (we do at matchist too) in terms of setting a base qualification but I personally don't feel github is that base qualification.
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In 1977, the movie "Saturday Night Fever" was link bait for Robert Stigwood to sell the sound track album. That same year, George Lucas released "Star Wars," and one of his business goals from the start was to "Build a Real Company," which he did by exploiting merchandising tie-ins.

"Link baiting" to sell a book is a kind of tie-in, just like sound track albums and toys. If what you say is true, then this post is an example of the pop culture it depicts. That would be pleasingly self-referential.

Alas, it isn't true. I wrote a different post yesterday, one about the I Combinator in CoffeeScript. That one was a deliberate tie-in to my book. Some of the feedback I got from /r/javascript was that the idioms were unfamiliar to the JavaScript culture, which provoked this post.

So yes, I do write posts with the thought of promoting my book, but no, this wasn't one of them. But yes, as long as I'm writing a post I include a link to my book. Why not? I read a lot of posts with advertisements on them. Why advertise someone else's dream?
It's been a while since I've bought a laptop with a usable trackpad. For example I just got a Dell, a $1,500 Studio 15 not a crappy low-end one, and the trackpad is broken. I've even had it replaced but it still refuses to move the cursor about 50% of the time. Mice are preferable to every trackpad I've used, even Apple ones.

Of course this doesn't address things trackpads can do that mice can't, like multitouch gestures. But for pointing quickly and accurately, I always have a mouse paired to my laptop.
NYC | Full-time Lead Back-end Developer | bondsy (https://www.bondsy.com/)

Are you:

An experienced Rails developer with mastery of all of our back-end stack elements, including Ruby, Rails, Git, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Heroku?

Interested in taking ownership of the server-side component of our product?

A good communicator who can collaborate closely with technical and semi-technical team members to design and implement RESTful APIs and architectures? Ideally you will have experience creating systems that scale for long-term growth.

We are bondsy, the easiest way to put things back into the world. And we want to chat with you.

Here is a brief writeup on our company: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/bondsy-is-a-social-network-...

And, here is our AngelList profile: https://angel.co/bondsy

Get at us: jobs@bondsy.com.
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great engineer and have lots of machine learning/data extraction/NLP/etc. experience that is relevant to what we do).

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure, machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our new Palo Alto office is still small, so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo@factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews
We switched to Oregon once we discovered the price advantage and never looked back. Granted, our deployment is relatively small right now.
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Anywhere (remote)

We're always on the lookout for talented freelance web/mobile developers at matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). We're a curated matching service that helps you get work you want that pays on time, every time.
I agree with that. This article seems to focus on the craft of language creation and specification versus the pop culture of consuming languages and creating with them.

Like musicians, language advocates must dance the dance to have their message accepted by the masses.
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Here's a script to install these patches using rvm: https://gist.github.com/3993269
That's really interesting. I'm going to have to look into that, as I have a pretty intense workout schedule (Crossfit + triathlon training) and don't usually do well working out while fasted. Thanks for sharing.
Suppose you've bough an iMac because iTunes works much better on iOS. Now you're down a few thousand dollars.

That bunch of applications on the Apple Store that gets bigger and bigger? They add up. You'll clench your teeth and try to ignore the constrains.

With Google you go here http://www.dataliberation.org/ and get everything out.
Hell, you have the source for android, you can build your own system http://www.idroidproject.org/ and use your apps as well.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

iOS / Android app development.

I'll build you an app that will literally figuratively blow your pants clean off.
Also, I'll do it from $2000.

Reasons:

I've done a few of these now but the majority are in-house apps and as such I have little to show. I need to build up a bit of a portfolio that folks can actually see.

Also, due to personal circumstances, my hours are all over the place so I'm not Johnny Officehours.

I also have many, many years of web app dev and design experience. Happy to go into more detail via e-message and discuss all the bits & pieces.

Email in profile.

Quick-o site: http://2kapp.net
SEEKING WORK: London,UK or remote

.NET developer, MVC, KnockoutJs, Azure, Web API

http://victorantos.com/resume.aspx
I might be able to answer this. Animating SVG is tricky, groups is a particularly issues because each element inside a group has to be animated as opposed to just animating the parent group tag (which causes a lot of issues with rotations in particular, you have to break out the trigonometry in javascript).
>In most jurisdictions, you are expected to comply with the spirit of a court order.

In what country are you referring to?
Well, this is nice to see first thing in the morning! It's exciting to see our startup picked up in articles like this! I'm the founder of GameWisp, so let me know you guys have any questions!
Great. It's still a copy. Whether they paid for access to it or not is irrelevant - it's still a copy of someone else's innovation.
When the authority (i.e. government) treats you like a child (i.e. outdated patent laws) then why should you act anything but childish?

Note - I do realize Apple should publicly take a stance on patent laws. I think they genuinely believe they are outdated.
Great use of .xxx domain (Safe for work link)
Hey thanks for the interest. Make sure you apply to test, if you want to check it out. We are going to start adding another round of testers really soon. Any questions off the bat?
Improve my swimming technique, culminating in 50 yards proper freestyle.

Build a Letterpress solver.

Enjoy time with my dog.

Run outside with no goals or time limits, just to be.

Teach my first online course, and see how well that content and format works for future courses.
I think you are seriously wrong about this. Nesting is a feature and many think it's a bad one.
The author recalls writing banking code that talked to a "legacy" application written in MUMPS :-)
Good luck with that! It was seeing friends post about NaNoWriMo that inspired me to post this thread, actually; I'm not doing NaNo, which made me think what am I doing?
Seeking work: User Experience - New York, NY (remote OK)

15+ years experience in user research, information architecture, usability, and UI design. I prefer working with products, but have many years of campaign experience in most industries.

http://jaysonelliot.com/about/
Although its applied to all the links in the footer, not just that one. Still, interesting.
Right, and I acknowledged that in mentioning Valve. What you need is the freedom to work on what you want. Those guys are sufficiently well established as to have it. But that's very rare.