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Iconfinder - Copenhagen, Denmark

Full-time developer

IconFinder is looking for an awesome full-time code slinger to join our development team and jump straight into moving our core platform forward. Being both a search engine and an e-commerce marketplace for icons, we're looking for a hacker with a passion for all things Web.

We're working full steam on providing not only the best search experience but also the best shopping experience for icons. At the heart of our platform is a young Django application backed by a PostgreSQL database and an elasticsearch cluster, which is used by more than 2.5 million people every month.

We're looking for an inspired, self-motivated and creative developer, who wants to make a dent and inspire others to do the same. As we've only just scratched the surface of our ideas and the opportunities Iconfinder holds, we're looking for a savvy colleague to help us move Iconfinder ahead even faster.

Need to have

At least two years of professional Python web development experience.
Solid frontend expertise including experience using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Experience in working on database-driven (PostgreSQL or MySQL) web applications using open source MVC-esque frameworks (Django, Rails, etc.), and running them in production on Linux systems using open source stacks (nginx, memcached, Redis, the lot.)
An unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a solid amount of professional pride.
An eye and love for design.
Nice to have

Knowledge about Django.
A relevant degree, like computer science or graphic/web design.
Semi-mad design skills.
Appreciation for great coffee.
Interested?

Please send your resume and/or GitHub profile etc. to jobs@iconfinder.com. If you have additional questions, feel free to call Martin at: +45 61 69 67 81.

Our offices are in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are currently working from the office sharing space, Founders House.
It has been my experience that technology is full of naysayers who have strong opinions (it matters not if those opinions are based on actual experience). You are doing it wrong... I would do it with ABC.... I would write that in XYZ. No one uses that database anymore... etc. You should expect to be contradicted and told you are wrong by a lot of people. I always listen to them and try to learn why they think that because a few of them have insight, but the majority just want to tell you how they would do if they were you. You should expect this sort of thing. It's going to happen a lot.
Wow, thanks! John and I spent a long time thinking about it :)
I guess you didn't bother reading but just looked at the colourful pictures. The tutorial is more advanced and earlier post make it easier to follow... but the feedback I get shows that people can follow the ideas and create their game assets in this manner.
And that the crash kills everyone involved except the biker.
SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I help small businesses and startups improve critical aspects of their software development efforts.

Where I can help your business:

Speed - getting your projects released on budget, and to schedule

Quality - adding automated testing to give you greater confidence of quality

Reliability - removing manual processes to make your releases faster and more reliable

To contact me about freelance consultancy work, please e-mail me at glen@yellowsquaredevelopment.com
I'd like that too actually. Personally I think the fact that devs I know feel like they HAVE to have a Mac is a sign that Apple's growth is possibly not finished. w
My bitching was largely US-centric. I should have clarified that. However, high airfares are a world-scale problem.

My malaise is more general. In the 1950s-60s, the economy was growing at 5-6 percent per year because people actually had the vision to invest in basic research and technology. In this day in age, we have a million IUsedThisToilet.com startups built to be acquired, but very little effort going toward real work.
I've never thought about the research component. I'll have to think about this and do some research. Do you know if universities make more money from research labs? Don't the professors and students make money if their research has commercial viability?

Mentorship is one of those pieces that the universities would innovate with. I totally agree with you on mentorship and I definitely think it comtributes to one's success. As a result, if universities implemented a mentorship program, they would make more money because their students would end up making more money.

And regarding the business men and lawyers and technology does not pay well, I just had another comment saying the universities would only churn out software engineers. Regardless of that, it's supply and demand anyways that corrects this.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / East of England

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies:

Perl, PHP, Python
MySQL, MongoDB
Code Igniter, Zend Framework, Django

I utilise Test Driven Development whenever possible, and strive to produce clean, maintainble code.

More backend orientated than front-end, but have experience of working with HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery and D3.

You can e-mail me at glen@glenscott.co.uk
inDinero (YC S10) seeks Lead Developer
inDinero has been hauling for about two years now, growing to over a thousand paying business customers, and we're looking for a lead developer! Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company, and they wrote most of the initial code until product launch. Today, the company has five full-time developers scattered across the globe, and we're looking for a tech lead who can oversee our team and it's growth as we go from five to thirty.

What will happen day-to-day?

Spec out new product features with our design team /// Improve our engineering workflow /// Get feedback from team on how we can speed up their work /// Make sure the test suite runs faster and is continuously running /// See that all devs get their technical questions answered promptly /// Update the dummy databases that our developers test code on.

Prioritize long-term structural improvements to make to our infrastructure /// Upgrading Rails /// Using something like mongo to track events /// Make sure the servers will scale /// Ensure high security /// Audit code base every quarter /// Refactor and modularize key parts of our code base.

Skills we're looking for:
-Ruby on Rails, 1+ years
-Java, 2+ years
-HTML/CSS/Javascript
-Sysadmin experience (Debian)

Interested? Shoot a note over to jobs@indinero.com with why you'd be perfect for the role!
>pop it in when the old one starts to lose its ability to hold a charge.

They can.

It's not as bad as you suggest. The battery is not glued in place and can be replaced if you have the correct screwdriver. (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+4+Teardown/11781/2)
As a dev in Malaysia, that is depressing.
Understandably, commercial airliners do not land via computer because human pilots are better than the autopilots in most commercial aircraft. To say that this will always be the case, especially in an entrepreneurial software forum, is ridiculous. Autopilots will get better and better, and drone pilots are not currently as good as commercial aircraft pilots.

Because... you just argued that people are required to enter parameters, and monitor sensors, and, well, people aren't very good at those things.

[http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/hardware/seeker-avionics/]
I've used NestaCMS and it's great, but I also wouldn't really consider it a static site generator.
It does exist! Check out Avdi Grimm's pair programming/coaching services: devblog.avdi.org/pair-programming-services/.

If you're looking for a real reboot, consider Hacker School (hackerschool.com) or App Academy.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of App Academy. Read here (http://qr.ae/8QbUb) for how experienced devs thought that App Academy helped them level up.
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Kansai) in Japan : http://hnkansai.org
Cloudera - Palo Alto, San Francisco, and others.

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/careers.ht...
My startup* actually builds a Products API that provides constantly updated price histories for products sold across the major e-commerce sites (amazon, bestbuy, walmart,etc.. ).

We noticed a three-fold jump in the number of pricing points we collected during the Thanksgiving weekend. Some products actually changed prices in 10-minute intervals.

*Shameless plug:
We just launched in closed beta and we have a pretty liberal free plan.
Invite link: https://www.semantics3.com/signup?code=ramanujan
Drop me a note and I would be most glad to bump up your free quota.
> An emissive display ought to be able to capture the full gamut of human visual perception. The old Nexus Galaxy could;

No it couldn't. Not by a long shot.
I've done this for money a couple times, and informally for a few friends. (Plus, a bit more regularly lately as a student at Hacker School, which you ought to check out.)

When I did it for money, both clients were appreciative, but I think it went better with the one I'd previously written a lot of their backend code for, who were also well-heeled. This gave me specific knowledge and more time to give them.

(I could be available for some more of this after the Hacker School term is over, late December.)
Also discussed extensively here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842867
Chartbeat is hiring across the board in NYC, H1B possible. Core technologies are Python, C, MongoDB, and JavaScript (using Google's Closure library).

http://chartbeat.com/jobs/
One Kings Lane (http://onekingslane.com) in San Francisco, CA.

We just moved into an historic warehouse building on 9th and Market downstairs from Twitter. We plan to add dozens of engineers, data analysts/scientists, and more (including non-technical roles) as we grow from >$200M in revenue this year toward profitability: https://www.onekingslane.com/corporate/careers/tech/

Our platform is barely a year old, mostly Ruby on Rails, Hadoop/MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, PHP/Zend Framework, jQuery, iOS/Objective-C. Our stack has enough variety that you can start contributing immediately with what you do know, while continuing to expand your skills into areas you want to know.
Mine is coming soon should I send it back?
Another discussion of this has broken out here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856986
Software generalist to join us in Austin at top accelerator. Help us finish building in 3 months and launch product at sxsw, then consider staying with us afterwards. Here's stack: http://doccaster.blogspot.com/2012/11/no-turkeys-allowed.htm...
Yep, the screen on the Galaxy Nexus is also awful. PenTile is deservedly dying.
I've clearly pushed some kind of button for you. I apologize.

I hope you enjoy the reading I suggested.
The camera uses 1.12-micron photocells, which are a significant downgrade from the 1.4 used in the iPhone and S3. I'm not sure how the camera can be "great". In fact, most reviews I've read back up the horrible low-light performance you'd expect.
Ah, the "in for a penny" school of thought.

A very sensible and reasonable approach to something that could affect the future of our entire species!
In shops, the Nexus 4 is selling for £400. The Galaxy S3 for £450. It's absolutely worth the £50 premium. But more to the point, the latest-model Nexus shouldn't be worse than the year-old Nexus. It is. That's the real problem.
San Francisco, CA | inDinero (S10) seeks Lead Developer (indinero.com)

inDinero has been hauling for about two years now, growing to over a thousand paying business customers, and we're looking for a lead developer! Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company, and they wrote most of the initial code until product launch. Today, the company has five full-time developers scattered across the globe, and we're looking for a tech lead who can oversee our team and it's growth as we go from five to thirty.

What will happen day-to-day?

Spec out new product features with our design team /// Improve our engineering workflow /// Get feedback from team on how we can speed up their work /// Make sure the test suite runs faster and is continuously running /// See that all devs get their technical questions answered promptly /// Update the dummy databases that our developers test code on.

Prioritize long-term structural improvements to make to our infrastructure /// Upgrading Rails /// Using something like mongo to track events /// Make sure the servers will scale /// Ensure high security /// Audit code base every quarter /// Refactor and modularize key parts of our code base.

Skills we're looking for:
Ruby on Rails, 1+ years
Java, 2+ years
HTML/CSS/Javascript
Sysadmin experience (Debian)

Interested? Shoot a note over to jobs@indinero.com with why you'd be perfect for the role!
Just as long as I don't have to become an indentured servant to school loans I'm all in.
Technology giants at war
Quirky.com - Full Time - NYC and SF

Quirky is a social product development company where people from all around the world submit invention ideas to our website. With the help of our passionate community, we select the best ideas each week to develop together and try to bring them to market. If an idea actually makes it, then everyone who helped along the way gets a piece of the pie. You can find our products at retailers such as Target and Bed Bath & Beyond. Our mission is to make invention accessible.

Quirky is a rails shop, and we work with lots of fun technologies like AWS, mongo, iOS and heroku to name a few. We're a small team that works on lots of big, fun and interesting problems. We've got a brand new, fully custom office space in Chelsea (and currently working on a new one in SF). Oh and we also had a reality show on the Sundance Channel last year. VC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins among others.

We're looking to hire rockstar rails, front end, back end and mobile developers.

More details here: http://www.quirky.com/about/careers

If interested, shoot me an email greg at quirky dot com.

Relocation is definitely available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
I've used NestaCMS (which I would consider a more dynamic Sinatra app than a static site generator) and my current site is built with Jekyll. A lot of these seem interesting (specifically Middleman), but I really don't have the endurance to try them all out.

So, let's hear it. What makes your favorite better than Jekyll?
I'm sure there are online communities that would provide what you're looking for. I've been a member of cboard.cprogramming.com for over a decade and that community is exactly like what you're looking for. It's focussed on C/C++, but people who post their code either with specific questions or asking for general feedback will get a wealth of advice on how to avoid common pitfalls, how to do things better, and how to be more standards-compliant. For other languages, ask around for the good communities - they must be out there.
You can't just say "many surveys" and leave me hanging! :D

And just so I'm clear: I wasn't speaking literally. I did not mean, for example, "Surveys show that among 20 answers to the question, each answer received 5% of the responses within X margin of error."

I realize that's a risky thing to do on HN and still be understood.
He uses a SPDY enabled intermediary proxy with zero caching calling out - per request - to source http 1.1 sites. There was no world where that getup makes any sense at all, and his position at Akamai doesn't change that basic reality. This is saying that a performance car is no faster than a economy sedan by forcing the former to drive behind the latter.

At an absolute minimum he should have enabled caching and then measured performance on the second run both with and without SPDY. As someone who has setup a rig exactly like this, using a SPDY enabled reverse proxy, the benefits are enormous.

Many, many absolutely terrible ideas have persisted on HN because of the appeal to authority (like listening to Digg's opinion on databases). It is not useful.
Syrians rebels turn to Skype for communications
Do you think it would be reasonable to make this a joint Victoria/Vancouver group? Ferry times might make it a non-starter, but thought I should float it out there...
> We make it look easy, but the battery is secured to the case with quite a bit of adhesive, requiring a lot of prying.

I seems like you only looked ad the pictures and didn't read the text.
It sounds to me like he's on AT&T and doesn't have it set up correctly. I heard you have to do some APN weirdness to get it working properly on that network. Could be wrong though.
or distributed in a cluster of cheap servers to increase I/O

If a smaller cluster of 256-core servers had better bang/buck than a bigger cluster of 16-core servers then that would still be a win for many applications (not everything CPU bound is also I/O bound, e.g. web application servers written in hilariously inefficient languages, virtualization).
CodeHS.com is an online introductory programming that offers feedback from engineers. The focus though is more on beginners.
Slightly off topic, but I've had a great learning experience by asking the right question on the Code Review Stackexchange http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
SEEKING WORK - Remote / India

Ex-eBay, Ex-RockMelt. Seeking JavaScript work, frontend or backend(node.js). Recently build www.wedspin.com using javascript all throughout.

Portfolio: http://www.lifeinafolder.com
Github: http://www.github.com/lifeinafolder
Email: lifeinafolder@gmail.com
My point was not that we don't have choice today (we do), it's that we're not going to have choice in the not-so-distant future as these other OSes die off (incluing Firefox OS).

Sure, you can root some Android devices and install Android ROMS like Cyanogen... but those are just Android. We're going to lose the creativity we're currently seeing in Jolla, Windows Phone, Firefox OS, Blackberry, etc.
Dtrace is such an awesome technology and the support in Ruby 2.0 is going to help improve a lot of projects.
Skype is the last thing they should be using to escape Government oppression. Skype is the same program that logged all people's chats in China, and then sent them over to the Chinese Government.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10056127-83.html
The reminds me of when eBay bought Skype and sat on it for half a decade. Big companies rarely get transformed as a result of acquiring a smaller company.

Would love counter-examples to this idea if anyone can think of any :).
Good link, very interesting.
Elastic - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

Looking for great hackers to join our (4 person) dev team working on sales communication software Close.io (http://close.io/)

JavaScript (Backbone.js), Python (Flask) + MongoDB. We do a lot of open source work: https://github.com/elasticsales

Also looking for a great designer!

Send me an email at phil@elasticsales[dot com]
Looking at current web-services, or private gaming, more CPU is indeed needed.

Take a game like guild wars 2 and their pvp where in a screen's line of sight, you have somewhere of 300 players all using some form of animated actions with projectiles and particles and other fluff. CPU is indeed in need there, through the bottle neck could well be their utilization of the cpu cores. Games are always pushing for more, and cpu usages has not exactly slowed down.

On the web-services side, if you don't go cloudy with clouds, you still want to have a large cpu resource for scaling.
No way. Check it out yourself first. Most people love it.
Evidence.com - Seattle and Santa Barbara

Hiring smart, passionate dev, test, and PM to join our small team.

Enjoy working close to the customer and close to the revenue? Looking for something lower risk than a "regular" startup but just as fun and agile ? Not so keen on being part of a large corporate machine ? Really enjoy making the world a better place ? Want your work to impact lots of lives ? Want serious and liquid equity upside ? Enjoy the entire end to end stack from hardware to video to saas to mobile to desktop ?

Well we have a killer opportunity :)

Evidence.com is a funded and profitable SaaS "startup" inside Taser.com providing secure digital evidence ingest, management, and sharing. Our product actually saves lives, reduces tax payer expenses, and increases public safety. Seriously. Everyone tends to behave when they are on video (check out the videos on our homepage evidence.com)

Our investors/advisors include early stage investor/advisor to FaceBook, DropBox, AirBnB, and other $1B startups.

We have a greenfield opportunity to serve and disrupt an under-served industry, and our customers love our product!

We are looking for any of: embedded, c, c++, c#, android, qt, and iOS experience. That said, we hire for smarts and cool/fun before we hire for skills.

Please send resumes or LinkedIn profile to me: Danny at taser.com

For fun, also include your favorite interview question :)
I agree about his point that one year Nexus is Samsung, another is HTC, and another is LG. Every experience is different, you are not guaranteed that the experiences will improve from one manufacturer to another. In my opinion the Samsung S3 looks better than the Nexus 4.

Anyways, I was a 4 year old Android user, but this year I bought a Nokia Lumia 920, and I absolutely love it. I even got reception for the very first time in the elevator! And the user experience blown me away. Some apps needs improvement, but the core apps keep me addicted.
SurveyMonkey - Palo Alto, CA: Sr. Web Application Developer

We're looking for a of solid software engineer that can help us build out our next generation survey platform. This position will require a lot of heavy-lifting using JavaScript to write client-side applications using our own internal framework, jQuery, and Mustache. A solid understanding of front-end technologies that can work at a large scale is required; some experience with python would be great but not a requirement.

SurveyMonkey is a great place to work. We're big enough to offer competitive salaries and great benefits but small enough that you feel like your contribution and ideas can make the company successful. We have a great team of engineers with big ambitious plans but we need a few more core engineers to get the job done.

You can apply directly at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/job-listings/

or email me directly at: will@surveymonkey.com
The DIY guys say text wins.
http://diythemes.com/thesis/html-or-text-emails/

Personally I prefer short text ones.
This term comes from "ded" (short for "deduced") -- deduced because you are advancing your last fix based on course and speed.