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SEEKING WORK - Remote/Chicago

Interface design shop. Specializing in visual design and front-end development of applications and sites.

Proficient with:
HTML(5), CSS, Javascript (jQuery), Wordpress, and Tumblr. Also capable of working within Rails apps using Rails templates (ERB) and the asset pipeline.

Looking to work with:

Startups - Looking for solid application UI and marketing.

Studios - Looking for help with overflow/extra pair of hands. Also, project collaboration.

Benevolent Orgs - Need help cleaning up sites, miscellaneous UI.

http://wellroundedgent.com
studio@wellroundedgent.com
But all of those should've been available in IE9. IE seems to be at least one development cycle (of their own) behind. I see Chrome 10 had better HTML5 support than IE10 has now, and it was released around the same time with IE9.

We probably won't see support for WebGL, WebRTC, Opus, Web Audio, WebM, and other features that Chrome and Firefox have for another year and a half, until IE11. I'm going to assume they won't support the web crypto API at least until IE13.
London, UK - Glow

Glow is on a rapid growth curve and are currently looking to assemble a super team of great developers to work in our West End office. We’ll do everything we can to make you feel at home. We have fun challenges to offer, playing with big data, scalability, machine learning, analytics, user interface and we're always willing to learn new things.

We cook with Python, Javascript, a large dose of other cutting edge technologies and a healthy mix of social and advertising APIs.
If you think you can hack it, we'd love to hear from you. You can apply using the "apply" button below or email to careers@thisisglow.com

A bit more info: http://www.reddit.com/r/london_forhire/comments/150v91/hirin...
Sure, it's fairly easy to parse. I think probably there is a speed hit (Emacs Lisp code is very slow—though you can call out to an external C library (I've tried it), for which ECL could be maybe used), but quite possibly it's just that, for Lisp, Paredit is mostly sufficient. I think the only case where it breaks down/has trouble is reader macros. I think it can consult SBCL somewhat upon encountering them, not entirely sure.
How is this better than the decentralized Persona Identify solution that Mozilla's promoting: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Identity_Pr...
I find it hard to believe that some newer, smaller language communities did not have a higher growth rate.
CB Insights (New York, NY)
Full-time, Intern, H1B

- Tech industry analyst
- Full stack developer
- Machine learning engineer
- Product adoption manager

Full descriptions here - http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs/

We were recently recognized as one of NYCs enterprise tech startups to watch. Backed by National Science Foundation. Profitable and growing.
>But all of those should've been available in IE9. IE seems to be at least one development cycle (of their own) behind. I see Chrome 10 had better HTML5 support than IE10 has now, and it was released around the same time with IE9.

You have to consider that WebKit has supported many of these things for years, which have just been very recently written from scratch for IE9 and IE10. Come on, give them some credit, they're making a good effort to catch up.
Wouldn't a language that goes from 0 users to 1 user within this year easily win this sort of measurement?
Seems to me you underestimate the value of reliability and overestimate the value of creativity.
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What a great idea !!! Good luck.
But each spoken syllable (even separated by tone) can have 5 or 6 meanings depending on context (which are different characters)! You can't get passed a few basic phrases without hitting this.

By learning the characters (especially if you learn the radicals inside each character first) you can build up an understanding of the context of each character that you're using.

For example, how would you go about learning the response to the question "Which zhong?"

zhong guo de zhong / 中国的中

("the 'middle' character from 'middle kingdom' (China)")

and knowing to give the correct response when someone is confused about what you're saying in a sentence (which can happen a lot when you're a beginner who makes word order mistakes.)

I used to use Memrise for this ( http://memrise.com ) but since they updated the UI you can no longer clearly see which dependent radicals a character has easily, so I've accidentally stopped practising.
Be careful who you fall in love with. While it is easy to fall in love with a person who is objectively perfection, it is also possible to fall in love with someone who is deeply flawed. The strength of the bond is no less.

Sometimes the old method of having one's parents choose a mate appears to be the better thing. Some cultures will investigate a potential mate's family background several generations looking for physical or psychological problems, thus averting potential disaster or the bearing of flawed offspring.

On the other hand statistics show that when love strikes, such marriages last longer and result in more children than arranged marriages.

Can you choose who you fall in love with? Likely no, but you can know when it's happening and terminate the process if you see serious warning signs. In this story the warning signs were explicitly posted at the entrance gate.
It's far better for a poor person to have their power shut off and pay $50 to have it reconnected than to pay $35 to someone selling financial services.

After all, moving money around provides no value, and it's usury!
The Input of Natural Language systems
Depends on the margin of error. If it's outside the margin of error it would indeed raise some eyebrows.
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No, you just sound like a jerk.
This app looks pretty good. I would happily pay for it if there was a promise of more lessons/content later.
Pirated iOS app store Installous shutters
International Gaming League (FounderFuel Fall 2012)

Searching for graphic/web designer and a PHP developer. Situated in Quebec or Ontario (Canada). Awesome gaming space. Lots of data. Lots of fun. :)

Contact: info@playigl.com
Ah, I thought GAE was spinning those instances up for you automatically. That's the default, it spins up extra instances as-needed to keep latency down. With Go apps, that's generally down to i/o from API calls.
Conference Swag Sucks
I am still pretty confused as to why a company so big as Microsoft keeps shipping a browser that scores a weak forth place in terms of these things.

It also doesn't boost my confidence that they aren't releasing the newer Internet Explorer versions on older versions of Windows (where browsers such as Firefox and Chrome run just fine) making it harder to get a larger part of their userbase to upgrade to the newest (while it's rare to find people who use old versions of Chrome).
Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1102/
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Front End Developer / Marketing Intern - Santa Monica, CA

At The Pool

In simple terms our goal is to be the 'offline' social network.

Contact me directly at: alexis@atthepool.com
My impression sometimes is that RPN (like in Forth) could be used as well and do with parenthesis altogether

But of course, Forth has a stack, Lisp does not need one

To write 5 * (2 + 3)

Lisp: ( * 5 (+ 3 2))

Forth (ignore the dot): 2 3 + 5 * .
They do release new versions on older versions, but only those which are still supported. XP isn't, so that's how it is.
I have been working on a centralized identity system at https://www.credport.org, and a question that is always looming my mind is:

Can identity systems be designed? Can they be explicitly built or are they a by-product?

Arguably, the biggest (consumer) identity systems out there (Facebook, Twitter, Google) have not been designed to be identity systems but ultimately turned out so. The biggest designed and most open solution, OpenID, has seen very limited traction.

In many ways, the broad majority of consumers probably don't care much about the great (and awesome) implications of identity systems and what would be possible if people were to work together by having a broadly accepted identity system.

The way we are currently going about it is to always have these implications in mind, but work extremely hard to provide value to both consumers and producers outside that realm.
Humans are naturally unreliable. Everyone has a breaking point. If you need reliability, build it into your systems. I agree with you this far: reliability in systems is very valuable. That's a design problem, which requires (a form of) creativity.

The difference between the "weak" person who shatters at a 60 hour-per-week effort (over 12 weeks) and the "strong" one who can stretch to 85 is unimportant, because if you're smart, you don't push people to the rightward side of the decline curve unless it absolutely can't be avoided.

Reliance on differences is human reliability is like having a 50% faster processer but implementing an O(n^3) algorithm when an O(n) exists. It made sense in a few pre-technological professional contexts, but no more in the typical white-collar world.

You want the creative people who'll automate away the need for human reliability, which is limited even in the most stable people.
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Wow, that's a crazy structure. I like it. Conceptually, Obvious is language-independent, but for now it's only implemented in Ruby. It would be pretty easy to implement elsewhere in Java, Scala, Python, or whatever.

That being said, in each instance you could use the Obvious approach to structure each app. If you were using the same language in each place, you could theoretically reuse the "app" structure in multiple places, so that your same business rules and validations would exist in each instance.

For the structure you describe, if you were willing to do Website B in something that worked with the JVM, you could write your "app" in Java or Scala and package it as a JAR file. So, you could use Jython to run your python code on the JVM. Then, you could reuse your app library in each project.

Assuming your app is a JAR file, your structure would look like this:

REST API - Scala for delivery -> App JAR -> NoSQL plug

Website - Java, Scala, Jruby, or Jython for delivery? -> App JAR -> API plug or MySQL plug

Android - Java for delivery -> App JAR -> SQLite db plug & API plug

If you were able to run the whole thing on the JVM you could place them all in one project, or separate projects, it's really up to you. And yes, the REST API would act as a delivery mechanism for system A and a plug for systems B and C.
SEEKING WORK — India( remote )
I design logos and websites. 6 years experience.
Portfolio: http://www.dffrnt.com/design
.CO - Miami, FL w/ Possibility of REMOTE

.CO is a cTLD domain registry with a passion for helping startups. We're a highly profitable, bootstrapped company. Some of our partners include the likes of 500 Startups, Startup America, Startup Weekend, LeWeb, etc.

We are looking for a lead frontend dev to work as a key member of our development team to build and deliver a world-class experience for our users. In this role, you will be responsible for helping craft the future of our service from a front-end, design-driven perspective. You will also be working closely with people across engineering, product, and creative to help develop an amazing experience for our users. You must be open to the idea of moving to Miami, FL in the future if you wish to apply for the remote position.

You will be responsible for:

* Provide technical development across our family of websites, including: go.co, cointernet.co, startuplife.co, and any other websites developed by the marketing or operations teams
* Be the main front-end developer for updates and conversion optimization to these websites
* Work with internal and external partners to review and define website improvements - including guidance and participation in wireframe development, technical requirements definition, front end development, back end development, QA testing, deployment, management - and everything in between.
* Debug issues that arise with the performance of the websites - including making corrections directly and/or delegating tasks throughout the organization to resolve
* Guide our organization toward an industry-leading standard of user interaction and development
* Plan for future changes to the website, stay current with software and hardware, and make recommendations that can improve the success of the business

Requirements:

* You're self sufficient, get shit done, and don't require hand-holding
* You have a passion for startups
* You love to build beautiful stuff for the web
* You are an HTML and CSS expert, including HTML5
* Have knowledge of PHP, with a desire to learn more
* Can work from and/or cut-up PSDs
* Have worked in a cross-functional team - either in-house or at an agency
* Can advise designers on best practices for design as they will apply to development
* Maybe even have a few design tendencies of your own (very nice to have!)
* Quality and detail-oriented

If you'd like to know more about us and things we're working on, please don't hesitate to ask. If you're a talented backend or fullstack dev with PHP experience, don't hesitate to send your info as well. Our development team is growing rapidly and we're open to bringing on additional talent. We're also in need of a lead designer, so if you know of anybody, please let them know!

Send relevant open source contributions, CV, example work, questions, etc. to corey AT go.co and I'll be in touch.
Post from Nov 2012, but a good re-read on new year's day :)
SEEKING FREELANCER

I'm based in the UK. Happy to work with a freelancer from anywhere provided you can serve UK (GMT) Hours.

I have a project to quote on in the next 1 or 2 weeks. I'm looking for someone that can do UI/UX design for the Web App, iPhone App and Android.

Logo and Mascot design will be done by someone else, but ideally if whoever does the UI/UX design can liaise with the logo/mascot designer that will also be good.

Ideally someone that loves creative control and are willing to bring their own creativity and passion to the table that can show in their work. Client is willing to take direction from whoever wants to take on this project.

Person has to be reliable and dependable - Personality important.
Previous examples of work preferred, but not essential. If you're someone that knows they can do a good job of this, but is looking for an opportunity to prove themselves, this would be it.

Please email me at: khurammalik.me@gmail.com

I need the following information from you when you contact me:

- Availability
- your willingness to liaise with the client (Client is UK based)
- Examples of your work
- Your aesthetic taste
- How you work/Your work process
- Your favourite ice cream flavour
- anything else interesting that you'd like to tell me. Can be absolutely anything.

Thank you.
SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary.

Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web development and search (e.g. Apache Lucene and web scraping; see https://github.com/fmw/alida for a link to a video of a talk in London on that subject).

Willing to travel if necessary. My contact information is in my HN profile.
From the #code2012 poll on twitter C# is 8th where it was last year: http://www.ioncannon.net/projects/code2012/ Not that it is any better a stat than Google searches but the number one language from the poll was Javascript and I tend to think that from a use standpoint that is probably "the language of the year" if there is one.
Check out nokolisp for the opposite of your idea! http://koti.welho.com/tnoko/Nokolisp.htm
Agreed. To properly get out of a toe clip pedal, you have to
1. take your hand off the handlebar
2. crouch down
3. catch your thumb on the strap tightener
4. pull it away from you
5. remove your foot fully from your cage

with clipless:

1. kick your heel out so that your foot is more than 13.5 degrees with your toes pointed towards the bike.

2. there is no step 2.
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux), backend dev (C, ObjC, Java, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp), ios/android dev

http://www.elfga.com/~erik/ erik@elfga.com
Or hiring managers and team leads aren't awake yet.
Furthermore, the growing of C# seems to be the almost same as C++ in the worldwide trends (not only USA):

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutor...

And also there you can see that India is still the biggest searcher of programming tutorials in the world.
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There shall be more lessons in the future :) If you have suggestions for what high-level word/phrase sets you would like, let me know.

Unfortunately, at the moment I'm just guessing as to what people want.
It would be hard to evaluate as I know how to speak in Mandarin (and the hardest part comes to the written language, which again I can't evaluate.)

Not alone there are different favors of the written form.
Palo Alto, CA (remote or relocation possible)

Suitable Technologies - http://suitabletech.com

We’re a startup that just launched our flagship product, called Beam, a true remote presence device that lets you travel instantly to remote locations, with a depth of interaction that makes you (and everyone else) feel as if you're really there. You can learn more and see our demo video on our site (http://suitabletech.com).

We’re already shipping to customers, and interest is strong. Yesterday, actually, we were featured on the Yahoo home page (http://news.yahoo.com/telepresence-robots-let-employees-beam...).

We have funding, competitive compensation, and a fun work environment, complete with our own chef and break-time games like table tennis. We provide top-of-the-line development hardware, adjustable desks, and will get your workspace just right. We’re located in Palo Alto, CA.

Overall, we’re looking for great engineers, designers, testers, and product marketers to help in areas such as C++ development, audio and video software and codecs, web frontend and backend, UI/UX design, optimization, and networking. It’s also an opportunity for someone with experience in web or mobile to work on something unique and challenging.

More information is available on our site: http://suitabletech.com
Contact: jobs@suitabletech.com
The comments are the coolest part of this idea. But there's nothing I care more about syntax-highlighting, so in practice I'd just say:

-- lorem ipsum
-- quidquid dior
defun ...
> How does Net Apps measure browser market share that they get such huge difference for IE, which they put at 54%, compared to StatCounter who puts it at around 30%? To me the StatCounter numbers seem more accurate.

Apples and oranges. Net Applications measures users, while StatCounter measures usage. It is entirely possible both are right, and the different numbers are both accurate about what they measure.

It is also possible one or both is wrong, possibly by a large amount - we don't have any good data against which to validate them (that data exists, but it isn't public - Google and Facebook know the truth).
Probably won't end up checking out all of these games, but the charity sounds great so I've made a small donation. Really hope you reach your goal and raise awareness.
Win the day.
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Could this also work for an already-established but un-marketed company? So it's not strictly a "launch email" but just a press release?

My site[0] first launched almost 18 months ago and had a fair bit of buzz, but I never did the marketing-to-tech-blogs side of things. There are a few new things I want to push out first (company blog, etc.) but do you think your service would be suitable for it?

[0] https://openexchangerates.org

Btw - great work on the site, looks lovely.
SEEKING FREELANCER - near NYC

I need a frontend developer/designer to work with me on a project. Aside from the usual (HTML, CSS, Javascript), the technology you want to use is up to you. I would, however, recommend a templating language to make life easier. The backend will be in Python, using the Pyramid framework.

If you are near NYC and interested, contact me at myhnusername@myhnusername.com
That is all true, but it doesn't change what I said. And I don't consider a person weak if 60 hour weeks exhaust them, this is called "normal." If your employer pushes more than 40 on a regular basis, find a better job, that one sucks.
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Such an executive order would probably lie outside the power of the President. The US Constitution does not give the President power do declare whatever he likes and for it to be law. Executive orders only allow the president to exercise powers congress delegated to him, or allow him to boss around his employees (the federal govt including the military).

Admittedly some presidents have declared all kinds of random things in executive orders, many of which have been followed through - it's a bit of a grey area. However this one is pretty clearly outside his power. It's probably outside Congress' power too as I imagine forcing someone to publish violates the first amendment.

I am not a lawyer. Or an American.
It always leaves me dissatisfied to see the word "popular" in the context of web browsers, when people actually mean to say "ubiquitous".

You know what would be a very interesting statistic?

Take all windows PCs, look at usage of non-IE browsers, then take all Macs, look at usage of non-Safari browsers, then take all Ubuntu PCs, look at usage of non-Firefox browsers. Tally it all up and you'll have a reasonable gauge of popularity, where "popular" is defined as "people actively choosing this browser over the default one".

I strongly suspect Chrome would utterly dominate that statistic.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Omaha

Corey Spitzer

coreyspitzer/at\rifflabs/dot\com

Full stack web/mobile developer

PHP

Ruby on Rails

iOS

Android

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

(and more; see http://coreyspitzer.net/resume )

www.linkedin.com/in/coreyspitzer/
They must be taking only established languages. Otherwise Clojure, Scala or Go would probably beat them all in term of growth.
The nice thing about learning Chinese is that no matter where you are in the world, you can find Chinese language exchange partners. If you live near a university, post an advertisement in the engineering or sciences buildings (or wherever you expect to find Chinese students) or post an ad at a bus stop in the neighborhood where the Chinese students usually live (in my hometown, most Chinese students live in the same neighborhood). Another place is the best local Chinese restaurant. I have a couple language exchange partners I found by posting an ad at the bus stop. Each week, we spend 1 hour speaking Chinese and 1 hour working on reading/writing academic articles in English.
thanks to anyone!
the games are available for free during all the week :)
Splay -- New York, London, Tokyo. Full-time and contract. (onsite and global remote, relocation)

We design, build and operate a handful of high profile ecommerce properties which double in scale/sales every six months. We've got hard problems to solve but our work is rewarding and allows us the privilege of continuous innovation.

We don't operate with any dogma about any specific technologies or process. We get shit done. We are entering a new phase of growth, requiring some additional engineering muscle.

Send us your best work to date. We'll get in touch if there is potential fit. (info@splaynewyork.com)
I have tried, and it's very easy (Goldhill's editor back in 1984); can't say for other languages, though.