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Providence, Rhode Island (full-time)

Web Application Developer - Ruby on Rails
Rhode Island Interactive / NIC / RI.gov

Job Description

Rhode Island Interactive would like to add an additional Web developer and DevOps specialist to its small team in Providence, RI. A subsidiary of NIC, Inc. [Nasdaq:EGOV], we make award-winning online services for the state of Rhode Island and manage the RI.gov portal.

Working primarily in our office here in Providence RI, you'll be programming in the Ruby language using the Rails framework and test-driven development practices to build complex Web applications. Your applications will have an immediate impact, helping our state government serve its citizens and business efficiently.

Skills & Requirements

Applicants should have 2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails, be comfortable managing code with git and writing automated tests using RSpec, MiniTest and Capybara. You'll be provided opportunities to build on your current skills, but you get some bonus points for experience with MongoDB, Oracle, Java, Perl, PHP, Puppet. Strong communications skills are also an important trait, as you will be collaborating with our team and state decision makers to map out the best way to bring an offline paper process online.

About Rhode Island Interactive / NIC / RI.gov

Benefits include a comprehensive health package for employee and spouse/dependents, matching 401k contributions, and attendance to training sessions and conferences. Additional advancement opportunities are available if you are interested in relocating to other NIC operations around the country.

How to apply

If this sounds like a career you would enjoy, please send a resume and cover letter to rijobs@egov.com. Include URLs and information about projects you have worked on, any open source contributions you have made, and your Github profile or other appropriate CV links as applicable.
Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!)

I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get sent out simultaneously (Bar the manual captcha ones), or is it more staggered?

e.g. Could the big fish like Techcrunch and such expect to be notified first normally, or is it a blast to everyone?

I'm also curious what your plans are to keep your service's reputation with the bloggers on the receiving end intact (The fact it is paid for, and not too cheap, really helps this I imagine), but anything else you have in mind? e.g. Do yous do any kind of filtering of the submissions?
In 2006 someone did something very similar (although generalizing from Lisp and not starting from scratch or looking at niche applications); it was discussed on HN in 2009.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823524
I agree, the chairs are nice. But don't use them as the solution to back problems. Back problems need to be solved through muscle maintenance, etc. Once back problems are eliminated, you should be able to sit comfortably in any chair.
Microsoft have two main customers: OEMs that install Windows on their laptops and desktops, and enterprise who use the easy collaboration between Office and Windows Server based products to administer their businesses.

They are actively moving against one of their main customers (OEMs) by trying to directly compete with them on hardware. This is a business 101 blunder that comes from not understand what you are selling and why you are selling it.

Microsoft is losing the second main customer through deprecation of old assets (VB6 compatibility issues, etc), and by drastically changing their product so that expensive training and orientation is needed to transition users. In addition, the new OS does not even improve workflow for the main Windows user: an office drone updating Excel worksheets and using Outlook email. Microsoft is also losing their handle on the developer mindset as larger numbers of developers transition to Web/iOS/Android platforms for bread-and-butter applications.

This is a now classic case of a business losing track of their target market, and they will suffer deeply if they don't make rapid and enormous culture and product changes within the next 2-3 years.
SEEKING WORK - Based in San Francisco. Remote okay. Branding, UX / UI Design, Front-End Dev, and Responsive Design.

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(upfront confession: I love Linux)

Ah yes, the old "why did UNIX win? OtherOS was so much better!" chestnut. Reading the article, and yes, the usual suspects come up: VMS, TOPS-20, etc, etc. What I'd like to know is why these OSes were supposedly better, or at least list some of their advantages (eg, versioning filesystems[1]). I'm not questioning the pedigree of the author (someone who actually worked with almost a dozen really different OSes), but the article is almost vacuous, and entirely predictable.

I don't doubt that maybe back then UNIX was a dog (just look up the UNIX haters handbook sometime), and it would be really neat to see some revolutionary research in OSes gain traction (my interests in this area include too many to list, but Plan9, Coyotos and Oberon come to mind).

But I think a few important factors have lead to Linux leading the pack: first, it's open source. Second, "worse" is better[2]. And perhaps most important, Linux will (probably) be the last OS[3].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system#Files-11...

[2] - http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

[3] - http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=101317&cid=863...
Excellent! I'm moving to China in a few weeks and know no Mandarin, so this has already been a huge help. Obligatory feature request: I would love to be able to repeat a specific phrase. If I miss a character or want to hear the pronunciation again, I'd like to be able to fix it before moving on to the next phrase inside a lesson.

Thanks!
I make mountain bike trail maps[1] using OSM data, but when generating my first drafts of the final PDF files and distributing them for review I'll include similar trap landmark.

[1] Examples:
http://mmba.org/library/maps/riverbends/latest.pdf
http://mmba.org/library/maps/clintonriverparktrail/latest.pd...
http://mmba.org/library/maps/stonycreek/latest.pdf
http://mmba.org/library/maps/addisonoaks/latest.pdf
A lot of organizations completed upgrading to win 7 (mostly from XP but some from Vista) two or three years ago. From a business perspective, i don't see why they would want to upgrade now given that win 7 does what they want and is pretty stable/efficient. This also applies to regular people who get their job done on win 7 and don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading. You could argue, that win 8 is not sexy enough that it would push people to upgrade, but I would say it's a timing issue combined with how win 7 is still going solid, so I won't necessary blame Windows 8 for the low numbers.
No, mostly because they're not very organized. Most of it is just CSS tweaking, though.
(Net-/Open-/FreeBSD people flocking to these).

Perhaps on the client side - I'd say that OS X pulled most desktop Unix users away years ago.

On the server side the BSD's and "Solarish" (OpenSolaris derivatives) still have a considerable amount of mindshare in their respective niches.
I find it quite a leap there's no way my elderly relatives could figure it out, they have trouble even with Windows 7/Vista/XP.

Metro is actually pretty simple on a touch device. I've seen iOS users figuring out the interface in no time. I think Microsoft's real problem is that for most people tablets are a different device category than laptops or desktops, so the choice for Windows is not automatic. Evenmore, most people in the market probably played with friends' or family's iPads and are more likely to choose an iPad, or perhaps an Android device if they have an Android phone.
Of course it would in the cases where you run a newer version then the one that shipped originally on your windows install.
I'm having a worse experience with Windows 8, than I had with Windows 7. My printer didn't work until a few days ago, when it started printing in the middle of the night - discreet driver update? - and my installation was suddenly deactivated, so now I get the most annoying activation prompt (which fails) constantly. Especially since it directs me to the tablet OS to do so.

It's also absurd, that it takes something like five seconds for a clicked link in MetroTwit to open in my desktop browser.
Really cool. Just a heads up - the github ribbon is pointing to one of your other projects.
Really nice! One thing I'd point out, the "fork me on github" badge is redirecting to the wrong repo :)
An OS just needs to get out of the way and let applications work so that people can actually get things done. If the OS is succeeding in allowing the required applications to be made, then we don't need more operating systems. If it is failing to cater to the specific needs, then a new operating system will be created to run those apps - see iOS, Android.

You don't build an OS and then build things for it. You build things you need to run, and then you build an OS if you can't run them without it. The article has this relationship backwards imho. In the same way, many people create frameworks and then try to fit them to problems instead of creating frameworks to solve problems.
If the guy wasn't such a dick about the other guy being a dick it'd be a great article.
Workless - A classy HTML5, CSS3 framework
After all you would have to compete with an OS that is firmly entrenched on 85-90% of desktop systems on one hand and a free operating system on the other

Linux proves this wrong. People built that when the market was completely dominated by Windows.

I think the author misses the real reason we don't see a bunch of new OS's: Unix variants and Windows solve their problems very well, and at this point most of the improvement is at the GUI/application layer (a la OS X).
FYI, chrisdone is the author of Fay.
San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full-time Engineer and Full-time Designer

Judicata - http://www.judicata.com

We are mapping the legal genome. Using data mining, semantic analysis, machine learning and human computer interface technologies, we are extracting deep meaning from legal documents and creating the most powerful litigation tools in the world. We're a team of 7. We develop in Python, Django, JavaScript and Java. And we've raised $2 million from Peter Thiel, Keith Rabois and SV Angel (David Lee) - all former lawyers.

We are seeking an engineer and a designer.
Engineering Requirements: 3+ years of experience. B.S. / B.A. in Computer Science. Strong interest in U.S. law.
Design Requirements: 2+ years of experience. Portfolio demonstrating clean, information rich UI designs.

Contact us if you are interested: careers@judicata.com
SEEKING WORK - Raleigh, NC or Remote

Full-stack developer (web/mobile) with strong business sense. I love customer development, inbound marketing and funnel optimization.

10+ years of writing code and building product. If you need someone who can code and knows business––I may be your guy.

Resume: http://bradjasper.com/resume/

Contact: contact@bradjasper.com
Sure, society must change, but government is a fundamental part of both the problem and the solution. The United States was a "democracy" for nearly 200 years before black people received equal treatment before the law. The change was sparked by demonstrations and civil unrest during the 1950s and 60s but attitudes didn't begin to change until the government enacted new laws, enforced existing statutes, assigned resources and accepted responsibility.

The analogy with enforced birth control is a poor one. This issue is about creating a civil society where laws are enacted and enforced for the protection and well-being of all citizens regardless of gender, caste, sexual orientation, economic status etc.

In a modern society, the state has a duty to protect innocent persons from harm. So far, India has been stunningly inept in this area.
Definitely this. Use WPF if you can. I don't recommend trying to use WPF "as is", but suggest reading about the MVVM pattern and the available frameworks, particularly Caliburn.Micro and ReactiveUI.
China Can Copy Anything
I am suffering from a severe lack of caring about HN right now so this is not going to be a terribly convincing case, but i feel like i should remark as follows.

(Depressingly) I think Arrington is right. The majority of the links on HN are a good demonstration of how tedious things have gotten.

The real irony is reading a blog post telling Arrington to shut up and do something to fix the problem instead of blogging about it. Seems like we could have just skipped a whole bunch of steps and arguing, and just do interesting things instead.

Instead we're commenting on blog posts (instead of learning/making/doing).
haha puchi puchi... blast from the past.

the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time.

So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday" - the UK blogs will see it at their Monday 9am, and the US blogs will see it at their Monday 9am. And so on.

Delivery time is super important, as me and my co-founder have experienced many times first-hand.

As for reputation, you're right in that there is a natural filter, that being cost. Beyond that we have thought about narrower targeting / filtering but in the end it has to be up to the blogger. The more blogs we introduce, the more tools we will create for those bloggers - for example to only receive a certain genre of app notification (e.g. games). And we will always be transparent about the number of blogs that your notification goes to. Nobody wants to know that they are sending something to a blogger who doesn't want to receive it.
$661/mo

Just throwing money at someone with a tenuous grasp on reality is not kindness. More won't help.
Can you provide more detais e.g. is it automated?
no, just uncreative
There are two primary issues. First is the performance of a monolithic kernel versus a message-passing microkernel. Linux has been tuned pretty extensively; as a monolithic kernel with a lot of eyeballs trained on it, it's hard to beat.

Second is the fact that the vast majority of OS kernel source represents deep OS _design decisions_. There are a lot of decisions to make. If you're going to make a lot of decisions that are the same as the Linux set, there's not much point in writing your own code. User space has a set of expectations; Linux conforms. Traction is difficult with non-conformance.
*feudal -> federal
It's not. We should be spending time implementing Persona rather than trying to come up with new identity solutions. Mozilla browserid/Persona is good enough or better than any other solution presented thus far, and has the best chance for adoption.
I have Windows 7 on my desktop (for gaming, needless to say) and it works fine - so I don't see why I should spend £25 on it (that's six pints of beer - or 12 if I want a physical disc) for a nebulous vague claim of "it feels faster" and native ISO mounting that I'll never use (native ISO ripping would be mildly helpful, but it's still not that big a pain point). And no, I don't want to arse about googling for 3rd-party apps to restore functionality that worked fine in the old version.

My guess is this kind of sentiment explains the slow sales - Windows 7 is good enough for almost everyone, and Microsoft don't have a great brand in this area given Vista (and ME), and many underwhelming Office updates.
3D CSS HTML5 Chess
It sounds like basing your drone on a blimp could be practical. It's going to stay reasonably steady, and it can stay up for a long time with a fairly large payload. Also, no big moving parts to decapitate people.
You need a password you can remember? Here's a starting point:

http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html
At least in India crimes against women makes its way to the media and the civil society tries its best to reform.

In countries where the state censors all media, the news would have been buried and rape? what rape? Don't mention rape, are you a CIA agent?
The valid argument is that it's generally harder to convince people to pay for web content than it is for content on iOS where this product is already successful, presumably because iOS users are a self-selected group who are more willing to pay for digital content.

There doesn't seem to be any argument for making the site work 'properly' in 'every' browser and discontinuing the iOS version other than a dislike for iOS or iOS users.

Why should they discontinue a successful product?
I knew some truly great programmers who wrote great code most of the year, but occasionally were suddenly absent for a week because the police picked them up dancing naked in a garden.

Even though there are many companies who would immediately fire that person; they are missing out on a lot of potential by doing do.
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team)

I hope you are having a fantastic day. Happy new year :-)

I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We're a small team of 7, we have 450,000 users and are about to hit a $1M annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead and just around the corner we're expecting even faster growth through our mobile efforts.

2 key areas we're looking for help with:

- JavaScript (+HTML5, CSS, Backbone.js) to lead our webapp
and browser extension development
- DevOps (we're PHP/MongoDB on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and it's
been put together by a couple of full stack hackers so there
will be a lot that could be improved!)

If you're interested in coming on board, you will:

- work primarily with myself and my co-founders Leo and Tom
- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great
approach in dealing with others
- be a Buffer user (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
- be friendly and comfortable helping our users
- be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you have help and
support from us to move to where you want to be
- have experience working with another startup before (would
be awesome, it’s cool if not)

You’ll be amongst people who are striving for success and pushing themselves forward each and every day. Everyone here seems to progress at an incredible pace, we want to do everything to make that happen for you as well. Whether you want to start speaking, blogging, learning marketing or have other areas of personal growth, you’ll have my personal support and the whole team as a resource too.

Great salary and equity - $85k-$140k, 0.5-1.5%.

If this sounds fun, let's have a chat. I'm looking forward to it! I'm Joel, drop me an email directly - joel@bufferapp.com.
I'll cast a dissenting opinion.

Do you really, honestly think the author will be happy - and for long (say more than 2 years, after the initial thrill of doing something odd and new)?

It does not looks like a sane relation to me, but more like a relation based on needs - such as the need to "save" someone (frequent with young upperclass women) or such as a profound emotional need to display love.

"I'll throw myself in front of a bus for her if she wants it" - this doesn't looks like a good thing to say about a relationship - especially about a relationship with someone hearing voices who might recommend such things.

Are normal persons (or life) so boring that one needs to import another person problems - especially unfixable problems given the state of our technology regarding schizophrenia?

(my cousin has a severe form and spends most of his time in various institutions)
My First Blog Post - Why I'm doing this
Boston Area (Metrowest) - Compass Aging

We're building out a set of tools to help adult children with aging parents conquer the challenges that come along with that. We're part of Gatehouse Ventures, so we have the environment and the mission of a startup with the resources of a public company.

We're hiring for:

* Senior Software Engineer

* Rails Engineers

* Front-End Engineer

* DevOps Engineer

..and more.

See all the jobs here: http://www.compassaging.com/jobs.

I'm the hiring manager, so please feel free to reach out to me directly.
Seems they're making Kodak's mistake: thinking bulk-buying resellers are the customers.
RIP VimClojure, Introducing vim-clojure-static and vim-foreplay
I pay for most of the books I read, but occasionally I will pirate if I'm not sure if the book is something I'll really enjoy.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being fleeced though, and I'll resort to pirating. When I bought my Kindle, I figured I would at least save a little bit over the cost of a physical book, since they cost next to nothing to produce and distribute. But it's been just the opposite. Most kindle books are actually more expensive, some by 40% or more. This combined with the fact that I still don't even own my book makes for a painful purchasing experience.

They should be giving incentives to people for purchasing legitimate digital copies, not punishing them. In my mind, $4 would feel like a slightly high "premium" price to pay for a digital version of a $9.99 paperback, and I'd feel a lot better about paying it.

I'll probably still keep paying the money, but I hope we see some radical changes in the future to the pricing structure of digital books.

Edit: I will say that I've been pleasantly surprised by the return policy on my Kindle books the last couple of times I've returned books. There was no hassle and no questions. Couldn't have asked for a better experience.
"It's not the government that rapes women, or shelters the rapists."

Police regularly try to pressure rape victims into marrying their rapists, or accepting a cash settlement. See below link to another case a few days ago. The problem in India is society's treatment of women and India is among the very worst places in the world for a girl or woman to live. Somalia and Afghanistan are often considered safer places for females to live than India. The level of unreported violence is staggering and shameful. Until this is widely accepted and acknowledged, by more than a small minority cross-section of Indian society, little will change in India.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9768614...
Have you seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroC/OS-II ?
People have become blind to these kind of mass-marketing advertisements. If you let a few people read a newspaper with a full page advertisement somewhere hidden inside, everyone will just skip the ad and go to the next page. To make things worse: nobody will even remember what the advertisement was about.

Plus it's impossible to accurately measure the results of your campaign.
Since newer versions are available in windows update it hardly presents a challenge or signals an active choice to update IE any more than trying to keep your system up to date / secure.
The Home Screen Is The Most Valuable Real Estate In Mobile
Makes sense... As a customer I'd use PeterPings for boosting traffic in hope that it converts few sales time over time, but I wouldn't be relied on it.
See this article: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/.... It's from 2001, so when it refers to things that happened a "few years ago" it means the late 1990's.
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 profits:

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

Portfolio: http://www.madebyargon.com

Pricing: $55/hour

Email: inlith@gmail.com