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Paris, France - Viadeo

iOS developer, full time, we can help with H1B (equivalent for France) if needed

We're looking for another iOS developer to join our mobile team at Viadeo, in Paris.

About us:

You'll be working on making the Viadeo iOS application awesome, working closely together with the 2 iOS devs: my colleague, Malik and myself, Andrei. But also, you'll be working with the whole mobile team, composed of 13 other cool, brilliant, motivated people: Android/BlackBerry devs, backend devs, marketing, design, product people, one technical lead and a chief mobile officer.

From a technological perspective, we work with Objective-C, the different iOS frameworks, and we use Git/GitHub as our source code management system. We're keen on working fast, in an agile/SCRUM manner. We're keeping the concept of working like a "start-up within a start-up" and we're looking for another developer to join us and help us build the next versions of the Viadeo app.

About you:

You should have some previous experience in working with iOS, know your way around Core Data, be comfortable with Cocoa Touch (or at least be able to pick up its different aspects), understand the MVC pattern and apply it as much as possible in your projects. Speaking of which, it would be great if you have something we can look at, either previous projects or previous code. It would be awesome if you have a GitHub account. Also if you know and use Git.

Other than that, work well with others, be motivated and cool, cause you'll be joining a cool and motivated team.

About Viadeo:

You'll be working in a fast-growing, competitive, international company, in the field of professional social networking, which still has the spirit of a start-up. Go to http://corporate.viadeo.com/en/about-us/group-facts/ for more info. Download our Viadeo iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/viadeo/id379428410?mt=8) to see how it looks. Check out viadeo.com for our website.

Did I mention we get a cooked lunch served at the company cantine every day, with a salad bar and Nutella chocolate cake desert (or fruit salad for the health conscious)? Also, free drinks, coffee and tea.

Get in touch with me if you have more questions or are interested in this position (also attach your CV): apatru [at] viadeoteam [dot] com
For OP reference here are a few CSV modules on CPAN (Perl) that maybe handy:

* DBD::CSV - Treats your CSV file like it was a RDBMS so can use SQL to inspect/change it - https://metacpan.org/module/DBD::CSV

* Parse::CSV - For parsing large CSV files - https://metacpan.org/module/Parse::CSV

* Text::CSV_XS - Fast CSV parser - https://metacpan.org/module/Text::CSV_XS
By a large margin my favourite author. The Wasp Factory was the first novel of his I read and it was great, but Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games utterly blew my mind.
The other problem that I've noticed is a lack of emphasis on saving. I lived in a lot of poor neighborhoods as well and worked a lot of entry level jobs. I remember working at a catering job making $9/hour that was abusing the catering regulations to get the workers to work 60-70 hour weeks without overtime pay. (It was a shady but legal loophole) I loved it because I had just come out of a bad situation and had some debt to pay off. I worked there for about 9 months, saving $4000 which paid off all my credit cards and a loan I had taken to get myself out of a bad situation. Then I moved on. I knew a lot of people who had been there for years, working that punishing schedule and had saved nothing, in fact they were shocked that you could save money. They spent most of it on clothes, alchohol, and drugs. I feel like the main thing that is lacking in schools is a realistic money management course that teaches people how to manage their expenses and savings.
I think the key point is that no-one is being marked incorrect at school or told they are stupid etc. for using American spellings instead of "correct" British English spellings (or other language features). Probably the war of independence between the countries marking an important boundary for when those things changed.

My mother-in-law apologizes for accidentally using "slang" terms in front of my children, mostly because she was taught at school that her language was 'incorrect' and it was suppressed in favour of the 'correct' dialect of the ruling class who lived in another country.
Two different things.

Tahoe-LAFS is a secure storage system (protocol and free software implementation). It does not handle synchronization between devices (only RAID-like replication).

AeroFS is a sync service (proprietary software only). It does not provide any storage, but only syncs data between your devices.
> But the rise is so big that i dont understand what buyers are thinking.

"Hey, internet money / commodities on the rise, buy now, sell for profit, I'm in!" times tens or hundreds of thousands.
How to mark places that you don't have time to visit now (M13)
Highly Guarded Vaults
You would sort in memory when your dataset and/or number of clients is large enough that you would need to distribute your dataset over many servers and the overhead of replication with your preferred RDBMS is too high. E.g. large sorts can be reasonably well parallelized (split the dataset into chunks, sort each chunk, and zipper merge the sorted subsets on a machine collecting the result), and similarly caching the dataset on however many app servers you need in order to do sorts often makes it worthwhile even for much smaller datasets.

If you can run everything on one machine, or your RDBMS handles sharing and replication efficiently and easily, then by all means try that first. But you can often beat the pants of RDBMS' for specialized scenarios.
People will always find a way to hack things.

Reminds me of an anecdote of a large tech company that used internal cloud-like storage, each team got a certain "budget". They "charged" people in pseduo-money. They had a charge per GB, obviously. But one team figured out that there was no charge based on filenames. So they just stored all the data in the filenames. Lots of 4K long filenames of 0 bytes meant they had free storage. :)
Facebook integration for your mobile app
A random person shoots it down and you simply accept it? Get some thicker skin! You will definitely need it. What if he is wrong and it's really worth $10,000? Happens all the time.
Agreed. I became a fan of his after reading just a few chapters of The Player of Games, and have since read almost everything he has ever published. He is an author of extraordinary skill.
I tried to respect their documented process and find a reviewer for my patch so the status of the issue can get one step closer to "closed". They specifically mentioned IRC and this particular mailing list as ways to locate reviewers. After waiting a couple of hours for a response on IRC, I wrote to the mailing list.
Discussion on the other news item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485236
My favorite science fiction author, got sucked in by Matter, then quickly proceeded to read all Culture books. Use of Weapons is my favorite, has the perfect mix between the dark character and the utopian Culture space opera.
So--I'm still missing something. Are you saying that the way to get good font rendering in IntelliJ is to write GTK+ apps? It sounds like you misread the OP.
"...the idea that companies needed simpler ways to visualize big data and databases."

Maybe I'm late to the party but is "big data" now just another way of saying "data"? More and more it seems like anyone who uses a database is mixing it up with "big data".
The official site seems to be down, but BBC has confirmed the news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22015175

Sad. I really, really enjoyed the Culture novels. Somehow, I felt like he was the only true optimist in the Science Fiction genre.
Well, I think of own comment website also as public space... Sure that promotion can help to increase the audience, but I've also seen a lot of interesting blogs that develops their own audience, with a group of people commenting several posts, something that can be very difficult on HN or Reddit (unless you're Paul Graham or similar)
Shit.

Amazing author. I want to live in the Culture. And I want to read new books by him forever, this is not allowed.
'suspended' cofee should totally be a thing everywhere
You might want to refer to the book "Numerical Recipes in C."
Gutted, incredible author. Am going to miss my Culture novels dripping through every few years. :-(
Damn. It's always the good guys :(
I never read any of the "M" banks books but i read a few of his regular ones when i was a teenager.

I remember thinking at the time, the wasp factory was a book i'd not forget, yet i can only vaguely recall the plot and some events! Espedair Street on the other hand i can recall pretty much everything. It's funny what you remember.
So what they did was add a Zynga scheme (not much besides a few colors changed) to the partypoker.com client. How is this something that will save the company? For how long have they been talking up their real-money gambling stuff with the market eating it all up...
End-to-end encrypted private file sharing darknet that basically appears as a regular folder and doesn't share anything outside your friends. Given some critical mass, that'd just be way too user-friendly for sharing files with $FRIENDS.

Now I'd like to know what the MAFIAA can do about that? This is where it's headed anyway, what the world needs is a mass-market darknet software and this sort of thing just might be it, given Dropbox's popularity.
Support the bill here: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KE...
That's still considered Java - even if you're bundling the runtime dependencies within the app...
Firstly, gambling is illegal for minors. Secondly, have you ever seen slot machines? Players like to pick machines they feel comfortable with. This is Zynga using their own branding to diversify into another product.
"Why are you hoping people sell something at this level?"

It's generic advice that applies to everything that's possibly in a bubble (like penny stock pumping). By sacrificing some of the potential upside, you allow yourself the ability to weather any potential drop (even if became worthless in the near future).

' "Those holding Bitcoins currently should get out, but other people should get in".'

I neither think that those holding BTC should entirely get out (hence "something" and not "everything") nor do I think others should get in. I'm not a timer and, especially given the fact that its $141 right now, I think it's a fool's game to pick the top and the bottom (so it makes sense to sell a little as the price runs)
I am very upset about that... In my opinion he's the best living science fiction author... but not for long, I guess... :-(

I've read most of his books (all of his SF books). The Culture is an amazing universe, but the rest of his works are also outstanding.
The behaviour of the guy you talk about was incredibly irresponsible. Stretched that thin, the slightest hiccup could have brought the whole operation crashing down. Worse still, he wasn't gambling with his own money. His failure would have cost his friends and family, the suppliers who gave him credit, and, in his struggles to stay afloat, he likely would have ruined the finances and reputation of the business he took over. Lastly, in the event that he had failed, the original sellers of the business would end up with nothing but the initial deposit (and the pain of watching their hard built business run into the ground by an idiot).

It's also worth pointing out that the guy's plan of action was pretty stupid. If the suppliers had paid the slightest bit of attention, maybe even talked to each other a bit, they would have found out what he was doing, and refused his request. The long term good history of the business wouldn't count for anything if it became known that the owner was up to his eyeballs in high interest debt and had just sold off all his stock. I mean seriously, his plan hinged on the suppliers not noticing that all his stores were empty.

The story probably isn't true, but if it is, then it isn't something to aspire to. It's a story about a guy doing something very unethical (if not fraudulent). It's a story about a guy taking massive risks with other people's money in order to benefit only himself.

If your idea of competitive advantage is doing something that only helps you and harms others, then you shouldn't evangelise about it. For one thing, it can only hurt you in the long run if other people pick up your ideas and act this way.
The Player of Games is one of the few sci-fi books I recommend to readers interested in the genre.
I was like you at the same age, and I wondered what the fuss was about.

Then I read his first Culture novel... I never looked back! They are my favorite sci-fi series ever and I have read a TON of sci-fi and fantasy in my life now (mostly sci-fi when younger).
BTC $141 USD
This may of interest to anyone who is unfamiliar with his SciFi writing:

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

Originally posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994.
I rank him in my top tier of writers along with John Barnes.
Simplified shapes? Must be appealing to all small children! I remember being a kid and I liked cooler, detailed things. Likewise as an adult I really appreciate simplified designs. It may appeal to some kids but not all.

UK being a nanny state is not a good thing. It is the job of the parent to give and take access to things. Let's ban all graphics because they could appeal to some kid out there whose parents are irresponsible.
His site seems to be down. His statement can be found on his publishers website: http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/a-personal-statment-iain-banks....
His publishers have the full statement: http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/a-personal-statment-iain-banks....
There's a GHC (Haskell) extension which lets you use list comprehensions which read like SQL: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/synta...
Yep, Use of Weapons is my favourite too. Transition really stuck with me, as well.
My wife once had an argument with check-in staff who wanted to charge her for having excess baggage, as I gather she successfully argued that as she weighed just 53kg the extra baggage was less than the difference between her and some other passengers.

The nice thing about this method is that business travellers could get lower pricing because they generally travel without much luggage. Plus my wife and I are generally 10kg under the allowance when we travel, so it could work out economical for me if bought to Europe.
Javascript Code Coverage with PhantomJS, Jasmine, and JSCover
Iain [M] Banks is the writer whose books I most look forward to reading.

Fuck cancer.
IMHO Compagnies should not change their TOS just by sending an email. On logging in the site, users should be updated, on the screen, with the new TOS and should accept them.

That's what Apple does on the iOS devices and I find it acceptable.
I wonder if you could create a service which uses RSS, serves ads and gives back royalties to the services subscribed. Think Spotify for RSS. The biggest obstacle would be creating an RSS tool usable enough so that people are willing to consume ads (or pay a (monthly?) fee) in exchange for a truly usable RSS reader.
This is sad news. He's an awesome author, and many people will miss his great writing. 'Wasp Factory' was an amazing book.

He mentions his sore back. That's important! Most lower back pain is nothing serious, but rarely it's a sign of significant illness. He also mentions that he initially thought the pain was related to his work on a book. That's relevant for an industry where people tend to spend many hour sitting at a desk typing code. We talk about better ergonomics -nicer chairs, standing desks- but sometimes the wider health is missed.
What Apple's 'Limit Ad Tracking' Feature Actually Means to Users
Even after the Tractatus was published, Wittgenstein was still teaching secondary school in Austria (though this was of his own choice). He didn't even take a position at Cambridge until 1929 (eight years after the Tractatus was published).
There is validity in scrutinizing the code quality as well.

I agree that the ethical discussion is likely the paramount concern here and should be discussed, but the code they're using floods the global namespace which in theory could actually degrade service for end-users (by potentially breaking commonly visited JS-powered sites that happen to use globals of the same name).

Its worth pointing out that it would take minimal effort to make this code not suck as much (wrapping it in a closure for a start). IMO it gives more context to the initiative on Comcast's part. No time, effort, or care was put into considering the ethical implications of this practice nor its practical effect on the end-user.
Amazon hires Charlie Kindel, ex-Windows Phone exec
I concur. Exadatas ain't cheap and they're selling like hot cakes. It's cheaper and quicker to scale horizontally than vertically and that is particularly true when the database becomes a huge performance bottleneck taking several DBAs' full attention trying to deal with I/O contention.
Cyber criminals tying up emergency phone lines through TDoS attacks
I've enrolled for "Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics"[1] and it uses R (and Excel) for portfolio optimization. Unfortunately I hadnt enough free time in these weeks to be on par so I'm still stuck at week 2 lessons.
Another interesting read is the Systematic Investor Blog[2] and its related toolkit, also in R

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/compfinance
[2] http://systematicinvestor.wordpress.com/
The latest price is always here:

http://bitcoinity.org/markets.

I'm not sure that a new submission is required every day.
He's a titan of British literature, I've loved his work for a number of years. What a legacy to leave behind.
The number theorist, Ramanujan, had only one Cambridge degree, "B.A. by Research", which was later renamed as "PhD". It was awarded after he had published important work with two of the greatest English mathematicians, Hardy and Littlewood.

If you delve into history, there are innumerable examples of achievement through non-traditional channels. Lincoln didn't have a law degree, for example. In the 20th century, auto-didacticism (teaching yourself) became less common .. here's hoping that that trend is reversed in the 21st.
Lenovo Moving Into Chip Design Business
I'm really surprised that Intel seems to have done a good job and really uses RSA signatures and not some insecure design.
Indian Product Companies – An Emerging Trend
But it's still not a bubble, no sir, the bitcoin economy has just really kicked in to the tune of 40% growth in the last 24 hours...
Marketest Website Revamp
This looks similar to the free Blinkendroid app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cbase.blin...
How I used SimCity to solve the world's worst traffic jam.
200mg. Again, there was a study that showed that people with a certain genotype did not feel the effects of modafinil, so that might apply to you.
Maybe the name Ph. D., but the Ph. D. itself is older in the USA and in Europe. There were Ph. D. in the 19th century both in Europe and in Universities like Yale or Harvard.
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Surely this madness has to end soon?

Also seriously regretting not buying it when it was "expensive" at <$5 :(
cough sell now cough
As an English Brit I'd love to claim him for our own but, to be honest, I think "Scottish literature" is the only appropriate description.

This is awful news. I've not been a big fan of his later SF works. But Feersum Endjinn and Espedair St are tremendous and who knows, maybe the later works will grown on me. I hope he lives to see his latest book on the shelves.

(Edit: Not that I'm claiming he's not a Titan)
Amen. I hate responsive design as an end user. And simple users hate it even more -- they don't understand why they don't get the exact same thing in their mobiles that they do when they access the site on the web.

Responsive is a cop-out instead of making a proper design for each medium or having a design that works THE SAME in all kinds of screens.
I'm sure they are not required and they are annoying even. Especially when the submission adds absolutely nothing. And as a bonus links to a page that is not valid few minutes after posting.
What I don't get is now Rackspace Cloud files (with the Akamai CDN) is pretty much the same price as s3, and you don't have to pay for GET, PUT etc. requests at all.

I think Akamai's CDN is still faster then Amazon's (especially here in New Zealand), and is one flat rate rather then Amazon's rate which increases outside of US/Europe.

Also Rackspace's control panel is much easier to use then Amazon's (In general I don't like the AWS panel, it's takes a while to get the hang of it, especially teaching a newbie is a nightmare) I can't say much about the API, but I'm guessing Amazon win's that as it is the standard.
Yet, a single guy, three platforms.
A UK charity is taking this approach to fund raising.

Compare these two adverts -

"Not Alone", MacMillan Cancer Support (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpS97XA5VA)

"Cancer, We're Coming For You", Race for Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJEmMDQXoA)

Yes, fuck cancer.
Some of us bought ours around $.85 and sold when there was no way it could go any higher around $30.
Terrible news. If you're not familiar with Iain's work you owe it to yourself to drop everything and start reading the Culture series[1] right now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
Your question is irrelevant to my main point: that you're making a huge, unwarranted assumption that people who don't reply are necessarily ungrateful.

As someone who has rejected people in the past and has told people why they were rejected, I have never expected nor felt in any way entitled to receive a response. I have told them why I have decided not to hire them. Some people thank me for the critique. Others do not. It doesn't matter and I certainly don't make the huge logical leap of assuming that those who don't reply dislike me personally.
It really depends on your industry/vertical. It's true, small companies can remain more agile, but they're also far more vulnerable to change - when it's three friends who run a software development shop, and one of them decides they want to strike out on their own, that's a huge upheaval for the organization. Plus, they tend to have a smaller customer base to draw from, or a smaller set of products on offer, all of which increase the long-term vulnerability.

Snark about the "minimum take" aside, everyone has different priorities. If you're a good businessperson with a good idea, there's no reason that you can't bootstrap a small business that makes you $400k/year for a number of years, which I think most people would agree is a pretty decent living.
My uncle died from a brain tumor two weeks ago. This week my aunt will have one of her lungs removed because of lung cancer. Last year my friend's wife had to have both of her breasts removed. And now one of my favorite authors will probably die to this shit. What a vile disease.
Great just what we need.

This shows no creativity, initiative, grace or innovation. It's not addressing any lacking market demands, they are just shoulder barging their way in and taking their slice. To me this is just a cash grab. An unapologetic cash grab in the middle of a recession.
First, we’re going to refund all delivery fees paid by the people affected by this bug.

The post specifically says it.
Firstly, gambling is illegal for minors.

You think making something illegal stops it from ever occurring?

Secondly, have you ever seen slot machines?

Honestly, no, although I've seen fruit machines in pubs, which I presume operate on the same principle; lots of flashing lights and characterization.

I would be extremely surprised to see something branded like the FarmVille page.