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Palo Alto, CA - full-time, SurveyMonkey, Mobile Software Engineer

We are seeking a seasoned mobile developer to become the first hire in our brand-spanking-new mobile team to help define, design and support our growing communication applications. As a developer you will work closely with other talented mobile developers and designers to drive the evolution and expansion of our current applications portfolio into new technology areas and market segments.

What I'm looking for:

* Direct experience building mobile applications for iOS and/or Android.

* Bonus points for building apps that enhance the user experience for a high traffic website or online property.

* Experience working with backend APIs and making improvements to them as necessary. We are a Python shop on the backend (Pyramid web-framework for those interested).

Email me (doug [AT] surveymonkey [DOT] com ) or apply via this job link if interested: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oRq7Wfw4&s=Doug

We also have lots of other jobs openings! Check them out and an overview of our company/culture at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/jobs/

About SurveyMonkey

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SurveyMonkey is the world's leading provider of web-based survey solutions, but there's really much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period. We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the insights and information they need to make better, more informed decisions.

We're also proud to admit that despite our incredible growth over the past 10 years, we refuse to grow up. We are still small and nimble; everyone plays an impactful role; and when we say good ideas can come from anyone, we mean it.

SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and organizations of all shapes and sizes. In any given month, we collect more than 40 million survey responses from people in all countries around the world.

If this sounds like home to you, and you're ready to make your work matter to millions, we'd love to meet you.
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Waiting patiently for memescout...
Trying to hire rockstars is a waste of time.

You should hire someone if they will create more value than it costs to employ them. That's it. It is irrational to do anything otherwise.

So many SV companies seem obsessed with creating islands of purity.
Right, but you'd also need a CC tied to that billing address, one that will presumably be billed monthly, so not a one-time throw-away. So you need a CC and a private mailbox service in every city you want to see TV. But that is really just circumventing the must-live-in-service-area rule, so subject to being found out and cut off.

The limitation on transmitting copyrighted works essentially creates a geographical monopoly with respect to television. Even if you could fly to another city and watch TV for free there, it is a copyright violation for a company to send you the signal from an antenna there. That's also why the Zediva rent-a-DVD-remotely was struck down: even if you own or rent the equipment, it seems illegal for the company to transmit the copyrighted work to you.

The ruling in the Aereo case gets around this because they limit their transmission to people who get the exact same free-to-air signal. There is still a transmission (which is what the dissenting judge based his argument upon), but the practical effect of getting the same content you would get otherwise seems to have prevailed, fortunately.

IANAL so I don't know how accurate that all is, but it's the understanding I've gotten from reading around.
The article states "law is perhaps the only field where being a pessimist is actually an advantage", but I actually find this is an attribute that programmers and lawyers share. In developing code, one is always trying to think of all the possible inputs and outputs includes the unintended corner cases in order to write robust code.

I would say the two professions are more alike than credit is given, and working as a programmer in a lawyer-heavy firm, I've often been told by those in the legal profession that programmers have the ability to think logically stepwise through law more clearly than others.
I think the Tesla 10-K contains an important and under-reported portion in its Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Pricewaterhouse Coopers states, "Also in our opinion, the Company did not maintain, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of
December 31, 2012 [. . . ]"

This is a huge red flag for publicly-traded companies, and almost never appears in a 10-K.
I thought you were giving out LOANS
I'm a 3rd generation Soldier that was in the Army for a decade, what you are describing is called toxic leadership, and it destroys organizations. Slowly, the military is starting to admit that its ineffective when your subordinates aren't a bunch of mouth breathing illiterates.

Also, most Soldiers are loyal because most people who aren't already patriotic wouldn't have much of a reason to go through all the bullshit. Anyone who thinks that you can get brainwashed by 9 weeks of mild exercise and ass-chewings delivered by a group of regular people who are paid to pretend that they are mad at you must have had a pretty easy life. Basic training is the codecademy of military discipline.
Because it's not as fun as physically rolling the dice. There's not much additional gain to writing down the score on a piece of paper versus keeping score on an app tailored towards the game.
For anybody interested, I've got a browser plugin ready for streaming the sensor data, and will finish the implementation as soon as my kit arrives

https://github.com/grimwire/ohmd-plugin
> I would be somewhere between indifferent and disappointed if one of my friends settled for a job at any of those companies.

I think this is emblematic of what I'm encountering: Joining Google is "settling." When I was in college, Google was at its peak, and I was very attracted to Google both because of the amazing work it did and the deep technical challenges it solved.

What I'm concerned with today is that, due to whatever cause, Google fatigue is needlessly costing me friends and respect. I don't think of myself as a Google employee, I see myself as an educated, capable engineer who happens to work for Google at the moment. I have actually received disrespect in social settings for this. Why do people take PR missteps and apply them to me as a professional?
The brain didn't evolve to address the struggles of today. My ancestors weren't trying to stay mentally engaged to a computer screen for eight hours at a time.
There is no particular difference between a web "site" and a web "app", they are both very broad definitions that usually boil down to the same thing - very vanilla CRUD database operations (create, read, update, delete) behind a pretty page.

The difference between Heroku and most web hosts is what happens when your requirements increase.

With a conventional web host you will scale vertically which means at each growth milestone you move up to the next plan eg starting on a $5 basic shared plan and eventually growing up to the $10 and $20 and $50 and $100 per month plans and finally separate db and web servers.

With Heroku you design your application to scale horizontally so you add more capacity (dynos) and that capacity means you can support x% more traffic unless other bottlenecks get in the way like database load which Heroku and many of their partners also provide in scalable fashions.
Then I think I misunderstood the point your post - I hope you can see how it could happen. And I am probably yet another example of exactly what you were trying to warn against - people on the Internet talking past one another.

I think we actually agree overall. Leaders should be chosen as best we can by merit and we should seek to expand the pool as best we can.

This brings up another idea I wonder about: If choosing leaders is so hard can we somehow reduce our dependence on them? Put another way can we move to a more emergent approach to organizing ourselves rather than depending some "leader" to decide how we should be organized?
How automatic is automatic?

My brother went to Harvard, partly because their financial aid offer was best, and I recall my father cursing the required forms. He's a lawyer, so ordinary legalese doesn't phase him, but he found those troublesome. Now I imagine a family without a JD in it, or even without a BA in it, trying to fill them out...
Hand waving is pretty much the one currency every school of political economy deals in.

I used to be a fully dressed libertard. But the world is too complex for any one humanly comprehensible theory to completely explain. Writing software for a living brought that home. When I got around to reading Hayek, I felt like I was revisiting familiar territory.

I realised that I was doing the same thing as the various lefties I'd mocked during student politics were doing: replacing reality with purity. The cornercase arguments for any strict ideology are always hilarious.

I fully expect that if Rothbardian libertarians were given dictatorial powers tomorrow, they'd buggerise it as much as the communists did.
Good for you. I'm in the middle of a similar career shift. I studied food science in college with bright-eyed dreams of entering food product development. Instead, I ended up a front-line supervisor at a factory and it was the most miserable experience. I knew I was good at programming and I was obsessed with it as a young kid, but it was never something that I felt was "cool" to study and none of my friends did anything like that. (Girls don't like computers, that stuff's for nerds! And I still felt like that in college, even at a heavily engineering school.)

It makes me really happy to see other women become programmers after other careers. We aren't alone!
Also, because people have relatively slow reactions. A computer could do much better, of course, and still preserve a reasonable amount of safety.
It should also be mentioned that downtown San Jose is far from bereft of interesting things. Museums, restaurants, and other college students abound.
Are you arguing that given such, I have more than 63 bits for the number, or do you just have a problem with the usage of the words "sign flag"?
I actually agree with making game-y stuff just for fun, because it allows you to think up and build rather intricate architectures real quick. It's hard to make a game as a newbie and not have it turn into spaghetti as you keep making it more complex, but it's also no biggie, and you get to learn how to recognize those things, what to improve etc. Practice with games, when you become more confident make applications; to me that makes sense? Playing games may be a shallow pastime, but making one can become more hardcore than one imagined real quickly. Just about anything in programming you could mention, certainly all the "pedestrian" things, could theoretically be put in a game - but a game can also be just two rectangles and one circle, and in that spectrum, and the absence of even the pretense of being useful, lies a great opportunity for experimentation and learning.

Make a simple clone of a game or application or graphical effect you adore, and go from there. There's still plenty of opportunity to suck the fun out of it later :P
> I hear this argument a lot, but no nation that we know of has ever collapsed because of deflation, right?

The Weimar Republic, arguably.
I never experienced much bad traffic in NYC, at least nothing compared to Beijing at 9PM.
"Why Nerds are Unpopular" was always my least favorite of the pg essays. The thought "Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart" is arrogant. I don't think nerdiness implicitly makes the things you do more important or smarter. Being bullied in school is undeniably wrong and hurtful, but claiming it's evidence of your intelligence or that you're above social "games" is silly. Even nerds bully, and seek some form of status the essay claims nerds aren't.

And is it really true? It's certainly possible to be well liked and smart, and I don't think intelligence implies that you lack social skills. It's more true that certain levles of nerdiness causes a lack of social skills.
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Yes, but not all the time. It depended on the situation. Sometimes I would go to bed at 10:30pm and wake at 3:00am and take some. I would do that for a couple days in a row (that didn't last long). Or I would stay up late then wake up at a normal time and take some. Most of the time I would sleep 8 hours and I would just take some because I would stay alert and focused all day (this most likely occurred on a Friday).
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Internship (Software Engineering)
J-1 OK

http://www.mytime.com/

MyTime is Amazon for the services industry, helping people find and book services online. We're a small, but fast-growing company with funding from the likes of Mark Suster, Dave McClure and many others. We also have a base of over 1200 businesses, growing everyday. It's the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to learn on the job and work at a fast-moving startup, and help us try to hack our way to success.

We're looking for a self-directed, generalist software engineer, with some experience developing web applications. All 4 engineers at MyTime are full-stack, and we expect you to be as well. You should be well-versed in HTML/CSS/JS, as well as server-side web application development. Our main web application is built on Ruby on Rails, so experience with Ruby and/or Rails is preferred, but if you are familiar with something like Django or Sinatra instead, you should still apply! You should also have some experience with an SQL database of any kind.

Email us at "jobs" at you know what. Make sure you let us know about any projects you've done.
Learning Programming By Persuasion
They're not useless. I discard any application I get that doesn't have a cover letter. I'm WAY more interested in your cover letter than your resume as it tells me a lot more about you than your dot-point-resume will ever tell me.

To be fair, the job ads I place specifically tell you what to put in a cover letter. So if you reply without one, then it's a super quick filter to see that you didn't even read the ad.

If you don't want the job enough to read the ad, I don't want you enough to read your resume.
1. As by the peacock, "fitness" is not the same as our everyday use of fitness (certainly a bird that spends most of it's energy on giant butt feathers is not fit in the traditional sense, but does have a sexually selective advantage) and is certainly not meritocratic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl#Evolution_and_sexual_se...

2. Consider the tragedies of the commons that often occur in nature. It is the structural arrangement of the system or colony which is disastrous but any individual organism within that system. http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1713/version/1
Yeah, it's also possible that I considered that and disagree with you. I'm not saying that everyone will prefer keeping score on paper, but some people really do and some other people will appreciate not having an iPhone on the table when they play a dice game.
I also thought this was interesting as well...it's incredibly subtle in pacman, but it makes the end of a level much more frantic.

It seems to be a common idea at the time, IIR Asteroids (Nov 1979) did something similar with its two tone Jaws-alike soundtrack.
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I've often thought that legal reasoning and thinking computationally are very close kin, being the only two vocations with the job description of "logician" so to me this just sounds like a very reasonable lateral move—albeit, one with more challenges than most. I wish the OP luck... although I think excellent software engineering requires a healthy dose of pessimism too.

Sidenote: Charles Stross explores the intersection of computation and law (and many other ideas) in Accelerando (think, as the Singularity takes hold, sentient business plans with Turing complete articles of incorporation rule the ball of mostly dust that used to be the solar system). It's a free and enjoyable ebook:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
More or less. It looks like my only options are Evolution or Thunderbird with a pair of extensions (Lightning + SOGo Connector).
Congratulations HN for upvoting Big Pharma propaganda nonsense.
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This project was originally called Testacular. I was little confused at first, thinking it was a late and flat April fool's joke.
Growing Tomatoes
Not quite what you mentioned, but somewhat relevant: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/22/intense-prep-for-l...
> The bottom line is, people have fallen out of love with Google because Google is no longer different.

By "people" do you mean the absolute height of the technological elite? The startup-founding, meetup-attending, venture capital funding-acquiring geniuses that apparently make the tech world go round? In that case, yes, Google is no longer the darling of the tech world, but rather just another large, profitable business with a solid bottom line and a horde of (presumably gullible) employees. To them, my working there is a sign that I'm too risk-averse and boring to ever be successful in their little patch of the knowledge economy.

But to the people who matter most, i.e. the people who interact with the mass of products Google puts out, the company is still quite positive. I find it difficult to believe that such intelligent people as the technorati are willing to lose faith in any company that does meaningful work that positively impacts massive amounts of people.

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely trying to understand this. Is it the search for novelty? Is it the loss of connection to some ideal? Is it just part of a company growing up?
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While humans may, in general, side with you, I think it is sad that a favorable comparison with others could make one more happy than a healthy and poverty free life.
Weren't a nerd in school, then, were you?
> the best buildings are no architecture

The example of architecture is a good one.

Of course, there is something to be said for the medium as art. That is, form for its own sake.

Function-only is also short-sighted, as it demeans the environment.

However, I would argue that the best architecture is hyper-rational, derived from raw need, and designed with a skill of an artisan. The real art is fulfilling the need and looking good doing it.
Interesting Rothbard is actually a fascist, like a real fascist of the old school. He just usually dresses his fascism up in the pretty colors of capitalism but he choose not to do so in the following essay in which he:

* "dog whistles" racism and sexism,

* advocates a police state beyond the rule of law "Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.",

* and extreme nationalism.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html

>I fully expect that if Rothbardian libertarians were given dictatorial powers tomorrow, they'd buggerise it as much as the communists did.

Yes, I imagine so.
Trying to figure out how to scroll was a great game. Page down? Nope. Down arrow? Nope.
You may as well be insuring cigars against arson.
I was also under the impression that Dropbox uses S3, but then I read this article in Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-cent...

"But if you walk into the right building and down the right aisle, you’ll run into a giant Dropbox logo. Clearly, the file-sharing upstart is proud of its data center gear. [...] Inside its cage, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs — super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn’t use SSDs in all its servers, but it’s moving in that direction."
It was a relatively minor split. I mean a split where nobody can tell what's what. That would pretty much end this experiment.
There's nothing "wrong" with working at Google and you can bet every friend of yours joining or starting a startup secretly hopes your employer bails their asses out when their seed money expires.

While google makes very public, very loud decisions that people dislike you're going to be held accountable for it. Their decisions impact 100,000,000s of people, the ones you know are going to bust your balls for it.

Anyone who literally doesn't want to be your friend because you work at Google is a douche.
This is interesting, but very low on detail. For example, was another modis product used for clouds or was it based on a simple EVI/water cloud mask? Is this MOD09A1, 500m or 250m? Lastly, why or how is this MODIS layer going to compliment existing Landsat or DigitalGlobe?
Please do not propagate that "rockstar" word. Recruiters are bad enough as it is.
A tech article where 2x performance gains in 4-5 years is considered a stretch. Oddly...refreshing.
roadtovr appears to be taking a beating. Mirrors?
Uh... when I downloaded the new update it specifically mentioned this gesture and suggested I "try it myself!"

That was months ago.
It's hard for an outsider to tell what the right answer is, so a few basic questions you would need to answer are:

Is there a culture of working offsite at the company? Are there other people doing this in your department? Does your job involve interaction with others, and is this interaction mission critical in the eyes of your employer? Are you a really a self starter and is the nature of your work that of a Lone Ranger? Is your employer really pleased with your work? And are you ready to get a new job if this isn't the case?

Also is the person who interviewed you who said this someone that you are working for now? And was it put in writing? Or was it something just said?
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Except they didn't ask you to come to the table. They told you to stop doing potentially illegal things. In my mind, it is correct for the burden to be on the business to comply and advocate, not break regulations first and ask for new ones later.

I totally see how "re-imagining" an official letter to can be construed as arrogant. It makes it seem like you think the rules doen't apply to you. That's the impression I got when reading your post. When authority tells you to stop, deflecting the response into humor doesn't seem very mature. I remember being a kid and making fun of my dad who was getting angry at something I did, but it only happened once due to the consequences.

FWIW, I also support peer-to-peer driving arrangements, and more transparent access to regulated markets, but I also don't think kicking the hornet's nest and laughing about it will work.