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Liverpool, UK (preferred) or UK REMOTE (considered)

Error Creative Studio (http://www.errorstudio.co.uk), is a digital creative studio building websites, applications, dashboards and apps for lots of interesting clients, and we're developing our own products too. We'd love you to join us.

We are looking for a generalist Ruby and PHP developer who is comfortable with front-end development and sysadmin tasks. Our stack varies from project to project, but includes:

- Rails, Sinatra, Drupal, and Wordpress websites, deployed with Capistrano

- MySQL and MongoDB databases, with SOLR for search

- Ubuntu on our bare-metal servers, provisioned using Chef

- Front-end development using JQuery, LESS and the usual gamut of interesting libraries in Javascript and CSS

- Git for SCM

You'll be comfortable collaborating on a range of projects, taking the lead on technology choices, learning new things every day, and taking part in every area of the business. We are specifically looking for help with the development of a large Rails project, but there are always lots of other things going on - Skype bots, Wordpress sites, nascent ideas for mobile apps; if you have an idea, pitch it and make it happen!

We're a relaxed bunch, and working at Error is both interesting and fun. We're committed to investing in you, and you'll have the option of a share of the business after your first year of employment. We'll obviously be providing you with whatever hardware you need to do your job; we're Mac people but you can choose whatever you like.

Error's lovely studio is in Liverpool, but we'd certainly consider a UK-based remote employee.

If this appeals, get in touch with Ed Jones at ed@errorstudio.co.uk

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It will be MIT licensed, the flat file data will be exportable to JSON and RSS. Our app's core will be quite similar to Pico (http://pico.dev7studios.com), so have a look over there if you already want to get an idea of how theming will work (of course the rest will be different :)

Most sincerely,

Laurens
Practical Immortality - If Age is a Disease, Can we Cure it?
That's more like Harvard, Stanford level.
We don't need to mock vegans, so why should we mock Stallmans? Just live your life and ignore the meaningless fact that they think you're doing wrong according to their personal morality (after you explore the origin/reason for their lifestyle to the extent of your curiosity).
also $_POST

https://github.com/search?p=4&q=extension%3Aphp+%3C%3F%3...
It's a sign that the developer has had a fairly informal introduction to SQL. Personally I see no reason not to use the PDO extension in any situation where you would use mysql.
"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers and more efficacious"
Naveen is known for this. It's weird.
In the past I've mostly seen salaries offered (outside of expensive Hamburg or Munich) for a Sr. Software Engineer that are around €35-45k/year before tax.
"wget -rkp" works quite well for this. It would be even easier if you are the developer and have proper access to the site's resources.
A third, unstated, option is the most important: domain experience. Work in a field for a few years. Learn its pain points. Learn what drives people crazy. There's tons of broken things to be fixed. You don't have to invent a new industry. You simply have to do something faster, or cheaper, or higher in quality.
Greedy for what? That's why I decided to exit the rat race to some extent.

Look: I can understand working 80 hour work weeks for art, for something you really care about. I also might work like that if I thought I could really get rich-- if I owned the business or owned a big stake in it (and trusted my partners not to screw me out of it). But the tech scene is increasingly neither of these things-- it's making mediocre crap for hustlers. It's making junk that does nothing to advance the human condition.

I've also found that beyond a certain level possessions do not affect happiness much.
Something that really gets lost in our rush to learn how things are done, is the ethical implications of whether we should do something. I thought this article provided some things to think about, particularly on why it is important to become as well-rounded as possible, and not just in computer languages.
Thanks for the kind words.

1- About hitching myself to great growing clients -- I think it's important to help them grow. In a way, either consulting pays for one's learning/growth, or VC funding can, or bootstrapping can.

2- According to some in my life, sometimes I treat my clients too well, to a fault. But clients have turned into friends, and a few even mentors..

3- Delivering more value than what you're paid = your cost doesn't matter as much.
I won't argue that Clinton was great like JFK, or even Reagan, but when fishing for great Western leaders of the past thirty years is there anyone else who comes out better?

Blair on the other hand led the reformation of the Labour party and made them electable again, whilst mainaining Britain's standing on the world stage, far from a puppet actually.
Yes, but if nobody trusts them then they would suddenly find life very difficult.
That's assuming the government or certain agencies like NSA wouldn't already try to get Google to abuse that power in their favor, and be a very willing partner for them.

But the thing is Google has been one of the companies that has actively fought the hardest against such government abuses.

Others on the other hand are more than willing to do it. How long did it take Microsoft to brag to the Chinese authorities that they are on the Chinese government's side, just so they can gain 1% market share if Google was banned from China? A whole week? What about the partnership to create the surveillance tool that is TOM-Skype?

So yes, I think we could do much, much worse than Google.
There are loads of companies already doing this, at least in the UK. They find the holes and you fix them.
Yes. He started some great stuff. I don't see what a list of what amounts to MyFace "likes" adds to that. What matters is the great stuff.
Yes. They are referred to as "reflective" or "non-persistent" XSS vulnerabilities. The attacker might exploit these using for example an "invisible" iframe on a different website, and thus loading the vulnerable website, in the background, with the desired parameters.
This will result in the malicious javascript being executed "on the vuln. website", in the victims browser.

This (http://web.math.jjay.cuny.edu/fcm791/web2.0_Vulnerabilities....) is a pretty good paper (jump to page 7) if you are interested.
The downside is that to make it meaningful, he’d also have to move his mother, and with her medical condition(s), it seems very unlikely she’d be granted permanent residency on that basis.

I immigrated to Canada 15 years ago; I’m pretty sure that I would not be eligible to immigrate today with how the Harper Government has gamed the immigration system. :|
Show HN: echoplexus, real-time anonymous chat, collab. JS REPL, and whiteboard
Are there any decent alternatives to the Facebook/Messenger apps for the iPhone?
Not quite. "While both tropical cyclones and tornadoes are atmospheric vortices, they have little in common."

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/L1.html
One word: value. You earn what you deliver, deliver more and you will earn more (provided that you can price your work fairly).

I don't get why people start conversations with asking about money - money is merely a derivative of the value you deliver and your marketing skills in convincing people that you really deliver that value.
Yes that would be a good outcome for kids whose Parents try Pleygo. Not so good for Pleygo.
Java Thread Swarms
Glad to see Houston representing!
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a woman in high heels stamping on a man's face — forever.

In 5-10 years, feminism has won. Women are the primary breadwinners and providers of >50% of American households[1]

Then what? Women dominates, and the rule of Men with Logic has been replaced with the rule of Women and Emotion. Feminism is flawed - it is a train crash in slow motion.

Kids, remember where you read this first. In 10 years you'll read it again. And again.

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a185746-c869-11e2-acc6-00144feab7...
Is there anything wrong with using the Google Search app? I haven't used QR codes very much, but it's seemed fine for when I have.
Moving to another country carries considerable costs for most people. However, at some point the difference in health care costs will probably be even larger. I'm a Canadian citizen and the only thing that lets me sleep comfortably while medical costs here skyrocket is the idea that I may be able to get my family into Canada in the future if I need to. That's still not guaranteed, however. Most countries don't just let you waltz in and start working.
I make around $70k right now as a junior developer around 20 years old. It's pretty good for the country I am living in. Here in the northern Europe engineers are very underpaid if you compare with maybe Germany or USA.

I have around 1 year of real work experience before I got this job. I hope that I will make $200k some day but I recognize that it probably won't come too soon. Although I value time off more than money in my hand if I'm working for someone else.
I guess one of the reasons is that it's much easier to fix those problems than to find them.
Cigital does exactly this and more. We've even got a plugin for Eclipse that will provide suggestions on secure coding for Java.

Info about the QA/Security Consulting:
http://www.cigital.com/services/

Secure coding plugin -
http://www.cigital.com/products/secureassist/
Looks like Code Climate is providing an automated service like this for Rails apps: https://codeclimate.com/security-monitor
No. Effective drugs don't need big marketing budgets. Why? Because they are effective. And health care is market is with fixed demand. If your drug is best in class everyone with this condition will take it. They will go with second third line of defense drugs only if the primary is not suitable in the case (side effects/other conditions).

And if you want to boost the sales of your second line drug convincing people it is the best you are actively hurting the patients.
> From chatter with recruiters and friends, your best change of getting into a hedge fund is through personal contacts. Can you confirm this theory?

During the period I worked for a hedge fund, no one we employed came from a personal connection. They did have stellar CVs with very good academic or industrial track records though.
fortunately I have apathy for VCs regardless of where they went to college
The demographic analysis I'm referring to is income growth over time by income level.
You are underpaid :(.
The misogyny in the article's comments section is shocking and depressing.
Yes, you need to use your best judgement. I would spend at least a year at each place depending how good it is. I think changing 4-5 jobs before you turn 30 is good enough, would've looked weirder when you are 40. It should come across as normal during interviews as well. How do you know you are doing what you really want/should be doing if you did not try multiple things? How do you know if a small/mid/large company is your favourite environment? Have a story/plan and have some achievements at each place, always leave on good terms. PS: contractors move around at least once a year on average and it is considered normal (unfair).
In what way is "Don't be Evil" a value of Google's? I mean, they're not going to get up one day and start shooting children with sniper rifles, I guess, but that's not their business anyway. Their business is making tons of money by collecting information both public and personal, and accruing power and influence for the benefit of their money-making as well as for the personal gratification of their top executives (because that's what people do). Do you think that when they see an opportunity to further one of these two goals the Googlers say, "but before we do that, let's stop and think long and hard about the ramifications of what we're about to do, and whether that action can be considered evil?" No, they don't. They do it, and then, if it does turn out to be evil, they explain why it really isn't. They wouldn't do it only if so many people would consider it to be evil that it would turn into a serious PR issue for them. So really, "Don't be Evil" is a motto at Google, but it's not a value. Their true value, if corporations can even have such a thing at all, is "Don't be So Conspicuously Evil That People Hate Us and Stop Trusting Us With Their Private Information or Too Afraid of Us To Let Us Benignly Spy On Them All the Time".

And as for blackmail, who's to say it's not already happening? But even if the Googlers don't personally blackmail anyone to advance their own goals, how hard would it be for a crime organization to put a Google employee on their payroll? I don't know what kind of security they hav at Google, and chances are it's the wrong kind[1].

[1]: http://xkcd.com/538/
It's not so much that they're paying for a C++ developer, they're paying for a C++ developer (or C#/Java/whatever developer) with a certain set of skills.

The sort of developers that get well paid in finance (it should be noted that there's a vast range of dev salaries in banking depending on the sort of roles being worked in with Quants, Quant/Devs and Front Office developers being very much at the top of the pile) are those that have Masters or PhDs in Maths and work on pricing algorithms, those who work on high frequency type applications, those who have enough maths that they can turn algorithms into solid applications that can't fall over during the trading day (i.e. solid, highly optimised software), or those who can interact with the trading desks and build anything which helps the desk make more money. One thing they'll all have in common as well is a large amount of domain knowledge about the (financial) products that they work on, as well as the ability to work in environment which are often noisy and stressful. Anyone who needs their own office and a quiet environment in order to get into the zone and hack on some code is not going to thrive at a bank.
Thank you very much for trying it out and, I agree, I have a lot more work to do. As always, the devil's in the details - and having those details pointed out is a great way to move forward!
Graphs of pressure data over Oklahoma City crowdsourced with Android sensors
And for examples not limited to github http://searchcode.com/?q=mysql_query%20%24_GET%20lang%3APHP
What about all the ones you're not talking to?
And I would expect no less. Considering the travel card (anywhere between 1.6-3k year) and the cost of living (at least 1-1.5K/month. How can anyone honestly expect someone to work for less than 60k, even as a mid tier dev?

I hear so many companies that whine about the lack of perm developers then go ahead and hire a contract dev at 500/day. That is the market at play, if our city cannot pay our developers enough to sustain a reasonable standard of living then they wont work.

Honestly I'm glad to see it. The more developers that follow the market (contracting) the better. Hopefully that'll wake a few people up and we'll see salaries start hitting the numbers that are needed to live in this over priced city.

That said, if I WFH 100% 50-60k would be fantastic but that's not acceptable these days.

</rant>
The problem of various "revolutions" is that we no longer have great leaders. There are influental leaders, but none truly great ones.

Good. We don't need "Great leaders", in the sense of how most people use that term (that is, political leaders). We just need people to be free to do what they do best - live, love, learn, play, grow, work, build, create and dream without arbitrary restrictions and constraints imposed through force.

Having "leaders" who "lead" by being influential, outspoken, visionary, etc. is another thing. I'd call somebody like Elon Musk a "leader" in this regard, but he isn't forcing anybody to do anything.

I'm not a big fan of Nick Saban, but back when he was coach of the NFL's Miami Dolphins he was asked once about needing more leaders on defense. He said something like "We are looking for wolves, not sheep. We want every player on defense to be a leader, not somebody who's looking for a sheepdog to guide them around and lead them." That, to me, gets to the heart of the matter: We should all be leaders in our way.

I struggle to name three great present-time politicians.

That's OK, I struggle to name a single "great politician", ever. In fact, I consider the term to be an oxymoron.
Tried to buy it and your paypal doesn't work.
Why do we need great political leaders? Where are they leading us and why should we follow those who have an appetite for so much power? People should think for themselves and follow their own convictions and espouse true virtue, not get carried away with the mythology and worship of politicians. Great political leaders are like super heroes in movies and comics: they're a cheap, vicarious substitute for being a leader (or hero) in your own life.
Laptop: HP Probook 4530s, upgraded to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 128GB Plextor M3 SSD. Windows 8 Pro + Ubuntu 12.10 in VMWare Workstation.

Desktop: Silverstone SG06BB, 8GB DDR3-1600, 256GB Crucial m4 SSD + 320GB Samsung 2.5" HDD, EVGA GTX 650 Ti graphics. Windows 7 Ultimate + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in VMWare Workstation.
replace yoga by any other sport taken seriously(ie. competitively or almost competitively), any instrument or basically anything humans learn in general, and the only thing that changes is the temperature(although that also highly depends on where in the world you do it)

I've been doing martial arts for 18 years and i could say exactly the same.

What is more fascinating in my opinion is that what you're describing is a tiny bit of what is known as sports psychology, which in turn is very close to what is observed in military combat psychology, which in turn is very closely related to entrepreneurship in general.

my point is that while i think that it's good that you wrote down your experience, and the emotional connection to it, what you're describing is in no way specific to yoga.
Oh, I missed that! Sorry, I remembered this link from before, but I must have first learned about it during hurricane season instead of tornado season.

Long story short: go ahead and nuke the tornadoes!
Or bit.ly/shortener links - you got it. I used to think like you did - what harm is there in 'exploiting' my own browser? Took a while for the penny to drop in my case.
Awesome.

Is there a way to overlay the price? Also, it may be because it has just launched, but it would be cool to see a longer history with overlaid price.

Why stop at bitcoin? I'm sure the infrastructure you've developed can adapt to different keywords (company/product names).
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Your comment didn't address any of my points. Your 'finite window of opportunity', besides being completely unjustified and probably wrong on a long-term time-scale, does not relate to overpopulation rather than, say, Peak Oil, and you ignored my point that the risk simply isn't there due to the demographic transition - which makes your claim that "Increasing population, especially in the developed world, consumes resources faster" simply wrong because places like Japan or South Korea (developed countries by any measure) are projecting decreases in population soon, and even the USA is growing mostly due to immigration.
Where do you draw the line for what domains we should expect software engineers to be able to move between, then?
Who upvotes irrelevant junk like this?
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hmmm, not impressed by your 'help'. i contacted you a couple of months ago and only received the initial default response to push over my resume and info and never got a reply once i sent it over. pretty poor way to communicate and start a business.