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Kaiserslautern Germany, Software Engineer at Aircloak - REMOTE

My name is Sebastian, and I am the CTO at Aircloak.
Aircloak is a young and well-funded startup working on privacy preserving data processing and analytics.
We are a spinout from the German Max-Planck Institute for Software System research institute, where we also currently have our offices.

Our technology allows us to process highly private streams of data and only ever make fully anonymous data available to our customers.
One of the features that make our system unique is that no one, including operators, customers, and ourselves, ever has access to the sensitive raw data. This property holds true even after we update the software running on the machines processing the sensitive data!

You should:

- be intelligent
- have a good sense of humour
- be an amazing programmer
- wish to change the world

Our system spans many machines and services, with major components written in Erlang and Java, in addition to components written in C, C# and ruby. Knowledge of functional programming is a plus. Experience with web development is not going to hurt either.

We are:

- recent University of Cambridge graduates
- one director at the Max-Planck Institute

The work environment is highly international and diverse, and we would like to keep it that way.
We are looking to hire two more full time engineers. You can either work on site with us in our offices in Kaiserslautern, Germany, or, for the right candidate, remote. We offer good and stable salary, generous equity and great facilities.

We hope to hear from you. Please email us at jobs@aircloak.com if you have any questions!

You can find more on our website: http://www.aircloak.com/join.html
Why would you think users would see through that stuff? The app developer may care. I don't see any reason why any users would put in the effort to investigate the authenticity of reviews on some random app.
One example would be this:

> If you misspell a variable [...], you discover this at run time. Ouch.

CL-USER> (defun square (n) (* nn n)) ;; Ouch! nn isn't defined!

; in: DEFUN SQUARE
; (* NN N)
;
; caught WARNING:
; undefined variable: NN
;
; compilation unit finished
; Undefined variable:
; NN
; caught 1 WARNING condition
SQUARE
> I guess a free Firefox OS phone would be great for homeless or families too poor to afford a decent phone.

Or people who value freedom over eyecandy. Or people with principles and ideals. And maybe even people who can see outside the San Francisco hipster smug.

People with long term visions, like the people who originally created the WWW had. We definitely need more people like that and we need the tech crowd to support them.

Your comment adds nothing of value.
Banyan (http://banyan.co) is seeking a Full Stack Rubyist to join our team. We're looking for a versatile engineer who wants to join the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges. We are based in Chattanooga, TN, but you can be anywhere.

You:

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You have a MS/PhD & have published research during your time in academia.

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You are comfortable with HTML5 (Haml), CSS (Sass), and JS (Backbone).

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize science.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.

Salary is dependent on experience & ability. We will pay for relocation if you're interested. Compensation package included. To apply contact toni (at) banyan.co, or tweet me @twogiraffes
>> And here is that insidious problem; all your unit tests have frozen the interaction of your components. They have copied the API of your components and distributed it all over your test code base.

This is what I hate about the unit-test everything approach. There seems to be a class of developers recently that believe robustness is more important than anything else.

Often speed bumps in changing API contracts is a higher price to pay [0] than the kind of bugs which unit testing uncovers.

There are lots of things which are good in small quantities and very bad in large quantities [1].

Better to be able to iterate quickly, spot a few bugs with sparse unit tests and completely rewrite your small components if they no longer fit the bill. There is a tendency (perhaps with those too familiar with large corporates) to try to de-risk with more and more robustness tests. With all of this robustness monolithic software flourishes, and you eventually lose the ability to iterate quickly; the ability to destroy and start anew.

[0] Form does not follow function, form is interdependent with function. Make the functionality robust and you make the form rigid! How will you find product-market fit when you are unable to move?!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
Not sure if you're trolling or just don't understand what tests are actually supposed to test.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Mobile apps! iPhone! iPad! Android!

I was (and still am) a web developer but now I'm trying to build up my mobile portfolio and get things rolling in that direction. To that end, I am offering complete design & development of iOS or Android apps from $2000.

I say 'from' as it does depend on how mightily complex your app will be. We can also work out what can be done for the price if budget is an issue, though.

I put together a little site that explains things a bit more here:

http://www.2kapp.net

Either email me through that or my contact info is my profile. Thank!
I personally run JavaScript turned off by default, but I'm still ok with Mozilla's decision. I use NoSxript which provides the right functionality to do this, and anyone can download the add on. Completely disabling JavaScript for all sites breaks a ton of stuff and very, very few users would want to do that, hence no point in having it in the UI.
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Motorola Droid X2 sending cell use, app, password data to Motorola
Yeah, I'd be curious to see that too. However, end users don't usually care about hardware specs directly, they care about the end experience. And if you're pushing for a new platform right now, you have to really try and build an ecosystem around it as soon as possible by earning enough fans and developers to keep the platform sustainable. And as developers, I know we like to think we're rather objective about a technology's 'true' merits, but UX impacts our decisions too. So if Ubuntu ships their OS on hardware that will provide a better experience than any FFOS phone out there, Imma place my bets on the OS that shipped with the better overall UX out the gate (even if it's not as cheap initially). I mean, it's not like we didn't already see this partially play out with WebOS. Even Windows phones are struggling and they seem to have a really nice UX...
Furthermore, when this is implemented in ObjectiveC, the Apple app store will require all chicken-chicken-based apps to be fully cooked (and all eggs hard boiled).
Amicus (YC S12) is hiring Javascripters and Rubyists in NYC.

- We helped win marriage equality: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-soci...

- We're well funded: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/amicus/

- We work on interesting problems, for example: Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding

More details at http://jobs.amicushq.com/ or shoot an email with your github profile and why you might be a good fit to jobs+july@amicushq.com
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The problem is that Google frequently gets it wrong. A typical example: I was searching for a party's view of "wind turbines", and the second or third result was an article about that party's political "power" struggles. Bolded. Because wind turbine = power.

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.
I think you might be talking about http://www.appsurfer.com/
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SEEKING WORK - Norwich, UK and remote

I have 12 years professional experience building sites and applications with open source technologies. I am reliable, and get stuff done.

PHP, Perl | Laravel, CodeIgniter | MySQL, MongoDB

I often utilise Test Driven Development, and strive to produce clean, maintainable code.

More backend focused than front-end, but have good experience of working with standards-compliant HTML, CSS, JS as well as JQuery and D3.

http://www.glenscott.co.uk/

Available for part-time projects -- approximately 3 days a week.

You can e-mail me at glen@glenscott.co.uk
Most of those were for playing games that you couldn't reasonably play with more normal controllers, or at the very least you would be worse at with more normal controllers. There may well be games like that for this device too, but they aren't FPSs which is all anyone ever seems to talk about when describing it.

I think something less gamey and more second-lifey might have potential, but I don't think these will make much headway with hardcore FPS gamers.
Syntax error
Example usage:
chicken -chicken --chicken chicken > chicken
(This is like a written invitation to a language war.)
Perhaps they prepaid 25 years of domain charges?
Ready to run desktop Linux PC: MintBox 2
It's better to do the wrong thing quickly.
Jeff Jonas' IBM Skunk Works Project: Privacy by Design (PbD)
In short, you imply the world's gone nuts and wants Turing-complete languages to be a strict requirement just to be able to display formatted text (with embedded multimedia objects).
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On Windows Phone 8? I've been using Windows Phone since the launch of WP7 and I've never heard of a competitor's browser being allowed, nor of a decision to change this. Windows 8 possibly, but the OP seems to be confused between the two because Windows 8 doesn't run on anything ARM made by Nokia.
> because the real cost is having to build and maintain the different versions of the site.

Personally I don't block javascript that comes from the same domain as the page. Just 3rd party stuff.

This cuts out the majority of the garbage while still letting most sites work. (I've whitelisted a bunch on CDNs.)
There is one point to his credit, and this seems to actually be his one and only priority:
The Affordable Care Act.
He realy stuck his neck out for this. And I think it is a laudable effort.
It is true of other dynamic languages and there isn't any way to fix that.
Want to hack the body and brain?

Neumitra is hiring full-time hardware and web engineers to join our founding team. We build wearable, mobile technologies to use data from your biology to transform how we all live, work, and play.

Email us hello@neumitra.com

We look for people who love building things, strive for craftsmanship, and use data to iterate. Founded by a neuroscientist (me!), a rocket scientist, and a biotechnology engineer, we aim to control our own destiny with a dedicated, like-minded team.

Boston, MA at Copley
JGraph Ltd (www.jgraph.com) is hiring senior JavaScript developers to work both our core JavaScript diagramming application, mxGraph, and our main example, draw.io (www.draw.io).

You will need strong skills developing complex JavaScript web applications, as well as good knowledge of SVG (VML would be useful, but optional). The work is pure JavaScript only, if you're hoping for CoffeeScript and the like, forget that here.

As a company we built the first native JavaScript diagramming library back in 2006 and have grown steadily as a company since then focusing tightly on this single technology.

This job is REMOTE only, but we're based in Europe (WET and CET). Your location isn't a critical issue, but lining up with our time zones is, i.e. being East of us and working late or West of us and getting up early are options.

Apply to jgraphjobs@jgpd.com
SEEKING WORK:

I just added a second developer to my one-man consultancy, so we're available for new projects. We only do full-time work, so we're able to provide you with the same level of service you expect from salaried employees, but with the pay-as-you-go flexibility of contract employees.

We do web development (Rails and Django) and dev-ops (with Chef) and are based in NYC. On-site is preferred.

http://leknarflabs.com/. Please excuse the placeholder images, it's a new website and we haven't decided on an art direction yet.

andrew [at] leknarflabs.com
Like someone else mentioned, they are essentially cheat sheets. Very useful if you already know some other programming language.

I especially like pages that map the features of one programming language to another (that I already know). The recent AlloyUI post was an example comparing it to jQuery and YUI: http://alloyui.com/rosetta-stone/

And also see Rosetta Code http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
That certainly looks expensive.
I'll bite. What are tests supposed to test?
So imagine you're playing half life or something and then you realize that you have to go way back over half the level because you've forgotten something. Are you going to walk? Or imagine you get to a difficult part of the level and you realize that this would be so much easier with a keyboard and mouse. How many times will you retry before you give up and go and sit at your desk?
London, UK. Full-time Ruby / Rails Developers

globaldev.co.uk are the team behind the worlds leading social discovery and dating company.

You'd be hard pushed to find another environment where you get to work on such a range of challenges. Everything from everyday web development, through to full on engineering on our RabbitMQ based email system that pushes out millions of emails every single day.

Our team regularly speak at various tech events and one of our engineers was one of the headline speakers at EuRuKo last weekend so you'll be working alongside engineers who actively participate in improving the Ruby community.

We have a development team based right next to Waterloo station in London and our HQ is in Windsor, Berkshire. We don't mind what office you choose to work in.

You can find a full job spec here: http://globalpersonals.theresumator.com/apply/3BSEPp/Ruby-En...

We're also on the lookout for a full-time, permanent developer in test to join our team so if you know anyone, send them my way.

Email me if you'd rather not apply on our site or if you just want to find out more about the role or the company: sbuckley@globaldev.co.uk
Not really. Cue the patent trolls!

Um, I mean patent chickens, of course.
Who downvoted this? And why?
I've also heard they can be turned on by the tower, even if the phone is off. The only way to be sure is to keep the battery removed.
Humans: the real threat to life on Earth
SEEKING WORK - New York.

Moving to NY today. Ready for any JavaScript and Node.js freelance work.

Http://webjay.github.com | jacob@webcom.dk
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Web dev & design. I hear that's kind of a unicorn thing?!

Recruiter-style bullet points (assume 25+ years on all of these if HR asks):

* PHP (Codeigniter, Cake, Zend, Symfony, Laravel...)

* HTML 5, CSS 3

* Javascript (yes - and jQuery too!)

Also add in git/mercurial, responsive-ness, PS, AWS, API-a-plenty & I'm picking up AngularJS too.

Some of the things I've worked on: e-comerce x 1000, Wordpress, vehicle tracking, MRP/CRM/EMS/TLA, iOS apps... plus a load more.

My site: http://pitbot.net

Happy to discuss anything and talk through my previous work and whatnot.

I'm in the UK.
Hmm...that wasn't the intention. I actually would like to have such a language...
New NSA agent position: cellphone vendor!
First talked about this Linux admin course here at HN almost a year ago...
I have used the old refactoring browser in VisualWorks. It was cool for its time. I's pathetic compared to modern refactoring tools for static-typed languages.
India's $35 Aakash 4 Tablet Specifications Out: To Run on Android & Ubuntu
2x Developers - Denver, Colorado

Rocket Software will be hiring 2 developers to help us develop an exciting new product in the database industry.

Aside from Java/GWT and Python skills, we are looking for someone with an eye for UX design. Being knowledgeable on both relational and NoSQL databases is a plus. You should have some familiarity with Linux/Unix environments along with Windows.

For you, software and technology isn't just a job, it's a calling. We're looking for someone who's passionate about creating great technology.

You'll be working in our Denver Tech Center office with expensive views of the Rocky Mountains from the 11th floor. Rocket Software gives some great benefits: http://goo.gl/Ry5jG

I'll post a link to the official job posting once we have ti up today or tomorrow, although as I'm the hiring manager you could also contact details in my profile.
Pidgin is predominantly developed for Linux, where they would have to support Gnome, KDE and probably at least one other mechanism. Sure, that could be done, but it is a lot of work to do that sensibly on all platforms, and, more importantly, of questionable sense: I would classify the logs of my conversation as much more relevant to a potential attacker than the mere password to my XMPP account.
You are both technically correct and at the same time do not have an idea of what you are talking about. The break even point for these algorithm is so huge that even at say Google scale it does not matter. Data access latency plays an overwhelmingly more important role.
San Francisco CA – Full Time – Technical Lead (VP of Engineering)

Rinse (www.rinsenow.com) is a consumer-service start-up that removes the stress that comes with dry cleaning & laundry and gives you back control of your busy life. We are creating a seamless customer experience through a combination of technology, incredible customer service, and strong back-end partnerships. Customers can schedule a pick-up on their mobile device; we then pick-up, clean, and return their clothes at their convenience. We have received a strong response to date and are growing the business (and team) quickly to help more customers recapture some of their precious time!

We are looking for someone who is excited about joining a start-up early and helping to build something special. We want someone who is excited to tackle immense technical challenges with total freedom on how to execute. We want someone who wants a seat at the table; who is interested in having his/her voice heard in major strategic discussions and board meetings; and who wants to contribute with way more than just beautifully written code. We want someone who wants to drink from the fire hose, have an immediate and substantial impact, and wants to work closely with a high-caliber team and accomplished advisors. We are moving fast and we want someone who is ready to run with us.

You…
- Are itching to join an amazing company on the ground floor and have a major impact within the first couple months
- Crave freedom to operate and decide how you want to build the core technology that supports the business
- Are passionate about solving complex and dynamic challenges, and building highly scalable systems
- Are capable of and excited to recruit a world-class team of engineers to work with you
- Have experience developing, releasing, and maintaining large-scale software applications
- Have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from a leading institution

We…
- Value respect, integrity, judgment, and positive energy over job-related experience and technical chops
- Work hard because we love what we’re doing, but also believe in balance
- Plan to invest heavily in technology to streamline business operations, in addition to having a world-class consumer-facing mobile application
- Are based in SF, which is where we have initially launched…but our ambitions extend well beyond the Bay Area.
- Are moving quickly, are well capitalized, and want someone who will come in and hit the ground running
- Are led by two co-founders with substantial experience in start-ups, dry cleaning, and consumer focused companies.

We are looking for someone who is strong technically but who can also be a leader and culture carrier for Rinse. The right person will be granted a substantial equity stake, cash compensation, and will have the chance to help build an amazing company from the ground up. If you are interested, e-mail your resume to Ajay Prakash at ajay@rinsenow.com to learn more.
This is exactly what the NSA have been doing, according to an earlier whistle blower, see eg my submission to HN here with his keynote from Hope 9 (2012):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5964403

edit: To save a click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxnp2Sz59p8
[NSA whistleblower William Binney Keynote at HOPE 9 (2012) [video]]
Swift Software - Frederick, MD (Near DC) - Software Engineers
Are you tired of commuting to DC or Northern Virginia? Swift Software is a growing product-centered technology company seeking talented developers to join our product team in Frederick, MD. Our flagship product is JobTraQ, a task management and workflow system that offers vastly more flexibility and power than any other product in our market segment, and is significantly less expensive and easier to configure than big "BPM" suites like MetaStorm and Lombardi. These advantages are allowing us to disrupt both markets.

You will create new features in JobTraQ and enhance existing functionality. You’ll help us build advanced visual design and administration tools, augment the product's business intelligence capabilities, improve performance and scalability, and use customer feedback to enhance all parts of the system.

Our team has an enjoyable and collaborative culture in a creative environment. We interact positively and openly and emphasize learning and professional development. These attributes have enabled us to produce an industry-leading product with a globally recognizable and satisfied client base. Our environment is relaxed and fun, we play everything from Total Annihilation to Alien Swarm at our game nights, and we equip everyone with new quad-core Thinkpads with SSDs and dual monitors. Our policies and benefits are family-friendly, with generous vacation time, good health insurance options, and flexible work schedules.

For more information about this position, see the link below. If you are interested, please email your resume to resumes@swiftsoftware.com.

http://www.jobtraq.com/jobs/se227-software-engineer-product-...
2 Work From Home Positions

We are 100% work from home as a company and currently a distributed team of 104 from around the world!

http://www.site5.com/about/careers/

1. Senior Systems Engineer
http://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/jobs/job_posting?job_id=b...

2. Ruby on Rails Developer
http://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/jobs/job_posting?job_id=d...

Specific info on our software development team, our open source projects, and what we build :) -> Eng5.com
I certainly didn't but it was more than likely because they are a recruitment company - http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/who-we-are.html