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Mobile Developer and Teacher - Seattle, WA - LIFFFT (www.liffft.com) (not the car sharing company)

LIFFFT is a consulting company built by some of the most experienced Startup Weekend facilitators in the world. We started this company so we could get very, very good at early stage product development - specifically using Customer Development and Lean Startup methodologies.

Our goal is two-fold:
1) Consult with large and enterprise companies to help them learn and adapt these product development methodologies into their own organizations. We have done extensive work with Nordstrom and their Innovation Lab, and have recently been expanding our client base.

2) Use the consulting to bootstrap our own products, which we will spin out into separate companies. You laugh and say that's what everyone tries to do, but we have already successfully done this once.

What we are looking for
We're looking for iOS developers with experience leading and teaching groups, who don't believe in reinventing the circle (much less the wheel) every time you run into a problem, and who believe in a "Discover the problem, then build the solution" approach to building products.

Email: Zachary@liffft.com if you're interested. Please include any links (resume, linkedin, github, portfolio, etc etc) you feel are relevant.
Except that humans each have different and at times irreconcilable notions of "merit".
Fraud really hasn't been an issue, at least as far as we've been alerted to it. We hold the credits until the buyer confirms receipt and that the game works, so anyone sending out fake games would need to make them pretty convincing. There's only been one person that I'm aware of doing that, and that was discovered pretty quickly thanks to the buyers alerting me of the situation.

Heroku's been one of the main reasons I was able to launch the site and iterate new features so quickly. 99% of the time the site runs on a single web dyno using unicorn to serve more than one request at a time, plus one worker for sending emails, popping up site notifications (using Gritter for that), etc. It's been that way since launch.
I guess she meant this thread https://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4396/
Don't know if that counts as rude or not.
Docker, Inc. - San Francisco, CA - Full-time

We build Docker: www.docker.io, an Open Source tool enabling anyone to run those Linux Containers very easily. Containers boot 1000x faster than virtual machines; their disk and memory footprint are also much lower; and they work on virtually all current platforms (from physical servers to public cloud instances). We think that they are the future of virtualization, and will soon become ubiquitous.

Apply here: http://www.docker.io/jobs/
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Book News: Amazon's Kindle MatchBook Is Out — Will Publishers Opt In?
But at the same time, this is Dragos Ruiu, a well-respected researcher for 15 years. If he says he's got an infected BIOS, I'm going to believe him.

My first impression was that badBIOS was an elaborate troll on the part of Ruiu, to make the point that just taking what even a "well-respected researcher" says at face value is NOT good security practice.
You can give examples of social mobility in all societies; that doesn't mean that those societies necessarily have high social mobility. For that you need statistical evidence.
> We're military first, people second, and science last.

2013 United States Federal Budget Outlays[1]

Agency Billions
------------------------------------- --------
Department of HHS (Medicare+Medicaid) 940.9
Social Security Administration 882.7
Department of Defense, including wars 672.9
Interest on Debt 246.0
...
NASA 17.8
...
National Science Foundation 7.5

To me it looks like spending on people is more than 2x spending on military (including wars).

But you're right about putting science last, as far as federal spending goes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...
Job hopper here.

I used to come to these threads hoping to find comfort for the job hopper in me. Now that a couple years have gone by and I'm OK I think I can provide some comfort to job hoppers.

My background: I've been an employed developer for over two years. Over the two years I've gone from cutting my teeth at a start up doing Customer Support and any programming they would let me get my hands on to being considered somewhere in between Mid-level and Senior in my particular environment. During this journey I've been at four different companies for 6 months, 8 months, 4 months, and 6 months. I've always exceeded all goals and contributed in big ways in short periods of time. I'm now a Consultant because I think it is more suited for how I like to work on a lot of different things with different people and I have enough experience and successes to be able to be a consultant (ie. people will pay me for my services).

During the interviews for my last two jobs the hiring managers brought up my job history point blank. One even directly called me a job hopper. I didn't shy away from their perception or try to convince them that this time it would be different. While some may see this as sugar coating, I indirectly told them that I am a challenge hopper. I talked about the projects I've worked on and the impact I've had. I talked about the value I've brought to the teams I've been on and what I do to better myself as a programmer.

All companies are looking for the good old "V" word - value. Some companies will be more interested in how long you're likely to stick around for. If how long I'm likely to stick around is that important to them then I treat this difference the same way I would anything else that we don't see eye to eye on - I walk away.

In the land of software we are lucky to have this affordability because of demand for programmers is high and margins on software can be extremely high. Jump around a little bit and learn a lot. Maybe you'll do that forever. Maybe you'll go do your ownt hing. Maybe you'll settle down. You've got a skill. People want it.
Keep Asking Why
London, UK - Rentify - Software Engineer (Rails)

We're a small tight-knit team that wants to change how rentals are done. The rental industry is old, antiquated, and ready for a push. We think we have the right recipe, and so does Balderton Capital, who invested in us for our Series A.

We don't do deadlines, or assign your day to day work to you, or tell you how to get it done, or make your decisions. You're smart, professional. You don't need us to tell you how to do your job. Of course, we don't mind helping if you get stuck.

Here's how we hire: http://bufordtaylor.com/post/62455729428/how-we-interview-en...

Here's how we work: http://engineering.rentify.com/post/47385480838/in-engineers...

Responsibilities:

* Lead by example – by writing good code, talking about good code, and then drinking beers with the team to celebrate all the good code everyone wrote
* Design and development of new product features and enhancements
* Communicate with non-engineers to define requirements and deliverables
* Know what technologies are out there in case you need to use them
* Periodically teach your co-workers all the great stuff you learned via tech talks, brown bags, blogs or open source

Requirements:

* You ideally have Ruby on Rails experience. (We’ll still talk to you if you’ve done something with Django or node.js)
* You want to work in a startup (a.k.a. a place that works hard and plays hard)
* You feel comforted when you write a good unit test
* You must have a Bachelor’s knowledge level of computer science via education or experience
* You know when to use Postgres/Mysql vs Mongodb/Redis
* You understand the full stack (servers, RoR, javascript/css/html)
* You have to be able to travel to central London every day

Please email me at buford@rentify.com
Remote is the future!
I have a couple of boxes of Magic: The Gathering cards going back to Antiquities and Arabian Nights. I'm counting on them being worth their weight in gold when I retire. Or maybe I should invest in tulips...
> I hope they find a business model someday.

No chance. There is absolutly nothing one can do with a lot of retargetable traffic. /s
Continuous Growth and Continuous Improvement doesn't always mean leaving your current gig, but if that is what it takes, then hop away. For me personally, in the last 4 years I have been in 4 different companies. I had one job offer that asked whether bringing me on meant that I would be leaving after a year or two, I declined the offer because it was not enough to make me want to leave the employer I was at. I feel that each one of my previous endeavors has lead me to the next opportunity.
I just want to post this from the baseball card collecting perspective. Comic books and baseball cards share a pretty similar correlation between their values and their declines in the 80s to 2000s. The glut actually started in the mid 80s and not the 90s. And due to waning interest from kids due to both video games and the Internet their markets have slowly declined. The only difference is baseball cards have escalated to being essentially a lottery/gambling game while comics actually still have some value as entertainment itself.

Basically card collecting now is a big gamble. You can buy $100 packs and they either have some common value cards worth maybe $5 or you might pull a great card that you can probably sell for $5K. Only a small percentage of people come out of it as a "winner" but because of the rush people get from pulling these special cards they continue to be bought. And even though $100 seems out of reach for kids, I have seen tons of videos on YouTube of kids who buy these packs.

And since there is only one company now that can produce baseball cards (out of maybe 3-4 total card producing companies), they need to make their money back from buying the license from MLBPA/MLB so they essentially glut the market with tons and tons of different sets. Allen Ginter, Gypsy Queen, Bowman (there was ~3 different sets of Bowman released the last time I collected, and Bowman generally is for rookie/minor leaguers and since most of them will probably not make it to the majors, the set is going to contain a lot of useless cards/inserts), Topps, and some other sets they sell at like >$500 per pack.

And the people on Craigslists who think their sealed 1992 Topps sets are worth any more than ~$5 or people who are selling those huge boxes of 80s/90s cards for $200 is laughable. You could literally burn half the world's supply of 80s/90s baseball cards and those cards would still probably be just as worthless. Just a huge, huge, worthless glut of cardboard.

Edit: Took out roulette comment, made no sense.
Both sides of the same coin. Own and rent it out, or rent-when-you-need. The net of these two in action reduces overall waste.
Seems harder to climb the ladder staying put. Also much harder increasing your salary by staying put.

I've found both rank and salary increase with a hop. That being said I've changed maybe every 5 years
Huh. I live in Hamilton and knew Big B was a decent comic book store, but didn't know it was that big.
Life imitating art -- it's fantastic that there is a real life Entertainment 720, funded by Andreessen Horowitz no less.

I sometimes can't tell if they're actually serious about this or they're just some bros pulling a prank on the industry.
He once even accused me of 'attacking' him.

> If I as a developer feel personally attacked (and I did that) the
chances that I with the maintainer hat on will revert my patch goes down and
not up

My 'attacking' him comment: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321190#c17

His comment accusing me of attacking him: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321190#c20
PayScale - Seattle (Pioneer Square) - F/T - Platform Engineer

We do real-time compensation analysis in n-dimensions. We are looking for a smart, energetic senior software engineer (backend) to join our team. The engineer will actively participate in the design and development of next generation big data management, storage and analytics and reporting of the PayScale platform. We’re actively moving towards open-source solutions including: MongoDB, HBase, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Xen, and others.

PayScale is a great opportunity to work and learn alongside experts in big data, distributed systems, machine learning, search, and econometrics. Join our team and help us revolutionize the way in which compensation is measured, analyzed, and predicted.

http://www.payscale.com/about/jobs#PlatformEngineer
San Francisco, CA - CardSnip.com

We're collapsing the small & medium business financial stack with smart purchasing cards, analytics, and data-oriented payment processing. We do all this without breaking the existing merchant banking relationships and using quirks of the existing networks to our advantage. We're currently a small team, but we're getting close to closing our first round and we're looking to bring on some generalist engineers with both web and backend experience.

Buzzwords: Python3.3, Django, Tornado, Postgres, d3.js, scss, lxc and Salt Stack. Oh, and we have three 3d printers in the office.
Page loads are still incredibly slow.
Probably not "automatically", someone will losing a lot of time screening out this "lottery seekers". And stressing also, which could mess up his ability to find the really good ones.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / London

Developing professionally for 12 years. I prefer to build new web applications and lead the projects as they scale. Suited to working with companies wanting to build new projects or redevelop existing ones.

I have a strong focus on application architecture and create neat, stable and maintainable JS, CSS and backend code. I use tests to ensure features are solid don't break once built.

My tools of choice are Ruby on Rails with Postgres, CSS using LESS or SCSS and JS using jQuery, Spine.JS and CoffeeScript. RSpec and Cucumber for testing.

Email me at luke@sketchconsulting.com for some descriptions of recent projects and my rate.
Boston - Android Engineer - Springpad

Do you want the challenge of building the next generation of a world-class Android application that has been downloaded millions of times? We’re looking for someone who can help us build new features and improve upon our most popular platform. We are constantly pushing the bounds of what you can do with an Android device and delight in new and inventive ways of interacting with the platform.

With more than 4.5 million users who have saved 65 million pieces of data, Springpad is a Boston-based force in the startup world. Uniquely harnessing the power of the social and interest graphs, we’ve created a smarter way to save, discover and share information. In Mashable‘s words, we’re “like Pinterest, but smarter.”

To apply: email chuck@springpad.com or visit us at http://springpad.com/jobs
The patent system probably added more value 200 years ago when the dissemination of knowledge was not nearly as easy or cheap as it is today. The reason for this, of course, is technology.

Looking at this situation from a very meta- perspective, I find it fascinating that what's effectively happening is that the patent system is seeking to undermine the very technological forces that have made it less relevant. Almost like watching two different species compete against each other in nature.
KDE has always been a second-class citizen on Ubuntu in terms of support, testing etc. (and this is Ubuntu policy - they provide a more streamlined linux and emphasise consistency over user choice. Thus any non-default desktop is less well supported than the default, and KDE's philosophy is particularly inimical to theirs). With Ubuntu moving to its own ubuntu-only display driver stack, it will be a lot more effort to support KDE on Ubuntu.

If enough people care enough and step up to the plate then KDE will continue to work on Ubuntu, but I wouldn't count on that happening.
Kode - A Minimal Fork of Casper for Ghost
London, UK - ONEIS http://www.oneis.co.uk

We're looking for a developer to build elegant applications on top of our Platform. You'll be working closely with clients to deliver customised information systems, and building off-the-shelf products for specific markets.

This is an interesting and challenging role for a generalist developer with experience in building web applications. Initially, you'll be using server and client-side JavaScript to build client facing applications. Later, you'll be working on our core Platform, which is written in Ruby, JavaScript and Java.

We're looking for someone who wants to learn as much as they can about developing and deploying hosted software. This is a great opportunity to work with experienced developers in a small team, where everyone learns from each other, and everyone works on every aspect of our software and service.

Feel free to email me with any questions, my contact details are in my profile.

Full details: http://www.oneis.co.uk/jobs
This is a clash of the titans. I think most techies will react according to which companies they are fans of.

If Apple were deploying their patents to squash small competitors or startups, I'd feel differently, but they're not.
Wot I Think: Microsoft Surface Pro 2
My first thought when reading was that it was a developer's fictional horror story written for halloween...
Here to answer any questions if anyone has any. James
SEEKING WORK - Chicago, IL or REMOTE, can travel flexibly.

PhD at the interface of applied mathematics, nonlinear optimization, computer science, and machine learning.

I can bring machine learning or optimization to your project. Best at highly numerical codes, but also enjoy "full stack" projects.

Languages: best: C++/C, Python, MATLAB; intermediate: AMPL, BASH, Fortran, Java, Mathematica, PHP, Schema, SQL.
Familiar with Apache, Django, Hadoop, Linux, MySQL, OS X, sqlite, Weka.

Get in touch via http://www.linkedin.com/in/traviscj , https://github.com/traviscj , or just http://traviscj.com
Chargekey: key-sized Lightning cable
Good point- do you think they issue seasickness pills before you get on? Or maybe it's moored well enough that it doesn't rock?
also, take out the "y And L" and you are left with the word "Barge"
Is it related to the DDoS, or a separate issue?
I love the idea and think a raspberry pi with some basic setup could easily solve this although why not something like a Square Register - https://squareup.com/stand

What I would be more interesting in is a system that is a POS or hooks into a POS (square) and connects the offline with online. One way I have seen this done is at Target - via a credit card. If a user pays for something both online and offline with a credit card, a system could figure this out and match up the users past history.

Just a thought :) Great stuff!
There was only two developers for that game? Wow, I would've thought there'd be a lot more.
That is an attack on code, not people. It has no resemblance to Shuttleworth's remarks.
True. He probably doesn't tax to Sweden and thus doesn't show up on the list.
> products are build to expire

They aren't - the replacements are higher productivity.

See the PC market for what happens when the replacements are not higher productivity.
Yahoo claims to be "the world's largest start-up"
In the short term you're right. But if the cuts were done responsibly over time the economy would adapt and the capital we currently spend on the military would be reallocated to more productive areas. Claiming that we can never cut military spending because it would hurt the economy is an example of the broken window fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
So much of the public debate regarding these issues is terribly confusing and misleading simply due to the wanton disregard for the difference between "health insurance" and "health care". I realize that some of the erroneous usage is just sloppiness, but these two things really aren't interchangeable from a public policy standpoint.

Prime example: the "Affordable Care Act" isn't about health care, it is about health insurance.
Sunnyvale, CA - Yahoo Fantasy Sports

If you're a hacker who loves sports, Yahoo Fantasy Sports is looking for iOS & Android developers to help us build amazing mobile experiences. Great pay/perks, an awesome team, and the chance to work on a product used by millions of hardcore fans around the world.

The fantasy mobile team at Yahoo includes of 2 acquired startups (Loki Studios & Bignoggins Productions), so we've got a startup culture within a big company.

We're looking for people with at least a year of native iOS/Android experience. If you have an app on the store that's a big plus!

If interested, please send your resume/github/app links to sportsjobs@yahoo-inc.com

Here's a commercial from this year's fantasy football campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DQGOzpdpE
Intern - Pakistan
STORYTELLER / CONTENT MANAGER

We are a small team of entrepreneurs and artists, trying to build an online brand focused on handmade leather footwears and accessories for men. See here to apply http://bit.ly/1ai2sDx
When we were doing the profiling while developing the optimizations, we were surprised to find that the Javascript thread was spending something like 50% of its time in the method to remove a DOM element. Now, maybe that's because Angular is not removing DOM elements as efficiently as it could, but it was a bottleneck.

You are right though that optimization #3 is a big hammer that helps reduce the need for the other optimizations, but in the end, we found using both gives us the best result. And the other optimizations which much in terms of code.

We are using version 1.1.15 and already had AngularJS re-using the pre-existing DOM elements if it could. When we tested it (without optimization #3 turned on), we found that it still had too much lag so felt it was better to use the DOM caching optimization.
One million particles
Gray area is the most interesting as usual: 1-2 years.