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SEEKING WORK - San Antonio, TX or REMOTE - keyston [at] conceptual-ideas.com

Full-stack software engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in backend development as well as Android Development.

Languages: Python,PHP, JavaScript, Java,Scala,HTML5,Less,Sass,ActionScript 3/Flex

Frontend : JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Backbone.js, Handlebars,Node.js),HTML5,Less,Sass,Bootstrap

Backend : Play!,Django,Kohana,Codeigniter,Node.js,Php,Akka,Spray.io
Environments: LAMP stack, NginX, Linux,Wowza,AWS

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http://github.com/kclay

Pet project - a Scala driver for RethinkDB - https://github.com/kclay/rethink-scala

Hourly and Contract(short/mid/long term) Jobs welcomed
> Actually, most of the people working in those organizations are children of party officers or executives of wealthy foreign currency-earning organizations.

I expect he had connections and/or was able to bribe his way towards becoming a tour guide. Tourism, after all, is a foreign currency earning industry.
I'm sorry about that. I just completed this for you. :)
Ukrainian government suspended the prepration for association agreement with EU. Citizens went to a permanent rally on Maidan (the central Kiev square). There was a violent crackdown on it last night. That provoked the current unrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ukraine_pro-European_Unio...
SEEKING WORK - Front-End Development - Freelance/Remote

I'm a student looking for some quick freelance work for the holidays. Since im a student, you can expect discounts all around. I specialize in designing UI's for the web, and also dabble in making single-page-applications.

My most recent project was an eCommerce site built with AngularJS and no server-side code, so if you want to check it out, email me for details. It sounds impossible, but I can explain :)

Other recent projects -

- Teen2Geek - http://teen2geek.com
- Teen2Geek Jobs - http://jobs.teen2geek.com
- Weimai Landing Page - http://sellers.weimai.co

Skills

- HTML5/Jade, CSS/LESS/SASS, Vanilla JS/jQuery, AngularJS, NodeJS/ExpressJS/MeteorJS

- Git DVCS, basic Linux sysadmin, Shell programming

- Phonegap/Cordova, Ionic Framework

- Bootstrap/Foundation

Resume

- http://krrishd.github.io/krish.json

Links to my Github, Behance, etc

- http://krrishd.github.io

Contact krishna.dholakiya @ gmail.com
Weft - http://weft.io - Boston MA. INTERN or REMOTE are both welcome!

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We're Waze for Cargo. Building hardware to put inside of shipping containers so our customers get realtime visibility into their supply chain. We're then taking the info we get from the hardware and figuring out where the bottlenecks in the supply chain are, predicting whether or not a shipment is going to make it to its destination on time, and dynamically rerouting/rescheduling shipments so that we can optimize the system as a whole. Really neat stuff.

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Web stack -> clojure (immutant) + HANA (really scary database on crack) -- we use middleman + enlive (and a bit of hiccup) for templating

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

Hardware -> prototyped with arduino, still using atmel uC but no longer arduino-ey. Manufacture-ready. In the process of sourcing for large scale manufacturing. Have some pilots running.

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We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies).

Looking for help at every point in the system (hardware, firmware, frontend, backend, algorithms, mobile, etc).
If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!
Bad Elf Dongle Adds GPS to Your Wi-Fi iOS Device
Hey, hyperopt author here. I started something of a spearmint binding [1] but I didn't get very far yet. The main trouble is that spearmint currently does not have proper support for parameters that apply "sometimes". There's a paper at the upcoming NIPS workshop on Bayesian optimization with an interesting scheme for doing that, but still very much a research question.

[1]: https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt-spearmint
Bit of a link bait since he never describes why flow is a fallacy, anywhere, or backs up his claim in any arena beyond software development. He basically says, what people perceive as "flow" in the software development world = isolation. Which is BS.

Csikszentmihalyi says you can achieve "flow" in many traditional jobs where you are not alone in an office, such as cooking at a restaurant, or even janitorial service.

There's some discussion of work environments, backed up by a McLaren P1 vs Ford Focus example (BTW, if you drive both cars at the same speed they will take you equal distance despite one being a super car, and even in the wrong direction the McLaren could get you closer to your destination, so the quote is kind'o crappy too)

Alas, in my book, link bait! No discussion of actual "flow" here... just some dude peddling his ideas using Csikszentmihalyi
The upside for me here is that maybe people will have an ounce of self awareness and keep stuff like this a bit more to themselves versus throwing tantrums in front of everyone when the smallest thing goes wrong.
I can't confirm that these are the same, because I can't access this site. However, I suspect that this is the same as has been reported from many source, and submitted many times. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3798283 The World's Quietest Room: Nobody Has Lasted More Than 45 Minutes In It (dailymail.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781040 The Quietest Room in the World (tcbmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783478 The quietest room in the world (tcbmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802268 Quietest place on earth messes with the head. (yahoo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821238 The quietest place on earth (neatorama.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053296 A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it (timesherald.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4219266 This Is The Quietest Place On Earth (bitrebels.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565325 World’s Quietest Place Lets You Hear Your Internal Organs (odditycentral.com)
Eventually, not everyone will want to pay "cash" (irreversible transfer) for everything. Additional security and services layer will be added to Bitcoin ecosystem, and the fee for making indirect transfers through these intermediaries will go up to the same level. The majority of the economy will then make transactions using these services because they provide additional benefits that regular people need. So in the end, the only benefit of bitcoin will be that you can still transfer the "cash" coins by yourself through the system. I'm just wondering how valuable is that actual difference?
I've never programmed competitively, nor have I ever solved a programming puzzle. Quite honestly, I don't see the point of it.

Programming is not a competitive process; it is cooperative. Some of your greatest resources are the people around you. Even after 15 years in the industry, I'll still ask questions of my coworkers at least once every couple of days.

A puzzle is something designed by another person, with the specific intention of tricking you. That's not quite the same thing as a real-world stumper problem, although there can be some similarities. And once again, the times when you're stumped are precisely the times when you want to talk to your coworkers about it. Often the very act of explaining the problem to someone else is enough to give you the solution! Sitting there on your own, banging your head on the keyboard is the stupid way to do it.

The most important thing when it comes to debugging is to understand how things work at least one level below where you're working at (such as understanding how the library calls in the language you use translate to system calls, or being able to dissect HTTP requests/responses, or even TCP/IP frames, or if you're programming in C for example, understanding how the compiler works, how it optimizes, where the edge cases are, or even knowing some assembly language so that you can look at a stack dump and figure out what the computer actually did vs what you thought you told it to do). I dislike puzzles for the same reason I dislike trick questions on exams. They're not designed to test your knowledge or ability; they're designed to see if you can find the needle they've oh-so-cleverly hidden in a haystack. That sort of thing is fine if it's for your own amusement (people do, after all, enjoy crossword puzzles), but as hiring criteria I find them misguided at best.

Learn new things from time to time, but focus on what you're passionate about. You'll gain deep knowledge and you'll have the motivation to solve whatever problems crop up.
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Abstractions are not per-se "completely neutral". Nor is slavery racist per-se. Historically, it predates the Atlantic (sub-saharan) era slave trade by millenia. As for technology, its quite common in the field of Hydraulics. That's probably where (electrical) egineers picked up the term. See, eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_cylinder
But if you are around people that do, please don’t tweet it.
I scanned the comments here to see if anyone has brought up data about the underlying linguistic issue. I call baloney on the silly idea that "gendered pronouns" make life better or worse for anyone in actual society as contrasted with "nongendered pronouns." What is my evidence? I speak the world's most-spoken language (the only language that arguably has more speakers than English, namely Modern Standard Chinese) and it has totally nongendered pronouns. There is not a distinction in spoken Chinese[1] between "he," "she," or "it," as the language has just one third-person singular pronoun, namely tā.

But my wife, who grew up in Chinese-speaking society and has since lived in English-speaking society, and I, who have lived in both places, think it is ludicrous to suppose that Chinese-speaking society is "less sexist" in any systematic way just because of the pronoun system of Chinese. Pronouns appear to make no difference at all. The map is not the territory. On this issue, languages appear to vary arbitrarily with no particular influence on social custom, and not much influence from social notions of male or female superiority or inferiority. Gendered pronouns don't matter for anything important. It is an extraordinary claim to say that they do. People who make extraordinary claims should bring along extraordinary evidence to back up those claims.

[1] Under Western influence, after extensive contact with speakers of Indo-European languages and translation of books from those languages into Chinese, the Chinese writing system has sometimes distinguished written forms '他,'她,' and '它' for "he," "she," and "it," but all are pronounced /tā/ in speech and this distinction has to be painstakingly learned by Chinese children in school, with many native speakers of Chinese confusing the pronouns of English as to gender for years after learning them. For example, I have heard plenty of Chinese-language conversations in which someone describes a situation involving men and women and then starts speaking about individual persons in the situation as he/she did this or that to him/her, and sometimes a listener breaks into the conversation with "male or female?" to keep track of who is whom. And I've heard plenty of Chinese speakers talk about "my sister . . . he is" or "my brother . . . she is" and so forth, making clear that their brains don't distinguish pronouns by grammatical gender in any language.
Yes, you are required to pay import tax on the car when you bring it into the country. In the end you break about even. You could of course bring it in and avoid import, but it's high risk, sooner or later you get busted for driving and owning a car with swedish license plates as a Norwegian. (A foreigner can keep his car here for about 1 year before getting Norwegian license plates.)
Most of my friends are non-programmers, and from what I can see, geeks enjoy a far higher reputation than the censorship goons that run around telling people that they need to stop using their native language.

On an educational note, in IDE the meaning is actually relevant -- the slave only responds to requests if permitted by the master.
I agree that BTC is not, but I thought it was fairly well understood that social security was a mandatory Ponzi scheme.

From Wikipedia: "A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from existing capital or new capital paid by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation."

Social security does exactly that, and its recent failure predictions by the CBO are caused by the population failing to grow at rates that could sustain it. If more people aren't paying into it than those withdrawing from it, and it fails as a result, does that not match the definition of a Ponzi scheme?
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred. Based in London. US citizen.

Web development/design and business development background. Took courtcovered.com from idea to launch and beyond. See parispicnic.com for a small, fun, recent project I did for some friends.

Experience with Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Git, and a variety of databases. Proponent of TDD/BDD.

Contact me if you are looking for someone with experience performing a variety of functions who can offer suggestions and turn your ideas into quality, finished products.

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> However, flow necessarily requires isolation. Isolation from design discussions. Isolation from customer engagements. Isolation from iteration and feedback.

Total nonsense. It requires isolation for the 1-8 hours you'll be working in that session, maybe. In between those coding sessions, you can have all the design discussions, customer engagements, and feedback you want.
Why would you do that and how would you call a slave person then?
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I can be a unicorn for your project! Design & development, building API's, mobile apps and all that kind of stuff.

Past things I done: Ecommerce, API's, apps, intranets, medical compliance systems, CMS, CRM, surveying, events/ticketing, blah de blah. I can build your MVP or help further along the path!

Apps - iOS / Android

* App design, UI/UX

* Development Titanium or PhoneGap (prefer the former)

Recent iPhone app I completed (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pitchup.com-campsite-holiday...) was App of the Week in The Sun here in the UK, which was nice.

Web

* HTML 5, CSS, Javascript (also responsive, bootstrap etc etc)

* PHP (mainly Codeigniter recently)

* Some nodeJS

I could really do with something soon to help with the festive period so for something you want to start now, I can do a healthy discount :)

Email is in my profile. Personal site seems to be down at the moment (http://pitbot.net). Happy to supply links and whatnot for examples of previous work.

I work with Git usually, but mercurial is also fine. Happy with basic sysadmin stuff too.

I'm based in the UK.
'cause as a programmer I spend the better part of my day seated and just discovered this chair and thought others might appreciate it.
Only if you think that public humiliation is an effective form of education
Which can mean nothing but "I see nothing as bad". Perhaps just hold your hands up and say "yeah, I'm wrong, stupid point, nevermind" versus continuing to argue no matter how wrong you are. It's like a modern day disease. Complete inability to admit you're wrong to strangers on the internet after you attempted to be an asshole for no reason. Congratulations I hope you're able to continue making yourself happy this way.
Every country, essentially, has crimes based on your thoughts. It's called "intent to XXX", where XXX is some actual criminal act that you didn't do. "Intent to commit murder" is a crime for planning to kill someone.
I think you should all read this article again: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/can-this-startup-steal-nod...

The reason this escalated so quickly is not gender issues. This is a power play between the two largest corporate contributors of NodeJS...
People are waking up all over the world. I wish the best for your nation. Never give up.
a horrible vision. humanity is about empathy, showing vulnerability, being close to each other, arguing with each other and helping to understand each other. when this is always accompanied by vitriolic comments and shitstorms we will live in a cage of groupthink and democratic oppression.
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Umm, what?

The author makes it seem as if isolation while coding necessarily precludes one from collaborating with teammates or meeting with the customer.

But what, exactly, is so difficult in say, having a team meeting in the morning, going off to your batcave to code, and perhaps another meeting in the afternoon (depending on how regularly you need to meet).

He makes some good (if obvious) points, but on the whole, this article is poor.
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The Knewton marketing team has marketers, PR, writers, designers, and web developers. We are looking for another developer to support our work.

You should be extremely comfortable with WordPress and web development, and be able to collaborate with designers to go from PSD to responsive layout.

WordPress, JavaScript, and general PHP will compose much of the work. We are also exploring visualizations with D3 and other JavaScript libraries. Any additional web development skills and interests you have will probably find an outlet here.

This position is contract-to-hire, starting part-time and possibly transitioning to full-time eventually. You can be remote during the contractor portion but may need to be in NYC to make the transition to FT.
Or many writers would tell you that English has always had a default unmarked third-person singular pronoun, namely "he" for animate referents.
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I’ve been a UI designer & front-end developer for 12 years, freelancing full-time for the last 3. I’m big on simplicity & clarity. Some of my recent work: http://mitchbryson.com

If you like my style, email mitchell@blendmode.co.uk
Ironic that you're asking people to stop live tweeting conversations, then you link to said conversations and give them more pageviews.
An abhorrent anachronism?

Much like the word “computer”. What would you call a person who computes?
Some of the same people who had a huge problem with "creep shots" will take a surreptitious photo of someone in order to ridicule them, as if the lack of sexual interest makes it okay. I dunno, all I can figure is that everyone is terrible in their own way, and we love coming up with convoluted justifications as to why we're not terrible.
Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class.

In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?
We don't need the NSA - we all monitor each other.
They want the Ukranian government to enter into an agreement of cooperation with the EU (a first step to becoming a full member).

Putin doesn't want Ukraine joining the EU since it would put "Europe" right on the Russian porch, whereas Putin would prefer to have a buffer of client-states who take their orders from the Kremlin. Ukraine gets most of its energy supplies from Russian natgas, which has been the main "stick" Putin has used to get the Ukraine to toe his line.
corrupt ruling class

That's redundant.
Central planning/socialism really is a problem. North Korea would benefit greatly from a superior system of organizing the means of production. Their centrally-planned food system, for example, isn't working very well.
Money develops out of market exchanges. Money was not used for its own sake initially, but it becomes widely used as money as a result of innumerable transactions within the economy

This also doesn't appear to be true: see David Graeber's book Debt: The First Five Thousand Years for his descriptions of how money actually emerges from religious ceremonies and temples, not barter (as most econ books have it) or "market exchanges."

(Incidentally, I don't agree with Debt's main implications about debt, but its anthropological work on money is fascinating! (https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/thoughts-on-debt-t...)
This is really just an awful idea. Every few weeks/months I see some kind of "wouldn't it be great to have users write pseudo-html in json and we can then write loads of javascript to write the html for them!" kind of library and the answer to that is always "why would that have ever seemed like a good idea?".

Good libraries decorate html to provide functionality because, well html is pretty good at the html bit.
The capitol is more on the west side of the country which has more people that are pro-west, and most people there didn't want the more Russian influenced leader Yanukovych become president in the first place. Now he's doing things to make people pretty upset (not signing the EU agreement). I'm guessing a good deal of the eastern (more pro-Russian) side of the country still supports him though.

The person that is live streaming said this is on street Bankova, I think this is it: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d30....
What makes you think that? I'm not convinced of either of your suppositions, i.e. that 1) current fluctuations are caused by large bitcoin owners who dictate the price, and 2) that having many small investors would lower volatility (think about crowd behavior...)
Sense of duty, or the realization that you are powerless to resist the iron grip of the state? Maybe both..
I think that casts the action in an unnecessarily negative light.

Is BTC considered 'currency' by the US government? Do its transfers necessitate reporting to the government? If I sent a thousand dog biscuits to my home land, does the government need to be involved? Under what law?