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I never really got the glib claim you can just hire people and get them up to speed in a month. In my experience it takes almost a year to get truly familiar with how everything is done in a platform. It's not that one can't be productive quickly, it's that one will do many stupid and time consuming things.
I'd like to come at it from the opposite direction, and help engineers build out profiles of what they are looking for. Not another resume site, but a forum for making anonymous declarations of what the the perfect job(s) would look like. And something similar for potential employers. I probably wouldn't even focus on making connections, but instead just provide scores and feedback on availability, trends, regional factors, indirect costs, etc.

It seems like that sort of data would be worth something to new and established businesses, who both have to sort through an increasingly crowded forest of tools and technology.
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I kind of wish for something opposite, not a tool to minimize my physical movements, but to actually make me move more. I'm not talking about a computer on a treadmill. But, for example, if, say I'm moving something from one virtual place to another (copying files, etc), I would like to be moving something physically as well, I feel like that would get me more connected to what I am doing. The same reason it is much more pleasant and less distracting(to me anyway) to read a physical book that I'm holding, rather than something on the screen.

I have no concrete suggestions though.
The request was for some examples of the claim. You just repeated the claim.
Jetstrap is much more like a layout/markup creator, with drag and drop interface. Strapfork is a customiser for the Bootstrap components, meaning that you can add styles to them. It generates css and documentation, but you still have to write your markup.

I should make that more easy to understand.
I already use IndexedDB for Chrome packaged apps, you're basically forced to use it. The fact that there are Chrome-specific APIs means that there could have been one for SQLite but the NoSQL agenda is pretty strong.

This just feels like it's all over the place because they seem to hint at being able to use the Cordova plugins from Chrome Apps (restrictive), so I don't get the write-once-run-almost-everywhere vision. It seems like you will have to write a Chrome App then write a Chrome Mobile App. This whole thing is just a weird marriage.
> What Programming Skills Are Needed For UK Businesses To Grow?

[x] Being able to put up a survey and allow a visitor to receive notification when results are available without faking input and pretending they're a company
Why do products that don't actually exist hit the front page?
I have high hopes for Ermine, but it's not (yet) a real alternative to Scala; it doesn't have anything like the maturity, tool support, or library ecosystem. Which is to be expected - it's barely a year old, whereas Scala has been with us for ten years.

Scala is far from perfect, to be sure; even ten years in the future I'd expect/hope there will be a better option, whether that's Ceylon, Fantom, Ermine or something else. But right now Scala is in the sweet spot: it's a huge step up from most popular languages, and at the same time it's mature, popular, and java-compatible enough to be a practical choice for many projects.

And as someone who does FP in Scala all the time, I'd be interested to hear what you're talking about with your "pretty strong image".

(Also I think Scala's @implicitNotFound covers the interesting cases for customizable type error messages, no?)
JavaScript. So many bad developers, so few good ones. You get a lot of people coming to interview.
It's against Twitter's terms of service to sell usernames. Technically. Lots of people get away with it I'm sure.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules

Abuse and Spam > Selling usernames: You may not buy or sell Twitter usernames.
This. We find it hard to find skilled developers across all the languages we need. The good ones are all hired and highly paid.
Definitely agree with the comments about the sign up too. If the product is cool and people like how it looks and what it does for them they will be asking how do I sign up?
This is a nice workaround. I've been long thinking about what could be used instead of dollars to trade for Bitcoin. Of course, starbucks cards are not as widespread and their amount is probably limited (in a sense that there's not enough of them to satisfy demand in the case this seriously takes off), but it's nevertheless great to see people finding ways to bypass the stupid regulatory system, because of which there are no real Bitcoin exchanges in the US.
I had written something on this. I remember speaking to 2 people in a company who needed someone with X years in Silverlight and they weren't considering anyone who didn't have those on their resume. 6 months later they still had an open position and were still trying to hire someone.

http://gillesleblanc.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/hire-talent-no...
That is when it was published, but the text gives no indication if the events happened yesterday or 12 months ago. It's useful to know if these abysmal practices are still current or not at Apple/Amazon/etc.
> Imho, your best bet is to develop relationships with the sorts of people you wish you could hire and offer them something interesting when you hear they're considering a move.

A great way to do this is to 1) contribute back to open source projects on a regular basis and 2) send your talent out to conferences. Companies spend tons of cash marketing their products and won't spend relative peanuts on showing off their top talent and technical achievements to the wider developer community.
> I think you are making several incorrect and unfair generalizations.

> Calling those climbers "rich idiots" is unnecessary, and hugely inaccurate. Nearly all guided Everest expeditions require previous high-peak mountaineering experience to join the expedition, in places such as Aconcagua and Denali [1][2][3]. Technical familiarity with crampons, ice-axe, etc' is a must, and a high level of fitness is required.

I agree that it's a bit of an exaggeration and most expedition organizers are responsible and take preparations seriously and require their participants to be in good health and fine physical fitness.

And then there are the organizers that aren't. In the Discovery documentary, there was one particular group of Chinese climbers who were practically pulled up the hill with ropes by their sherpas.

Even the group who were followed in that documentary, from an organizer with a good reputation, led by a well known mountaineer had some members whose physical condition was a bit questionable. There was a motorcycle accident victim who could barely keep up with the climbers at the lower camps and in the end refused to turn back when told so by the expedition leader, putting himself and his sherpas at peril. But most of that group were fine climbers with proper preparations.

I do understand that judgment doesn't quite work well at 8000+ meters, even with supplemental oxygen. I do not want to make moral judgments about the case above, but I do want to raise a discussion about the subject.
What's funny about this discussion is that many states in the US have laws for this very purpose - known as Adverse Possession. If you occupy a piece of land unchallenged for a period of time (often long, like 10+ years), it becomes yours.
I'm in Canada but I'd be willing to relocate in a heartbeat if what you say is true.
I think we are talking cross purpose. A chat over a beer would be better. Entrepreneurship is easier than it was.
Bad joke. Those dead tourists are overconfident individuals, who tried to do it alone. On the other hand, Sherpas, who organize expeditions nowadays are very well trained and coordinated. There are many of them who have ascended more than 5 times as poters or guides, while there is one person who did it 14 times. It is just a job for Sherpas.

According to official statements, around 500 people, including about 300 tourists ascended mt.Everest last year, in a short 15 April - 10 May window.

Nowadays even local pop stars were managed to get to the top. Sherpas are doing great job and raised the safity livel to unimaginable heights.
I know of two new businesses using Scala in Boulder. That's been enough to put it back on my radar.
It does mean that passwords aren't properly hashed. They may be encrypted, but that still leaves open the possibility for an engineer or attacker to have access to plain text passwords.
I've noticed that about Android Developers. I prefer iOS development but have a little more professional Android experience and at least 3 times a week I get emails from recruiters about new positions. I think it might be time to really focus on Android.
I am trying to build an app with AppGyver(cordova with lot's of native UI and really cool workflow - like trying the app on device immediately OTA) however I must say it's very limiting and if you say you would skip the native UI and build everything by your own, the app feels not-so-snappy.

I should really buy a Mac and code native, this WebviewUI approach just doesn't cut it.
I think people are inclined pay more if they can see 'live' demo's. Signed up to see ho it will go.
How much damages do you expect to win for loss of a twitter username?
This really boils down to who is a better sysadmin-- you or the Google SREs. Choose reliable and paranoid providers that actually verify your identity before shenanigans and you can mitigate the entry vector.
> Having other confused people agree with you does not make it true.

So people who don't agree with you are "confused" now?

> You believe in a caricature regarding both countries.

I agree it's problematic to make statements about entire countries. But it's comparatively easy to observe what their political systems act like in practice. Of course that doesn't necessarily reflect what the majority of citizens actually think and believe.

I must confess I find it hard to understand your tone here. We seem to agree on the basics. The only difference between us would be that you assert I have an exaggerated perception of certain traits.
> Compare any game from the launch of the previous generation to games that are being released now. There is a huge difference.

My point is that when the Xbox 360 came out, for example, the games running on it at launch were very impressive versus what the PCs could do at the time. In this generation, watching the launch games on PS4 and Xboxone just feels MEH at best. They are way too late in the game vs the power they are packing in.
With a market cap of less than $350 million, shouldn't Google just buy them? I realize that they'd pay more than that, and that there might not be enough stock available to get a controlling share, but it would be an interesting strategy if they could pull it off.
Agreed. Having that skill is what separates the mediocre from the exceptional.
Can we expand our time? Better track time.
Whoa Nelly! That analogy was strained past the breaking point long before I pointed the funny stick at it... That was more or less the point to be honest. Attempting to discuss international finance with a schoolyard analogy seems ridiculously oversimplified in the extreme. (also I like the name "Ameri" for a genderless parent. Sue me!) :)

It sounded like you were attempting to imply that there was ignorance of finance being international (or so it seemed... I could be wrong there) and I was pointing out that was not true.

Also contracts and trust are not opposing ideas nor do they address the same aspect of a thing. I'd venture to say that the entire market is (at least to some extent) based on 'trust' that it is not being heavily gamed and information is not being outright falsified.

Edited: For clarity!
Something like the leapmotion? https://www.leapmotion.com/
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GPU programmers who know CUDA
Use incremental compilation during development, and keep your files small (this is a good idea anyway). If you're coming at it from a python background were you working in the command line? A lot of the benefits of scala only really apply when using it in an IDE.
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In case you weren't aware, one place to post python jobs is http://www.python.org/community/jobs/

If you don't live in a tech-heavy region, you should also consider hiring someone remote. https://weworkremotely.com/ is one board that seems popular (operated by the 37 signals guys iirc).
Starbucks gift cards strike me as an odd choice. I can't help but think this choice was made to assist in a certain type of scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6175294
MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) is hiring instructors for our NYC Summer Academy
You will be teaching primarily college and high school students how to build their first product: an iPhone game! Our curriculum covers Objective-C and Cocos2d, but also product design, prototyping, user testing, analytics, and more. The MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy is where students go from having tinkered with CS to falling in love with it and your job will be to teach and mentor them throughout.
What we’re looking for:

- Passion for teaching and teaching experience

- Strong CS background and industry experience building real products

- Existing knowledge or ability to learn (prior to summer) technologies used (Objective-C, Cocos2d, Git, SpriteBuilder)

- We’re hiring 2-3 instructors and would like at least one female instructor

You will need to come to California (we will pay your travel expenses) for at least 2 weeks of training in late May/early June and then you will be in NYC for a week of setup + the 9 weeks the program runs - mid June to mid August. This is a fixed term 12 week full time job.

If you’re interested, contact us - nyc@makegameswith.us

More info about our Summer Academy - https://www.makegameswith.us/summer-academy/
You are using "he" and "his" but the author is female, which has absolutely nothing to do with any of the points raised. Just pointing out an oversight.
What do you look for specifically when hiring a good JS developer?
This is really cool. I'm not understanding how it can possibly work though. It kind of seems like a "free lunch"?
Could be a useful testing tool, exciting times :)
(eq leiningen clojure)

and I like it that way
There's an experimental algorithm on HN that determines how much is a user concerned with karma. Apparently, your karmic anxiety is more prominent than the competition. Hence, the penalty.
Really really love the design - great work. Could be useful to add a search function (it'd be interesting to headlines that mention "coffee", for example).
I don't understand how people believe this is universally good advice. Perhaps if your company is large enough that you can reasonably pay new employees for weeks or months before they're actually productive, I can see this being feasible. But that's not most companies.

Keep in mind that this also likely impacts the productivity of at least one of your current employees, and if it doesn't, your newbie's language acquisition is not going to happen as fast, and their ramp-up time on your projects is going to be longer.

There's a big gray area between well-funded startup and well-established business where an entirely unproductive employee can have a non-trivial impact on your cash flow.
I guess you were having some troubles and asked around in #scala. A huge amount of work in Scala is left for the compiler, all the niceties and features put that load on it. So while it makes life a lot more easier for you it also has more work to do. Anyways compile times have improved significantly in Scala 2.11 but more importantly, incremental compilation has landed.
Not if he uses a mixer to pay you the bitcoins, no.

Blockchain.info has a fantastic almost-free one.
It's true that certain languages are particularly hot, and thus particularly in demand. The three that come to mind right away are Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, for which there seems to be unquenchable demand, even if the absolute number of such jobs is dwarfed by Java and C#. I'm sure that there is a shortage of good Erlang, Scala, and Clojure developers, as well.

But no matter what language you're looking to hire for, you're likely to come up short. That's because you don't just want someone who can write code in XYZ, but someone who can write amazing code, and interact well with the others in the company, and be sensitive to business needs, and communicate well. That combination is rare, no matter how popular and new (or unpopular and old) the language is.

Heck, everyone's favorite punching bag, Cobol, is still used in a huge number of businesses. I've seen in a number of places that if you want to make lots of money doing un-sexy work, you should become a Cobol specialist. Believe me, the businesses who need Cobol developers don't really care that Ruby is the new hotness; they've got billions of dollars invested in existing code that needs to be maintained and improved.
Have you tried UMlet? It's limited but great for nailing UML diagrams.
While it's true that learning English is very important and helpful for non-English-speaking programmers, they address this concern (as it applies to pt.SO) directly in the article. Translated for those who can't read:

We didn't think that having the site one language only would be a problem. After all, most programmers speak English, right? Even programming languages themselves are in English, isn't that right? But we forgot something very important:

We weren't writing a technical manual. We were building a community.

It took a while, but we finally understood what most of you already knew. It's very difficult to be part of a community that, literally, doesn't speak your language.

The point they're trying to make here is that it's one thing to read technical documentation in your non-native language, but it's quite another to try and constructively participate in a community, where there's a lot of complex, back-and-forth discussions, and things need to be explained clearly.

It's true that, for an individual developer, learning English well will open up these sorts of communities. But so long as people aren't yet doing that, communities like pt.SO will be a big help.
Just a quick note: Moz's domain authority and page authority score is what is used the most in the industry. It relies on their farm crawling the web and seeing who's linking to who. Their business is NOT heavily dependent on Google. Rankings is one of many features.
Isn't this sort of what LinkedIn is for?
Template-heavy C++ and point-free Haskell code.
In which case, once I return in the afternoon I will be entitled to shoot whomever is there for trying to steal my home. I'll be 'naturalisticaly' defending it. Sounds like a great way to run a society. I better make sure I have a bigger gun than the rest then. (edit-language)
Seems cool, could have great applications
Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.
I agree. I find community meet ups are a great way to find skilled people in specific areas. I've not done much hiring myself (finishing graduate school) but I've done this to find local skill in big data.
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Would it be unfair to describe this as a GUI for the LESS variables associated with Bootstrap? Nice and simple idea, but if the cost really is $50, that might be a little steep - any designer worth their pencil should be able to work with a big list of variables just as easily (if not more easily) than a point-and-click interface.

Obviously just conjecture at the moment, though...
I've heard the traditional (older style) American quarter is slightly biased to tails, as the head makes the coin's weight distribution slightly lopsided.
You miss the point. Pfc. Manning now identifies as Chelsea Manning. She is transgendered, and since her military career is toast she has come out of the closet on the subject.

I'm going to be generous and assume that duaneb poster was not closely following the story and is unaware of the above.

Transpersons are always the subject of massive flamewars online, so some folks get really strong kneejerk reactions to misgendering.
Ultimately, every language is simply a tool and they all have their issues. I'll admit that I pegged Scala as "C++ for JVM" when it first came out, but am not a hard headed man.

Q to the op is what is the turn over of your dev team? Please provide a defense of Scala in terms of economics of development (from a business pov). Items to address are maintaining the codebase after the whiz kids have left for more exciting pastures.
The goal in "minimizing fingers movements" when typing is not about being lazy or not wanting to exercise.

The goal is to be a) more efficient and b) minimize the risk of developing RSI.

Nothing prevents you from still doing real exercise even if you have a keyboard made to minimize fingers movements: the two aren't incompatible.
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One of the flaws in that is that while you can encrypt the information in the email body, you can't obscure the metadata like who the sender and recipient are, when it was sent and received, etc.
I don't necessarily agree with everything you said - I don't know enough about Scala to have a good opinion - but I absolutely agree with your first paragraph.
Thanks Dave, appreciate it (design was by Cameron Spencer @ lab43.com). And search is on our feature list – hopefully it'll be up soon!
Try offering the position to remote workers (within a reasonable distance... in your case, somewhere in Europe where there would be no more than +/- 2 hours of timezone difference).
Different things depending on what we are hiring for. It also depends on how people present themselves. Algorithms, protocols, software design, data structures.

Hell, there are times I'd be happy if people just understood the difference between TCP and UDP, or knew how to make an HTTP request. I guess it would be a lot easier if we were just looking for code monkeys to follow orders.
This happened to a friend of mine too, and he even forgot he had a twitter account.
Most of which can be summarized as "magic". The less "magic" you have, easier it is to fill new positions.
I have found Akka and the actor model to be pretty straight forward, easy to use and understand. I think it makes writing distributed algorithms a breeze (first hand experience). Can you give more details about what you found complicated in it?
I've met managers who say that but then are surprised when developers in their team complain bitterly about working on anything other than the "hot" technologies.
I had one of these, it wasn't very hard to learn - the movements were very similar to querty. I started getting RSI and this helped a lot.

Now I learnt a bit about typing skills and ergonomics I am fine on a regular keyboard, but I would have kept on with the datahands if not for its massive lack of practicality.

Basic typing was great, but using it on a mac for programming was not so great - all the modifier keys were wrong, and the PS2-USB connection was flaky. Not to mention carrying it around with a laptop was basically impossible without a dedicated case...
Because fingerprints should be used as usernames, not passwords.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
Google's reverse image search and tineye.