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Idaho (remote or on-site)

KickBack Rewards Systems
http://www.kickbacksystems.com
http://careers.kickbacksystems.com

I'm a senior manager at KRS. We're a bootstrapped and profitable start-up. We're building a nation-wide coalition loyalty program and already have thousands of clients and thousands of locations on the program. Our clients include a half-dozen Fortune 50 companies - one that is an anchor partner in our coalition loyalty program. As the Director of Software Development I need some help! You will be joining a medium sized team of 11 developers. If you are interested in any of these positions my contact information is under my profile.

Data Scientist

We are looking for a world-class data scientist to get in to the minds of our customers. Your job will be to analyze our "large" data-sets, identify patterns, determine consumer sentiment and provide them with incredible offer. Looking for someone with extensive programming and modeling experience using the Hadoop ecosystem. At KickBack you will research and implement new scalable learning algorithms and data mining techniques including sequential data models, variable discretization, feature extraction, selection, and construction. Machine learning a plus. We're looking for an expert someone we would consider a "game changer" and are paying accordingly.

Back-end Developer

We're looking for a pro that can create scalable back-ends. Message queues, concurrency and fault tolerance should be second-nature to you.

Front-end Developer

We're looking for an expert in Angular whom can pair with our aforementioned world-class back-end developer. Heck, if you aren't an angular pro, anyone with amazing front-end skills will do, you can pick-up our framework or suggest a better one as you work in to the role. UX skills a plus. Like any start-up, we're big on usability.

Mobile Developer

We're looking for two mobile developers. We have a specific vision for our mobile platform and have already moved past html5 interfaces to native applications to improve performance.

DevOps

(Multiple positions) We're looking for a Hadoop cluster administrator and an overall DevOps engineer proficient in Chef, Celery, Message Queues, Networking, BGP AnyCast, etc. We'll always train the right candidate so junior developers and candidates fresh out of a university are welcome to apply.
Thanks!
I haven't looked into it yet, but it shouldn't be too hard. If nothing more, it could be a simple wrapper over the existing email protocol.

You're spot on about why coding is fun!

Edit: thanks, btw!
Some other commentators on this article noted 95% of people pay nothing in IAP games, and some pay a huge amount, which pays for everyone. I think this would mean that your proposal of two versions would cannibalize each other in a very bad way. The large majority would play the free game and pay nothing, while the "whales" would only pay $40 instead of the huge amounts they would otherwise.
So you'd lose both the "tail" and the the "head".
Well, if you see what happened with UDID and how much kerfuffle there was to get from there to IDFA it's pretty obvious Apple wants to protect the user.

For a contrast to Android you just need to read this article:
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140130170002-11...
The claim that demos are proven to reduce sales lacks context.

The Apogee shareware model was extremely successful in its day but was predicated on certain assumptions about marketing and distribution that are no longer true. A standard scenario is that you'd read about the game in a magazine, play the demo episode on the accompanying disk, order the full version by fax or telephone and then have it within a few days.

Games based on the Apogee model were designed from the ground up to demo well and hence monetize well.
Another thing to teach my kids about personal finance.
How in-app purchase is not really destroying the games industry
I witnessed this in highschool. The first school I went to was extremely authoritarian and was grade 8-12. Fights and bullies a common occurrence. I didn't have a problem dealing with them but other kids had a brutal time, pushed down the stairs breaking their jaws, fights everyday, kids waiting around the field after dark to catch you crossing it by yourself for a brutal beating, one kid had his hair lit on fire in chem 11 class, police would shake the students down for drugs and weapons almost every week.

I got kicked out for redboxing the school payphone and for reciting the lyrics to Nazi school and saluting my detention room minders, which is some old 80s song on the KBD comps http://youtu.be/QJ5kuA_66u8

I was sent by my country's ministry of education to a school of 'criminal youth' with 1200 students and no rules that was 10-12 grade. Not one fight. Many of the kids were serious gangsters involved in operating drug lines or fresh out of juvie hall. With no rules to rebel against everybody hung out including geeky neckbeards with Christian Audiger wearing Gs. They told us it was up to us to pass or fail, they weren't responsible and we could do anything we wanted including not showing up. Meanwhile my friends would lament of the stifling rules and regulations back in my old school that saw endemic violence and brutality. The more you try to control people the worse they become it seems.

My first week at the new school I acted like I was still in an institution by booting my books down the halls, and generally being a complete goof. Nobody paid attention to me and my antics didn't move me up the social ladder. There's no reason to rebel against a place without any rules that tells you your own actions will decide if you sink or swim. No nannies phoning home to your parents saying you didn't show up, no detention, no late slips, no punishment for disrupting a class either. We would talk to each other in the middle of a lecture and the teacher didn't go on a massive power trip trying to punish and humiliate us in front of all the other students. We were just told that if we didn't listen or respect the teachers we'd fail in life, so we listened.

Compare that to my last school when in grade 8 I was dragged into a Socials 12 class because the instructor thought I made a racist comment in the hallways when it was some other older kids who did while passing by. He basically encouraged the other Grade 12 students to 'teach me a lesson' through violence and would harass me on a regular basis because of this. I reacted like any other kid, become a total nightmare student and get kicked out.
Dancer sings for 1st time must see...
Special Report – Tech Startups [pdf]
There's a difference between maximizing entertainment (which is how Jeopardy! is designed) and maximizing victory (which is how Arthur Chu is playing). In well-balanced games designed for competition, this is a non-issue. This does not describe Jeopardy! (or virtually any other game show).
You're comparing apples to oranges. Implementing a data structure in one language cannot be compared to implementing a data structure in a different one.
My impossible idea? I was not the one who coined the phrase "Zero tolerance."
40,000 Bell customers’ personal information leaked online by hacker group
SEEKING WORK

We're small agency located in Eastern Europe. We do both design and coding, building projects from the ground up.

Latest apps:

http://taskthemall.com/ (on the way)
http://geekjob.ru/ 10K+ users

Our stack:

(ASP.NET MVC, C#) || (Node.Js, JavaScript)

Best money for value!

Write to my email: roman.pushkin@gmail.com
You'd have to understand more about Erlang semantics to appreciate it. Those who have used Erlang or hacked the Erlang language itself know this to be nontrivial.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area, CA or REMOTE, TRAVEL OK

I build apps, websites, APIs, and turnkey solutions that solve critical business problems. Here are some recent projects (more at https://www.pilvy.com/):

* An iOS VPN client for a major VPN service provider that uses iOS's built-in configuration profiles.

* IVPN Client for Windows: Developed for IVPN (https://www.ivpn.net/), who had some unique security & privacy requirements. Based on OpenVPN.

* VMware End User Computing Demo Portal (https://www.vmwdemo.com/): Allows VMware's sales and marketing teams to easily demonstrate the Horizon product suite to potential customers. Eliminated a ton of time-consuming work by automating Active Directory/LDAP account provisioning, expiry, and integration with Horizon Workspace.

I'm looking for short-term (near-full time) and long-term (part-time) projects. Available from mid-February.

tech: node.js, JavaScript, Objective-C/Cocoa/iOS, Ruby on Rails, C#/.NET, Python, Elixir/Erlang

https://www.pilvy.com | https://github.com/ammmir | amir at pilvy dot com
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7021429
Flat is nothing more than a cost cutting measure to "benefit" developers. They don't have to pay for or do design any more so they can be more productive in churning out more of the trivial things Steven Sinofsy and Jony Ive think really sell licenses and machines.

I feel really sorry for all the graphics design people whose work I loved and who now have to use pastel crayons with large blunt tips which of course anyone can do so puts the designers pretty much out of work. I hope this too shall pass and eye pleasing detail shall return. I just hope all the designers weren't pushed into becoming higher paid programmers never to return to esthetics.
Success is borne on the back of work you hate. The difference between the top and the rest are those who persevered through the grinding, gruelling agony of doing what it takes to get where they wanted to go. If you only have the self-discipline to work on a project that excites you tomorrow, you can only work on projects that last one day.

It's probably your hate that is holding you back from doing the work that is essential. You have to let the hate go and just do the work you really need to do.
This is an important point to make. In fact US deaths from cancer are on the decline too:

> An American Cancer Society report finds steady declines in cancer death rates for the past two decades add up to a 20 percent drop in the overall risk of dying from cancer over that time period.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140107102634.ht...
It takes 3 years.
> Dumping Metro is a great step toward making Windows 8 more attractive, but the Windows 8 desktop mode still doesn't have a real Start menu.

Because they aren't actually dumping metro? The problem with metro wasn't that it was the default UI, but that it replaced the start menu. I really hate all these disingenuous tech reporters who lauded the "return of the start button", when they knew true well that the problem wasn't that the button disappeared, but that the menu was gone. Now we have another shill reporter claiming victory because of a default change, when metro is still just a click away.

The problem with metro is that it exists at all (on non touch screen devices).
Shopular - Redwood City, CA

Shopular's mission is to create the most intuitive and effortless way to save money while shopping. The iOS and Android apps have over 20,000 reviews and widely loved. Time featured Shopular as one of the 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2013. Shopular is backed by Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital.

The best part is that we are still a small team of 5: high-caliber engineers from Google, Shopkick, Ooyala and Loopt

We are growing the engineering team and looking for experienced and eager individuals who share our passion for creating consumer experiences that "just work". You get significant equity, significant responsibility and a company with traction and backing.

Our stack: iOS/Android, Python, Postgres, Redis

* iOS Lead

Master of iOS with significant prior experience building beautiful consumer-facing app(s) with a large number of users. You have built complex apps from scratch. When needed, you are comfortable jumping into the backend (python or ruby experience preferred) to build features to support the app.

* Android Lead

Master of Android with significant prior experience building consumer-facing app(s) with a large number of users. You have built complex apps from scratch. When needed, you are comfortable jumping into the backend (python or ruby experience preferred) to build features to support the app.

* Backend Lead

You can handle the entire backend stack including the DB, production app servers, web servers, caching. You have built systems with significant scale and low latency performance. You have deployed and maintained servers, built DB schemas to scale, used effective caching for performance, handled high throughput systems. You will lead the entire backend.

* Full-Stack Engineer

You are a go-getter, fast learner, get-work-done engineer. You love new challenges and find creative solutions for problems. You are comfortable building features in the backend, to creating web UI using JS/HTML.

* UI/UX Designer

You have experience building mobile app interfaces. You are full-stack and can handle interface and UX design and also the visual design. You strive to build the most clean and delightful UIs that can improve lives of millions of users. You stress about every part of the UX and every pixel of the UI.

All roles require strong prior experience. If you have been looking for an early-stage startup opportunity where you can create a significant impact and be part of a stellar team, we may be the right fit. Lets talk more!

Join us in our quest to transform physical retail and create the most intuitive consumer experiences. See more at shopular.com and we look forward to hearing from you at join@shopular.com
I hear what you're saying, but I feel like their approach was a bit different. A demo is clearly an incomplete piece of a larger product, hopefully setting up the customer to see the steak, but never taste it. The Apogee model really was to give away a complete contained game, and if the customer wanted "more like that" they basically bought additional "episodes" which were more or less just a couple more complete games built with the same engine and style.

i.e. You can play through all of the Doom shareware episode and enjoy the entire experience of playing a complete game.

It's hard to say it didn't work, when it did work very well for many years. Today, games just aren't produced like that I guess. But I guess the equivalent would be say, a Grand Theft Auto Game set in NYC, with what's just the part of the game where you're locked onto one borough/island, and where you complete enough of the game the episode has a logical "conclusion" or "finish". If you want to play more missions and see more story arcs that include other boroughs you can buy episodes 2 and 3. (this is also different than the DLC approach in some important ways).
I've gotten two of these calls. I tell them I don't have any Windows computers, only Macs. They stutter for a minute and then hang up on me.
Many schools still won't let kids play Bullrush or play in the dirt. This is a low decile school so it seems particularly awesome for the kids to get some exercise as many parents can't afford after school programs.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26271/bullrush-2009
It's not a moot point, assuming he knows as much as his opponent this technique is giving him an advantage. (Which is what makes him and his technique interesting.)

What surprises me is apparently he is the first person to play the game like this.
How is Win8's search any worse? Press Win, type the program you want, press Enter to run it. It looks different, yeah, but functionally it's the same.
A lot of people consider the BBB a protection racket. Businesses pay the BBB to ensure that they have a good "rating", no matter their actual business practices.
BuzzFeed Is The Future (Whether It Lives Or Dies)
You got a bill because you went over the free tier. I've had the same thing and talked to Amazon and they wiped the bill and credited me with $200 worth of credit for the inconvenience and misunderstanding.

Amazon wins, hands down. You get great Linux support and aren't locked into Microsoft's shady tactics of giving away free stuff to only screw you later. That's what Bizspark effectively does, gives you free Visual Studio, other MS software, so when you are profitable, you pay them through the nose, because you are locked into proprietary anti-open-source bait.

You weren't diligent, and didn't even reach out to Amazon. Instead you went with a shitty competitor and we're supposed to applaud that? What's the moral here? That you're unable to reach out to a company when you feel like you were taken advantage of? Sorry, Azure is still garbage and AWS is one of the most advanced and performant cloud platforms available. Amazon still has the best support of any company in the consumer products and web services industry.
jQuery has support for custom builds. You can drop loads of stuff you'll probably never use if you wish!

I usually drop animations and the event shortcut functions. These seem pretty junky to me anyway.
Hah yeah, if the work & daycare sections weren't separate, I would've jumped off a bridge too!

Re: watching over kids: it's like a regular daycare, so they have dedicated staff to take care of the kids. (Which also means the daycare costs extra, on top of the fees for the co-working space itself.)
Keigai – lightweight data stores with reactive components for node and browser
Destroyed? Sounds whiny and old.

Changed.
Just like collect calls!
I prefer the narrative in which sales on Steam are the popular response to high pricing (and DRM), and where Free To Play is something that bad guys do to exploit people's psychology (tapping into the same mecanics as casino do).

You are framing it in a way that makes Free To Play the only valid response to piracy.
He posts comments there about meeting with MS. Anyone know if he ended up getting a job?
Talk to people in the social games industry privately.
Spot on assessment. Ironically, the blog post felt like a MSFT sponsored post...
I pay for Pixelmator with great joy. Awesome product, intuitive interface, frequent updates.
Console.break()
Set breakpoint in before any javascript method call from console.
Ok fine, except that cancer is well... complicated. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
This article is from 2011 and there are pros and cons to the Github and Bitbucket interface. Back then, the similarities were much more striking and they have become a bit more distant since then. As for "obvious content" for each page, you don't actually know what you're talking about, especially when it comes to UX. What is obvious to you is only obvious in hindsight. Consider Sourceforge (especially the old one) and the current Google Code.
Bullshit.

Absolute bullshit. When you're paying HUNDREDS of dollars for software, damn right I expect better support 4 years down the track. Hell, it's barely even support. Let me download it, like you used to only two years back. Are you kidding me?
My reasoning was that if they refuse to admit they are attacking someone out of greed, then the rest of what they say is BS designed to make them look like the good guys.
Wait until your daughter learns to come and knock on the office/study door and call out for you!
Hire the fuck out of this guy, and pay him at least 1.5x normal.

He is thinking in the right direction and Microsoft, you need thinking like this.
I made the switch from AWS to Azure prior to being signed up with BizSpark. And from my experience is a a whole lot more bang for your buck for what you get even it you're just spinning up a bog standard VM. And might I add the AWS micro instance is pretty useless for anything besides having a tiny play. You'll never even have a test site working properly on t1.micro.

The other thing that swung me is the managed scaling for database and IIS in Azure where you just tweak a slider to allocate CPU's as required. Note this works for anything that can run on IIS such as PHP or Node or whatever not just for ASP.NET.

Now with Bizspark (and albeit fairly insignificant traffic for my startup) it's lots of bang for no bucks.

At least for three years until we get any decent traction and will get vendor lock in with MS and get stung by massive SQL licensing costs.

I know there's a lot of bad image for M$, but I honestly and optimistically believe that "Microsoft <3 Startups".
One of the reasons this model worked for KoL is that it grew organically, as a side project that started as a joke and slowly built a community. Initially, donations were mostly to cover bandwidth costs, then became enough for the creator to quit his day job, and eventually enough to hire some extra people.

For more complex games that require more work (and possibly investment), it's questionable that this model could be relied upon. Still, as an old-timer who seldom plays anymore (#53596), I have huge admiration for the Asymmetric team for carving out an awesome niche gaming community with non-exploitive business model.
Microsoft actually employs a very Ubuntu-esque icon as their sharing symbol, baked into Windows 8. This guy isn't responsible for it, didn't try to invent anything, re-invent it, or borrow it, or co-opt it.

That's the very icon that Microsoft actually uses within current versions of Windows.
And now all game information is published neatly in an infobox on top of almost any Superb Owl related search query. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=what+time+is+the+superbowl
Why is Windows Azure a terrible service?
What a coincidence, just received a one-ring call from a Grenada number (473 area code) a few minutes ago.
+1 Thanks, good idea. I put my todo.txt in my Dropbox folder for manual access on my android phone and iPad, and for automatic viewing on opening a new shell tab.
In case it helps: I work here on a monthly "cafe plan" for $325/mo, which means I can take any available seat in an open "cafe" area. A dedicated desk is $525/mo. Full pricing for this location is here:
http://nextspace.us/nextspace-potrero-hill/

Daycare costs extra, but unfortunately I don't know how much (I don't use the daycare facility), and it doesn't seem to be on their website either. My guess though is that it'd be comparable to other daycare places in SF, so basically another $1000-$1500/mo?
I dragged one along for 15 minutes trying to "follow" his instructions, before confessing it was an Ubuntu laptop. He told me "go f* yourself, and your mother is a whore!" and hung up on me. Made me giggle :)
For Android phones, there are caller ID applications (built-in in Google KitKat, or third-party apps like Contactive or Truecaller) that recognize telemarketers and scam callers with reasonable accuracy.

Sure, this has its fair share of privacy concerns.
Nope. Think British selling opium in India, ethical? And notably, selling a variety of addictive dopamine stimulants [including cocaine and methamphetamine] other than games is considered to be unethical.
This might be a shot at Stripe/Braintree/Paypal. All those companies want to use the IDFA as a part of their scheme to uniquely identify devices/users for their one touch payment solution, and Apple has been rumored to be getting into the mobile payments arena.
That reminds me a lot of the Compaq tablet computers, such as the TC1100[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100
I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars just to open a file or convert it to SVG for Sketch. If they were going to be moral about it (IMO), Adobe would offer a free converter.

"B.. b.. but", you might say, "you can't just force Adobe to write a free converter!"

Well, you can't force me to pay for their paid software. And I'm someone who has spent thousands of dollars on graphics software of various kinds over the years.
But what if the software helped you figure that out?

I'm not talking about current marketing software that mainly automates very specific marketing functions like email, social media, PPC management, etc.

I'm talking more about software that would help you build a marketing strategy road map and track what's working and what's not, and then how to adapt.