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onefinestay - javascript application developer - London, UK

# who are we?

There’s a new way to stay in a city. onefinestay is a trusted service for hosts to flexibly share their homes while they’re out of town. We give guests the best bits of a boutique hotel stay inside some of the most distinctive homes around.

# why does onefinestay need developers?

As well as continuously improving www.onefinestay.com we’re building a whole bevy of tools to support the very real, very logistical business that depends on technology, from mobile tools to scheduling systems. Here’s a snapshot of some of the things we're currently working on, will be working on soon, or maybe just finished.

Updating the entire online pre-stay experience for guests (we call it, online check-in)

Launched a brand new online magazine with custom cms called The Edition

Developed an authentication and staff management system to handle our ever-growing team

Completely revamping the entire site to support mobile devices (40% of our traffic comes from iOS)

# who do we want?

We're looking for someone who can question the status quo, bring new ideas to the table, see the full potential of a new feature (and push it to realisation), or if necessary tone down something that is getting out of hand. Everyone on the team is a fullstack developer, to some degree. But our django heavy application is moving more and more to the client in order to keep our interfaces as usable as possible. We'd like you to have some experience with server-side code in a production environment, but if yours isn’t in python or django, don't worry, there’ll be plenty of time to learn. With that in mind, we’re looking for:

High-level ability in HTML/CSS (SASS)

MVC style application development with javascript (backbone, underscore, react)

Some experience with server side frameworks (django, RoR, express)

Ability to work with our product team to develop high quality user experience

Strong knowledge of web standards and cross-browser compatibility

There's a bunch of other stuff that will go a long way to get us excited:

Experience with source control (git, mercurial)

Experience with agile development methodologies

Comfortable working with pre-processors such as browserify, React's jsx format

Experience with CI and automated testing (jenkins, jasmine)

# what we can offer you?

Competitive salaries

Stock options

A social work environment filled to the brim with talented developers

Your choice of dev environment (on the penthouse floor of our sweet new offices)

Time to expand and grow your skills
That's an important part of Julia, but it's also important to talk about the language as a language. One of nice things about Julia is that it has things to talk about other than its numerical computing capabilities :) Those are fine and dandy, but as a non-numerical-computer, I find lots to like about Julia that has nothing to do with its ability to multiply matrices.
Are you kidding? The USAF has a very cozy relationship with the ULA. It was obvious to any non-naive observer at the time that the block buy was designed to lock in billions of dollars in government spending to the ULA before SpaceX would come along and smash the existing pricing structure, offering launches that ULA couldn't hope to compete with.

Even if SpaceX's prices go up with EELV launches, and even if they would never incorporate reusability into EELV launches, they would still be able to offer launches for every possible EELV payload at prices far below ULA's. Anything ULA could launch on any of their vehicles SpaceX could launch on the Falcon Heavy, and many launches (like GPS birds) could happen on the even cheaper Falcon 9.

With reusability, which SpaceX seems to have a good handle on, those costs get slashed, especially the cost of the Falcon Heavy. Any EELV payload could be launched on a reusable Falcon Heavy, even if it meant forgoing crossfeed. Even if the first stages could only be reused twice (a paltry amount) that would lower the cost of a reusable Falcon Heavy to around the cost of a Falcon 9, around $50 million.

Keep in mind that every ULA launcher uses an RL-10 in the upper stage, and that's a $40 million engine. Even at discounted prices simply having an engine that expensive (to say nothing of the rest of the vehicle) on every launch makes it impossible to offer launches as cheap as SpaceX could.
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Actually the cited article conclusion reads:

Conclusion

There is no evidence that Townes-Whitley’s connection to the first lady,
or CGI’s campaign contributions, had anything to do with the contract being
awarded to CGI Federal as viral emails suggest.

Company and government officials say the contract was awarded through a competitive
— yet limited — process, and that Townes-Whitley was not involved.
Yeah, I do that a lot

I don't like bikes, for medium distances I prefer to go by public transport/own transport

Unfortunately walking works only on moderate distances round-trip (you can go further if you go or return using something else)
I certainly love the premise, though $12.99 is a high price point in this day and age, no?
I know Sketch is mentioned in the FAQ as something that may come later. But, Sketch is quickly becoming the darling of the web design world, and the development world just hasn't adopted it yet. Want to corner the market? Support Sketch sooner, rather than later. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Avocode can do!
The HPC paper struck me as a lot more detailed, rigorous and useful. I read the Google paper later (assuming we're talking about the same one, they came out at roughly the same time), and the only useful takeaway I got from it was that disk companies seem to have solved moderately high temperature issues, Google actually saw a correlation with longer life and higher temperatures.
When you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is?

That's like clicking on a bookmark. But when you need to tell someone else (who is unfamiliar with the district) where that coffee shop is, or vice-versa, that information becomes really important. Hiding the path and showing only the domain is like telling someone "it's in California".

On the other hand, if the URL is displayed, then there will be many who take note of the fact that it changes whenever they click on a new link or go back/foward, and it makes them mentally associate "that piece of text" with "this page I'm looking at" - they don't even need to know the term URL to do that. It's a bit unfortunate that browsers don't have "Address:" next to it anymore, because that would've made this association so much easier (someone seems to have made the same observation almost ten years ago, although it was FF vs IE: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2004/09/address-label-for-address-ba... ). Having made that association, they can then tell you exactly where a page they're looking at is, and vice-versa.
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Awhile ago, I was robbed at gunpoint while walking through the West Village in Manhattan...I live on the east side but I always walk south along one of the main avenues, then back north, just because it's a nice walk and I also get inexplicably confused by the non-grid-iness of the west side streets. When I had trouble pointing out the exact corner that I was robbed on, the detective point blank asked me if I had made up the story of being robbed, to cover up for a botched meeting with a prostitute (which I guess is common on the west side or something?), because he just couldn't believe why I would walk such a convoluted route to get home.

Also...this is something I learned in high school after learning to drive...when I had to walk or be driven to places, I never paid much attention to what order the streets were in...and only after driving myself does their order become important in my mind. Also, the age of Google Maps makes remembering streets even more irrelevant...I think that was also a factor in the detective's skepticism of me being slightly confused about location. What can I say, Manhattan is a city that invites just walking around in a general direction.
Addepar - Mountain View, CA & New York, NY (FULL TIME)

We're a technology company building the next generation infrastructure for finance. Check out our careers page[1] for details or apply by emailing your resume to careers@addepar.com.

[1] https://addepar.com/careers/
Be wary of discussions of Twitter's doom that are still happening on Twitter.
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Well, social science has told us a lot more about the structure of society, power plays, etc, than all "practical findings in fields such as Electromagnetics".

If you want "the same practical findings" from it, it's ovbvious that you ain't gonna get them. Social sciences do not produce light bulbs or combustion engines, not they are meant to.
I agree with you. However, it may have been out of concern that they were being anti-social. There are better ways to address that concern than such a strongly and negatively worded reprimand. Subtlety may not have been that principal's strong suit.
Even without autoplay enabled, many sites are setting the preload attribute which is a much less visible way to consume extra bandwidth. If this is a real concern for you I'd suggest an extension to block Flash and HTML5 video tags.
They are: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/modules/

Or is that not what you were referring to?
The original (stated) purpose of Chrome was to be a new competitor to force ALL browsers to get better. In that I think they succeeded.

Now the purpose of Chrome seems to be as a data-collection and ad-delivery platform for Google. Admittedly, many folks navigate the web by google search already, but this is a step towards making that the ONLY way, at least if you're using Chrome.
iCracked (W12) is looking for full stack hackers to take over the warranty, repair, and buyback space for iOS devices- And we're winning.

iCracked is looking for a Full Stack Developer to join its team and create the ultimate on-demand online and offline customer experiences. You should have Full Stack abilities, amazing PHP and SQL skills, and be all around awesome.

Think of us as the Uber meets AAA of iOS devices. iCracked started on a college campus repairing iPhones 2 years ago. Now, we have a geo-locational, on-demand dispatch service going out to over 500 iTechs in 11 countries around the world. This allows anybody to sell or repair their iPhone, iPod, or iPad whenever, wherever. We are Y Combinator (W12), very well funded, and looking for talented developers to join our team.

We have an incredible, core team of 55 with beautiful office spaces on the water in Redwood City. You'll be joining a talented team of developers and designers to bring together the ultimate on-demand and on-location buyback and repair experience for thousands of existing customers and millions of potential customers around the world. We're working with all kinds of fun data, visualization, APIs, and services to provide a new kind of market and customer experience never seen before.

We're moving fast. We build, iterate and ship constantly so you will be pushing code to production all the time. This is an exciting time to get in a position at the company, as you'll be able to be involved in a lot of the big picture development for our exciting projects in the pipeline.

What we’re looking for in you:

• Full Stack Abilities

• PHP Mastery (We’re always using the most of what PHP has to offer, so you should be well versed and unafraid to dive into the newer features of the language), SQL Dominance, and everything in between

• A love for grepping logs, SSHing around, and editing config files

• Drive (Our business is growing fast, so we need developers who aren’t afraid to take charge of a project and see it through to completion)

• All Around Awesomeness (Everyone here is friendly, intelligent, and very outgoing, and we want to invite more people like that to continue making the company an awesome place to work)

With iCracked, you wouldn’t be starting a new job; you would be joining a family. We take care of all team members and provide almost all amenities to make everybody’s lives better. Salary is negotiable and we have set aside great equity packages and other benefits for you.
I think that's an ok thing. I used to scoff at this sort of behavior but no longer - users who do this are just doing the same thing I do in the address bar, except they're taking up a whole page and an extra click. The address bar is probably too ephemeral and hard to understand.

It's probably a good hint that browsers could find success at imitating a similar search interface in the new page/new tab UI. Offer a clean page with a text search field, with very fast results that have good context.

Chrome and FF have a "View History" page with search, but it seems to be fixed by date and with no way to sort for relevance. IE doesn't appear to have a history search (I think this is baked into Windows search instead?).
Maybe for unattached instance storage this is possible (thought not a good business decision as others have noted). But you are forgetting how Amazon sees those attached instance disks: As raw block devices from the hypervisor.

They see a computer with an attached disk of, say, 1 TB. They don't see the filesystem at all. They don't know if a sequence of zeros is unused space, or are literally zeros in data. There is no way that Amazon can use slack space because they don't know what is slack space.

This incomplete view of how disks (both instance and EBS) are used is also evident by what metrics CloudFront can track: CPU usage. Raw I/O stats for disk and network. To get richer metrics, you have to install scripts/agents running inside your EC2 instance which than beacon the info to CloudFront via the API.

In short, Amazon's current setup means they cannot use the slack space inside of attached block devices, even if they wanted to.
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I have heard Microsoft uses Angular as well, and I know VMware does.
Reading this scares the crap out of me. Unless there are incentives to drug companies (and those who research other antibiotic tech) we could go extinct before anyone creates a solution. Yet drug companies perversely invest billions on drugs that cost $1000 a month and help solve relatively minor ailments.
I understand that perspective, but at least in my case when I see the Facebook login button, it's already an immediate "Nope" for me. I would never see the black button or know it exists.
SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Preferably remote.

Linux systems administrator, MySQL DBA and full stack developer with 8 years of experience, I'm currently looking to work on some new exciting projects, preferably concurrent and distributed applications.

My preferred tools of trade are, in order: Go, Python, C, Flask, Django, AngularJS.

Recent work:

* Django+Celery web application to configure and aggregate data from geographically distributed hardware devices. Real time frontend powered by AngularJS and Django REST Framework.

* Lightweight C multithreaded monitoring system inspired by Nagios for embedded and low power devices. Laravel+PHP+AngularJS realtime frontend.
* Parallel ID3 indexer in Go with efficient bandwidth utilization, capable of indexing hundreds of MP3 files per second on a 100 MBit connection.

* Maintenance and performance tuning of 150+ MySQL installations, processing 150k queries/second on RHEL5 systems for an Italian telco. Design of a Flask web interface to execute queries in parallel over each instance, and to manage credentials and automatic table creation, compression and removal with user-specified patterns.

* Design and implementation of a company-wide OpenLDAP infrastructure to provide granular access control of the IT resources to 1200+ employees. Design of a web interface for creating and revoking access privileges.

Links:

Gmail: stephane.travostino

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=37499513

oDesk profile: https://www.odesk.com/users/~018d2e254e0c751804

Code: http://bitbucket.org/1player -- http://github.com/1player
SEEKING WORK - remote, London UK (for now)

I'm a full-stack web developer who mostly uses Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Python, and PHP. I'm available from the end of June, so I'm interested in hearing from people who are planning for Q3. I live in London, but am moving abroad soon. This means I'd be available in your office for a couple of weeks before switching to remote work.

I spent 4 years at Last.fm developing software used by millions of people, worked at a similar scale at Sun Microsystems, have helped small teams fix their legacy codebase to escape their technical debt, and mentored developers & businesses. I particularly like small teams/startups, and like shaping the product/business direction too.

You can find out more about me at http://alexpounds.com/cv . I'd like to hear from people with firm plans as well as people interested in exploring options.
Reminds me of a friend's response when her doctor asked if she exercised. She said, "On purpose?"

I understand her.

As a busy person, nothing is more boring and time consuming than exercising "on purpose". I ride my bike everywhere, always use the stairs, do my own cleaning, laundry, groceries, and cooking, and constantly jump to conclusions. That oughta be enough.
http://www.15gifts.com - Brighton/London UK - Data Scientist

15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, Orange, T-Mobile and The Times, and we're growing rapidly.

We are now looking for a talented data scientist to join our team and help shape the recommendation algorithms that underpin our product.

Our data science team is at the heart of the company and plays a crucial role in analysing and visualising customer behaviour - using the data to build statistical and machine learning models that generate highly tailored recommendations and drive the product forward through data-led optimisations.

We're looking for someone with strong analysis, statistics, machine learning and programming skills (we’re particularly fond of Python and R). It's a great opportunity to work for a small company (8 employees), while analysing data from some of the largest e-commerce sites in the country and beyond.

Contact peter.fine at 15gifts dot com (our head data scientist) to find out more!
I am an adsense publisher, never experienced a ban before, however I did get my account deactivated once for a violation.

It was like extracting teeth, they would not tell me what it was! It took me 5 days to notice that in an area of my site if hovered over with the mouse an ad would be fractionally covered at the corner (I know, so evil).

I addressed the issue and emailed them back to ask if that was the issue sorted now, they thanked me and said it was now sorted, and sent me screenshots of the problem from the past.

Google, we are not little stringed puppets, realistically all they had to do was tell me what the problem was (with screenshots they had), and it would've been fixed in under 5 minutes.

No, Google apparently doesn't work like the other 99.9% of the population. Are the workers all just sitting around on some massive ego trip? Wondering when daddy is going to bring in a candy floss machine.

Put it this way, if Google were seen as a good company these stories would get no attention at all, I think secretly deep down we all think your eViL and we honestly wouldn't put it past you to do something like this.
This is a strange article, because its content reads like anecdotal (European/Western) history combined with generic self-help advice. There is no evidence presented that people are "walking without purpose" less now than they used to - it seems to me that 17% of walks being "just to walk" is actually a fairly high percentage, but there's no point of comparison. Although people probably walk less now because we have more convenient modes of transportation, is the argument that a greater percentage of walks were purposeless in the past?

Treating "Great White Men" of the past as exemplars of how life used to be is ridiculous. Advising people to get out and walk for the sake of walking is great, but I don't think we need to pretend that we've lost a great source of creative thinking that used to be more universal.
Of course, we all knew it was coming. Human spaceflight inside Dragon has always being a goal. The unmanned resupply missions are steeping stones to certifying the rocket and capsule for human flight (though unmanned resupply missions and other launches will continue of course).
> Given the circumstances, why would the USAF not bid out the launches?

For the same reason a company that sells a CRUD app might only support Oracle and not other databases. Always working with the same vendor each time reduces technical complexity. People will knee-jerk and say "corruption" but an engineer should be able to at least see where the USAF is coming from.

Given that this is national-security grade stuff, there's also some political and practical considerations. The DOD can't really allow a true market for defense equipment and services. Markets are messy, they go through transition and disruption. That's not acceptable in a national-security context.
> economists for the National Pork Producers Council estimated that removing antibiotics from hog raising would force farmers to spend $4.50 more per pig, a cost that would be passed on to consumers

That is an unbelievable. A single pig produces over 100 pounds of meat, so we are risking catastrophe for a cost savings of less than 5 cents per pound of meat.
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Pixfizz - Remote (Los Angeles area)

Customer Account/Support Manager
Due to growth and a focus on delivering the best customer experience, Pixfizz welcomes an important member to join a dynamic, young team.

Responsibilities:
Manage implementation and on-boarding of customer set-up and business development support. Main content involves a mixture of platform integration, account management and data analysis.
You'll be dealing with business clients helping them get the most out of the platform.

Required skills:
Good understanding of XML, web APIs, HTML, CSS and basic knowledge of JavaScript. Other programming/scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl or .NET and Java, is not essential but an advantage.

Based in the US (preferably in Southern California)

Company and Products:
Headquartered in London with staff in Europe and USA, company is self-funded and profitable. We provide a cloud-based web-to-print solution for a wide range of applications such as photo books, calendars, greeting cards, yearbooks, etc. Customized and private branded storefronts delivered with an online HTML5 editor, is core to the business value proposition.

Please email daniel@pixfizz.com with if you're interested.
There is this, which is similar but not quite the same:

julia> "hello" |> reverse |> uppercase
"OLLEH"
The Minecraft world is not static. Plants grow, altering the landscape. Creepers destroy things, which can alter water channels. Thats before the fact that the fundamental gameplay element is to break down blocks into useful items. I guess they will reload the map until people play properly and "with respect". Thanks Denmark, for giving us the world's first Minecraft dictatorship!
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I would argue that true design is the essence of engineering. Or alternatively, that engineering is simply directed design.
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