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Shoe Lovers/Burlingame, CA/Front End Engineer

Shoe Lovers is hiring a Front End Engineer to join it's growing team of 8!

Shoe Lovers (https://angel.co/shoe-lovers) is the world’s largest online community for shoe fashionistas, curated with love. We have grown to 20+M Facebook fans in a little over a year by offering a unique mobile social commerce platform to help passionate women who love shoes to find offers, discover trends around the world, and share their passion with others.

Do you want to be part of a team riding hyper-growth customer acquisition? ShoeLovers has added 20+M fans in a year, and we are scaling the company to meet demand and offer a continuing array of exciting additional products. We are a small team who are as passionate about our market as our fans are, tackling the challenges of creating a large-scale platform that handles millions of customer interactions daily. We have raised $650k of seed funding and are now looking for key team members who are excited by this challenge of creating the world’s largest fashion social market, initially in Spanish-speaking geographies and later the world. If you thrive in a collaborative high growth environment and can add tremendous value to the team, we’d like to talk to you.

Our goal is to bring value to our users and customers by delivering the best experience. As a Front End Engineer, you will specialize in building responsive and elegant web applications that reach millions of users; fashion, design and beauty are part of our DNA and as such our front end mindset should adapt to it. You will work closely with our design team to translate design concepts into best-of-breed HTML, CSS and Javascript.

We are looking for experience with the following: JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML/JSON.

Our stack is a broad SOA platform with mostly PHP and Python on the back. We believe in aggressive decoupling of independent concerns to facilitate team independence and platform stability. We move quickly, strive to release several times a week and believe strongly in automated testing to help maintain our quality and velocity.

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume to: jobs@shoelovers.co
If you had several candidates of equal ability, would you still use an exploding offer?

I would think you would. If you have 10 candidates but only want to hire 1, you can only issue one offer at a time regardless the fact that all 10 are equally qualified. While the first candidate would love to have all the time in the world to contemplate the offer, the employer and the other 9 candidates who are waiting in line don't want that.
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Hey!

I have a opportunity that you might be interested in. It's a two engagement, on an existing project. Basically, my lead developer just left for a two week vacation and there's still a bunch of work to do, so I'm looking for a replacement during the interim and of course, if we work well together on this then there will be several other projects that I would inform you on going forward.

If you're interested in coming on board for two weeks, we can discuss hourly payment and further details, please send me an email: pblogsltd@gmail.com

Thanks!
Can't even get it to work. Runs, but does nada. What am I missing?
"In fact the SNP is rather keen on encouraging immigration. I'd far rather have the right to live and work anywhere in the EU than be trapped in the UK with Boris Johnson as PM running second hand UKIP policies."

The SNP proposed plan is to encourage skilled workers (from outside the EU) using a controlled points-based system. That's quite a different policy position to the EU where EU citizens can freely live and work in any EU country. I doubt many people in the UK would object to the skilled immigration policy the SNP proposes. But, of course, we need workers of all skill levels. I agree that the rhetoric from the UKIP and Conservative party on this subject (and the toxic British Press) is often alarmist and inflammatory.
That it still works today (at least on Chrome 37) is probably the real news here.
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What's another business that derived their product or company name directly from a TV show or movie? Just curious.
BTC becoming an official currency and time travel are the two things I'm not expecting to see in my lifespan :-)
That's not the point. 99% of the people out there have it on.
I don't understand why more resources aren't devoted to developing geothermal. We are all floating on top of endless layers of energy-dense molten rock.
I agree, but exploding offers tend to explode sometime after "immediately". i.e., the deadline can be enough time to think everything through and do your due diligence. Still an exploding offer.
IMO a better analogy for "just sending packets" would be entering a store and looking around, or sending a package through the mail.

Why? Because it could EITHER be totally-legal or blatantly-illegal, depending on the time, place, manner, and other details.

Maybe they entered during business-hours, or maybe they broke in at 3AM. Maybe the package was a gift, maybe it was an explosive.
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The App Store review guidelines present a large number of specific rules, but before that, they say right up front that "This is a living document, and new Apps ... may result in new rules at any time. Perhaps your App will trigger this." In other words, they reserve the right to reject any App at any time for any reason that strikes their fancy; the guidelines are just a list of reasons they've used in the past, presented for ready reference.

(And while the text of their license agreements is covered by NDA, versions that have leaked in the past have been even more explicit about Apple's right to kick apps and developers out of the app store at any time, for any reason.)

So, a library designed for the specific purpose of doing an end-run around the review process does not sound like a good bet.
The hydrogen+boron fusion reaction produces three helium nuclei moving at about 2 million volts. All the energy is kinetic and held by charged particles, which means it can be extracted using normal electromagnetic techniques. Charged plates, coils, etc to step down the voltage are all that is needed, no 'boiler' intermediary step.
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> 1. It's a not a real-world scenario.

Kidding? Many many many immigrants who come to the US come in order to find a job so that they can send money back home and help support their relatives who live in the developing world. It is incredibly common, and Western Union (and only a few other players) have had a monopoly/oligopoly in this space for far too long, making bank.
So ridiculous and cool
> do you believe in democracy?

I can get ~$500 for a bitcoin. Idealistic political concepts
are worth nothing on the market.
It is ok. Thank you for submitting an interesting article.

This attack vector is very relevant to this day. It works remarkably well on mobile phones, especially with the new trend of hiding the URLs to save screen estate. Together with throwing up a fake website, you could also try throwing up a fake address bar.

Also with mobile phones you can emulate a native application. This will show when the phone is re-activated with the browser app on.

A redirect to something like a Googleusercontent domain would be tricky, even with a visible URL. The author could also mine the referrer: visitor from HackerNews? Phish the log-in form with a bad gateway message.
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Creddle offers more theme customization than many other resume sites; themes are a set of customizations rather than a fixed template. Technically you can transform one theme into another.

If you want to stand out, add more customization to the base theme. But I do recognize that customization is still limited and that there's plenty more room for growth. I just hope that it's enough to get started.
Thanks for the pointer. Civilization looks good too.
This is a false dichotomy that keeps being restated. The air pollution is China is not primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, but due to poor regulations. If their coal plants and automobiles were modern and up to western standards , there wouldn't be any issues. The air above Beijing and Shanghai doesn't look horrible b.c of CO2, but because of soot and other particulates produced by inefficient plants and factories.

They are focusing on nuclear for reasons of energy diversification and independence. (look at how Russia has Germany by the balls right now)
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Alodial rights to your wealth. There isn't really another great reason.
There's also a really great Android app called DSub that integrates really well with it (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren...)
I'm not sure why you're being down voted as I have noticed this as well and thought the exact same thing regarding anandtech article frequency increasing since he left, when I logged on to HN this morning.
I think there is some truth to your critique, but I'm not sure the conclusion should be that Mozilla should be focusing on software developers, as software developers are not the bulk of its users.

But the original article doesn't just point to a problem with Firefox for developers, but also a problem that makes it hard for developers to create extensions, which can mean a worse experience for Firefox users.

Mozilla's ideology does have the the potential to be focused on user value. Mozilla is, according to its formal and written mission, dedicated to the "open web" (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/), not to all Good Things. And Mozilla has succeeded in ways because it has consistently held faith in the web, when others have not. Microsoft gave up on browsers and Mozilla didn't, which was Firefox's first big win. Google gets distracted by Dart and (P)NaCL, while Mozilla sticks with Javascript and creates something like ASM.js. Or compare Android and iOS to Firefox OS – Mozilla is really sticking its neck out to support the open web in this case. Firefox OS isn't about social justice, that is a product being created to defend an ideology focused on the open web, and it's a huge allocation of resources by Mozilla.

Extensions actually fit in kind of poorly here, which is perhaps why things are rough. Extensions aren't the open web, and while there's value in Extensions for Firefox-the-product it doesn't have good mission alignment.

All that said, I'd agree that Mozilla, like many mission-led organizations, has a real challenge distinguishing its aspirations from the work that really defines its contribution to the world.
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Great! I tried it out; when I combined a galaxy with a field , many particles went flying from the center at a high rate of speed. Why is that?
> the first thing he does is verbally reject the deadline

Verbally reject the offer or the deadline?

Can you give us some examples?

I understand that it is most likely the deadline, but from the sounds of it the strategy should be a little more complex.

Currently it sounds like:

Someone: We would need an answer in 10 days?

Your friend: I can't reply in 10 day.

--- 12 days later ---

Your friend: The answer is yes.

Someone: We'll give you the money.

The success rate of this exchange seems questionable.
well at least it supports negative mass ;)
Thanks for clarification. Now that I think about, I used to care about my resume appearance—I guess since then I've become more pragmatic (and expect from any potential employer the same).
A very quick look at Archive.org suggests godaddy rolls out new homepages really often and they all look pretty contemporary, so it's probably a coincidence that something in their queue also looked like your site.

You could probably learn a lot by monitoring their designs btw and seeing how long they use them and what elements are persisting (aka working) across designs.
Very interesting, thanks! I unpacked the .deb, the nodejs source is pretty easy to follow, so I'd say you pretty much already have the public API done. ;-)

The /link API is interesting, versus generating a token on your site through the UI. You might want to consider allowing an explicit $$ limit on /buy, since you store the api-key in the clear (albeit in a config file set to 0600).

It looks like you still rely on being able to receive an email on the domain and click an approval link, though. I'm sure this is a RapidSSL requirement, but it makes full automation more complex (certainly not impossible).
"Anything you drink after noon will still be at 50% strength at bedtime."

I don't think he did the math on this one...
> Longevity will be

... I sure hope that wasn't an ironic interruption.
I use enigmail because it's an easy way to generate a bit more PGP signed/encrypted traffic, which is a good thing.

If it was important, I would probably encrypt on the command line, on a more trustworthy device than my regular PC.

Also, I haven't checked, but I have a suspicion Thunderbird saves unencrypted drafts to the server while you're composing.
Thanks again for the excellent response, and for the history lesson on why multicast was chosen over broadcast for NDP.

I've done tons of work in private vlans over the years. I was part of a months long effort to find and document bugs in private vlans at a vendor, where my primary focus was to find and document bugs only in private vlans.

Residential ISPs love private vlans because it prevents different customers from seeing each other's broadcast traffic. DHCP Snooping to prevent things like ARP spoofing, in combination with private vlans to limit broadcast traffic will mostly lock things down pretty well.

It's funny you should provide a link to a resource from the Deploy360 Programme. I just finished doing a stint with the Deploy360 Programme as a writer working on, among other things, IPv6 resources. My real name is Andrew McConachie.
I can quit anytime I want.
Knowing you'll be AROUND for the next Dino-killer is a great motivator to do something proactive about it.
You're allowed to think whatever you want obviously; my point was that stating you'd wish they'd gone a different direction is much different than seemingly positioning an argument for what they should and shouldn't do as realistic or in any way beneficial for Twitter. I'm glad you cleared that up but your personal opinions on their direction seem in contention with your admittance that it wouldn't be possible or advantageous for them to follow what you'd like them to do. In regards to email, the oligopoly of decent clients act in a way really no less perverse than Twitter does (which I don't think is much at all mind you).
The critique of the development process doesn't really apply. But the review process does to a degree – there are high-privilege APIs in Firefox OS that require review to ensure they are used responsibly. Distributing apps that use those APIs requires approval.
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Hi guys, going to be launching my bootstrapped project https://scrape.it which I've been working for a good 4+ months, and I want to get some opinions as to what I should do before opening it up.

I've implemented analytics to measure engagement.
I'm using Uservoice for customer development.
I'm recording a screencast to show how to use the tool with voiceover.
I've tested out the tool a lot to see that it works well.

What I think I should implement is, the ability to send emails after X number of days based on user action (not sure what this is called and what tools are out there that I can try out).

My plan is to reach out to a mailing list in regular chunks (is this called drip email marketing?)

Anyways, super excited, maybe I will post it in Show HN when it's fully ready, I just want to know if there's anything else that I might be missing, feedbacks are welcome of course!
The independence campaign has to hand-wave the issue, and can't outright declare that Scotland would almost certainly have a currency-union with the UK, because it's ultimately contingent on the UK government.

If they did, the unionists/UK government could attempt to call their bluff by having UK politicians declare that a currency-union would never happen. It's doesn't cost the unionist politicians very much credibility and it undermines the independence campaign on that key issue, whether or not a currency union is a strong likelihood in the case of independence.
I think that you're fond of bitcoin (the protocol) but you clearly don't understand the social ramifications of what you're talking about: Democracy and anonymous, decentralized currencies do not play well together :-)
You assume it was a dealership. A perfectly legit example of an exploding offer would be a used car with an attractive price where the deal goes to the first person to show up and claim it.
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This super absorbent athletic towel conveniently placed around the neck makes it easier to wipe sweat and partake in physical activities without picking up or putting down a regular gym towel. The towel is a great accessory for various forms of working out, whether lifting weights, hiking, dancing, running on a treadmill or spin class.
I did _not_ know about this one: Ctrl + xx

And here I am thinking I knew everything about navigating the shell.
Experience starting quite a long time ago.

And geez there's a boatload of things to take into account and they have to become second nature (like playing a sport or self defense) so you just have to spend time and practice all the time and keep practicing.

I actually keep my own notes on all my thoughts and techniques that pop into my mind.

Here is one as example.

Timing. Timing is important. I take into account not only how quickly someone replies but how quickly I reply or get back to someone. There is a reason and a strategy behind what people do in most, but of course not all cases. Even the time of day they reply and the length of the reply and exactly the words they use as well. Say when you propose something how quickly do they get back to you? All context in different cases means different things.

Also timing as far as when you spring things upon people.

For example I'm currently in the process of getting my bathroom quoted for remodeling. I've settled on a particular vendor that I'm pretty sure I will use. We've been going back and forth on details for probably 6 to 8 weeks. They've given me pricing and I haven't asked or said anything regarding getting a discount. At all. I also haven't asked for any exact details on products they are using. I don't care at this point.

What I will do is most likely bring up a discount at the very end of the process. When they have already spent time on the deal and don't want to lose it. [1] I will also bring up other factors to them (non monetary but convenience for us) at the end. I know they won't be as likely to blow off those concerns after the big investment in time they have made.

[1] After listening to my war stories my ex wife used the same technique against me when we were ready to sign our divorce papers. At the very end as we sat there the deal all done and papers ready to sign she said "I'll only sign if you also pay for my trip to XYZ". While I could have walked she knew me well enough to know that I wouldn't and actually I was kind of proud that she had listened and learned. Which is another point in order to negotiate you have to know as much as you can about the motivations of the other side as possible. (So research is important).
Great! I wanted to say that the "add random" button tends to shoot particles light-years away, never to be seen again. Is that what you were intending?
One could argue that the smaller the government is and the more local the taxes are, less is the percentage spent on the things inhabitants of this locality do not want. Example: if you raise taxes on city level, then spending decisions are influenced only by people living in your city, and the chance it would be spent on building an airport in the next county that nobody flies from, to suit some politician, are much less. OTOH, if all the taxes are collected by a huge central government, the chances that you will disagree with a lot of its spending are much higher.

Of course, the hybrid model is possible - with only taxes that are needed specifically for big things - like national defense - collected on hight level, and taxes needed for local things - like police, roads, schools, etc. - collected on the lower levels. That's how the federalism works.
The Westphalian system exposed it's massive flaw not in 1914 but at the turn of the 19th century. The Westphalian states could not stop a rampaging Napoleon from conquering vast swathes of territory until marched 500,000 men without proper supplies into a Russian winter.

Ukraine is an excellent example of the flaws of NATO - the system of small countries has to be plausible in their desire to stand up for each other. And the Baltic states have just cause to be very nervous these days - it is American backing that secures them, not the smaller NATO members who don't even meet their 2% of GDP spending pledge.

The problem of the Scottish debate regarding international relations is that it is so focused on 2003 Iraq. It forgets the many good international engagements the UK has been a part of, and the potential future ones it could. Only powerful countries get to make mistakes on the magnitude of Iraq. An independent Scotland would not be able to look at something like Bosnia, Kosovo or Sierra Leone and be able to intervene if it wanted to.

Alternatively see a certain Team America speech about various bits of the anatomy...
I don't think that colored coins will have much success. There is a reason that bitcoin was designed without a fixed exchange rate to any other asset or currency.

An issuer of colored coins would be centralized. It would be a weak spot that needs to be trusted and that can be controlled. The benefits of bitcoin would soon be lost.
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Ooshma, founder of Gobble who has a quick cameo in this video, is a total boss. The quality of women founders in YC is phenomenal, I'm proud to be associated. Though this is an extremely random TV spot, and I think it would be more interesting if Zosia Marmet asked Ooshma this question instead of the other way around.