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Location: San Diego

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: possibly within Southern California

Technologies: Python and R ecosystems, Matlab, Java, Linux, SQL, ETL tools

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbolotov

Projects: http://dbolotov.github.io/

Email: dbolotov {@> live {dot> com

Data science and machine learning specialist with background in physics and engineering. 3+ years of business intelligence and data product development using a variety of languages and tools. Recently finished 9 courses of a data science specialization, and am always excited to learn.

Looking for a role in data science, machine learning research, data engineering :)
I disagree. I think the article speaks rather well about what DevOps is really about. There's actually a great deal of consensus within the community about it's meaning, and Mr. Kim has been a major contributing member for quite some time now. Every DevOpsDays since 2009 has critiqued and reaffirmed the ideals and principles. Have a look at vimeo.com/devopsdays or the wikipedia article for DevOps.

Swapping DevOps for PostOps or NoOps or FooOps doesn't change what it means.

Recruiters and managers starved for multidisciplinary, highly skilled T-shaped staff have started to throw the term around in job descriptions, but misuse of a term doesn't change it's meaning until the majority of its users adopt the evolution.
If their subscription meant no ads showing up then I would have happily kept it.
I think the second one is great, I always love reading about these kinds of loyalty / rewards program hacking like the guy who ordered pudding to get frequent flyer platinum status for life [1].

I've never done anything like the YC app, so I can't speak for which of these would be better, but personally I like number 2. It shows compassion / social responsibility (donating food), the ability to negotiate (getting managers to give you free stuff) and a smartness with money (breaking even on the meals you were buying).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phillips_(entrepreneur)
usually 500 errors (assuming the "You broke Reddit" is a 500) are not considered downtime. They are bugs and need to be addressed.
I hit "try me" button, but it does not work, nothing happens.
This is basically cigar butt investing for the private market, as I doubt the most stable recurring revenue type businesses they seek to own are available at a low enough price to make it work for them.
I was never rich enough to live on campus with a meal plan. But I lived in apartments provided by the university (UW) and they always had kitchens.
I'm trying to set up a team for the competition and was thinking about which language we should choose, then found out c++ is truly a dominant language in the competition, maybe you can get some free data structures etc?
The way I heard it explained -- they prefer to avoid any technology that leaves them too dependent on others outside of their community. Otherwise the outside can have some influence / control over them, instead of being self sufficient. These rules can be relaxed where safety is concerned (i.e., lights on their carriages, refrigeration for the milk), but the lights are powered by batteries that they charge on the farm (from the diesel generator that is used to power the milk refrigeration).
Being rebutted by gwern on a topic of blood chemistry and/or mind-altering drugs isn't anything to be ashamed of. If you were unaware, this is but one of many outstanding "articles" available on his site at no charge:

http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Video Compares iPhone 6 Plus 802.11ac Wi-Fi Speeds to 802.11n iPhone 5s Speeds
> 50 years ago most men had to be married to engage in romantic "happenings"

I don't believe that this is actually true, and expect that it's likely a revision of history pitched by people who wish that were true, eg, people pitching the 50s and 60s as some of idyllic time where the social propaganda matched reality.

In general thinking that the habits of hormonal teenagers varied so greatly over time, particularly over 50 years, is a bit silly.

It also doesn't explain why so many young ladies went to live with their relatives out of town for 9-12 months, or why they suddenly had new siblings/cousins when they returned. There are wide spread accounts of this, and it's a consistent element of fiction dating back a long time.

Don't confuse social fiction with the truth.
Strictly speaking, yes, Knuth's writing would indeed be less useful in Comic Sans as fewer people would read, and hence use, them.
you are being contracted out to perform a service that will be entirely owned by the entity you do the work for.

That's the essence of contracting. It's not really any different than working at a company that also owns everything you do on the companies time.
FutureAdvisor - San Francisco, CA

FutureAdvisor is an online investment manager that graduated from YCombinator in 2010. We're backed by Sequoia and Canvas Venture, and we're tackling an important problem: helping people save enough to actually retire. We've grown our revenue by 18x in the last year, and raised our $15.5 million Series B in May.

We have more than 150,000 users depending on us for advice and investment management to preserve and grow their life savings, and we've made a crucial service available to the middle and working class for the first time. FutureAdvisor is at that sweet spot where most of the risk is behind us, and most of the upside is ahead.

We have about 40 employees and we're based in the Financial District. We're looking for an infrastructure engineer (DevOps/PostOps), a senior engineer with lead potential, and an engineering intern. Our Web app is based on a Rails stack, using Coffeescript to transpile to Javascript on the frontend, where we use an EmberJS framework.

https://medium.com/terms-conditions/if-you-think-the-job-hun...

We're also looking for two product managers. We need people with experience launching and improving a web/mobile-based consumer software product. They should be metrics driven and very thoughtful about how features affect users, and how they can be tested.

Finally, we need an interactive designer who can show us their UI/UX work. Someone both practical and empathetic who cares about solving a real, high-stakes problem.

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In our experience, four things make team members want to stay with a company: sane, caring management; a product with a mission; work-life balance; and competitive compensation. We offer all those, and we're a nice place to work. :)

Our job descriptions: https://www.futureadvisor.com/jobs

Any one interested can write me: chris.nicholson@futureadvisor.com
Unfortunately 12-step dogma has persuaded a lot of people that addiction is an inescapable fate, an innate disease/magical curse that can only be managed by joining their religious program for life. The worst part of this is that the 12 step myth of powerlessness creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's so colored the popular imagination of what addiction is and how to treat it that when the fact that the majority of people who are addicted to some substance do so by spontaneous remission, it seems surprising, even though that's what's normal.
> Lee hopes to change the nature of the messages and put women in the driver’s seat, which is what Siren was originally going to be called.

What a </ expletive> joke. Women are already completely in the driver's seat, as evidenced by the statistics presented in the article.

> Lee said: “In 2014, it’s very hard for a woman to be both professional and sexual.”

Funny because in 2014, it's very hard for men to have sex at all if they have standards.

Let's be clear: Women have insane leverage over dating and this site is merely an attempt to better capitalize on this leverage. "Let's make men jump through a bunch of hoops, because they are at such a disadvantage that they will have to."

I'm not saying that any of that is the explicit intention of the site creator, but only that it is the "invisible hand" of the dating market at work. No pun intended.
Many, many business leaders feel that real collaboration takes place in person. Google and Yahoo seem to be two prominent examples. Remote productivity may be wildly different for different roles.

MIT tech review just published a piece about Eric Schmidt's view on remote work and leadership: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531056/google-execs-hav...
Tesla to unveil D and other product on October 9th
But you pay more taxes in California, so saving less. And forget about the cheap marina. And you're leaving your friends and family behind.
So clearly, it sucks.
Hey sorry little downtime on the demo site :) it's back now
SEEKING WORK - remote, from KL, Malaysia

My current job involves working with Hadoop and ML. Previously, I was a full stack engineer.

I am looking for web development work preferably front-end, I can do back-end as well but prefer front-end work for now.

Fluent in Python, C#, JS and have worked with Rails previously.

I speak fluent English (Educated in US)
The poster has posted a bunch of stuff to a London subreddit. A couple seconds on Google returns:

“Our London office primarily serves the MSN and Xbox teams, although the ground floor is set up for hot-desking to ensure that any of our employees can work from this office when they are in London.”

http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/az/offices.aspx#GB_L...

“Microsoft dev” doesn't mean “Windows kernel hacker”
3 months severance is also a bit short. In the recent Microsoft layoffs I've heard of folks getting 6+ months depending on how long they've worked there. It's certainly better than nothing but I'm not sure I'd say 3 months is super generous.
> being in the same office can minimize the frequency/setup/teardown of formal meetings

If it makes having meetings easier (by minimizing setup/teardown) it's more likely to cause an increase in the frequency of meetings.
Their FAQ includes an explanation: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#MembersOnly

Their explanation may not be all that satisfying, and thaumaturgy's story about the disabled account is kind of alarming. But there you have it.
Ah, interesting. I believe it's Javascript based as well, which might have some effect. Doesn't seem to appear until the page has fully loaded.
Isn't this tanamount to saying: "You used an O(log(n)) solution, but I mandated a O(n) solution, and therefore your solution is wrong even though it's faster"

At some point, how you solved the problem becomes moot if you get the same answer and your way is faster in most cases. That's the entire point of most algorithms texts.
I agree. I use Mandrill.
> My only concern is how Universities will react to being paid almost arbitrary amounts of money per-student.

This is absolutely not how it works over here. The state is not saying "go learn wherever you want, if they send you a bill, we will take care of it", it is funding the universities who have to accept students who bring the educational prerequisites. Funding is certainly coupled to number of students in some way, but the rate is set by the state and universities have to compete for students within their budget.

(more like "hey, university, you seem to be quite popular with the students, you can employ up to X professors, we will pay them for you at our standard rate. Just don't forget to keep serving those students")
This. so much this.

Really, the single most important lesson when doing work for any company.
pEOPLe you're all talking out of total ignorance. Jpay has huge capex - since none of you know anything about business ill explain - they spend millions upon millions of dollars deploying networks and computer banks in prisons for inmates to access these services. Now you know why their margins are high? Understand why they charge for email? If they were gouging customers people would send snail mail. You are all plain dumb. And I'm a former customer who used to pay these damn fees!
> "It's not exactly charitable if you're not actually sacrificing anything"

Tax-deductible doesn't mean that the money comes straight out of taxes, it means that you don't pay taxes on the donation. So you give $1.00 to get out of your marginal rate, something like $0.28 or $0.35, in taxes.

In order to eliminate your entire tax burden (per your libertarian comment), you would have to donate considerably more than you pay in taxes. You'd have to donate everything you made above the 0% tax bracket (getting down to a net income of about $15,700 for a married couple.) There are actually people who do it -- pacifists who refuse to pay taxes that could fund wars, for example [0]. But even then it's only possible if your income starts low enough.

[0] http://www.nwtrcc.org/practical5.php
Because there is no valid reason to do it. Except that some consultants probably told them 10 sounds fancier.

When I see a product being marketed based on how it sounds intead of its real value, I consider that a fishy smell.
Lacoon Discovers Xsser MRAT, the First Advanced iOS Trojan
This does not strike me as a particularly German development...
When talking about vilification, I think the poster is referring to articles like this:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction...

that say things like

>What startled me the most was the fact that when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out. I suspect that this kind of behavior on the part of a contemporary professor would almost certainly lead to harsh disciplinary action, as it should. The behavior was clearly, egregiously wrong and when I read about it my view of Feynman definitely went down a notch, and a large notch at that.

Oh no! He was attracted to and dated women! How terrible!
Knuth is a remarkably odd choice of example for this, since the whole reason for the existence of TeX is his dislike of the form of the time.
To me, the message of the octopus umbrella unfolding against the sea of ordinary black umbrellas was a metaphor for the product itself.

That is: use this stylish and creative alternative to the boring uniformity of corporate presentation software.
2 can be achieved with folding in your editor. I suppose one could have an editor that optionally auto-inlines for presentation; I don't know of one.
Hence the next paragraph: "Although this is more of a push away from OO programming than a push towards functional programming."
Excuse my stupid question, but what does social mobility mean? [serious]
I don't know -- by some guestimates fed into

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

I ended up with an estimated 600USD/month bill ... so what would they gain by complicating their architecture when they're already able to handle the traffic?
They are intermittent 500s, which point to performance issues.
> I seriously doubt that this is the case

http://www.google.com/fonts#Analytics:total . 5th most popular font at the moment ( 2,059,357,755 views for Lato in the last 7 days and 64+ billion in the past year).

And that doesn't even include the Typekit deployments (or locally hosted ones).
The NYTimes subscription model is one of the few benign-sounding things in the world that makes me actively angry.

Their pricing model charges you X for Web access. Okay so far. They've decided to charge for content. Fine.

Their pricing model charges you (X+Y) for web+smartphone. I'm not going to say this is stupid, because obviously apps cost money to develop. Sure, it's the same content I'm viewing on 2 devices, but I'm downloading some app that took literally WEEKS to develop, so I get it.

Their pricing model charges you (X+Z) for web+tablet. This is starting to get silly because I can't really understand why a tablet app costs more to develop than a smartphone app, and anyway, I'm already paying for your content in the "web" portion.

Here's where it gets insulting, and where I refuse to give them a goddamned penny. Web+smartphone+tablet. First off, you're telling me that it's not good enough to pay for web+tablet? I have to pay extra for a smartphone on top of that? Okay, but surely I pay a discounted smartphone rate, right? It's, like, (X+Z+(.5Y)), right? There's no way the esteemed NYTimes would think their customers are so bloody stupid as to not only pay for smartphone access on top of tablet access, but pay FULL PRICE for said smartphone access, right?

WRONG.

NYTimes wants you to pay 2X+Y+Z for web+web+tablet+smartphone access. Look it up, I'm not joking here. They insist that their product is so valuable, that not only should you pay extra to access their web content on a tablet or smartphone, and not only should you pay the SAME AMOUNT for each of the web+tablet+smartphone, they think their customers are so bloody stupid that they should double pay for web content. Their most valuable customers, who want to pay for all digital access should be the ones who get ripped the most.

And, as pointed out elsewhere in these comments, this is more than paying for dead trees shipped to your house every day, and throwing them in the trash.

And then their advertising materials treat their allegedly valuable content as if I'm buying some cut-rate TV service. 4 week teaser rates. Really? 4 week discounts on content that, I'd hope, most users would plan to subscribe to for years if not decades?

Get over yourselves, NYTimes. You've turned a class of people who would otherwise respect your work and who actually desire to pay for it into people who actively dislike you and celebrate your failure.
Agent Ace - Santa Monica, CA

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Our tight-knit team is looking for engineers who can mesh well with our culture. When we aren’t busy crushing code, we enjoy frequent company happy hours and office parties, a relaxed office environment and a location that's four blocks from the beach. We have catered lunches and a kitchen stocked with mad snacks. Our flexible work hours mean that if you want to work a later shift because you were surfing in the morning, go right ahead. About ⅓ of our team bikes, walks or skates to work - did we mention we’re in Santa Monica and we will relocate you?

We have a dynamic, energetic and focused (but fun) work environment that you will thrive in. We’re growing like wildfire, and our outstanding team enjoys the camaraderie that comes with moving towards the same goal.

For the Senior Software Engineer/API Architect, requirements are: A BS in Computer Science or a related degree 5+ years professional software development experience Professional software development experience with C++ or Java 2+ years LAMP stack experience (PHP)Solid understanding of SQL, SQL optimization techniques Experience architecting and developing REST APIs Understanding of REST-based API Authentication & Session handling best practices Strong conceptual understanding of OO concepts and design patterns
Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visa candidates at this time.

Ideally, you also have: An MS degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering Experience with Agile development, Code Reviews, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration Experience with NoSQL databases Experience with real-time analytics infrastructures (log streaming/BI) Experience with GIS or Real Estate data Experience with SugarCRM or SalesForce CRM integration

For our Data Engineer, requirements are: A BS in Computer Science or a related degree, 4+ years professional software development experience, Professional software development experience with C++ or Java, 2+ years CLI Scripting on Linux (PHP, Python, Perl + shell), Comfortable with regex-based tools (awk, sed, grep, etc.), Solid SQL, SQL optimization skills, Experience working with/managing large data sets, data processing pipelines, Understanding of OO concepts and design patterns

Ideally, you also have An MS degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, Experience with Agile development, Code Reviews, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration, Experience with NoSQL databases, Hadoop, MapReduce, Experience with real-time analytics infrastructures (log streaming/BI), Experience with GIS or Real Estate data, Experience with SugarCRM or SalesForce CRM customization

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How does your tech differ from SAP HANA's columnar DB?
Remote working definitely isn't for everyone. If a company decides that they're better off under one roof because it works for them and allows them to be more productive/effective, so be it.
Ugh. I would hate to have that job.

At some point you just have to let some idiot's poorly thought-out idea blow up in his face.
DOCSIS was standardized to operate at up to 38/9 Mbps in 1997. That's not quite 50Mbit 20 years ago, but it does show that almost all of the perceived advancement in broadband isn't from technological progress, just wider deployment of existing capabilities.
Since you got the number of employees from Wikipedia I thought I'd link to their definition of a startup[1]. Which, as it turns out, is not actually based on number of employees or amount of downtime...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
My grandfather wrote his own HTML website from scratch. Technically he could be called a "senior programmer", but without further context most people would assume that he is an experienced programmer, not just an elderly one. It's the same problem here; in the context of Microsoft job titles, "distinguished engineer" means the person is very highly paid and is at top of their field. It's not incorrect to use that title, per se, but it can be misleading, which is why the commenter above brought it up. It also adds to the confusion when the entire title is in lowercase, if it was written as "distinguished Senior Database Engineer", it would not be as potentially misleading.

Anyway, the wording was changed in his bio so it's a moot point now.
Ah, yes, my misreading of the IRS article [1]. It's still meaning that you're paying less tax, should you want to give to charity.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organi...
I have certainly worked with people in the office who hurt my productivity.
That endless string of meetings is where the team can make sure you're building what actually needs get built. I'm sure your productivity in lines of code is higher alone in a windowless room, but if the company thinks that it still needs to disseminate and respond to unclear feedback from the market, the cycle to understand that feedback can be much shorter if everyone is in one place. That speed can be worth millions of lines of code.
The FCC has done such a terrible job, and is so totally owned by the incumbents, that a transfer of communications regulation to any other agency would be an improvement. If the FTC can get its hooks in, I'm all for it.
More turtles.
Just found this - http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/05/lady-gaga-judas-lawsuit-song-c... - sound pretty different to me.
I name 'mouse-prodction-8' for Docker host on Digital Ocean.
'mouse' is code name for app, 'production' is environment, '8' is auto incremental number.
I name '11142943683383068069' for Docker guest, Date-relative UUID generation https://github.com/recurly/druuid
I'm old :(
Plus replacing a zero hour commuter with any commute. That's more hours away from home for the same job.
> If you grow out of an apparently addictive behavior, doesn't that -- by definition -- mean it was not an addiction?

No, of course not.

I'm far from a specialist, but I would say that the 'addiction' definition has nothing to do with the ability to grow out of it on your own.

Addiction is a compulsive behavior that the individual does despite having the knowledge that is harmful for itself.

If you managed to get out of it (on your own or not) you are not an addicted person anymore. But that doesn't mean that it wasn't an addiction.