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CTO candidates - FULLTIME

Founders - Copenhagen, Denmark - http://founders.as/joinus/cto/

BE PART OF BUILDING A NEW COMPANY

Founders is a startup studio focused on building healthy technology companies. We believe a lot of the risk of starting a new business can be mitigated by running new ideas and companies repeatable process.

Our goal is to co-found 3-4 companies per year and to promote the growth of our existing companies by pooling and sharing strategic resources.

As one of our CTOs you will work together with another co-founder and the Founders team to launch a company from scratch.

DOES THIS SOUND EXCITING?

* Guide a company from an initial MVP to a full-blown product
* That means being responsible for maintaining a good balance between scalability, stability and speed of delivery
* Make sure the feature is pipeline is based on real operational and customer feedback. With the rest of the co-founders you will be responsible for setting the goals of the company
* You will build and lead your own team and ensure a strong and health development culture (both formally and informally)

YOUR ARTILLERY

* Hands-on experience with technology leadership in an entrepreneurial company or startup
* Experience building large web applications from scratch
* You like to plan and deliver measurable improvements to the product every week
* Language agnostic - we believe in using the best tools for the job
* Not scared to get your hands dirty with HTML and CSS - you enjoy working on both the backend and front-end of a project

BONUS POINTS

* Strong analytics and data analysis experience
* Devops experience
* Experience developing mobile applications
* Open Source contributor

THE ADVENTURE WE OFFER

* You will get to work with a team of creative and driven people who are passionate about and skilled in testing ideas and building businesses
* Opportunity for equity
* Relaxed office on Indiakaj, Copenhagen
* Competitive pay + gear

Interested? Send your CV, Github etc. marked CTO to connect@founder.as
The Shellshock Vulnerability Explained
I'm not surprised at all.

In Canada, nobody is allowed to work on a Visitor Permit (Tourist Visa). Here, the definition of work is earning money in any way. In fact, they take it a step further: you can't even volunteer for a job that others get paid for! A Work Permit is required (getting which is a lengthy and tedious process without any guarantees whatsoever).

US too is similar in this regard, although many companies misuse the B1/B2 business visa for work. Though legally speaking, it's not allowed.
Which again, describes a bootloader. Windows wasn't a DOS application. DirectX, Win32, etc weren't DOS libraries. Windows and DOS had separate sound drivers, graphics drivers, and so on and so forth.

DOS to Windows 9x was like the read only kernel environment, initramfs, in Linux. Except that DOS is obviously a fully functioning interactive environment in itself (actually, initramfs might be too. I think you can get a Bourne Shell prompt if it goes tits-up)

While it's true that Windows 1 and 2 were literally just front ends to DOS (Windows applications would often call DOS functions) Windows 3.x was an OS in it's own right (albeit still heavily dependant on DOS) and Windows 95+ basically just kept DOS about as a bootloader and for DOS compatibility (games etc)

So it wasn't just "some Windows facilities" in Win95 that bypassed DOS; it was every single Windows application (it had it's own binary executable format, it's own kernel, it's own ABIs and APIs, drivers, memory management, etc.

But it's fun to bash Windows 9x as being "DOS-based" because it's derogatory and, let's be honest, there wasn't a whole lot right with that whole lineage of Windows.
Symbol types[1] are useful for storing identifiers, method names or enums. They are common in LISPs and in Lua you use (immutable) strings for a similar purpose[2].

The main advantage of symbol types are that they have a more restricted API than strings and that they might be more efficient (integer vs string representation)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_%28Lisp%29

[2] For example, in Lua obj.foo is syntactic sugar for obj["foo"], similarly to Javascript.
BitTorrent Sync is not open source or even open protocol and I personally caught them lying about their cryptography by reverse engineering it a bit. Found calls setting up 128 bit AES rather than 256 bit as they claimed in documentation. Posted it on their forum and was told that I was correct and the docs were outdated.

I didn't take my RE any deeper, but trust it at your own risk. I'd recommend SyncThing over it as a good open alternative, though it's admittedly not as polished yet.

Admittedly I am listing several closed tools, but only those I've had good experiences with.
"or the degree is not needed in the market and you end up with hobby and not a job."

There are more destructive forms of welfare than academic credentialism. Its an interesting idea to think about... if you can't get a job, go to school for free collecting degrees and certifications until you get a job.

I've checked the numbers and in terms of accounting overhead and criminal justice system overhead it is somewhat cheaper, even with hyperinflated .edu costs, to send a kid to school than to jail. Even if only 1 in 3 kids gets caught and enters the criminal justice system (we do approach that ratio with some minorities) the numbers still work out that its cheaper to send all 3 of them to a community college than sending just 1 to prison.
Location: AB, Canada

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Definitely

Technologies: DevOps with a focus on PHP. Vagrant, Jenkins, Ubuntu, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Redis, Queue, Puppet, and tons of others!

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/shon-munro/55/861/943

Email: him at shonm dot com

I'm interested in all languages, all stacks, everything. Can't get enough. I keep a blog at ShonM.com that tells a bit about me and shows slivers of my work. Happy to answer any questions via email!
Twitter - Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA

My team is Observability at Twitter; we work on monitoring and we’re looking for distributed systems engineers and full-stack engineers. We are one of the largest monitoring stacks in the industry, writing up to 15 million metrics per second for all production services at Twitter. We also have a front-end service that is used every day by most engineers at Twitter. We write our services in Scala, use a state-of-art Cassandra-like database called Manhattan, and if you join, you’ll get to work on challenging problems from day one.

Here are some of the things we’ve done in the past 12 months:

- Made our alerting execution service seamlessly fail over across datacenters

- Implemented a temporal set membership service for our database to keep track of metric groupings

- Added tiering policies for metrics based on their automatically-derived significance

- Added hybrid online/offline processing of data for different use cases

- Optimized the time-series query language to make reads more efficient

- Made an asynchronous query processor to support expensive queries with lower latency requirements

- Wrote a client-side agent that collects and reports metrics to the storage system

Our team is 12 people, including back-end, front-end, full-stack and reliability engineers. You can find out more by reading last year’s article here: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/observability-at-twitter. More formal list of requirements for the position is here: https://about.twitter.com/careers/positions?jvi=oO0WXfwr,Job.

Engineers from foreign countries, H-1B initiations and transfers are welcome. You can reach out to me directly at yann@twitter.com.
St. Louis, MO
Front-End Web Developer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@Answers.com

Answers is seeking a Front-End Web Developer with a deep knowledge of — and experience with — HTML5, CSS3, and Sass; a very keen awareness of good UX; and a dedication to best practices and working successfully in an agile team environment. The successful candidate will be focused on implementing optimal and reusable elements in a fast-paced, rewarding, and goal-oriented environment. This position will be located in our St. Louis, MO, office.

Responsibilities:
* Writing semantic HTML for back-end developers to implement
* Writing Sass-based CSS for multiple mobile and desktop platforms and browsers (IE8+)
* Involvement in multi-team project planning, bringing sound UX practices to projects

Requirements:
* Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and Sass
* Understanding and knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery
* Ability to collaborate effectively with other UX team members, back-end developers, business team stakeholders, and product managers
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, moving from planning to a first iteration/MVP quickly

Required Personal Skills:
* Excellent written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
* Ability to work in a team setting
* Strong initiative, capable of working on a self-sufficient basis and identifying areas of potential technical improvement
* Self-management, capable of prioritizing and executing multiple tasks and projects
* Problem solving, ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues

Preferred:
* 2+ years experience in front-end development
* Experience with Sass
* Experience with/enjoyment for creating and using reusable web component systems, as well as atomic/OO CSS systems
* Experience with MVC frameworks
* Experience with git or other version control system in a team environment
* Experience with Scrum/Agile development

Job Benefits:
* Develop technology that reaches millions
* Fun and exciting atmosphere where hard work is recognized and rewarded

Compensation:
Highly competitive base salary + bonus + opportunity for Incentive Equity Units (similar to stock options with favorable tax treatment)

More reasons to join Answers:
• Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones
• Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance
• Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits
• Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry
• 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options!
• Company paid group dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Liberal employee performance bonuses
• Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start
• 10 holidays company paid
• 401k savings plan
Don't even need a CNC machine (or any hi tech device) to build lethal automatic weapons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FinRqCocwGE

Craftsmanship, experience and raw materials only are needed.
I dropped Dropbox because I rolled my own
Yeah she is female and black so plenty for the right to hate.
Windows 9 Not 10
SEEKING WORK - remote, South India

I'm an experienced Designer having done several Brand Identities all over the world for the past 7 years. If you need an identity for your new app, website or business, shoot me an email (in profile) and I'll set you up with a brand new logo, business card, letterhead, envelope, brochure and website. I have an established creative process that will provide you with original artwork embedded with my personal brand of aesthetics. See the results in my portfolio: http://www.dffrnt.com

I'm also a MEAN stack Developer (Mongo, Node.js, Angular) and front-end Designer so if you need your ideas brought to life as a well-designed, responsive web app that works across desktops, tablets and mobiles, please get in touch.
Have you even been to Africa? I lived in Western Africa for 2 years. It is a big deal, and very bad. It is less bad for the US, but that is due to supplies, medical system, education, and other infrastructure improvements.
I dropped Dropbox post-Snowden revelations. I am now a proud user of Tahoe-LAFS[0].

[0] https://leastauthority.com/
Lets forge a path to FLOSS software, eh?
However: consider the time taken to hunt around for a machine shop; the latency (when the machine shop can actually schedule you in); things like "business hours", etc. and suddenly this machine may become competitive with suitable automation.
According to Knuth, Batcher's parallel sort was discovered in 1964 and published in 1968. [1] That it's been in Knuth for 35 years of course does not make general unawareness of it unsurprising.

To be a bit snarky, maybe the best piece of hardware to throw first at a sorting problem is a good book on sorting algorithms.

[1] TAoCP: Volume 3 [1978], page 111
All american kids complaining about Tuition, move to Germany now
St. Louis, MO
Sr. PHP Web Developer
Answers.com
Meaghan.Cale@answers.com

This is a mid to senior level position building and maintaining our numerous high traffic Facebook apps. You would be part of a team responsible for writing backend php / mysql, and frontend html / css / javascript. We are a very agile team doing incremental deploys multiple times a day. Your code will impact millions of users and you will also be able to monitor how your code impacts revenue for the company.

About you:

Follow industry leader blogs and twitter feeds to stay current with new techniques and technologies at your disposal as a developer. Are a fast learner and can pickup new things quickly, be it a technique, framework, or language. May or may not have worked on a high traffic site yet, but the idea of doing so excites you rather than intimidates you.

Required Skills:

jQuery
HTML - tableless
CSS - above average (we don’t support IE6)
OOP experience - common design patterns: Singleton, Factory, MVC, etc
MVC framework experience
Preferred Skills:

LAMP development experience
Above average javascript knowledge
Social media aware (have an active facebook / twitter / google+ account)
Bonus Skills:

Facebook app or api experience
High traffic experience and optimization for it
Good debugging skills
Js mvc experience (backbone.js)
Experience with some "html5" aspects like local storage and pushstate
jQuery plugin or javascript library authoring
Can come up with interesting product ideas (we're always looking for new app ideas)
Have a good UX/UI sense
Have used media queries to create responsive layouts
Contribute to open source projects
Native mobile experience (iOS, Android)
Conductor- NYC, Full Time
Dev Ops or Systems Engineer

Conductor, ranked on Crains 'Best Place to Work in New York City' for the past 5 years, is growing our Dev Ops Team. If you are a systems engineer or dev ops engineer who likes to work on a small, polyglot team that moves quickly and follows a "no big egos allowed" approach, you should definitely check us out.

Our product is a distributed web analytics technology used by enterprise marketing teams. We collect upwards of 5.5 TB of data each week and then process this data for use by our multi-tenant web application. Tech stack includes: Java, Hadoop, Kafka, Redis and other enterprise development technology like Spring. Web app is built with Javascript and other front end tech.

The purpose of Development Operations at Conductor is to monitor and improve the reliability of Conductor’s applications and design the systems that run Conductor’s stack to scale on demand. This team does standard web operations (you should understand what MTTR means) and also writes a lot of code for programs that monitor our system. Knowledge of JVM internals, Hadoop, Tomcat and MySQL are musts for the team. Huge plus if you are a Linux guru or if you have worked extensively with Python or Go.

If you are interested you can apply directly to the role here: http://grnh.se/as0fqk

Our tech recruiter reads every application that comes in and, if your background is a fit, she will reach out.
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Short answer: it depends.

Long answer: logback and both appenders can accept pattern formats to adjust how they're formatted. How useful the end result is depends a lot on the receiver, though, and more than that, there's no one implementation that's great for everyone -- that is, there's no right way to "handle large, multi-line log messages," only attempts at making them more useful.

An easy example is searching. Some people want to see the entire message, others want only the matching portion of a stack trace, others want some combination, and others - probably most people - just want something that's useful, however the actual UX works.

In Papertrail's case, our sender-specific context links (think grep -A/-B/-C) were designed for navigating multiline output from a single sender: https://papertrailapp.com/tour/viewer/context. It's basically pivoting from a single entry in a stack trace to the entire stack trace.
Location: Germany

Remote: Only, please. Part time in the beginning.

Willing to relocate: not for 2014, likely for 2015.

Technologies: Wordpress/Drupal/CodeIgniter/Yii (Components, Hacks, Themes, you name it - I've done it), JavaScript (jQuery/Backbone/some Angular), Django (more Python than Django).

Resume: Upon request.

Email: admin (at) kidsil.net

Over 15 Years Web development experience (65% Back end, 35% Front end).
SEEKING WORK - remote / Berlin

I'm a front-leaning, full-stack developer that is living in Berlin. I am American, and know just a bit of German (but am learning).

I have experience with every aspect of creating an application, from mockups and UX design, to graphic design, to the full-stack implementation, to deployment.

I've successfully built and sold a past start-up of mine, and have a great deal of insight with product development. Because of this, I'm probably of most value the earlier a project is in its life cycle.

Backend stack: Ruby on Rails, with DBs/data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Elastic Search.

Frontend stack: my preference is Angular or React.js, though I've done a ton of work with Meteor (and some Backbone). I am well-versed in current best practices, can build responsive mobile-friendly websites, and code pixel perfect CSS and HTML5. I have a great deal of graphic design experience and can help there as well.

Portfolio: http://eatingthe.com

Github: https://github.com/superplussed

Email: jeremy@superplussed.com
I wonder what they'll spend $26k on.
I would like to drop Dropbox (not because of Rice's involvement though), but some apps I rely only (YNAB, 1Password, etc) don't really leave me with an option unfortunately.
Can anyone recommend a good subreddit? Something where people are thoughtful and respectful. Perhaps something like HN without the tech...?
The way you describe it makes the EU system sound preferable.
I'm pretty sure the lethal part of the equation isn't metal receivers but gun powder and bullets.

Why aren't we limiting the sale of bullets (explosives)?

edit: Chris Rock said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0Y4qIZ4PA
When can we expect to see a demo ?
Simple, secure cloud storage
I heard it from my dad, who heard it from his, who in turn was friends with some top brass in the space program and apparently it was an open secret in those circles.
Most users use it for adding push capabilities to their existing software. Eg you have a web app that uses a REST backend but you want updates to be forced into the browser instead of refreshing the page.

There are also those who use it for chat rooms, live analytics and event MMOs.
Me too, it feels better :-)
CLK Design Automation - Boston, MA or San Jose, CA (Full time)

Applied Mathematician

CLKDA is looking for a PhD level mathematician / Principal Software Engineer familiar with electrical simulation. We're working on efficiently modeling transistor variation at very low voltage and <= 20nm scale in the context of chip design. You'd be contributing to our core statistical circuit simulation engine and would need to be familiar with C++ and at least one numerical math library (open source or commercial). Bonus points if you have written or contributed to a SPICE simulator.

Our office is about 30 minutes outside of Boston close to the commuter rail stop in Littleton, MA.

The full job posting is at: http://www.clkda.com/careers/

If you'd like more details about the position or the company feel free to ping me ahran@clkda.com.
SEEKING WORK - Toronto or Remote Experienced technical writer and marketing writer. Online/Web help, print/PDF documentation, press releases, Web site copy, FAQs, white papers. http://www.hiretechnicalwritertoronto.com for more details, or jonathanacohen(at)gmail.com / jonathanacohen @ Twitter, http://tinyurl.com/ly8g2sw on LinkedIn. Disclosure: I am looking for full-time local/remote work, but seeking contract work in the meantime. Would rather work with you on larger/longer-term products than one-off short pieces.
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Haskell is not very suitable for the efficient and straightforward eDSL implementation. Template Haskell is a nice thing, but it is staged (cannot use the template definition from the same module) and enforces explicit template syntax. And the usual Haskell DSLs are in fact all just ad hoc interpreters, missing all the benefits of having an underlying compiled runtime environment.

And typing is not a big deal, once you have a proper metaprogramming, you can easily add typing on top of your underlying language.
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What concerns me more about Dropbox is this practice of giving away space -- but only for a limited amount of time. I bought some products and got a huge amount of space, but only for a year or two.
Now what the hell am I going to do two years later? Download 100GB over my satellite connection? They've effectively trapped me into doing business with them. That's the kind of thing I find much more objectionable than keeping a roster of who plays on which team in SV.

This is my biggest issue with them, once you get past the privacy issues. I have a 500GB colocated file server that I can use OwnCloud, rsync, btsync, etc. on once my 30GB of "free" Dropbox space runs out. I've already got it all backed up to that server anyway using rsync. Now I just have to figure out which sync method works across all of my devices (GNU/Linux, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, OS X).
Hooray!!!!!!
You don't need to be left-leaning to consider Rice and the GOP unethical extremists.

Basically, most of the people on this planet that consider themselves conservative wouldn't want to be associated with the US Republican Party.
We're shooting for a big reveal early next year.
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas

Remote: Definitely

Willing to relocate: Potentially, but not immediately

Technologies: Full-Stack Web Developer (Rails, .Net, Angular, others) with a focus in UI/UX design and API development.

Resume: mcmillion.io

Email: matthew@mcmillion.io
Java vs. C/C++ (2013)
Hah yes that is definitely an annoying property of "cutesy" library names, they're cute and fairly easy to remember but finding them afterwards is a pain in the ass compared to unfun dreary names like "rust-web".
To be fair, there are probably any number of businesses failing to make proprietary products with Ruby and Rails at any given time.

But yeah, open source makes things a bit trickier, in my opinion.
Position: Android Developer

Location: Argentina

Remote: Yes

Freelance/Part-time: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Resume/Portfolio: https://www.henriqueboregio.com
I'm not sure it's Mou against the world
That's a great idea! I'll do that.
Didn't you know it was time limited? How did they "trap" you?

Besides, who says you need to transfer to your home? There are ways of doing cloud-to-cloud transfer. The most basic of which is simply getting a cheap VPS with a couple of TBs of storage (mine costs 20€/month) and pull from there.
DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA). If you're a DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring
In particular, we're looking right now for:

-1 or 2 Back-end (Perl) engineers.

-1 Front-end (JavaScript/CSS) engineer.

-1 Operations (Chef/Site-reliability) engineer.

-1 Desktop/mobile Web designer.