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Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker | Smarterer | Boston, MA | mikepk@smarterer.com | Full Time

Smarterer (a Pluralsight company) - http://smarterer.com/
One of Entrepreneur Magazine's Brilliant 100 - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233888

Make a difference. Change the world. Have fun. Do something important.

Smarterer gives people unprecedented understanding of what they know and what their teams and organizations know.

We are looking for creative web programmers, developers and hackers to join our product team. Ideally you are a versatile technologist who loves to build web products, especially (but not exclusively) if you have Python experience. Our stack is primarily Python, SqlAlchemy, Backbone and CoffeeScript.

Smarterer is doing something unique and important. We're approaching a point where traditional university credentialing isn't enough. Skills are changing too quickly and what makes someone effective in a role or job is evolving. New roles appear daily that no (or few) traditional universities have courses for. People are acquiring more and more skills through non-traditional means. Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to close the "skills gap".

How do you show what you know?

Smarterer has created an innovative, machine learning, crowd-sourced testing system that will disrupt how people think about skills. Don’t let our name fool you, while our system is fun, our unique, patent-pending, technology is also deeply rooted in scientific modern testing theory.

Smarterer is enabling a revolution: in how the enterprise manages their teams and talent, in the changing job marketplace, and in the way people measure their own skills and share that knowledge.

We were recently acquired by Pluralsight (http://pluralsight.com)! http://blog.smarterer.com/pluralsight-acquisition/ Still driving to the same vision but now with a partner that really gets it!

Interested? Contact me at mikepk@smarterer.com
Senators use Uber?
SEEKING WORK - Remote - Long or Short Term Consultation (Can visit SF/Bay Area/Charlotte, NC)

I am a Designer (Interaction Design/UI/UX) and Developer (HTML/CSS/JS, Swift, Ruby, Obj-C). I typically consult on or perform the following:

- Product management - Research, definition, development, strategy.

- Product design - Strategy, best practices, team building, process, interaction design, ui design, iconography.

- Front end design/dev - Prototyping, production, management, I've also setup processes for growing teams and established best practices for new hires.

- iOS design/dev - Prototyping, production, marketing.

- Data Visualization - Static or Interactive.

- GIS - ARC GIS, Google Maps, Mapbox, interaction and time based visualizations.

info@bvr.io | http://bvr.io | http://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanrw/ | http://dribbble.com/dylanrw | http://github.com/dylan
Java/GWT developers | Nightingale Informatix | Toronto (Markham), Canada

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WHO IS NIGHTINGALE? Nightingale built and operates the largest cloud-based EMR (electronic medical record) solution in Canada. We serve the needs of primary care practices, multi-physician outpatient clinics, and large scale regional health organizations and networks in Canada and the US.

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WHICH TECHNOLOGIES DO NIGHTINGALE DEVELOPERS WORK WITH? Enterprise Java, GWT, PostgreSQL, HTML5, JavaScript, Unix/Linux, Maven, Git. We offer a true SaaS solution to our customers.

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DO CANDIDATES HAVE TO BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THOSE TECHNOLOGIES? No. Although, the more you know, the better. We would expect some enterprise Java experience for example, but GWT is a niche skill. A demonstrated ability to learn is valued.

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WHAT EXPERIENCE LEVEL ARE WE HIRING FOR? We are looking for entry level, intermediate and senior developers.

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LINKS, where you can APPLY:

SENIOR:
http://www.nightingalemd.com/can/senior-software-developer-2...

INTERMEDIATE:
http://www.nightingalemd.com/can/intermediate-software-devel...

ENTRY LEVEL:
http://www.nightingalemd.com/can/entry-level-software-develo...
I think they overly downplay the effectiveness and efficiency of vanishing. I used to work with a VERY polished salesman, who was the king of making everyone feel at home at his events. He was an absolute gentleman. But you knew he would disappear without saying a word at the end of the night. There would be a car waiting for everyone that needed it, but he wouldn't say Goodbye. Nobody faulted him for it.

On the other extreme... I went to a political fundraiser where it was clear the politician worked the room like a, well politician. He made everyone feel important and listened to. After he had done his once-over, he announced, "Thank you all for coming. I apologize for leaving abruptly, I have to go an meet my mom for dinner." I was stunned at how smooth he was.
And I completely forgot about how they can be used to give collections "chunks" of code to run without the need for function pointers!

And how you can use unboxed closures with no captures to make a zero-sized bundle of static-data.

Ah well. More stuff for part-2.
From the "Tales of interest!" files:

A couple years ago, in our old office at the top of the Monadnock building, I'm working on code for a product we're doing while Vitaly is working on a pentest for a big Rails client, and, like, 5 other people in the office are working on 5 other things.

I'm procrastinating while noodling through some stupid Riak thing and so I hear Vitaly say something about how some request he sent to the app produced binary gibberish in the response.

It turns out I'd rather noodle around with Vitaly's app than figure out how to make Riak do whatever basic thing I want it to do, so I walk over and look at the response. Vitaly has already noticed that the "binary gibberish" is actually corrupted in the response headers; the response is corrupt.

We both agree out loud that this is unusual and bad. A couple other team members walk over. In the span of about 4 minutes we figure out that the bug is triggered by inputs that include NUL bytes, and responses appear to be corrupted at the point where the input is, in the headers, echoed in the output. And a few reloads show that what looks like gibberish is actually stale server memory.

This is that nginx bug that came out back when. It's approximately as bad as Heartbleed, except that it only affects nginx (and it has a more complicated trigger condition, albeit one that applies to virtually every web application). And because we were all together in the same room when Vitaly found it, we isolated, analyzed, and weaponized it in minutes, rather than in hours or days.

(Ironically, someone else had noticed the same bug on the same day, and [fair enough!] got the reporting credit.)

Stuff like that happened all the time at Matasano. The in-person requirement is one the company is unlikely to let go of --- not that I have any say in it anymore. ;)
I'm surprised that FireEye announced this while the hacking campaign is (presumably) still ongoing. I'd have thought it was a terrific opportunity for the FBI and SEC to team up and catch the perps in the act.
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Remote position with Real Python. Content marketing. Full stack web development.

https://realpython.com

Necessary skills: Python, Django, Flask
Nice to have: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Docker, DRF

Email me at michael at realpython dot com. Include your Github and Twitter profiles, as well as any content marketing you have done.

Cheers!

:)
Ashley, I find your objections to be valid. If we're bemoaning the state of gender equality in tech then it is everyone's duty to provide a space where stereotypes are not indulged in, people are not judged based on extrinsic factors and the discomforts of the minority are taken seriously.
Thank you for making the effort to point out my mistake and for accepting my apology gracefully.
well, this is how textbook blackmail starts. you can probably compute an inverse "rides of glory" measure and detect people with something to hide, make a stab at what it is, approach them, and pressure them, without ever leaving the safety of your home. you could apply this to everyone. that doesn't sound bad? or do you think that people should just not have anything to hide...
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE (New York offices)

We're always looking for experienced developers to augment our team and improve our feature velocity.

Stack: Node, Python, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Docker (SOA)

At Cafe, we're building tools for scalable storytelling: we're improving the quality of writing on the internet through technology. With great publishing tools (our CMS is awesome) and sophisticated analytics (we're building systems which crawl the social graph to discover the appropriate audience for every story), we're helping great writers to reach massive audiences.

Email morgante@cafe.com if interested.
Lock-free stacks in C using new C11 atomics
What was the deal with "the blight"?

At one point, they mentioned it had to do with the ability to fix nitrogen?

Also, wouldn't any pestilence as widespread as that be transported on the cargo ships with the people and their plants to the new planet?
Works for me? It does some flashy fade-in stuff, so I don't know if you need javascript or something.
The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC)
Reactive Programming in Perl 6 [pdf]
"Basically, you introduce more randomness into the works in order to keep things from becoming overly optimized (or highly correlated, in the language of self-organized criticality)."

That sounds a lot like how I've heard AI guys talk about avoiding optimization pitfalls when training.

I guess the difference is we can run that on an accelerated timescale, whereas civilization marches to its own, slower beat.
I think of it like zooming in on an image so that it's easier to process information in a higher resolution. Slow motion is like zooming in so that you can interpret things on a higher resolution as well (just on a different axis). Scrubbing back and forth across video is like interactive zoom where you can gather more precise information about a particular subset of the total data and compare to the whole.
My guess is it would be more blackmail oriented. If you knew Senator X was taking an Uber to some hotel, it could be worth looking into if he/she has a call-girl meeting him there. Maybe he's taking an Uber to an office of some defense contractor. Those are the things that could at least lead to some further targeting that might be interesting to foreign powers.
Launch of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts (3rd edition)
Tether – Breaking Bitcoins volatility
Would you mind clarifying why? I'm not sure I understand the concern. https://www.acompli.com/security/
http://lichess.org is also using it on its chess boards. The developer said he was moving everything else over to it as well.
Redbooth is looking for senior Rails developers.

Join one of the best teams in town and have an impact to the thousands of customers that are using our product.

We are looking for people that have production experience with high traffic websites and are able to learn new technologies. Finding solutions out of the comfort zone is part of our daily routine.

The challenges you will face will be to keep the fast-paced development cycle without sacrificing quality, stability nor performance. To achieve that we successfully architected the application moving away from the classic monolithic default Rails approach.

Our stack includes: Ruby/Rails, Rspec, MySQL, Redis, Erlang/Ejabberd, Javascript/Backbone/Marionette, Travis, Nodejs, Puppet, AWS...

The conditions are exceptional (really good salary and stock!) and we have a strong culture of collaboration and quality work. One example can be our cleaning fridays: developers dedicate time to reduce technical debt, improve tooling and testing coverage.

If you want to grow and be part of one of the most successful startups in Barcelona don't hesitate to apply!

What should I do?

Contact us at jobs@redbooth.com :)
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - tech business strategist, programmer and mentor

I am a strong technology entrepreneurship generalist with primary area of expertise in business strategy. 10 years experience on business side. 2 years experience as a self-taught developer. Secondary areas of expertise include SEO, SMM, UX design, lead generation, analytics, psychology, etc, etc. My professional interests include ecosystems that form around programming languages, frameworks and technological solutions to social problems. Strong at writing for business and technical audiences. Lately I've started an educational project to teach entrepreneurship to developers and vice versa.

Worked in marketing at Google. I cofounded several digital marketing agencies and consulted various local (Ukrainian) startups on business, marketing and product strategy.

I am mostly interested in combining my current skills and working with the business strategy/marketing side of startups/bootstraps who are targeting developers as their primary customer segment. I would also love to work with non-profits and companies that generate social good.

Beginner and intermediary experience in multiple web technologies: ruby, rails, javascript, node.js, python, golang, html, git. Currently learning haskell, meteor.

Resume: http://ua.linkedin.com/in/vitaliidaniuk

Email: vitalii.daniuk@gmail.com
I've used it for a while on my Android phone, and it's not even that polished. It's generally been somewhat buggy. In fact, until a week ago or so, the swipe gestures for archiving/scheduling were horribly broken on Android. The app still crashes sometimes or takes an abnormally long time to refresh after archiving an email.

I still use it because the combination of scheduling/archiving emails and auto-categorizing them as Focused or Other just works really well for my work email. I haven't found another approach to Inbox Zero for my work email that is this simple and effective.

I highly doubt it would cost Microsoft anywhere near $200M to build this themselves. I'm not sure what the motivation behind this purchase is. I'm not really loyal to the product at all, for instance. I'll switch the moment a more polished alternative comes out that has the same features.
How to Make a Multi Cloud, High Availability SaaS Architecture
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
'Get used to' black stormtroopers
Exactly. Rewriting views is something I really don't want to do. Example: I'm building pages server side and using AJAX PATCHs to update data on the server. The server responds in JSON with a html attribute contaning the very same HTML Rails partial used to create the page. This spares me from having to build a SPA (which for many reasons is not OK in this project) or two different views, one Ruby and one *.js which would be unbearable (as you wrote).

I looked at intercooler supeficially with the hope it could be a foundation to standardize my AJAX calls (I did something myself but it still fluid). I'm not sure I like the way it puts so much information in the attributes of the DOM elements actions are bound to, but I'll keep reading. I prefer doing those stuff all in JavaScript and minimize the impact of frameworks on the DOM. It's still no time to commit to any of them. Let's wait until the dust settles.
Rinse - www.rinse.com - Design District, San Francisco, CA

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've been growing our service at an exponential rate for the past year, and our customers love us! We have a number of open positions, and have hired a significant portion of our team via Hacker News.

Rinse is hiring a Software Engineer to develop our functionality across the stack. We have hybrid mobile apps for both Android and iOS for our customers AND our drivers. We also have sophisticated web-based tools for our customer service team, internal operations staff, and vendors. Laundry is a surprisingly-complex logistical process, and so our customer-facing software is just the tip of the iceberg. We're solving problems like the Traveling Salesman and image classification, too. Our tech stack is approximately HTML5 / Backbone.js / Django / Python / Postgres / Heroku / Ubuntu, but we're a tiny tech team, so any newcomer will be able to shape architecture.

We're also hiring for a "Special Operations Associate" which is someone who may not have unique technical ability, but who has great aptitude and a willingness to work hard to improve our business. Analytical capability and attention to detail are important skills for this person. Bonus points for someone with an Industrial Engineering or Process Engineering background. This position is great for an ambitious hustler looking to join a "rocket ship" startup. Obviously, this position presents a significant growth opportunity.

Any applicant who we interview will receive $25 in free Rinse credit... If you live in San Francisco, give us a try!

Interested? I'd be happy to answer any questions at sam@rinse.com.
I'm a fresh CS graduate. I'm an international, but I will be able to work without Visa for 2 years and a half.

Location: Silicon Valley

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, even outside of the U.S.

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, AngularJS, MongoDB

Résumé/CV:

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kenzo-takahashi/64/874/739/

AngelList

https://angel.co/kenzo-takahashi

Email: kenzotakahashi2@gmail.com
Location: Boston
Remote: Sure
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: R, Python, Machine Learning, Web Apps, Flask, Android Native
Résumé/CV: http://saharmassachi.com/resume
Email: sayhar@gmail.com

##What I'm looking for

I'm a developer / data scientist hybrid with a Masters and a background from Wikimedia (Wikipedia).
Right now, I'm focusing on learning best practices for software engineering -- with a side of machine learning. With the right team, I'd also love to work on application security, data science, and deep backend/OS development. The most important thing for me is putting roots down, committing to something for the long-haul, and having an enjoyable and stimulating time doing good work with good colleagues.

##A bit more about me:

I founded a technical startup, joined as an early co-founder of another, and most importantly, served as the data scientist and engineer for the fundraising team at Wikimedia. Those banners you sometimes see on Wikipedia asking for money -- I wrote the backend to analyze, collate, validate, and explain the results to the non-technical staff who tested them. Now, for the first time, the Wikimedia Fundraising team has a clean and visually attractive record of the results and lessons of almost every test run since 2010 till this day.
San Francisco, CA - Capital Peers - http://www.capitalpeers.com

Real estate investing is hard. Capital Peers simplifies the process of adding real estate exposure to investor portfolios.

Our team identifies, screens and fact checks real estate debt investments to allow accredited investors to finance individual real estate loans within minutes. We handle the payments, legal work and deal sourcing so that loan backers can focus on selecting assets and developers that match their investment objectives.

I am a solo founder with real estate and fund raising experience: www.linkedin.com/in/williamvanhest

I am currently incorporating feedback in to the site while working through some final legal issues. I expect to launch and close our first deal in January.

Positions:

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - You will be responsible for managing real estate deal flow and investment performance for the platform. You must have 5+ years of real estate acquisition or asset management experience at a top firm. Our investors will count on us for performance and you must live and breathe performance. You are an expert at personal relationships and will be responsible for helping real estate developers move through our investment process efficiently.

Pay: Negotiable salary and substantial equity.

Timeline: I expect this hire to happen in late January, early February. If you are interested in learning more about the position, please send me an email below and we can setup a time to talk.

William Van Hest

William.vanhest@capitalpeers.com
I just tested it on Ubuntu, it worked.

My point in the post was more that the embedded Python in Blender isn't really a "binding", it forces you to use Blender's 'internal' Python installation, so you must reinstall all the packages that you need specifically for Blender's Python (I don't know how, but I think there is a way). Also, this makes it impossible to use virtualenv, I guess (not sure).

In short, it would be cool if it just "worked from Python".
If you are really looking for experienced profiles you could checkout toptal.com
I haven't read the long article but it ends with:

> UPDATE (2014-09-06): As […] was the first to point out, RFC 7217 addresses all of my issues with “privacy” addresses. Let implementation come soon!

So, not backing your message.
Starbucks did something similar with Clover.
I ran this on a Mac, should work on Linux as well. Since it may not be obvious, the "blender" command line executable is located within the regular Mac OS X Application bundle for blender that you would download from the web:

/Applications/Blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender
Corollary: Any headline which ends in a question mark will lead to someone commenting with a reference to Betteridge's law of headlines.
Australia is under APNIC, which started rationing out its last /8 IP block in 2011.

Australia has a decent number of allocated addresses, around 2 per capita (compare with India, with 29 addresses per 1000 persons)[1], but presumably they will have to be reclaimed from existing users.

A newly started ISP in Australia could get a maximum of 2048 IPv4 addresses from APNIC. [2] If it needed more it would have to transfer them from another owner.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addre...

[2] http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-exhausti...
Great event!
> What people are bitching about now is that Angular is essentially deprecated and a dead project: in other words, Google's spectacular failure at maintaining the project

You keep using the term "Google" as though it represents a single, unified entity aligned on all fronts. Angular was never an official initiative within Google and its usage within Google is actually pretty limited. It's a Google framework in name only. It grew organically out of one small team's (who happened to work at Google) desire to simplify the rewrite of a very large legacy web app (DoubleClick). It's no more "Google Angular" than Bootstrap is "Twitter Bootstrap", which was another project that started within large, recognizable company but wasn't officially initiated or mandated by said company. I'm sure Google employees are sick of people lumping them into one big group and making blanket statements such as the ones you made in your comment.

> I don't see anything else that it meaningfully shares with Angular 1

Then you haven't been paying attention. Angular 2.0 still has dependency injection, directives, two-way binding, scopes, routing, and more. Directives are being renamed to match more common terminology and scopes are now just implied but these are improvements, not removals.

> I think it'd be foolish to choose Angular 1 or 2 at this point, knowing that there will be literally no support from the creators.

This is just FUD. The creators have said they will continue supporting Angular 1.0 well after Angular 2.0 is released; they even hired a few people recently to do just that. And there are core contributors out there who don't work for Google who will likely keep supporting Angular 1.0 for as long as it makes sense to. It's open source, after all. And to say that Angular 2.0 will receive "literally no support from the creators" is simply trolling.
Then you might be happy to know that AOT is planned for the reference implementation for Java 9, eventually Java 10.

Also that Oracle Labs have SubstrateVM, which is an AOT compiler based on Graal.

Then there is also JikesRVM and RoboVM.