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Associate DevOps Engineer
Communispace
Boston, MA, United States

Who You Are

You are a hard-working, self-motivated person who loves to fix problems and assist people. You have a passion for software and how it is built, deployed and maintained. You are patient and unfazed by pressure. You can multi-task in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. Most importantly, you work best in a casual work environment that is focused on excellence and customer satisfaction. Achieving the impossible is not a challenge to you.

What You’ll Do

Define, implement and support build management and integration workflow processes
Work with teams and management to implement Build/Release Engineering (DevOps) methodologies and standards
Assist the teams in supporting the application in Development, Staging and Production environments
Work with engineers to create and maintain our automated testing infrastructure
Keep abreast of the latest developments in Release Engineering, knowledge management software, and open source technologies; share knowledge with the team and propose adoption of new technology

Desired Skills

BS in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of experience supporting multi-tiered, high volume, critical production application
You are passionate about technology and about learning
An interest in problem solving and providing solutions
Understanding and experience with networking is a plus
Experience with SQL
Basic understanding of VMware vCenter 5.1
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Collaborative, team focus
.Net experience strongly preferred
A strong technical foundation in build automation and release engineering
An eagerness to learn enough about whatever tools or tricks are needed to get the job done
Skilled with Jenkins continuous integration software tool
Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools. Ex: Selenium, Puppet
Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
Comfort with collaboration, open communications and reaching across different engineering teams
I used to love ASUS because of my experience with their motherboards in the past. Dealing with their support on an ASUS Zenbook has been quite disappointed. They decided to use a proprietary SSD form factor that makes replacing it very difficult. Granted this laptop is a few years old.
I have 8 old iphones in my house.

There are literally billions of old smartphones waiting for a good use.
But it would be less descriptive from an API point of view. Which type is the return value? Of course we are now in the land of hypotheticals.
The main disadvantage is that over the years, we have developed amazing set of tools that all presuppose source code is text (so it's not only we are used to it, it's stronger than that). Can you imagine what would it take today to reimplement all the editors, source control, half of unix basically...
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Between that, rust and servo, it seems we have a new experimental technology stack shaping for the future of firefox.

It may or may not be used in the end, but I'm excited by the potential.
I think you're agreeing with me. The tech startups that are successful here do so in spite of the ecosystem. We're missing whatever that seed is that gets a healthy community going that would feed on itself and create more successes and make us appeal to TechStars.
Has Linus ever gotten bent out of shape at somebody for forking Linux (assuming they've done it while not violating the license)? Let alone someone who would decide to do their own clean implementation of a Linux like OS? I don't think that comparison makes much sense.

EDIT: Let the users work this out, if Rocket fulfills a need for some people better than Docker does for CoreOS then it will become clear overtime. Docker does need leadership, but not by picking pointless fights.
I had seen that as well, actually. Is this the kind of data or transaction level that might only be expected for a Google level throughput?
A screenshot or any preview would be nice. Asking for full access to my emails without an imprint, contact address plus hidden whois information is too risky.
Single page app that uses Haskell to run quicksort on mutable arrays. It uses a min-heap of intervals to repeatedly partition the smallest available interval, instead of the standard left-to right ordering.

Pushes 'swap' and 'partition' events to the client via websocket for visualization. Elegantly Baroque.

Github: https://github.com/pkinsky/qs-ws
Before Google's page rank algorithm there was a lot of research into document search. A favorite of mine was 'scatter gather'[1].

I often wanted ability to filter and group when staring a pages of results from redhat jboss support forums when trying to fix a dead jboss cluster. But I quit that job so haven't had the need recently.

Edit; point being it would be nice if someone came up with a service that implemented the ideas in this paper :)

[1] http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~han/dmclass/scatter.pdf
You and the majority of residents, who were then overruled by the government.
this seems to be a lost art, unfortunately.
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That's like saying Rust is "just a reincarnation of imperative programming". Dataflow is an extremely general category, there's a lot of room for important differences; describing something as "dataflow" doesn't really tell you much about it.
This has come up a lot. There's some potential legal implications that have prevented us from pursuing this.
Some space propulsion engines work in this kind of "batch" fashion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_inductive_thruster
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That was Wikia, not Wikimedia, but yes, the code is still available:
- crawler: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub/
- search engine: http://nutch.apache.org/
". It's the only drug I've every tried where I can float above myself and look down on my body" would certainly be a hallucination.

Ketamine is both a dissociative (it makes you feel disconnected from your body) and a hallucinogen (it can cause visual patterns or images to appear that are not parsimonious with what you would normally see).

It becomes far more hallucinogenic (or psychedelic preferentially) when you "khole".
"I wanna fuck you like Superman"
there are probably cases in which you want to change the version independently of API changes, i.e. "going stable" (0.x to 1.0), major internal changes, new interfaces with deprecations of the old ones etc.
I still can't hear "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift without hearing "Starbucks lovers" instead of "list of ex-lovers".
Wow, I never considered the concept of a planet with a superconducting dynamo. That's a fascinating possibility.
Although this is a high-temperature superconductor in the literal sense, it isn't the kind of high-temperature superconductor that no one understands. Those are the cuprates (and now iron based exotica).

What's really interesting about this potential discovery isn't just that it exhibits superconductivity at a relatively high temperature but that it seems to be a conventional superconductor. That should give some insight that a slightly better cuprate might not.
That's like saying "code is bad nowadays because of SublimeEdit."

The actual reason is more often Save the Cat by Blake Snyder: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw...

"Yet once you know the formula, the seams begin to show. Movies all start to seem the same, and many scenes start to feel forced and arbitrary, like screenplay Mad Libs. Why does Kirk get dressed down for irresponsibility by Admiral Pike early in Star Trek Into Darkness? Because someone had to deliver the theme to the main character. Why does Gina Carano’s sidekick character defect to the villain’s team for no reason whatsoever almost exactly three-quarters of the way through Fast & Furious 6? Because it’s the all-is-lost moment, so everything needs to be in shambles for the heroes. Why does Gerard Butler’s character in Olympus Has Fallen suddenly call his wife after a climactic failed White House assault three-quarters of the way through? Because the second act always ends with a quiet moment of reflection—the dark night of the soul."
Rectal rehydration and standing on broken limbs: CIA torture report's grisliest
We s/scientists/cell biologists/'d the title.
can this be used to extract data from a video file?
Notably, with such a small sample size and multiple testing, it's to be expected to see small deviations in preference such as the one in the article.

The article mentions p=0.28, which isn't entirely easy to interpret given that he doesn't quite explain what that p value is actually measuring (did he correct for multiple testing, for instance?), but it's certainly not a claim of any meaningful significance.
Reconstructive Surgery for Eyelid Skin Cancer
Reconstructive eyelid surgery is different from cosmetic surgery. In many cases, the end result can have a much more profound effect on patients and their quality of life. Such is the case with a cancer patient for instance. The diagnosis of cancer is devastating in itself; the effect is multiplied when the cancer is located in the eye area and the only solution is partial eyelid removal. With technological advances in cosmetic procedures, it is possible for a Miami cosmetic surgeon to reconstruct the post-cancer removal area. The main goal in such a procedure is to restore the functionality of the upper eyelid, particularly in its primary role of protecting the eyeball. If you are facing such an unfortunate circumstance, rest assured that the best Miami plastic surgeons are capable of reconstructing your eyelid, with an aesthetically pleasing result as a top priority.
http://myrontanenbaummd.com/blog/reconstructive-eye-surgery-after-cancer-removal/
If you're doing coding exercises, have you looked at http://exercism.io? I believe you can submit a solution before all the test cases are passing.
The problem (or at least one of them) is that maintaining XUL and HTML is expensive. XUL, like HTML, has a bunch of weird corner cases, tricky layout behavior, complex interaction between elements, etc. The focus of the platform developers at Mozilla is obviously on the Web, so XUL has been in a crappy maintenance mode for a long time now.

Doing the Firefox chrome (heh) in HTML is another way to put our money where our mouth is, like the Firefox OS and Web App Runtime efforts.

There's a more detailed explanation of the situation of XUL here: https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-Octobe...
Maybe he lives in New Jersey.
"how to wreck a nice beach you sing calm incense"

puzzle: the above is the title of an academic paper. figure out what the thesis of the paper is!

solution: http://goo.gl/4Gx7da
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That's a type I (low temperature) superconductor. This type is well understood, and explaining in lots of introduction to materials science and quantum mechanics books.

High temperature supercondutors are still not understood.
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Is loglogloglog...log the only beast that can conquer Knuth's arrow notation? (x ↑↑↑↑...↑ n)

Every time I watch videos about arrow notation or, more famously, Graham's number, my head explodes :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo

Big big numbers are really, really cool!
Another very cool feature I forgot about was that when developing the browser application on the device it would not actually have any browser bits on the device, but just have the environment variable CHROME_URL set to my desktop where I had a webserver serving up my browser files. This let me very rapidly develop the html/css/javascript code without having to transfer my "mobile app" to the device. Reducing the edit/"compile"/see cycle was a big win.
Negative stories about Uber haven't all been flagged off the front page, and if a story contains significant new information, we might turn off flags on it anyway. This one, however, is from nearly a year ago.
I can't get no sadist faction.
My sister always sang "But I'm only a cross-eyed octopus" instead of cockeyed optimist.
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The actual complaint filed shows pretty nasty behavior. Here's the full complaint: https://retractionwatch.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/filed-co...

Someone very clearly was trying to get Dr. Sarkar fired. The PubPeer comments are only one small aspect. But the person then also (I assume anonymously) emailed his new employer to allege fraud, and then went so far as to print out these allegations and stamped them with official looking nonsense about being from the an NIH investigation (which didn't exist), and distributed them throughout Sarkar's department mail boxes.

The complaint makes a decent case for why they think pretty much all the negativity directed at this researcher is likely from one angry person. They obviously can't prove that multiple anonymous comments are from the same person, but reading the content it certainly seems likely. What is assumed to be the same person then took things way past the line of what most of us would consider ethical.

There may very well be a place for anonymous calling out of potential research misconduct. But making fraud allegations anonymously online, then printing out those comments, trying to fake them to look like an official government inquiry, and physically delivering them to the researcher's boss at his place of work isn't the way to do that. This case might be one of those cases where the anonymity should be protected at all costs out of principle, but it's a really shitty case to wave your "we're the good guys" flag for.
This is an interesting problem. On the one hand, there are merits to a referee being anonymous to the submitter. Part of this may be to avoid reprisal for younger referees, but even for more established referees, you may be freer to comment if you are anonymous to the author. BUT, you are not completely anonymous. Hopefully (though there have been some recent scandals related to this) an editor of the journal knows your work and has chosen to use you as a referee based on that. This can help to keep down some of the noise that another poster (lisper) mentioned. Also, the fact that the editor knows who you are may provide some constraint on how you may phrase a review as compared to if you were completely anonymous.

I don't think this is something one should issue a lawsuit over--but I also don't think that their proposal of completely anonymous review is at all useful.
This is an interesting article to me, and fairly near to my heart--I'm the founder of a small "remote-enabled" startup based in Washington State that moved to Kiruna for a year. I'm 6 months into the trip now, typing this within site of the mine in question.

The interesting part of this article to me was the part that discussed the anthropologist's findings, towards the end of the article. It confirms what I've seen anecdotally as well--the men are mostly ambivalent, some slightly optimistic, and the women are slightly anxious. It's a big project, but the timeframe of multiple years greatly reduces the stress on people. The businesses are changing plans slowly to accommodate, as are government offices and government-owned housing authorities, but there is no rush.

I've already seen a bit of the effect on my emotions--the first time I traveled here, I got on and off at the old train station, which is now on its way to demolition. Physical places that hold memories are for me a sort of safety, and seeing them go is slightly painful. It would be hard, I imagine, to watch my parent's home be destroyed.

Overall, the move makes me confident of mankind's ability to cope with climate change. Kiruna is only a small town, and it's moving only a short ways away, but it is a massive undertaking that requires a lot of money and (perhaps more difficultly) a lot of cooperation. If Kiruna can do it, larger towns can too, at least when faced with an obvious existential threat.
what would be the benefit of having the web as a dataset when it is rife with copyright laws (see craigslist), monopoly businesses who viciously protect their human uploaded content and profiles, and majority of the data from the web being useless without a context and purpose of the searcher?

I'm just curious as to how commoncrawl compares with kimonolabs and import.io as they seem to have the same goal of creating an internet as a dataset, or an API. I can't help but feel like it's just solving another 'semantic web' problem that nobody asked for.

It is funny that the most demanding customers of semantic web are also the ones who are willing to pay the least amount of time and money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy
Not surprising given the focus of OS X is on usability first, performance next. While the focus of Linux is on performance and features alone. Usability is in the hands of distributions.
While it's certainly very true that there are people who just want to ruin everyone else's fun out of spite, this situation is more complicated because there really are problems with uncontrolled administration of drugs, even ones we have studied for other purposes. There a many reasons why people in the article are stressing the need for trials.

Even if we just stick to ketamine, there are many questions. First, is this better than the current standard of care? Is it better in the short term, long term, or both? How much better? Should we discontinue drugs like SSRIs altogether? Are people dying (committing suicide, in this case) because this is a fringe treatment and not the standard of care?

Second, while we clearly already use it as an anesthetic, we don't know what the effects or dangers might be for this kind of use. Is repeated administration (as seems necessary) a health problem? Are side effects like hallucinations just temporary, or is the brain altered in some way permanently? There are drugs that, the longer and more frequently you take them, the more likely you are to have actual permanent problems (some antipsychotics, for example).

Doing any kind of controlled study with humans is inherently difficult, and in some cases impossible (this is why we know so little about nutrition). But not doing controlled studies and carefully assessing the value of a treatment can be just as catastrophic as ignoring something that seems to work. And you can't go with your gut on these things, or we end up with antivaxers and dead people when we should have just done the study(s) the right way from the start.
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In 1900, Galveston, TX, was moved about 10 feet vertically. After a major hurricane, a big seawall was built. Then the buildings behind it were jacked up and the ground filled in,. It worked quite well; when the next hurricane hit in 1910, the damage was far less.
Would it be possible to implement XUL using Web Components and port the existing XUL interface to HTML that way?
White folks can twerk as well
I read this headline as "is Lyft not sociopathic enough?"

Honest question... And you are all free to laugh...

Do you have to be a narcissist or a sociopath to succeed big in business?

I have never met any of Uber's founders, but their whole operation gives off that vibe rather strongly. They are also insanely successful and are one of the biggest fund raising juggernauts I have ever seen.

I mostly use Lyft, and honestly they are at least as good as Uber where I am (SoCal). Why does Uber have such unstoppable momentum if not for the advantage of sociopathy? It does not appear to be on the actual merit of the service, and I've talked to drivers who work both and most seem to prefer Lyft.

I'm not implying Lyft is squeaky clean, but they don't utterly reek of the psychopathic/antisocial/NPD sections of the DSM manual the way Uber does.

I've toyed around with the idea that it's a self fulfilling thing, a result of actual semi-conscious positive bias toward sociopathic types by investors and even customers based on a belief that these traits equal success. This is supported by actual things I have heard investors and CXOs say, stuff along the lines of "yeah but you need someone like that..." Paul Graham talks about "formidableness," and while I understand what he means (or thinks he means) I also can see that sociopathic traits certainly convey that impression.

Ps... Before interpreting this as a call for socialism, i have to point out that the same seems to apply in politics.
That's commercial use (with a different meaning of commercial than we're talking here)

In what way is it different? While I'm sure individual opinions may vary, I get the impression that there are ample people both creating and using Creative Commons-licensed materials that see advertising use as falling under "commercial" use, as defined by Creative Commons:

http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/defining-noncommercial/De...

So as you said, a model release would be required for advertising use; strictly speaking, a model release would be required on top of a license to use the photo itself (stock photos ostensibly are sold with both the photo license and the model release bundled together as one), but it seems most clear-cut to me to just disallow commercial usage entirely to steer clear of the issue, lest someone erroneously conclude that a commercial license implies no need for an additional model release.

A lot of folks would argue that a non-profit organization could use an NC photo for advertising.

Maybe so.

I'll just use something else.

Agreed.
I'm surprised that mining iron in such conditions can be profitable. Isn't it incredibly abundant (~5% of the earth's crust)?
Just to be that guy ... it actually _increases_ the bus-factor (which is good). The _higher_ the bus-factor the more people you can loose before your company goes under.

Pedantic niggling aside, I completely agree this is a huge benefit to the organization.
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Houston's actually a great place to live. I lived there for several years. Incredibly good schools in the suburbs, fantastic food and bar scene down in the Montrose, Washington Heights and Midtown. Very affordable.

I've lived in Wyoming, Colorado and the SF Bay Area and honestly I'd take Houston over all of them.
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Using "could" instead of "could not" does not make it "colloquial".
It's gob-smacking that more folks here don't realize this. I would be very leery of working for a company with an open vacation, both for the reasons laid out in TFA, but also because it's a signal of pretty cynical management.
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This is customized for the site to 'power their own search'. The query sent to Google is based on the keyword but also on the article type (in this example) and then the xml that is returned is post-processed to have a custom render per article type.

Since we had all the data the results from Google were compared to a local search I setup in Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/) and the Google results were more relevant and it was a lot cheaper to deploy.
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Yeah, but if anyone in the world was going to have solved multiple Erdös problems, it would be Terry Tao. And he's still quite young, so he may well solve more.
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