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FinTech Startup still in the stealth mode -- Berlin -- Fulltime Senior Backend Developer (m/f)

Your opportunity:
-We are a Berlin-based, FinTech start-up. For the time being, we are in stealth mode. You will learn about us once we start talking.
-Team of more than 20 professionals from more than 10 nationalities, our working language is English; Operating in 4 european markets;
-Entrepreneurial working experience in a fast moving international environment;
-Beautiful office in the heart of Berlin at Hackescher Markt.

You will get the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-speed and exciting start-up in the heart of Berlin with a young and international team. You will have the chance to interact with the CTO, CEO, CMO, the Internal and External Development team, Product Managers and the Head of Operations in order to build and integrate Saas/Cloud based Customer Care solutions.

Your Role:
-Reporting to the CTO the duties and responsibilities of the Senior Backend Developer that include:
-Co-working with other software developers, business analysts, software architects and IT professionals to implement inhouse CRM solutions;
-Developing and maintaining a platform roadmap;
-Customizing the system in order to meet the business needs of the company;
-Integrating existing systems and services into the CRM architecture;
-Assisting with deployment and provisioning activities.

Your profile:
Requirements:
-Symfony2 (2 yrs+)
-Sonata
-SQL and NoSQL design
-Git
-Testing, phpunit and BDD
-Services integration
-Some Sys Admin skills (ideally AWS) for deployment
-Code Quality
-Willing to have a platinum medal in sensio insights
-English fluent, German is a plus

Sounds like you? Send your updated CV to fintechjob@gmail.com .
This position is available immediately.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
> In general I find a good way to approximate a top-of the line NVIDIA GPU is to think of it as an ~8 core with a vector length of 192 for single precision and 96 (half of full length) for double precision.

But that's not entirely correct either. Yes you can use it like that, but you can also use it as a single core with a vector length of 1536.

In the context of over-simplification these are better thought of as single-core processors. The reason being if you have method foo() that you need to run 10,0000 times, it doesn't matter if you use 1 thread, 2 threads, or 8 threads - the total time it will take to complete the work will be identical. This is very different from an 8-core CPU where using 8 threads will be 8x faster than using 1 thread (blah blah won't be perfectly linear etc, etc).
Luckily water is pretty good at blocking that sort of charged particle radiation. As off-Earth environments go underwater is pretty damn convivial. People go Scuba diving for fun!
why is it so hard to tell who is making all this, where are they, where is this app hosted, where is the company.

I mean this is not aimed at causal users but to people who might want to use this on a daily basis with very important stuff.

And they are suppose to trust an anonymous website?

This is really confusing for me.
Or in other words: Developers bought into the hype without checking the facts or reading the manual. Same attitude causes people to change frameworks every 2 days, refactor code bases three time a week and generally be flippant about technology, depending on what is cool this hour.
This sort of post seems to do well on HN, so to offer a bit of criticism I'd like to posit that often they seem to be a thin veneer over humble bragging.

e.g. I don't know what I'm doing, but then neither does anyone else but I am stating it so therefore I'm actually better than them and I have impostor syndrome so that actually makes me better at what I do than you, and everyone who says they know what they're doing suffers from the Dunning–Kruger effect, etc.

This has become a bit of a meme -- the whole "I'm better because I claim to be worse" bit.
thanks for fixing the registration page. got the email but the clicking the link takes me to 404 :(
> I think there is considerable evidence that the inclusion of the belief in the existence of God and other similar aspects of religion that are distinct from (but part of the justification for) the behavioral elements you call "the good parts" are an important part of the memetic glue that holds the whole structure together.

The whole structure of what? Europe is largely godless yet the society holds together just fine. There's really no need to confound "treat others as you want to be treated yourself" with anything supernatural.
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Hey Tom, I just want to say, I have your book, and I find it wonderful.
Thanks! Yeah, I don't get it either. I think esamatti is exactly right: the original Facebook example used singletons and everyone followed their lead.

That, combined with the fact that all CommonJS modules are singletons, anyway.
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You misunderstand the motivation behind self-driving cars. It's not ads and not data. Google has enough of that.

It's just that a huge bunch of money goes to whoever who controls those.
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It is hard for me to get excited about just doing orbital science, especially since ESA's JUICE is already going to be doing this in the 2020s. I'd be much more excited if they got to deploy something like the VALKYRIE Icy Moon Diver: http://www.geek.com/science/nasas-ice-drilling-europa-robot-...
I'll add to what @harel says below. If it wasn't for MongoDB, my last company would have probably not survived. Sure, our usecase was very specific (very write-heavy app) but MongoDB delivered and still delivers without any problems. I think there can be usecases where MongoDB is not the best fit, but for wide number of applications, MongoDB is the perfect fit.
Which raises the question of whether 2nd generation rich are actually bad for overall wage growth. The industries that typically have the highest wages are the cutting-edge technologies; these are also typically industries that rely on a large pools of capital to fund high-risk investments.

Venture capitalists have played a huge role in the story of the technology industry over the past 15 years, but where do VC's get their money? From the hedge funds of rich people like the Waltons.
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The Internet as you know it? No it wasn't. Darpa created TCP/IP with the help of private contractors. Private companies like AOL made the Internet what it is today in the US.

Sorry, I know the Al Gore created the Internet for some people, but the it's just not how it went down.
Looks intra-team. How does it handle inter-team access control and/or some kind of read only for non-paying users who just want to know whats up?
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I wrote about why ChronoLogger is faster than ruby's stdlib Logger.
I'm looking forward to your feedback.
Thanks in advance.
Google is public , but they offered unique stocks where control stays with the founders. So if they decide to invest in competing with UBER ,they will.
Absolutely! When I write up the winners, I'll explain how they were chosen. And hopefully with pretty graphs if permission is granted.

As for tech stack, sometimes that's actually difficult to tell from within New Relic. If people answer the question to "better understand their app" and tell me their stack, I'll definitely report back on those results! I just wanted as few questions required as possible.
Verizon close to deals to sell over $10B in assets: WSJ
Does anyone know if the ethernet port still hangs off the USB bus? The CPU usage of that thing killed the last use case I had. (Not to mention the stability. The BeagleBone turned out to be solid in it's place.)
I certainly agree with you. I am not willing to share my whole project information with someone who I have no ideas.
We have had political administrations change many, many times in the U.S. There is not, that I know of, any mass layoff of an entire part of the civil service that coincides with any of them.
I lived in Phnom Penh where this was filmed. The trucks carrying workers at the end of the day is a normal sight in the outskirts of the city. The average pay for this type of job is about $100 depending on how much extra overtime you put in.

How to fix it? I have some ideas but that would be on a much smaller scale. Basically a more direct model. The fashion industry needs to be disrupted and consumers must get more information about how brands produce clothes.

The problem today is that the government in Cambodia is extremely corrupt. They can't be relied on to improve conditions or put up the minimum wage (well they have a little bit but it is still under what can be considered a liveable wage). The big brands however point the finger at the government (H&M, Nike, Puma all put out press releases that blame laws and government practices). They say it is the job of government to improve. They sit in their nice offices in New York and Stockholm, in cities that were built over a long time with a long history of democracy and with a society that was built bit for bit. That took a long time. It is incomparable to the state of Cambodia (which started on a blank slate 30 years ago or so). Thus the government there is not qualified to make the required changes. The brands however are. They are in countries with good laws and fairly decent labour practices. They should take responsibility. They should not hide behind their suppliers. They can easily define contracts that require suppliers to have better minimum standards and wages for workers. It would not mean much difference in profits for these companies. A lady makes a shirt and earns $3/day, does it really matter if she is paid $5/day? Would the $50 shirt cost much more at the store? Nope.

I think the most pragmatic solution is that developed countries introduce taxes for clothes that are not ethically produced. That $15 t-shirt from H&M should be $17 and with $2 clearly labeled as non-ethical tax on the price tag.

Also I see some commentators here saying it's much better to work in a factory than to work on the rice fields. 20 years ago you could earn enough as a small farmer. Today that is not the case. Also the rising cost in Cambodia and elsewhere makes the small pay even more a problem than before. The workers earn $100. Rent is easily $30. I used to eat lunch at the market every day in Phnom Penh. It was about $1.50 for noodle soup. You can get a cheaper meal (I'm white and I added some better quality meat). But add that up. And consider you need to buy a towel. That's easily $4. A new pan? $5 for a cheaper one. I lived in Phnom Penh in 2012 and then in 2014. Even I as a foreigner noticed the inflation.
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Exactly!

Taxi cab drivers, in NYC, who own their medallions have taken out huge loans in order to obtain the right the drive people in New York City. They can't just "retrain"/find another job when they've got to continue driving 12 hours a day just to make ends meet and pay off their loan.
110 or 300 baud were the "first" modems. My first 1200 baud modem just screamed. In comparison, of course.

An effective 2000 bits/second from Pluto is the stuff of science fiction. (Actually, even SF from the 50s was full of situations like being out of radio contact with Earth because of distances on the order of an AU or so. With available technology they were probably right).
That has been tried and didn't work. Neither did cheaper machines. Remember that textile machines pretty much gave birth to industrial automation, so the technology is as tried and cheap as it gets. Still not enough.
Just apply a $0.01 discount at the register for customers paying in cash. Your total is $34.06, with a $0.06 discount. Your change is a $1 and a $5 from $40. Thank you, come again.

A $0.01 discount is a lot easier to swallow than an additional $0.01 change-making fee on each item.
All JavaScript modules are singletons regardless of the format. But it's still a very common practice to export a constructor function as the module's value and then to instantiate new instances. No idea why that hasn't been followed with React, but I imagine that you are correct about the Facebook example. They should have put more care into making it correct rather than just making it simple to explain.
When I saw the headline that is all I could think of too.
What is your preferred alternative? My company is looking at changing to another platform from Redmine.
I agree, we self host Jira and Confluence for all our sensitive stuff. We'd love to self host our HipChat but the price is just a bit rich right now, so we make sure the teams don't post sensitive stuff there.
Would you be able to offer it for free for up to 5 members? I figure this would spread the word of mouth quicker and once startups begin using it, and have enough money after they increase their team beyond 5 members, they'll just upgrade to it, rather than switch.

Or do you think free members aren't worth the hassle?
Why can't they just grow the desired types of bacteria?

On a related note, how can the bacteria survive in "pro-biotic" pills that you can buy? I'm suspicious.
> The whole structure of what?

The structure of the system of practices which includes the things described as the "the good parts", insofar as it makes sense to "branch" a religion and separate the belief in God from "the good parts" and continue as an organized system.

> Europe is largely godless yet the society holds together just fine.

I don't disagree with that, but I also don't think that's an example of what k-mcgrady was suggesting with branching Christianity and keeping "the good parts".
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Sorry for what amounts to a trivial comment, but I would love to see that on a t-shirt.
So does this mean that we need to come full circle and become worse and being better due to claiming to feel worse?

I get where you are coming from, but I think the best point in this somewhat rambly essay is that it is fine to come out and talk about how to deal with these odd mental effects, especially when they are keeping us from getting work done.
As a "project management" tool, can this do critical path analysis, resource allocation, Gantt charts (gotta love a Gantt chart) etc. The usual PM stuff we use in MS Project?
I see your point, the initial tagline on this was "project management no matter what your team looks like" which made a bit more sense with the aspirational lifestyle props, it does make a bit less sense now. None of us own a moustache brush, unfortunately :)
How is a non factual comment like this being up voted?

It's sympathy karma because the poor guy got dumped. We've all been there.

looks away in the the distance CVS. I had such high hopes. You're dead to me now. sigh
Apologies -- Fixed
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Car manufacturers are aiming wrong because of their old business model. Google is aiming at a taxi service, where expensive car costs are less critical, but being first to market(by quite a few years), reliable, having a large network and a good brand mean much more.
From a sales perspective I can't tell the difference between this and trello in less than 60 seconds.

When I load the page I see I can "try it" but I don't want to invest the time. Show me exactly why your product is going to be more valuable and worth the time to migrate over.
Things don't work like that in the real world. There is a very real problem when technology quickly makes an entire workforce obsolete.

I believe there will eventually have to be a minimum income that is given to every adult. There will be many people choosing not to work who are fine living off this minimum income. There will also of course be those who would rather work but whose skills are obsolete.
I'll do mine:

self-funded project
team of 2
~ 300$ split between Kissmetrics, Close.io, Github, Slack, Heroku
Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi
If that were the case, I'd price everything ending in .73 .
Freemasonry? I knows it doesn't exactly fit your proposed requirements, but its not totally a wrong answer?

If you're willing to twist the list of "good parts" possibly into an unrecognizable controversial form, there's always prosperity gospel. Most people might not think they're selecting the good parts, but the PG participants obviously disagree.

Another interesting area research along the lines you're discussing would be Buddhism in general and specifically the somewhat heretical writings of Stephan Batchelor.
The rank and file and core management stay the same, at at agency, it's the political appointees at the top that change for new administrations. This can be dramatic -- at the EPA, Republican leaders tend to dismantle the agency and cease enforcement, while Democrats do the opposite. I'm not sure USDS or 18F are politicized yet, they're making government more efficient. Then again if you hate government and want to dismantle it, getting rid of the all-stars would be a good play.
Yep, no problems here. 80GB dataset, indexes are around 10GB, one master, two replicas. Lots of reads, all writes are done in bulk during the night (low read throughput). We also use Cassandra and postgresql a lot - there's no silver bullet when it comes to storage systems.
He remarks in the talk about Lamarck having an incorrect theory of "inheritance of acquired characteristics." From what I understand, recent experiments have actually given some evidence to his theory. I can't remember the particular studies though.
I only used Jira briefly before leaving that job for another, what didn't you like about it?
You have to go in a tourist bus to get an a/c bus in Cambodia. The trucks for these workers have full natural a/c and traffic pollution nicely blended in.

Also note that these workers are mostly from rural areas. Where educational level is very low.
Actually I think you'll find Globalisation is not zero sum. It hasn't made ordinary people much better off in the west but has transformed living standards in places like Asia.
That's why I said "aspects of". If I fully disagreed with a project and thought it was evil, I wouldn't work on it.

However, that's not normally the case. There may be aspects I disagree with, and if you get to do research, you can often show problems and affect the direction of the project. But after all, I could be wrong. I've done enough research to know that :)
Actually, you can call both ways - from statically typed to dynamically typed and back. This is the premise of the work done in Racket on contracts, and more generally of the "gradual typing" movement. Harper's "unityped" term suggests exactly how this can work. An untyped function takes arguments that are all of one type, and returns one of the same type (that type being the "dynamic" type that includes every possible value, and thus is useless for static checking).

To call an untyped function from typed code, simply cast all your arguments to this type (trivial, since it contains anything), and check its return value has the type you expect (throwing an error if it's of the wrong type). To call a statically typed function from untyped code, simply check the types of all the arguments you wish to pass to it (throwing an error if they don't match its signature), and cast the returned value to the dynamic type (again, trivial).

I'm glossing over a very important difficulty, which is that you can't dynamically check something of a function type -- if I'm handed a function, how do I know at runtime whether it's of type `int -> int`? I can't! So the solution is to "wrap" this function with a contract that delays checking until the function is actually called, at which point you can check the argument is an `int` and the result is an `int`.
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Except, it generally doesn't mean that either. It means "download the page again and save that - nevermind if what I'm looking at has changed since it was retrieved". Which also breaks the mental model of "save my work", even if you're just typing text into a form.
>Henderson was born in Olympia, Washington, the middle child of a father who worked for the state government and a mother who taught math in middle school...

Is it just me or do other people have this curious fascination with the manner in which reporters describe the obscure everyman subject? It's kind of a unique thing, when you think about it, boiling down an entire person to a few superficial data points. It shares something with minimalist Eastern art, you know, the sort that uses like two brush strokes to represent a lion. And yet these reporter "brush strokes" inevitably seem far less descriptive than the art, and far less expressive of the reporter's "artistic" intentions--it's like there's an algorithm somewhere that generates these descriptions (perhaps described in a handbook of reporter style?).
It does, but the CPU's a lot (400-700%!) beefier. We'll see how much of an effect that has in practice.
Even the drivers who aren't under loan obligations can't just "retrain" - where are the educational resources? How do they come up with the money to stop working and go back to school?

And even if they are magically able to obtain the funds and time and ability to retrain, what kind of environment do they then face?

Imagine if a taxi driver somehow got their hands on $20K and went to hacker school. What kind of treatment does a hypothetical 40 year-old ex-taxi-driver-turned-programmer face when interviewing for entry level programming jobs, in an industry infamous for its ageism and obsession with pedigree?

None of this adds up. In reality the loss of entire industries means chronic unemployment and under-employment for most. We can prop up the outliers who manage to successfully move to other fields all we want, that doesn't make the poverty and desperation that results any less real.

Now we can argue that the suffering of millions of people is a necessary part of progress, but pretending that these people will just magically fly off to other jobs is a level of classist lunacy that's only tenable for someone who has never stepped outside their little upper class white collar bubble.
Language is comprised of rules that change over time. If everyone understands a sentence, how can it be incorrect? I suppose I'm just confused by crusades like this.
Relational databases are indeed excellent, and you are better off using a relational database if a single server can handle the load. But if you have more load than a single server can handle that's when you need things like MongoDB that support automatic sharding.
Its a race between UBER building/acquiring self-driving capabilities vs. Google spreading to all the markets.

Sadly, as much legislative power as Google may have, I think we may be in an age where its easier to create the technology of self-driving cars then to get through the political/regulatory red-tape that UBER has been fighting through for years. That's probably an exaggeration, but given the how many other companies are dabbling in the self-driving space now, it may be less innovative than a few years back. On the other hand, I don't thing political/regulatory barriers are any easier to get through.

At least we have two big players trying to solve a big problem, so hopefully we'll benefit in the end.
It's reset to English every hour. I've now reset it manually.

But you're right, the user should be able to select the language on the online demo before login. I will add this to my TODOs. Thx!

One of the burdens that comes with more than 40 locales... ;-)
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