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McKinsey Digital Labs - NY and SF - Full time - Front End Engineers/ Developers

McKinsey Digital Labs is the in-house client focused digital delivery group of McKinsey & Company. MDL combines user-centered design with unparalleled business knowledge and world-class agile development skills to deliver impactful digital experiences. We are a team of passionate designers, architects and developers solving tough problems for our clients.

We deliver service design concepts, experiential prototypes and production-ready apps to transform our client’s businesses. Despite being part of a large, multinational organization, MDL works more like a small startup company.

Role:

As Front-End Developer at MDL, you will work in small teams in a highly collaborative way, use the latest technologies and enjoy seeing the direct impact from your work.

You’ll create both rapid prototypes, usually in a couple of days to 3 weeks, as well as full-scale applications typically within 2 to 3 months, by working collaboratively and iteratively through design and development. You will need to deliver fully functioning web-based and mobile applications that meet the business goals and requirements of our clients.

As a Front-End Developer at MDL you’ll contribute to the architecture across the technology stack, from databases to native apps.

Do you have the passion and experience to:

- Build prototypes and products using agile development methodologies.
- Build with Javascript MVC frameworks (e.g., Angular JS, Backbone, etc.)
- Create responsive/adaptive applications for mobile devices using HTML5/CSS with familiarity in backend technologies. (e.g. Phonegap, Python, Objective-C, etc.)
- Write and utilize RESTful API services and performance tuning applications.
- Use relational and non-relational data stores in your applications. (e.g., MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, etc.)

In your work do you:

-Demonstrate excitement about the impact of emerging / disruptive technologies.
-Solve problems by processing complex information and presenting it clearly and simply.
-Provide technical excellence (whilst adhering to Agile software engineering practices such as DRY, TDD, CI) and leadership/mentorship.
-Want to unleash their inner self-starter and work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial minds.
-Play an active role in the community, i.e. speaking at conferences, blogging, contributing to open source projects, etc.

We are committed to having a meritocratic and transparent hiring process.

In order to proceed to the next stage of the interview process, we want to make sure that you are genuinely excited about MDL and are able to solve the types of challenges we face.

Would you be willing to answer this technical challenge so that the managers at MDL can evaluate your key competencies before the interview?

https://www.gapjumpers.me/questions/mckinsey-digital-labs/qs...

If not, email mck@gapjumpers.me and let's discuss your fit for the role.
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> While I think the whole pattern matching + recursion thing is important to understand, once it's understood, I think it's usually better to move on to combinators like fold

Of course, `fold` is just another language for expressing pattern-matching and well founded recursion, right? (Maybe I've got my theory mixed up, but do notice that I snuck the word "well founded" in there.) Then, of course, the other combinators that you mention (`reduce` / `map` / `flatmap`) are all just folds.

On the other hand, this shouldn't be taken as a refutation of your argument; recognising and making prettier / more lightweight / even just more visible a common pattern is valuable, even if it does not, strictly speaking, increase computational power.
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FinTech Startup still in the stealth mode -- Berlin -- Fulltime

Senior Frontend 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 Frontend 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:

-HTML5 and CSS3

-AngularJS

-Cross-browser optimizations

-Experience with modern javascript libraries and frameworks

-Knowledge of javascript templating languages

-Experience with modern tools such as grunt, gulp, yeoman, npm, bower

-Experience with LESS, SASS, Stylus, jade and similar

-Experience with Git VCS

-Integrational and unit-testing of front-end applications

-Experience building single-page applications

-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.
Ask HN: What are you paying for SaaS products in your startup / team?
Just out of curiosity, mention:

* Venture stage (self-funded lifestyle vs. VC-funded startup, etc ...)
* Team size
* Total Monthly spend on SaaS products
>if people who were, for example Christian, that decided there was no God took the good parts of the religion (peace, forgiveness, some of the rituals etc.) and created a branch of it. Maybe it's already been done?

This is a decent summary of Unitarian Universalism. Also, some groups of Quakers lean heavily in this direction. There's still some mysticism there around "being held in the light" and "moved by the spirit" but people seem to mostly mean that metaphorically and don't talk much about God or the Bible.
Former developer at OSTP. There was no drug test when I was hired in 2011.
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Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

erik@elfga.com
How is this indentured servitude? Indentured servitude is when you contract out your labor in advance, without the ability to void the contract without legal repercussions (usually imprisonment). Being stuck in a job due to circumstances may be unfortunate, but it's not indenture.

You should have seen these areas before the sweatshops. Conditions were substantially worse, but because most westerners historically either didn't care or were unaware, it's easy to get the false impression that these workers are worse off than they were before the sweatshops. In reality the sweatshops are a huge improvement.

Consider that, for the most part, jobs that existed in impoverished countries pre-industrialization still exist, yet most workers choose the sweatshops when given the chance.
I believe you, but it's also true that in many parts of the world, those "trucks" are actually air conditioned buses.

<source: I work for a global manufacturing company with 14,000 people in China, 2,000 in India, 12,000 in Mexico, 10,000 in EU, and 15,000 around the rest of the world.>
Why do we have to recognize that? There's some evidence that Millenials are changing jobs less quickly than previous generations.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/millennials-changing-job...

I think a lot of young-ish folks experienced rapid job changes over the past 15 years, because we lived through the explosive early growth of the Internet. But there's also evidence that that time is over.

http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/180431/american-entrep...

The tech industry is consolidating, and there are plenty of huge stable companies to provide long-term careers. I don't see any reason that a young engineer couldn't sign on with Google or Facebook out of college and stay there for 40 years.
Yeah but if you disagree with something the government is doing, why would it be any better if you're making it easier?

This is exactly what scientists who commit war-crimes would say. I am not accusing you of anything like that but that's the logical extreme.
It's not that the TPM chip is "enforcing" the encryption, it actually contains the "password" to it. So if you remove, clip, or melt the TPM chip the hard drives' data is forever lost, as that key is now destroyed.
This looks really nice! I haven't understood why this pattern hasn't been the default all along. Singletons are not a pattern used very often in JS so I'm not sure why it caught on in Flux.
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> The number of people killed by automobiles is completely fucking insane

We're largely talking about only the US market here -- in which only (and I say that word relatively) 32,000 people died in any sort of automobile related accident last year (including siting in their driveway idling and somehow died).

To put this in perspective, the common Flu (a totally vaccinatable, preventable, and treatable illness) killed more than 52,000 people in the US last year alone.

In reality, automobiles in the US are the safest they have ever been since 1949, and automobile related deaths have dropped more than 26% since 2005 alone.

According to the CDC, automobile related deaths are not even in the top 10 leading causes of death in the US.

Last year, heart disease was responsible for 596,577 US deaths last year alone. Stroke claimed 128,932 US lives. Diabetes took 73,831 american lives. Suicide robbed 39,518 people their life last year -- in excess of 7,000 more than died by automobile related accidents.

In 2009, approximately a grand total of 2,436,652 died in the US of all causes (including natural causes). Of that number, automobile related deaths only accounts for 1%. Of the entire US population, we're talking about 0.0096%...

According to the CDC, in 2012, 10,322 people (or 31%) of all automobile related deaths were alcohol-related deaths. Another 18% of automobile related deaths are attributed to drugs other than alcohol in the same year. That accounts for just about 50% of all vehicle related deaths, leaving the true automobile related deaths due to accident at a shockingly low number (relatively) of about 15,000 people per year.

All of this is to say, relatively speaking, automobile related deaths are not a significant concern anymore. It does not make logical nor financial sense to do anything significant in this sector while ignoring or not increasing efforts in these other much more significant areas.

So, to counter your original assertion -- no, it's not "completely fucking insane"... the amount of people dying from the common Flu is.

Sources:

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/09/guns-tr...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/top-causes-of-death-united-st...

[5] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[6] http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...
I agree to an extent, but the Chipotle experience and product are hardly unique (nor were they at that time), and I don't think the things that caused Chipotle to do so much better than the others are things you'd see as a customer. (Although he would have still done pretty well if he had gone to a Qdoba instead and decided to put the money into Jack in the Box stock as a result.)
Well, in the US, a bit over a year ago I chose the Galaxy Note 3 over the iPhone 5S because it was bigger, faster, higher-resolution, had much more RAM, had a much larger battery (which was replaceable), etc. The iPhone 6 didn't exist at the time and I stand by my choice to go with an Android phone given the options at the time.
I think your landingpage looks good, but overall I have a hard time seeing exactly how it makes life easier for me.

I have worked in most of the roles you describe, but even after having scrolled to the bottom, I don't exactly understand how it is tailored to the roles.

What I was left with is that you have boards and progressbars. Doesn't really compare to the stuff I already use.

Maybe you could explain even better how each role can tailor an interface to meet their needs, and what you provide better than other software out there.
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That doesn't really explain the working conditions so much as justify them. What strikes you when working in emerging markets is just how, well, emerging they are. A lot of things are just inefficient. There needs to be more pressure to live up to universal human rights. Not only because it's the right thing to do, but because it puts pressure on these markets to get more sophisticated.
The discussion is not about whether Apple is a profitable company, its about whether "everyone who could afford it would buy an iPhone". There is plenty of evidence that many people prefer Android regardless of price. Whether Apple's business model is good or bad is a completely different discussion.
I wouldn't say project management is really a solved problem, and definitely wouldn't claim that Matterhorn solves 100% of all problems with project management systems.

The biggest issue we had in our team was that some team members are just slowed down by having to use a project management tool and would much prefer to just have a written checklist on their desk, but obviously this causes a lot of issues when you're trying to keep track of what's been done and what hasn't. The planner was created to help circumvent this issue, when tickets are assigned to a user and planned for a certain date they become a checklist on that user's dashboard. This way we were able to let checklisters do their thing uninterrupted and still have their progress tracked on the board and the general product overview.

Tasks becoming either omnibus or overly fragmented is familiar to us too. Matterhorn has a feature grouping system that can help but it always comes down to how you use them. It might be an interesting problem to solve for the future.
I hope those are fake keys too:

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/sneakey.html
Because it's reflective of the experiences of many people?
Will there be a score to go with the results, or just a ranking? It would be nice to know why someone is a winner. It would also be cool to know the tech stacks involved, especially to those of us making evaluation decisions right now. :)
> The phrase carries strong connotations for a certain subset of people and it would be pretty tone deaf of us as a community to repurpose it to mean "writing instructions for computers the government owns."

It's definitely an appropriation but I'm not sure this appropriation means "writing instructions for computers the government owns." I think they are implying there is a kind of sacrifice taking place, perhaps putting your country before your own personal gain. Translated literally it might mean something like "writing instructions for computers the government owns for meager compensation when you could be making +$100k per year working in the wider tech industry." Some similarities here with the Peace Corp whom does use the language "tour of duty" to describe time served in the Peace Corp http://www.peacecorps.gov/media/forpress/news/453/
Get a demo online ASAP. I have no interest in signing up, confirming email, etc. just to see what the product even looks like.
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Agreed, Jira is pretty hard to beat for small teams and has a large base of plugins and integrations. This looks really cool but needs something a bit more to really stand out. Maybe at $5/user it could take off.
"why aren't we talking about venusforming humans?"

We're all humans here on Earth and yet it seems that that is not always enough to relate on a personal level and keep a human attitude over each other in order to prevent destructive escalations and the risk of wiping out each-other in mass. Just imagine the dirty politics that would arise around the (hypothetical) results of your idea.
"Designer, Developer, Copywriter, Project Manager, Strategist, Accountant, Client Relations"

Maybe it'd be better to concentrate on one usa-case. Say Accountant. That way you have more focus. Once you talked to 10-100 accountants and made sure the product is good for them, move on to the next use-case.
HARQ is a soft real time requirement, and 4ms is within what you can get in Linux interrupt response. That is, it's not going to force you to do hard real time hacks in your AP.

Anyway, the real question is: Can you build a 4G radio you can trust because it does little enough that it can have open firmware and driver and protocol software that takes less than 10 years to write? I think the answer is "Yes. Maybe simpler than 2G." Or at least "Much more likely than with a 3G radio."
Some good responses from last year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449122
I'm reminded of this single story on Twitter where a woman unknowingly livetweeted her husband's death in a road accident- and then later found out it was him. I went to find her Twitter account, and saw that she basically spent everyday comforting other people who lost loved ones to road accidents... and it seemed like this was happening every day. Crazy, terrible shit.
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That's because of (1) limited real choices (yay FPTP elections) and (2) most people are negative about Congress, but that's mostly about the members of Congress that don't represent them; people tend to have a lot higher support for their members of Congress (in both Houses) than for Congress as a whole.
The Internet is enabling a government of the people for the first time since our population exploded in the last century.

Things are bad right now, but they're getting better. As long as the Internet remains an open and free place, society as a whole will continue to progress and grow at a faster and faster pace.
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The process of reading IRC scrollback, when you weren't involved in the conversation, is not particularly enjoyable.

It is interesting how true that is. If you're there in real-time, the timing of the various messages and interactivity provides a lot of context to what is being said. You're also not reading everything all at once in a blast of data, instead you have time to read and consider each one appropriately.
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Great point, we were working on creating a better tour of the product but decided to launch a more stripped down version just to test the waters, ended up getting a lot more attention than we thought we would! Working on presenting a better breakdown of the features and how they solve pertinent issues for each user type's workflow.
With one exception: "polish typewriter keyboard" is QWERTZ.
I'd actively turn down a job if they used Jira. Absolutely horrific; using it genuinely makes me hate my life.
OK, I'll provide a user's perspective as we are invested in Mongo as a storage system for statistical data and have been using it for a good few years now. MongoDb has been, so far, very good to us. I did not experience any of the problems people sometimes cry so very vocally about.
My main concern about Mongo is actually one that is addressed by this release so I'm quite excited to try it out - data compression. Mongo is generally quite irresponsible about disk space usage. Yes disks are cheap but I rather not have a 2TB dataset if I can have half the size, thank you very much.

As a side note, the hype from MongoDb the company equals the anti-hype you get on places like HN, so I guess they even out.
I could define market share so SQLite is the most popular database. I could define it so it's MySQL. I could probably even make it Oracle, or DB2. But you do you count to make MongoDB one of the most popular databases out there?
Google & Apple aren't remotely in the same business WRT mobile. Apple is hugely successful, no question, with their success riding largely on four factors: 1) industrial design, 2) idiot-proof OS, 3) zero hardware diversity, 4) 3rd party developer support. Google is hugely successful, too, but they have no mission statement that says they are intending to squeeze every last penny from the mobile market. I mean seriously, the last number I heard was that there were close to 1500 people working on Chrome-related stuff. The fact is that Google makes "small" (hundreds of millions to a few billion) amounts on a broad variety of things, and underwrites the spectrum of R&D/engineering via their advertising juggernaut. Whether they do well at this or not is another question, but they are not competing with Apple on hardly any fronts.
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I spent 7 years in Washington and can attest the change has been incredible. Civic-minded hackers, non-profits, and startups went from being outsiders to permeating agencies. Much was organic, and some was top-down mandated. Obama saw what happened in 2 elections and these new agencies are peppered with the people that used agile tech to great advantage on the campaign. Agencies like HHS and FCC were pioneers in open data -- not just for government, but for anyone. Look at cfpb.gov - an example of what an agency can look like when it starts from scratch. 18F and USDS are now tasked with bringing that innovation to the rest of government. If you can get to DC, consider attending the Sunlight Foundation's transparencycamp.org this May. It's the biggest event of it's kind, bringing 600 folks from across the globe.

EDIT: changed this sentence: "Much was organic and some top-down mandated" to reflect what I think was mostly due to popular upswell, though there were key executive decisions. The O'Reilly network has a lot of influential folks in DC too.
It's much more likely that these drivers' children will move onto "intelligent work." The drivers themselves -- the ones for whom it's a primary source of income, anyway -- are mostly stuck in a financial rut. They don't exactly have the spare cash sitting around which would allow them to just learn some "creative work." Getting bills paid and food on the table for their family will take priority.
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MPs vote in favour of 'three-person embryo' law
Thanks Brandon - We're working on it right now :)