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SEEKING WORK - remote or onsite, Montreal, Canada

I am a full-stack engineer available for challenging work from driver development on up to web and mobile work; I also organize refactoring efforts and bring best practices such as code review into companies. A discount is available for work which will be released under a free software/open source license.

I am especially interested in adapting open source software to specific business needs, and in optimization problems of all sorts.

julian@cipht.net / http://www.cipht.net/
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE or LONDON

We are a developer-focused, industry-leading, bootstrapped company, with 30,000+ global users.

We're loved by Kickstarter, Braintree, Etsy, Shopify, JustGiving, Paymill, WordPress/Automattic, Lonely Planet, Fab.com, and many other household-name clients.

Our clients are developers, startups, independent retailers, international charities, major universities and global brands – our product touches the lives of tens of millions every day.

We’re CLEANING HOUSE and redesigning our platform from scratch – from a monolithic mashup, to a lean MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE.

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BENEFITS OF THIS GIG

* Freedom. * No legacy code to maintain. Not one line. You have complete creative choice.

* Speed. * Well-scoped, fast-paced and fun. Effortless communication. No red tape. No cross-team dependencies.

* Autonomy. * No investors or board to please. We’re 100% self-owned.

* Potential. * We have as much (or as little) work as you want going forward.

* Location. * Work from anywhere (if you're in London, we can provide a desk).

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YOUR ROLE(S)

Three components of this project. Choose any or all:

0. Help us DESIGN our new microservice architecture and SELECT the best tools (advisor role).

1. Help us BUILD our new platform from scratch (developer role).

2. Help us WRITE our public and internal documentation (technical writer role).

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BASIC REQUIREMENTS

»»» Calm, creative and competent approach to life and work.

»»» Strong communication, accountability and authenticity. Fluent written and spoken English (Skype required)

»»» Python, PHP, JavaScript and NodeJS a must + full grasp of popular frameworks.

»»» Ease with relational and non-relational databases

»»» Experience with designing and implementing data processing algorithms

»»» Understanding of API stacks, design, structure and authentication

»»» Fluency with sysadmin and command line environments

»»» Commitment to coding standards, version control (we use GitHub) and documentation

»»» Bonus: front-end development skills (dashboards)

»»» Bonus: familiarity with finance industry

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IF THIS IS YOU

Please send a concise application to ‘jobs’ at cymbalo.com, including your story, values, recent relevant experience, hourly/weekly rates and general availability.

We look forward to working with you.
'arguably' still requires a reasonable position that declares it true, otherwise literally everything is arguable.
It seems like a duopoly is about the worst possible market you can have. Monopolies basically have to be regulated (or government operated, or broken up), but at least monopolies have economics of scale and can justify research spending like Bell Labs. A duopoly doesn't give you any kind of vigorous competition but it still doubles all the fixed costs by requiring two networks to be built and maintained and then gives each provider a disincentive to invest in anything its competitor could benefit from.
Flipping that argument:

Do American universities routinely discriminate against African Americans and Latinos as a consequence of reliance on standardized tests and curricula on which they are known to receive lower scores?

Adjustment for the bias in these measures might correct for discrimination, not create it.
Talent, ambition, and drive are all also "body attributes". Are you hoping for a world where they don't matter?
Iterable (https://www.iterable.com) - San Francisco, CA

Come join Iterable. We are bringing the growth hacking tools that consumer Internet companies like Twitter/Facebook build internally to other e-businesses. We aim to build the best user growth engine on the planet. It's crazy how messaging and email usage are changing, but the technology and capabilities haven't caught up to the 21st century.
Our team of hackers and thinkers is from quant finance/Twitter/Google, (we built large parts of Twitter's growth systems). One of our top level goals is to build a uniquely fun and growth oriented company culture. Knowledge sharing in any capacity is highly valued here -- are you interested in prediction markets or PGP encryption? Do you enjoy teaching posture techniques or purely functional data structures to others? We pair program, design together, and generally create a learn-and-teach environment here.
If you're interested in coming on board, you can help with some challenges we face:

- Scale our messaging API
- Design and write performant, beautiful, asynchronous interfaces
- Write software to build machine learned user models
- Make data visualizations for our email and user data
- Design an immutable deployment infrastructure for our platform

Some aspects of our culture that make us different:

- We are all very focused on self improvement
- Our company has egalitarian and transparent values (work when you want, on what you want)
- We are chill and empathetic people
- The company is completely transparent

Technologies you'll work with:

- Scala
- ElasticSearch
- Postgres
- Redis
- AngularJS
- Play Framework
- RabbitMQ

You'll get to work with us at our office at 5th and Market in San Francisco. If this sounds like an interesting and fun opportunity for you, please email me: girish at iterable.com
> Eventually it was upvoted and became positive because it was a genuinely useful question

Getting down voted never feels good, but it sounds like the system worked exactly as it was supposed to in this case.
To play devils advocate:

If you think all ethnicities are equal, a quota system makes perfect sense. If all ethnicities are equal, the differences in admissions must be the result of error, bias, or discrimination.

Asians/whites are just forcing their kids to prep better for SAT. The SAT may be biased. Grades in high school are biased.

Admissions criteria are actually biased (don't even have to play devils adovate here). Vice President (one of 55!) of the junior Sailing Club looks better than guy who picks teams at the local basketball hoop. Playing Violin looks better than freestyle rapper.
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Growth Hacker/Online Marketing/user acquisition consultant specializing in paid traffic channels, marketing automation, Conversion Rate Optimization. PPC, SEM, Google Adwords/analytics, Bing/Yahoo ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Adobe Omniture & Site Catalyst, Marketo, ExactTarget, Eloqua, ClickTale

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxs8dstFCH0xMEtyQjBvSW5pNG8...

Case Studies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxs8dstFCH0xSW1jUjN1STVTakk...

Email: jkuria gmail
SEEKING WORK - Remote - London, UK

Full stack engineer, Linux administrator with a passion for concurrent backend systems. Fast learner, eager to work on new tech and hard problems.

SKILLS: C, Golang, Python, AngularJS, React, MySQL DBA, Django, PHP, Docker, OS tuning, security.

CONTACT: steph (at) combo.cc

RESUME: http://combo.cc/pages/resume.html

LINKEDIN: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/stravostino
There's not going to be any significant (like, existentially damaging) legal or financial punishment.

I wouldn't be a 100% about that. Things like this have a way of trundling along until a big enough atrocity happens, and then the system will react, often overreact. Arthur Andersen is a good and recent example of the latter, verdict reversed unanimously on appeal to the Supremes, but the company was long dead by then. And it had been one of the "Big Five" accounting firms.

Which is not to say I'm not also following a policy of punishing them in the market.
Location: Muenster, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (worldwide)

Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript (Angular.js, NodeJS, jQuery), PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, Java, a bit Ruby

Resume: https://github.com/c0dr (More details on request)

Email: info@simon-schraeder.de

Open to everything, but mostly interested in internships.
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Have you had a Baron-Cohen EQ test?
Uken Games in downtown Toronto

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

Backend Developers

Help us scale our backend to enable a million concurrent players by creating the infrastructure and services (SOA) that underly all of our games. Primary tech is Rails and MySQL, but you'll be working with many more such as Docker, Redis, NSQ, websockets, Hadoop, Spark and InfluxDB.

Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is either Javascript (HTML5) or Unity.

People Manager

The best people make the best games. You will own the entire talent management function, including recruitment, retention, and growth.

About Uken

We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.

More info including full job postings at http://uken.com
Different semantics can be approached by several different methods though - one can simulate an interpreter for a "guest" language in a host language - or the languages can provide an FFI for interoperability. While we have various means to combine the two different semantics of a language, we have no means to combine their syntax without encountering ambiguity problems. This is why storing code in a structured format rather than plain text could be so valuable, because it would enable us to mix and match languages in whatever way we wanted - rather than resorting to putting code inside strings, loading up new files, or complicating the syntax of our language to provide the expressivity we would like (eg, LINQ).

Diekmann and Tratt have a theory of Language Boxes[0][1] which provide the groundwork for achieving this kind of editing. They enable language quotation without the need for introducing per-language delimiters, the need to quote code in strings, and the need for escaping characters when hosting one language inside another. The editor is aware of where the language boundaries occur because they are specified by the programmer. The semantics of hosting one language in another are left up to the programmer to specify.

[0]:http://lukasdiekmann.com/pubs/diekmann_tratt__parsing_compos...

[1]:http://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/diekmann_tratt__eco_a_language...
Alation (http://alation.com), Redwood City, CA

Looking for software engineers, sales engineers/customer success, and sales development representatives. INTERNs, and VISAs welcome, though we can't relocate international candidates right now.

Alation is democratizing access to data by tackling one of the most universal challenges in analysis – the challenge of context. We analyze petabyte-scale data warehouses at companies ranging from eCommerce to online radio to improve the way data is accessed. Alation has brought together an incredible team of engineers, designers, and executives from Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM, one-man startups and top schools. We've got a great product in a huge market with the right people for the job, and we have a hell of a lot of fun. Come join us!

http://jobs.lever.co/alation or contact joanna.leon@alation.com
Are you in denial about your user retention?
Unicoder.js
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Node.js, jQuery, AngularJS, SQL, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhophoang

Email: alex4hoang@gmail.com

I'm looking for part-time or full-time opportunities. Growth hacking background.
Would TDCS make me smarter? (2013)
IFTTT - San Francisco

IFTTT is looking for engineers to help build the next generation of its platform. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the core architecture of one of the web’s most innovative and exciting services. You’ll get to work on challenging technical problems alongside a small but driven group of developers, and play a key role in shaping both the product and team culture.

IFTTT’s mission is to help people to create connections between the services and devices they use every day. We’ve built a system that enables users to set up simple “if this, then that”-style recipes, which allow activity from one web service to trigger activity in another. The current system supports over 150 unique services and runs hundreds of millions of recipe-handling tasks per day, and we plan to dramatically expand on our flexibility and scalability. Under the hood, this translates to building a platform that can talk to and move data between virtually any API you can think of, all in realtime and at massive scale.

We're well funded, and we work hard to do right by our employees. New hires at IFTTT enjoy competitive salary and equity, full benefits, and a flexible vacation policy. Much more than that, we offer interesting, deep projects and an amazing team experience. We operate on the philosophy that the best job perk is fantastic teammates, and to this end we’ve assembled a staff of intensely curious, well-rounded, talented people who happen to be great engineers. We’re hoping you can be the next one.

Visit https://ifttt.com/jobs for more information.
Ah the divisive influence of money to be made. And who gets to make it. I was expecting something like this to happen eventually as Arduino and IoT were becoming pretty intertwined and every hyping IoT as the next big thing. There is money to be made in the brand. I lot of money if played well, not a lot if the brand is destroyed. And it has always seemed to me that the Arduino founders were leaving a lot of that money "on the table" as folks like to say. That is not a long term stable situation, eventually someone is going to go in and try to take the money.

That said, I hope they don't screw it up. There have been folks who did and allowed folks who were prepared to jump into a fragmented market to come in and take it over.
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San Francisco | VISA | REMOTE

I'd like to put in a word for the Career Agency team at http://OfferLetter.io - we are building the first true talent agency for tech. We align incentives with individual engineers (and do not take money from companies), help them improve their messaging and polish, intro them directly to CTOs and VPs to help cut past recruiting bullshit, and provide negotiation advice.

We want everyone to find "the team", not "a team".

I'm an ex-Twitter (Growth) / ex-Amazon (Identity) engineer, and am building what I would have wanted at every step of my career.

One of our client profiles [#35 employee at Twitter] is up here, for the curious:
http://offerletter.io/blog/201502-Fifteen-years-of-durabilit...

[0] See http://OfferLetter.io for more information

[1] We are neither recruiting agency (since we do not take money from companies) nor job board, and as such are compliant with the terms of the post

[2] We are located in San Francisco, but have worked with people in Seattle, New York, and Austria, and regularly help folks on visas.
Location: San Francisco

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: node.js, real-time web, microservices, lightweight automation of amazon aws

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5769642

Email: james.pitts@gmail.com

My most recent large-scale effort was building out rapt.fm, a realtime freestyle rap experience.
I don't understand this comment: why would a working-class white or Asian-American family not be eligible for state aid? I assume it would be because their income is too high or the kid's GPA is too low. Wouldn't those same regulations apply to the Dream Act kids too? If you're rich and undocumented you still don't get aid, and if you're undocumented with a crappy GPA you don't get anything either.

So do you feel that poor US citizens are actually getting a worse deal? How?

(I can see the argument that people who go back to, say, Mexico, and wait for a legal family visa to come to the US, are getting a raw deal. That's certainly true: as of January 2015 the US govt has finally gotten around to dealing with people who submitted their paperwork in 1994. http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy... )
So what does a message actually cost in terms of dollars, power, time? How does it prevent low volume spam?
SEEKING WORK - NYC Area - Remote

I can help prototype new ideas, research technologies/trends, extend/maintain an existing system, or quickly build out a one-off microsite. I can work solo or in teams with equal ease.

I'm a full stack programmer primarily using C# for backend work, but can provide support for other common languages like PHP. I've been working on web and game dev of late, so my focus has been on Unity3d, Cordova, and various web frameworks (NancyFx, Asp.MVC, Angular).

Portfolio - http://wetzdev.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-wetzel/a/320/6b1

Twitter - https://twitter.com/pdwetz

Github - https://github.com/pdwetz

Email - my user name on gmail
I do agree that Arduino hasn't really kept up with the competition. There are tons of alternatives doing interesting things - Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, Tessel, spark.io, Teensy, mBed. My personal favorite has to be Teensy product line. Hard to beat an ARM Cortex-MO+ for $11 http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/teensyLC.html
Thanks for the short explanation, sounds interesting and I signed up after reading it
This was tried. It was called APL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29

It was very, very clever.

It was so clever hardly anyone understood it, and it's (mostly) forgotten.

Having said that - I kind of agree. It seems like most languages are attempts to:

1. Create a human-readable text-based representation of symbolic logic.

2. Chunk the symbolic logic in (hopefully) useful ways.

3. Cross-correlate symbolic levels, so at one extreme you have actual bytes in physical memory, at the other you have arbitrarily complex symbolic data structures.

4. Build simple error checking into the language so it's impossible to write obvious nonsense. (This includes, but isn't limited to, all type systems.)

5. Constrain the operations that are possible for similar reasons. ('State' etc.)

This is all more or less taken for granted. I'm not sure it should be. Basically it's a bottom-up approach to language design - reduce operations to binary algebra, add constraints.

But top-down languages like Prolog and (kind of...) Erlang try to do interesting, powerful, things, and have at least a few features that Just Work.

So I think the top-down approach is underexplored. There's a sweet spot between top-down simplicity, expressiveness with minimal cognitive load, and processing efficiency.

It's unlikely current syntax conventions are close to it.

I think most people know that languages are different points on various trade-off scales, so there will never be one single best language.

But more variety might not be a bad thing.
I did not know whether asking explicitly would be frowned upon or something. I'll just ask, that'll simplify everything.
Progistix Worldwide (https://www.progistixworldwide.com) - NYC

At Progistix, we are building an innovative, nimble product to tackle the tired challenges of moving food across the country. Progistix is new but our team is not. We are adding to a group of seasoned, successful technology and industry vets. And though we are still a growing start-up, we’ve got big company resources. That means you’ve got the freedom to think big and the time to experiment on a large scale.

We are looking for:

- Lead Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Lead Backend Engineer (Python/Flask)
- iOS Engineer

Check out our job descriptions and get in touch on our website!
Carbon Positive for Agriculture Farming
Is it possible for Agriculture Farming to change from Carbon negative to carbon Positive?

What are the better ways to do the transformational?

What are the benefits to Global Warming and Y2050

Giok P Chua
Singapore
And as we watched, I realized again that while unfortunately you can't see a great movie again for the first time, the next-best thing is to show it to people who've never seen it.

The third-best thing is reading a well-written account of that fresh showing of the movie. Now I want to watch Aliens again with my kids.
> The indention doesn't mean anything to C programmers

So you could read and debug a 5000-line program written all on one line without reformatting it?
AdGear is hiring an Analytics Developer, full-time in Montréal, Quebec, Canada

The ideal candidate for this position is well-rounded, with feet in both the database world as well as software development. SQL should be first language, but we'll happily come to an agreement if it's your second or third. You should also be very comfortable with java, linux and another glue language like bash/ruby/python. Very nice to have experience (but not required) would be big-data (HDFS, M+R, Hive) and analytical databases like HP Vertica.

If you're interested or have questions, contact me or jobs@adgear.com

http://adgear.com/company/careers/#AnalyticsDevMontreal
Better link (primary source with actual specs including screen resolution): http://www.htcvr.com/

Highlights:

- 1200x1080 per eye with two 90Hz panels of unspecified type
- "Consumer product available holiday 2015"
- No pricing information and not taking preorders.
- Inside-out position and rotation tracking with a laser position sensor
- Outside-in tracking with a pair of base stations covering a 15ftx15ft area
- Will include a pair of single-handed controllers with location tracking in them
How so?

I've found steam is by far the best digital distribution client when it comes to managing my game library, mainly because of the 'steam libraries' feature that lets you create a steam library on any hard drive to install games to, and it makes restoring your games on a clean install of windows extremely simple too (just go into steam library settings, point it to the steam library folder(s) on your drives and all your games are back).

Origin and uplay aren't nearly up to par when it comes to stuff like managing games on multiple hdd's.
Mobcrush - Santa Monica, CA

Mobcrush is a platform for live mobile game streaming. We are backed by an excellent team of investors. We are seeking a few positions, such as Android developer with NDK experience, Community Manager (gaming), and a front-end Web Developer.

Find our open positions at http://www.mobcrush.com/careers
And HN was doing so well, I haven't seen a nimrod post on here in days.
Jukely (www.jukely.com)

iOS Engineer | Full Time | New York, NY

Do you love live music? Want to connect people through music? Come join Jukely!

We are looking for a full time iOS engineer to join our small team in New York. Jukely is a matchmaker for concerts and friends, matching live music lovers with concerts and friends to go. We also launched a concert subscription for $25/month that gets you to unlimited concerts.

For more information or to apply, please visit our job listing on AngelList: https://angel.co/jukely/jobs/36134-ios-engineer
> unintuitive

Unintuitive for whom? It abandons the traditional structure, which some people are accustomed to, but I suspect that it would be measurably more effective for people who haven't developed patterns of familiarity with the traditional workflow.

> just like a vi buffer in input mode

I think the key difference is discoverability. In gedit I can immediately see how do 6 common actions, and that there's another layer of less common actions in the hamburger menu. I never had to google "how to exit gedit" for example.
It is pretty recent. I drove past that (and then turned east on 46) about a month ago and without water its pretty much reverted back to desert.