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Terabyte Technologies - http://terabytetech.com/ - West Palm Beach, FL - General IT wizards able to support various small/medium business clients

(not my company, owned by a friend who I consider a pretty good guy. below is the text of their help wanted ad. in case it doesn't make things clear, these positions involve doing all kinds of IT work for companies too small to have their own IT department, or supplementing small IT departments as needed for the larger clients. You interact with a lot of different people and often in somewhat stressful situations.. some clients only call when something is broken. You must be somewhat local to WPB.. Ft. Lauderdale, PSL, etc)

We are looking for smart, reliable and hardworking people who are looking for a place to shine. People who think outside of the box and know what good customer service is all about. We are looking for people who are looking to make a place for themselves and who are always looking up. People who don't job hop and are looking for a permanent place to plant their feet. If this sounds like you then we may have a place for you.

What you'll need to do: This position will require you to wear a lot of different hats: - You will need to go onsite to take care of our clients and their various computer/server needs. (you must have valid DL and a reliable car)
Remote support for our clients is a daily occurrence so you must be able to walk our clients through their issues remotely.

You will be working with server disasters and un-routine computer issues so you must have solid problem solving skills and be able to work well under pressure.
You will need to be able to translate geek. Know how to explain what the problems are in a way that our clients can understand and then find solutions that will save them time and money. (must have people skills and work well with others)

This is a dress casual work place. Long sleeve dress shirt, slacks and dress shoes are required.
These are just some of the things that are required to fill this position but we are looking for people who are ready to jump in when needed and who are always looking to learn something new.

What you'll need to know:
Experience is key!
Must be a Windows wizard. Many of our clients run Windows workstations against Windows servers. The ability to intelligently navigate a variety of hardware and software issues is a must. Mac/Linux skills a plus.
To be able to think outside the box. Problems in this industry have more than one solution. You need to have the ability to find that solution quickly and efficiently and with a cool and level head.
Be a multitasker. We work in a fast-paced, action-packed environment. If you can't multitask your head may explode.

Apply by sending your resume via email to info@terabytetech.com. Please note why you are different and why we should interview you.
The average for June through September here in the State Capital, Sacramento, is just over 89 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 32 degrees Celsius). This is not a matter of comfort but of health.
SW Senegal is 1,600 miles from NE Brazil, so technically one could cross the Atlantic in the distance that these birds fly.
>...near the beginning of all of this?

It's hard to know you're in a multi-year drought until multiple years have passed.
> Why not pass water through turbines before desalination?

You spend a ton of energy pumping the seawater up to pressure, then you pass it through a turbine? Why on earth would you do that?
The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising
Since MD5 isn't really vulnerable to a preimage attack, this would probably work fine - 2^128 possibilities are essentially impossible to brute-force.

I'm curious - what kind of infrastructure would constrain you to md5?
The problem here is that regular people are not involved, other than as tax payers. Corporations get to raid coffers of nation state tax rolls. Normal people not involved.
If the authors see this, I'd be interested to learn what MCMC package they use.
I am familiar with that study and while I have serious issues with the methodology, I do not think it says what you think it does[1].

[1] If you think it refutes my point, that is.
Even in Los Angeles, if you're within 5 miles of the ocean and your house was built more than 15 years ago, you won't have AC either. AC is largely a feature of mini-mansions and houses in the more inland areas.
Yes, the authors did base their paper on in vitro tests from a single individual.

Another group attempted to reproduce the results of Lee, et al by performing a similar in vitro experiment, but failed to detect any DNA damage.[1]

Nevertheless, in an article commentary published by the European Society of Cardiology [2], DNA damage was detected in an in vivo study of Cardiac MR (CMR) imaging, and a precautionary approach to MR imaging is recommended. They admit, though, that the study could not differentiate between the effects of the contrast agent used in CMR, and the effects MR imaging alone.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23679232

[2] http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/30/2337
Microsoft nearly gave away XBox
My favorite is HTTP 410.

“Embracing HTTP error code 410 means embracing the impermanence of all things.” —Mark Pilgrim
Informative comic, but it could have done without the gun control strawman.
A Letter to the Tenant Who Wants Compassion
Modules for Frontend Development
Some 5 to 10% of Caltrains are delayed though, and if that delay happens to be a fatality, expect that train to be really late. (2011)

http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/JPB/Boa...
Yes, I'm familiar with it. (Should probably have mentioned it explicitly, sorry about that.)
This is why I love the (modern) php approach. It's in the standard library and you don't need to supply an algorithm name or salt or anything.
It is also designed so that a future version of php can have upgraded algorithms without breaking current code. It is trivially easy to write code that upgrades old hashes when the user logins in.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-needs-rehash.php
What I hate is when you enter in a ton of info into a form and one of those fields is password. You make a mistake on something like the phone number and it wipes out the password field forcing you to type it again only to have the process happen again because it failed to tell you another error in your data.

WHY!?!?!
Vidku - Minneapolis, MN - Android engineers

Vidku is the social video startup that created Flipgrid, a cloud-based, mobile video SaaS product currently used by millions of teachers and students in K-12 and college classrooms around the world.

We raised $17M in our series A so we're looking to grow a world-class team.

We'd love you to have proficiency in as many as possible of these:

- Android Studio
- Android Media and Camera API
- OpenGL ES
- Android UI and battery-saving guidelines
- Persistent data structures using ORM libraries
- Android Networking Libraries like Retrofit and Picasso
- Software development workflow (Git, Testing, Continuous Integration)
- Interest in RxJava

We'd also require that you want to be a part of a full-time team, help shape culture, and take ownership of your amazing work. You also have a portfolio of industry-leading work (with your specific contributions outlined) published in Google Play.

If you match our needs, you will enjoy all of this:

- Valley-competitive salary packages based on displayed experience and expertise
- Best in class health, dental, disability, life, and 401k plans
- Equity compensation in one of Minnesota’s hottest startups
- “All in” culture that you will love

Are you ready to be a part of something incredible?

To apply, submit your resume to work@vidku.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Mayvenn - San Francisco, CA - Full-Stack Engineer (Clojure)

Mayvenn is searching for adaptive and pragmatic engineers to join our team building a distributed eCommerce system from the ground up with Clojure. We're open sourcing the services and tools we build.

We're a small but growing team in San Francisco doing collaborative full-stack development. We value experience with many languages and frameworks. We're open to people ready to switch stacks and learn Clojure with us. The system we're building revolves around our goals of immutable data everywhere and modular services doing one thing well.

Mayvenn enables hair stylists to sell products to their clients without holding inventory. We're growing extremely fast while disrupting the underserved $9B Black Hair Products market. As a company we value honesty and enablement of others. For the stylists we serve this is translated into a meaningful new income stream via sales commission with no hidden costs or fees.

The core team we're building now is laying the technical foundation for Mayvenn's continued growth. We come from agile development backgrounds and value code testability and being able to identify and solve the right problems as much as raw technical aptitude.

Ping us at https://jobs.mayvenn.com, or email justin@mayvenn.com to start a conversation.
Given it is hashing what you type I don't see a reason to limit it.
There is a userspace too, if you find kernels scary. In reality though, the kernel is simpler than userspace in some ways.

The website could also use work. That's HTML/JS, you don't need kernel or C experience.
Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan
I have a bag of those. They're great for soldering onto perf board, but they pop right out of regular breadboards.
why so serious, son? ;)
Not when it's just random chance. An X year drought by definition is supposed to happen every X years.
Quorum Writes, Quorum Reads is as ACID compliant as FoundationDB iirc.

The only thing I can think of is Apple has an internal team that is building a Cassandra replacement and they need more qualified engineers with experience.
A USB charger in a coverplate
Well, there are pockets of America that are as good as all the examples that you state. There are states and school districts that perform as well or better than Nordic states (e.g. Massachusetts). There are states and cities that have recovered better than Iceland after economic collapses (e.g. Pittsburgh). A few things:

1. With size comes disparity and diversity. Iceland, Portugal, Nordic countries are definitely ideals to work towards. But failure to reach the ideals as a monolithic country doesn't mean things are bad.

2. Federal policies are much harder to change because it is like steering a ship that is also not a rigid body! Size plays a role here because it brings with it diversity. In smaller countries, you do not have equivalents for under-performing components of the whole, such as Mississippi, tea party, and inner-city neighborhoods, that are often out of reach of federal policies / majority opinions.
It does exist on a county/city level, Santa Cruz will give you money if you get a high efficiency washing machine.
It's probably to stop people from doing hunter hunter2 hunter3 as passwords.
Leaked ODNI Statement Reveals Changes to Intelligence Community's Philosophy
Ah, very well. Easterlies might make the return journey harder!
The JavaScript version has additional crypto related vulnerabilities, by the way :-)
Over 200 black leaders in Silicon Valley gathered in Palo Alto
If only there were a separate error code to specifically indicate an authentication problem that could be returned...
As a minor quibble (or am I missing something?) - the salt doesn't really need lots of entropy and you could send it to the client too; so lack of window.crypto isn't a major factor.

Of course, that doesn't really undermine your conclusion in any way - as you say, enough browsers "suck" that doing this client side may well negatively impact quite a few users.
"You shouldn't have to include any libraries"

"you shouldn't have to rewrite some code that does something that's already available and well-written"

How are those not contradictions?
An XML library for PHP you may not hate
_why made something like that years ago, with an intentionally high barrier to entry because it required changing your HOSTS file.
It's not the "process-per-tab" thing per se that's important. It's just that (as I believe I mentioned in my OP) Firefox starts to just constantly consume non-trivial amounts of CPU after some amount of time[1]. Not sure why it does this, but process-per-tab would at least mitigate the problem by offloading the whole "free resources" problem to the OS (which must be able to do these things reliably).

(I have oodles of memory and CPU, so it's not just a lack-of-resources problem.)

[1] EDIT: I'm talking about something like 30-50% of a single CPU. In extreme cases it would use 100% of one CPU, but those are admittedly outliers.
Grid Mobile
New York | Paris

Software services company becoming an MVNO in order to deliver on business integrated mobile service that replaces the need for a desk phone and lets you have work and personal on one phone.

Looking for super smart developers - Rails, ErLang, iOS/Android
Have passion for building beautiful products...

www.gridmobile.com
> Americans care far less about what others will think of them

As a European expat in the US, I find this statement to be very accurate. It can be maddening at times but I've grown to find this characteristic one of the main attractions of life in the U.S.
It can be summed up as "I don't feel guilty about anything I don't have direct control over because it makes life much more enjoyable and it always works out in the end."
I tend to put a long 64 character hash as answers to the security questions. Have yet to experience that horrible bug.
First of all, kudos for not taking it personally. I don't know how any of this is scored but I think you may have won.

> [...] Americans are much more oriented to the rights of the individual [...]

It definitely feels like it. When it comes to things like abortions you can't live up to your own expectations though. Not quite sure why that is.

I love the water tap story. Sounds about right :D

Let me get the recycling thing out of the way and then I'll cover the rest in one go. We have three bins: 1. Organic stuff, 2. paper and 3. everything else. (We have a bag for plastics, not a bin. That's important.) They get picket up by different people and are brought to different places (at least in theory). Kind of makes sense I guess. The reason we do that directly at home is probably because it's the most efficient solution. Our friends in Sweden have way cooler bins. They use one with four compartments instead of four separate bins. Same thing though.

What you said about the "vanishingly inconsequential" effects got me thinking. Maybe that's the real problem. Imagining things on such a large scale is very difficult (e.g., people can't image how small changes caused by evolution lead to a new species). Small streams make large rivers.

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> [...] if you are not (directly) harming someone else, it's nobody else's business what you do.

That's the other thing, right? They're almost always indirectly harming other people. Indirectly is a nonsense term in that context. They're directly harming other people.
So there is a point here. Apple is trying to compete with Google. Google has some amazing distributed systems, including Spanner, F1, MillWheel, etc... Apple has Cassandra and other OSS/COTS software. Not to ding Cassandra, but this is a problem for Apple. We've seen repeatedly that at huge scale, it often makes sense to own (or control) the software. See Facebook and LinkedIn as well.

Now I don't think FDB (the product) is the answer, at least not in the short term. There are more problems scaling it to Apple's use case than there are working around Cassandra's lack of ACID.

So I'm convinced the value of FDB is the experience in the engineers' brains. Apple need brains to run Cassandra, but also to figure out if Cassandra is the right long term path. Build, buy, adapt? It takes veterans to make the right call.
The C languages merge: Standard C++
You absolutely don't need C++ skills to contribute to Mozilla. They are of course required to contribute to gecko, but that's only one possible contribution option. Others are:

* Firefox UI and devtools. Written in a combination of js, HTML and XUL, with some C++ in the backend.

* Automation and tools. Mostly Python-based, this is the infrastructure used to test Firefox and related projects.

* Servo. The next-generation browser engine being written in Rust.

* Gaia UI. The Firefox OS interface and associated apps. All written in JS + HTML.

* Firefox for Android UI. Written in Java like other android apps.

* Various web tools. Typically written in HTML + JS + Python, but backends differ (there's an increasing amount of node.js, Bugzilla is in Perl, etc.)

* QA and testing. Writing testcases for the web platform and other browser features. Typically requires HTML and JS skills, and well as the ability (for Platform tests at least) to read specifications.

* MDN. Documentation of Mozilla projects and the Web platform. Requires writing (not necessarily in English!) and good technical understanding.

That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure that there are a bunch more projects someone will be annoyed I've missed ;) There's a more detailed list of the projects by technology at [1].

I like to believe that Mozilla is quite good at welcoming new contributors; it's certainly something we work at, although there are of course always opportunities to improve. There's a page of getting-started tutorials at [2], a database of bugs with assigned mentors grouped by technology at [3], and a dedicated irc channel #introduction on irc.mozilla.org.

It is true that not every Mozilla project uses a familiar GitHub workflow, but it true that many recent projects do. For example Servo and Gaia are both fully GitHub-centric. For the more aged projects using Mercurial, we are in the process of moving from a patch-based workflow to a more modern branch-based one, with review in ReviewBoard. So there is still a learning curve there, but it's at least getting better.

And finally — because this is my own special interest — if you are tired of web browsers having troublesome incompatibilities and want to be part of the solution, consider contributing to the open-source web-platform-tests testsuite at the W3C [4], [5]. This is a expanding repository of tests covering the open web that are being run against every single commit to Gecko (and Servo!) so that the developers are aware of implementation errors before they become interoperability issues.

[1] http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/

[2] http://codefirefox.com/

[3] http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/

[4] https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests

[5] http://testthewebforward.org
This reads like it was written by the Zombo.com guy. I say that in a positive way.
Peanut gallery here: It's just a service that will work with most any SIP client app that supports ZRTP -- csipsimple, linphone, etc :)
Why are interest rates so low, part 3: The Global Savings Glut
It's amazing how much effort an end user will to to not read error messages.

I just got a screen grab from a user asking "What does this mean?" and the error was "Not enough space on disk."

*Facedesk*
This is another April Fools joke.
It's not about shared hosts (at least if I'm understanding the topic correctly) but about /etc/hosts entries on your local machine for your local machine. As in:

my-test-thing-a.dev 127.0.0.1
my-test-thing-b.dev 127.0.0.1
my-test-thing-c.dev 127.0.0.1

Buying an actual registered domain for that sounds like it would be even more confusing than using an unregistered TLD because it makes it hard to tell which hostnames are expected to work across machines and which are strictly "works on my machine".
Leveraging Data to Incentivize Healthy Eating and Improve Food Safety
This is something I don't think folks really appreciate until they run into it in their own code. Back in the early days of microcomputers when everyone was rolling their own floating point code, some packages would very slowly diverge as things went back and forth between decimal and binary. In particular was an example of a BASIC program that was printing out a series of numbers for an accounting program to paper tape, and then later reading them back in when additional data was added. That round trip ended up in variations of a couple of pennies every trip through the system.
Please apply via email to: engineering-careers@dollarshaveclub.com
I always thought Ctrl-L was address bar!!
Thank you hkarthik. Very interesting. I am considering your advice.
> it's the default for people in the area

It's only the default for new numbers. People carry their old numbers with them when they move, unlike the olden days. Bottom line, contact lists have a lot more mixed area codes now.

> 95% of the numbers I call now are local businesses

That might explain the difference of perspective here. Most people call other people on their phones, not just businesses.
New in the Wolfram Language: WikipediaData
I don't see how it means something entirely different. At most, Franklin and the other founding fathers had a more expansive notion of liberty than is now common. Both the sanctity of private property and the right to privacy are aspects of that sort of liberty.
You must not have cancer.
Funderbeam Launch Brings Startup-Data Intelligence to the Masses
Artivest - NYC - FinTech

https://artivest.co

We are modernizing the way people invest into hedge funds and private equity while broadening their access to these products.

Senior Software Developer

- Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Data modeling, back-end dev, integrations, api

Product Engineer

- Angular, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, UI / UX, front-end dev

IT Manager

- Networking, hardware, Active Directory, Troubleshooting, configuration, and support

DevOps

- Rackspace, Infrastructure, Ansible, CI, Automated deploys, scaling, and security

Interested??

Email us at jobs@artivest.co
All value is determined by humans; you can't say that humans undervalue something. That simply doesn't make sense.

What you can say, however, is that humans prefer the statu quo.
(Or as you would say, the cost of measuring opportunity costs.)

Any transaction need to provide at least some additional benefit to be considered worthwhile.

For example, I won't sell you my car for only 5% over the market value because it's not worth it for me.

You coming every day and breaking a mirror, a whipper, or steeling a wheel would not correct any economic calculation 'error'.
Foild.net - Sydney, Mid North Coast, Australia - Remote possible

We are a stealth startup building the next generation of automated identification verification. We have various contracts with government and banking groups and are growing fast.

Any lang experience is fine, we currently have only 1 developer and the majority of the codebase is in PHP (Symfony2) with various java and node.js micro services.

Contact me at david@foild.net
A site I know allows 5 login attempts per hour. That seems plenty for legitimate purposes. I've never heard anyone complain.
I'm genuinely curious, have you tried one of the asset-pipeline apps for django? I found django-pipeline actually not that bad, even though I have been recently leaning towards using front-end tools (gulp/browserify) anyway.
Owsy | Venice, CA | www.owsy.com

Distributed team based out of Venice Ca building web services and products for small businesses. Our Primary tool is a CRM and agency management tool for Insurance Professionals.

We work on a mix of products but use a blend of the following tools:

AWS/Vagrant/Ansible
PHP/Symfony2
Services in Clojure and Scala
MySQL & SQL server

Looking for
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1. Full Stack Engineer (SQL Database exp, PHP, JS, knowledge of new JVM languages a huge plus)
2. Interaction Designer / BA (2 years + exp)

Send resumes and profile information to hello@owsy.com