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Who's hiring (take 3)? | michellegreer1: Rackspace is hiring Java and Python guys. Considering talent over location. Ping me at michelle.greer(at)rackspace.com if you are interested or know someone else who would be. Thanks! |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | jakestein: RJMetrics is hiring an exceptional User Experience and Interface Engineer (Philadelphia / South NJ)http://rjmetrics.theresumator.com/apply/ |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | dmpress: CCP Games, the makers of Eve Online, are hiring programmers in Atlanta, Iceland and Shanghai. Apply at http://ccpgames.com/jobs.aspx. |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | khangtoh: Get a template, themeforest had the nicest themes out there for a reasonable price $20 - $40if you can't even afford that, my suggestion is to launch as is, eye candy doesn't make up for features and functionality. Reddit is an example. I've seen other startups stuck in this redesign mode and IMO it's very di... |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | replicatorblog: Blister,I'm a designer, happy to take a look. Feel free to email me. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | cheriot: Green startup Opower has engineering openings: Senior Java Dev, QA, and Senior DB.www.opower.comMy email is in my profile if you're interested and have any questions. |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | kaiserama: In general, the rule about getting what you pay for stands true. Of course there are always exceptions to this rule, but I'd say they're few and far between.If I was in your position (which I have been) I would do the following. 99designs for a logo (great suggestion by tptacek), cssmania for design/concep... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | neustar: neustar is hiring (better known brands are ultradns and webmetrics) - we have around 70 open positions, most of them technical (support, ops, dev etc.)http://neustar.biz/careers/index.cfm |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | dunk010: http://www.last.fm/about/jobs |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | ciscoriordan: The company I interned for this summer, Panjiva, is hiring a web app developer in Cambridge, MA (http://panjiva.com/jobs). Their app uses Ruby on Rails, but experience with it isn't a necessity. It's a good place to work for if you like it when your development work immediately affects your company's re... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | khangtoh: We're hiring a Ruby/Rails engineer to build up an innovative and large scale mobile service focusing on the iPhone now. We're an Alphalab summer 09 company.You will be employee #1. Preferably someone from the Pittsburgh area or East Coast. Will definitely consider telecommute if you're the right candidate.Ema... |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | tphyahoo: I used odesk to find a designer, to get a look that was a bit more polished for patch-tag.It still looks less polished than I want, but better than I could have done on my own.30 minutes is a fantasy though, you are buying hours, maybe days, of someone's time. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | ccheever: Quora (Palo Alto) would hire someone if we found the right person.Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers. We're a startup based in Palo Alto, CA founded by Adam D'Angelo, who was previously CTO and VP of engineering at Facebook, and Charlie Cheever, who led Facebook Platform and... |
Are there any meta question answering sites on the web? | sundeep: I don't know of any but this is ,IMO , a very good idea.(Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me Amichail,and it turns out,that by reading HN , I have subscribed to your newsletter. :) ) |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | dcopeland: Digg is hiring!We're looking for an Integration Developer to work with content publishers and API clients to support integration of buttons and tools and development of external apps. Ideally a brilliant junior developer with lots of interesting side projects and experience working with clients.We're also l... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | cmalpeli: Here is a good resource for Ruby on Rails Jobs: http://www.RoRJobs.com |
Who is looking for jobs? (NYC edition) | jganetsk: Yodle is hiring: http://www.yodle.com/careersWe use Java, Spring, Hibernate... and Rhino |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | netik: Come work at Twitter, we're hiring!http://jobs.twitter.com/ |
Are there any meta question answering sites on the web? | Olivero: I'm not sure if this is entirely what you are searching for, but would Mahalo meet the criteria of what you're looking for? |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | bpm140: Gnip (www.gnip.com) is hiring Rails / AJAX developers in Boulder, Colorado.Check out http://www.gnip.com/company/jobs/web-developer and drop me an email at eric@gnip.com |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | kamme: Emakina, one of the lead interactive agencies of Belgium, Europe is hiring too:http://emakina.com/company/career.cfmdevelopers, testers, editors, motion designers, webdesigners, ... They are based in Brussels, but have jobs for Antwerp, Ghent, France and the Netherlands! |
Has anyone here ever made an Ubuntu usplash theme? | jamesbritt: I've done it for Kubuntu. My laptop boots with my company name (Neurogami). Just because. :)I used a tool on KDE: KSplasher. Trick getting the image size and resolution correct. Helps to start by modding an existing theme. |
Please review my automated web testing startup, Browsera | cgherb911: I like how your start up actually helps solve a real problem. Who's your competition? Does the subscription model make sense? |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | jack7890: SeatGeek is looking for a lead backend engineer.We're a well-funded, early stage startup located in NYC. TechCrunch50 finalist. If you've got plenty of the experience with the LAMP stack and enjoying working on challenging problems, drop us a line:http://seatgeek.com/main/lamp_developer |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | carterac: Are you one of those rare people who has a deep passion for both technology and art? Are you excited by the thought of revolutionizing the highly inefficient art world and helping artists sell their works?We are a NYC, pre-product, but seed-funded startup that has placed at least as high as finalist in 3 busi... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | jbeda: Google is hiring. I'm in Seattle and I'm specifically looking for "systems-y" people, Google as a whole hires good engineers at any level.http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-wa... |
Any good links to how operating systems work? | dedalus: http://williamstallings.com/Extras/OS-Notes/notes.html is a cool notes for learning OS |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | christiancoomer: WhitePages.com is hiring. We're a RoR/Perl shop based in Seattle.https://whitepagesinc.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs... |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | nathanh: Whenever I need a quick color scheme, I use http://colorschemedesigner.com |
Please review my automated web testing startup, Browsera | poronski: Technical side - neat, very neat. I like it a lot.Business side - the recurrent pricing model does not make any sense whatsoever. Unless someone is actively developing the site or manually changes the content on a daily basis, per-use charges is what is expected.There is certainly a market for enterprise-ish ... |
Do you power off your laptop?) | LeBleu: I turn off my work laptop every day before undocking it to bring it home. I believe HP does not claim that this model supports hot docking. Also, if I forget to turn it off, it gets really hot in my sealed laptop bag... |
Who is looking for jobs? (NYC edition) | carterac: Are you one of those rare people who has a deep passion for both technology and art? Are you excited by the thought of revolutionizing the highly inefficient art world and helping artists sell their works?We are a NYC, pre-product, but seed-funded startup that has placed at least as high as finalist in 3 busi... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | tom: Hiring? Does that imply a salary? Cause yeah, we don't have that quite yet, but we're working on it.What do we have? Small, fast, potential insane team going after the temporary staffing / contracting match-making market. It was $86B in revenue last year, a down year, and it's almost entirely offline. It's ti... |
Do you power off your laptop?) | kennu: MacBook, never power off. Just close the lid while travelling. |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | JCThoughtscream: Thoughtscream's crew ranges from 21 to nearly-30. Personality and chemistry matters more than an arbitrary age range, I think - though I suppose my statement's weakened by the fact that we are still all in our 20s. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | qhoxie: AboutUs is hiring full-time developers in Portland, OR.Most of our work is in Ruby and Scala. We routinely spin up 100+ instances in EC2 to do long-running tasks and are always investigating new technologies to help solve our problems.If you have questions, you can email me (email in profile) or check out http... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | scylla: I'm in a 3 person startup located in downtown San Francisco that is looking for a AJAX expert
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1469284027.html |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | dabent: I'm 43. If I thought you'd get the job done and we got along well, I'd work with you.Note: I'm not currently seeking a co-founder. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | sx: Pattern Insight is hiring engineers in Mountain View, CAhttp://patterninsight.com/http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.phphttp://patterninsight.com/jobs/systems-se-fulltime.php |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | jacquesm: I think what is more important than age is that your motivation for doing a startup is more or less similar.This is usually easier to find in your own age-group, but it doesn't have to be.Suppose you have a guy that 40, two kids, one in high school and a guy in his early 20's working together, you'll potentia... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | JeffJenkins: ShopWiki (NYC startup in the comparison shopping space) is looking for:- a UI dev (python/html/css). This is my project and is going to see a ton of work next year, much of it interesting if you're into web design and information architecture.- backend dev (C++) for our search/sku consolidation code- Prob... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | alphageek: Do u think we should have a separate thread for entry-level ?? New One like this one. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | iag: http://www.k9ventures.com/oscar/Venture backed stealth startup in Mountain View looking for a Lead Hacker. If you think you are true YC-grade hacker, then we want to hear from you! |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | vtrac: Bazaarvoice, voted the best place to work in Austin, is hiring. We dominate the user generated content space. Email me for details. |
Please review my automated web testing startup, Browsera | ScottWhigham: I mean, wow - I'm totally impressed and will probably become a paying customer. If the free version works out to be as impressive as the sample, I'm sold! |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | heyjonboy: For those in NYC, Connected Ventures (CollegeHumor.com) is looking for a PHP developer. http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | smanek: I'm 23, and my two co-founders are 27 and 31, respectively. It works because we bring different skills, points of view, etc to the table.The biggest problem is money. I can live on 1500 a month but one of my co-founders has a mortgage, the other a kid, etc.This means we have different timelines and requirements... |
Are there any meta question answering sites on the web? | ScottWhigham: So wait - you would submit to various forums lots of crossposts and then send it back to me? A spammer's dream! |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | Slashed: I'm 21. Currently, our startup is a two-person company. The age difference is like 13 years. I don't actually feel such a difference, as long as we can both work hard and achieve our goals, I think. :) |
Dirty tricks for faster mysql alter table ? | ScottWhigham: This isn't a MySql problem; it's simply how databases work. When you change a table's structure by adding/removing/changing a column, any database (MySql, Oracle, DB2, etc) has to change every single row. To change all rows, that requires an "exclusive lock" on the table.An ALTER TABLE statement that adds... |
How do I get ready for an internship? | brk: IMO, I would look for opportunities at smaller companies where you would get more of a chance to see larger parts of the operation.I'm not familiar with the programs at Google, et al, but you would want to make sure you were not stuck in too much of narrow silo. |
Dirty tricks for faster mysql alter table ? | danudey: Here's a trick to consider if you've got a truly large table to migrate, but with today's ActiveRecord-style abstractions it's harder to implement than if you were doing it yourself (like back in the PHP days).1. Create a new table with the desired structure.
2. Modify your application to check the new table f... |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | petesalty: I think it has a lot to do with lifestyle/attitude more than age. For example, I'm 40, but I don't have kids, nor a mortgage, nor any other major financial responsibilities. I do have a long term partner but she's also an entrepreneur working on her own businesses. I hate to get up early, like to play video ... |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | bootload: "... I am currently looking for and seeking a technical co-founder for a new music start-up I am working on. ..."Age isn't the problem here, understanding the problem domain is."... This year makes me 18 years old...An ideal co-founder for me would have to be no more than 2-3 years older than me, because most... |
Finding a hacker that understands music? | fascinated: Why necessarily a programmer who understands music? Sure you want someone who loves it, but it sounds like you'll be bringing lots of the product/industry expertise in this case,so you two can complement each other.I think if you looked around in NYC, you'd likely find some of these people too. NY is some... |
Finding a hacker that understands music? | fascinated: PS. I run the Hype Machine (http://hypem.com) a well-regarded music site that keeps track of music on blogs. Would love to know what you think about it. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | callmeed: BIG Folio/NextProof is looking for a part-time Ruby on Rails developer who can commit to roughly 20/hours a week. This is a fairly permanent position and could grow into something full-time.You'll be working on some awesome projects for the professional photography industry. Would also be great for someone wh... |
Are there any meta question answering sites on the web? | DanielBMarkham: A few HNers had a phone conversation with Philip Greenspun along these lines a few weeks ago.We looked into it for a while. The problem, as other posters have pointed out, is that this is a spammer's dream.The general tool -- Social Media Monitoring and Interaction -- has been done in several different ... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | bumbledraven: athenahealth in Watertown, MA is hiring developers and system administrators.http://careers.athenahealth.com/ext/DetailAthena.asp?athenaS...http://careers.athenahealth.com/ext/DetailAthena.asp?athenaS...Mention HN when you apply. |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | dnsworks: What really matters is your ability to execute as a team.
I was 24 when I started my last company with a co-fouder who was 31 at the time. We had completely different backgrounds, and polar views on the world, but we worked well together as a team. That's really all that matters.Before my last company, I ha... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | pskomoroch: The Analytics Engineering team at LinkedIn is looking for engineers to work on Hadoop, Project Voldemort, and the A/B Platform:http://bit.ly/hadoop-linkedin |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | mnshah: Rapleaf is hiring as well: http://www.rapleaf.com/careers |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | lovitt: SB Nation is hiring a Ruby/Rails developer and an operations engineer: http://www.sbnation.com/jobsWe're a network of 220+ community-driven, fan-centric sports news sites, with a passionate audience of 7+ million. It's an interesting and challenging space to be working in, especially given the current transitio... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | Klonoar: Webs.com is looking for a front-end developer. Strong HTML/CSS/JS skills, located in Silver Spring Maryland. Right on a Metro line, we're essentially at the DC border. Position is in-office, no telecommuting options. :(Anyone interested can email me directly (ryan [at] webs (dot) com), or hit me up on Twitter ... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | kwamenum86: Meebo is hiring http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/ |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | ericlitman: Yep, we're (Medialets) hiring in NYC. Hadoop experience is a huge plus, but any distributed computing experience is interesting.Also looking for folks who deeply grok mobile development (iPhone, Android, BBerry).http://www.medialets.com/Drop me a line - eric.litman@medialets.com. |
How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup? | pkc: If you are like me - A person knows basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript but artistically challenged. For my site a bought a template from http://themeforest.net and tweaked it to meet my needs. It worked pretty well for me. Most of the templates costs you 10-15$. But you need to deposit 20$ to buy anything. (I ha... |
How would you approach a potential co-founder via email? | icey: I like all the enthusiasm you've got for your idea.It's an easy mistake to look at things from a purely rational standpoint and mentally check off all of the traits that you're looking for; but you really need to spend some time working with someone to know if it's going to be a good fit for sure.Trying to reach ... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | krobertson: Telligent Systems is hiring several QA engineers, DB engineer, and tech writers, for C# and SQL Server. Most jobs are in Dallas, but likely consider remote candidates as well (I work remote from CA).http://telligent.com/about/careers/ |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | abofh: Ooyala is hiring! http://www.ooyala.com/about/careers ; We're looking for additional talented and experienced developers and operations team members to work on scalable systems using cloud computing, RoR, and other hopefully interesting buzzwords!If you'd like to join a company thats growing, and helping to cha... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | konsl: BackType is hiring developers to join the founding team of two in San Francisco:http://www.backtype.com/jobs |
What are your fav new web apps at the moment? | Concours: I'm loving mcsquare.me |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | sunir: FreshBooks is hiring for a ton of positions in Toronto. We are looking for PHP and Python developers, designers, marketing, community developers, database administrators, product managers, and support specialists.http://careers.freshbooks.comI'm especially looking for hackers. I'm looking for developers who love... |
How to make an Amazon Web Service style billing ? | justinsb: I highly recommend Braintree. Variable monthly billing is very different from monthly billing from the card processor viewpoint. Most providers will let you schedule recurring payments, but only fixed ones. Braintree let you do variable billing, without needing to go through the PCI process, because the cr... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | c00p3r: We offer: remote support and assistance, consulting of FOSS projects. Linux, BSD hosting, virtualization, whatever. Informix support and consulting.cooper.spb@gmail.com |
How to make an Amazon Web Service style billing ? | cperciva: Tarsnap works with a prepaid usage-based billing model; every day at 00:00 UTC a cron job looks at how much storage people are using and processes the server logs to figure out how much bandwidth people used over the past 24 hours, and throws the numbers into Amazon SDB. Some time later, users' current accou... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | dmuino: If you're interested in cloud computing we have a few openings for developers. We're building a very large scale private cloud and we could use help all over the place. From the low level Xen foundation, linux kernel, and virtual machine setup and deployment, to the high level view of the system we'll present t... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | ecq: Ning is hiringhttp://about.ning.com/jobs.php |
Language/framework recommendation for a once-upon-a-time coder | Scott_MacGregor: PHP/Zend Framework is not the easiest but you might want to consider it. Depending on what your planning it is scalable.I understand Ruby has some scalability issues for large enterprise-class applications unless you are willing to throw a ton of computer hardware at it. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | mhil: MyType, a psych/personality startup, is looking to hire a lead web developer. Big points if you have data mining/machine learning experience.http://bit.ly/llU5W |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | bigmac: Arxan Technologies(www.arxan.com) is hiring in West Lafayette, IN.We solve the really interesting problems that tptacek is alluding to here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=953722Email me (contact info in profile) |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | majke: LShift in London is hiring.
http://www.lshift.net/recruitment.html"LShift was set up to make sure that it would be a good place for smart people to work. The day to day routine is as flexible and informal as possible to give you room to manage yourself as you see fit, and you'll spend your days working with like... |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | wlievens: I guess astronomical modeling uses ... astronomically big numbers? |
Do you power off your laptop?) | JamieknighT: Running a MacBook here too, tend to make it sleep, shut it down every now and again if not required. Adverage time between shutdowns I possibly a few weeks? |
What are your fav new web apps at the moment? | rizwanreza: I really like talkerapp.com, though nothing has come up as essential as Backpack. |
Fleeing work | nixusg: For those heading to Cape Town at any point there are fellow HN readers living here that you can contact if you need any information. |
Does your co-founder have to be the same age as you? | Mz: I would assume that it's a lot like dating: If the age difference is An Issue between you and someone, then it's a problem and can be a show stopper. If it's not, it's not. In some cases, what you have in common in terms of lifestyle, interests and so on can overcome the difference in age. In other cases, those... |
Are there any meta question answering sites on the web? | Mz: As a guess: Not likely to work. Different forums are different little cultures. Data-mining a culture tends to be viewed as a hostile act by the members. "One post wonders" and similar tend to be viewed with suspicion. Even if you could get past that, such queries sent to multiple forums would practically be g... |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | physcab: Grooveshark is always looking for quality people. I know the marketing teams are continually bringing new people on and we will probably be scaling our dev team soon as well. We're in Gainesville Florida though. Send me an e-mail. |
Please review my automated web testing startup, Browsera | lazyant: This is very useful, good work.I suggest a change in the pricing model to adjust to the most likely use from customers (many would like just a one-shot), something like:- "Test" (one time): $29- "Project" (one month): $199- "Enterprise" (one year): $890("Enterprise" can be dropped).All of them can have say, 10... |
Who is looking for jobs? (NYC edition) | app: Vimeo is hiring: http://vimeo.com/jobs |
Hosting for multiple sites | mahmud: How much traffic does each site see? Any decent web server will allow you to do virtual hosting: lighttpd and apache do. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | sokoloff: Vistaprint is hiring for a ton of roles as well. Software Engineering, Project Managers, Operations, Creative, Marketing, other. We also do a very limited number of internships.Locations include Lexington (Boston area), MA, Barcelona, Windsor Ontario, Venlo Holland, Winterthur Switzerland.http://careers.vista... |
How would you approach a potential co-founder via email? | ScottWhigham: I don't think email is the right medium to ask whether he is interested in being a cofounder. I think email is a fine medium to say, "Hey - I've got something I want to talk with you about. Got time for lunch on Thursday?" |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | wwsculley: Harvard UniversityThe business has managed to create one of the strongest global brands after more than 350 years in its market, and is expected to produce the best quality product among its competitors without charging the highest prices. |
Who's hiring (take 3)? | osi: DRW Trading Group is hiring. Its a group of ridiculously smart folks. You'll have fun. Chicago, IL.http://career.pereless.com/index.cfm?cid=83084 |
I want to learn statistics and data mining | jmount: Unfortunately my favorites are a bit on the mathy side, so you may want wait for other commenters with better advice. But, there are two books I really feel should not be missed. For statistics: "Statistics, Third Edition" David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves. For machine learning: "The Elements of St... |
I want to learn statistics and data mining | mechanical_fish: This is probably not what you're looking for, but while trying to figure out if you could still download a free copy of Drake's out-of-print Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory...[HINT: The answer is yes: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...]...I found this potentially... |
I want to learn statistics and data mining | phren0logy: If you are starting from scratch without a very strong math background, I'd recommend:1.) Head First Statistics -- Pretty good, but beware the section on Bayes Theorem which is a bit off. This is a quick and casual intro, but worthwhile. I used it to refresh me on my college stats course (which was a long t... |
Hosting for multiple sites | olefoo: Go with a low-end VPS from Slicehost or Linode. It's the most friction free option. |
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