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Who's hiring? | johns: Twilio (cloud telephony, San Francisco - SOMA) is hiring a couple engineers, a head of biz dev, an evangelist (that's what I just started doing a week ago) and a product manager: http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs |
Who's hiring? | ccollins: http://www.airbnb.com/jobs (We have 9 job openings. Front-end/Back-end devs in particular!) |
Who's hiring? | rgrove: Yahoo! Search is hiring frontend engineers: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/05/work-with-yui-3-on-th... |
Who's hiring? | ghotli: Location: Memphis, TNAt American Roamer we're looking to find software developers that can take on big scalability infrastructure problems, do big data analysis with solr/lucene and hadoop, and javascript/front end developers.We collect and sell information on the wireless industry. Among other things in this position you'd be building/supporting a "google maps clone" for displaying coverage data.Small company, great team.Send resumes and questions to jims at americanroamer dot com. |
Who's hiring? | kola: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/web/1639734503.htmlPosition: Senior Web DeveloperLocation: Palo Alto, CA |
Who's hiring? | gduffy: Dropcam, http://www.dropcam.com/ in San Francisco.You can just email me directly - greg@dropcam.com. We code for the cameras and the server-side, mostly Python/C -- and there are many terabytes of data to work with. We also have an iPhone app and will possibly support more mobile platforms in the future.We're looking for generalist engineers who know C like the back of their hand but prefer to code in a higher level language like Python 90% of the time. You should also have experience with IP/networking or a voracious enough learning appetite to get it fast: we work with protocols a lot, and not just HTTP. Linux knowledge will come in handy too ... understanding file systems, system calls, toolchains, etc a plus.We've been too busy to write up a fancy jobs page, but there are ample sodas, salary, and equity :) |
What happened to rational discourse? | giantfuzzypanda: I'm trying to create a community for rational discourse - http://debate-zone.com |
Who's hiring? | vitovito: BioWare, Austin, TX. We make video games you might have played (Mass Effect? Dragon Age?) and the Austin office is working on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The web team has 2-3 contractor openings for web developers (senior PHP [Drupal] and just HTML/CSS/JS) and graphic designers to help us build out all the game-web integration.Edit: the job listings aren't live yet, so you can email me at vito underscore biowarejobs at perilith dot com if you're interested. (I'm the interaction designer for the new features.) |
Who's hiring? | hendler: Somerville MassachusettsMy company, BetterLesson has two open positions.- http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sof/1679680393.html
- http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eng/1679671213.html |
Who's hiring? | bkbleikamp: Yelp is hiring, http://yelp.com/jobs/ |
Who's hiring? | jnoller: Nasuni is hiring (Natick, MA): http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/ - Sales, Community Manager, Web marketing manager. |
Who's hiring? | sync: DigitalAdvisor (Cambridge, MA) is looking to hire an awesome Rails developer: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eng/1681173589.html |
Who's hiring? | luckyland: Company: CBS InteractiveLocation: San Francisco (SoMa)Properties: Gamespot, Gamefaqs, MetacriticPosition: Operations EngineerExperience: Unix, Scripting, Apache + mod_rewrite, Memcached, MySQL, Redis, Sphinx, Solr, CDNs, Monitoring, RPM, JIRAResponsibilities: Own it all, keep it running, make it run better, work with developers on a daily basis.Contact: gml-ops@cnet.com |
Who's hiring? | talbina: Any non-technical positions?business development/seo/product etc. |
What do you do with a finished product? | adrianwaj: Create a feature matrix of your site versus other debate sites. Show why yours is better. Do a screencast and show how easy it is to use.Have you seen http://www.whitehouse2.org/ or http://www.allrise.com/ -- at least there is a focus. Yours has none. |
Revocable File Sharing? | chancho: Without some kind of encryption on the file being shared, what we be the basis for the assurance that the file is securely erased? A promise? |
Who's hiring? | danmcc: http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs.mhtml We heart Perl developers. |
What do you do with a finished product? | proexploit: How you get users depends on what your goal is. It looks like your site offers a free service and has advertising (AdWords and selling ads directly [hint: telling users to name a price is not a good idea.]) as it's only income source. This pretty much rules out paying for users unless it can be done very cheaply as you aren't going to make much per new user.SEO is good. A properly configured site can work wonders, but beyond that, a good product will "SEO itself". Spending time on linkbuilding campaigns or blackhat SEO will not be efficient in the long run.Buying ads could be expensive and wouldn't be worth it to me. That would depend on where you can advertise and the cost, but I wouldn't do it.Spam is an obvious no.So what can you do? Well, this post right here will more then likely get some visitors to check out your site (if that was your intent, +1 sneaky). I'd focus on creating the best product you can, including a better design, alternative monetization methods, and asking HN or current users for suggestions on improvement and implementing them.
[sidenote: I don't have many projects I consider finished, only paused if I'm not working on them. Stay open to future development. If you aren't adapting and improving, you're falling behind.]You could contribute to debate forums or other relevant websites, posting genuinely helpful comments relevant to your site and harmlessly introducing it. I personally like to only use advertising methods that I would not be annoyed with, but if your only goal is to make money, just spam your site all over the place. You might make a little cash, but you'll get a bad reputation doing it. |
Who's hiring? | ecaron: This kind of thread is exactly why I work at http://linkup.com/ - which is a job search engine that works by only including jobs found on company websites. Let me give a quick example of what that means:Twitter has 34 job openings (http://twitter.com/positions.html). They, being Twitter, don't have a hard time finding people so their jobs aren't on CareerBuilder/Monster (http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?brd=1&cn=Twitte...). The other job aggregators, like Indeed or SimplyHired, only have the jobs that have been copied onto other sites (http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=Twitter - note the links don't actually go to the company website). We (LinkUp) have all their jobs - http://www.linkup.com/results.php#c=Twitter. Another HN-worthy list is http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups, but you'll have to guess what the link is...The technology behind LinkUp takes a lot more work than your standard scrape because many companies make it difficult to get to a reusable link to an individual job, and there's no unified format to tell title from description from location. And right now we only have a hair over 20,000 companies, so I don't tell anyone that we're the only site a jobseeker should use - just the first;-) |
Who's hiring? | RichardPrice: Academia.edu is hiring Rails engineers http://academia.edu/jobs |
Who's hiring? | RiderOfGiraffes: I don't have personal experience of it, but I believe BitTorrent is hiring.ADDED IN EDIT:OK, in response to getting downmodded I went to find where I saw it, and here's the reference:http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobsSo what's with the down-mods? Do you hate BitTorrent? Do you want me to do your work for you? I gave information that was asked for, and stated my lack of connection with the company, what more do you want? |
Revocable File Sharing? | swolchok: The general consensus is that DRM cannot be made secure. Why? You are delivering content and the means of playing it to the user. If the user can play it, the user can copy it. Game over.However, if the recipient of the shared document is also interested in the timed destruction of the document, you could encrypt the document and escrow the key on a web server. The host of the web server promises to erase the key after a certain time, and the recipient promises to delete all unencrypted copies of the document and temporary encryption keys.What I have just described above is a much simpler way to implement Vanish (http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/) if you allow the use of a trusted web server. Note that the full Vanish implementation is insecure (http://z.cs.utexas.edu/users/osa/unvanish/papers/vanish-brok...). |
Who's hiring? | lepht: Dealer.com is hiring. It's a great place to work for a developer, although there's openings in many positions. On-site gym and organic cafeCheck us out:
http://www.dealer.com/careers |
Who's hiring? | quickpost: Make sure to put your City and State in your job post - to make this thread more searchable. |
Who's hiring? | gsaines: Skritter is hiring paid summer programmers. We create a web-based tool to help students of Chinese and Japanese better learn and remember their characters. We're based near Cleveland Ohio and we're hunting for motivated, smart applicants, preferably with experience with python, actionscript, or django. I'm the CEO of the company and you can get in touch with me either via the site (skritter.com/contact) or my HN profile contact info. |
Who's hiring? | iseff: AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com), a mobile app search and discovery site, are hiring a developer in Seattle, WA.We're seed funded ($150K from Founder's Co-op) and approaching cash-flow breakeven.Happy to discuss further with anyone interested, or read more here:
http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look... |
Who's hiring? | crad: We're always looking for awesome developers at myYearbook.com.Here's a job posting: http://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33... |
Who's hiring? | burnout1540: TripIt is hiring. Located in the Mission in San Francisco.http://tripit.jobscore.com/list |
Who's hiring? | nathanh: A number of companies will be interviewing in New York City on 4/27 at Hirelite: Speed Dating for the Hiring Process.Here's the current list of companies:- ACL Systems - Software Developer- IndustryNext - Software Engineer & ActionScript Developer- Fantasy Interactive Inc - Senior Java Software Engineer-NYC- LearnBat.com - Seeking talented developers on iPad, Flash, and LAMP- Yodle - Software Engineer- knowmore - R&D Hacker- National Event Company - Senior Ruby Programmer- TradeCard - Java Developer- Arc90 - Web Application Developers, Designers, Engineers, and SysadminsSee http://hirelite.com/companies for complete job descriptions.Edit: formatting |
Who's hiring? | chiquita: Anyone hiring in Europe or remote? |
Any idea's on how to implement this? | asnyder: It's really up to you. If the websites on your network agree to add a component to their website you can technically implement this with an IFRAME or any component with JavaScript that references some JavaScript file of yours. You can even do it with an image URL, but the image URL won't cycle without the aid of a script. However, it's likely that your thinking of a page based solution, and not a dynamic solution for single page AJAX like websites.All the above will work, now it's up to you which you prefer. |
Who's hiring? | mutande: Turbulenz is hiring - http://www.turbulenz.com/. They're based in Guildford in the UK and looking for a range of engineers to work on their browser based game engine. |
Who's hiring? | Element_: Anyone hiring in Canada ? |
Who's hiring? | agosnell: Wufoo is hiring someone for customer support. We're in Tampa, FL but we are accepting remote applicants.More info here: http://wufoo.com/2010/04/07/wufoo-is-hiring-a-customer-suppo... |
Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation) | bpourriahi: It took me a very long time to realize this:-Confidence is the defining quality in success.Be confident at any cost. This will help you focus on what you want most right now in this moment, and moving towards what you want will lift your depression. |
Who's hiring? | josephruscio: Librato is looking for a lead designer to own UI/UX on http://silverline.librato.comBrick/Mortar office is in Santa Clara, CA, but we offer part-time telecommuting e.g. I work from home in San Francisco 3 days a week. |
Who's hiring? | dmn001: Anyone hiring in UK? |
Who's hiring? | bkrausz: TripAdvisor is looking for awesome people in the Boston area for both full-time and internships.My team is PHP, the rest of the company is Java. Standard valley-style perks (free lunch 3 days a week, snacks/drinks, shiny hardware, etc) and a challenging work environment full of smart people.Feel free to email bkrausz AT tripadvisor for more info or with a resume. |
Any idea's on how to implement this? | hga: This is a very interesting idea.Look at item 3 at the end of this posting http://aitoehigie.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/building-a-world-... from the author's blog for one good application area. |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | apowell: Go sit in everything before you make up your mind. You may have to drive to several office furniture stores to do this -- one store may not carry all the major brands.In the end, I purchased a Steelcase Leap, and I've been very pleased with it. Unlike cheaper chairs I've used, it doesn't leave me feeling fatigued after hours of use. |
Who's hiring? | r11t: Is anyone hiring in Dallas, TX? |
Who's hiring? | dmarques1: Gemvara is hiring (Lexington, MA)- http://www.gemvara.com/Careers/pages/v/about/careers/- CAD Modeler- Front-End Developer- Senior Java Developer- Procurement Manager - Colored Stones- Web 2.0 E-Commerce Developer- Personal Shopper |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | DanBlake: Am I the only one that doesn't sit on a hard chair? :) I tried them out and I much prefer the "sofa chair"http://ioj.com/v/h6qxu <- photo of my aging chair |
Good Teaching Materials for Precalculus Mathematics? | tokenadult: Browsing around the Web, I've found a number of useful materials young learners or for their teachers about the mathematics that Americans might consider "middle school" or "high school" mathematics. Here are some examples of downloadable materials:An amazingly clear and thoughtful textbook from the state government of Kerala, India, available not only in the English version linked below, but also in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada.http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/englishmedium/mathseng/te...A guide for teachers to the most critical issues in mathematics education at the early secondary school level.http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/The Mathematics Pre-service Teachers Need to Know is a detailed discussion of how teachers of even earlier topics can get ready to lay a good foundation for learners to learn secondary school mathematics topics.http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/13083The Singapore Math series cover these topics well. The various textbook publishers have permitted some sample pages to be shown from sublinks on the North American distributor's website.http://www.singaporemath.com/Secondary_math_s/22.htmSome college-level teachers who teach prealgebra topics in remedial classes have put together impressive lecture notes.http://ms.yccd.edu/~jb2/Prealgebra/fm.pdfWhat other resources like this do you like? |
Who's hiring? | carterac: Art.sy is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer in NYC: http://bit.ly/bHo0rW |
Who's hiring? | ciscoriordan: Panjiva (http://www.panjiva.com), a Boston/NYC startup is hiring summer interns and full-time hackers. They use Ruby on Rails and have a global supply chain service. Looking for web app and information retrieval engineers. |
Any idea's on how to implement this? | d4ft: I would be interested to hear more about how you plan to monetize this. Assuming you are using Twilio or something similar, there is some outlay on your part. Will people who want to advertise have their own account or will it just be a 1 dollar charge to their number or some such?Cool idea, look forward to hearing more. |
Who's hiring? | lsb: TripAdvisor (http://www.tripadvisor.com) is currently looking for smart folks who like working on social and mobile apps that leverage terabytes of data with billions of social data points. I'm really enjoying it so far, hit me up if you have any questions: lbutterman@tripadvisor.com |
Review my app: dmbox.in | adrinavarro: Clickable: http://dmbox.in/ |
Who's hiring? | trefn: Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com) is a YC & angel funded web analytics startup based in Mountain View, CA.We build analytics for startups, and we're looking for employee number 1. If you're a great engineer and you want to work with tech like python, git, memcached, nginx, thrift, erlang, nosql, etc - please get in touch.jobs@mixpanel.com http://mixpanel.com/jobs |
Who's hiring? | timtrueman: Fluther is now hiring a software engineer and an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/We'll give a free iPad to anyone who refers someone to us that we hire. |
Who's hiring? | sshumaker: Los Angeles (Hollywood) - CA
Well-funded stealth startup building software for the music biz. Networked OSX app with web backend (Rails + MongoDB, plus NodeJS / Redis / etc). Eventual growth to other platforms (PC/iPhone/iPad).
Tiny team of 3 very kick-ass developers (our last startup got acquired for 20+mm, before that all of us were leads in the video game space), working with extremely well-connected founder in the music industry.We're looking for a fourth to focus on tons of backend stuff. We just started about 8 weeks ago and plan to launch the beta in another 10-12 weeks - so there's a lot to do and a lot of opportunities. We're well-funded, so we can afford someone world-class.
Shoot me an email at my HN username @ gmail.com |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | nfriedly: I've used the charts widget from YUI 2 more than once. It's not amazing, but if you have a small amount of data it gets the job done. Large data sets can take a while to render and then be hard to read once they do render.http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/charts/ |
Review my app: dmbox.in | csomar: The website doesn't work or is it just me? (Tunisia, North Africa) |
Review my app: dmbox.in | nfriedly: interesting...I personally wouldn't find a lot of use for it because I have twitter DM's sent to my cell already. But people who don't hook their cell up to their twitter (or have multiple accounts) might find a use for it.Something I have been looking for is a way to have any @myname mentions sent to me in a DM. Set up a service to do that and I'd be interested. |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | kilian: I built Grafico, a free (MIT licenced) javascript and SVG charting library. it's fast in most browsers and should see a ridiculous speedup with ie9. Also it makes really pretty charts :) http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/ |
Review my app: dmbox.in | adrinavarro: VPS provider just went nuts, and now I have to go to bed.I'll pick Slicehost next time. Crap. |
Who's hiring? | Cmccann7: We here at [Startup Digest] just launched a job posting board specifically for startups. Check it out here http://thestartupdigest.com/2010/04/07/work-with-startups/ each post goes out to our 30,000+ founders around the world.We just recently launched it so would love feedback on it! |
What do you do with a finished product? | Scott_MacGregor: Bug Report: At 7pm Austin time (April 10th, 2010), I cannot load your site in IE 7.0.5730.11 on Win XP Pro SP2.Before the site fully loads it freezes the browser then leaves an empty (blank) broswer outline.I tried twice and it happened both times. I had to use the task manager to kill the browser both times.IE 7 is still in service for many users, thats why I used it to look at your site. |
Who's hiring? | mark_story: Freshbooks is hiring too, we have a pile of positions open for everything from developers to support people. So if you are in Toronto, ontario and need work check it out. http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/ |
Who's hiring? | donohoe: The New York TimesLocation: New York, NYMy company is looking for a ton of developers (at least 9) in various levels of experience and departments:* Senior Software Engineer x2* Software Engineer x3 (1 in Mobile Applications)* Creative Technologist* Web Developer, Senior Web Developer, Web Designer/DeveloperFull list with links to detail descriptions:
http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/index.htmlI'm sure here will be some fun comments about print media dying and the pay-wall etc. but this is platform and web focused. We build a lot of cool fun stuff from our own API's, standalone web apps, social platforms, open source apps, standards, and a lot more mobile stuff on the way too. I've been there many years (web developer) and its a great place to work with many smart people…Some URLs of note (the fun stuff IMHO):Open Blog: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/NYT APIs: http://developer.nytimes.com/Times Wire: http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/index.html (completely developer driven)Times Skimmer: http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ (completely developer driven)Times People: http://timespeople.nytimes.com/view/user/37963625/activities...Here is a horribly titled NY Mag article on some of the developers in the Newsroom:
http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53344/Happy to answer questions and update this as I check back but otherwise follow that first link up top. |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | mark_story: If you like SVG, or even if you don't. http://g.raphaeljs.com/ has some sweet graphing. I wouldn't recommend it for huge data sets, but for small to large datasets its quite nice. |
Review my app: dmbox.in | adrinavarro: It's back! |
Who's hiring? | tocomment: Anyone hiring in DC or Maryland? |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | quinto42: Hah, such bad replies.http://www.highcharts.com/No questions. |
Good Teaching Materials for Precalculus Mathematics? | b-man: You could try Khan's academy, it is very cool IMHO.
http://www.khanacademy.org/index.html#Pre-algebraFor teaching materials, try cnxhttp://cnx.org/content/col10615/latest/I would try out something in the LOGO philosophy also (scratch, etoys and so forth). The web is flowing with rich material, so get a shovel and dig up.I Hope you find some gems. |
Good Teaching Materials for Precalculus Mathematics? | brianto2010: Here's a favorite of mine I loved visiting when I was in middle school: http://coolmath.com |
Who's hiring? | mbrubeck: Mozilla is hiring for all sorts of different positions. Our headquarters is in Mountain View, CA, but we have people all over the world: http://www.mozilla.com/careers |
Who's hiring? | codebaobab: Anyone hiring in Denver? Or willing to hire a remote hacker? |
What do you do with a finished product? | seanmcdonnell: gold mines:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247292http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267639 |
Who's hiring? | Raphomet: We're hiring web developers at Context Optional, in San Francisco. We make web applications on social platforms. We use Rails, but we're open to a range of backgrounds and experience - we've even got a summer internship position open!
http://www.contextoptional.com/Write me for more information: rleeATcontextoptional.com |
Who's hiring? | justin_vanw: We are an amazing startup located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We're looking for great engineers!-- Some of our Key Benefits -- - Full Health coverage (and vision and dental)
- Stock Options (if you ask any of us, milo options are as good as gold)
- Lunch (and if you stay late, dinner) is provided
- Stocked fridge and snack cupboard
- In Palo Alto, an bike friendly city with a Mediterranean like climate
- Right next to the CalTrain stop
- Hard work and accomplishments are noticed, recognized and rewarded
http://milo.comhttp://milo.com/about-ushttp://nyti.ms/073VfE9http://www.crunchbase.com/company/milohttp://tcrn.ch/bJvOdUWe would especially like to talk with Pythonistas of all stripes, experienced web engineers and designers, and engineers with experience in machine learning and search. We also currently have an Ops position we are trying to fill.You can submit inquiries and solutions to our engineering challenge to jobs@milo.com, or if you would like you can contact me directly at justin@milo.com.http://milo.com/jobs |
What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding? | wdewind: humanscale = amazing.http://www.humanscale.com/products/liberty.cfmi have that one at work and it's definitely added to my productivity. it adjusts in everyway i could want and definitely beats aerons that ive tried. the back support is perfect. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | BrianHammond: Ask tocomment: try it and let us know! |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | cheald: I've only done basic experimentation, but it's not bad at all. You can even download the Android SDK and try developing apps and running them in an Android emulator before committing to a phone. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | stretchwithme: Here's a marketplace for amateur photography: http://www.snapitto.me/
You can host a photo search contest. Audio and video are just one more media type. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | jared314: It is just as frustrating as most other frameworks. Find someone to commiserate with before you jump in. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | aphyr: I started writing android apps four months ago. My co-worker started developing iPhone apps two months ago. We have similar levels of "Arrrgh, this is so broken" conversations--but about entirely different things. The android emulator is way slower, but running on a real device is quick and easy. Android has way better support for libraries--you cut and paste far less code. The APIs are saner, in general. Error handling is simpler, and you don't have to allocate as much by hand. Also, the store is a dream. We went from zero to installed via the market in ten minutes.On the other hand, Android is Java--and all the horror that entails. There are also fewer people developing for android. The source is open, though--you can git clone the official apps and refer to them, which is invaluable. The docs are okay, but a lot of android plumbing is really complicated. Rightly so, when you realize what the platform accomplishes, but it takes longer to spin up.Overall, I like it. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | DrewHintz: > What should I know before taking the plunge?Along with the SDK, use the Eclipse plugin. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | gte910h: The audio and video is a alot harder. The Layout issues without an interface builder type tool are rough.It's possible, for sure, and you can get up on the store in minutes.If you've never done eclipse, I don't recommend starting now. Develop without it. Learn how to use ADB from the command line. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | Magneus: The experiences are comparable.First, I'll address your concerns about code signing:Android doesn't require you to go through quite the same certificate/provisioning profile insanity, but you will have to sign your applications before distributing them in the Android Market.See here: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.ht...To develop on a device, it's brain-dead simple. Just plug in the device, install the driver (or config udev on Linux), and go!Details here: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.htmlThe one case where you need to get anything 'approved' is if you're going to use Google Maps. There's a quick automated process where you submit your development key in return for a maps API key.See here: http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.htmlRegarding development itself:In terms of learning the development APIs and how everything fits together, I contend that Android is going to be tougher to learn at first, because you'll have to figure out fundamentals like Activity lifecycle, Intents, etc.However, after you've gotten past the initial hurdles, I find that Android development (at least for the most part) feels more predictable and logically-designed than iPhone development.In my experience, Android also has some better libraries out of the box. For example, doing basic REST calls, JSON, and SQLite are all in the standard library. On iPhone, you're best off using 3rd party libraries for each of those.But there's always two sides to the coin. I find that iPhone is less structured, which can be good, depending on your tastes. I also feel that iPhone gives you a better-looking, better-feeling application with less effort (prettier default buttons, colors, animations, and there's always Interface Builder if you need it). If you're a game dev, also, iPhone tends to run faster and can utilize C libraries more readily than Android, whose ability to run C code relies on NDK/JNI, which can be a PITA.To wrap things up, don't expect an entirely new process when you switch over to Android. If you didn't have the patience to stick it out on iPhone, don't think that Android will be the magic bullet that makes things easy. However, you'll be able to develop applications using the tools you like (not wedded to XCode), under the OS you like (Win/Linux/OS X), and best of all: no approval process to publish your applications. I've found that it takes minutes, as opposed to the App Store's days/weeks, for Android applications to arrive in the market.I hope that helped.P.S. I recommend The Busy Coder's Guide to Android. There's plenty of examples to get you started. |
Who's hiring? | thinkcomp: Think, in Palo Altohttp://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.htmlJavaScript and iPhone experts especially! |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | orangecat: I've found the Android API itself to be about on par with Cocoa Touch; some things are easier and some things are harder, but it seems to balance out. A major advantage for Android is that it uses Java instead of Objective C, giving you real memory management, no header files, and generally better built-in libraries. Also you don't have to muck with certificates nearly as much; apps can deploy to your phone immediately, and you just pay Google $25 (one time, as opposed to $99/year for Apple) and use a self-signed certificate to put it on the Android Market. And your app shows up on the market a few minutes after you upload it, and won't get pulled unless it's malicious.For fun, Android easily wins IMO. For profit it's less clear; there are certainly more iPhone users, but it may be easier for a quality Android app to stand out. My paid Android app is earning around $10/day (before Google's cut), which from what I hear is on par with typical iPhone apps. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | alayne: I doubt the experience is better than iPhone development from a tools perspective. I often feel like I'm participating in a Google Labs experiment. If you can deal with some rough edges and lack of direct developer support, you will be okay.Developing games seems to be relatively difficult. Java has GC issues and the NDK APIs don't support most application UI features. |
Who's hiring? | jonathanmarcus: We are always looking for US-based Django and Javascript developers at http://hiidef.com - which is a web services incubator.Hii Def owns and operates http://flavors.me - http://goodsie.com and http://superkix.comPlease send resume and code samples to: jonathan@hiidef.com |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | pkulak: In my experience it's really tough to make an Android app look good. I started building an Android app, but got frustrated trying to muck with XML, never getting anything to layout how I wanted it to. I decided to give Cocoa Touch a try and found that the built in libraries take care of just about everything you need. I probably just didn't give it enough time though. I do plan on revisiting though.Objective C is a _giant_ pain in the ass, though. Just adding a property to a class means adding four lines between 2 files. I can't even imagine how people coped before 3.0. |
Who's hiring? | emilyboyd: We have several positions available at Remember The Milk (we're based in Sydney, Australia, but you can work from anywhere): - Software Engineer (Server-side)
- Software Engineer (Scala)
- Software Engineer (Windows)
- UI/Interaction Designer
For full details see: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/about/jobs.rtm |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | staunch: Open Flash Chart http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/ |
Who's hiring? | sunir: FreshBooks in Toronto is looking for front-end developers, application developers, and Open Web developers to help us build out our API and continue to lead The Small Business Web (http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com); and we are looking for a developer community leader (that last job isn't posted, but it's true). http://careers.freshbooks.comAnd by "FreshBooks," I literally mean me, as I am the head of integrations and it's my team to build out if you want to ask me questions.Sunir, Chief Handshaker, FreshBooks (sunir splat freshbooks.com)P.S. Note that I did not mention specific languages or stacks. You should understand why that doesn't matter so much when we're looking for good developers. |
Who's hiring? | kingkilr: SimpleGeo is looking for a Designer and an Application Engineer: http://blog.simplegeo.com/post/506890585/hiring-a-designer-a... (I don't work for them) |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | yish: Protovis out of stanford (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) seems to be incredibly comprehensive while also being really slick and interactive. Haven't had the chance to use it on a project but have it bookmarked since it would be the first thing I would try when I do. Also, seems to be updated regularly. I know they didn't support IE for a long time as they are SVG based, but not sure if that has changed. |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | rmanocha: I've been using the Google Chart Tools (http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/index.html) and have been pretty happy with it. Haven't used it on a major project though, so your mileage may vary. |
Who's hiring? | arjunb: we're looking for hackers that like to move fast:
http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineer... |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | fadeddata: I've used Highcharts with good results...
http://www.highcharts.com/ |
How many people upset over Apple's rules are actually iPhone developers? | talbina: I'm not accusing you of anything. But hopefully no one will infer that all the non-iphone developers should stay quite. |
What would life be like as an Android Developer? | uptownben: Hope you're in the United States or some other country that Google decided to support. I don't mean to sound bitter, but I'm in Israel and it's seems that even with a decent size Google presence here, Israeli Android devs can not sell apps on the Google Marketplace. I found this out AFTER I paid the signup fee. That was about 9 months ago, and Google still hasn't responded to my emails requesting a solution. So, you should basically check, and double check that your country is supported if you want to sell apps and get paid. |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | graham_king_3: Flot. JS / Canvas library, supports excanvas for IE. Good looking, straightforward.http://code.google.com/p/flot/I have been using it for a while in production, am happy with it. |
How many people upset over Apple's rules are actually iPhone developers? | fleitz: I'm an iPhone dev, and I really don't care. I knew going into it that if I wanted to make iPhone apps that I was playing in Apple's ballpark and that essentially my apps could be blacklisted for whatever reason. I decided that if I ever came to the place that I had reason to believe an app wouldn't make it through the review process that I'd do something web based.That said I took the time to learn Obj-C as I figured MonoTouch would deliver a subpar user experience and would also be a few steps behind whatever the latest version of the SDK was.Truth be told, I'd much rather write F# than Obj-C. However, when in rome... |
How many people upset over Apple's rules are actually iPhone developers? | TomOfTTB: Well mobileorchard is shutting down and many of his comments seem to indicate at least a few developers are following himhttp://www.mobileorchard.com/goodbye/#commentsBut by in large I think most of the developers upset by this are ones who wanted to develop for the iPhone not ones that are already. Since those who already did develop for the iPhone would obviously know how to use Objective-C already. The true cruelty of this is that Apple basically pulled the rug out from under these people after they'd been waiting for over a year (since CS5 was announced)Anticipating something like that for so long and then having it taken from you at virtually the last minute is bound to cause a lot of anger |
How many people upset over Apple's rules are actually iPhone developers? | devinj: I'm an iphone developer (or at least, I have been intermittently in the current project I'm working on). Other than the iPhone, I developed a Java ME app once (I won't make that mistake again).I'm pretty upset about it, but I'm not one of the people yelling at Apple everywhere (and honestly I am one of the people that got tired really quickly about how much it was filling up the front page of HN). It doesn't affect the code I've written-- I used Objective C, all the way, because I was new to the platform and that's what it's documented with.Honestly, it scares me, and it scares me enough that I have no real interest in developing for the iPhone anymore. Apple doesn't appear to care about its developers. This isn't so bad, except that it also has a lot of control over its developers. I have little investment in the platform (one app? pff), and not much reason to develop for it (users are not really that big of a motivator here), and so I quit. iPhone development is a gamble I don't want to take. (And of course, the new change prevents me from hedging my bets and developing cross-platform apps. How annoying!). |
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