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atambo··on Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
Vivisimo was actually bought by IBM, not Oracle.
atambo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
LendingHome | Senior/Staff/Principal Software Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco, CA & Pittsburgh, PA | ONSITE VISA

LendingHome is reimagining the mortgage process from the ground up based in technology as a simple, fast, transparent marketplace for borrowers and investors. We’re chasing the goal of being the best way to get a mortgage and the best way to invest in them.

Our stack: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Redis, React, more details here: https://stackshare.io/lendinghome/how-lendinghome-scaled-the...

Apply online at https://www.lendinghome.com/careers

atambo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Pittsburgh PA - Full Time / Intern

IBM Watson Group creates products and technologies using Cognitive Computing to solve real problems, from winning Jeopardy to assisting doctors. Watson does this by analyzing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. We are on the cutting edge of technology working to change the world.

Our team within Watson Group works on Watson Explorer, a web application enabling data exploration and visualization. We are looking for senior and junior front-end developers to join us.

How we work:

* Open and collaborative office environment - you will not be stuffed into a cubicle and left alone.

* Software craftsmanship - pairing, Test Driven Development (TDD), small commits in Git, Gerrit code reviews, continuous integration and deployment, daily standups with progress visualization

* Technologies we use - CSS (Sass and Compass), JS, JRuby on Rails, and Java

What you'll do:

* Develop full-stack web applications

* Work with designers and researchers to translate users’ needs into reality

* Influence design and direction of product

Want to come work with us? We're interested in you, too! See all of the positions below:

http://ibm.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/search/14208828

atambo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Pittsburgh PA - Full Time / Intern

IBM Watson Group creates products and technologies using Cognitive Computing to solve real problems, from winning Jeopardy to assisting doctors. Watson does this by analyzing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. We are on the cutting edge of technology working to change the world.

Our team within Watson Group works on Watson Explorer, a web application enabling data exploration and visualization. We are looking for senior and junior front-end developers to join us.

How we work:

* Open and collaborative office environment - you will not be stuffed into a cubicle and left alone.

* Software craftsmanship - pairing, Test Driven Development (TDD), small commits in Git, Gerrit code reviews, continuous integration and deployment, daily standups with progress visualization

* Technologies we use - CSS (Sass and Compass), JS, JRuby on Rails, and Java

What you'll do:

* Develop full-stack web applications

* Work with designers and researchers to translate users’ needs into reality

* Influence design and direction of product

Want to come work with us? We're interested in you, too! See all of the positions below:

https://ibm.biz/BdRbgs

atambo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
IBM Watson Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA

Lots of positions (Frontend, Backend, QA, Doc, Design)

Technologies used:

Search engine indexer/crawler written in C.

Cluster management, sharding, replication, tiering written in Java.

Connectors written in Java/Scala.

Frontend exploration and visualization written in JRuby on Rails.

Check out all the positions here:

https://ibm.biz/BdRbgs

atambo··on Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 released
Ruby 2.0 still has the GIL so if you want to run a threaded web server you'll still need to be using rubinius or jruby.
atambo··on Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
I think he means something like http://compass-style.org.
atambo··on GSoC 2012 accepted organizations announced
jRuby was accepted: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/jruby
atambo··on Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
He did: http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/egor-stop-hacking-gh.htm...
atambo··on Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
I think it's a mass assignment vulnerability:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228

atambo··on Effective DoS attacks against Web Application Platforms
You can see a list of vulnerable versions of languages and fixes here:

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

atambo··on Effective DoS attacks against Web Application Platforms
jruby 1.6.5.1 was released to fix this:

http://jruby.org/2011/12/27/jruby-1-6-5-1.html

atambo··on Notch live coding for Ludum dare 22
Go to https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/ld22/index.html to play the game (he updates it periodically as he's working on it).
atambo··on Galaxy Nexus launches December 15th on Verizon
Does this mean they will be in verizon stores tomorrow or is this only for ordering online?
atambo··on Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus
Is this why the galaxy nexus was delayed for so long?
atambo··on Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
atambo··on Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released
If you are a rails user and want your form helpers to spit out the bootstrap form markup check out:

https://github.com/stouset/twitter_bootstrap_form_for

Also, if you are a simple_form user then check out:

https://github.com/rafaelfranca/simple_form-bootstrap

atambo··on Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out
Actually, if you read through that issue there is a different patch that got accepted instead of xavier's that has similar performance improvements:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924#note-45

atambo··on Heroku for Java
I've had good experiences with several jruby on rails apps under tomcat using warbler and they all seem to perform fine with config.threadsafe! enabled. You should probably investigate those stacktraces, maybe they were caused by unthreadsafe gems or application code?
atambo··on Heroku for Java
Rails is threadsafe if you turn it on by uncommenting config.threadsafe! in your environment initializer.
atambo··on Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
And for rubyists:

https://github.com/geemus/fog

atambo··on Why Game of Thrones is the best thing on television
Just so everyone knows, Game of Thrones is based off of the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire

So if you like the tv show you'll probably love the books.

atambo··on The Story Behind Ruby 1.9.3 Getting 36% Faster Loading Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8YfstVWKs
atambo··on Speeding up Rails startup time
Does this problem exist in jruby and rubinius as well?
atambo··on Elastic Load Balancing - IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security
Root domain support for elastic load balancers is huge. I've been having to redirect from a separate host totally defeating the purpose of the elastic load balancer in the first place. Now all they need is a damn gui for route 53 dns. The "official" xml config file fed into perl script is a huge bummer.
atambo··on Ask HN: How Would You Architect Around Potential AWS Failures?
Check out these new features amazon is adding to route 53 (it's dns hosting service):

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=63893

It's basically adding the ability to specify round robin and different weights to elastic load balancing groups. That should make it easier to have multiple elastic load balancing groups in different regions.

atambo··on Raphaël 1.5
This is kind of old...version 2.0 of raphael is currently in development at https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/tree/2.0 and the current stable version is 1.5.2.
atambo··on 27 Notepad++ Plugins, and Which You Really Need
Or you could use http://www.sublimetext.com/2
atambo··on JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support
If you're looking for a webserver to use for jruby check out kirk:

https://github.com/strobecorp/kirk

It's a really nice jetty binding for jruby.

atambo··on [Ask HN]Which code hosting do you use?
https://github.com/
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