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I had never known of the continuing output of Chris Burden and it is very interesting! Chris was one of a number of students who attended Pomona College at a time when it's teaching of art was radically modern. Should anyone take interest they can read about the interesting output of some of the other students here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12497845-it-happened-at-...

Novoda / Central London & Berlin Senior Software developer. Full Time. www.novoda.com

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You will be interested in working within small teams of developers within either London or Berlin. We are all hackers. We love software development and encourage it getting done really well. Although we specialise in Android, we care about all technologies and the future of our industry. If you want a challenge and want to work in the best possible company for the future of Android development, lets chat.

We are looking for seasoned developers who likely have significant Android experience but who definitely care about software craftsmanship.

First 6 months at one of our offices. Open to negotiations on working situations after this time.

Novoda develop the world's most desirable Android software. Our clients are typically venture capital funded tech startups who with our help realise an amazing products for their very new services. We help them hit the ground running and innovate with their services to the best of the platform's ability. This means that Novoda see lots of project variations and we work with lots of amazing interesting technologies! Far from being just about phones, Novoda's believes Android's real future is Glasses, wearables, Factories, Vending machines, Satellites and a world of future interconnected devices.

We are very social :) We like to meetup and so we help run the London Android meetup at least once a month: http://www.meetup.com/android We also run London's Droidcon http://www.droidcon.co.uk

If you are interested please get in touch: http://novoda.com/contact

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I'd like to stick Novoda on it but we are a company of developers rather than an individual: http;//www.novoda.com but I can only sign up as an individual on Facebook.

Novoda (www.novoda.com) , London, UK - Android developers: INTERN ONSITE (paid) & REMOTE Juniors / Snrs

Are you really interested in the Android platform? Have you played around with the platform? We are looking for people to grow into the world's most awesome Android developers within our company. We can help!

This is a paid internship so there is tough competition and we do expect you to already have a fair amount of experience. We expect that you are excited about the Android platform and eager to see where you can take it in future.

We do all these things and would offer you the opportunity to take part in what you are most interested within:

* Hackathon and event attending/speaking * Testing and continuous integration * Styling & theming * Proactive remote working * R&D into new industries using Android * GoogleTv development work * Open source development * Innovating in new ways to use the native platforms functionality

We will only consider candidates who we believe could potentially join us full time as permanent developers.

Application Process Send your social bits (cv, github, googlecode, bitbucket, linkedin, masterbranch, twitter account) to jobs@novoda.com.

Although some may see it as misleading localising a whole app is a greater over all effort. In a view of working to always push forward an app to the greatest possible audience as minimum viable product and work from there, a localised title and description is the best compromise. In this there is also the consideration of a large global english speaking audience, so presuming your first language is a widely spoken alternative (en/es) you are still offering more functionality to a greater audience than would usually have access. Users being annoyed using your app is much more often than not as much of a problem as users having never heard of your application.

I find conferences through others in the same industry: http://plancast.com http://lanyrd.com Mostly it is just through the grapevine http://twitter.com and http://meetup.com, knowing lots of people within the industry helps.

I appreciate some greeting the behaviour of pragmatic conference attendance as suspicious. I'm not advocating talk as any substitute for credibility but if you have a good product and want attention you will have to get out there and in front of people.

Thats exactly what I do. Mind you, not usually within a crowded tiny room. Sometimes talk is just not enough to earn trust, people want to see evidence. A phone with the apps and shortcuts pre-installed is live demo hazard ridden but generally a tablet is a nice backdrop to conversation.

That little affair will surely have affected any valuation. It was just the shove I needed to move to pinboard. Let's start a conspiracy theory that it was a co-ordinated effort by some other bookmarking service to capture delicious users.

Lots of good people meet at the Londroid meetup. We'll be having another one soon and you'd be very welcome: http://www.meetup.com/android

I met my co-founder through an IRC chat room specialising on the topic. He was the only other one still there until 4am. After our initial meeting to check out his personality and make sure he wasn't a maniac, I had another meeting with him where I asked him a bunch of technical questions. I did the same thing with three or four other people, it was obvious by his reaction to my process we were going to get along well.

I second this, if you think you can get to money within the first year get yourself to London. If you are within the UK and can't get to money within the first year, live within 1 hour commuting distance and plan to move there. This has worked pretty well for me. It is extremely expensive to be able to live here but the ability to casually attend and walk to serendipity tech networking events is a real luxury and I save a lot of money commuting. The lively eco system around the Techhub interested people is exciting and I recommend it.

This is absolutely not Hacker news material. This is not reddit or Digg. Lets please keep the news constrained to a fine selection from advances and learnings in software development and Comp Sci.

No you do not need to learn mathematics, just like you do not need to do anything to 'get by'. But I recomend not satisfying with just 'getting by'. Try your hardest to learn everything which can increase your skill set and it will help in aspects of your programming. I have not benefitted from a well grounded education in mathematics but I constantly have to retrofit my knowledge, you have the opportunity to start from a good base.

Although I'm not really on holiday I seem to have taken on the reinvigoration of the customwars project. It's a java 2d tile war game like chess but with nice animations. It's over at customwars.com if anyone would liek to help out over their time off.

Even if it were true, the flagrant use of emotive language in it discredits any opinion as completely bias. There is very little factual evidence cited, mostly it is just a white paper of rant.

I may come to this in future, I know a lot of others who may also be interested. Could you start a group on meetup.com? Also is there a Glasgow meeting for Hacker news?

That is amazing. I like how there is a visible correlation between the time of day and the flow of traffic.

I found this a nice overview. Herring: maybe you could cover some more detailed underground distros, I'd be interested in reading about that. Just for the record I mainly use Umbuntu because its so nice and plain simple.

Thanks for posting this. Great stuff.

I agree that the posts are getting more mundane as some try to get 'the top score' possible. I'm all for this place being incredibly pompous if keeps up the quality of the content. I question the purpose of a number based karma system. Couldn't we just have a thumbs up and thumbs down approach on individual posters and not their posts. This way if you personally recognise that someone has a higher quality of posts, then you will go to the effort of recommending that person. Then you may choose to look at those who are connected to them. This way people don't have the same motivations. I'm all for a subscription based scheme as well if it keeps the quality up. Maybe even charge for it.

The intention needs to be a lot clearer, also you could do with some javascript pop ups on your controls up in the corner as the alt info isn't fast enough.