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Nalu?? God I miss that place. Run by an American couple but they moved away and I’ve not found anything truly comparable since.

Leaving aside the non-trivial question of candidate nervousness in live coding, I do find the "ask questions about take-home" process very illuminating.

If it came from a friend or chatGPT, you'll learn that quickly because you can ask them stuff like "show me how you're implementing FOO. OK, if the requirements change, and now we need to BAR, what do you need to change across the app?" If they wrote the code and understood the task, they should understand what needs to change, how to do it, etc, and you can do that part with them live. Maybe someday LLMs will be fast enough that you can't catch someone constantly waiting for the AI to help them, at least as of May 2025 we're not there yet.

What would non-“meaningless virtue signaling” look like to you? This seems quite decent as far as these things go.

Just downloaded it. As someone who used to read more poetry and has fallen off, I like the idea! Maybe this will prod me back into the habit.

One bug report: I can’t select text in the poem. Wanted to look up a word and can’t figure out any way. Was that disabled intentionally?

I just downloaded it and tested it out. It really is a very cool, polished product.

The video cuts when you remove "uh" and "um" are too jarring for anything professional, but OTOH for some internal work stuff I could see a use for this. And as someone who has used 0 video editing software, I was able to start making changes within like a minute, which I think is quite impressive.

That said, not sure I have enough use case to pay for it, personally.

NB: it's kind of impossible to prove you're not a sock puppet, because of _course_ a sock puppet account would say they're not a sock puppet account.

Love this book too! Not crazy complex but his pancake recipe crushes any other I’ve tried :)

I understand your PoV, but I like to stronnnnnngly encourage 1:1s every week, with each team member. I think it's really easy to let that slip if it's not in the calendar, and I've learned so many important, small things from people in those meetings.

Especially since some people don't really feel comfortable coming to their manager out of band. That makes the structure of "I have a block scheduled you with every week, in perpetuity" super valuable.

Agree with the loose agenda. I try to follow-up on things that came up in previous weeklies, and to make sure we don't forget about commitments, but so much of the value comes from a simple "How are you doing?"

Yeah I probably should have clarified a bit :)

In North and South America, and in other European cities (though certainly not all!), my experience has been that Uber is 99% of the time

1. better UX, and 2. cheaper

than taxis, _generally_. In Berlin, taxi service is generally professional/clean/fine, but it's quite expensive, and when I travel to other places I get quickly spoiled by the Uber experience/cost. I understand why they ban it here, but from an end-user perspective, really wish they didn't.

In comparison with any other major city where Uber operates, taxis are quite expensive here.

That’s fair, but surely the concept of sharing music with friends isn’t so crazy? Not saying it was necessarily handled well here, but it seems like a feature many would and do want.

It's a complicated issue to be sure, but developers also benefit from a platform that has high trust among users. I think users are probably much more likely to try out new apps and even pay for them if they know ahead of time that the apps been vetted, the payment processor is secure (and already has your details), etc.

Not that there isn't crap on the iOS App Store, but I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the Good to Bad App ratio is better there than on the web as a whole.

Devil’s advocate: what _is_ wrong with that logic? If we accept that customs can search our persons or luggage as a condition of our entering a given country, what is it about digital materials that makes them off limits?

If so, please make it an option like with giphy. I personally prefer the 'russian roulette' aspect to just firing and seeing what comes up :)

Uberall | Frontend Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full-time, Onsite, Visa | https://uberall.com/en/careers?postingId=mp0mmqv

WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.

It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.

We are a very ambitious company and are proud to focus on engineering. By now we have a very professional, skilled and fun team. Our tech stack is built on Groovy and Grails + enterprise proven technologies like Hibernate, Tomcat, Redis on the back-end side, and HTML5, JavaScript (ES2015, React, Redux, etc.), LESS, dogfooding our own REST API on the front-end.

We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.

About you:

- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users

- Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies

- Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it

- You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process

- You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying

What you would do at uberall:

- Build extensible widgets, pushing for the simplest integration of our latest functionality

- Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings

- Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps us

To apply: https://uberall.com/en/careers?postingId=mp0mmqv or send an email to jobs@uberall.com.

That's nice when possible, but of course when something breaks you never know if it will be one hour or 30, and even then, I think there are a lot of cases where "let the developer know there's an issue" is still worth it, especially if the alternative is "drop it and say nothing because it's too much of a hassle."

Hey guessmyname, I'm surprised to hear that. As an expat working/living in Berlin for the last 5 years or so that hasn't been my experience.

Also, my current company has been hiring for a while now, and we may be an outlier, but we get lots of applications from people outside the EU and always take them seriously. We've helped several people go through the visa process already.

Your email is not in your profile, but my company is hiring :) feel free to hit me up at david.carter [at] uberall [dot] com

Not an article, but here's a podcast that goes into that: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-t...

I can't find the link now, but I remember reading about a paper (probably through Marginal Revolution) that showed that, in the GDR, because men and women worked equally and earned equally (in the general case, party leaders aside), a lot of cultural gender equality just became the norm. E.g. men couldn't impress women with nice cars or any of the other status symbols that are so common in the West, and had to 'convince potential mates' through their personalities and actions.

So a lot of the gender roles of the West were basically obliterated, i.e. there was no real stay-at-home mother in the GDR, all mothers were working mothers. Seems to fit your experience, and the GP as well.

Uberall - https://uberall.com - Berlin, Germany (Mitte)

WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.

It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.

We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.

About you:

- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users - Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies (We use Bootstrap, Backbone, React, LESS, Babel) - Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it - You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process - You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying - We want to see something you’ve done: on Github, Stack Overflow, at your previous company, etc What you will do at uberall:

- Maintain our website, our number one promotional tool. We need it to be clear, look great, load fast, and most importantly, effectively explain what we do - Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings - Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps use Just send your application containing all relevant documentation (including past projects, GitHub & stackoverflow links, etc) and we will get in touch soon.

To apply: https://uberall.com/en/careers#dev?postingId=mp0h4nd or send an email to hello@uberall.com.

Uberall - https://uberall.com - Berlin, Germany (Mitte)

WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.

It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.

We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.

About you:

- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users

- Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies (We use Bootstrap, Backbone, React, LESS, Babel)

- Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it

- You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process

- You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying

- We want to see something you’ve done: on Github, Stack Overflow, at your previous company, etc

What you will do at uberall:

- Maintain our website, our number one promotional tool. We need it to be clear, look great, load fast, and most importantly, effectively explain what we do

- Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings

- Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps use

Just send your application containing all relevant documentation (including past projects, GitHub & stackoverflow links, etc) and we will get in touch soon.

To apply: https://uberall.com/en/careers#dev?postingId=mp0h4nd or send an email to hello@uberall.com.

Berlin, Germany: Took some savings from working back in the States, got here on a 90-day tourist visa, found an apartment and got my first working visa (without about 2 weeks to spare!, although you can extend a tourist visa here) as an English teacher. Later transitioned into a full-time development job.

Came here with my German girlfriend though, so I had a bit of help in terms of language, talking with bureaucracy, etc. But getting a visa (at least as an American!) was fairly straightforward and cheap, if occasionally slow and, well, bureaucratic.

Been here about 4 1/2 years now and love it.

Very cool. Signed up. I often find myself looking at technologies and thinking "Oh, I'll use that someday," then forgetting about them.

Feature request: Allow user to set minimum required browser support more granularly, e.g. 'IE>9 && 90%', kind of like how https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer does

It can be done with flexbox now[1]. Which IE11 also supports[2] :)

[1]http://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/#center-v... [2]http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox

Uberall - https://uberall.com - Berlin, Germany (Mitte)

WE ARE UBERALL – A young and ambitious technology startup from Berlin. We believe that the internet enables us to connect to our local environment in radically new ways and that it lets us navigate and shape our daily lives like we never before could. We want to be part of this development, bring customers and local businesses closer together and re-instill a sense of community where anonymity has become the norm. To this end we are building a revolutionary marketing platform for local businesses. This platform makes getting in touch and communicating with their customers through all relevant online channels super easy for them. Really.

These are amazing times – we are well financed, we have a beautiful office space in the heart of Berlin and we are looking to hire a number of highly motivated and skilled colleagues to join forces with us!

We are looking for backend engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality. Your skill-set includes:

- Real passion for developing great web apps


- Proven experience in Java & web technology, possibly Grails


- Building & maintaining scalable architectures using modern tools

- Enthusiasm for beautiful, pragmatic code and an eye for simplicity

- Looking past your Java IDE to play with servers, databases, and web services is your everyday playground

- Competent English ability. The team is international and English is the language of the office

We’re looking for YOU!

You already have at least some work experience, you have an above-average education and you thrive in an environment that lets you take on responsibility early on? You’re highly motivated, an independent thinker but still a team player and you’re hungry to do things that matter? Then you should join us!

You get the chance to become part of a young company with an ambitious and highly skilled team, to contribute to our vision to really bring local business to the web, to work on and implement your own ideas and to have a lot of fun on the way.

Just send your application containing all relevant documentation (including past projects, GitHub & stackoverflow links, etc) and we will get in touch soon. Applications to jobs@uberall.com, please!

FYI, if you click "Show all versions" in CanIUse it goes back all the way, to IE 5.5, FF 2.0, etc.

Uberall — Berlin, DE https://uberall.com/ — Full time

Frontend/Backend Developers

Berlin based startup, looking to expand our team. Currently we are filling roles for Backend and Frontend:

Frontend: - Real passion for developing great frontend interfaces and websites - Proven experience in writing html5 + js + css(3) code - You’re always playing with the latest js web applications and frameworks - A lot of style and an eye for great, lean design - Neither photoshop nor git are challenging for you

Backend: - Real passion for developing great web apps
 - Proven experience in Java & web technology, possibly Grails
 - Building & maintaining scalable architectures using modern tools - Enthusiasm for beautiful, pragmatic code and an eye for simplicity - Looking past your Java IDE to play with servers, databases, and web services is our everyday playground

Our web app is built in Backbone, with an API based backend built on Grails.

Website is in German but English is the language of the company. We're international, check out our team page: https://uberall.com/home/about. Italy, USA, Germany, Australia, and looking to add more!

Apply at https://uberall.com/home/jobs or email jobs@uberall.com with your CV and a bit about you

Not the parent, but I found it incredibly useful as well. The thing is, I would always forget it existed, and so its utility was kind of low for me. I was blown away when I first hooked everything up to it, then barely touched it until they pivoted, at which point I lost interest and disconnected all my accounts from them.

A shame, but not sure how to solve that problem.

Actually there is an option, if you go to chrome://flags on Mac you can turn on "Tab Overview", which lets you hold down option and swipe down with 3 fingers to see an expose type overview of all open tabs. Pretty nice.

There's also one for Berlin: http://berlinstartups.com/ 109 currently listed.

Cool site, will probably use it. Would be nice if, in the big view of upcoming movies, the posters were more prominent. As is, the big bootstrap buttons draw all the attention, which makes it harder to scan quickly.