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http://www.worldreader.org | Senior Android Developer| Barcelona| Onsite | Full-time

Worldreader is a non-profit on a mission to bring digital books to all children and their family, so that they can improve their lives. Every month over half a million people use Worldreader’s library of 40,000 e-books to read in 40 languages in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Philippine

You'll join our international team in Barcelona's Eixample district.

We're looking for an experienced Android developer to enhance our existing apps:

* Read to Kids: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.worldreade...

* Worldreader: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.worldreade...

And help develop our new Worldreader Classroom app to help students read and learn how read in the classroom.

https://www.worldreader.org/about-us/jointheteam/careers-eur...

http://www.worldreader.org | Full stack node.js developer | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-time

Worldreader is a non-profit on a mission to bring digital books to every child and her family, so that they can improve their lives. Every month over half a million people use Worldreader’s library of 40,000 e-books to read in 40 languages in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Philippines.

You will join our small technical team in San Francisco in an office that is fun but very serious about our mission. We are located a short distance from the Civic Center BART station.

We are looking for a senior node.js developer to help design our next generation architecture, migrate to a more unified architecture as well as develop some of the new critical pieces.

http://www.worldreader.org/about-us/jointheteam/careers-unit...

Hiring Process

* Submit email a resume with a cover letter

* Short introductory phone call with HR

* Complete a take-home assignment. You can convince us to look at a Github project you created instead.

* Conduct a 30-60 minutes phone interview covering your project.

* Conduct a 2-3 hours in person interview in S.F. and a Skype call with our team in Barcelona

* We check your references.

* We make you an offer.

http://www.worldreader.org | Full stack node.js developer | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-time

Worldreader is a non-profit on a mission to bring digital books to every child and her family, so that they can improve their lives. Every month over half a million people use Worldreader’s library of 40,000 e-books to read in 40 languages in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Philippines.

You will join our small technical team in San Francisco in an office that is fun but very serious about our mission. We are located a short distance from the Civic Center BART station.

We are looking for a senior node.js developer to help design our next generation architecture, migrate to a more unified architecture as well as develop some of the new critical pieces.

http://www.worldreader.org/about-us/jointheteam/careers-unit...

Hiring Process

* Submit email a resume with a cover letter

* Short introductory phone call with HR

* Complete a take-home assignment. You can convince us to look at a Github project you created instead.

* Conduct a 30-60 minutes phone interview covering your project.

* Conduct a 2-3 hours in person interview in S.F. and a Skype call with our team in Barcelona

* We check your references.

* We make you an offer.

http://www.worldreader.org | Full stack node.js developer | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-time | $80,000 - $90,000

Worldreader is a non-profit on a mission to bring digital books to every child and her family, so that they can improve their lives. Every month over half a million people use Worldreader’s library of 40,000 e-books to read in 40 languages in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Philippines.

You will join our small technical team in San Francisco in an office that is fun but very serious about our mission. We are located a short distance from the Civic Center BART station.

We are looking for a full stack node.js developer to work on our Book API, front-end tools and Web site.

http://www.worldreader.org/about-us/jointheteam/careers-unit...

Hiring Process

* Submit email a resume with a cover letter

* Complete a take-home assignment. You can convince us to look at a Github project you created instead.

* Conduct a 30-60 minutes phone interview covering your project.

* Conduct a 2-3 hours in person interview in S.F. and a Skype call with our team in Barcelona

* We check your references.

* We make you an offer.

> 5% of people who know what they're doing (or have private information) and eat everyone else's lunch.

Ah, the myth of the expert investor. Time and again, it's been proven that the experts don't pick stocks better than an index fund. If they did, managed funds would do better than index funds.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/26/index-funds-trounce-actively-...

"The DAO is just a committee of non-professional voters who have relatively little ability to do proper due diligence."

Isn't that true of the stock market too?

As someone who strongly believes that individuals should invest in indexed funds, probably a similar approach should come into play here, where you don't invest a large amount in any one company, but instead, invest a little in lots of companies.

The stock market, of course, has over time had lots of checks and balances applied to it over the years that you're not going to see here, so it's a much more dangerous game.

Love it, but I can't imagine battery life would be too good. With the small form factor, the only way I can see it lasting longer than a few hours is to have the 3G off most of the time, and turn it on periodically.

Closer to home, I can see exactly how much property taxes each and every one of my neighbors pay:

https://www.acgov.org/ms/prop/index.aspx

New open source search engine for Who Is Hiring

* Website: https://sojobs.me

* Code: https://github.com/drorm/sojobs

* Feature requests and bug reports: https://github.com/drorm/sojobs/issues/new

* Show HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402285

In the last 3 months I bought 2 Toshiba 13 inch Chromebook for $300. "A properly configured iPad, leveraging iCloud for device backups, photo backups, email credentials etc, solves all of these problems." but a Chromebook does all of that with close to zero configuration with a device that has a built-in keyboard, and a 13 inch 1080P screen. You do loose the touch interface, but end up paying roughly half of the iPad's price.

Actually, that wasn't enough for me. I had to open a different sheet, and replace /htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true with /edit#gid=XXXXXXXXXX (replaces the XXXXXXX with your number)

I was a big fan of Meteor early on, but the decision to go Mongo and only Mongo killed my interest. I can't think of anything that I can do on Meteor that I can't do faster and better with a set of tools that I assemble myself.

It's probably too late. The work they've done with blaze is wasted since react and angular(still) are dominant. The work they've done with MongoDB is wasted since most of the world wants SQL. So what do they really bring to the table. It feels like too little too late.

Here's the reason that it doesn't work. Imagine that your village has a 1000 people and someone is torturing you to find out "who is your cell leader." At first you are resisting, and so you name random people in the village. After you've named 50 people or more, you break and name the real person. The torturers though don't know that this is the real person, so they'll keep torturing you, and you'll just go through every name in the village to make the torture stop. How can they separate the real person from the ones you lied about either out of resistance or to make the pain go away?

In some cases this could work. They want to find out where you hid the guns, and every time, they go and dig till you break and give them the right place, and then they do find the guns.

Read an article about this a while ago, can't remember exactly where. This is location dependent. In places where there's tons of water cloth is better. Where there's little water, disposables are environmentally better.

Funny, I just came back from visiting two companies that do excellent outsourcing work for us, one in India, eternussolutions.com and one in Poland, www.soldevelo.com.

The secret? We've built a long term relationships with them, have reasonable expectations and communicate continuously.

I've worked with offshore teams since 2005 and there are major benefits: prices that are roughly 1/3 of what it costs to hire the equivalent person locally, availability of talent (everyone's scrambling these days in the Bay Area), and the ability to quickly scale up or down your team.

There's also a price. You need to deal with the time difference; I have calls at 11 PM. There are cultural differences that you need to be aware of. The Holidays are different and usually more frequent, they won't be familiar with certain segments of the US business environment such as health care, HR, etc. And they won't work the same long hours. They have better work/life balance. On the other hand, you're not giving them options, so that's totally understandable.

In summary, have reasonable expectations, expect that there'll be a ramp up period, and be willing to learn from the other side.

No, you're successful enough to make some money, not necessarily a huge amount.

Two: one to begin work, and one to commit.

Probably misplaced his ear-buds.

Yes, it's a classic case of premature optimization.

* As you mentioned, you get most of the benefits from gzip compression. * You pay a major debugging penalty for having your code minified, since it's much harder to figure out what happened with minified code. * After the first request your code is going to be cached locally, anyway, so we're only talking about the initial request. * Using a CDN for your libraries will buy you much more. It's not 100% relevant, but if you're worried about download speed, this is one thing that does make sense.

If you want to play it safe, I suspect something like http://smile.amazon.com/Anti-tracking-Anti-spying-Blocker-Ha... would block the signal.

I never understood why software estimates are so bad when other fields do so well.

When a contractor gives you an estimate of how long and how much it's going to take to do a remodel, he's invariably on time and on schedule, right?

And when Boeing spends billions of dollars on a new plane, they have on ready and on budget, right?

So why can't software people do the same?

Oh wait, complex, badly defined projects tend to run late and over budget. It's not that complicated. Spend 3-6 months defining all the details of your new web application, promise not to change anything on the fly, don't ask us to make it work on IE 7, and by the time we do 3-4 of these, we'll be able to give you a good estimate.

Well, you know about our "free" lunches and amazing hardware "given" by the company, fancy offices, etc. Now you know where the money comes from :-).

Seriously though, there are companies all over the place, from startups where everyone is expected to work 80 hours a week to established companies where people have kids and most employees work 40-45 hours a week with the occasional 50-60 during a release.

Some companies leverage it (the term we use her is "work-life balance").

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/eng?query=work+life+balan...

Which is one of the reasons major communication systems should be distributed and standards based like email, rather than proprietary and run by a single company.

1. Codes should be like passwords. If they're guessable, they're no good. 2. All operations, including signing in, verifying the account, etc should be rate shaped. The more you try, the longer you have to wait till you can try again.

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How is it that Google doesn't penalize them for this? I thought it's considered a big no-no to show people something different than what you show the crawler.

That's one of the reasons I use Firefox for my personal account(s) and chrome for work. Almost never have to deal with this issue. Periodically, I do need to switch on the personal side (I have 4-5 different google accounts), but i have lastpass remember it all in the browser which makes it pretty painless.

http://beta.howtox.com/ or someone else with a similar idea?

The Model S was highly rated by Consumer Reports, but the predicted reliability is only average. Specifically, the 2013 had a much worse than average rating for Squeaks and Rattles and Body Hardware. This will certainly affect the price. Personally, I never buy a car unless it's rated better than average by CR.