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Wish I could have been in on this :) This is the perfect interface for wearables like Google Glass.

Leadify - Jackson, MS (FT, LOCAL ONLY) - http://leadify.net/careers.php

We’re off to a great start, growing profitably at 15% per month with closed deals from HomeAway, Match.com and other large brands. And we recently closed a SEED round so we can beef up our engineering team and grow even faster. As one of our first engineering hires, you’ll build our company and products from the ground up.

Our front-end runs on PHP and JavaScript (heavy jQuery). We’re transitioning our backend from PHP to Ruby. Our knowledge graph runs on Neo4J. Our analytics are stored in MySQL and we use d3.js and HighCharts for reporting. And we have a tendency to code the hard stuff (web scraper and natural language parser) in Perl.

Positions:

We're looking to hire 4+ junior and mid-level software engineers. We prefer generalists who can focus on one of our technologies:

1) Social Messaging * Allow our staff to deploy messages on major social channels * Learn from the results of our messaging using powerful analytics

2) Knowledge Graph * Populate the graph using web scraping and natural language processing * Give users great tools for curating the graph

3) Social Intelligence * Listen to social networks, analyze the data and visualize keywords, trends and leads

Interested? Want to build top shelf tech in the deep south!!? Contact me at harper@leadify.net

Austin has a huge incorporated area. Yes, there are some small towns at the edges (Round Rock, Pflugerville), but the city constantly grows and takes in new developments.

Brings new meaning to the term wet-ware.

Why don't they block Microsoft Outlook? I'm sure a lot more scams come through it.

This is going to blow up. Coolest thing I've seen in quite some time. I love how there's no wait and it jumps from clip to clip.

Moral of the story: You aren't getting 10x out of your average joe programmer. Instead of finding a 10xer for an average corporate job find a 1xer in China that will work for 1/5th the pay

"They raised a substantial round, and then were purchased by another company that had itself just raised billions of dollars. They didn't need money."

How dare those investors demand a return on their investment!!

In order to credibly get a raise and get paid what you're worth, you need a BATNA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...

Otherwise your employer has no reason to give you a raise. If they don't think you're a risk of taking another job why would they voluntarily give you a large raise and cut into their margins?

Congrats to ZenPayroll!

Side note: Since when is $6.1M a seed round?

+1,000,000!

Apple's myriad of logins and passwords is so frustrating to me. I had an iTunes ID for years and can't use it for anything anymore because it is not an email address. It is such a pain in the ass to do anything. I have two apple ids, an icloud account and a game center account.

The edge cases (10% of users who would use multiple icloud/gamecenter accounts) are making things a huge pain in the ass for 90% of users who are the only person that uses their iphone for app downloads, icloud, music and game center.

surprise, surprise hacker news is a great place to crowdsource market research. I had a fun time looking through the list but I can't edit the comments on the Google Doc.

And since I can't edit: "Crowd-sourced shipping" has been done. http://www.uship.com in Austin has been doing this for 5+ years.

Paging really, really sucks to manage on a TI calculator.

That being said, I loved working with the 32KB limit and optimizing every single byte out of my code. You got to learn all of the tricks like "XOR A" = 1 byte vs "LD A,0" = 2 bytes. However, some things sucked, like having to frequently write new sprite routines or tilemap scroller routines. I even ended up writing a logo style scripting language to handle animations in a RPG just to save a few KB.

Yes, this is clearly the 3% case for Knuth's quote, "... 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil"

The memory limitations are a bitch. It isn't that difficult to build your engine in that amount of space, but storing any decent graphics or level maps are nigh impossible. I had to quit working on a Zelda clone and JRPG because of memory issues. To this day, I've only seen one long game actually worth a crap and that's Joltima - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/34/3456.html Karneges had to use every trick in the book (huffman compression on 4 bit tilemaps) to fit it into 32K of RAM.

Still, it's impressive to do anything like Portal on the calculator. Glad that someone picked it up, even if the headlines are sensational.

I thought that at first, but I am holding back my excitement until I see it in writing. Pixar and LucasFilm would be awesome!

Airline stocks went down almost 40% the next day. Yes, the economy went down because of other factors, but the immediate hit to airlines was definitely caused by 9/11.

It's not a theory, it's a fact that people vote aspirationally.

Elon might build it for the Hyperloop, if you believe the speculation on the hyperloop blog posts last week.

I highly recommend reading through Charlie's Comments. They're just as good as the article and touch on everything from building construction to Scottish Independence to creating an atmosphere in the Vales Marineris rift valley on Mars.

They deserve it. They did a great job on the product w very little resources.

This is a textbook case of bad design. The irony is off the charts since the slides are on good user experience design.

You get the card and can officially list it on your resume.

How does this compare to Amazon? Does Amazon permit unauthorized scraping, etc? I'm guessing that they do.

I was reminded of that as well. And when I read through the comments, one of the experiments confirmed that yes, the Diamond Age actually gave them inspiration:

>> Richard Smith >> Exactly. See http://cananian.livejournal.com/tag/nell The Diamond Age was an inspiration for some of the software we developed for the tablet.

MS agrees w you and put together a very slick cover/keyboard for the surface.

Where I come from 16% accuracy does not mean the problem is solved. Yeah, its a big step up from where we were, but the cat detector neural nets by no means solved the object recognition problem.

There's a very simple explanation. Ben Horowitz invested in them because he loves rap music. Perhaps these kids chose this specific niche (rap music lyrics) in order to target a name partner in a top VC firm. Not a bad strategy if you want to raise a shitload of money in order to win the annotated web.

Steve would never have let this happen.

It's not HuffPo. It's a shot at BuzzFeed

Totally agree on Netflix. I would easily pay $25 a month for Netflix streaming if it had great content (e.g., same movies as the DVD by mail service + HBO)