gnubardt

Brightcove - Cambridge, MA & Seattle, WA ;INTERN

We're an online video platform with lots of data, lots of traffic and lots of tough problems to solve. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Brightcove player has been loaded over 9,000 times worldwide. That's over 1 Billion video player requests per week!

We develop with java+spring, python, rails & mongodb.

We've openings for:

  * DevOps Systems Engineer
  * Front End (UI) Principal Software Engineer/ Architect
  * Principal Software Engineer - Reporting & Analytics (Big Data)
  * Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
  * Senior software engineer
  * [Senior] QA Engineer
  * QA & Software Engineering Interns

See the full list and apply online: http://www.brightcove.com/careers

Let me know if you have any questions sneubardt@brightcove.com

The Power Broker by Robert Caro is a fantastic biography of Robert Moses, the person who set the template for this kind of development. Though in power in New York, the projects he built (highways, parks, bridges, public housing) was at a scale never seem before him. He figured out how to cut through municipal red tape to build at a large scale using public money.

Not that he wasn't a terrible person. But he wrote the rules that allowed a lot of this kind of development to happen.

found this to be salient, there's a lot of malice to be done in plain sight of an ignorant user: Root access is only needed if you want to modify the system in some way so as to avoid detection. Doing so is by no means necessary however, and a lot of malware is more than happy to operate as a standard user, never once raising an elevation prompt and silently infection or copying files or sending out data or doing processing, or whatever malicious thing it may do.

Why did the two lisp atoms lose all their money?

They got consed

I think a lot of people actively seek that consistency, especially while traveling. Knowing that a McDonalds is a McDonalds wherever you are provides a safe choice for a traveler (especially since they're everywhere). That's what a chain provides, consistency across locations, not a unique experience.

Brightcove (an online video platform based in Cambridge) has APIs for content CRUD and player customization. There are open source SDKs available here: https://github.com/brightcoveos

It's interesting to see Amazon & Google directly competing, to the point that Google rushes a seemingly incomplete cloud music offering (also without label consent) to counter Amazon's early control of the market.

They're also competing in cloud infrastructure, android app markets and streaming video services. Their fundamental services are not that different, both centered around search, though they don't really compete for it. Amazon is a retail service but part of their effectiveness is showing you what you want.

Yeah, they just posted a correction, it's up from 400 million/month.

Boston MA, Seattle WA; Brightcove - http://brightcove.com/careers

We're a rapidly growing Online Video Platform with thousands of clients including the New York Times and Ticketmaster. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Brightcove player has been loaded over 9,000 times worldwide.

We're looking for frontend (HTML5 & flex) and backend (Rails, Java, Python, ingestion & video transcoding, reporting & analytics) software and QA engineers.

We're also looking for a Director of Engineering, DevOps engineers and Customer Support specialists.

There are open positions for Interns in Engineering and Marketing.

I work in engineering and love it! Send me an email (in profile, or brightcovecareers@brightcove.com) if you have any questions.

They've done it before http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2...

python -m 'SimpleHTTPServer' 8080

    curl -I

is an easy way to do that as well.

It requires fewer keystrokes :P

Or a karmic penalty for upvoting a comment. That way you have to be respected by the community before you can upvote a thread. Maybe it would help curtail negative or snarky comments, if only because people upvoting have been around longer.

Stackexchange kind of does this. You need a certain (low) amount of karma before you can post certain types of submissions.

I think it's important to let new users have a visible voice, but giving older users greater powers for moderation might help preserve the older attitude of the site.

Boston/Cambridge, Seattle, INTERN - Java, Rails, Frontend, HTML5 Developers

Brightcove - An online video provider, we're rapidly scaling (over 1 billion player requests a week) and need QA & Software engineers. Our backend is mostly Java & Rails with Flex and HTML5 on the frontend.

http://brightcove.com/careers

Send me an email (in profile) if you have any questions!

They'd have some clout when negotiating with ISPs if they have content the ISP's customers want.

Like Cablevision & Scripps http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/scripps-cablevision-deal-r...

Or ABC http://www.mediaite.com/online/no-oscars-tonight-for-new-yor...

Whitey Board makes stick on white boards as well: http://www.whiteyboard.com/

Saw a cool presentation at Hack And Tell tonight: Rule 110 in only css3 http://elilies.com/rule110-full.html

Technical considerations aside it's still good practice to make it easier for customers to cancel. It makes them feel more comfortable signing up. Joel wrote a few great articles on it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/23.html

We've got a few open positions in Seattle at Brightcove: http://www.brightcove.com/en/company/careers

Saw a cool presentation by Gary Warren King on AllegroGraph (a lisp based tripple store) last year. It stores RDF tripples, which seem to be a pretty powerful tool for modeling semantic relationships.

The slides and a recording are available on the lispnyc site: http://lispnyc.org/meetings

  "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" 

is a great line from the article that's still accurate. Small (simple) changes reduce the risk of using continuous deployment. Code should be modular and decoupled.

There's a great section on simplicity in code in Stuart Halloway's talk from QCon SF last year: http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2010/slides/StuartHalloway...

Brightcove is hiring interns in Cambridge, MA & London, UK: http://www.brightcove.com/en/company/careers

I'd be happy to answer any questions (I'm an intern :), email in profile.

ThinkUp has a similar feature, it indexes your twitter activity (and facebook) and allows you to export and analyze it as you see fit.

http://thinkupapp.com/

Clients still need to authenticate when they start a stream, amazon could use that information to approximate traffic.

If RSpec is too slow to wait on you could use autotest, which automatically runs tests when a file is saved. There's also a plugin for it that uses growl/libnotify to display the results.

Another time saver is to have a function that calls ls after cd'ing:

  c(){ cd "$@" && ls;}

This has probably saved me days over the years, as I almost always want to list a directory after I change into.

Netflix uses drm on their players (through silverlight in a browser). HTML5 video doesn't have hooks for drm at the moment.

You can restrict access to content (by using a TTL or encrypting the video with Apple HTTP Streaming) but someone could still capture the stream. Their stream using silverlight is encrypted and offers the kind of security that makes content owners happy.

It's cool that a song made with this is in structured text (json), you could share a song through github and people could fork it to remix!

Using a common design for architecture is kinda like using a well known design pattern or framework. It allows a new developer to easily understand your project.

history.pushState() and history.replaceState() are introduced in the html 5 spec, so not all browsers support it yet.