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Why not check in with NFC cards?

I'd love to see something like the editor in Medium, but implementing the whole markdown and that can run offline.

Pretty good!

It's great to be able to run it locally too, so I can run it offline! But how do you open another file when you're offline? (So no dropbox etc)

Important detail about this offer: an EU permit is required.

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We're hiring in the North of the Netherlands to conquer the world of event ticket sales!

Paylogic offers a state of the art online and mobile ticketing application from our offices in Amsterdam, Groningen, Berlin and Antwerp. Over 2000 event organisers around the world use it to sell their tickets because of its performance, ease of use, and large set of features.

Paylogic customers include ID&T, Andre Rieu, RAI, and KNSB.

The Paylogic system meets the highest standards regarding scalability, availability and security. To achieve this Paylogic relies on its top notch sales, product and development teams, and the latest internet technologies. Due to its growth Paylogic is constantly on the lookout for skilled and passionate people. Paylogic is a young organisation in an exciting industry. We reach impressive results due to our high standards, professionalism and hunger for quality. We strive to be the best and have fun while doing so.

Some of the key features of the job

- Work on a highly scalable, high traffic online ticketing application written in Python;

- Work with state of the art Python libraries and frameworks (django, sqlalchemy, flask, etc);

- Be part of a excellent, international team of Python experts (>20);

- Apply the latest advances in internet technologies (redis, zeromq, nosql, flask, backbone.js, celery);

- Use modern software engineering methodologies (agile, scrum, xp, pair programming, peer reviewing, etc);

- Friendly, knowledgeable and passionate coworkers;

- Open source oriented environment;

- Cool, fast-paced and high-tech atmosphere;

- Both a commercially and technically ambitious environment;

- Environment where the craft of software engineering is held in high esteem;

- Freedom and responsibilities above control and micro management.

About you

- Software engineering is your passion and you appreciate the hacker mind-set;

- You have proven to be a good software engineer;

- You have experience, or at least interest, in Python;

- You are well versed in standard internet technologies (javascript, html, css, json, caching);

- You know your database techniques;

- You are well versed in multiple programming languages, tools and conventions.

- Linux is no stranger to you.

- You are fun to hang out with;

- You love working in teams;

- You love to work in a dynamic environment;

- You are ambitious;

- Extra points for experience with: High availability systems, cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), payment industry, ticketing systems, monitoring large server clusters, distributed version control workflows.

Salary: In line with experience;

FTE: Full time employment (40h);

Location: Center of Groningen (The Netherlands), a cozy student-town with an abundance of world-class science and culture.

If you want to apply for the job, please send your resume and a cover letter to jobs [at] paylogic [dot] com

We will contact you as soon as possible.

Replay Games is doing some work there as well. Have you tried Fester Mudd?

Like the advent of nuclear energy!

The API should be independent of any serialization format. The serialization layer should take care of it.

I disagree. Deploying a Python site, for example, is equally easy.

I tried Mint with Cinnamon a few months ago. I normally use Gnome classic with XMonad as the window manager. Some things that are in Gnome were missing in Cinnamon (bluetooth settings was an example IIRC, but I don't remember the details), and I ended up with a mess of Gnome and Cinnamon, having some apps installed twice (the Cinnamon version and the Gnome version). Other things required some manual work, like integrating Dropbox with Nemo. I ended up going back to Ubuntu.

Second hand x220? I use it as my personal laptop and I love it (ssd, i5, 8Gb of ram)

X220 here (with SSD), happy with it.

Me too! It seems like it's gonna be hard to obtain keycaps and shells, though..

I use a rooted PRS-T1, and I use dropsync to sync my ebooks. I did a couple of small hacks, such as removing some buttons that I didn't like and I added two fonts (Caecilia and Garamond). Works quite well with epubs, and it has some dictionaries included in the reading app (being a foreigner trying to learn Dutch, I use the Dutch-English dictionary a lot while reading).

I bought a ThinkPad recently in Europe, and there was no way for me not to buy Windows. I don't need it and I don't want it. I don't even have it: I wiped the hard disk immediately after getting it. I could choose what memory I wanted, what screen I wanted or how much hard disk I wanted (SSD or regular HDD), but I could not choose not to get Windows. The same is true for the great majority of laptops.

Over the years I've wasted a lot of money buying copies of Windows that I never used and that I never wanted.

I very much doubt that this is so because of convenience: it is so because it gives more money to Microsoft.

It's outrageous.

So, yes, I wish we could get over the Microsoft Tax thing. Call it Microsoft Mandatory Purchase or Microsoft Gratious Gift for Mere Pennies if you wish, it doesn't matter.

Interesting. I use a regular GPS with the maps of OpenFietsMap. It's mostly accurate, and pretty awesome.

The title font is horrible imho.

Not in Europe.

I'm on a TypeMatrix 2030, but I find the ctrl keys a bit out of the way (emacs... :D)

On Python I'm a fan of Opster: https://github.com/piranha/opster

How much are the payment fees? I couldn't find it on their website. And what about the 30% Apple Tax?

I love it, shame that most of the time I work with Mercurial... Is there anything like a tig for hg? I haven't been able to find it.

I moved from Spain to the Netherlands with almost 0 change. Working on IT helps, of course, but it's still pretty easy. Jump on a plane, register on the city council, there you go.

Shame that I didn't see this before, I would have sent some cash! I'd love to play a new adventure game by Shaffer/Gilbert.

It seems not to work if the fstab uses UUIDs.

It's fine to estimate in Story Points, but I need to be able to say by when you will be finished, or whether I will be able to complete the tasks by a certain date. How do you do this?

Good ol' Europe is hiring too! We are in Groningen, Netherlands. We are Paylogic and we sell event tickets in high traffic peaks. We have our own Python app and a growing team of developers.

Here's what the company says:

Paylogic is an extensive Internet application that has to meet the highest standards regarding scalability, availability and security. We always have room for skilled and passionate software developers that want to work with cutting edge Internet technologies in a highly demanding environment and with some of the best Python developers around. Sharing knowledge and having fun are important qualifications of the Paylogic culture!

And here's what I, as an Architect and former developer there, say:

In the dev team we are driven, nonconformist and imaginative. You don't need to be an expert in Python/Django/SQLAlchemy, but the more you know the better.

It's a very nice place to work. Work is interesting, and if you like challenges, you won't be bored. There is no excessive pressure and extra hours are something rare.

E-mail: oscar.vilaplana@paylogic.eu

The HTC Desire has the speaker on the back and it doesn't have this problem.