krisneuharth

Whip Media | Senior DevOps and Senior Data Engineers | Remote / Los Angeles, CA, New York, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA | Full-time | whipmedia.com/

Happy New Year! Whip Media is a fast-growing, successful startup in the entertainment industry focused on providing data management tools and analytical insights for TV and streaming networks and all of the big movie studios.

I am looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience supporting modern data operations in the cloud. This critical role directly supports the teams of data engineers and data scientists providing industry leading media analytics and insights within our product and service offerings to our enterprise customers. Planned near term projects are focused on improving the observability, scalability, and reliability of our deployed Kubernetes cluster supporting large-scale machine learning model training and serving, data warehousing, and ETL processes.

If you are looking for a high-impact role with the autonomy to direct the future of DevOps and Data Engineering at Whip Media and you thrive in fast-paced environments, this is the role for you.

Tech stack buzzwords: AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Snowflake, Python, Airflow, MLOps.

See the JD here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/whipmedia/jobs/4843618003

So cool. In case anyone else was wondering how to get one:

http://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/

    How can I get an AWS IoT Button?

    AWS IoT Buttons are provided from time to time as part of AWS public events such as the re:invent conference as a “hello world” device to try out AWS IoT. We currently don’t plan to sell them. However, if you have a great use case for the AWS IoT Button and would like us to get back to you if buttons become available for sale, contact us at aws-iot-button@amazon.com

Link?

TrueCar | Austin, TX | Full-Time | On-Site

https://www.truecar.com

TrueCar is re-inventing how cars are bought and sold and making the car buying experience awesome. We are currently in the process of building out a new development team in Austin, TX to work on our expanding Consumer and Dealer product offerings. We are looking for the following:

* Lead Web Developer (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/58791789)

* Lead Mobile Developer (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/58793546)

* Lead QA Developer (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/58792683)

* Full-stack Web Developers (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/54422204)

* Mobile Developers (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/56443891)

If interested please apply through LinkedIn or contact me directly at kneuharth@truecar.com with your resume and I’ll be in touch. I’m also happy to answer any questions that you may have about the positions and TrueCar.

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TrueCar (http://www.truecar.com)

Santa Monica, CA

Looking for On-Site Python and Front End Developers

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TrueCar.com is a revolutionary Internet company whose mission is to reinvent how cars are bought & sold and make the car buying experience awesome! Driven by industry leaders, successful entrepreneurs and superior technologists, we are growing quickly, and we’re looking for energetic new talent.

We’re looking for talented Python and Front End developers to build the technology used to power our APIs, mobile apps, production websites, and internal tools. We’re lucky enough to have an amazingly great (and fun) team and are smart enough to know that only by keeping our team’s DNA at the top of the chart can we continue to grow into the game-changing company we feel destined to be.

We are:

- Highly energetic and committed to a great product and culture

- Newly public, fully funded, and have a great upside

- Highly experienced industry and start up veterans

- Growing with viable revenue streams

You:

- Possess a burning internal goal of creating game-changing product

- Will leave your ego at the door and thrive in healthy debate

- Have passionate integrity and a healthy sense of work/life balance

- Can work productively together with and learn from other top-level players

- Are a world-class developer looking for the right team & opportunity to really make an impact

Responsibilities include:

- Designing and writing production-ready code and unit tests meeting both technical and business requirements

- Optimizing and enhancing systems with high-volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements

- Contributing architecture input to new systems as well as rewriting legacy systems

- Contributing domain-specific expertise by reviewing code, reviewing design docs, giving technical talks, and mentoring junior members of the team

- Helping support the operation of our production services

Requirements include:

- 5+ years of professional software development experience producing web-based systems in a Linux environment with Python, Ruby, or Perl

- Passionate about software development, excited to teach and learn from others on a small team

- Solid understanding and practical experience using object-oriented design principles and patterns

- Well versed in Agile processes such as Scrum, TDD, Continuous Integration

- Experience with an MVC web framework (Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, etc.)

- Familiarity with Git, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS

- Experience with a JavaScript framework (Backbone.js, AngularJS, jQuery, etc.), Bootstrap, and responsive experiences are a big plus

- Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent

Benefits:

So of course we offer a highly competitive salary, performance bonuses, and a wealth of great benefits including company equity, 100% paid family medical, dental, vision, and a healthy 401k. Add that to an environment with world class leadership, explosive growth, passion for fun, and great work. We are constantly evolving our employee perks, like generous vacation, gym reimbursements, referral and patent bonuses and incentive programs.

Interested?

Please contact me at kneuharth@truecar.com with your resume, cover letter, links to your portfolio and I’ll get in touch.

I really like the idea of "flight rules" to document common problems and codify how to resolve them. Does anyone know of any other good examples similar to this?

I have a IFTTT script that crawls Craigslist for specific keywords and then it emails me the hits. Craigslist generally has a low signal to noise ratio, but I have landed a few things from there.

"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy." - Steve Jobs

I went to school in San Diego where there are a lot of former sailors. The former Navy tech guys always dominated in my EE classes after learning from these materials.

Just upgraded. If anyone is running the open AMD/ATI drivers and the UI becomes slow and unusable you should try to install the proprietary drivers. It made the UI snappy again because everything seems to require hardware acceleration now.

James Bond books by Ian Fleming

I always found that if blowing no longer worked, that I could plug it into the Game Genie loader and it would usually work. I suspect because the fit into the Genie was much tighter and the pins were less worn or corroded.

Excellent! I feel like Randall is getting closer to producing an actual game with his worlds and characters. I look forward to what he has in store for us in the future.

I think Vooza already tried this.

Anyone know what the licensing is for this icon set?

Totally off topic but there is a bug in the PHP code example:

echo "<script src=\"http://example.com/analytics.js?ts=$ts&r=$r&ds=$ts\&...;

should be:

echo "<script src=\"http://example.com/analytics.js?ts=$ts&r=$r&ds=$ds\&...;

See also: http://www.ai-class.com/

Am I missing something about the name? Leaky abstraction? It sounds more like a service targeting people in need of a plumbing repair quote.

I received notice today from 4 of my affiliate programs that they are terminating their programs in California. I expect the remaining few to notify me soon enough. I may end up registering again with these program using an Oregon address if I feel like my site is something I still want to work on if this goes down the way it is looking.

http://www.climberbum.com - a site to help rock climbers find the best deals on climbing gear.

ep.io for Django hosting

Like others have said, Djangy announcing their closure last week has people thinking about the future of Django hosting solutions. I was very disappointed to learn of this as I had just started a new site there and after weeks of frustrating hiccups with the service it had actually just started to work well. I had plans to move several other production sites there so any news in the Django front is highly pertinent to me and others in the same boat.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour

At a research company I worked at we used swarming concepts for controlling swarms of sensors, robots, and UAVs. We also used ant colony optimization techniques mixed with genetic algorithms to do predictive intelligence. Really powerful stuff.

I use this a ton: http://www.jsonlint.com/

My similar bad experience with Eclipse took me to IntelliJ with the Scala plugin and it has been a markedly better experience these last few months. The refactoring abilities in IntelliJ are pretty good so far.

That's cool. If you had any interest in a banner exchange let me know. One of my several side projects is a climbing related site. Perhaps we can help each other out? If you have any interest hit me up at the e-mail in my profile.

As one of your unique daily visitors I say thanks for making this. I have passed it on to all my climbing friends and posted it on Facebook. I like the clean interface and high quality content thus far. Are you planning to throw ads on this at some point?

PS- This link is broken: http://www.thrutched.com/password_reset

You could do this in two pitches but most people have 60 meter ropes these days which is 196.8 feet. On the way down you would have to go to a rap anchor about half way, pull the rope down to you, re-anchor the rope, and rappel again. When rappelling best practice is to use the double rope rappel, plus it is easier to get the rope back down once you are on the ground.

Have you considered the possibility that your awful attitude, inflated sense of entitlement, over-attachment to a poor implementation of an unfocused idea, etc. are contributing to your lack of success finding this all important fabled VC money? Let that sink in.

Now, I gave you encouragement and a legitimate suggestion on how to take what you have and spin it into something that would probably generate some money. Others have done the same in this thread. You responded with a delusional claim that people should provide money for you just because your idea "might" pay off big. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence on HN that speculative words like "might" are pretty worthless. If you think your idea is that good, commit to it, prove us all wrong.

It is however counter productive to complain to fellow HNers, who are most sympathetic to the frustrations of trying to build products people want, about some bias against you because no one wants to give you jobs or money for your talents. That is not how it works.

What if you compiled all of this scraped data and made microsites for each category? I think your idea is interesting but so far the implementation is off-putting. You could do all sorts of organic SEO tweaks and then put some ads on the pages for a revenue stream.

Don't give up, but also don't expect people to throw money at you for making something. If that were true, everyone on HN would be millionaires.