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I used screenhero for some remote work. It's great for pair programming and helping debug a problem remotely. Since our team used Slack, I really wished Slack would add similar functionality to their product. Glad to see that it's going to happen now, and will be built by the people who built the awesome screehero product. Congrats guys! hope to see more awesome work from you!

In my experience (speaking from the employer point of view), SO Careers has been pretty good. Most of the people who applied were looking to work remotely (which was fine by us), so that might skew the experience (as in, not sure what the response quality would be if we didn't select "remote work ok" given that most of our respondents wanted to work remotely).

Not my site. Just found it and thought it was worth sharing.

Not sure if they print the whole thing with colors or if the printed piece is colored later on.

Slack lets you add custom emoji too: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/437028458627989504

We are Rails based, but are happy to hire people with Python + Django experience too, if they are willing to learn. We have hired people before who didn't have much Rails experience but came with an overall solid background in programming and were able to pick up Rails pretty quickly.

vintage mode with a few minor modifications

iTodo plugin (makes it easy to write simple todo lists in Sublime, with functionality to add tasks and mark them as complete)

Grubwithus (YC W'11) - Los Angeles (Venice), CA - Full time

Grubwithus is built on Ruby on Rails and is looking for engineers to help us add new features and build a great experience for our users.

Requirements

  - Experience with building and deploying Ruby on Rails applications

  - Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals

Good to Haves

  - Experience with building an API for a web-service

  - Experience integrating with social networks (Facebook Open Graph, Twitter, etc)

  - Experience with testing frameworks and writing unit tests and functional tests

http://grubwithus.theresumator.com/apply/Uxeq9w/Developer-Ru...

Grubwithus (YC W'11) - Venice, Los Angeles, CA - Full time (H1-B ok)

Grubwithus is built on Ruby on Rails and is looking for backend engineers to help us add new features and build a great experience for our users.

Challenges we face:

- making sure that we can provide a consistently good experience to our users

- building tools to reduce touch points between our operations team and restaurants so that we can scale using technology

- building a recommendation system to recommend meals / events to our users

- working on performance improvements to improve the speed of the web-app and reduce infrastructure costs

Requirements:

- strong experience with server-side programming (preferably in Ruby on Rails)

- example projects that demonstrate this ability

- strong background in Computer Science fundamentals

Additionally, experience with any or all of the following is a plus:

- jQuery / CSS

- building an API on a web-service

- integrating with APIs of existing social networks

- building recommendation systems

- building analytics tools to analyze data

If this sounds interesting to you, please apply here: http://grubwithus.theresumator.com/apply/7r1rjn/Developer-Ba...

Grubwithus (YC W11) - Venice, CA - fulltime

Grubwithus helps users meet awesome people over tasting menus at top restaurants. We are looking for engineers to help us build features and provide a great experience for our users. Specific positions:

BACKEND DEVELOPER POSITION

Requirements

  - Strong experience with server-side programming (preferably in Ruby on Rails)
  - Example projects that demonstrate this ability
  - Strong background in computer science fundamentals

Good to Haves

  - Experience with deep social-network integration, recommendation engines, payment systems, analytics systems
  - Experience with building an API for a web-service
  - jQuery / CSS experience in a production environment

Link to apply: http://grubwithus.theresumator.com/apply/7r1rjn/Developer-Ba...

FRONT-END DEVELOPER POSITION

Requirements

  - Proficient in jQuery and CSS
  - Strong understanding of UI and UX
  - Example projects that demonstrate this

Good to Haves

  - Ruby-on-Rails experience in a production environment
  - Experience with deep social-network integration
  - Personal projects that showcase ability to design and implement great UI / UX
  - Experience with Illustrator or other design tools

Link to apply: http://grubwithus.theresumator.com/apply/pVmZt1/Developer-Fr...

We also have blink tags in there! (Chrome won't display blink tags, but Firefox will)

Grubwithus (YC W'11) - Venice, CA - Front end engineer

Grubwithus is taking online relationships offline. We are currently looking for a front-end engineer who can help us build a great user experience.

Requirements for this position:

- strong Javascript + CSS skills

- experience with Illustrator

- one or more past projects that demonstrate good UI / UX skills

Nice to haves:

- Ruby on Rails experience

You can read more about working at Grubwithus by going to http://www.grubwithus.com/jobs

If you are interested in joining the offline revolution and working at Grubwithus, let us know a little bit about yourself and send us a few links to your Github profile, resume, portfolio, or past projects. Feel free to include any information that you think would help us in making our decision.

To apply, send an email to jobs@grubwithus.com

I think the phrasing makes it look like the 1st to 15th August period is uncovered, but it actually is covered. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834589

Another fun fact related to this story: Snoop Dogg tried to rent Liechtenstein in the past, but was not able to. (source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/07/snoop-d...)

He should try using AirBnB next time!

From what I understood (from this article and others that I read on the subject), the previous settlement is still valid.

Very cool. Would love to be able to compare other companies too (even a simple textbox that lets me change one of the columns by entering a different ticker symbol would work).

From Scott Adams old blog post on the redesign of the website:

"The fascinating thing about the responses is that it revealed three distinct types of Dilbert readers:

The first group is the ultra-techies who have an almost romantic relationship with technology. For them, the new site felt like getting dumped by a lover. Their high-end technology (generally Linux) and security settings made much of the site inconvenient. Moreover, the use of Flash offended them on some deep emotional level.

The second group objected to the new level of color and complexity, and the associated slowness. They like their Dilbert comics simple, fast, and in two colors. Anything more is like putting pants on a cat.

The third group uses technology as nothing more than a tool, and subscribes to the philosophy that more free stuff is better than less free stuff. That group has embraced the new features on the site and spiked the traffic stats.

For you first two groups, if you promise to keep it to yourselves, we created a stripped-down Dilbert page with just the comic, some text navigation, and the archive: www.dilbert.com/fast. This alternate site is a minor secret, mentioned only here and in the text footnote to the regular site as “Linux/Unix.”"

(source: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/dilb...)

Same comic on the fast link: http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-01-07/

(Dilbert has a "fast" link at http://dilbert.com/fast/ to load just the comics without all the extra stuff)

I am not sure if the article suggests J-1 for people who are studying abroad, or for international students studying in the US. For international students studying in the US, I would highly recommend being on a F-1 visa instead of a J-1 visa and then applying for a CPT (or OPT if you are done with college) for an internship. J-1 has a requirement of working for two years in your home country after graduation. If you plan to continue working for the startup after graduation, this 2 year requirement could become a big issue (you need to apply for a J-1 waiver and do quite some paperwork to get rid of it).

In general, for international students studying in the US who want to start companies or work at an early stage startup in the US, I would recommend reading up the CPT and OPT rules. Those can be very useful in the early days until you have sufficient funding to move to a visa category like H-1B that has a minimum salary requirement.

Whether or not a startup will sponsor depends on a case by case basis. In some cases, even if the company wants to, they might not have the resources to sponsor a visa. On the other hand, if they have the right amount of money in the bank (to pay the visa fees and show that they can afford your salary) and can get a hold of a good lawyer, it's not an impossible process.

At the end of the video it says images were done by "cognitive media". Here's a link to that company: http://www.cognitivemedia.co.uk/

I like autocomplete in my .vimrc

function! InsertTabWrapper() let col = col('.')-1 if !col || getline('.')[col-1]!~'\k' return "\<tab>" else return "\<C-P>" endif endfunction inoremap <tab> <C-R>=InsertTabWrapper()<CR>