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skant··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
(continued... ) BlueStacks.com | San Jose, California | H1B Ok

Platform Engineer

Essential Requirements

• Deep technical understanding of operating systems and application

runtimes.

• Experience on multiple operating systems, such as MacOS, Windows or

Linux.

• Proficient with multi-threading, asynchronous programming paradigms

and anonymous functions.

• Experience with kernel programming on MacOS, Windows or Linux.

• Proficient with network programming, at both the socket and HTTP

layers.

• Experience with standard operating system IPC mechanisms, such as

Unix domain sockets, pipes, or XPC.

• Experience debugging complex, multi-language software.

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data

structures, algorithms and software design/architecture.

• Preferred languages: C/C++, C#, Objective-C.

• 3 years of industry experience.

skant··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
(continued... ) BlueStacks.com | San Jose, California | H1B Ok

Android Developer

Essential Requirements

• Deep technical knowledge of Android mobile application development.

• Proficient in the following technologies: Java language and related

frameworks, Multi-Threading and memory management specific to

mobile devices

• Knowledge of Android UI frameworks.

• Knowledge of full stack from user interaction to database commits.

• Experience with RESTful back end APIs

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data

structures, algorithms and software design/architecture.

• Preferred languages: Java, Python, Javascript, Shell scripting

• 3 years of industry experience.

skant··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
(continued... ) BlueStacks.com | San Jose, California | H1B Ok

Desktop UI Developer

Essential Requirements

• 3 years of industry experience with UI design and implementation.

• Experience debugging complex, multi-language software.

• Proficient with multi-threading, asynchronous programming paradigms

and anonymous functions.

• Proficient with network programming, at both the socket and HTTP

layers.

• Deep technical understanding of operating systems and application

runtimes.

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data

structures, algorithms and software design/architecture.

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Essential Technologies

• Experience with UI design and implementation primarily in any of Xcode,

or Visual Studio, alternately tools like Qt Creator.

• Experience on multiple operating systems, such as Windows, MacOS, or

Linux.

• Preferred languages: C/C++, C#, Objective-C.

skant··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
BlueStacks.com | San Jose, California | H1B Ok

About us: BlueStacks (http://www.bluestacks.com), a privately held, venture funded, Silicon Valley startup with a brand name enjoying global recognition. You can play your favorite Android apps on your Windows PC, Mac or TV using the BlueStacks App Player. You can also bring your Android mobile experience to your home by linking your devices through our mobile apps. We are awestruck and feel humbled by the organic, grass roots adoption of our products worldwide, they have become a key driver for Android adoption since we started the company. It never ceases to amaze us when we meet people in everyday life, in every part of the world we have traveled to, who tell us, “Hey, I use BlueStacks every day! ”.

Our business is growing and we are looking for a few more smart people who can grow it and grow with it further. Ideally, you’ve got at least three years experience under your belt, are an agile individual who wants to work in a fast- paced environment, and an excellent portfolio of work to show for it.

email - careers at bluestacks dot com (Please mention "Hacker News")

Open Positions:

Front-end developer

• HTML.

• CSS/CSS3/CSS preprocessor Sass/Less.

• Responsive/adaptive design techniques.

• Object oriented JavaScript including jQuery.

• An ability to write well-structured, semantic, maintainable code.

• Experience building single page applications with technology such as

Backbone JS, Angular JS, Require JS.

• Excellent understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform issues.

• Ability to complete and juggle multiple projects whilst meeting strict

deadlines.

• SEO best practices.

• Experience with version control, GIT.

• Comfortable using the command line tools

• An understanding and practice of website optimization techniques.

• 3 years of industry experience.

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skant··on Announcing Calibre 2.0
The author of Calibre claims: In my opinion, calibre’s graphic interface is damn good [1]

I don't think the author is going to make any strides towards improving/changing the UI

[1]http://features.en.softonic.com/interview-kovid-goyal-creato...

skant··on Show HN: Web client for WhatsApp
BlueStacks developer here: Glad it worked for you :)
skant··on Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon
This is just awesome guys.. Wish you all the best :)
skant··on Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC
Have you guys seen http://bluestacks.com/? It seems to solve the geekish-ness around Android-x86.
skant··on GitHub for Mac
My Organization Repos don't show up.
skant··on There is a puzzle embedded in this page...
cant get past the alert thing
skant··on What's wrong with my font display?
The other site btw is androlib.com
skant··on What's wrong with my font display?
Yeah something wrong here as well ::: http://i.imgur.com/T3YiT.png
skant··on What's wrong with my font display?
I am using Windows XP and I have Cleartype on: http://i.imgur.com/1pacl.png

I see the same issue with other sites like: http://i.imgur.com/sbzmy.png

skant··on HN yellow pages (Google docs)
Its all deleted
skant··on Google Pacman Code
I think Google wouldn't have written all this in native JavaScript. GWT (Google Web Toolkit) might have been used.
skant··on Ask HN: Mario AI, Google AI like contests ?
Links .. http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/
skant··on Spyder IDE for Python has hit 1.0
Just installed on XP. Nothing shows up after I click link from start-menu.
skant··on India's Chandrayaan-1 helped discover water on moon's surface
The link seems broken. This is the right one: http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article24322.ece
skant··on Ask HN: Review my app. Set Reminders in human language on Twitter
this -> http://status.twitter.com/post/117482837 caused the bug last night.

Lesson learned : Never use an API blindly without adding your own checks to it.

skant··on Ask HN: Review my app. Set Reminders in human language on Twitter
and yes.. Sorry about the inconvenience.
skant··on Ask HN: Review my app. Set Reminders in human language on Twitter
oopsy .. BUG found and killed.
skant··on Ask HN: Review my app. Set Reminders in human language on Twitter
Noted. thanks
skant··on Ask HN: Review my app. Set Reminders in human language on Twitter
That's what we are currently working on. Also we would support recurring reminders like "every month", "daily", etc.
skant··on Here's What A Card Skimmer Looks Like On An ATM
All on ATM skimmers: http://logs.shashikant.in/post/98607370/what-is-an-atm-skimm...