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zburt

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zachary.burt@mylookout.com
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zburt··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)
Lookout is a smartphone security company dedicated to making the mobile experience safe for everyone. We protect mobile devices from malware, spyware, loss, and theft.

We're growing our engineering team, and in search of senior software engineers. Our engineers work in a range of areas, from JS/CSS/HTML, to Ruby / full-stack Rails development, to Android/iOS development in Java / C / Obj-C, working with MongoDB in the context of web services, distributed systems and scalable network services.

Please get in touch if yod like to hear about what we're working on, our small teams, open work environment, flat/transparent org, and how integral our technology is to the ever-growing mobile ecosystem.

You can check out our current opportunities here: www.mylookout.com/about/careers

zburt··on Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
What if you start a new Amazon EC2 spot instance (netting you a new IP address), start up Chromium in headless mode (say, using Xvfb), navigate to the website of choice, use mouse automation to start clicking around, click the ad, spend 5 minutes clicking around in a semi-choreographed pattern on the advertisee's website, and then shut down the instance -- only to repeat?

Moreover, Amazon is always buying new IP subnets.

zburt··on Bitcoin just crossed $7.00.
This post has great timing, as we are going in to the corporate Earnings Release season.