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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Are you smart, motivated, and interested in working on awesome software optimized for our world-class, unique, and super-cool satellite network? Then come and be a propellerhead at our awesome, small company. www.ssimicro.com/jobs We're a little company based in Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories. We deliver broadband satellite internet to 61 of the most remo…

Which is because of the horrible limitation of the speed of light, which we are constantly working to exceed ;)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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San Francisco, CA. Yelp (http://www.yelp.com/careers)

We're looking to fill back end, front end, mobile (iPhone, Android, Blackberry), search & data mining engineers as well as product managers and engineering managers. We're still a small team where everybody knows everybody, working on new features and addressing scaling issues as we internationalize. And Hackathons where projects like Yelp KegMate are born: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVoir5HSo4

http://github.com/yelp http://engineeringblog.yelp.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Mountain View, CA. RethinkDB ( http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs ). Hard systems problems. Fun people. Good pay. A chance to build something meaningful and own a significant chunk of the company. Tired of rails-based clones? Join us, together we will rule the [database] universe. This is everything we stand for: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713

from your license agreement ( http://www.rethinkdb.com/license.txt ) Prohibited activities include but are not limited to: -snip- * Selling support for products which incorporate RethinkDB. Can you really enforce this?

I doubt they could enforce a prohibition on companies providing support for RethinkDB; but I see no reason why they couldn't say "if you provide support for RethinkDB, you're not allowed to use our code", which is probably equivalent in practice.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Academia.edu is hiring engineers in San Francisco. Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research in their field. Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team: - obsession with exceptional engineering - obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience - intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about - fun and friendly - we…

How did you get a *.edu domain?

Most likely that they bought it (in 2007?) from someone that registered it before 29 Oct 2001.

From http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp :

"Why do some institutions that do not meet the eligibility criteria have .edu domain names?

According to the Cooperative Agreement between EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce, all .edu names in existence as of October 29, 2001, are "grandfathered." This means that everyone who already had a .edu name by that date (October 29, 2001), regardless of current or past eligibility requirements, is allowed to keep those .edu names."

Whois info:

  Domain record activated:    10-May-1999
  Domain record last updated: 03-Sep-2007
  Domain expires:             31-Jul-2011

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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IndexTank. San Francisco, CA (SoMa). Multi-tenant search as a service hosted on AWS. Extremely interesting optimization and scalability challenges. Many sites use us and pay for our service, including Reddit. Very small company, lots of upside. International team (US - Argentina). We NEED more awesome developers.

http://indextank.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Zencoder (YC W2010) is looking for: 1. an awesome salesperson. Tenacious, resourceful, ambitious, but also comfortable with learning, discovery, and building a model (rather than following a model). 2. a junior designer. Someone with HTML/CSS and design chops, to help expand and improve our web presence. Some work on our core product, plus work on several small micro-projects. jon at zencoder.

for the sales role, are you interested in an entrepreneurial engineer with sales experience?

Yes, given the right attitude and ambition.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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http://StreetEasy.com , New York City Cover letter and resume to: ruby -r base64 -e 'puts Base64.decode64("d29ya0BzdHJlZXRlYXN5LmNvbQ==")' Seeking experienced ruby/rails developers! Curiosity about the New York City real estate market a a plus :)

use python, it's simpler ;) python -c "print 'd29ya0BzdHJlZXRlYXN5LmNvbQ=='.decode('base64')"

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Server engineer is very broad. Could be anywhere on the stack from front-end work with HTML/CSS/JS to very deep in the guts of our application code working on performance and scalability, or anywhere in between. Job description: http://foursquare.jobscore.com/jobs/foursquare/server-side-s... Operations engineer would be focused less on our application code and more on managing our EC2 infrastructure. Anywhere from im…

From what I can tell, you've melded a backend and frontend dev for the server engineer role. Thanks for your time, but you require a degree, so I'm out.

The title is melded. Your role is whatever your best fit is. We have "server engineers" that do frontend dev almost exclusively, others that do backend dev almost exclusively, and others that do a bit of both.

We've hired people without degrees, and we've hired people without 5+ years experience. If you're good, we'll bend the rules.

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