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Stubhub | (Senior) Software Engineers | NYC, SF | Full-Time | ONSITE

Viagogo, an international ticket e-commerce platform, has merged with Stubhub (formerly a subsidiary of eBay). We're an ambitious bunch, looking to hire effective people and transform live entertainment. We're a profitable (even during Covid) late-stage startup aggressively seeking talented engineers to solve both technical scaling challenges and business goals. It is an exciting fit for those seeking larger organizational impact compared to 1000+ employee companies while not compromising the compensation (competitive package). We have many teams hiring across frontend, backend, platform and product with a lot to build, looking for people who autonomously own and lead.

* Backend and Frontend software engineers

* Senior Backend and Frontend software engineers

Email resume/CV to ted.humpal at stubhub dot com

Nope. Just good developers and engineers.

Booz Allen Hamilton | Washington, DC area | Fulltime, Onsite

Our team is hiring general software developers for our digital accelerator program. In this program the candidate will go through a dedicated training before being sent to a specific market need. The candidate's does not need a specific language background, but the desire and ability to learn modern languages and DevOps principles is a must.

Please email boozallenrecruiting@gmail.com

  Location: Madison, WI
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Software/hardware generalist, Python, Bluespec System Verilog, Javascript, C#, SAS, Linux, Windows, ASIC/FPGA
  Résumé/CV: http://musicandmythology.com/offsite/theodore_humpal_resume.pdf
  Email: ted.humpal@gmail.com

This is an interesting site, which started up recently, producing short stories paired with music.

http://musicandmythology.com/mm0.html

I made this in case it interests you: http://inthehandsofothers.com

It needs help.

It's interesting that so much of the article was about this 'fuzzy' feeling the author had about people. While reading I got the same fuzzy feeling about the author. Danger, danger, red alert.

Bankrupt, ouch.

Yeah, most people don't seem to think very much of this strategy (I'm even down-voted?), and no one talks about it. But I'm not sure why. I hear about the crappy 5% a year or whatever returns people get, which just never seems very good to me. But, idk, maybe I'll lose all my money one day. That's a real possibility as I spurn most advice I get.

Anyway, Good luck!

This is probably, like, a horrible way to do things. But I try to find a company (1-10 billion market cap) that I personally believe in, but saw-tooths a lot. I usually check-in once a day and watch it go up and down. I then guess if I think it is sort of on a crest up or down, then buy or sell accordingly. And never accept a loss on a trade. Instead just sit on the shares until they are in the black. And example would be CAVM. I figure it's sort of like gambling. I don't really know what I'm doing, but it works (so far).

I sort of use SAS sometimes. There are definite downsides, like the UI/IDE is an abomination from the 1980s. And anything except the most straight forward of code is impossible to read (and many other things). However, in terms of being fast and being and all-in-one language+data solution (meaning no calls to a seperate database solution) it has something to say for it.

But yeah, I sort of hate it. If it had modern syntax and data structures and UI it might not be bad.

On a side note, I've always found this review spot on and very funny. In case you are in the mood to hear someone criticize the new movies for... about as long as the movie itself.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episo...

My take is that it's all about the execution of creating a chip. x86 for example is a much worse ISA, but there is some research (no source on this assertion) that says at the end of the day it doesn't matter too much since the machinecode is just translated into some internal RISC code.

So, it isn't that PowerPC is doomed from a technical standpoint. Instead it's all about money, business cycle stuff. Less sales means less R&D. Less R&D means you fall behind of the competition. IBM doesn't really have the heavy hitters they used to in the chip business (Relative to Intel/ARM/TSMC). If you want the newest flashiest tech, you can't really use their fab - that sort of stuff.

Every chip technology node is getting more expensive for foundries, which means the chip market will likely naturally converge to a small number of players.

I'm all for marrying who you want, but if you live in the US your tax comment doesn't make sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty

Right. It isn't to be disingenuous to everyone else. I think of it similar to Chinese hacking incidences. "Foreign Power X hacked into the US defense contractors?" Yeah, I'm okay with that. We need a balance of power in this world.

Versus if it was this: "The US hacked into it's own civilian's businesses?" Not acceptable.

       No, no, go not to Tor, neither private mode, 

              Nor duck-duck-go the tight-rooted, for its secretive wine;

       Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd

              By anti-cloud sentiment, ruby grape prose of NSA;

                      Make not your rosary in tinfoil hats,

              Nor let the politicians, the doomsayers-media be

                      Your mournful Psyche. The downy social media

       A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;

              For shade to shade will come too drowsily,

                      And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.

       But when the melancholy fit shall fall

              Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,

       That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,

              And hides the green hill in an April shroud;

       Then glut thy sorrow on a morning HN,

              Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-reddit,

                      Or on the wealth of globed nerds from afar;

       Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,

              Imprison her harsh hand, and let her rave,

                      And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.

       She dwells with Government—Government that must die;

              And NSA, whose hand is ever at his lips

       Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,

              Turning to poison while the lying-mouth sips:

       Ay, in the very temple of Delight

              Veiled Melancholy has her sovereign shrine,

                      Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue

              Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;

       His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,

                      And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

Since no country has tried it, no one knows, but I'm sure that won't stop a bunch of sarcastic replies.

I'm going to treat this as some kind of fun thought experiment and ignore a lot of the details. I've always thought some form an ultra free market oriented society could work. But...

1: The first problems I wonder about is that the system is relying on individuals to be making actively intelligent decisions. How convinced are you of intelligence of the medium person? For power not to concentrate into too few hands, a large percentage of the population has to actively react to shifts in wealth, morality and power. I'm hesitate to declare this would work.

2: Can a free market naturally produce a safety net? Maybe. It is likely in order for society to function in a healthy manner one would need something to help the down and out. Shit happens, life isn't fair, bad decisions need help being corrected. I think it is more likely a government would have to provide some of this net. I've always thought creating a 'human right' to a basic income (say you get $5000 a year no matter what) paired with an ultra free market society would be interesting. Would it be the best? Idk. But it would certainly be interesting to try. (I think Hayek said something vaguely similar)

3: Tragedy of the commons. We aren't trapped as a species to forever repeat destroying the commons. But it sure as hell happens a lot. Pollution much like crime needs a government force to reign it in. There is no market solution to it. Something like a park system is likely similar.

But overall, as a planetary body of people, I think we're due to trying something new soon. We've spent the last 100 years or so converting most places to mixed-economy democracy. We should probably start to try other interesting systems. Kind of like what Denmark is doing. They are going in the other direction completely, but it is interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Denmark

I love how he says several times "we aren't listening to your phone calls". As if that suddenly makes everything better. Fuck me.

LIFE IS GAME OF CHESS DAMN IT.

why am i so lonely.

Seconded. It sounds like you could probably get a higher salary if that's what you're after. But it almost always comes at a cost. Free time. Dating. Kids. Time. Geography. Less interesting work.

Switching positions to more powerful/money takes time, but if you make that the center goal of your life, you will be able to achieve it in time. But you have to seriously stop and think if that is what you want out of life. (And maybe you do - that's okay).

Personally, I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I may be smart-ish, but I fiercely guard against making work sacrifices for: free time, S/O, kids, time, geography.

Therefore, my peers will probably excel beyond me.

You can listen to this podcast if you're interested in hearing more about how corrupt the car dealership racket is. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...

Hm. I'm not talking scientifically here or anything, but I've always felt the lack of any kind of depth in most Zynga games makes them feel very skinner box with little pretense beyond that. Most games have complicated stories or game play mechanics. Many Zynga games seem to be "Fill up these three bars by clicking these buttons. Watch them fill. It feels good doesn't it."

Personally I couldn't say that about many other games/work.

Let's sum up this article.

In order to be successful monetarily, you need to make something people want.

This guy is a savant.

Just for the sake of discussion. Even if you don't like something a dead person said, usually you just concentrate on the part you did like. Lincoln didn't think Black people should hold office. I still think he's pretty inspirational, mostly because I ignore that other stuff.

Was she a likable personality - No. Don't like her stance on politics? Fine. Her thoughts on individuals with new ideas being persecuted by society - still pretty interesting.

I guess I don't understand the wall of rage people get into with her. Who agrees with everything someone says? Why can't we collectively look at the interesting things she said?

As a topic she is treated a little funny in our society. She becomes the face of all sorts of hate for a lot of ideas that aren't really hers to begin with. Such as the idea you can't complain about being abused by corporations. She never said that. Many corporations were evil in her books.

Anyway, I don't know exactly why, but you can't pick and choose interesting quotes from her like you can from other interesting figures. Like Nietzsche or Kaynes, or whoever. People start frothing at the mouth. Likely irrationally.

Gifting blankets... This sounds familiar. So it has begun. The war against open source. Blankets laden with smallpox.

That is what I'm complaining about. HW engineers are excellent at hardware concepts. Terrible at other trends.

Why did IBM give the operating system business to Microsoft? An attitude problem. Why is HW consistently a shrinking industry? An Attitude problem. Open source nothing. Keep using the same technology as 1980.

"Oh, what the hell, our salaries are going down?" "We can't keep up with project schedule because we're using the same concepts as we did on exponentially less complex chips 20 years ago? It's not our fault."

It's an attitude problem. HW isn't the big brother it used to be. It's the little brother. It needs to look at what big brother software is doing to be so successful. And copy it. Open source tools/languages. Leverage existing software projects instead of inventing our own everything. Companies need to sponsor these tools/give-back to these projects.

Stuck with (System) Verilog? Fine. What would software do. Create a framework on top of old technology (HTML/Verilog) to make it less painful (like Rails). Create a language that interacts well with the old language (Java/JVM/Scala/Closure).

Down vote me all you want for my surliness. It's true.

One could argue Gold is a 6000 year old bubble. Desperately digging it up to bury it somewhere else. Only because it's the particular element that doesn't react chemically and is just the right amount of common/rare.

Another way to interpret this comment is that NRE is high so no one innovates. And NRE is high because no one innovates in making NRE not high.

Sounds like space flight to me.

Aside from the business cycle reasons - Being a young chip designer, I'm severely disappointed in the hardware engineering culture. It is too hard to get ideas through anyone who is over 35 years old. Everyone thinks Perl is really great and Verilog is good enough. Even though both suck.

Basically, the older generation has killed the industry. Much like they did to aerospace.

The HW engineering firms should be leveraging SW open source projects and adapt them as needed. For example, why have an in-house Perl scripting framework on top of Verilog. Use Django or something similar instead.

The industry is too risk averse and overall poised.

Based on my shaky sense of things going on, I doubt you'll be able to negotiate for a grade 10. The company is generally very frugal. 130k sounds like too much. (But you know, I could be totally wrong - actually let me know if I am).