rmanocha

Upwork Inc. | Mountain View or San Francisco, CA | Onsite (or US based remote)

Upwork is working on revolutionizing how work is done online. Along the way, we're working on challenging engineering problems while working on new features and products to help meet the requirements of our growing community.

My team is looking to hire someone who can come in and help us design and build backend systems (distributed, resilient, scalable etc.). You'll get to work with people from around the world as well as in a cross functional environment (product, UX, marketing and others) and will get to make a meaningful contribution to our platform.

If you're interested, feel free to email me at rmanoch@upwork.com or you can apply to the job directly at https://goo.gl/7Q5H1p (note that in depth knowledge of Java is good to have, but certainly not a requirement).

Upwork | Bay Area | Onsite (or remote for the right person) | https://www.upwork.com

Like working on big scale, distributed platform services? My team at Upwork is hiring an intern for Summer 2016 and a Senior Software Engineer to help us build out our next generation platform. Along the way, you'll get to work with people from all over the world (most of our engineering team works remotely) including world class engineers, product managers and designers. The post for the intern is available at https://goo.gl/dVMDmb. The post for the Senior Engineer isn't up yet but it follows along the same lines as the intern post.

Feel free to apply via Jobvite or email me (email available in profile) directly.

P.S. - We are also looking for remote Java engineers to work with us, so if you're interested, there's that too :).

Upwork | San Francisco (SoMa) / Mountain View | Lead platform engineer (Java) | Onsite/Remote

We're hiring for quiet a few positions across engineering at Upwork; the world's largest freelancer marketplace formed from the merger of Elance and oDesk. All open positions are listed at https://www.upwork.com/about/careers/.

We're building the next generation of our site from the ground up and need help in areas such as scaling micro-services, working with AWS products, investing in NoSQL solutions (where it makes sense) and more. Along the way, you'll get the opportunity to work with a globally distributed team (we have more than 200 freelancers, representing greater that 50% of our engineering headcount, hired off or our platform working on and leading various engineering teams) and hang out with them on our bi-annual offsites (my team just returned from one in Lisbon).

I'm specifically looking to hire someone who can be an engineering lead on a team that's building Java based micro services (deployed on AWS). You will be responsible for working with the product and other engineering teams to architect said services, deploy them, manage them, break them (and then fix them) and help other teams who are not as familiar with concepts such as service boundaries, benefits vs. costs of asynchronous architectures etc. More about the position is at https://goo.gl/lqJZcF.

We have two offices; one in the city (SoMa) and another in Mountain View. Feel free to contact me at rmanoch@upwork.com for any questions about this or any other openings you might be interested in.

Thanks a lot, I'll give this a shot tonight. Not too familiar with CoreOS yet; I was hoping that I'd simply be able to mount a volume similar to how I might do it in Linux. I understand the problems with doing that though...

Do we know yet if mounting a directory from host as a data volume is available in Mac OS X now? I think something along these lines was promised (not able to find the source now) - it's the only thing blocking me from using docker as my everyday dev environment.

I was a freshman at UT in 2002 in their CS program. I wish they had heeded Djikstra's advice. Java with BlueJ was what we were taught from day 1.

To the departments credit, we did end up taking a couple of courses in Haskell (the best one I remember was the course of compilers - we had to write a C lexer in Haskell). It was one of the more fun classes I took (thanks, in a great part, to the professor teaching us).

Hah, I've always wondered about this myself too. The visual of the eagles carrying Frodo away from Mt. Doom makes brings the inconsistency I'm even starker contrast in the final movie.

Nice, watching it now. Thanks for the link!!

Thanks cemerick. I'm still watching this screencast, so not sure if you get into this here, but if not, I have a request :)

I've been trying to understand how to do concurrency in Clojure - but haven't found any good guides - any chance you'd do a screencast on this topic as well?

I would also add that a newbie should check out clojure-koans (https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans#readme) and try to solve some of the Project Euler problems (http://projecteuler.net/problems). Both of these have been great resources for me to get the basics of the language.

I'm not sure if you've done this in the past, but would you mind explaining how to get clients in the "old - or new-fashioned ways without a marketplace site"?

oDesk Professional Services is hiring Python/Django developers to work on some very interesting and high performance applications. We're a diverse team of developers from all over the world and all of us work remotely.

The tools we use run the gamut but are primarily based on Python (and usually Django, though we also use GAE/tipsy, flask, Pyramid etc.). We use nginx, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL and more.

The full job description is avialable at https://www.odesk.com/jobs/Experienced-Python-Django-Develop.... Apply there or contact me (email address in my profile).

Thanks for the suggestion. Padmapper indeed is pretty great, but the one problem I'm having is that most of the listings are for 12 month leases (or similar). Is there anyway to narrow the results to just sublets or listings just over the summer?

I keep reading stories of people who do things like this, on HN and I always wonder that how is it that people are able to afford something like this. Do you mind telling us (me?) how you're going to finance yourself for the next 5 years (I think you said you plan to work - freelance?), what you think you'd do once the 5 years are over (if you come back to the US/wherever, do you think you'd still have what it takes to be employed at a similar job again), how you plan to handle the potential loneliness (travelling alone for a long period of time can get lonesome, after a while) etc.?

BTW, having lived in Malaysia and visited some SE Asian countries, I highly recommend it (KL, Langkawi), Singapore and Thailand; but then again, these places were probably on your list already.

I don't argue that games are a good way to kill some time (I play angry birds myself every so often) - what I find incredible is that people are making as much money as they are, selling games for these platforms. I don't know if any other class of apps are making as much money on these devices as games are - and that disturbs/disappoints me.

I fail to understand why game development is constantly discussed when talking about Android or iOS. I use my phone mostly to increase productivity (email, news, yelp, fandango etc.) and not to play games.

The insane amount of money being made by game devs on these platforms continues to amaze me.

I just got done reading "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis. Well written, does a good job explaining what bond traders were doing before 2008 and why this downturn started. Well worth the read, IMO (I was recommended the book by a hedge fund manager when I met him at my school).

Not sure about the "science" behind this, but this technique has definitely worked for me. I've been drinking ~3 litres of water daily for the last year - and along with other changes in my lifestyle, have lost ~65lbs in that time.

If for no other reason, drinking that water reduces my urges for fizzy drinks - which helps a lot. Additionally, as others have said - reducing the amount you eat, in whatever way that works for you, has helped a lot.

Does this mean that you can no longer buy an unlocked (or locked) Nexus One in the US?

Reading your points 1-3 (4, I agree with, I think) reminds me of Keynes' "In the long run, we're all dead".

I'm not against planning for the future, but at-least for me, living as frugally as you say you are would simply be too boring/depressing/mundane/etc. given my current (or short term) salary. Perhaps I will feel the pinch of this later in my life, but I definitely want to "live in the moment" as much as I possibly can - and for me, that involves spending some money (I have no doubts that others can do so without money too).

Thanks for that list. I guess I haven't run into any of these more "complex" issues yet developing the relatively low scale sites I've been working on. Hopefully some day, the Django ORM would become too much of a time sink for me to consider SA, but in the meantime, I'm gonna be sticking with it just 'cause I find it easier/more intuitive to use :).

> 3. It's waaayyyy more flexible - I can't praise SQLAlchemy enough, it's freaking amazing!

I used SQLAlchemy breifly, but found myself drawn back to the Django ORM (even for non-web based projects) - can someone explain to me why they think SA is better than the Django ORM - I find the latter to be much better.

Is it just me, or does this seem a lot like what boxee does? Perhaps Google, with it's brand name will be finally able to push the web+tv concept into the mainstream.

I love cooking as well - it's the cleanup after that keeps me from doing it more often - I hate doing the dishes.

Building a new OS can come later (if ever) - they first need to build decent websites for the houses of Parliaments - see http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/memberdebate14.aspx?mps... (JS Pagination hurts my sensibilities - as does the more than occasional broken HTML).

I've written scrapers to gather data from these sites for my website, and besides dealing with the above mentioned issues, I have to constantly beware of not overloading their servers - as an example, simply fetching the next page for each MP listed in http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Alphabaticallist.aspx without a timeout crashes their servers :(.

I've been using the Google Chart Tools (http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/index.html) and have been pretty happy with it. Haven't used it on a major project though, so your mileage may vary.

I've recently started doing some investing (in both stocks and MF's) - in the Indian market. Over a 3 month period, I've had higher returns on my Growth MF's than on all the stocks I've bought.

I'm slowly starting to pull out of stocks and reinvesting that money into MF's - stocks take up too much time for it to be worth the effort.

In my experience, most people working in IT in India, still end up using IE, either out of ignorance (they are like most other users - don't care about the browser as long as the site works) or due to Enterprise Intranet sites.

I'm new to clojure - is this for Emacs or for the REPL you launch in a console?

Also, is there anything similar to IPython for the Clojure REPL? I've installed jline but it doesn't do the indentation bit.

I think that if you're generally respectful of the target websites - scraping them is ok. For example, I scrape various government websites for my website. I use a random delay between requests and am generally very careful about not requesting the same page multiple times (this is hard 'cause a lot of the pagination happening on these pages is via JS calls).

I am ok if someone decides to scrape my websites in a similar fashion - although if I do see that starting to happen, I'd rather just go ahead and build an API.