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Sevendays | Hybrid (UK, France or Netherlands) | Full-Time | https://sevendays.io

Sevendays is an international community of digital professionals working on cutting edge digital projects.

We are looking for a dynamic data engineer with a hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset. You will be working on both customer projects and exciting internal initiatives around data and AI/LLM agents.

We offer a chance to work on great projects with a competitive international package and a caring and supportive team.

Job page: https://sevendays.io/careers/data-engineer-europe/

Elon's reaction (quoted from Twitter):

"Congrats to Jeff Bezos and the BO team for achieving VTOL on their booster

It is, however, important to clear up the difference between "space" and "orbit", as described well by https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit."

Sunrise Calendar

They even seemed to be quite vocal about it: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/10/04/food-delivery...

Congrats Pierre, Jeremy and team!

One more hour to go - plenty of time for more questions for Dr. de Grey.

I agree for the most part. I guess the Airbnb landing page is an obvious counterexample. I'm confident that they A/B tested it to death. In that particular case the transitions are very subtle and don't detract from the CTA (even though it's in the middle of the carousel images). The images themselves serve the purpose of "showing, not telling" what the product is.

Thanks, fixed.

I agree that the way I work is definitely not for everyone, and I only accept projects where I am confident that the client sees eye to eye with me. It wouldn't work if I was the only developer working on the project. There are several other, more junior developers on the team who work more hours than I do.

The client is very happy with the arrangement because it ends up costing much less than if I was on the team full-time and he is sure that every day I work is a day where things actually move forward significantly. He rather gets frustrated when freelancers charge several days of work and little progress seems to occur. There is at least a perception of lesser waste of time/money when work is concentrated over a small period of time, and I would argue that there is less actual waste.

Well, my own startup is also making a little money, and I resort to a couple of life hacks to get extra income and reduce costs. I'll write another post about that soon.

If you're in it for the money, early stage startups are not the way to go as far as clients go. As I mentioned in the post I do it because I love startups and working on MVPs specifically. It also lets me get my mind off my own startup and see how others do things differently.

The use case is for marketplaces (and maybe crowdfunding sites). An escrow service is a means to increase trust for both the buyer and seller sides. Funds are paid up front but held in escrow until goods are effectively exchanged or services rendered.

I realize that it is a major feature and requires more than just code, but I'd love to see another major player in this space that isn't PayPal. Balanced Payments and MangoPay are great but they aren't household names (that customers are likely to recognize) like Stripe is fast becoming.

Hey pc, do you plan to add escrow to Stripe Checkout at some point?

Thanks for the insights. Apparently Accenture has been contracted to help out (or take over) the HealthCare.gov website:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230381970...

I'm wondering - how is this perceived within the current team? Are you relieved that you will be getting reinforcements, worried that another big contractor could contribute to the complexity, or even disturbed that they could get the credit for fixing the site after all the hard work you put in?

I used to work at Accenture, so I'm curious as to how this will turn out.

It's great to see new asynchronous NoSQL drivers popping up regularly now. I guess the Play framework team started something when they made ReactiveMongo.

One of the co-founders, Jan Koum, had 45% of the company at the time of the purchase, which makes him worth about 6.8 billion.

It's the current record for the acquisition of a venture-backed startup

Whatsapp raised another 50m from Sequoia after those initial 8m

MySMS is a similar service that also enables to send text messages via a desktop (web) application. I've been using it for a while. It can be a bit buggy though - not as polished as Whatsapp.

This is fascinating. To think I was trying to convince people that MySMS was better than Whatsapp...

Funny how we talks about his breakthrough in understanding video recording software at the end, after going on for several minutes about zombie drones, deauthentication et al.

Elon Musk: "If launch aborts, we will bring the rocket down for engine inspection, so probably a few days before next attempt"

I think you're on to something. Ratings on sites like Elance are broken. Clients feel compelled to give 5 star feedback to freelancers, sometimes just to get them off their back. This basically means that you can't look at a reputation score to tell you how good the freelancer actually is. I like the idea of a third-party anonymous person doing an audit. That person would need to have access to all the relevant files though, and have the right skills to judge the freelancer's work. Even the prospect of being audited could be a deterrent to the kind of behavior we saw in this case, which means that randomly auditing one out of every x gigs could be enough.

Full version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj4C9bydkX8

Complete with the intro from SpaceX employees. Is that Elon I hear at 10:41 saying 'CE is go' ? Assuming CE means chief executive...

BTW if you're interested, Martin Odersky and others will host a brand new Coursera class focusing on Reactive programming starting in November:

https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive

It doesn't say so explicitly in the course description, but I guess we will be using Play and Akka during assignments. If it's half as good as his introduction to Functional Programming in Scala, it will be a treat.

I agree with the above. As a Java and Scala programmer I've tried both and Play! 2 Scala is a joy to use if you're fond of idiomatic Scala and functional programmming.

I use Eclipse with the Scala IDE plugin and although I write all of my code in Scala, I do have a couple of dependencies to Java libraries (the interop works perfectly, but of course you should be careful when mixing immutable code with potential sources of mutability). The Intellij plugin is probably still the more stable of the two, but as mentioned by yareally the Scala IDE is the officially maintained one so you can expect new features to come to Eclipse before Intellij.

Also using Play at a start-up, but as a customer-facing web app. It's great for productivity - getting both compile- and runtime errors in the browser kind of means that you have the advantages of Scala/statically-typed languages combined with those of dynamically typed languages. If you're ready to go fully stateless and (mostly) asynchronous/non-blocking, this is the framework for you.

I agree that documentation is still lackluster. I would add that although I love the Scala templates, the support for html forms in Scala is a bit clunky. Also there are still a few too many changes requiring code refactoring on minor releases, but I accept those as a byproduct of quick iterations/improvements.

"If your memory is between two and four times the size of yer vessel, ye be screwed hahaharrrr..."

Epic.

Hopefully Google/Calico will align their efforts with those of the SENS Foundation. I suspect they will. Having recently hired another such visionary in Ray Kurzweil I'm sure they are aware of De Grey's body of work. In fact Aubrey De Grey may well be partly to thank for Calico's very existence.