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If this work is interesting, we're hiring on this team as well!

More specifically to this post, we are hiring an ML engineer to join this team- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/job/181319BR/Sr-Mac...

I'm the hiring manager and happy to answer any questions about the role. I just joined CNN after years at The Echo Nest/Spotify and we have some very exciting recsys work brewing.

We also have loads more jobs open in data intelligence, esp for product analysts- General CNN data intelligence job postings are here- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/search-results?keyw...

Spotify - ONSITE - NY and Boston

We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cultural and contextual data, and other signals across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. You will work with a team to come up with new and interesting hypotheses, test them, and scale them up to huge data sets with hundreds of billions of data points. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.

NY Machine Learning Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

NY Data Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

Boston Machine Learning Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

Boston Data Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

Spotify - ONSITE - NY and Boston

We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cultural and contextual data, and other signals across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. You will work with a team to come up with new and interesting hypotheses, test them, and scale them up to huge data sets with hundreds of billions of data points. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. Work with the teams behind Fresh Finds and Discover Weekly (http://www.fastcompany.com/3049231/tech-forecast/inside-spot...)!

NY Machine Learning Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

NY Data Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

Boston Machine Learning Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

Boston Data Engineer: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qV49VfwN...

One thing I don't see anyone in these comments taking into account- this is music that, for various sampling law / licensing reasons, they have never been able to sell or stream online. They seem to be giving it away because they've run out of options for getting it in the hands of their fans otherwise.

Thanks- that works!

Great article but I can't get his advice for using Sublime Text as the editor to work. \e will open a new file, but saving/quitting doesn't ever run the query.

I would add "practice what you preach" to this. Everyone hates the junior developer who says "ugh, this code sucks, it doesn't even have tests." Everyone loves the junior developer who says "ugh, that code didn't even have tests, so I found a seam and added some tests for the new method I added, here's how to run them."

Anecdotally, I have certainly found that although the cost in time may not vary as much as this table would indicate, the cost in stress ramps up even faster. Fixing a bug in production is usually a highly stressful endeavor for all involved. I would love to see a similar table phrased in terms of stress comparing different development methodologies currently in vogue (test and throw it over the wall, CI, automated pushes vs. manual pushes, etc.)

If you like this, you'll love Kate Ascher's The Works: Anatomy of a City (http://www.amazon.com/The-Works-Anatomy-Kate-Ascher/dp/01431...). It's slightly out of date (but much more up to date than the OP!).

And if you like that, you'll REALLY love Brian Hayes' Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (http://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Field-Guide-Industrial-...). It's porn for people who like to try to figure out what the random towers in a chemical plant do, or how the electrical station you just passed on the interstate works.

... for the first sale. But if TW doesn't have a monopoly, I doubt they'd get the second sale after that experience.

I really wish there was a transcript or video. The better the presentation, the less useful the slide deck is on its own.

I have also found screen sharing to be way too slow for remote pairing. A good bit of our development is in Visual Studio, though, and I haven't found a good way to remotely share an editor session other than screen share. For our Python/Ruby work I'll definitely try this out, though.

"I'm not young enough to know everything"

Having recently started mentoring/managing the first really junior engineer on our team (self-taught, <1 year programming experience), boy does this ring true. Luckily I'm of the temperament to find the "advanced beginner" stage of learning more funny than annoying.

I think it's possible to understand as little about your code when using loggers as when using debuggers, so I have a hard time agreeing with him there. I think his general point about having tools and knowing when to use them applies just as much to that as it does to language, so he contradicts himself.

The debate over corporate APIs is not new. That's not Dave's point. A lot of people are just starting to think of Twitter in the same light, though, and that is definitely new.

Excellent!

Love the idea, but my first thought was "man, I have to rate everything I've watched/read/played AGAIN???" I really wish there was better interchange/exchange of this sort of data, because it's sad that my first impression of your app is so quickly soured by that.

Looks like a good overview of Clojure and functional programming. Anyone have a review?

Razor, not Razer. Templates, not fancy gaming accessories.

SEEKING FREELANCER - (Remote) Web UI Designer/Engineer

We're looking for someone with solid HTML/JS chops and experience with designing UIs, esp. for customizing products. We're building a new customization system for www.frecklebox.com and we're looking for someone who can make it simple for users to navigate the available choices when customizing a product and viewing previews. Bonus points if you are familiar with .Net MVC templating (Razer) and/or Rails templating.

Send portfolio to bo at printhq dot com if interested.

I recently had to deal with this when shopping for a shipping system to replace our ugly old Filemaker plugin. "Call us for a quote", having to wait through two weeks of sales cycle to get an API doc that should've just been on the web site (the worse was the company that had a full wiki for their API, but only available to customers), features written in marketing-speak instead of displaying the real capability of the product, etc. These were good products being horribly sold.

Welcome to the world of JavaScript. This response is NaN.

I thought the last sentence of the NYT article was priceless- currently, the only way anyone is bringing D&D material to the table on an iPad is if they steal it, because Wizards still doesn't sell any core digital content (magazine articles and access to a rules website you can get for a monthly subscription, but no books)

Agreed- I've had days where there's been a fire I've had to put out at 8 AM, and I work in PJ's, no shower, etc- if I don't take a shower and change clothes when things calm down, I'm much less productive.

I think the best part of the article was the last paragraph. Sometimes a lack of productivity is a lack of motivation in disguise, and no amount of dressing up will help that.

Santa Clara, CA Progressive Solutions (www.printhq.com and www.frecklebox.com)

FULLTIME Software Engineer

We are solving hard problems in the worlds of manufacturing, e-commerce, and mass customization. Can you help? We need an on-site programmer (no telecommute) in Santa Clara, CA to work closely with our executive and customer service teams. Initial responsibilities would include supporting internal customers of our technology and helping partners integrate with our online ordering system. You'd report to the director of engineering (that's me!) and be employee #3 in our development group.

We are a fun and fast-moving company. We rely heavily on a mix of open source software and applications built on Microsoft's .Net platform, so if you enjoy integrating systems there will be lots of fun opportunities for you. Although we are a small company, we've got big ideas, and you'd get to be involved in some big projects like transforming our production workflow, implementing automated continuous testing, and transitioning to Agile development methodologies.

Initial projects you'd be working on include: * Assist customers in the use of our XML-based online ordering gateway- add new features, automate testing, update documentation, and troubleshoot * Develop extensions to our online document customization engine and e-commerce systems (C#, SQL Server) * Troubleshoot and improve our production management scripts (Python, Perl, MySQL)

What we're looking for: * Experience developing web applications with an object-oriented compiled language such as C# or Java and a framework such as ASP.Net or one of the Java frameworks (Struts, etc.). A little preference is given to people who already know Visual Studio, C#, etc. but good general coding skills are way more important to us than knowledge of a particular toolset.

* Experience with an interpreted scripting language such as Python, Ruby, or Perl

* Patience and excellent communication skills. You will often be in a troubleshooting role, and you will be helping stressed-out people who just want the software to work already.

Our company is growing fast, and the small size of our engineering team means you will get a lot of input as we grow. 10% time means you'll have a chance to work on personal projects that benefit the company or do the refactoring that's been bugging you for weeks. This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to join a team that is run like a start-up without the long hours and risk. Benefits include health care and participation in our company-wide Ownership Thinking profit sharing plan.

Check out our websites at printhq.com and frecklebox.com, and send resumes and cover letters to [email protected]. If you've got a github profile with public repositories or some cool scripts on gist, you'll be on the top of our stack.

This post demonstrated a sense of humility ("I probably don't know how to solve your problem") and empathy ("I recognize that your problem is not the same as my problem") that are often sorely lacking in the community of software geeks talking about software. Great stuff.

I have a set of these running along the back of my desk, and pointed towards the back wall:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50119351/

I pretty much leave them on 24/7. It's a nice amount of backlight for my monitor in the day and night. Unfortunately, my home office doesn't get much natural light so I'm thinking about getting a sun lamp as well for the day.

Isn't the job of a spokesperson to figure out how to effectively communicate the "valid points" of a movement so that people are not distracted by "the poor social graces" of their source? Stallman's ideas don't make him a poor spokesperson- his communication style does.

"iPod (etc.) was a design win and a business win, but Jobs just helped hire good people."

That's like saying the iPod developers just helped write code, or the iPod designers just helped design. Hiring good people is huge.

For a history of logical vs human decision making, see Spock v. Kirk