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Centro | Application, Data, QA Engineering roles | Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco | ONSITE, Full-Time | http://centro.net

We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and convoluted digital advertising landscape. Our engineering teams across North America work closely with product managers, designers, and testers, creating well-crafted solutions to the complex problems of our industry. Our sales team is rapidly growing our client roster. As an engineering organization, we are aggressively optimizing to reach this scale, while at the same time building industry-leading features that will land even larger clients.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS

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I've recorded all kinds of music in Ableton. The main thing you have to cope with is Ableton expects you to work with a constant tempo on a grid, although it doesn't force you to in any way. It's very easy to just record straight into it like any other multitrack DAW and turn off all the grids and quantization.

I'm still a fan of Logic Pro and will most likely buy the upgrade. My workflow gravitates towards Ableton for grid-based compositions (I do a lot of electronic music) and Logic for anything where I'm recording "real" instruments like guitar and vocals, because of Logic's great comping workflow.

:D http://rubyfiddle.com/riddles/ab901

I don't think they _should_, I just think they _will_. Really, what international megachain wants people doing "social experiments" with their customer-loyalty infrastructure?

And Starbucks shuts this down in 5... 4... 3... 2...

It's not actually that there are more artists, it's that the Apple bazaar has attracted customers who are willing to pay money for the art.

In other news, Wal-Mart stocks a lot more clothes than Armani Exchange.

He didn't raise a stink about Twitter trying to monetize, he raised a stink about them making a well-designed app ugly and less relevant to its users.

I would have preferred a list with more editorial input than "listed in the order received." As a math novice, I'd be much more interested to learn what Salman Khan's favorite math book is than Joe First-Post's.

My employer paid for a branding agency and wound up throwing away most of their names and settling on a name we came up with ourselves. They did give us one good name that I wound up using for a logging tool two years later, so it wasn't a total waste.

I'm of the opinion that if you don't have creative enough people on your team to come up with a good name you probably have bigger problems than the lack of a creative name.

If your product is killer I don't think it matters what your domain name is. People are going to get the word out.

Look at "blekko" for crying out loud.

My favorite sentence: "I manage to form relatively brilliant sentences compared to my peers."

I bet your peers absolutely love working with you.

Back in the day (around the turn of the century) I worked for a startup building a web application using Common Lisp. We used a framework called IMHO, which was developed in-house by a couple of the lead developers. IMHO seems to have been deprecated, per http://www.cliki.net/IMHO and the source code is nowhere to be found. I am still in touch with the authors, so maybe I can encourage them to make it more available.

Using Lisp for a web dev platform was pretty nice. I was a support engineer in those days and I always found it useful to be able to pull up a console and inspect the actual running sessions to debug problems in production.

Is that the app that lets you watch them send your password to the Russian spam factory in real time?

I'll try this as soon as somebody proves to me it doesn't immediately send my GMail password to a Russian spam factory.

Web Application Engineers, IxD, Support, QA - Chicago/San Francisco, USA

Centro is writing web apps in Ruby and Javascript with the intent of overthrowing the tyranny of Excel and Fax machines in digital media planning.

We are looking for developers, support staff, QA and interaction designers to join our team in Chicago. We will consider highly qualified remote candidates as well.

We're also working on starting a team at our sales office in San Francisco. If you're a Ruby expert with experience putting together teams in SF, please hit us up.

Buzzword bingo and further information is on our GitHub job post at http://jobs.github.com/positions/4463ed90-a175-11df-9567-22d... or hit me up at josh.davison @ [name of our company, above] .net if you have questions.

Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA

Centro LLC (http://centro.net) is looking for Ruby and JavaScript experts, product development folks and testers.

We are building a SproutCore-in-the-front/Ruby-in-the-back web application for streamlining digital media placement on both the agency and publisher side. To see a cheesy product demo with sexy voiceover, please visit http://transis.com.

We have a small team of developers working out of Chicago and we're looking to expand into the Bay Area as well. We are a very fun company to work for, and were listed by Crain's as one of the best places to work in Chicago.

We hire people with demonstrated zeal for writing excellent code. If you've got something awesome up on GitHub we'd love to have a look. Please check out our careers page at http://www.centro.net/careers/were-hiring and drop us a line.