TravelNest | Edinburgh, UK | Software Development Engineer | ONSITE, Full-time | https://travelnest.com
We are recruiting software engineers at all levels to help us on our mission of transforming the vacation rentals B2B market. We take culture very seriously, and are looking for people who:
* Understand that software is about solving customer problems as much as writing code
* Are happy to take risks and learn from failure
* Can deliver high impact in an agile and changing environment
* Act with kindness towards each other
As an engineer, you will be working in cross-functional teams, creatively solving problems with technology. You will build products while contributing to engineering best-practices and sharing knowledge across the function and business as a whole.
We use a lot of Python, all hosted in AWS and utilizing various AWS products for storage, messaging etc. We practice continuous delivery, commiting code straight into production with safety through automated tests and alerts. As engineers we take responsibility for testing, deploying and monitoring the services we build.
You don’t need experience in our exact stack, just a track record of delivering successful software and an eagerness to learn. You might specialize in one area such as front-end or back-end, but will be willing to work anywhere in the stack according to most impact on our goals.
If you're interested, fire me an email at mike@travelnest.com
This reminded me of Phil Roberts' excellent talk a couple of years ago at ScotlandJS: "Help, I'm stuck in an event loop". Well worth the 20 minute watch. https://vimeo.com/96425312
Hiring for Java, Python, Front-End, QA, Devops Engineers
The leading daily fantasy sports site in the US. We're growing rapidly, it's a fantastic company to work for - more information on the site. Oh, and you don't need to know anything about sports :-)
Some stats as of 11/2014
* Over 2.5M users
* 400+ servers
* 125k game entries per hour
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* 100k concurrent users
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Maybe I'm just showing my low IQ, but it takes me 20 or 30 seconds just to understand some of the problems. Maybe introduce difficulty levels? Currently, I can't ever solve a problem if it takes me more than 1 minute - I'd like to be able to get to an answer, even if it's then worth zero points (or even goes into negative points?).
I like the idea, but I can't play more than 2 or 3 rounds. Or maybe the game just isn't aimed for people like me...
FWIW, I have a high IQ and I didn't get very far either. Debugging code I've never seen before in less than 60 seconds isn't a skill I've needed to acquire.
I tried, I'm not a coder, submitted 2 of 3 solutions but just got "game over" back. Would be nice to see a solution, even better with explanation.
Definitely felt like I was being secretly profiled for a job. Also considered the possibility that if you're good they drop in some segments of code found automatically to have bugs and have you fix them for free ;0)
Dude, if you win it, the aliens come and take you away to hack in space. They've got some bugs that, if not solved, and quickly, could mean the end of galactic civilization.
That should be a good thing, understanding what you are about to fix should be most important. I don't think rushed fixes pan out too well in the real world.
Many reasons, but let me quote few people who actually declined the "honor":
"I get angry when I hear the word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised."
"An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station."
Quoting Michael Winner, a multimillionaire conservative, probably isn't your best line of argument :)
But seriously, these are both personal opinions, and the first one even seems to be working against your original assertion that the honour is meaningless.
All things considered, if you have an issue with the monarchy and the "aristocratic" government (not quite accurate, but there's a point there), that's completely valid. Rallying against an almost entirely unrelated honours system is way off-target, and I would imagine that abolishing it would do more harm than good.
I was asked - "why on earth shouldn't he accept the acknowledgement?" My reply is an attempt to provide a partial answer to that question, and is unrelated to the rest of the discussion. :)
I suppose one could argue that a club that has 'For God and The Empire' as its motto, and awards military-sounding titles, is about more than just getting recognition from society. Though perhaps it's not to be taken too seriously...
He did something to help promote computer science to people who could not afford a computer. Accepting OBE, on the other hand, is equal to becoming a member of a caste system. You either believe that all people deserve equal rights, or you don't.
The titles given are taken from the aristocratic system that's still alive and kicking in the GB. And while OBE does not give the recipient anything special besides titles, heraldic supports and order of precedence, one could argue that it's supporting the aristocratic system.
If you accept a title, be it sir or knight, or whatever else there is, you indirectly accept that the person with a higher title is above you, even if they did not earn that title with the hard work like you did, but simply by being born into a right family. You accept being a royal subject, , and you accept that the king or queen, are not your equals but your rulers.
In any modern society we have titles, and honors but they have to be earned.
President, general, senator is your equal, selected for their office based on the skills (I know that a staggering oversimplification, and a very naive point of view) not based on the birth right.
To say that this is "like receiving a Nobel Prize, or Medal of Honour(sic)" or the Victoria Cross is absurd. There are 1,946 MoH recipients (excluding civil war recipients when it was awarded under different conditions), 1,357 Victoria Cross recipients and 876 Nobel Laureates. In one year "more than a thousand people have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours."[1]
[^1]: With one thousand awardees this seems more like an Eagle Scout Badge or
The UK may have a class system (sadly, all capitalist societies do and must), but it does not have "castes". Knighthoods and other honours are merely titles.
Out of interest, what do you see as the link between classes and capitalism or are you equating social class with a level of income (or ownership of assets) - it's really much more complex than that in the UK due to the remarkable amount of historical baggage we have.
"This started to change in Europe with the rise of the middle class. Now we think of the middle class as people who are neither rich nor poor, but originally they were a distinct group. In a feudal society, there are just two classes: a warrior aristocracy, and the serfs who work their estates. The middle class were a new, third group who lived in towns and supported themselves by manufacturing and trade.
Starting in the tenth and eleventh centuries, petty nobles and former serfs banded together in towns that gradually became powerful enough to ignore the local feudal lords. [10] Like serfs, the middle class made a living largely by creating wealth. (In port cities like Genoa and Pisa, they also engaged in piracy.) But unlike serfs they had an incentive to create a lot of it. Any wealth a serf created belonged to his master. There was not much point in making more than you could hide. Whereas the independence of the townsmen allowed them to keep whatever wealth they created.
Once it became possible to get rich by creating wealth, society as a whole started to get richer very rapidly. Nearly everything we have was created by the middle class. Indeed, the other two classes have effectively disappeared in industrial societies, and their names been given to either end of the middle class. (In the original sense of the word, Bill Gates is middle class.)
But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich."
You can't change it - you can only be accepted into it.
So not only you have to do something extraordinary, someone from the caste needs to like what you did.
Or you could be born into it...
I think you're confused about what this honour actually is. Receiving an OBE doesn't imbue any extra rights or powers, it's literally just an award for doing something that helps others. That's specifically what it was created for.
You can't be born into it, and the system has traditionally honoured thousands of 'normal' people that have been nominated, usually by their peers, for doing work in their field or community.
As you can see, some of them are themselves honours recipients, and some are not.
In no sense is this a self-awarding organisation - and the only reason there are so many recipients on the committee is because honours are given out to just about everybody who has achieved anything of note.
@migstopheles I wasn't talking about being born into OBE, but about being born into British aristocracy. I admit that OBE is just a small part of the whole system of honors, but by using titles and heraldry it still helps to keep the caste system alive in the GB.
There is no caste system in the UK. There was a class system that is largley defunced, despite pretestations to the contrary. You aren't even British, so why do you care?
