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scanr··on Twitter CFO Anthony Noto Privately Analyzes Facebook
It is likely that mobile app install ads are far more lucrative than any other kinds of ads and they work particularly effectively on mobile.
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
London, England - Full Time - Dev Ops - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring dev ops engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using Ansible, Docker, AWS, Go, AngularJS, Javascript, and NodeJS to solve interesting problems at scale.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.

scanr··on Bidding farewell to Google Code
I find the consolidation in repository hosting surprising. It feels like it should be the kind of ecosystem that supports lots of competing repository hosting providers that cater to various niches. This may be because I quite like bitbucket.
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
London, England - Full Time - Intern - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring interns for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
London, England - Full Time - Intern - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring interns for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.

scanr··on Elon Musk AMA
You're right that it's unlikely that the current generation of mechanical 'robots' will be able to effectively take over.

We are looking a future where we'll have armed AI e.g.:

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/blog/the-pentagons-vision-...

That said, even without weapons, a Strong AI could probably just manipulate humans into self destructing. Given the amount of effort going into machine learning to convince humans to buy things, I suspect it won't be much of a stretch for a Strong AI to switch to more nefarious objectives.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co. Graduates welcome.

scanr··on Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
Awesome. Thank you.
scanr··on Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
Thanks, Steve. I was following the previous RFC but it got closed. Do you know if there is a new one for abstract / anonymous return types?

This was the previous one for abstract return types:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/105

scanr··on Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
Great to hear that folk are aware of this and that it's not considered a breaking change for a future release. Where is the best place to get updates on these kinds of features? I was following the github ticket until it closed and it wasn't clear where to go afterwards.
scanr··on Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
I really, really hope that abstract return types make it in or are not considered a breaking change for a future release:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26329231/returning-a-sim...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/105

scanr··on Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes
We have used sharding for managing time series data e.g. 1 shard per day. Is there a way this could work i.e. where the number of shards continually grows?
scanr··on Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps
The 2 examples in Docker Swarm were Redis and MySQL.

From the announcement: "Docker Swarm provides high-availability and failover. Docker Swarm continuously health-checks the Docker daemon’s hosts and, should one suffer an outage, automatically rebalances by moving and re-starting the Docker containers from the failed host to a new one.".

Does anyone know how they'll handle the data? Both Redis and MySQL have various ways to deal with high availability e.g. Redis Sentinel, MySQL master / slave or MySQL multi master with Galera.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co. Graduates welcome.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
London, England, UK - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring mobile engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're looking for mobile developers to help us build beautiful, intuitive and robust analytics and media buying tools for our customers.

You would be joining a small and talented team building applications using IOS, Android, AngularJS, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, go, Ansible, Docker and AWS.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.

scanr··on Node.js Best Practices
Related question, is there anywhere in the node 'request' docs that describes the structure of the 'response' object?
scanr··on Swift – Why Annoying Is Good
Might have got it from Java (either the Guava library or Java 8 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional....)
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)
London, England, UK - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring mobile and full stack engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're looking for mobile and full stack developers to help us build awesome analytics and media buying tools for our customers.

You would be joining a small and talented team building applications using IOS, Android, AngularJS, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, go, Ansible, Docker or AWS.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co. Graduates are welcome.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our office in Shoreditch, London.

We're using AngularJS, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, go, Ansible, Docker and AWS to solve interesting problems in social media.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co. Graduates welcome.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates welcome.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. 
      Or related experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of 
      Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, Scala, Java
      or Ruby
    * Would like to work with TypeScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, Python, Ansible and AWS
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates welcome.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. 
      Or related experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of 
      Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, Scala
      or Ruby
    * Would like to work with TypeScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, Python, Ansible and AWS
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9
It really depends on what you're optimising for. If you're aiming for being able to build features quickly / elegantly using higher level abstractions, these benchmarks may be less interesting.

If on the other hand, you're building an application where performance is key, it's useful to know how much overhead your framework is adding. We have a real time bidding application which falls into this category, so these benchmarks quite interesting to me.

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates welcome.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. 
      Or related experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of 
      Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, Scala
      or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, TypeScript, Scala and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework

If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates and interns are welcome.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. 
      Or related experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of 
      Scala, Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin
      or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, TypeScript, Scala and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
I'm using 12.04 LTS quite extensively. For folk in a similar situation, how long are you thinking of waiting before switching to 14.04 LTS?
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Brand Networks / Optimal (https://www.optimalsocial.com/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. 
      Or equivalent experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of Scala,
      Python, TypeScript, Java, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, TypeScript, Scala, and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Brand Networks / Optimal (https://www.optimalsocial.com/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics, dev ops and front end web applications.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field. Or related experience.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great 
      programmer in at least one of Scala, Python, Java, Clojure, Haskell, 
      F#, Kotlin or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, Scala and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.
scanr··on Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines
Interesting price points. According to Engadget they are from $500 all the way to $6000, although not all of them have been announced.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/valve-steam-machines-spec...

scanr··on Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs
Excellent prediction by Oculus:

> I have a feeling that soon SnappyLabs is going to have Apple knocking on their door with a very nice offer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138278

scanr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
London, England - Full Time - Local Only

Optim.al / Brand Networks (https://www.optimalsocial.com/) is hiring full stack and dev-ops engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics, data science and front end web applications.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Can demonstrate that you're a great 
      programmer in at least one of Scala, Python, Java, Clojure, Haskell, 
      F#, Kotlin or Ruby
    * Willing to work in Python, Scala and Java
    * Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie@optimalsocial.com.
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