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Skillit | https://skillit.com/ | Full-time | Senior Ruby on Rails Developers | NYC or Remote

Skillit is on a mission to provide construction companies with the most efficient way to recruit and retain skilled labor.

We're creating the infrastructure for skilled trade hiring that enables fast, smooth and scalable construction recruitment globally. Our first product, Craft Recruiter™, provides construction companies access to a rapidly growing database of qualified workers and a suite of worker-first hiring tools that use rich datasets and powerful algorithms to generate better recruiting, employment and business outcomes.

We are currently hiring full stack Ruby on Rails developers.

Apply at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3577439383

A topic that rarely comes up when talking about remote work is where workers are in their career. I can’t imagine being at the start of my career and having to figure out, via Slack, who my mentors are going to be. Or how to get ad hoc advice from someone more senior without feeling like I was “bothering” them. I’ve been remote for the majority of my career now, but definitely got a lot out of in-person interactions when I was younger.

Skillit | https://skillit.com/ | Full-time | Senior Ruby on Rails Developers | Remote or NYC

Skillit’s mission is to build the world's best employment experience for the people who build our world. Our recruitment platform provides construction companies with access to a growing database of qualified skilled workers and a suite of worker-first hiring tools that use rich datasets and powerful algorithms to generate increasingly better recruiting outcomes for everyone. Trusted by thousands of the nation’s most skilled workers and top contractors, Skillit is quickly becoming the way the nation’s skilled trades get hired.

Our vision: by ending the skilled labor crisis we will empower humanity to build the physical infrastructure it needs to sustain economic growth and combat climate change.

We are currently hiring full stack Ruby on Rails developers.

Apply at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3577439383

Having no previous knowledge about this situation in SF, I found this article from last year was an interesting read: https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/san-francis...

"With both gaps, SFUSD evidenced greater inequities than state averages in 2015, and that relative underperformance worsened by 2019. The district’s anti-tracking public relations campaign, by focusing on metrics such as grades and course enrollments, diverts attention from the harsh reality that SFUSD is headed in the wrong direction on equity."

The one bug that I run into pretty much every day is the inability to CMD-V paste into the search box in a spreadsheet on OS X:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49853

Not sure about their financials, but they're pretty transparent overall. Some of their internal policies (linked from that support page) are in their git repo https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies and their list of services seems pretty clear: http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/

"Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus on what they do best: improving the software for the public good."

All of their projects: http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/

Alta Bicycle Share, Inc., Portland, OR or Remote http://www.altabicycleshare.com/

A little late to the party, but... Alta Bicycle Share is the operator of bicycle sharing systems across the country and internationally including Citi Bike (NYC), Divvy (Chicago), Capital Bikeshare (Washington, DC), Hubway (Boston), Bay Area Bike Share (SF Bay Area), CoGo (Columbus, OH), Bike Chattanooga, and Melbourne Bike Share (Melbourne, AU) and we are looking for a senior web developer to work with our team building software that supports our operations across the country.

Our team handles two distinct pieces of bike share operations: the customer-facing sites for each of our cities (like www.citibikenyc.com) and internal tools that help our staff with their work in the day-to-day running of a bike share system (like our rebalancers, mechanics, dispatch, etc). Our technology stack is mostly PHP right now, though at least one of our internal APIs is written in Ruby, and I'd be open to arguments for moving languages / stacks. Looking for a full-stack web developer, but really I'm just looking for someone who is excited about both software and bike share.

Apply at https://www.appone.com/MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=796552

True. Another take on it from an Ignite talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UrlKl8l1M

NYC, New York, NY - Full Time Developers, Devops

Indaba Music - http://www.indabamusic.com/ - gives musicians reasons and opportunities to make music. We launched in 2007 and over the past five years our community has grown to over 650,000 musicians from almost every country on earth. Our musicians compose, record, and remix music for fun and professional opportunities. We have created original songs for brands like Red Bull, Bacardi, and the NFL and have remixed music for Yo-Yo Ma, Linkin Park, Metric, T-Pain, Peter Gabriel, Snoop Dogg, and dozens of other incredible artists.

We're looking for developers who are passionate about music and believe that the music industry is more alive than ever.

  - We code Ruby
  - We code Javascript
  - We love AWS
  - We <3 New York

We believe in test coverage and giving our developers a fair amount of autonomy. We have a large code base and are happy to experiment with it for a better experience for our users and our developers. We're looking for ruby/js developers, devops, and really anyone who would like to help us build out our awesome engineering culture.

Email [email protected] or find out more on our jobs page (which is mostly a re-telling of this post):

http://www.indabamusic.com/about/jobs

New York, NY

Indaba Music - http://www.indabamusic.com/ - gives musicians reasons and opportunities to make music. We launched in 2007 and over the past five years our community has grown to over 650,000 musicians from almost every country on earth. Our musicians compose, record, and remix music for fun and professional opportunities. We have created original songs for brands like Red Bull, Bacardi, and the NFL and have remixed music for Yo-Yo Ma, Linkin Park, Metric, T-Pain, Peter Gabriel, Snoop Dogg, and dozens of other incredible artists.

We're looking for developers and web designers who are passionate about music and believe that the music industry is more alive than ever.

  - We code Ruby
  - We code Javascript
  - We love AWS
  - We <3 New York

We believe in test coverage and giving our developers a fair amount of autonomy. We have a large code base and are happy to experiment with it for a better experience for our users and our developers.

Email [email protected] or find out more on our jobs page (which is mostly a re-telling of this post):

http://www.indabamusic.com/about/jobs

While the media may do stories like this often, I feel like the question is often more along the lines of "how do we save all of the bits!?" and less about other, broader ways we can think about saving the information, as opposed to just saving the data.

For me, the more relevant part of this story was:

"By some estimates, that’s nearly 30 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever published. Even if we had perfectly stable storage, could we ever have enough to preserve everything? The short answer is no — but only because we’re trying to replicate the practices used for decades to maintain paper archives."

Though I've never used it, Loosecubes (http://loosecubes.com) is doing just this. Offices list their spare space (on a daily or monthly basis, for a fee or for free) and the types of people they're looking to work with, and people seeking office space can apply for those spots.

I did, and it seems that at least bit.ly data is uploaded daily, but your point still stands - 301works does not have anything close to 100% shortener coverage.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A301work...

Though interestingly, he doesn't really mention 301 redirects. Is the point that URLs shouldn't change, or that changing URLs shouldn't break the web (or a little of both)?

Considering that no URL shortener I know of will actually let you change the underlying URL it points to, unless the hosting service decides to change what the underlying URL actually points to (tsk tsk), the shortener is pretty much a canonical pointer to that data, despite the fact that the hash doesn't often give much information about the underlying data.

Also: see http://www.301works.org

I'll have to give a plug for my company Indaba Music here - http://indabamusic.com

Our site was pretty much designed exactly for this use case - the free account allows for private sessions, in-song commenting and in-session discussion.