jslatts's comments

If these are truly unintentional touches, as in, you were not touching the bar at all and it registered a key press, then you probably have a hardware issue. I just replaced a machine that would self press the touch bar on the right side when putting any sort of pressure (like resting your palms) to the right of the track pad.

I never considered that euphoric feeling during exercise to be the "runners high". I always thought it was the euphoric and satisfied feeling I have _after_ exercise that is the high. I pretty much always feel great afterwards unless I really over exerted myself.

MLS Digital is hiring developers, operations developers, and UX designers at all levels.

My team manages the development and operations for web, mobile web, and APIs across the entire league (20 sites) and the products we build are used by millions. We are very forward thinking for a sports league. Our CMS is built on Drupal and our matchcenter and APIs run on Node.js, and we are constantly evaluating new tools and technology.

Specific job descriptions are here: http://www.mlssoccer.com/jobs/opportunities, but the bottom line is that we are looking for people who are passionate about software and soccer. If this is you (even if the job descriptions don't match exactly) we would love to hear from you!

Drop me a line! justin dot slattery at mlssoccer.com or @jdslatts on twitter.

We are Major League Soccer Digital, headquartered in NYC. We are a small team of developers who build and maintain Major League Soccer’s web, mobile-web, and content services. Most of our existing platform is built on a Drupal/PHP/MySQL stack, though we are investing heavily in Node.js, Redis, and Couchbase for our new products. We are not language snobs. We are hackers and doers. We are dedicated full stack developers who believe in using the right tools to create amazing experiences for our fans.

We have "official" job descriptions below, but we are interested in anyone who has a passion for technology and sports and the technical chops to push our team forward, be that in Dev, Ops, or QA.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/jobs#sr_dev

and

http://www.mlssoccer.com/jobs#web_dev

If you are interested, email us at [email protected].

My problem is that I have the memory retention of a gnat. I learn quickly, then discard the information to make way for new stuff. Six years ago, I was a full time .NET programmer (for years!) and I can barely remember anything about .NET at the moment. This makes certain types of technical interviews difficult for me.

My team runs a moderately high traffic web site. Learning quickly, being flexible, and fiercely persistent matter much more to us than a deep understanding of computer science concepts. Now that I am in a position where I do the hiring, I try to accommodate people like us. Unconventional background, hate whiteboarding in public, terrible memory. Whatever. Can you produce something of value in a reasonable time frame? That is all we care about.

The way I hire people now days is to give them a simple challenge to do (at home, on their own time). Basically, take a small data set and display it on a web page. Depending on the level of interviewee, I will ask for more or less features (make it sortable, derive additional data points according to some algorithm you must devise).

The challenge has no time limit or rules. You can use your own resources and do it on your own pace. When it gets sent back to me, I evaluate the candidate based on the final product. I don't much care how they got there. If the product is good, we bring you in for an interview.

During the interview, I ask you to work on _your_ code. The code you provided to get the interview. Essentially, we pair program. Adding features, fixing bugs. Whatever seems the most fun.

If you show me that you can code on your own codebase, using your tools and process, and you are pleasant enough to work with side-by-side for several hours, you've got the job.

I know you said you don't want to move, but we are hiring developers here where I work in NYC. Drop me a line if you are interested jdslatts at fzysqr dot com.

Think about it. Now if you are Microsoft, you have to decide whether your vision is good or if you should "listen" to what the market is telling you and shift your strategy. Glad I don't have to make that decision.