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Comment · 13 years ago
Spreecast - San Francisco - H1B Welcome - iOS Team Lead and iOS Engineers
Spreecast is the social video platform that connects people through video conversation. Our partners include ESPN, LinkedIn, VH1, Extra, CBC, and others. Our CEO previously started and sold StubHub. Our mission is to connect people through conversation. We believe that people obtain a deeper understanding of each other and a more emotional connection when they interact face-to-face.
Our upcoming app sends and receives video and audio in real time. We use lots of custom code since the iOS SDK does not support real time video. We're looking for engineers to join the iOS team. We're also looking for an iOS Team Lead.
We're always interested in generalist engineers as well, even though we don't have a job ad out. So if you're really good, send me an email ([email protected])
More info at http://about.spreecast.com/jobs/
Comment · 14 years ago
New York, Fulltime, Spreecast Mobile Engineer
We are bringing Spreecast, a live video platform, to mobile and are growing a team of engineers in New York City. We’re looking for generalist engineers to join our mobile team.
We work primarily in iOS and Android and we use a variety of custom video components. We really like full stack engineers and encourage people to learn new skill sets – our best engineers are comfortable with modifying code on our Wowza, FMS, Ruby on Rails, and Java servers. You can try our website at www.spreecast.com to see the experience we are bringing to mobile apps.
We’re most interested in excellent engineers, regardless of which current language/toolset you’re currently using. We believe that excellent engineers can quickly accomplish great things in a language that they don’t already know. So if you’re a longtime C++ engineer that wants to get involved with mobile development, be sure to contact us. Engineers with experience in Android and iOS should definitely apply.
Fun Stuff
Choose your own engineering setup. For instance I’m writing this on a Retina Macbook Pro with two external monitors and 16GB (!?!) of RAM.
We’re expanding our office in NYC to include a full time studio for celebrities to use to create Spreecasts.
Our headquarters are in San Francisco so you’ll get to take trips to the Bay Area.
About Us
We are well funded, have been in beta for 9 months, and have offices in NYC and San Francisco. One of our cofounders, Jeff Fluhr, previously started StubHub and sold it to eBay.
Please contact [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
NYC & San Francisco - Full Time
Spreecast, http://www.spreecast.com
Remote and contract possible for iOS and Android engineers
Spreecast is a social video platform. Many celebrities use it as a way to talk with their fans. Other people talk about sports, politics, or whatever excites them. We are well funded, have a team of 20, and have offices in New York and San Francisco. One of the cofounders previously started StubHub and sold it to eBay.
We are bringing Spreecast to mobile and are growing a team of engineers in NYC (iOS and Android). We are always looking for engineers on our web and infrastructure teams in San Francisco.
We're most interested in excellent engineers, regardless of which current language/toolset they're currently using. We believe that excellent engineers can quickly accomplish great things in a language that they don't already know.
If interested, please send your resume plus links to apps/websites/projects you have built to [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
NYC and San Francisco
Spreecast, http://www.spreecast.com
Spreecast is a way to bring people together online, face to face, for conversations on topics they care about. For instance, two weeks ago we had a star from the TV show Glee talking with fans from Italy, Brazil, the UK, and the US. We are well funded, have a team of 20, and have offices in New York and San Francisco. One of the cofounders previously started StubHub and sold it to eBay.
We are bringing Spreecast to mobile and are growing a team of engineers in NYC. We are always looking for engineers on our web and infrastructure teams in San Francisco.
We're most interested in excellent engineers, regardless of which current language/toolset they're currently using. We believe that excellent engineers can quickly accomplish great things in a language that they don't already know.
If interested, please send your resume plus links to apps/websites/projects you have built to [email protected]
Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. In your screenshot it looks like the font didn't load and thus the layout goes crazy. Perhaps is the Google fonts server blocked? I ask since I test on FireFox on both my mac and PC and can recreate this when the fonts don't load or when NoScript blocks them.
Comment · 16 years ago
HN,
I put my new creation up this morning and now it's on the front of ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/12/addeddomainscom---....
Thanks to the magic of Heroku I'm now running 11 dynos and serving up to 100 requests per second. Beyond the awesome scalability, Heroku is fast! It turns around requests generally in under 100ms with max 150ms.
Things I learned:
Instant search is hard to scale. A normal user can type 5 characters per second and each character is a full round trip to the server.
Sinatra is fast. This is my first time using it for a live site and I've been very happy with this.
Google has nice fonts on their servers: http://code.google.com/webfonts The font I chose seems to work with nearly all browsers and since Google is serving the font file off their servers, it loads very quickly.
I'd appreciate any feedback that you all have. The site is so in flux that I put it live at midnight last night and then rewrote half the javascript in the early morning hours.
Thank you,
Robert
Comment · 16 years ago
Until the Advanced functionality is rolled out publicly, does anyone have suggestions for logging all requests to something like S3? I was going to write my own this afternoon since I couldn't find anything.
I see the market currently providing two options, neither of which encompass my use case.
1) Exception Logging via existing Heroku addons like Exceptional
2) Tracking via javascript, e.g. Google Analytics
The problem I'm experiencing is that I have successful ajax calls to a Sinatra app that I'd like to log. Running 'heroku logs' will give me the last couple hundred but I'm generating many thousands. The new new Heroku logging functionality will expand that tail to showing me a few thousand queries across my dynos but as I understand it, it won't write out to S3 (nor a file since Heroku is write-only).
I planned on writing a custom logger that will output to S3. If anyone has suggestions in lieu of rolling my own, please advise. Otherwise I can post the code I create on github for others in my situation.
Comment · 16 years ago
Las Vegas dominates the fundings but the Reno area has a very large number as well. The state looks split in two!
See below for detailed Google maps version http://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params...
Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks, ssskai. That article was helpful to me as the writer did a good job of describing the study and the relative merits of the different states.
I'm learning that creating the writing to describe a visualization is often as hard as creating the visualization itself.
Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks, Paul. I'm doing some of that as well by geocoding all the filings. For instance, here are the most recent filings from California, geocoded down to the exact address:
http://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params...
Comment · 16 years ago
HN,
I created this analysis to get another view of entrepreneurial activity in the US.
On a tech note, these graphs were created with Protovis, a JS toolkit discussed recently here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808334 Since Protovis and IE don't yet work well together (IE9 may change that), the page degrades for IE users to show PNGs instead of the JS SVGs.
The inspiration for this visualization came from the Stanford Visualization Group's choropleth here: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html
I would appreciate comments and feedback! Thank you.