Used to live in Brunswick, now we're living in middle Georgia but my wife and I still love to fly our C182 down to grab some BBQ at Southern Soul (or cheesesteak at Skinny Pete's) every month or two. SSI is gorgeous and the airport is in a great location and staffed by some great folks.
best glide (converting altitude into the maximum distance) speed is quite a bit higher than the stall speed and found at the lift/drag max. minimum sink (converting altitude into the maximum time) is usually found about halfway between best glide speed and stall speed.
Audiomack (http://www.audiomack.com) is a fast-growing music sharing and discovery website. We are looking for a generalist engineer to work with us in a contracting role on a full-time (or nearly FT) basis. You would be welcome to work out of our SoHo NYC office, remotely, or some combination. We are looking for candidates who can contribute immediately to both backend and frontend projects.
Between destkop & mobile sites, embeds on other sites, plus iOS and Android apps we generally have 5-20k simultaneous users, 2-3 million streams per day, resulting in 30+ TB daily bandwidth use. We are looking for someone who is passionate about designing and implementing efficient systems that millions of users will interact with daily.
Skills & Requirements:
- excellent coding skills and proven track record of delivering value
- several years of experience with full-stack web development: backend, frontend, database
- (if working remotely) proven telecommuting skills: self-motivated, highly productive, maintains open lines of communication with the team
- able to make sense of existing code and seamlessly integrate new features without breaking current functionality
- good coding habits: writing tests, matching existing coding style, intelligent decision-making on when to refactor, etc.
Key Technologies:
- PHP / Zend Framework
- Redis / Redis Cluster
- The usual frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript + common libraries, AJAX)
- AWS (EC2, CloudFront, S3, etc)
- Git / Github
Bonus for candidates with experience in:
- music fingerprinting
- extensive HTML5 audio/video development
- soundmanager2 or some other audio API/framework
- redis clusters
- sysadmin-related tasks
If interested, please contact us: management at audiomack.
don't really know what the power requirements are for his device as it currently stands. generating enough power in space would probably weigh enough to make the effects of the current device they've built all but unnoticeable over a reasonable amount of time. if they can advance their modeling of the effect and figure out what effects efficiency they'd likely be able to design and launch a device that could deliver much more convincing results.
Watched the video, don't think they mentioned it... any idea how fast it is? They said it can fly for up to 5 days, but without knowing cruising speed it's hard to say how useful it could be for moving people and cargo around when there's other options.
regarding #1, I don't believe he's talking about someone who has chained together a bunch of jobs spending a year at each. Having "The same year of experience X times over" generally means you didn't grow as a developer from your experience because you were doing the same thing in the same way for a long time.
For example, if your job is cranking out CRUD apps or "online brochure" websites for various clients and you do it for 5 years, there's a good chance that while you're very good at those things now, it hasn't really gained you the same experience as if you'd been doing something a bit more demanding.
could easily knock multiple thousand bucks off of that by just reserving the ec2 servers you know you'll need, plus reserve the cloudfront bandwidth you know you'll need (for the amount of data served I believe you should be able to cut CF costs by at least half).
3 year heavy EC2 reservations pay for themselves in ~7 months, cloudfront reserved bandwidth is just a 12 month agreement so that costs nothing up front. You might want to experiment with some different instance types though, depending on your resource utilization. Personally I really like using the new c3.large instances for my web servers and anything else that needs more CPU than memory, proportionately. If the standard instances suit your needs better you still might want to move to the m3 class.
Aside from those two items it looks like you are sending out a considerable amount of stuff from EC2->internet (27 TB transfer out from US-East to internet). I'd recommend looking at whether you could set up a cloudfront distribution with your EC2 servers as its origin.
