Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it
We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful and moving steadily toward IPO in a few years. We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for automation, and data / machine-learning engineers. Plus co-ops. There are roughly 60 engineering position we want to fill, nominally in downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. In fact, we've mostly been working from home world-wide, and turned our old North Toronto office into a data centre. We do have a building at King and Spadina for folks who prefer to have a desk (which includes me), but it's optional. This is the best job I've had since Sun Microsystems: come join me. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author. | some people and astonish the rest dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com<mailto:dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com> | -- Mark Twain davecb@spamcop.net<mailto:davecb@spamcop.net> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER : This telecommunication, including any and all attachments, contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited and is not a waiver of confidentiality. If you have received this telecommunication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic mail and delete the message from your inbox and deleted items folders. This telecommunication does not constitute an express or implied agreement to conduct transactions by electronic means, nor does it constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment or an acceptance of a contract offer. Contract terms contained in this telecommunication are subject to legal review and the completion of formal documentation and are not binding until same is confirmed in writing and has been signed by an authorized signatory.
Hi Dave, Just curious... Why was Go chosen? And, more importantly, what other languages were considered and rejected? On 11/27/21 2:05 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful and moving steadily toward IPO in a few years.
We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for automation, and data / machine-learning engineers. Plus co-ops.
There are roughly 60 engineering position we want to fill, nominally in downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. In fact, we've mostly been working from home world-wide, and turned our old North Toronto office into a data centre. We do have a building at King and Spadina for folks who prefer to have a desk (which includes me), but it's optional.
This is the best job I've had since /Sun Microsystems/: come join me.
--dave
-- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author. | some people and astonish the rest dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com | -- Mark Twain davecb@spamcop.net
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On 11/27/21 22:17, William Park via talk wrote:
Just curious... Why was Go chosen? And, more importantly, what other languages were considered and rejected?
We were looking for a compiled language that did parallelism without requiring a PhD in temporal logic. It replaces Perl, where we used lots of parallel instances of a rather large monolithic application. There are other language in use: Python for ML, Java for big data and some I've never heard of, but Go is the major one. Which is cool, as it's one of my favorites. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com | -- Mark Twain CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER : This telecommunication, including any and all attachments, contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited and is not a waiver of confidentiality. If you have received this telecommunication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic mail and delete the message from your inbox and deleted items folders. This telecommunication does not constitute an express or implied agreement to conduct transactions by electronic means, nor does it constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment or an acceptance of a contract offer. Contract terms contained in this telecommunication are subject to legal review and the completion of formal documentation and are not binding until same is confirmed in writing and has been signed by an authorized signatory.
Thanks. Perl -> Go is big jump. I'm currently dabbling in Dart, because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter. Go is next on my list. I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile. Looking for something better. On 11/28/21 10:20 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
On 11/27/21 22:17, William Park via talk wrote:
Just curious... Why was Go chosen? And, more importantly, what other languages were considered and rejected?
We were looking for a compiled language that did parallelism without requiring a PhD in temporal logic. It replaces Perl, where we used lots of parallel instances of a rather large monolithic application.
There are other language in use: Python for ML, Java for big data and some I've never heard of, but Go is the major one. Which is cool, as it's one of my favorites.
--dave
-- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com | -- Mark Twain
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:36 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Thanks. Perl -> Go is big jump. I'm currently dabbling in Dart, because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter. Go is next on my list. I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile. Looking for something better.
Curious - - - - what went sour with Python? TIA
Sorry for late reply. Back to office has been crazy busy... At the beginning, I liked Python's indented structure, OOP ability, etc. This was when I was the one doing the programming, test, bug fix, and support. Things didn't go well when I had to read/fix someone else's code, or my code went to someone else and came back to me. All the things I liked Python for, turned into all the things I disliked Python for. Main issue was, difficulty in debugging. What's in an object depends on the path it took. On 11/29/21 5:53 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:36 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
Thanks. Perl -> Go is big jump. I'm currently dabbling in Dart, because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter. Go is next on my list. I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile. Looking for something better.
Curious - - - - what went sour with Python?
TIA
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