About us:
BlueStacks (http://www.bluestacks.com), a privately held, venture funded, Silicon Valley startup with a brand name enjoying global recognition. You can play your favorite Android apps on your Windows PC, Mac or TV using the BlueStacks App Player. You can also bring your Android mobile experience to your home by linking your devices through our mobile apps. We are awestruck and feel humbled by the organic, grass roots adoption of our products worldwide, they have become a key driver for Android adoption since we started the company. It never ceases to amaze us when we meet people in everyday life, in every part of the world we have traveled to, who tell us, “Hey, I use BlueStacks every day! ”.
Our business is growing and we are looking for a few more smart people who can grow it and grow with it further. Ideally, you’ve got at least three years experience under your belt, are an agile individual who wants to work in a fast- paced environment, and an excellent portfolio of work to show for it.
email - careers at bluestacks dot com (Please mention "Hacker News")
Open Positions:
Front-end developer
• HTML.
• CSS/CSS3/CSS preprocessor Sass/Less.
• Responsive/adaptive design techniques.
• Object oriented JavaScript including jQuery.
• An ability to write well-structured, semantic, maintainable code.
• Experience building single page applications with technology such as
Backbone JS, Angular JS, Require JS.
• Excellent understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform issues.
• Ability to complete and juggle multiple projects whilst meeting strict
deadlines.
• SEO best practices.
• Experience with version control, GIT.
• Comfortable using the command line tools
• An understanding and practice of website optimization techniques.
I agree with him. It's usable, and easy to understand.
It doesn't follow the fads of our time, and thats fine. I struggle to understand why such a superficial demand is at the top of hacker news.
Asking every useful software project to hire designers so it fits the Apple Guidelines (yes I'm exaggerating) seems both unproductive and more likely to drive the programming endeavor further out of the apartments of inventive people and into VCistan
There's a place between hot as hell and cold as a witch's tit that we call Earth. Let's not forget that.
The interface is an unmitigated disaster from tip to toe. There's too much going on. It doesn't need to get hit with the iBooks stick to make it better; it just needs someone with half a clue to delete half the buttons, tabs, modals, windows, panes, lists, checkboxes, and other crap.
Put another way: Eclipse is not the program you want to base your design on.
I found I had the exact opposite experience. There were just so many options everywhere that when I tried to change a few settings or edit book tags, I quickly got lost. I'd like it to be cleaned up a bit and streamlined, not necessarily conform to Apple/Microsoft/Google design guidelines.
Would you mind if car companies switched the gas and break pedals whenever they felt like it. After all, gas pedal on the right is no harder than gas pedal on the left.
Except...the custom is already set.
Most users would rather ignore a program than relearn yet another arbitrary interface when the standard one is good enough.
I could care less what framework is used, and am fairly positively inclined toward Qt in general.
Some frameworks (GNOME in particular) lead to a shit-ton of user-hostile design decisions.
How you use the framework matters a lot. This is where Calibre needs a lot of love. The interface isn't intuitive (I've got v1.25 open now, and ... it's a mess).
Any community with more than 50 people will have a destructive element in it. It's gotten to the point where you have to analyze the abuse potential of anything you build before you release it. Very annoying.
About us: BlueStacks (http://www.bluestacks.com), a privately held, venture funded, Silicon Valley startup with a brand name enjoying global recognition. You can play your favorite Android apps on your Windows PC, Mac or TV using the BlueStacks App Player. You can also bring your Android mobile experience to your home by linking your devices through our mobile apps. We are awestruck and feel humbled by the organic, grass roots adoption of our products worldwide, they have become a key driver for Android adoption since we started the company. It never ceases to amaze us when we meet people in everyday life, in every part of the world we have traveled to, who tell us, “Hey, I use BlueStacks every day! ”.
Our business is growing and we are looking for a few more smart people who can grow it and grow with it further. Ideally, you’ve got at least three years experience under your belt, are an agile individual who wants to work in a fast- paced environment, and an excellent portfolio of work to show for it.
email - careers at bluestacks dot com (Please mention "Hacker News")
Open Positions:
Front-end developer
• HTML.
• CSS/CSS3/CSS preprocessor Sass/Less.
• Responsive/adaptive design techniques.
• Object oriented JavaScript including jQuery.
• An ability to write well-structured, semantic, maintainable code.
• Experience building single page applications with technology such as
Backbone JS, Angular JS, Require JS.
• Excellent understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform issues.
• Ability to complete and juggle multiple projects whilst meeting strict
deadlines.
• SEO best practices.
• Experience with version control, GIT.
• Comfortable using the command line tools
• An understanding and practice of website optimization techniques.
• 3 years of industry experience.
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