Over a weekend, between board games and time with my kids, Claude and I built a distributed system with Byzantine fault tolerance, strong consistency and crash recovery under arbitrary failures. I described the behaviour I wanted in Allium, worked through the bugs conversationally and didn't write a line of implementation code.
I don't see why you need to bring your kids into this, and as a parent any suggestion of being distracted by tech during time with the kids raises my suspicions.
We have a strict no laptops and no phones rule when the kids are around (unless we're specifically doing something with them using those tools - looking at the weather forecast, or looking up some information).
"I can prompt AI while playing with the kids" is not a future I want.
They said "between", not "during"; I think the point was that they didn't spend a full weekend with Claude.
edit: anyone care to explain why this is a bad comment, rather than just downvoting? The GP comment says "Over a weekend, between board games and time with my kids,", and the parent comment lectures them based on an obvious strawman: "I can prompt AI while playing with the kids"
"between time with the kids" is another person's "during time with the kids".
For me, "between time with the kids" means my kids are engaged in another activity that does not require my input until they are done with it. Whatever I am doing during this time also is typically very interruptible, so I am ready to help the kids along to their next "thing" (the joys of being a parent!). On a typical weekend (my oldest is 7), I'll get maybe 2 hours of this time during the time my kids are awake.
That all makes sense, but I don't see how it supports your uncharitable read of the original comment. Both because they could very easily have meant something a bit different (we have no idea how old the kids are or whether they were even around all weekend; maybe there were times when they were at friends' houses or similar), and because vibe coding could be the interruptible activity they do while the kids are busy. Maybe you feel strongly that it's not a legitimate use of that kind of semi-downtime, but we don't know if that's what they were talking about in the first place.
"Hours spent on the project" would be a much more useful metric, with no confounding variables. As it is, the mere mention of interleaving time with your kids and time engrossed in tech hits a nerve at time when IMO too many parents are doing this already, and lends unwarranted validity to the idea.
Likely - Shoreditch, London, UK. Full Time & Contract.
Clojure + Hadoop + Cascalog + Clojurescript + Redshift + Lambda Architecture http://likely.co/
Founded in 2011, Likely is at the forefront of social media data collection and analysis having helped companies such as Coca-Cola and the British Government develop highly engaging, relevant presences online.
We analyse billions of social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand how people cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”, we have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with a brand’s content and understand what content will resonate most with them.
We're looking for:
Software Developers. We have a sophisticated Clojure data engine at the core of our business that has been built according to Lambda Architecture principles on top of AWS. This excellent foundation drives our data business, our client work and powers our products. We are looking for developers to join our talented team to help us reap the rewards of this architecture with further data-driven products as we scale our business.
A front-end focused Developer. We are looking to enhance our front end capability with an experienced front end developer. This is fantastic opportunity to develop responsive, highly visual applications which present our company's primary asset - our insights - to our customers. You will be working on our new products and will have the opportunity to develop and shape our front end capabilities from the ground up.
Both roles will be working closely with the CTO but will be given the responsibility and flexibility to design and build systems as part of a small, highly focused development team. In return we offer:
• A competitive basic salary
• 10% of time dedicated to hack-day projects
• An excellent working environment with ample opportunity for progression
• Open to flexible working
• 30 days holidays per year
• A company commitment to quality technology and external training
Please email henry@likely.co (yes, just .co!) or contact us through our website.
Founded in 2011, Likely is at the forefront of social media data collection and analysis having helped companies such as Coca-Cola and the British Government develop highly engaging, relevant presences online.
We analyse billions of social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand how people cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”, we have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with a brand’s content and understand what content will resonate most with them.
We're looking for:
Software Developers. We have a sophisticated Clojure data engine at the core of our business that has been built according to Lambda Architecture principles on top of AWS. This excellent foundation drives our data business, our client work and powers our products. We are looking for developers to join our talented team to help us reap the rewards of this architecture with further data-driven products as we scale our business.
A front-end focused Developer. We are looking to enhance our front end capability with an experienced front end developer. This is fantastic opportunity to develop responsive, highly visual applications which present our company's primary asset - our insights - to our customers. You will be working on our new products and will have the opportunity to develop and shape our front end capabilities from the ground up.
Both roles will be working closely with the CTO but will be given the responsibility and flexibility to design and build systems as part of a small, highly focused development team.
In return we offer:
• A competitive basic salary • 10% of time dedicated to hack-day projects • An excellent working environment with ample opportunity for progression • Open to flexible working • 30 days holidays per year • A company commitment to quality technology and external training
Please email henry@likely.co (yes, just .co!) or contact us through our website.
Founded in 2011, Likely is at the forefront of social media data collection and analysis having helped companies such as Coca-Cola and the British Government develop highly engaging, relevant presences online.
We analyse billions of social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand how people cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”, we have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with a brand’s content and understand what content will resonate most with them.
We're looking for:
Software Developers. We have a sophisticated Clojure data engine at the core of our business that has been built according to Lambda Architecture principles on top of AWS. This excellent foundation drives our data business, our client work and powers our products. We are looking for developers to join our talented team to help us reap the rewards of this architecture with further data-driven products as we scale our business.
A front-end focused Developer. We are looking to enhance our front end capability with an experienced front end developer. This is fantastic opportunity to develop responsive, highly visual applications which present our company's primary asset - our insights - to our customers. You will be working on our new products and will have the opportunity to develop and shape our front end capabilities from the ground up.
Both roles will be working closely with the CTO but will be given the responsibility and flexibility to design and build systems as part of a small, highly focused development team.
In return we offer:
• A competitive basic salary
• 10% of time dedicated to hack-day projects
• An excellent working environment with ample opportunity for progression
• Open to flexible working
• 30 days holidays per year
• A company commitment to quality technology and external training
Please email henry@likely.co (yes, just .co!) or contact us through our website.
Founded in 2011, Likely is already at the forefront of social media data collection and analysis having helped companies such as Coca-Cola and the British Government develop highly engaging, relevant presences online.
We analyse billions of social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand how people cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”, we have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with a brand’s content and understand what content will resonate most with them.
We're looking for:
Software Developers. You will be expected to write Clojure for the majority of your work, whether that is delivering web services to power our internal tools and external products, or writing code to query our Hadoop cluster through Cascalog.
Client-side Developers. Must have good working knowledge of CoffeeScript and a desire to write rich, visual, responsive applications which present our data to our customers. You will be working on our core products and will have the opportunity to develop and shape our front end capabilities.
Both roles will be working closely with the CTO but will be given the responsibility and flexibility to design and build systems as part of a small, highly focused development team.
In return we offer:
• A competitive basic salary
• 10% of time dedicated to hack-day projects
• An excellent working environment with ample opportunity for progression
• An openness to flexible working
• 30 days holidays per year
• A company commitment to quality technology and external training
Please email henry@likely.co or contact us through our website.
Likely, London UK, Full-time. (Clojure, Cascalog, Hadoop)
Likely use "big data" from social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to connect audiences with the things they will love.
We do this by helping brands better understand their customers, both existing and potential, by looking at their online behaviour. We've done this successfully for our own communities (@LDN and Handpicked London on Facebook are examples) but we also sell this expertise to clients who trust us to plan campaigns and analyse, acquire and engage authentic audiences on their behalf.
We analyse billions of data points on our Hadoop and HBase cluster using Cascalog (a Clojure DSL for the Cascading framework) and we've started to use Clojure for other projects too. Other languages we use or have used are Java, Ruby and Erlang in production and, Python and R behind the scenes.
This is a great opportunity to join a successful startup that is scaling quickly (there were 5 of us at the beginning of the year, we're now 12). We are looking for people who are excited by the challenges of working within a startup, who are hungry to learn new tools and ways of working, and who can take the initiative as we grow quickly over the coming months.
* Collaborate with a smart and motivated development team on cutting edge technologies
* Manage billions of data points in a distributed system
* Enjoy working in a fun and focused startup environment
* 10% time devoted to "hackday" projects
* Free food in the office, ordered weekly
* Conference passes, books from our large and expanding library
* See your efforts enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people daily
You'll be based in our light and airy London office a stone's throw from Old St reporting directly to the CTO. Part-time remote working can be accommodated. Please send applications to henry@likely.co
