Katelyn

Defy Ventures - backend software engineer- NYC We’re a rapidly-growing startup solving a problem most people never think about.

At Defy, our mission is simple. We help formerly incarcerated men and women become legal entrepreneurs by taking them through a rigorous blended learning program.

At Defy, we believe men with criminal histories:

- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool - Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished entrepreneurs and salesmen - Share skills and talents with top business leaders

More here about the role here :http://defyventures.tumblr.com/lead-engineer

Defy Ventures - Fulltime, New York City

Lead Software Engineer

Defy Ventures is 'Y-combinator for men with criminal backgrounds.' We harnesses the natural talents of formerly incarcerated individuals, and transform their hustle toward the creation of profitable and legal business ventures.

You would build and scale a customized eLearning platform based on the rapidly growing Open edX platform (http://code.edx.org/)

You: Must be able to develop code front to back, with knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, Marko MySQL, MongoDB, some Ruby and NodeJS

You'll get: - Competitive Salary - Full medical - Unlimited vacation days - Paid Phone bill - Paid travel to conferences

Defy is an awesome team of incredibly smart individuals who love what we do and are making waves in the most underserved population in the United States. Come join us and make your work meaningful.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at [email protected] with the subject line "Hacker News- SE"

More info here: http://careers.defyuniversity.org/#careers

TaskRabbit has made a recent shift into a B2B play, too, as they've never been sustainable. They also made a shift in company size laying off several staff members.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358282

Order Placed! I'd be curious to know the the male/female tee style breakdown of the sales. Could the nice folks at teespring provide us with these stats?

You can also post your request here, which they monitor quite frequently http://pathtest.uservoice.com/forums/192337-feature-requests

Dude, have some compassion. It's upsetting that this is the top voted comment. Not everyone is as well-informed and knowledgeable about things like this as you are, and this first-hand account of her experience will likely help a lot of people experiencing similar issues.

>>Using drugs to gain an unfair advantage over other people at work has unhealthy emotional side effects? Am I to be suprised by this?

Your claim that this stimulant gives its users/abusers/misusers an "unfair advantage" over those who don't use it (ie you) not only contradicts your following statement (that it causes emotional side effects) but also tells me that perhaps you're angered or upset by this perceived 'unfair advantage' you see this drug giving your peers.

If you looked at the big picture, or her story, you'd see that the drug doesn't, in fact, give its abusers an unfair advantage. Whatever temporary 'gain' they are getting is unsustainable and clearly destructive both emotionally and physically.

I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it.

Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just stop complaining.

Also, their mobile website isn't fully functional or in some cases usable. I beta test it, and it's riddled with bugs and missing features. Frankly, a lot of services today are skipping mobile web all together, and focusing on driving app downloads to provide a richer experience.

Bottom line: Services valuable to end users are also running a businesses. We must learn to give and take.

Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone.

This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.

You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.

Email or tweet me if interested: [email protected] / http://twitter.com/kfriedson

Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone and iPad developments.

This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.

You'll be leading iOS development for Karoo (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/karoo/id544368641?mt=8), and for our flagship app, Care.com that isn't in market yet because you'll be helping us build it).

You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.

Email or tweet me if interested: [email protected] / http://twitter.com/kfriedson

More about the role: http://www.care.com/careers-p1089.html#SeniororPrincipalSoft...

Care.com (http://www.care.com) in Boston, MA.

We're looking for mobile UI designer to help grow our mobile application team from the ground up, and play a big role in designing and defining mobile web and mobile app experiences for our Karoo and care.com apps.

Ideal candidates will have strong portfolios of work that demonstrate beautiful and thoughtful product design and a passion for designing simple and intuitive mobile web and mobile application interfaces.

You'll also be working on an awesome team in a fast-paced, iterative and entrepreneurial environment. Email or tweet me if interested, my name is Katelyn: [email protected], http://twitter.com/kfriedson

I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..

Yup, all day.

Wikimedia Foundation's Senior Designer, Brandon Harris, had a lot of insightful, interesting feedback[1] regarding the 'redesign,' (of which I happen to agree with):

-It's completely impractical and does not take into account some of the most basic ideas that Wikipedia is and depends upon. I don't think it's very well thought out or researched, and serves mostly as a hypothetical portfolio piece for a design firm.

For example, the fact that Wikipedia is available in multiple languages is quite possibly its most important feature. The idea of burying language selection within an incomprehensible color band (that will only work on non-touch devices) boggles my mind.

- Many, many important principles are tossed away. Why do the designers change the meaning of the "history" button? Burying the revision history is counter to all things that wikis stand for.

- Research into the Foundation projects would tell you that storing a user's browsing history is against the privacy policy - so why include that?

- > "Sharing functions will be the same so no change is necessary" - except that there are no sharing functions.

- The most basic principle of product design is "Know the product," and these designers do not.

And finally,

This is to say nothing of the exercise in 'brand manipulation.' The most powerful brand that Wikipedia has is the wordmark itself ("wikipedia"), followed by the distinctive "W" logo (crossed "v" characters), followed by a single puzzle piece, followed by the puzzle globe. The brand rework here throws ALL of these things away and replaces them with a stylized "w" glyph that is almost but not quite exactly like the logo used by Wordpress."

But that's just my opinion"

"If you want to have an idea of what the Wikimedia Foundation is thinking with regards to the future of Wikipedia, you'd be better served by reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...

[1] Brandon full response to the design: http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Wikipedia-What-does-the-Wikip...