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Liftango | Graduate Software Engineer | AUD 70-80k | Remote (Australia)

We’re wanting to train up a graduate to help build our route optimisation software for our On-Demand transport technology.

Reach out here or email me for more details. A recent transcript of your academic record would be great.

I was reading your comments as a classic overly negative hn comment but then went straight to that website and wow, yep that's bad.

I can't tell if they're trying to sell me groundbreaking new brain scan technology or very dodgy supplements. Possibly one of the most vague product sites I've seen and there are a lot that come up on here.

I'm surprised this happens in tech so much. I feel I'm always very aware of people in the real world having no idea what I work on, so I always need to give background and context. I have noticed people in other industries haven't experienced that their whole life so often rattle off jargon that means nothing to me.

Looks like all the founders are US based, maybe it's a cultural thing.

What made the process work so well? What about the culture made it so there was that back and forth? I'm wanting to build this into my teams and keen to hear what's worked for others

He's quite a humble guy and would think it's too much, I imagine. Separately he talks about his work being a craft and specifically not an art form

I'm a long-ish time fan of Dave's. I've been following his work on and off for the past ~decade or so. I've bought a number of his prints and have visited his shop in Asakusa.

I've been thinking about this for some time now, but I think the key to a number of artists successes has been the ability to combine what you've laid out here. Long term dedication to the work & with expressing the passion for that work — through a popular medium.

Having watched Dave's streams on Twitch, it seems to me that he has been able to adapt to the medium as they've come along through his career. Originally he appeared on broadcasts on Canadian television, moving on to YouTube in more recent times, and now has been consistently streaming on Twitch for a couple of years.

In all his output, you can see so clearly how passionate he is about Japanese printmaking. It's incredibly infectious. Commenters on his stream take on and share that passion, especially in his show-and-tell sections where you wait to see him reveal, discuss, and get very excited about new prints he has purchased (usually off of Yahoo).

Having recently read Van Gogh's letters, I saw a similar thing. His popularity really stems from his sister in law, Johanna, making them available after his death. He exuded passion (to the extreme!) about art and was tenacious in expressing that to his Brother in letters. However, he also made a clear decision point in his life (At ~27/28 years old) that art was going to be his primary focus.

I think that dedication combined with sharing that passion with others is what really makes some artists stand out. Ideally, doing both while still alive so you don't have to depend on your brother the whole time!

I think that's what make's Dave special. He has certainly mastered this.

(I'm sure he would hate being compared to Van Gogh though, so I apologise to him for that)

Thanks for the reply! Sounds like your response to the parent — database connectors in other regions — will help resolve this. So we're happy to stick it out for now

In the exact same boat. Love retool and using it a lot for interfaces we want to whip up quickly, but the performance is terrible. We're just copping it at the moment since we don't have the time to invest in any other options!

Yeah it's their own language on top of c++ to help them with testing distributed systems with deterministic simulation.

Their talk from a while ago about it was something that really blew me away at the time [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

I agree with the sentiment you're getting at about nostalgia for the past sometimes ignores the homogeneity of the people using those systems and how that reduced complexity. I do think there's an argument there that needs to be explored further to identify what is actually simple and hard/complex in computing.

However, I think this point about how JB specifically would make one with any type of character is not the best direction for exploring that. He's made games and his own presentation software (Used in the presentation linked above) which is able to do that. I doubt he would classify that as one of the actually hard aspects of computing.

Agreed. I finished watching them at the start of this year and it's significantly helped me in using and making choices about databases. I've also since started implementing my own database for learning off the back of them. Couldn't be more grateful for those courses being public.

link if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/oeYBdghaIjc

It's a bit of a weird comment but I've had similar thoughts about what the Oxide Computer Company is doing could be a good use-case for Parler. They're doing some awesome stuff around providing software to help manage on-prem infrastructure. They also have a fantastic podcast [0]. I don't claim to know what Brain Cantrill (one of the founders of Oxide) thinks about Parler's situation or their content but from some of his talks you can tell he's an incredibly ethically conscious person, so the commenter above is likely assuming he's not a fan of Parler.

[0] https://oxide.computer/podcast/

Liftango | Newcastle, AU | Onsite or Remote (AU, NZ, UK) | Full Time

Liftango is an Australian based company that was founded on the core belief that shared mobility will play a vital role in the liveability and accessibility of our built environment.

Join this growing success story during a phase of high growth. You’ll be entrusted with crucial tasks and be taking the credit for your wins during our weekly shoutout with the whole company.

We're looking for engineers with experience from 3 - 5 years, who are looking to gain more experience in Full Stack development or who have an interest in designing and developing optimization algorithms and utilizing AWS infrastructure.

Tech Stack: Typescript, NodeJS, React, React Native, Java, Postgres, AWS

Contact: [email protected]

update: We've now filled the positions that were open

Yes I remember one of the most interesting examples I saw of this was with how actin and myosin gain motion in cells, there's enough stuff bashing around everywhere that the right chemical reactions cause them to take each step.

I've personally found that my self control is significantly influenced by the amount of sleep I get. The less sleep, or lower quality sleep I get, the worse self control I have. I also find that observing (through journalling on my day) and general mindfulness of the activities I do allows me to see how I'm behaving and understanding what things I'm doing (such as wasting time on HN) is stopping me from having the discipline I want. After observation I then identify and plan ways to avoid those behaviours in the future.