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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013) on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:25AM (#6475912)
London, UK - Full-time

OnScroll is a rapidly growing startup in the online advertising space, solving the issue of ad viewability. Already working with a number of major UK publishers, we are growing fast and need to grow our tech stack with us.

Are you a full stack developer with a passion for building and managing large scale applications?

We use javascript in our full stack with Nodejs in the backend and a custom framework on the front-end with MongoDB for the database.

You are:

- Smart

- Able to breakdown and communicate complex ideas and problems clearly

- Driven by finding elegant solutions to solve business needs

- Wanting to tackle problems of scale and large data generation/aggregation

- Eager to learn something new to solve a problem you’ve not seen before

- Happy to get involved and dive in when things go turbo

Contact: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring October 2013 on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:20AM (#6475876)
OnScroll is a rapidly growing startup in the online advertising space, solving the issue of ad viewability. Already working with a number of major UK publishers, we are growing fast and need to grow our tech stack with us.

Are you a full stack developer with a passion for building and managing large scale applications?

We use javascript in our full stack with Nodejs in the backend and a custom framework on the front-end with MongoDB for the database.

You are: - Smart - Able to breakdown and communicate complex ideas and problems clearly - Driven by finding elegant solutions to solve business needs - Wanting to tackle problems of scale and large data generation/aggregation - Eager to learn something new to solve a problem you’ve not seen before - Happy to get involved and dive in when things go turbo

We're based in London, UK

[email protected]

Re:Dear Startups: stop begging investors and pitch your clients on Thursday March 07, 2013 @08:55AM (#5337542)
Heaven forbid we would actually have to get a job - imagine all the new buzzwords we would have to learn!
Re:Dear Startups: stop begging investors and pitch your clients on Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:19AM (#5336980)
I agree that business often need some kind of investment to help get started but it is not always the case.

It feels like the end game of any startup these days is to close a round of investment from a top-tier fund as if that creates a business in itself. That point is very much just the beginning and then the real work starts.

We need to get back to thinking of investment as an aid to building a sustainable business not the first step to a sale to {insert large tech firm here}

Ask HN: BrowserStack vs VMs - does it hold up?

Posted by cmaradcliffe on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @11:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

We need to start conducting more comprehensive browser compatibility but the idea and cost of setting up enough VMs/machines to do this properly is rather intimidating.Have people used BrowserStack (or a similar service)?Are they good enough?Thanks in advance

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Re:Basecamp Personal on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:36PM (#5098341)
Surely if you've been using a piece of software for 15 years that cost you $25 you would feel you've got your money's worth, no?

Ask HN: Are we second class Apple citizens now?

Posted by cmaradcliffe on Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Tim Cook recently gave an interview to Business Week (http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-freshman-year-the-apple-ceo-speaks) where he sis something that I've felt for a while but now seems explicit, Mac machines are an after thought, if at all"I mean, if you really look at it, we have four iPods. We have two main iPhones. We have two iPads, and we have a few Macs....

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