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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:32AM (#20084254)
Square (https://squareup.com) | Multiple Openings | Full-Time | Onsite, Visa | San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Melbourne AU

Software Engineer (Front End), Developer Platform San Francisco, CA https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999687141709 Come build Square's developer platform, where we succeed when our merchants and developers succeed

Engineering Manager (backend), Payment Acceptance Reliability Atlanta, GA https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999686815853 Help us reliably scale our payments platform while also leading agile development of important new products.

Android Engineer, Square for Retail New York, NY https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999688147624 Come be a part of a small team building the future of Retail! We need your help working towards launch on our new flagship Android platform.

Android Engineer, Square Ecommerce San Francisco, CA https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999688147624 Ecommerce team at Square has top-rated website and commerce store app in the Play Store (under the brand name Weebly). We need your skills and expertise to take it to the next level.

Senior AWS Security Engineer New York, NY or San Francisco, CA https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999689064518-seni... Square is moving hundreds of services from on-prem infrastructure to the cloud. Join a new team which will ensure this transition is secure!

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Re:Ask HN: Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice? on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:39PM (#13445405)
Stop reading these comments and get to work. You don't have time for both.

Ask HN: Should I be concerned about using company's computer for side projects?

I'm working on a few side projects with the intention of launching them as small businesses that will hopefully generate some cash flow. The long-term plan is to get enough of these (or as few as one doing well enough) that I can bootstrap a small operation, so that I can start my thing without having to take a serious drop in cashflow from quitting my job.My concern is whether it's safe to...

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To me, this means asking the following: when you do something, do you feel guilty after? Do you hate yourself for playing 5 hours of video games every night when you know you could be productive? That's a guilt-laden activity.
Re:JavaScript: The Right Way on Friday January 17, 2014 @12:55PM (#7077259)
If front-end MVC Is too much for a given use case, then Twitter's Flight.js[1] seems like a great way to keep jQuery well organized. It defines a way to write jQuery components that communicate via events, piggy-backing on the DOM's event propagation. Quite simple, and ideal for when a single-page-app (e.g. the kind you get with Backbone) isn't quite right for you.

[1] http://flightjs.github.io/

That sounds like a problem with your particular work environment, rather than a reason to not learn design

Ask HN: Is it okay to copy someone else's idea?

Sometimes I see a Show HN or product launch and think "wow, I'd love to do something like that", perhaps as simple as changing the target customer.Is it okay, for example, to take an idea aimed at developers and build something almost identical, but selling to designers? If it's pretty obvious the author of the original idea plans to expand in that direction, am I crossing the line by jumping...

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Re:Standing Out at Dev Bootcamp on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:01PM (#6561805)
This is somewhat minor, and a bit tangential to the article, but worth noting nonetheless.

The title on HN is misleading. Dev Bootcamp is a company whose name in the general sense is being used to refer to similar learn-to-code schools ("dev bootcamps"). This article refers to one of the latter, but does not identify as having to do with the Dev Bootcamp.

Re:Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:18PM (#6239501)
You have 10 reasons. Your numbered list has 7 twice.

Also, the reason is very simple: there's no money to be made in building a Hyperloop. There's a good reason Musk didn't (and won't) work on it.

Re:Building an Android To-Do List app using Parse on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:31PM (#6218939)
How often are (production) mobile apps using these types of BaaS providers rather than being custom-backed? Is this a tool mostly used for test/toy apps?
Re:The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:12AM (#5874452)
I'm surprised more public projects don't run as bounty-style "build x and get $1 million" type systems. Rather than picking who's going to do what (or worse, building all in-house), having many different small times competing for one pot seems like it might be a better way to get a good starting foundation. Or perhaps that's a crazy idea for something as big as this.
Re:Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google on Thursday May 16, 2013 @06:34PM (#5721628)
Yeah I got that feeling. I've used and like Angular, but can't figure out why I'd want to use this instead.
Re:Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google on Thursday May 16, 2013 @06:22PM (#5721564)
Can someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old and have no idea what any of it means? What will it help me do that I can't otherwise? What tech does it compare to, if any (direct competitors)?
Re:Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js on Friday March 15, 2013 @11:26AM (#5381074)
Agreed - came to comments to say the numbers aren't necessarily, and the navigation is unclear (though I just used keyboard arrow keys)
Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @02:08PM (#5363713)
Is the color not brown? Perhaps I need to calibrate my monitor
Re:Write Better with Draft on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @01:10PM (#5363183)
Would love to be able to try it out without having to sign up. Guest account?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013) on Friday March 01, 2013 @01:29PM (#5305990)
OUYA is hiring Android developers!

In case you're unaware, we're building a new gaming console that runs on Android. We're located in San Mateo.

http://www.ouya.tv/jobs/

Recently I discussed with colleagues why Ruby on Rails succeeded where no Python framework did. One hypothesis put forward was that there was 1 popular Ruby framework (Rails), but many popular Python frameworks.

I wonder if it will be the same for JavaScript front-end frameworks, with no one gaining the greatest mindshare.

Not necessarily make any claims about what's preferable (one framework to rule them all vs many competing options) - though I'm certainly curious about that as well for the front-end frameworks.

Re:Product Performances on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:06PM (#4760375)
What's most impressive to me in Penn & Teller's work is not just that they put in extraordinary amounts of time perfecting a trick (giving themselves a barrier to entry), but that they "ship". They don't let perfection get in the way of bringing a new trick out.

I agree with Dustin that caring is critical to creating well-designed products, but fear the desire for perfection getting in the way of releasing.

Ask HN: How do you keep the best talent?

I've seen a number of posts here and elsewhere on recruiting top developers, but it seems one of the great challenges of building a strong dev team is keeping talent.For anyone who is running a team (or has), what have you done to keep talent?For everyone else, what entices you to leave and what can be done to keep you on board?

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