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Is your team's primary communication channel email? How do you get it right?

Email is an asynchronous form of communication. As such, it takes more work on both the sending and receiving ends to get right. Unlike an IRL conversation an email needs to be well structured. Depending on the email it might need to be partway between an expository article and an argumentative essay, whilst not being tooooo long to read quickly all while clearly outlining next-steps and/or...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @08:09PM (#11207480)
Mobile Software Dev. | Remote | Full time, US Only

https://www.newstartmobile.com/careers/dev/

As a software developer with New Start Mobile you will design, develop, and maintain a variety of enterprise-level apps and services for some of the world's largest sporting authorities.

Responsibilities

* Work with our development team to build native mobile apps for a wide variety of users, across many different sectors

* Steward an app from a spec document to a working product

* Maintain and troubleshoot our pre-existing mobile apps

* Communicate effectively and take direction from team members to ensure our high standard of work

* Work efficiently and transparently to meet deadlines

Qualifications

* B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

* Experience with iOS and/or Android application development

* Experience with multi-threaded environments

* Experience with automated testing is a plus

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Proficiency in one or more of the following languages (Objective C, Java, Swift)

* Solid understanding of data structures, and how to interact with APIs

* Ability to work collaboratively with product owners, project managers, and designers

* Ability to solve problems on your own

* Interest in working remotely

* Self-motivated worker, able to work with a team

* Experience with Apple’s design standards and/or Google’s material design standards

* Experience with version control (Git)

* Experience working with databases and data infrastructure

* Familiarity with server-side Java is a plus

If interested, visit https://www.newstartmobile.com/careers/dev/ or email [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:04AM (#10822186)
New Start Mobile | Software Developer | Remote/Maine/Philadelphia

As a software developer with New Start Mobile you will design, develop, and maintain a variety of enterprise-level apps and services.

New Start Mobile has been creating industry-defining software for many of the the United States' largest sporting authorities and governing bodies since 2010. We design, build, and maintain a variety of official coaching and education products with 20+ years of industry expertise. We’re based in Philadelphia, PA, and most of our team works remotely from Maine.

http://www.newstartmobile.com/careers/dev/

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else want a better OS X Mail client? on Friday August 21, 2015 @12:05AM (#10095912)
I used Mutt for two years or so...then mailbox app came along. Then it updated yesterday. Now I'm back to using Mutt.

Ask HN: I'm looking for new ways to serve museum visitors with content

I work at a small museum, and we're currently looking for new ways to serve our visitors with extra content. In the past we've used QR codes that link to webpages. These webpages receive more traffic from google searches than they do from QR redirects, however. I'm curious if anyone has experience with serving up auxiliary content using iBeacons, local network homepage overrides, or something...

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Noting that a myth can be enjoyed in and of itself, while a compressed file is really rather boring until it is uncompressed, I think you've hit on something I didn't think of at all. Thank you.

I'm wondering now if a more apt word would have been "encoding," rather than compression?