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Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:00PM (#43507022)
i support you hiring this person. seems like a match made in heaven
Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:04AM (#42908144)
that reminds me of the old doctor joke that if a guy comes in and says “i feel fine but my wife made me come”, you have to take it very seriously.
Re:Do AI Companies Work? on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:30PM (#41701095)
i think you hit the nail on the head
so cool congrats
Re:NumPy 2.0.0 on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:11PM (#40708127)
who's stopping you
Re:Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much? on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:39PM (#36343121)
if the navy is so good at building reactors, can't we just have them build some on land for us? start with military use first and expand outward from there? could be a much better use for enlisted forces, train more people to be engineers, etc.
the fact that for you, nothing works here and everything works in europe, points to a broad environmental factor - water, mold, air.
awesome
really interested in a solution in this space that involves top down animated avatars and proximity _text_, not voice, chatting - anyone seen such a thing?
this is incredible. do you know of any that involve top down animated characters and proximity _text_, not voice, chatting?
Re:Show HN: Cytoscape and Svelte Pandemicule Visualizer on Friday November 06, 2020 @10:27AM (#25008255)
I made this to make it easier to graph out how your close friends' behavior might effect your exposure risk to disease. with winter looking scary in a lot of places, I hope this might be helpful to anyone trying to plan out a safe + small friendgroup. super open to bug reports and suggestions. thanks!
Re:Show HN: SquadMap.app on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:23PM (#23781856)
open source graph viz tool built with svelte and cytoscape to map exposure risk of who you hang out with (especially for countries still in this mess...). I'm open to feedback!
want to chime in that this matches my experience doing something similar in B2B in django 10 years ago
Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:43PM (#22676756)
just gonna throw out there - in the time it'll take you to do that socket level debugging, you could probably port the whole app back to sql.
same here - using svelte in production and it rocks.
Re:User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:03PM (#20346846)
missed a good opportunity to clear the form on every validation error
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019) on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:47AM (#19807254)
Provi | Senior Integrations & ETL specialist | Remote or Onsite | salary market rate depending on experience | Chicago (or fully remote)

Provi (provi.com) is a platform to help bars and retailers order alcohol faster through the US 3-tier alcohol ordering system.

This role will have you working on our integrations app, managing ETL pipelines from 15+ (and growing) different data sources, mainly in ruby and various flavors of sql. We already have a robust monitoring system built, and because we've pulled this out of our main application codebase, working on it is a breeze.

Prior experience with remote work, and with this kind of etl work, is a must. If you want to join a fast-growing easy-going team, email [email protected]. No recruiters please! I do mark spam on unsolicited emails.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:33AM (#19554479)
Provi | Full-Stack engineer | Chicago, IL, USA ONSITE and REMOTE | https://provi.com

Small, nimble team at a successful and rapidly growing startup looking for A players to hack on multiple fronts in our b2b alcohol ordering app. Classic stack: postgres -> rails 5 -> rest api -> angular + react apps.

If you like to write tests and new features for a codebase with extremely high coverage and extremely low tech debt, at a company that's taking off as we speak with a friendly and talented team, this might be the place for you! email [email protected] and let's talk.

edit: please for the love of glorb no recruiters, and sorry no sponsorship right now.

I made a toy project with tone.js as well and found the same mobile performance issue - http://bloop.elialbert.com

is unusable in an iphone 10 and perfectly fine in chrome desktop. if anyone knows how to fix that I'd love to hear.

there's a fun kim stanley robinson book gaming out climate change (called 50 degrees below, or in that series anyway) where they dump a ton of extra salt in the ocean near there for that exact reason. In the book, iirc, it sorta stalls some bad stuff from happening but doesn't end up being that helpful long term.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:04PM (#18436367)
I guess it needs mentioning, please no recruiters / firms. we are looking to speak to a new full time employee.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:32AM (#18433555)
Provi | Senior Engineer (rails, react) | Chicago and/or REMOTE OK

http://provi.com - We help US bars and retailers order booze faster. We are a quickly growing startup working on a fun problem.

We offer competitive pay and benefits.

Looking for a self driven senior dev, ready to work on both backend integrations and lots of modern react frontend work. please reach out: eli [a t] provi [d o t] com

just switched from play to spotify a couple months ago, despite having hours of work to get things set up correctly. gotta say - so happy I did.

killer app tho was spotify's remote control functionality.

this assumes a basic level of intelligence that I really doubt we as a species possess. Don't you think the majority of red or blue tribe e-warriors would happily stake any amount of reputation on something they agree with, regardless of authenticity?
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:20PM (#17568999)
any idea where they get this info from?

imagine a more consumer-oriented extension that could list whether a given amazon product was likely to have commingled inventory or not - do you think this is possible?

Re:Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:12PM (#17357293)
Having high test coverage (especially in dynamic languages) has been industry standard for years. I haven't worked at a place that accepts poorly covered PRs in a very long time.

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