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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:09AM (#34983893)
Blinkist | Software Engineers (Backend, Web) | Germany / Spain / UK / Remote friendly | FULL-TIME | Office in Berlin, Germany | https://www.blinkist.com/jobs

Blinkist is a #1 book summary app in the world with more than 25M users.

We have several open Software Engineering positions:

– Backend Engineer for the Growth team

– Senior Backend Engineer for the Personalization team

– Staff/Lead Frontend Engineer for the Web team

About our stack. We build our frontend with Vue.js, Nuxt and Tailwind. Our backend is mostly Ruby on Rails. We use RabbitMQ as our event bus, we have Redshift and Snowflake for our data analysis, we run Datadog for monitoring. Everything lives in AWS, with our CI/CD pipeline we ship many times a day.

Ping me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/makaroni4/ or browser our jobs here: https://www.blinkist.com/jobs

Can't believe they shut down the whole department and your team, this project is lit!

I'm wondering how Apple will regulate server-driven UI, but that's the future.

Thanks a ton for the article!

Hi everyone, Anatoli is here, the author of SQL Habit.

Problem: SQL is a language of data but many resources out there teach it on examples that are far from reality of a modern Internet company.

Solution: SQL Habit teaches SQL from scratch with examples from a fictional Internet company. You'll start from 0 and learn about how data helps this fictional startup to solve day to day challenges in Product, Marketing or Business departments.

After 6 months of building and 600 commits on Github I'm really excited to share SQL Habit with HN! Looking forward to your feedback (+ it's Black Friday sale)!

Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:18PM (#15333197)
That's a very cool suggestion, added "Sandbox" mode (next to existing "Survival" one): https://makaroni4.github.io/guitar_bro/
Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:15PM (#15333174)
Thanks for a good feedback! Btw I've added Sandbox mode where one can practice without restarting the game every time. I hope Sandbox and lower BPM will make the flag a bit greener :)
Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:10PM (#15333135)
Here you go, I've added Sandbox and Survival mode you can choose from. Is "Survival" the right word to indicate that game has "health"? (I'm so far away from gaming haha)
Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:08PM (#15333110)
Sorry, my bad. I meant you can't set FFTSIZE higher than 2048 and we need at least 8192 to identify notes correctly (at least in Safari). Does Firefox allow higher FFTSIZE than the default?
Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:04AM (#15328545)
Thanks for the amazing feedback, when developing the game we were singing all the time! :)

Yep, I'll add sandbox mode today/tmrw!

Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:59AM (#15328531)
Yep, it works only in Chrome (it should show a note in non-chrome browser).

Problem is only Chrome allows tuning FFT precision now.

More details here: http://makaroni4.com/2017/07/10/guitar-bro/

Re:Guitar browser game with a real guitar on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:57AM (#15328527)
Amazing fail by me, there is a little blog post with some details and visualizations: http://makaroni4.com/2017/07/10/guitar-bro/