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Ask HN: GitHub Copilot competitors and AI Coding Assistant round-up

Do you have experience using an AI Assistant for code creation? What has your experience been? I've been rolling Copilot out to our developers at a large organization, we currently have 6,000 of our 13,000 developers using it. I'm looking for others to research.Our findings with Copilot:* Folks who try it, overwhelmingly like it. Some curmudgeons refuse to use it* It sucks for very old...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:45PM (#9308377)
Front-End Software Engineer, Mozilla Foundation

Portland, Toronto, Vancouver. Remote or other Mozilla locations considered for the right candidate.

The Mozilla Foundation is looking for a great front-end developer and all-round good human being for a full-time position. We're looking for someone who can bring some expertise in modern front-end techniques, so experienced Web front-end engineers are preferred. That being said, anyone with experience working on user interfaces, with a passion for detail and a desire to better the world is encouraged to apply.

We're best known for creating Firefox which is used by half a billion users around the world. Our mission is even bigger than just the browser. We are proudly non-profit and our principles ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ ) guide our mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web.

You will focus on building Web software for a new generation of digital creators and webmakers, giving people the tools and skills they need to move from consuming the Web to actively making the Web. You'll work on software that's translated by an amazing global community into 110 different languages. You'll write software that will be used by people in their first experience of the Internet. Does that get you excited? Ready to css-transform the Web? -- Tell us about it.

http://mzl.la/be-a-mofo

Re:TogetherJS + Firebase on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:17PM (#6421340)
Cool hack, Anant!
Re:TogetherJS + Firebase on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:14PM (#6421332)
[TogetherJS Team Member Here] Our hope is for people to find easy, early success with TogetherJS. Hosting a service is still a relatively difficult thing to do, full of potential pitfalls and costs including SSL certs, etc. We want to steer first-time implementors down the simplest path. That being said, we're happy--no, ecstatic--for those who feel the need to host the hub themselves to do so.

Long term, we'd actually like to do away with the Hub server altogether, and rely instead on the WebRTC DataChannel API. Decentralizing this communication would bring countless benefits to the project, including lower hosting costs and much better end-user privacy implications.