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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:41PM (#37822227)
Thanks for pointing this out! I'll have this updated. We're remote within US timezones.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:18PM (#37759757)
feel free to have them reach out for feedback about why we passed on them, I offer that to anyone who asks. we have taken screens with new grads and folks with less than 2 years of professional experience from this job posting already so I assure you that line is accurate.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:26PM (#37743958)
Stealth Healthcare Startup (Seed lead by Sequoia, Series A lead by Khosla Ventures) | Full-Stack Engineer | Full-time | Remote

Our mission is to redefine care for the most vulnerable. The healthcare system is failing the underserved. It's a struggle to find care, to afford care, and to receive quality care. We are a company currently in stealth mode that is transforming the healthcare experience for low-income families through purpose-built, thoughtful technology.

We are a Series A startup and funded by world-class investors. We are led by a founder who grew up on Medicaid (public insurance) and personally knows the desperation of not being able to afford medically-necessary care.

Here, we believe that anything can be achieved through pure will, determination, and grit. We value builders with a similar mindset.

Our team is remote-first + we have an office in SF that serves as a hub for several team members.

Our stack is Python + Next.js React

Job description: https://healthcare-co.notion.site/healthcare-co/Senior-Full-...

Our JD is tagged as "senior" but we are happy to talk to folks who are earlier in their career as well.

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails. I am the hiring manager for this role, feel free to email me directly with your CV or questions: [email protected]

Re:Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:48PM (#33809102)
I think this is a really good idea. Just imagine being able to open source rulesets and cards and being able to load them into your deck on a moments notice, and your friends being able to do the same. I hope that you make this work, I would easily pay 200$ for a deck if there were a few games to choose from and a platform to build my own rulesets and cards and load them into the physical cards.
Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:23PM (#32917975)
The selective pressures of your model reward dishonesty (under promise over deliver / make estimates as high as possible to mitigate downside and reduce pressure). Why is that making your team better?
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers? on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:42AM (#31340647)
I try to cut it early to stop wasting time, especially if its a small company and you will likely be working with that person. I had to do this twice out of 5 companies I interviewed at from YC a couple years back.
Re:HashiCorp – S1 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:47PM (#29112908)
Happy to see this, congrats to Mitch!

<Void> lives on

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:31PM (#27357152)
Weav (YC W20) | Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote At Weav, we’re building a universal API for integrating with businesses’ commerce platforms (e.g. Stripe, Square, Amazon).

Weav makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to share commerce data with fintech companies and financial institutions. This enables these businesses to access new services and financial products that help them grow and succeed.

The company is currently fully remote and our development team is spread across the USA, Canada and Tel Aviv. We use Golang, Python, Docker, MySQL and AWS. We prefer candidates with 2+ years of industry experience.

We are looking for backend engineers who are interested in building a developer-centric product and are curious/excited about supporting the next generation of fintech. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of your work from development to testing to deployment.

We’re growing fast, join us!

Job description: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/33566 Website: https://www.weav.co

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails. Feel free to email me with questions [email protected]

It was bad faith of DHH to say that posting the pyramid was meant to compare the list of names to genocide. The good faith interpretation would make it extremely clear that the employee was comparing the list of names to the lowest rung in the pyramid AKA the farthest removed from genocide. That rung is simply called "biased attitudes" and includes a wide span of things, none of them remotely comparable to genocide and several of them could be used to accurately represent the list. Eg. "Fear of differences", "Stereotypes", "Justifying biases by seeking out like minded people"

I don't really understand how or why DHH would construe that as "you're comparing a list of company names to genocide"

Re:Why Lichess will always be free on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:04AM (#26915441)
This is completely constructed in your mind. If you tried this vs any woman rated 100 points higher than you or more, this would be a death sentence. It has nothing to do with gender.

Avoiding the objectively best move just means you're making inaccuracies and blunders, giving the game away for free. Nobody above 1200 rating is going to be "afraid of their position" that is not a thing. Below 1200 rating, there may be people like that due to inexperience, but it would be across both genders IF it existed at all which I'm completely unconvinced of.

Re:Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video] on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:18PM (#26847929)
a couple of nuances make the remaining 3% a bit more difficult to get, two that I noticed is that the bot is bad at holding sustain notes and also tends to make mistakes during long hammer-on sections because it hits two notes at the same time instead of realizing that they are individual notes.

the second one is probably easy to fix by spreading the notes out a bit (hyperspeed mode) but the first one is a bit more annoying to program, probably

Re:Monkey MindPong on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:29PM (#26746392)
This will change the world completely. I didn't anticipate seeing anything like this in my lifetime
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#26663254)
Weav (YC W20) | Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote

At Weav, we’re building a universal API for integrating with businesses’ commerce platforms (e.g. Stripe, Square, Amazon).

Weav makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to share commerce data with fintech companies and financial institutions. This enables these businesses to access new services and financial products that help them grow and succeed.

The company is currently fully remote and our development team is spread across the USA, Canada and Tel Aviv. We use Golang, Python, Docker, MySQL and AWS. We prefer candidates with 2+ years of industry experience.

We are looking for backend engineers who are interested in building a developer-centric product and are curious/excited about supporting the next generation of fintech. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of your work from development to testing to deployment.

We’re growing fast, join us!

Job description: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/33566 Website: https://www.weav.co

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails. Feel free to email me with questions [email protected]

If you ever want a very real anxiety attack drink half of a redline without any caffeine tolerance. If you want to die, drink an entire redline.

I tried it once in college and it blew my mind that something like that was available off the shelf.

Re:Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development? on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:49AM (#26576699)
yes! Jetbrains GoLand helps quite a bit with the more annoying parts of the language (GOPATH, remembering commands for tools, managing go modules, etc)

There are some small things about the language that can feel a little cumbersome (lack of generics for example) but largely happy with the language and the trade offs so far seem worth it.

> I can't meet my deadlines otherwise.

working for free to meet deadlines is more a problem with the deadline than it is with your working additional hours

Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:47PM (#26393259)
beautiful stuff, vocals are great and remind me a bit of young the giant's vocals, but over a totally different style of music. really enjoyed the listen!
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:42PM (#26393205)
some improvisation over looped chords on guitar I shared with some friends last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdpYQlC6kM
Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:14PM (#26381731)
I'm 1200 rating on chess.com and I lost the first game and won the second, the estimated rating of 1225 I've seen on other comments felt about accurate to me as well
Re:Diablo II: Resurrected on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:36PM (#26200058)
I'm excited for runewords :)
happy to see this on the front page, congrats colin and braden! I signed up for a dev account last month, definitely will be using this for projects in the future.

- stefan

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @12:59PM (#26016706)
HFTs were printing money throughout this entire ordeal due to volatility and inefficient trades
hmm this is odd, isn't this the same as one of the many full stack boilerplate open source repositories [0][1][2][3] except closed source and 25$?

[0]: https://github.com/crsandeep/simple-react-full-stack

[1]: https://github.com/icebob/vue-express-mongo-boilerplate

[2]: https://github.com/jeroenouw/AngularMaterialFirebase

[3]: https://github.com/ablestack/nestjs-bff

Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:28PM (#25855011)
I thought this might be the case as well but at least for CFCs the lifespan without replenishment from human pollution is only about 140 years. so "a bit" for this particular circumstance is not very long at all in the eyes of the universe
Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:25PM (#25854998)
I think that you might be right but it would be more conclusive as evidence than detecting just oxygen. CFCs are not something that occurs spontaneously in nature, so essentially if we did get a positive result it would be meaningful.

To your point getting strictly negative results would not necessarily mean anything one way or the other.

Re:How a startup can survive technical debt on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:29PM (#25623754)
Sounds like the opposite of my current situation, luckily I'll be moving on soon to hopefully something more similar to your company.
Re:How a startup can survive technical debt on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:30AM (#25619757)
but the sprint ends tomorrow and I'll get a bad performance review if my tickets fall over to the next sprint!!!

/s obviously but this is more real than it should be

Re:How a startup can survive technical debt on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:29AM (#25619750)
"If the company thinks strategically, then no need for something like a 20% schedule. You should be empowered to make these decisions yourself... You are the expert."

I fundamentally agree with this approach and there are companies that do as well. What is the term that encapsulates this sort of culture? Is there one?

If there is one, is there a reliable / repeatable way to determine during the interview phases if the company you're interviewing with is this type of culture?

Re:Why Jira Sucks on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:38PM (#25596261)
Generally as a senior dev part of your job description is to figure the details out. Not have them provided for you.

As a jr or early mid level you can expect to have the majority of the details ironed out and nicely laid out for you to work on, but someone at some point had to actually figure it out and put it in the ticket. Whether that is you or someone else likely depends on your level, the stage of the company, etc.

edit: anyone who is downvoting this, please leave a comment with where you disagree. i'm unsure if i'm being received negatively on content or on tone

Re:Why Jira Sucks on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:35PM (#25596241)
The original poster in the thread we're in:

"Fixing a bug or delivering a feature where you haven't documented the process ... is as good a running a web site nobody visits."

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