tehwalrus
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Docker, Linux systems, Postgres/PostGIS. A little JS/React, C/C++. A long tail of other tech.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1awfB0pwyXaEtHTjqnTGxHvsbHmH...
Email: joe.jordan [at] cantab.net
Hiya, looking for my next opportunity. I've got a Physics PhD, and have worked on device drivers, GIS databases, GUIs and REST APIs over a long career. I've held the Senior Developer role the most, although I have worked as a Manager and a Developer Relations/Evangelist too.
I'm interested in writing code, but I don't mind a little of the other roles here and there. My main strengths are Python and Linux, where I've got quite a deep knowledge, and my communication (translating geek to human).
(it's possible a few nice ones were built here at there, but those are the exception - people here value houses and gardens, and nobody builds high rises with large floorspace.)
C.f. the fallout from the Grenfell Tower fire. Most of our tower blocks are like that, and all the flats are currently impossible to sell because they all have the wrong, dangerously flammable cladding on.
Lying in engineering means saying anything that's not true with any certainty. I wouldn't hold it against someone, but I would ask them to think carefully before speaking, to make sure what they said is true, as it can lead meetings to decide the wrong actions if nobody present happens to be able to contradict it.
Outside of engineering, all the same outcomes can occur, but proving the truth is much more difficult. And thus, while it may still technically be lying, it is impossible to tell and unfair to call someone on it.
The road markings were black and white stripes, which mean "cars must always stop for pedestrians crossing here" where I live (UK). The description above chimes with my experience. Who does have priority when the light is red but cars are still turning right?
In the end, I went back and had the nasty coffee in the university. It seemed to dangerous to try to cross.
Edit: this is different in different states? It was in North Carolina for reference.
(I now play 5e whenever I run a game, because I can get people to actually play it with me.)
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
Find us at PyCon UK this year (in a week and a half) in Cardiff. @tehwalrus will be going, and is especially interested in speaking to other Pythonistas who can test (i.e. Who are at home ordering -99 beers).
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
(These experiments are usually buried underground or similarly crazy in their location, so if they got something wrong about the setup/geology, e.g. If the rocks are slightly radioactive, that could skew the results like this in exactly this way.)
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out the recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
(Some of us use the dots to trick some sites into using a nonstandard email, rather like the username+netflix@gmail trick, so you can see who sold your email to the viagra trolls. Some sites reject + in emails, making the dots v handy.)
The searches had to do with real things as well as programming.
Your method seems impractical in the extreme in a commercial team environment.
I think Pico's layout is quite good in that hardware and software engineers share the same space, but it's separated from tech support (who are on the phone a lot) and marketing and the warehouse. Sometimes it gets noisy, but no more than any other open plan I've been in.
If you come in for an interview, you'll get a tour of the building and can see whether our style is right for you :)
Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.
Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:
C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS
Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.
Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.
If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!
Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E
When a bug occurs (perhaps because your tests did not anticipate every edge case) how do you determine where the problem code is located without a stack trace?
I know that it doesn't usually point to the line of code that is problematic, but it usually gives you a starting point for your deductions...
By the way, if you do C programming and haven't, read 21st Century C: