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New comment by bmajz in "The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage"

bmajz — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:03:04 +0000

You could put them up for free on Craigslist (or equivalent) and have people come to you that would put them to use. They might be opportunists but that might still be ok to allow circulation of the value that they do have.

New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)"

bmajz — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:27:48 +0000

Polly | Remote Canada or US | Sr Software Engineers | Full-time | https://www.polly.ai

Polly is a fast growing company that has one of the largest enterprise user bases in both Slack and Microsoft Teams. Our mission is to empower teams to measure and understand every aspect of their work, and we're doing it by bringing new levels of automation to the old way of running surveys.

We're looking for US/Canada remote full-time Senior Full Stack Engineers. We're a product-led company of 17 that supports millions of enterprise users. Come in and have significant impact on the product, the architecture, and the company. Our stack is Typescript/Node/AWS/Mongo, but for our candidates we don't care about your stack history, just your ability to produce clean, high quality code and solve complex problems.

We offer our remote employees a sweet hardware setup, budget for home office or a local coworking spot, and 99% of your insurance premiums covered for you and dependents. We also offer fully-paid 16 weeks of maternity leave.

Apply here: https://www.polly.ai/careers#open-positions or email jobs@polly.ai and reference HN.

Note: You can also work out of our Seattle or our soon-to-be Vancouver, BC office.

New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?"

bmajz — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:38:39 +0000

They even offer a hosted product now, so you won't have to worry about the ops side of things either.

New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?"

bmajz — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:37:49 +0000

Honestly, even though it has its problems, Meteor is relatively simple framework that will even spit out mobile apps for you. It's probably the least effort (i.e. lines of code) to get a halfway decent app out, and it's scaled ok well as time has gone on. It has a bunch of weird quirks though especially in how it manages data.

https://www.meteor.com

New comment by bmajz in "[dead]"

bmajz — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:53:20 +0000

The new Echo Show with drop in mode might work?

Seattle and Silicon Valley are converging

bmajz — Mon, 15 May 2017 04:56:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21721950-more-ever-seattle-and-silicon-valley-are-joined-hip-how-americas-two-tech-hubs-are?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/siliconvalleynorthhowamericastwotechhubsareconverging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14339252

Points: 6

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New comment by bmajz in "Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process"

bmajz — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:06:05 +0000

Well, would you look at that? Poking around this site will be fun.

New comment by bmajz in "Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process"

bmajz — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:44:31 +0000

I was pretty surprised to see Zoe Lofgren's name pop up as an anti tax filing simplification advocate. She's the rep from CA's 19th District which covers San Jose (but not the rest of Silicon Valley) and generally a straight down the line liberal. This is not even Intuit's core district -- that would Anna Eshoo's 17th (previously 14th) district which covers Mountain View and Palo Alto. As a resident of this district, I guess I have something to write in about.

New comment by bmajz in "[dead]"

bmajz — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:26:59 +0000

Despite being a 1Password user myself, it's great that there's now a top-tier service being offered for free! The $1/month option is pretty awesome too

Amazon experiments with tech teams consisting entirely of part-time employees

bmajz — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:55:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-is-creating-part-time-tech-teams-with-full-benefits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12328274

Points: 4

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New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)"

bmajz — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:46:42 +0000

Polly | Seattle, WA or Silicon Valley, CA | Fulltime, Onsite

Looking for: Software Engineer

Polly is reimagining enterprise applications through the medium of chat. Currently, our Slack bot helps companies measure processes through quick polls and lightweight conversation. We are looking for someone new to join our team and we think you'd like to come here because: * We've already got great traction including the #1 spot in the Slack App Directory's HR and Bot categories and paying customers! * We have some really exciting technical challenges ahead of us, with hard problems like natural language processing for our chat interface and cluster management across thousands of realtime connections to chat clients

For devs: Our stack is primarily in Node.js and Meteor running on AWS, but we're totally cool with other backgrounds.

Apply by sending an email to jobs @ .ai

Canadian Families Forming Independent Support Groups for Syrian Refugees

bmajz — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:16:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012268

Points: 3

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New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)"

bmajz — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:22:33 +0000

Apply by sending an email to jobs @ .com

(Yes, we have the .com!)

New comment by bmajz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)"

bmajz — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:53:32 +0000

Subcurrent | Seattle, WA or Silicon Valley, CA | Fulltime, Onsite

Looking for: Software Engineer and UX Designer

Subcurrent is reimagining enterprise applications through the medium of chat. Currently, our Slack bot helps companies measure processes through quick polls and lightweight conversation. We are looking for someone new to join our team and we think you'd like to come here because:

* We've already got great traction including the #1 spot in the Slack App Directory's HR category and paying customers!

* We're starting to build out a personality and chat dialogue for our bot, so you get to moonlight as a scriptwriter and critic

* We have some really exciting technical challenges ahead of us, with hard problems like natural language processing for our chat interface and cluster management across thousands of realtime connections to chat clients

For devs: Our stack is primarily in Node.js and Meteor running on AWS, but we're totally cool with other backgrounds.

New comment by bmajz in "Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers"

bmajz — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:28:18 +0000

To be fair, the case I was testing was node, so the packages could be killing me. Could be much better for a standalone bundled application.

New comment by bmajz in "Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers"

bmajz — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:23:54 +0000

While it's nice to have small on-disk containers for some applications (e.g. deployment pipelines/CI), for production, I've found that Alpine doesn't save you much in RAM. I'd love to see this become something people look at as well when evaluating base images. To me at least, this was a far more important constraint when running Docker in production.

New comment by bmajz in "You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition"

bmajz — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:43:41 +0000

It's great that Five Thirty Eight called out the lack of rigor behind these studies. Most of them are indeed shoddy. However, that's not to say that we don't have a pretty good general idea of what's good for you. Here's a pretty well-balanced article on the topic, with this awesome TL;DR:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-h...

New comment by bmajz in "The Weight"

bmajz — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:05:47 +0000

The thing that always amazes me as I read about professional sports is how much mental strength and discipline is required by athletes. This story shows how much that mental strength is on the edge and susceptible to "injury", just like the physical skills.

New comment by bmajz in "The Hedge Fund Managers Who Work for Tips"

bmajz — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 02:36:57 +0000

That's a really good way of putting it by Warren Buffet. This phenomenon of the bottom being ignored happens in software too of course: http://www.saastr.com/the-simple-reason-why-there-will-be-10...

"Salesforce is now working on as many $100m+ deals as it can try to close. Because once you adding > $1 billion in ARR a year, you need a few Really, Really Big Enterprise deals to move the needle. And a handful of $50m-$100m deals are, by definition, the new target to really move the needle at that scale.

Given that … does it make any sense to pursue the $9 a month market? Or the $2000 ACV market? I mean, not really. And Salesforce isn’t.

So the bottom 10% of this $10 billion market, or $1 billion, isn’t even being addressed by Salesforce."

New comment by bmajz in "Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging"

bmajz — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:34:13 +0000

Yeah, I think it's likely true in many affluent parts of the Muslim world that Ramadan, shall we say, enhances existing trends towards obesity. The irony is indeed morbidly amusing.