Hacker News: geori

New comment by geori in "Googlebook"

geori — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:11:00 +0000

They are so bad at product

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)"

geori — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:10:22 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* Senior Backend Engineer - Python, Java

* DevOps Engineer - AWS / Terraform / Ubuntu

* Solutions Engineer - Informatica, MuleSoft, etc

* Android Engineer

* QA Engineer

* Business Analyst

Shipwell is a SaaS shipping solution that cuts out the middleman and saves our customers millions in shipping costs. We have had incredible growth with our transportation management system (TMS) and were recently named a Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startup. We are planning to double the size of our Engineering and Product teams by the end of the year, so this is a great opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of a high growth startup in a huge market.

We are a Remote Forward company. You can work in our office location cities (Austin and Chicago) or you can choose to be 100% remote within the USA. Positions that don't explicitly say remote are actually remote. All roles are anywhere in the USA.

Stack: Backend = Monolith built in Python/Django/Django Rest Framework, Microservices in Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, Django, Fast API, and Flask; Frontend = React/Redux/SASS, Other = AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)"

geori — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:28:33 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* DevOps Engineer - AWS / Terraform / Ubuntu

* Solutions Engineer - Informatica, MuleSoft, etc

* Android Engineer

* QA Engineer

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

geori — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:32:00 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* Associate Backend Engineer - Python

* Backend Engineer (multiple teams are hiring) - Python (Django, Fast API, Flask)

* Senior Frontend Engineer - React

* Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

* Engineering Manager

New comment by geori in "The Multi-Path Career"

geori — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:47:59 +0000

I worked as CTO of two companies for about a year. I tended to work a full day for one company then a full day for the other to lessen the context switching. It was hard work, but it was fun and very beneficial to both organizations. You really do focus on editing (what projects matter, what solutions matter, which candidates do we offer, coaching w 1x1s) which has much more of an impact than IC work. In fact, the only issues I ever had were classic time x resource tradeoffs, since I so little time for IC work.

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)"

geori — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:11:30 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* Backend Engineer (multiple teams are hiring) - Python (Django, Fast API, Flask)

* Senior Backend Engineer - Python (Django, Fast API, Flask)

* Senior Backend Engineer - Java Spring Boot, Kotlin

* Frontend Engineer - React

* Senior Frontend Engineer - React

* Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

* Engineering Manager

* Product Designer

* Senior Product Manager

Apply at https://shipwell.com/careers or you can reach out to me directly at harper@shipwell.com

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)"

geori — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:03:42 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* Backend Engineer (multiple teams are hiring) - Python/Django

* Senior Backend Engineer - Python/Django

* Senior Backend Engineer - Java Spring Boot, Kotlin

* Frontend Engineer - React

* Senior Frontend Engineer - React

* Quality Assurance Engineer

* Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

* Engineering Manager

* Product Manager

* Senior Product Manager

We are a Remote Forward company. You can work in our office location cities (Austin and Chicago) or you can choose to be 100% remote within the USA.

Apply at https://shipwell.com/careers or you can reach out to me directly at harper@shipwell.com

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)"

geori — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:54:50 +0000

Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* Backend Engineer - Python/Django

* Senior Backend Engineer - Python/Django

* Frontend Engineer - React

* Senior Frontend Engineer - React

* Quality Assurance Engineer

* Engineering Manager

* Product Manager

* Senior Product Manager

We are a Remote Forward company. You can work in our office location cities (Austin and Chicago) or you can choose to be 100% remote within the USA.

Stack: Python/Django/Django Rest Framework, React/Redux/SASS, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ

Apply at https://shipwell.com/careers or you can reach out to me directly at harper@shipwell.com

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?"

geori — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:55:55 +0000

48 Laws of Power

The Power Broker

History of Western Philosophy

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

geori — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:28:48 +0000

It looks like Gitlab. I wondered if i was on the correct site.

New comment by geori in "Salaries Get Chopped for Many Americans Who Manage to Keep Jobs"

geori — Wed, 27 May 2020 19:27:16 +0000

Anecdotally: I'm CTO at a custom apparel manufacturer. Demand plummeted for events and foot traffic at our customer's stores died, so nobody is buying high end suits. Our revenue is now 20% of what it was back in January. We got our PPP loans, so we kept everyone in the USA employed, but had to cut all salaries above $50k by 25%. And we will probably have to have a second round of cuts and have some layoffs in June.

New comment by geori in "Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive"

geori — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:33:18 +0000

So Neal Stephenson wrote a book about this - at least the good half of the book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

It's 20 years in the future where facebook and similar services are much, much worse. Wealthy people pay for editors to remove misinformation from their feeds. And the country gets bifurcated with coastal elites having access to editors and flyover country ("Ameristan") has turned into a conspiracy plagued wasteland.

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?"

geori — Tue, 12 May 2020 13:56:31 +0000

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

New comment by geori in "How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)"

geori — Tue, 05 May 2020 16:46:16 +0000

The information hierarchy is unclear because they did not use best practices in design. As the other commenters said, you have to read it like a book. A better site would have larger, bold headings with darker text than the body text. There would be more padding between the sections. There would be a jumbotron at the top that identifies the top 1-3 reasons for me to use this site, so I can understand in 5 seconds if I want this service and don't have to spend 3 minutes reading the entire text.

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?"

geori — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:10:08 +0000

Listen to the manager tools podcast.

New comment by geori in "Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails"

geori — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:59:51 +0000

How often does rails refresh the materialized views? And is it automatic or do you have to explicitly refresh them?

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Burning Out"

geori — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:19:35 +0000

Definitely talk to the founders. Founders probably have no idea you are considering leaving and would be shocked if you leave without voicing your concerns. Founders ALWAYS want to talk with key employees who are considering leaving. You are unlikely to get compensated with what you deserve, but they can definitely create a better working environment for you. Even if things don't work out and you do leave, you'll walk out of things with a good reference and network from the founders because you left on good terms.

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?"

geori — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:26:50 +0000

To maintain a trademark and fight back infringement you have to repeatedly claim it by putting those annoying symbols after it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/383evo/e...

New comment by geori in "Show HN: Experience Colorblindness on the Web"

geori — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:05:10 +0000

I'm very color blind and I don't think this extension correctly handles red-green color blindness. If you take a look at http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/ and see their examples of Deuteranopia, they are exactly what I see. When the app shows the Deuteranopia view, I think the extension modifies colors that aren't red and green.

New comment by geori in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)"

geori — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:50:56 +0000

iDesign | Sr Frontend Engineer / Jr Frontend Engineer / Fullstack Engineer | FULL-TIME | Jackson, MS / Remote - US Only | idesignpbp.com

iDesign is a company that makes high end suits and custom clothing for tailors. We're growing fast, planning to have $30M of sales this year, and are building out the engineering team.

We're looking for Frontend Engineers with React experience to work closely with our product designer on a redesign our custom clothing ordering experience.

We're also looking for Fullstack Engineers with Ruby on Rails experience to independently develop new applications that help support our customers.

If you're interested, email me at hmaddox (at) idpbp (dot) com.