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Androsynthon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

Lodestone | Software Engineer | Menlo Park, Mountain View, SF | Full-Time | Onsite usually, WFH for now

Lodestone is a data quality assurance vendor to large tech companies. Our job is to ensure quality control in their machine learning workflows. We don't do feature/platform development, everything we do is aimed towards supporting existing dev teams. We are generalist problem-solvers, embedded in the teams of other companies to support their development.

Open positions:

-Senior Software Engineer: Highly autonomous and flexible position

-Junior/Mid Software Engineers: dev experience required

-Frontend Engineer: this is the most specific role we have, so you must be experienced in frontend development

-QA Engineer: little to no previous dev experience required, but requires a strong commitment to learn coding, as this position will be writing unit, integration and e2e tests

If you are interested in applying please send your resume to jamie.clinton@lodestoneco.com

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2019)

Location: US

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: 8 years of mostly backend development with full stack development as well. I am familiar with all major technologies/languages and am willing to work on any part of the stack where I do not have write html/css (I am otherwise happy doing frontend javascript).

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdr7k91gcl7pqd3/resume.pdf?dl=0

Email: on resume

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Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: general backend/full-stack web dev. I have professional experience and am comfortable with most popular languages and environments: lamp, JVM, in PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, SQL.

Resume: https://tinyurl.com/yasxbfng

Email: jcclinton24 at gmail

I have not worked as a dev for a year and a half and I am looking to get back into the industry. I am experienced and have a solid track record of advancement and achievements.

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2018)

Location: San Jose, CA (all south bay)

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: general backend/full-stack dev: all popular scripting languages, lamp stack, JVM

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/yasxbfng

Email: z.tester.account at gmail

I have not worked as a dev for a year due to personal reasons (not bad reasons). I am a solid and experienced dev and I am looking to get back into the industry.

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2017)

Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: open to remote (have remote experience)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: general backend/full-stack dev: all popular scripting languages, lamp stack, JVM

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/yasxbfng

Email: z.tester.account at gmail

I have not worked as a dev for a year due to personal reasons (not bad reasons). I am looking to get back into the industry.

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)

  Location: San Jose, CA
  Remote: Yes and have several years experience
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: full stack, backend systems, general programming and development, 7yrs exp
  Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyg28xey39gf58k/Jamie_Clinton_resume.pdf?dl=0
  Email: jcclinton24@gmail.com

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Erlang, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, html/css, C/C++

Resume: http://jamieclinton.com/work

Email: jcclinton24 at gmail dot com

I have been a software engineer for 5 years and have been at senior level for last several. Have a MS in EE but switched over to software because I love to code.

Androsynthon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)

Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Erlang, Go, html/css, C/C++

Resume: http://jamieclinton.com/work

Email: jcclinton24 at gmail dot com

I have been a software engineer for 5 years and have been at senior level for last several. Have a MS in EE but switched over to software because I love to code.

Androsynthon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

SEEKING WORK - remote

I have spent the past 5 years as a web developer working with PHP and javascript. The past 3 years I have worked at the senior/principal level. I have experience working remotely.

I have learned a number of languages in my free time, but I wish to branch out professionally and I am willing to learn whatever language and framework you use to build your products.

I am flexible in my work arrangements (eg time availability, contract vs employee, full time vs part time, etc). I am more interested in the engineering challenges.

email me if you would like to see my resume and chat jcclinton24@gmail.com

Androsynthon Does America need a Pirate Party?

it doesnt need a revolution (that would be a very bad thing given how much power our military has). It just needs to start locally (we all understand how exponential growth works). rather than running for US president in '16, the goal should be small, eg x% of state senators from the bay area.

Androsynthon Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]

It didnt work for ron paul. although i guess you could argue that privacy has more people up in arms than our monetary system. either way, i dont see the entrenched powers letting that happen from within.

Androsynthon Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]

it doesnt have to be a national party initially. If you took a pro-privacy, socially-liberal, fiscally conservative platform you could make a strong push in large urban centers across the nation. I know that the bay area would be accepting of this (accepting != elected, but it wouldnt get laughed at by the voters, only by the national media).

you just cant name it pirate party. In the us that would probably work against you.

Androsynthon Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf]

I always thought a good compromise would be that you can sell genetically modified seeds (or eggs or whatever) but you shouldnt be able to own anything that is produced by those seeds. ie children, saplings etc

in other words, you own the process of genetically modifying an organism, not the genes.

I dont know how realistic or unrealistic this is, since ianal.

edit: someone else mentioned the monsanto ruling, which makes this idea sound unrealistic

Androsynthon The Japanese have embarked on an intriguing and desperate monetary policy

no because consumers dont like 'planned obsolescence' and if they catch a whiff of it, your brand loyalty takes a huge hit.

also china isnt 'a little' cheaper than japan. its a lot cheaper, so they would need to make stuff a lot better.

Androsynthon Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001)

exactly. A better question would be "How can we operate like this?"

Androsynthon Texas won't allow Tesla to sell electric cars directly

> Yeah, it's an example of government as envisioned by the founders working as intended - when someone at the state level overreaches, a federal court strikes it down

Jeffersonian democrats certainly were against that idea, as evidenced by nullification, which was in issue up until the civil war.

Maybe the federalists, but it sounds extreme even for them.

It sounds like something that the northern politicians had in mind in the late 19th century or maybe early 20th century.

i know its OT, but could you expand on that idea?

Androsynthon Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices

your nonprof biomedical group didnt have kleiner perkins pushing it towards an ipo ;)

Androsynthon Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box

you could donate it.

Androsynthon San Francisco median home hits $1 million

SF is only like 10% of the population of the SF/Oak/SJ bay area triangle. It may have the best brand in the area, but what happens when the housing prices drop in fremont/milpitas and then in santa clara/san jose and then starts working its way up the peninsula?

I think housing in SF is very dependent on 1) the tech boom and 2) the baby boomers who own property in the south/east bay (but wont sell because they missed out on the 2008 sales price). Both of which are temporal in nature.

SF may always be a enclave of the wealthy, but if the rest of the bay area goes to shit, prices will drop. It may not get massacred like SJ eventually will (after the baby boomers houses start hitting the market en masse), but even those wealthy enough to live there will feel it.

Androsynthon Three Laws of Programming Language Design

javascript has json though, which doesnt make it homoiconic, but it allows you to mimic homoiconicity in a lot of cases. When I write in javascript, I tend to store my data in json and and write code that is generic, with much abstraction that has a small foot print to manipulate the json.

That is scheme-like. That is psuedo-homoiconic.

(If anyone in the know wants to add or refute this, I would love to know whether my non-cs intuition is correct here.)

(also it is still a very mutable language, even with coffeescript/underscore)

Androsynthon Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

I think it is dependent on which accent you have. In my experience as an american (who has met a lot of foreigners), I have found that germans and the dutch seem to have the least problem with the american accent. (Australians too, for a non-european example). There can be a number of reasons for this to be the case, but this is what I have noticed.

Androsynthon Yahoo submits bid for Hulu

I stand corrected

Androsynthon Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

>If anyone can leave Facebook it's teens.

Couldnt disagree more. Teens are the most-dependent age group on fb's fake social interactions.

I am 32 and I could leave fb in a second. That is because I realize that im not being social by liking posts or commenting on photos or any of the other common flows. Thats not social! Plus there is not nearly the peer pressure at my age that there is for teenagers to do that type of stuff.

(i never used fb for photos though, which is a big lock-in. my comments are just regarding the social interactions)

Androsynthon Yahoo submits bid for Hulu

>users, photos (flickr), blogposts (tumblr), mail, content

Other than content, arent those second rate internet properties though? Maybe thats their plan in order not to compete with google/amazon.

(i know flickr is used by professionals, but instagram probably has more users)

Androsynthon First world demons

greed, envy and a celebrity worshiping culture

Androsynthon Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?

This article is incoherent and mostly hand waving. The fact that everyone is disagreeing with it for different reasons either speaks to its shallowness or to the fact that it is just wrong about the valley being ideologically homogeneous.

The part you put in parenthesis is the true problem that every hacker should be contemplating every day.

Androsynthon American Dialect Map

there are two types of iced tea in the south and this is how you order them: (sweet) tea where the 'sweet' is optional and: tea, unsweetened where the waitress gives you a funny look.

Androsynthon On To Google Ventures

I dont find the pretense of acting as an object journalist particularly relevant. Actions speak louder than words. (my point being that MG is less of a journalist than people think, thus making him a fan-blogger like Gruber which is the comparison that this thread originally was about)

There is a fine line between blogger and journalist nowadays. In fact its closer to overlapping circles than a hard line. So while you made a good case that DF is more of a blog than a journalism site, I dont think its 100%.

If you were to ask me if MG is a blogger or journalist, I would scratch my head and probably answer that he is a blogger who works (worked?) for an opinion-dominated news site.

Its hard to separate bloggers from journalists. I dont think Gruber is to blame for that. MG and techcrunch have no qualms about it though.

Androsynthon On To Google Ventures

apple fans who are biased against anything non-apple who both act as journalists (to a differing degree). There are similarities.

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the guy is a whore