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Baltoli··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Category Labs | Compiler Engineer | NYC / Global Remote | $250k | Full-time

Category Labs is a blockchain R&D firm working on greenfield technology to accelerate the Monad blockchain network. We've got a growing team of top-tier compiler engineers working on challenging design and optimisation problems as part of this effort. Lots of opportunity for impact, great remote-friendly work environment and extremely interesting technical challenges.

Apply via: https://www.category.xyz/careers?ashby_jid=e5c34899-cea1-4d2..., or email bcollie [at] category [dot] xyz with any questions.

Baltoli··on Introduction to LLVM [video]
At its inception the appeal was the "multi-stage optimisation system" and the virtual instruction set design (from https://llvm.org/pubs/2002-12-LattnerMSThesis.html)
Baltoli··on UK minister to tell universities to stop 'no-platforming' speakers
I was closely involved in this controversy at the time and I can attest to the "loudest voice" problem where a small number of people magnified the situation far beyond what it needed to be. Definitely surprised to see a comment referring to it on HN more than 2 years on though!
Baltoli··on Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paralyzing accident
I've always found that the safest way to cycle in a busy city is to behave as similarly to a car as possible. If you're acting like a car and participating properly in traffic flow, it's far less likely that you'll get into an accident or altercation with a vehicle.

This is helped enormously by 20mph speed limits around the city where I live. It means that at a busy junction in the city center, I can accelerate away and get up to traffic speed as quickly as a car, if not quicker.

Baltoli··on Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paralyzing accident
I did an internship at GoCardless last summer - Hiroki is an excellent leader and I'm not surprised to see him bounce back in such an inspiring way
Baltoli··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Hi! I'm Bruce, and I'm finishing my senior year of high school at the moment. I'm always on the lookout for freelance programming jobs.

My Skills:

I have professional (past freelancing) experience with:

* Objective-C for iOS

I have great experience (18 months plus, including an SQA Advanced Higher project) with:

* Java

* Python

My professional experience:

I've been freelancing (Objective-C for iOS) for about a year now, and have completed projects with the following clients:

* Treehouse Mobile

* Mostly Serious

* Samics

If you have any chance of fitting me in as a remote freelancer, or even if you have any advice on this type of work, I'd love for you to contact me at bruce.collie@blueyonder.co.uk

Thanks!

Baltoli··on Ask HN: What phone do you use?
Galaxy Note N7000.
Baltoli··on Ask HN: How can a 17-year-old make money (online/offline)?
I'm 17 and over the past year or so, I've made a bit of money doing freelance programming. The Freelancer / Seeking Freelancer thread on the 1st of each month is a really good place to start if you have marketable programming skills. I've found that even a quick rundown of your experience / skills is enough to get a few emails from interested parties.
Baltoli··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2013)
17 year old iOS developer with a wide range of other skills. I'm looking to take on some freelance work to add to my portfolio of work. I have previously worked with companies such as Mostly Serious and Treehouse mobile, as well as undertaking my own projects. Any offer would be fantastic, and you'd be helping a young developer get a start in the industry. Feel free to contact me with any questions or offers at bruce.collie@blueyonder.co.uk Thanks in advance, Bruce Collie
Baltoli··on Show HN: I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites
You can buy a negative number of shares, resulting in you gaining ludicrous amounts of money very quickly (although my fraudulent purchases seemed to be removed after a couple of minutes.)
Baltoli··on Ask HN: What's your computer setup?
2011 Mac Mini i5 2.3 with 8GB of RAM, as well as a custom built gaming PC. Both are connected to the same 22" LG monitor (via a switch), and I swap a wireless USB keyboard / mouse between them. I am a 16 year old freelance iOS developer, and as such, the Mac is my main use computer.
Baltoli··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012)
SEEKING WORK - 16 Year Old iOS Developer looking to get a start in the industry I've had experience developing freelance iOS applications with a company called Treehouse Mobile. I've also developed applications in my own right, most recently a location sharing app called Rendezvous. I'm not looking to make huge amounts of money doing this - the experience of the industry is what I'm after. Let me know if there's anything I can do for you.

GitHub: https://github.com/baltoli Email: bruce.collie@blueyonder.co.uk