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JoeCortopassion I went to production heaven

Industry is massive and geographically nearby in China. If you need to source a different size bolt at scale, the factory for them may be 10-15 minute drive down the road. In the US, you may have to have them overnighted. The amount of raw resources quickly available is a huge competitive advantage in being able to pivot on manufacturing changes and keep lead times down

JoeCortopassion Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?

With all the below, you'll have a solid drone with more power than you are likely to need even in heavy wind. You can program it in a couple ways. One way would be to use the flight controller provided, put it in air mode, and balance the signal with an external arduino/mpu6500 combo that feeds the signal to the normal receiver inputs. Another option is you can just go in to the BetaFlight code and modify it to your liking. A third option, is to remove the flight controller altogether and just use the arduino/mpu6050 combo to feed signal to the esc.

If you are trying to use the camera for some sort of remote processing, you'll need a vtx [7]

The thing no one is saying so far though, is be careful. Playing with your own balancing software on a quadcopter is an easy way to turn it into an unpredictable missile with an exposed blender attached. You will get hurt or someone else will get hurt. Do it inside and tether it down at first, that way the only day you ruin is your own

Here's a part list for you ($108 total):

- [1] Lisam-LS-210 Frame ($16): cheap, sturdy, lots of room for your stuff

- [2] Matek Power Distribution Board ($4): easy to run power to everything, plus it gives you 5v and 12v BEC for powering your other stuff like an Arduino

- [3] Omnibus Flight Controller ($25): runs cleanflight/betaflight open source flight controller software. That way you can choose whether you want to write your software on the controller or on your arduino

- [4] 4x 2205 2300KV brushless motors ($25): these will let you add a decent amount of stuff to your platform without it bogging down

- [5] 4x 20 amp esc's ($26): Needed for the brushless motors. They run BLHeli control software, so yet another thing you can fiddle with

- [6] camera ($12): simple camera, decent but not hd quality

[1] https://www.banggood.com/Lisam-LS-210-210mm-Carbon-Fiber-Fra...

[2] https://www.banggood.com/Matek-Systems-PDB-XT60-W-BEC-5V-12V...

[3] https://www.banggood.com/Betaflight-F4-Flight-Controller-STM...

[4]https://www.banggood.com/4X-Racerstar-2205-BR2205-2300KV-2-4...

[5] https://www.banggood.com/4-PCS-Racerstar-RS20A-Lites-20A-Blh...

[6] https://www.banggood.com/700TVL-2_8mm-Lens-100-Degree-Wide-A...

[7] http://www.banggood.com/TS5823S-Micro-VTX-5_8G-200mW-48CH-Mi...

All this is basically straight from this part list, but seems applicable

JoeCortopassion Ending the cult of the CEO

Gabe might not get fired, but his job most certainly can disappear

JoeCortopassion Ending the cult of the CEO

Yes, networks are beneficial in attaining any job, but the caricature you posit is a farce

JoeCortopassion Ending the cult of the CEO

They may have _ideas_ of what can be next, but the job market is orders of magnitude smaller at that level

As far as having the wealth to get their next venture off the ground, that's part of the negotiation. They know if they leave the company, it will take X days to find a new position or Y amount of money to start that idea they have. I do the same thing when taking a job (i.e. Can I save for a rainy day?)

JoeCortopassion Ending the cult of the CEO

Reasons why CEO's make millions and I don't:

- Business Network: If I had a billion dollars, I would never have been able to acquire Instagram. I wouldn't even be able to get a seat at the table. Zuckerberg closed it in record time while talking to a company that wanted to be on it's own

- Market Knowledge: I thought the iPad was the stupidest device ever, Steve Jobs didn't. I now have 4 at my house along with two of those stupid iWatches (actually they're pretty nice)

- Portfolio: Marissa Mayer wasn't paid what she was paid because the board expected her to perform well, she was paid her salary (and golden parachute) because the company was dying and they had no idea what to do. Mayer had an idea of something that might work, but why on earth would she risk her awesome résumé with taking on the risk of a company on it's last leg?

- Access: If my daughter has a birthday, I can schedule an early day to be home and celebrate with the family. When Steve Jobs came down with cancer, he was required to disclose his medical details publicly because of the fiscal impact it could have on the public stock

- Job Market: I'm a programmer. There are jobs everywhere for me. If the CEO of Uber loses his job (fingers crossed), it might be a looong time before he finds a new one and even then it's not likely to be remotely similar to what he does now. I mean shoot everyone loves Gabe Newell, but if he lost his job, what are his options? Not as many as me.

Look, I'm not saying that some CEO's pay isn't exaggerated. I'm just saying that I'm not worth nearly as much as a talented CEO. If the company your 401k/pension was invested in hired me as CEO, you better believe you'd grab your pitchfork.

JoeCortopassion Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)

If you work at or are otherwise involved in a startup, here is your key takeaway: cross connections between fields is fundamental to creativity. If you eat, breathe, and sleep software, you will only look at your problem space from the perspective of a software engineer. Startups already nail pre-requisites like informality, permissiveness, and relaxation

JoeCortopassion Alexa: Amazon's Operating System

Alexa has a fundamental short coming that stops them from being a robust operating system like the writer describes: the cognitive load in memorizing all possible variations of 3rd party apps on their platform. Siri might have greater difficulty with natural language processing than Alexa, but I never have to think much about the word order or phrasing. With Alexa, I'm constantly feeling like I'm playing MadLibs with my eyes closed.

That being said, the openness of their platform is a huge benefit, and the main reason I have one. I for one am very interested in seeing which improves first: Siri's natural language processing, or Alexa's contextual matching of their api.

I know Google Now wins in a lot of areas, and there is a group of people that have no problem using them, but overall sentiment seems to be one of distrust in giving them an always on microphone

JoeCortopassion Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?

The problem of 'scale' they were addressing in the iOS app wasn't scale of users, but rather scale of devs. They have 18k classes because they came up with a rather clever way of allowing many separate developers to all work on different features of the same app, without stepping on each others toes. This might not seem like a hard problem if you've never worked on a non-trivial iOS app, but it is a pretty impressive feat.

Facebook wants the shortest possible time between product idea and real world users interacting with it, which is why they also have a solid CI/CD pipeline. You might not agree with the tradeoff, but the pragmatism is impressive

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

To be honest, we'd just rather have more bugs knocked out before we share. We take pride in our code just like most people

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

No apps for android or iOS. For right now it's just a browser extension

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

That's how we have it :-) Albeit with a call to action in the footer of the message to sign up. If you, don't though it will continue to work

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

Most people that want to be available on HN have a form of contact in their about profile, we use that to connect you out of band until they sign up, if they choose to sign up

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

The main difference is that this enables private messaging between users, regardless if they are signed up or not. Next time you're in a thread, you'll see a button to send a message next to their username. Click, and it will start a message without you having to leave the page. HNChat on the other hand seems to be more of a separate place to have conversations as a group. I feel like there is a place for both, they just solve different problems

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

That's the hope. Make it easy to take the conversation offline and help each other out :-)

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

Btw, we also plan on open sourcing all this. So everyone will be able to give feedback and contribute. The hope is it becomes a really useful tool for the community

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

Thanks!

JoeCortopassion Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

Hey everyone, todd3834 and I have been wanting this for awhile and decided to just start building it ourselves :-) The hope is it makes HN an even greater place to find people with similar ambitions so that we can build great things. This isn't meant to be the next coming of Facebook, it's just a super useful tool we like and want others to use with us.

Main features we think you'll like: - frictionless signup. You don't need to manage another login combo. Works kind of like Medium's signup, but with less steps - simple. Button next to comments, easy lookup. We wanted you to not have to think about it to use it - backwords compatible. It works with people that haven't signed up yet

JoeCortopassion Create React Apps with No Configuration

My point wasn't to belittle the work, they did a great job, it was just pointing out how far you can go with something like this. This just doesn't have as many of the things people need as other similar projects do.

JoeCortopassion Create React Apps with No Configuration

I guess what I was trying to bring up, is that this has already been solved by a bunch of people already, but with a lot more features. We use Gluestick, but others use stuff like https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate

JoeCortopassion Create React Apps with No Configuration

Granted, some things like hot module replacement and generators are not necessary, most of the others are (isomorphic rendering, code splitting, sass, dockerization).

I'm not saying you need those things for your personal react app going into production, but when dealing with bigger teams for a critical app they really become important tools

JoeCortopassion Create React Apps with No Configuration

This is great for someone who wants to get started to learn React, but is missing a ton that is needed for a real world production app.

  * No isomorphic rendering
  * No hot module replacement
  * No generators
  * No dockerization
  * No Sass support
  * No test environment setup
  * No code splitting

It would be cool to have a production ready tool from Facebook, but I'll stick with gluestick for now https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick/blob/develop/README.md#...

JoeCortopassion React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition

We added that to https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick. Plus it gives you a cli and much better upgrade path when you need to change things in the future

JoeCortopassion GitHub's Engineering Blog

TrueCar: http://www.drivenbycode.com/

JoeCortopassion Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

  Location: Southern California (San Diego area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: iOS/Objective-C, Continuous Integration, Web Services, REST API/Graph API, Version Control (Git, SVN), CocoaPods, XCTest, Jenkins, TestFlight, AFNetworking, FMDB, SocketIO (Obj-C), Auto Layout, LAMP Development, Agile Development, Test Driven Development
  Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joecortopassi/ (PDF on request)
  Email: joe@{username}.com

JoeCortopassion Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

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  = Company =
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OneHealth - Solana Beach, CA (San Diego area)

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  = Careers =
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Senior Software Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3WsLugwo)

Android Software Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3OrLugwf)

Employer Sales Executive (http://jobvite.com/m?3FotAgwR)

Lead Test Automation Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3WIewgw9)

Engineering Intern (http://jobvite.com/m?3wKewgwL)

  ============
  = About Us =
  ============

The company I work for, OneHealth, is a behavioral modification platform that increases outcome-driven wellness and reduces the cost of health care by combining clinical principles, social technologies and game mechanics to extend the reach and benefits of professional medical and clinical care. We are revolutionizing the health care industry so we can help saves lives every day. OneHealth Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2008, is backed by a leading industry Venture Capital firm, and is located in Solana Beach, CA. This is an opportunity to join a small company making a big impact. We have an engaging corporate culture that combines high standards, professional discipline and an enjoyable team-oriented environment. Competitive benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K and Equity Incentive plan. Our offices are located one mile from the beach and we offer a free weekly yoga class and surfing meet ups.

JoeCortopassion Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

OneHealth - Solana Beach, CA (San Diego area)

The company I work for as an iOS engineer, OneHealth is a behavioral modification platform that increases outcome-driven wellness and reduces the cost of health care by combining clinical principles, social technologies and game mechanics to extend the reach and benefits of professional medical and clinical care. We are revolutionizing the health care industry so we can help saves lives every day. OneHealth Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2008, is backed by a leading industry Venture Capital firm, and is located in Solana Beach, CA. This is an opportunity to join a small company making a big impact. We have an engaging corporate culture that combines high standards, professional discipline and an enjoyable team-oriented environment. Competitive benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K and Equity Incentive plan. Our offices are located one mile from the beach and we offer a free weekly yoga class and surfing meet ups. (www.OneHealth.com)

Senior Software Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3WsLugwo)

Android Software Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3OrLugwf)

Lead Test Automation Engineer (http://jobvite.com/m?3WIewgw9)

Engineering Intern (http://jobvite.com/m?3wKewgwL)

JoeCortopassion [dead]

Was just following the style seen by quite a few other posters to make it easier to scan[1]. The links go directly to the listing, so not much more I can do there.

Unfortunately, HN won't let me delete/edit it to take your suggestions into account.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970371, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7973271, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7971086, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972448, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7973088

JoeCortopassion Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

OneHealth - Solana Beach, CA (San Diego area)

  ---------------------------------
  -------  About OneHealth  -------
  ---------------------------------

OneHealth™ is an award winning behavioral modification platform that increases outcome-driven wellness and reduces the cost of health care by combining clinical principles, social technologies and game mechanics to extend the reach and benefits of professional medical and clinical care. We are revolutionizing the health care industry so we can help saves lives every day. OneHealth Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2008, is backed by a leading industry Venture Capital firm, and is located in Solana Beach, CA. (www.OneHealth.com)

This is an opportunity to join a small company making a big impact. We have an engaging corporate culture that combines high standards, professional discipline and an enjoyable team-oriented environment. Competitive benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K and Equity Incentive plan. Our offices are located one mile from the beach and we offer a free weekly yoga class and surfing meet ups.

  ---------------------------------
  --- Senior Software Engineer ----
  ---------------------------------

  http://jobvite.com/m?3WsLugwo

  -- Essential Duties & Responsibilities: --

  * Design and build clinical and social backends and related APIs that drive our web and mobile sites.
  * Develop and improve A/B Testing of new features on our platform allow us to drive company decisions with supporting metrics.
  * Help evolve and scale the platform and its core rule and analytic engines to improve outcomes and improve peoples lives.

  --- What we are looking for: ---

  * BS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
  * 5+ Years of Linux and web development experience
  * Solid knowledge of JavaScript/PHP website development.
  * Thorough understanding of protocols such as HTTP, XMPP, SMTP, AMQP
  * Working knowledge of RequireJS, Backbone, Handlebars, SASS, HTML and CSS
  * Experience with data stores such as Redis, MySQL, LocalStorage.
  * Experience with agile development practices and methodologies such as Scrum, TDD, BDD and Unit Testing.
  * Experience with Continuous Integration and automated development tools and processes
  * Familiarity with asynchronous/event driven architectures and graph theory
  * Familiarity with open source software development and have an active account on github
  * Experience with building PHP/Node Extensions, Ruby gems and Debian Packages is a big plus
  * Experience with HIPAA, HITECH, PHI and related security and privacy laws is a plus
  * Passionate, Accountable with excellent organization and communication skills

  ---------------------------------
  --- Android Software Engineer ---
  ---------------------------------

  http://jobvite.com/m?3OrLugwf

  -- Essential Duties and Responsibilities --

  * Design and build hybrid apps and web experiences for mobile phones and tablets
  * Work directly with our platform and analytics engineers and contribute the mobile perspective
  * Collaborate daily with development, QA, product and management teams
  * Maintains a working knowledge of relevant government and industry standards

  -- Qualifications --

  * BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  * 3+ Years of mobile development experience
  * Knowledge of protocols such as HTTP, OAuth and REST
  * Thorough understanding of JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, REST APIs
  * Experience with native app development for Android (Java), Android Frameworks and technologies such as WebView, Intents, Testing and Volley
  * Experience with Android tools such as proguard, systrace, adb, bmgr and jobb
  * Experience with GIT, Continuous Integration and automated development tools and processes
  * Experience with design patterns, such as Model View Presenter, Data Mapper, Polymorphism, DRY, Decoupling
  * Experience with agile development practices and methodologies such as Scrum, Refactoring, TDD, BDD and Unit Testing
  * Strong interest in learning new technologies, standards and working with open source software
  * Passionate, accountable with excellent organization and communication skills
  * Experience with CORS, HTML5 WebSockets and C2DM based Push Notifications a plus

  ---------------------------------
  - Lead Test Automation Engineer -
  ---------------------------------

  http://jobvite.com/m?3WIewgw9

  -- Essential Duties and Responsibilities --

  * Plans and directs the development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for our software.
  * Develop and update test cases.
  * Report product bugs using the Company’s bug-tracking tool.
  * Collaborate daily with development, product and management teams. Create clear status reports and concisely communicate with relevant parties.
  * Recommend streamlining of processes to improve test efficiency.
  * Maintains a working knowledge of relevant government and industry standards.
  * Interprets quality assurance philosophy to key personnel in the Company.
  * Reviews all data obtained during all quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with Company policies and procedures.

  -- Qualifications -- 

  * BS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
  * 6+ Years of developing, managing and ensuring quality of a web platform and/or service.
  * Solid knowledge of automated test frameworks such as Watir, Selenium or Sahi and related best practices.
  * Hands-on experience with testing large scale AJAX based websites.
  * Hands-on experience with testing web services
  * Have built out and maintained regression test frameworks.
  * Used agile development practices and methodologies such as Scrum
  * Deeply familiar with TDD, BDD and Unit Testing.
  * Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines
  * Experience with RSpec, PHPUnit, SimpleTest
  * Must pass a background check and drug test

  ---------------------------------
  ------- Engineering Intern ------
  ---------------------------------

  http://jobvite.com/m?3wKewgwL

  -- What you will do: --

  * Build fast, secure, beautiful and scalable web apps
  * Use modern web technologies to disrupt healthcare
  * Be exposed to a broad range of technologies such as Chef, RabbitMQ, Redis, APIs and real time applications  
  * And as always, debug hard problems

  -- Requirements: --

  * Current student at a top university majoring in Computer Science/Computer Engineering 
  * Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  * Experience building web applications using PHP, Python or Ruby
  * Web development experience (HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax)
  * Experience with Angular or Backbone is desirable but not required 
  * Most importantly, high energy and willingness to learn new technologies
  * Must be able to pass a background check and drug screen
  * This is a part-time position

JoeCortopassion Websites That Boost Your Traffic For Free

"Where do I find a site to promote my app/website/service?"

^ Number one indicator that you didn't spend the time upfront to understand your audience and develop your customers