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SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)
Location: NYC Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Python, SQL, C#, .NET, Devops/SRE, Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Angular 4+, HTML / CSS, React

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcdavis0/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcdavis0/

email: andrewcdavis0(at)gmail.com

Looking for Backend/Fullstack work. Can contribute solutions, planning and execution across the stack as well as DM board games afterwards

SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
SmartAsset https://smartasset.com/ | Senior and Intermediate Backend && Frontend Engineers | NYC: NOHO | Full Time We are a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web. We offer free and personalized tools to empower you to make smart personal finance decisions around homebuying, retirement, taxes and more. We have a big focus on getting finical advisors the right people for them, and giving people the right choices when it comes to finical advisors. Stack wise, we are a Java shop using the Play framework. We do some python and other things here and there as well. Culture wise, we are a 130~ people startup. So we still have the startup feel, without that startup pressure.

Some benefits besides the normal stuff: Catered lunches 3x a week, casual work environment and a weekly happy hour

If you're interested or have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at adavis[at]smartasset.com

Thanks!

SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
SmartAsset https://smartasset.com/ | Senior and Intermediate Backend && Frontend Engineers | NYC: NOHO | Full Time We are a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web. We offer free and personalized tools to empower you to make smart personal finance decisions around homebuying, retirement, taxes and more. We have a big focus on getting finical advisors the right people for them, and giving people the right choices when it comes to finical advisors. Stack wise, we are a Java shop using the Play framework. We do some python and other things here and there as well.

Culture wise, we are a 130~ people startup. So we still have the startup feel, without that startup pressure.

Some benefits besides the normal stuff: Catered lunches 3x a week, casual work environment and a weekly happy hour

If you're interested or have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at adavis[at]smartasset.com

Thanks!

SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
SmartAsset https://smartasset.com/ | Senior and Intermediate Backend && Frontend Engineers | NYC: NOHO | Full Time We are a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web. We offer free and personalized tools to empower you to make smart personal finance decisions around homebuying, retirement, taxes and more. We have a big focus on getting finical advisors the right people for them, and giving people the right choices when it comes to finical advisors.

Stack wise, we are a Java shop using the Play framework. We do some python and other things here and there as well.

Culture wise, we are a 130~ people startup. So we still have the startup feel, without that startup pressure.

Some benefits besides the normal stuff: Catered lunches 3x a week, casual work environment and a weekly happy hour

If you're interested or have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at adavis[at]smartasset.com

Thanks!

SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
SmartAsset https://smartasset.com/ | Senior and Intermediate Backend && Frontend Engineers | NYC: NOHO | Full Time We are a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web. We offer free and personalized tools to empower you to make smart personal finance decisions around homebuying, retirement, taxes and more.

We have a big focus on getting finical advisors the right people for them, and giving people the right choices when it comes to finical advisors.

Stack wise, we are a Java shop using the Play framework. We do some python and other things here and there as well.

Culture wise, we are a 130~ people startup. So we still have the startup feel, without that startup pressure.

Some benefits besides the normal stuff: Catered lunches 3x a week, casual work environment and a weekly happy hour

If you're interested or have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at adavis[at]smartasset.com

Thanks!

SurrealSoul··on Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly alternative
So a game company removes one of their own games, and replaces it with a different version with a different name?

If the company decided to do that independently, does that matter? Maybe they could be capitalizing on nationalism?

If the government made them alter it, how would that be different than say Left 4 Dead having different censorship in Germany

SurrealSoul··on Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West
I thought that was clear when messenger tried began to tie in other apps like uber / lyft and whatever they use for collecting payments.
SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)
I am hunting here to find referral bonuses :)
SurrealSoul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
SmartAsset https://smartasset.com/ | Senior and Intermediate Backend && Frontend Engineers | NYC: NOHO | Full Time

We are a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web. We offer free and personalized tools to empower you to make smart personal finance decisions around homebuying, retirement, taxes and more.

We have a big focus on getting finical advisors the right people for them, and giving people the right choices when it comes to finical advisors.

Stack wise, we are a Java shop using the Play framework. We do some python and other things here and there as well.

Culture wise, we are a 130~ people startup. So we still have the startup feel, without that startup pressure.

Some benefits besides the normal stuff: Catered lunches 3x a week, casual work environment and a weekly happy hour

If you're interested or have any questions feel free to shoot me an email at adavis[at]smartasset.com

Thanks!

SurrealSoul··on China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
Very exciting, for anyone who didn't know today is china's space day!

Even if it takes 10 years of valve time, its still exciting to hear something like that happening in my lifetime. I'll be able to hopefully witness the first human born off of earth :)

SurrealSoul··on GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users
Microsoft is in a really awkward position with this now, curious how it will play out
SurrealSoul··on Volvo is introducing a 112mph speed limiter to all its new cars
yeah bad phrasing on my end, knowing the max speed you could interact with a common obstacle (say a highway barrier) could lead to targeting harding to prevent fatalities, as opposed to general harding for all speeds.

Cars could still drive into lakes or off cliffs, but knowing the max speed a car could rear end another car may lead to minor enhancements that could save lives

SurrealSoul··on Volvo is introducing a 112mph speed limiter to all its new cars
Pretty cool, by establishing a top speed standard they could run reliable crash tests for the absolute worst case that the car could experience. Looking forward to the future of "No matter how you drive this car, it won't kill you"
SurrealSoul··on Can America Still Build Big? A California Rail Project Raises Doubts
This doesn't stop private corporations from attempting. The Hyper loop and whatever they are calling the subway system that they are developing are "developing" still.

New York is adding a pretty massive LIRR line, so it seems like things are going ok

SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
No worries :) I didn't list weekends as they are not apart of my schedule. As much as I find routines to be beneficial to me, I am not a robot and enjoy my social times and lettings things happen as they go. Also the majority of my "free hour" during the weekdays is often goofing off with my friends online. It is also worth noting that my wife is my best friend as well

I'm in New York, if you ever in my neck of the woods send me a message, I'll buy you a beer

SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
Plenty actually, but time is lacking. I wouldn't mind being your friend and talking about if you'd like
SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
I have a gym in my apartment, so typically a 45min workout and a 15 min shower
SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
We go to the gym together and spend a lot of time in hour 4 together. The first hour is just exclusively for us. Often she will visit me while I am coding and I (typically) don't mind :)

Per weekend day, I normally find four~five hours of development time and the rest I typically spend with her.

It's also worth noting that this schedule isn't law, there are days were I don't develop or go to the gym to hang out with my wife more

SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
I disagree and actively disprove of this. I have four hours at home.

Hour1: Eating / TV / Hanging out with wife

Hour2: Development, studying, cultivating

Hour3: Gym

Hour4: Relax, mental health, maybe some more development

While I agree that my progress is significantly larger on the weekends, the five hours from the weekdays gives me a good amount. Keep in mind too, this is about side projects, creative ideas. Not about "starting a business" or some startup venture

SurrealSoul··on How to balance full-time work with creative projects
As with everything, your milage may vary with these suggestions. I am not the writer, but am just a man with a side project, which is getting more and more of my time.

Change “I can’t” to “I don’t.” -- This section bugged me. At first, I thought it was great. Looking back, this is great advise for a smaller project, or someone just starting. However as your project gets bigger and larger you need to have time for mental health. By saying "I don't do anything Tuesday evenings" can isolate your friends or family. Sometimes after a hard day of work you just want to play a game or two with your friends, but it can be hard to make that push knowing you're actively "sabotaging" your progression. Having a routine is nice, and I find it the only way to progress myself, but sometimes it feels good for your friends and family to "bug" you. I personally believe breaking a routine for your mental health will be beneficial in the long run.

I do love the words about finding creative peak hours, building slowly and in general good habits. For what it is worth, I am using a "circle development cycle". You can imagine it as a circle progress wheel, making initial progress on several things and going back to improve them several times. The initial pass may be an uncolored landscape, where by the fourth pass there are natural mountains, cities and ect... This way I am cultivating new creative ideals while progressing on things as a whole. My "done" state will arrive sooner, but by delaying the "perfect" state's date.

Anyways, this is a great article and just wanted to share my smaller findings while I apply what the author suggested to myself

SurrealSoul··on Six years later, Star Citizen is still raking it in
6 years ago I was 20 years old in college. I got so excited a new a mmo to play in space and drank the kool-aid. Dropped $150, played with my super cool ship in my hanger at 15~fps having a good time looking at all the details on my aegis gladius, watching the stairs come out of the ship and so on.

Eventually I could fly it, and it was cool but of course it was alpha and there was nothing to do except drink more kool-aid. More ships, more promises, more stars, more space.

Now, my same ship can land on planets, I can walk around and it's great. Honestly it's pretty cool. The only issue is now I am 26, married, spend 75% of my awake time working or with my wife. I don't want an mmo.

I am no longer the target demographic, and the majority of the early adaptors are not either.

SurrealSoul··on Boston Dynamics Robots Run, Dance and Flip, But Are They a Business?
"Are they a Business or a Research Lab?"

Is there something wrong with being a Research lab that has $100B backed in funding?

SurrealSoul··on Windows file may be storing passwords and emails
Yikes. I don't know what is worse, the fact that this file indexes _Everything_ if you have a touch tablet or this buzzword clickbait title
SurrealSoul··on The new Apple Watch 4 face is a design crime
Reminds me of when I got rainmeter and _needed_ to display everything at all times in fancy circle graphs
SurrealSoul··on Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M
Yes, you have to opt-in to this type of security
SurrealSoul··on Absolute Hot
No worries, I knew this isn't the place for it but I couldn't resist. Thanks for your honesty!
SurrealSoul··on Absolute Hot
Looks like they found a way to measure my mix tape
SurrealSoul··on L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
I take before bed as well, it helps calm those crazy before-bedtime thoughts and just lets me dooze off
SurrealSoul··on No Shirt, No Swipe, No Service
We combined our credsticks into our mobile devices
SurrealSoul··on Mozilla exec says Google slowed YouTube down on non-Chrome browsers
china net is a really interesting place
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