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Synergyse··on Show HN: A free tool to monitor and implement DMARC
Does implementing DMARC help prevent normal email from your domain getting marked as spam?
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Are there any examples of profitable Google Chrome extensions?
Synergyse provides interactive training inside Google Apps, our extension is deployed at over 2000 organizations supporting 2.5m+ users.

https://www.synergyse.com

Synergyse··on Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
Google+ Photos now sync to Google Drive. Install the Drive Sync client, take a photo, it shows up on your computer as a file.
Synergyse··on Why we are leaving Dropbox
The Google Drive sync client had a major problem in that it used all your bandwidth when doing large syncs, they finally fixed that problem by introducing bandwidth settings. It is much more reliable now. https://www.synergyse.com/blog/prevent-google-drive-for-mac-...
Synergyse··on Show HN: Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client
Check out http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
Synergyse··on Macbook screen coating issues
This happened to one of my rMBP 15" near the camera, Apple Store told me that its caused by oil in your fingers. They basically said to avoid touching the screen when you open the lid.
Synergyse··on PDF Viewing
http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Mobile site
+1, zooming all the time was getting tiresome. It could use a few small tweaks in font sizing and margins, but its vastly improved.
Synergyse··on Ask HN: What service has affordable MySQL databases on demand?
Google Cloud SQL can do this https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/client-libraries
Synergyse··on Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
Disagree 100% - have you used Slack?
Synergyse··on Show HN: I built an iOS remake of that old windows game SkiFree
Nice game! Screenshots are missing for iPad in the App Store
Synergyse··on AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A
Interesting idea and nice execution. Should real assistants be worried?
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
Synergyse // Software Engineer // Toronto, Canada // Local or Remote // Fulltime // http://synergyse.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/software-engine...

Synergyse creates highly interactive and measurable cloud training, adoption and productivity tools. We started by teaching everyone how to use Google Apps proficiently and it worked really well. We are working on hard problems in big data, HTML5, media delivery and real time technology. Our backend technology and web runs on the Google App Engine. Our frontend uses the Chrome Extension, jQuery, Google Closure. We use some of the latest technologies across the board!

Synergyse is based in Toronto and we managed to be profitable within a couple of months of starting it. Our clients tend to be in the enterprise and education world, but our technology is consumer facing and fun. It’s the best of both worlds. We are seeking a highly talented Software Engineer who's able to take on and deliver important parts of the software to users.

Why you should join us

• Ability to define product and engineering as one of our first hires

• Work with a highly motivated and talented founding team Be a part of a business that has a good business model, good revenue stream, and makes flagship technology

• Flexible and casual work environment with opportunity to work remotely

• Competitive compensation ($100k-$200k), equity (0.5%-1.5%) and full benefits

What we’re looking for

• Software Engineer with a full-stack experience

• Experience with cloud technologies (GAE, AWS, or Azure)

• Experience with Javascript (experience with Chrome Extensions is a plus)

• Ability to solve difficult technical problems

• Ability to lead and run projects

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 4+ years of professional engineering experience

Synergyse is on a mission to help organizations improve productivity through the cloud, our interactive training system for Google Apps is deployed in over 2000 schools and businesses around the world, supporting over 2 million end-users. Join our team of ex-Google engineers and learn what it takes to run a B2B business focused on the enterprise and education markets.

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/software-engine...

Synergyse··on EIZO Announces Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution
Where did you pick that up for $250?
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Turning my SaaS into an Automata?
Have you looked at Google AppEngine?
Synergyse··on ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL
Alternatively you can use Google Apps Script to pull SQL data into a Google Sheet, where you can manipulate the data and generate charts etc. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/jdbc
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
Synergyse // Fullstack Software Engineer // Toronto, Canada // Local or Remote // Fulltime // http://synergyse.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/fullstack-softw...

Synergyse creates highly interactive and measurable training. We started by teaching everyone how to use Google Apps proficiently and it worked really well. We are working on hard problems in big data, HTML5, media delivery and real time technology. Our backend technology and web runs on the Google App Engine. Our frontend uses the Chrome Extension, jQuery, Google Closure. We use some of the latest technologies across the board!

Synergyse is based in Toronto and we managed to be profitable within a couple of months of starting it. Our clients tend to be in the enterprise and education world, but our technology is consumer facing and fun. It’s the best of both worlds. We are seeking a highly talented Software Engineer who's able to take on and deliver important parts of the software to users.

Why you should join us

• Ability to define product and engineering as one of our first hires

• Work with a highly motivated and talented founding team Be a part of a business that has a good business model, good revenue stream, and makes flagship technology

• Flexible and casual work environment with opportunity to work remotely

• Competitive compensation ($100k-$200k), equity (0.5%-1.5%) and full benefits

What we’re looking for

• Software Engineer with a full-stack experience

• Experience with cloud technologies (GAE, AWS, or Azure)

• Experience with Javascript (experience with Chrome Extensions is a plus)

• Ability to solve difficult technical problems

• Ability to lead and run projects

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 4+ years of professional engineering experience

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/fullstack-softw...

Synergyse··on Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation
The integrations, history and ambient awareness it creates are what makes it unique.
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Tool to quickly make animated gifs for product features?
This functions very well! Thanks for the suggestion, looking for something like this that can save locally
Synergyse··on Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads
Our business is built around a Chrome Extension that provides interactive Google Apps Training. At Synergyse we have seen massive adoption of Chromebooks in the education market, which represents a majority of our valued clients. In fact we have grown the business to over 1 million subscribers in 1 year. https://medium.com/@majidmanzarpour/how-we-grew-our-b2b-star...
Synergyse··on Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data
Anyone with the link could also share the link publicly. I think if your document contains sensitive information you should be restricting the access anyway.
Synergyse··on Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
+1 for SizeUp, tried most of them and prefer this app.
Synergyse··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Synergyse - http://synergyse.com - Toronto, ON (Local, Remote, Visa, Relocation)

Synergyse creates highly interactive and measurable Google Apps training. Our mission is to teach everyone how to use Google Apps proficiently. We are working on hard problems in big data, HTML5, media delivery and real time technology. Our backend technology and web runs on the highly scalable Google App Engine. Our frontend uses the Chrome Extension to inject content directly into Google Apps. We love using the latest technologies from Google!

Synergyse is based in Toronto and we managed to be profitable within a couple of months of starting it. Our clients tend to be in the enterprise and education world, but our technology is consumer facing and fun. It’s the best of both worlds. We are seeking a highly talented founding Software Engineer to join us in building the future of training software.

Why you should join us

======================

- Ability to define product and engineering as one of our first hires

- Work with a highly motivated and talented founding team

- Be a part of a business that has a good business model, good revenue stream, and makes flagship technology

- Flexible and casual work environment with opportunity to work remotely

- Competitive compensation ($100k-$150k), equity (0.5%-1.5%) and full benefits

What we’re looking for

======================

- Software Engineer with a full-stack experience

- Experience with cloud technologies (GAE, AWS, or Azure)

- Experience with Javascript (experience with Chrome Extensions is a plus)

- Ability to solve difficult technical problems

- Ability to lead and run projects

- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 4+ years of professional engineering experience

Synergyse is on a mission to teach the world how to use Google Apps, our interactive training system is deployed in over 1000 schools and businesses around the world, supporting over 1 million end-users. Join our team of ex-Google engineers and learn what it takes to run a B2B business focused on the enterprise and education markets.

Apply: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/senior-fullstac...

Synergyse··on Google Design
They briefly mentioned this change would apply to all form factors (mobile, tablet, wearable & desktop) but no solid details yet. The UX components are based on http://www.polymer-project.org/
Synergyse··on StackLead Google Add-on
Great work Gordon!
Synergyse··on Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]
Looks great, as a team that lives inside Gmail and Asana this could be very useful for us.
Synergyse··on Show HN: Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line
Nice idea, would it be possible to do some OCR at the end?
Synergyse··on Image Background Removal
This was posted on HN a while back, really impressive: http://clippingmagic.com/
Synergyse··on Mobile? Who Are We Kidding?
In most corporations you can't use your home computer to connect to your work VPN or other resources, this is mainly a security issue. Your work IT department has no control over the security of your home systems.
Synergyse··on Ask HN: I'm thinking of building an app that records who you are with...
Path launched an app called With that pretty much did this http://blog.path.com/post/6288422944/introducing-with-a-path...
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