alexmchale

GreenArrow Email | Remote | Full-Time https://www.greenarrowemail.com/careers/developer

I'm Alex McHale, Lead Developer at GreenArrow Email. We're looking to add an additional developer to our team. The right candidate will have solid Go skills and can "hit the ground running" (so sorry for the cliché). Bonus if you're a polyglot who might have skills in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.

We've put a lot of thought into our job post. Please give it a read. If you think you're a fit, there's a link at the bottom of the post with a form to fill out.

GreenArrow Email | Remote | Full-Time

https://www.greenarrowemail.com/careers/developer

I'm Alex McHale, Lead Developer at GreenArrow Email. We're looking to add an additional developer to our team. The right candidate will have solid Go skills and can "hit the ground running" (so sorry for the cliché). Bonus if you're a polyglot who might have skills in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.

We've put a lot of thought into our job post. Please give it a read. If you think you're a fit, there's a link at the bottom of the post with a form to fill out.

Rewind.

A few years ago I built a cabinet for my family. I used equipment purchased off of Ultimarc (https://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html), did the woodworking myself. I'm a very inexperienced amateur woodworker, but I love doing it. It's a fantastic hobby to contrast against a day of programming.

Here's a photo album of the process. I picked up the Donkey Kong marquee later as a gift for my wife at Christmas time - she's the Donkey Kong Pro in our household.

Of course, when I look at it - I only see the flaws. I'd love to get a second shot at building it!

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0Q5qXGF1OaZiJ

Oh the other side of it --- weighing in frequently and drinking a ton of water! I weigh myself most nights. I know what days I didn't get enough water, because I'll have "lost" 2 pounds that day. That tells me that (1) I need to immediately drink some more water and (2) drink extra the next day. Dehydrating yourself will have a negative impact on weight-loss long-term.

Hey, congrats to you! I'm pretty much in your exact boat.

I started the year at 267 and I'm down to 225 now. My goal is an even 200 (or I'll sometimes say 199 for the joy of seeing that 1 in the front).

I've done it just as you have -- by eating less. At the start of my diet I was counting calories on a daily basis -- but after a while I started learning to pay attention to the calories of everything I eat. Now I simply keep a running tally in my head and know where I'm at. I'm fine with estimating when I need to.

The biggest change for me is learning to be happy with smaller portions. I used to eat 3 enchiladas, then have another 2, then another 3,.. THEY ARE SO DELICIOUS! Now I know going in that I'm going to make my plate and that's it. There's times I wish I could have more, but enjoying the one plate is the biggest key to my success so far.

The other side of it is avoiding calorie landmines. It's so easy to accidentally eat an extra thousand or two calories while eating out by not paying attention. Knowledge is power :).

That's pretty funny. I'd say that the majority of the time that I call head or tail, it's using that syntax.

Step 1: Stop pushing GMO foods on people who can't afford to choose otherwise.

Advanced edition? This game kicks my ass already!

I promise I'm not trying to troll here.

When I hear "free soda" I hear "free diabetes and heart disease". Free soda is the worst kind of encouragement to have your employees living a healthy lifestyle. I'd love to hear about a company who seeks to provide fresh local fruits and vegetables at its snack table.

I really don't mean to come off as a Debbie Downer, but soda is such a terrible scourge on society as a whole.

More rear-end collisions also leads to more tickets and more revenue...

This is high in the running for the dumbest article I've ever seen on HN. Send that U-Verse internet connection back to 1983 and you'd get the same response - "this speed is cool, but it doesn't really let me do anything NEW". We need technology that serves for the things we might do in the future, not merely for the things we want to do today. Because we never know what technology from today we'll be stuck with deep into the future.

If I were the trader with perfect information, I'd program my trading algorithms to lose (or at least not be guarenteed to win) 40% of the time. This would make you look merely like a incredibly fortunate trader, and not a perfect one. Just make sure that your algorithm guarantees an X% return per year.

They don't let me use my iPhone on the airplanes.

I find it oddly humorous that the instructions tell you that you must use the Light theme, then the illustration of taking a screenshot shows a dark theme.

The naming of Benford's Law has long bothered me. It feels to me like it should be Benford's Observation. Awesome catch, though! I love it.

Literally: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I wrote a web app that will automate iTunes movies & shows searches for you. I wrote it to know when Game of Thrones Season 2 is available on iTunes (among other things).

http://upcoming.anticlever.com/

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Springfield, MO

I'm a Rails & JavaScript, Mac OSX, and iOS developer with many years of experience in producing quality products quickly. I do not have much in the way of design chops, but I'm your man for everything else from the client to the server. I also have substantial experience with various embedded C environments.

Let me know if you'd like to talk.

Website: http://anticlever.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/alexmchale

Email: alex@anticlever.com

My total guess would be that the 650MB image just provides you a mechanism to download Lion again. Or perhaps it's a machine-specific rev? My instinct says the former.

Thank you for not calling it a "startup." I like the site!

It's an interesting theory, but ultimately irrelevant. The thing is that there are SO MANY people working right now to make JavaScript incredibly fast. It's not hard to imagine a future where JavaScript is the fastest reasonable way to write software -- simply because it's the language that has the most R&D going for it.

Did I say future? Oh, hello NodeJS.

I don't envision that we'll be writing JavaScript itself forever -- but rather a super-syntax on top of it that compiles down to JS. CoffeeScript is the first generation of this kind of programming language.

I do, however, believe that for the foreseeable future, JavaScript will become the lingua franca of day-to-day programming.

Absolutely! I really didn't mean the post to be anything remotely disparaging of GitHub. More of a skepticism of any central place with as much steam as GH has. The original article on this post just emphasizes this -- the guy is hesitant to contribute to projects that aren't on GitHub. When a majority of people feel that way, we're somewhat at the mercy of our benevolent dictators.

Note: I'm a paying and satisfied customer of GitHub!

Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.

Well, I'm not much concerned about the technical difficulties, as they're few. I'm also not envisioning any time in the future when I quit using GitHub. It's a fantastic piece of software written by people I respect. However, I've learned to be skeptical and cautious when there's one thing that everyone is using (Google, Facebook). I LOVE YOU GITHUB DON'T PUNISH ME!!! :-)

I do worry about GitHub on some levels. I'm an avid user and I love it --- but there's the part of me that's really worried about it being the only real option for hosting. Would the community leave GitHub if their policies changed and it was less of an awesome place to work with your code, or would we feel trapped because it's still what everyone uses?

I fixed this item. Thanks for the feedback! :-)

I like this idea. Interactivity was on my mind while I was implementing the current version. There's lots of ways to improve the actual teaching process it offers, and it's something I'm interested in continuing to develop.