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You could put them up for free on Craigslist (or equivalent) and have people come to you that would put them to use. They might be opportunists but that might still be ok to allow circulation of the value that they do have.

Polly | Remote Canada or US | Sr Software Engineers | Full-time | https://www.polly.ai

Polly is a fast growing company that has one of the largest enterprise user bases in both Slack and Microsoft Teams. Our mission is to empower teams to measure and understand every aspect of their work, and we're doing it by bringing new levels of automation to the old way of running surveys.

We're looking for US/Canada remote full-time Senior Full Stack Engineers. We're a product-led company of 17 that supports millions of enterprise users. Come in and have significant impact on the product, the architecture, and the company. Our stack is Typescript/Node/AWS/Mongo, but for our candidates we don't care about your stack history, just your ability to produce clean, high quality code and solve complex problems.

We offer our remote employees a sweet hardware setup, budget for home office or a local coworking spot, and 99% of your insurance premiums covered for you and dependents. We also offer fully-paid 16 weeks of maternity leave.

Apply here: https://www.polly.ai/careers#open-positions or email jobs@polly.ai and reference HN.

Note: You can also work out of our Seattle or our soon-to-be Vancouver, BC office.

They even offer a hosted product now, so you won't have to worry about the ops side of things either.

Honestly, even though it has its problems, Meteor is relatively simple framework that will even spit out mobile apps for you. It's probably the least effort (i.e. lines of code) to get a halfway decent app out, and it's scaled ok well as time has gone on. It has a bunch of weird quirks though especially in how it manages data.

https://www.meteor.com

The new Echo Show with drop in mode might work?

Well, would you look at that? Poking around this site will be fun.

I was pretty surprised to see Zoe Lofgren's name pop up as an anti tax filing simplification advocate. She's the rep from CA's 19th District which covers San Jose (but not the rest of Silicon Valley) and generally a straight down the line liberal. This is not even Intuit's core district -- that would Anna Eshoo's 17th (previously 14th) district which covers Mountain View and Palo Alto. As a resident of this district, I guess I have something to write in about.

Despite being a 1Password user myself, it's great that there's now a top-tier service being offered for free! The $1/month option is pretty awesome too

Polly | Seattle, WA or Silicon Valley, CA | Fulltime, Onsite

Looking for: Software Engineer

Polly is reimagining enterprise applications through the medium of chat. Currently, our Slack bot helps companies measure processes through quick polls and lightweight conversation. We are looking for someone new to join our team and we think you'd like to come here because: * We've already got great traction including the #1 spot in the Slack App Directory's HR and Bot categories and paying customers! * We have some really exciting technical challenges ahead of us, with hard problems like natural language processing for our chat interface and cluster management across thousands of realtime connections to chat clients

For devs: Our stack is primarily in Node.js and Meteor running on AWS, but we're totally cool with other backgrounds.

Apply by sending an email to jobs @ <company name>.ai

Apply by sending an email to jobs @ <company name>.com

(Yes, we have the .com!)

Subcurrent | Seattle, WA or Silicon Valley, CA | Fulltime, Onsite

Looking for: Software Engineer and UX Designer

Subcurrent is reimagining enterprise applications through the medium of chat. Currently, our Slack bot helps companies measure processes through quick polls and lightweight conversation. We are looking for someone new to join our team and we think you'd like to come here because:

* We've already got great traction including the #1 spot in the Slack App Directory's HR category and paying customers!

* We're starting to build out a personality and chat dialogue for our bot, so you get to moonlight as a scriptwriter and critic

* We have some really exciting technical challenges ahead of us, with hard problems like natural language processing for our chat interface and cluster management across thousands of realtime connections to chat clients

For devs: Our stack is primarily in Node.js and Meteor running on AWS, but we're totally cool with other backgrounds.

To be fair, the case I was testing was node, so the packages could be killing me. Could be much better for a standalone bundled application.

While it's nice to have small on-disk containers for some applications (e.g. deployment pipelines/CI), for production, I've found that Alpine doesn't save you much in RAM. I'd love to see this become something people look at as well when evaluating base images. To me at least, this was a far more important constraint when running Docker in production.

It's great that Five Thirty Eight called out the lack of rigor behind these studies. Most of them are indeed shoddy. However, that's not to say that we don't have a pretty good general idea of what's good for you. Here's a pretty well-balanced article on the topic, with this awesome TL;DR:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/upshot/simple-rules-for-h...

The thing that always amazes me as I read about professional sports is how much mental strength and discipline is required by athletes. This story shows how much that mental strength is on the edge and susceptible to "injury", just like the physical skills.

That's a really good way of putting it by Warren Buffet. This phenomenon of the bottom being ignored happens in software too of course: http://www.saastr.com/the-simple-reason-why-there-will-be-10...

"Salesforce is now working on as many $100m+ deals as it can try to close. Because once you adding > $1 billion in ARR a year, you need a few Really, Really Big Enterprise deals to move the needle. And a handful of $50m-$100m deals are, by definition, the new target to really move the needle at that scale.

Given that … does it make any sense to pursue the $9 a month market? Or the $2000 ACV market? I mean, not really. And Salesforce isn’t.

So the bottom 10% of this $10 billion market, or $1 billion, isn’t even being addressed by Salesforce."

Yeah, I think it's likely true in many affluent parts of the Muslim world that Ramadan, shall we say, enhances existing trends towards obesity. The irony is indeed morbidly amusing.

Nice to make your e-acquaintance. Counter-example: Fasted the last couple of years in a -20% calorie deficit. Did nap during the day, but then worked out right before iftar (dinner). It's not an uncommon regimen. Just like anything else with a n of 500M (+/- 200M depending on number of adults and sick/elderly), it's hard to make a generalization.

Personally though, it went fine in terms of productivity and energy. Trying to work out without that nap was pretty brutal but fasts are long enough to fit it in after work.

Spent summers out there - it was nice to get on the lake during the Mojave heat waves

Definitely awesome first effort. Just keep on sharpening your skill and good things will happen. Mentoring will help accelerate your curve, which is what Recurse (or just a developer friend) can help with it. Good luck!

That's great!

Just off the top of my head:

1. We will probably eventually need SQL

2. It might not make sense to be so JS heavy, especially since we are enterprise focused and may have to support older browsers for extended periods

3. General performance issues at scale that I would have with any new framework

Planning on solving these problems when we hit them - for now, fast is best.

Lots of startups looking for new talent, so you should be able to land a job with some work. The app you linked to is probably too small to generate interest though. Have you considered something like Recurse (https://www.recurse.com) as a place to get some more reps as a coder and then using their services to find a job? That seems like the best bet if you have the resources to be able to spend the time there.

Yeah, I guess I should've stated a reasonable/known amount of time :)

Definitely my biggest current beef with Meteor. It seems technically possible and I understand why they would go with Mongo first, so hopefully its just a matter of time.

While we're not a big startup, we are using Meteor in production (https://www.getsubcurrent.com).

We picked it because it enabled us to move much faster than anything we had used in the past and while it has issues that I foresee being problematic, it seems premature to optimize for them. The Meteor team is doing a great job maintaining compatibility and not forcing us developers on to make any changes to our apps as they're rolling out exciting new stuff. Granted, I did jump on when the platform was (relatively) mature late last year.

Very happy with decision so far and looking forward to building more stuff on their platform!

Sounds awesome - will have to check it out.

Totally random aside: does it talk about the evolution of debtor's prisons after slavery was no longer an option? I always wondered why people thought it made sense to lock someone up with no economic recourse to pay down a debt. There were probably much better options to deal with the potential moral hazard.

This is an interesting concept and a really old one to boot. Planet Money recently did a great podcast covering a similar measure (although it was specifically for mortgages) in Iceland: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/12/05/368723679/episode-...

Interestingly, Saudi Arabia also did something similar (alongside many other measures) to boost public support for the new king: http://www.arabnews.com/news/696661

This is amazing. Going to try and integrate this before every shower.

I'm subscribed to their email digest. It manages to hook me just about every time with some delightful content. Go figure.