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chrisdlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Suitey | Front End Dev(s) | New York (NYC) | Full time Give an email to jobs@suitey.com or email chris@suitey.com (CTO and also.. me) Looking for senior to mid level front-end developer. Your gonna have to be quite experienced in CSS (SASS) or JS (or both!). If you like to define yourself as an architect, that would be a good sign =). More info on our jobs page https://suitey.com/jobs (bonus points if you find the easter eggs hidden on it). -----

chrisdlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

Suitey | Front End Dev(s) | New York (NYC) | Full time

Give an email to jobs@suitey.com or email chris@suitey.com (CTO and also.. me)

Looking for senior to mid level front-end developer. Your gonna have to be quite experienced in CSS (SASS) or JS (or both!). If you like to define yourself as an architect, that would be a good sign =).

More info on our jobs page https://suitey.com/jobs (bonus points if you find the easter eggs hidden on it).

chrisdlon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)

Suitey (NYC) - No remotes.

iOS dev, Front-end web dev, python dev and design intern.

But if you are a really solid backend, db, scaling wizard we will probably hire you as well.

More info on the jobs here:

https://www.suitey.com/jobs

I'm the CTO, send me an e-mail if you have any questions:

chris@suitey.com

chrisdlon Can Real Estate Brokerages Survive As Software Eats the World?

I agree they are basically like cd companies. No incentive to change (except the obvious one everyone but they see)

chrisdlon Privacy Over Innovation: A Brief History of Real Estate Data

yeah whoever figures out how to have brokers not be sleaze balls is gonna make money. My view on the have/have not of a broker is that if you are buying you wanna make sure your property will increase in value so you need someone that really knows the area OR do a truckload of research yourself. Also the seller will probably pay the broker so it is a win-win for the buyer...

chrisdlon Fake deaf interpreter at Mandela memorial

verge has it now too in english

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/11/5200050/mandela-memorial-...

chrisdlon Fake deaf interpreter at Mandela memorial

Yeah they are really angry about it. Crazy that his decision was just to fake it.

chrisdlon 'Nothing is Beyond Our Reach'

I think it looks awesome! I for one welcome our Kraken overlords.

chrisdlon John Matrix (Commando) Bio on IMDB.

In case it gets changed "John Matrix is the bastard son of Rambo and Chuck Norris. He spent most of his youth killing small animals. he tried to become a school teacher but was too much of a BAMF to not kill little kids. He may have had his ups and downs but he is one of americas greateset presidents.m,"

chrisdlon Show HN: Instartlogic - CDN Replacement

Huh, So you would have to choose that OR CloudFlare (Which does some CDNish stuff as well) I guess. Looks interesting though, I wonder how they figure out what information needs to be loaded first. Concatenating JS might actually be a bad thing with instartlogic, since it would then have to load em all no matter what they affect (although I doubt it is smart enough to identify which script files need to be loaded when...)

chrisdlon Why I'm never flying again

I reckon the argument is that if less people fly there will eventually be less planes in the air and more stimulation for alternative modes of transportation (or efficiency goals made more prominent for airplanes). But I reckon the effect of buyers is probably not gonna cut it and the only way to truly make travel more energy efficient is incentives/penalties on a corporate/government level.

I absolutely can't back that up though ;).

chrisdlon Will we ever want to have sex with robots?

My thoughts exactly. Vacuum cleaner anyone?

chrisdlon Crosswords don’t make you clever

but it might help with alzheimers http://puzzles.about.com/library/bl021108.htm

chrisdlon Poll: What is your favorite programming font?

Source Code Pro

chrisdlon Eighteen months of Django

I actually don't "know" either. But I suspect it has to do with knowing which python to use (system generally) and if the user wants to use global packages as well.

checkout virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.h...) as well for handling virtualenvs.

chrisdlon Francis Cricks 1953 letter to his 12 year old son Michael

Sold for 5.3 million at christies: URL -> http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/in-other-words-we-thi...

chrisdlon Show HN: Angular Directive for Social Sharing

I am so fresh?

chrisdlon What UI really is (and how UX confuses matters)

great article, as always, by Ryan Singer (of 37 Signals fame).

chrisdlon A robotic dragonfly with a wingspan of 63 cm

verge has done a piece on it too now. http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/29/4160620/dragonfly-drone-fe...

chrisdlon I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. Path CEO

The article doesn't look good for him, but I would argue that most of those answers could have been said as jokes. The problems with joking in text is, of course, the lack of voice to signify that you are in fact joking.

Or he could be (as Gruber puts it) a "huge douchebag" http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/29/dave-morin

chrisdlon Getting started with AngularJS

Hohoho, good find.

chrisdlon 3D Printed Gun Movement

I thought that was pretty interesting actually. Regardless of gun control stance. I wonder how much of an impact 3D printers will have in the coming years.