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- Devops / Developer minded SysAdmin: this is a very important role, PUPPET, Chef, AWS, Linux, LXC, OpenVZ. Xen, VMWare, you should just have this immense desire to automate and simplify everything, and be a product person, plan, implement and ship - not a maintainer that lives in their cave until things crash, and apply one off server tweaks.
- Frontend Developer: HTML, CSS, Coffeescript - Familiarity with Node/Ruby/Mongo/Mysql, cool github projects is a plus, have to have your own website when we click your link, it should make us want to hire you.
- Backend Developer: Go, Node,Python,Ruby,Coffeescript, MongoDB, RabbitMQ are the things we use. More you know these, the better. If you miss some, don't worry, if you have a strong OOP background, and designing/working on large scale apps is your thing, just drop me an email.
We're open for remote, part time or full time in San Francisco. Only thing we don't want is that you have multiple clients. You can be a student or very experienced individual, and work for Koding 20 hours a week, or work a day or two. You just shouldn't be managing multiple clients and not show up for Koding because your other client had emergency. We want Koding to be the only thing you think about, when you're not working, when you go to sleep, when you wake up.
At this stage we're more willing to have VERY experienced developers, and we're very generous with rates. Our current freelancers have stocks in the company, we don't favor in house developers (alright, maybe just a little :)). Some of our freelancers make more than those are in the office. Your location has no significance to us, just your work. If your work is awesome, your compensation is equally awesome.
This summarizes the type of person we want, (my contact information is here) http://blog.koding.com/2012/06/we-want-to-date-not-hire/
I also want you to try Koding, for that please drop me a note, I will send you an invite.
Little about Koding: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/24/koding-launch/
And this is what we expect from our freelancers, http://blog.koding.com/2012/08/freelance-developers-you-are-...
Hope to meet soon!
We want to date, not hire.
but that's not the point...
thanks for responding, it's nice of you to acknowledge it as a bug, and say you're working on it.
> First of all, writing bug reports to Hacker News is usually a bit like complaining about the government at a bus stop.
just a little note on this one, i've made clear in my original writing this is not hate and i sent an email to substack, and ryan to some others i know. i guess i will send you an email next time as well.
not filing as a bug: you are right, i should have done that.
Buffer<->string conversion is WAY too expensive in Node: yes it is, hope you can make this way better, because we don't want to hit cpu each time we pull data from a e.g. database.
writing it to hackernews/stackoverflow: it's because i'm asking for solutions outside of nodejs domain, varnish,nginx or any other way this issue can be worked around. i'm sure you understand. and this was quite helpful as we're now deploying a few varnish and nginx servers to mitigate this problem.
(disclaimer: i'm just generally against comments like these, my apologies to other readers that didn't have to read this)
considering we do use few thousand words max, to do 99% of our communication (sorry forgot where i read this article), learn those symbols, your eyes now can see much more at once, and brain can digest accordingly.
this is a serious upgrade folks, not just saying, i've been reading dotsies for a while now, i'm dead serious, this could become what my children will read and write with..
there will always be letters next to it anyway, easy to see the base, if you have to.
i enjoyed this article a while back, it touches on the stuff we'd do better even if we are polite and respectful on the surface.
- if paul graham says it's stupid it's different than somebody who calls everything stupid.
- calling the owner of the idea stupid.
- plain old hating.
- saying 'stupid' can also be a part of the debate, that's natural.
this is a hard problem to solve, that's why i brought it up. there is definitely not an easy way of saying this is right or wrong, but if community sets its tone, i think participants will try to be a part of that commonality.
and hopfully HN stays 'objective' and within 'reason' with polite, kind, constructive comments. when there are no rules, haters win.
you've wrongly (psycho)analyzed me/my viewpoint (i'm upset HN losing it's hip factor), misrepresented my proposal (censorship), then took your own analysis as a fact, and called me/my opinion "stupid" and "wrong" based on that.
of course, you didn't stop there, to add a bit of sarcasm and humor, you went on and checked the domain name that would remedy my non-existing problem. that's why i thanked you for proving my point.
this is a great example of low-quality hate content. it almost is a template, we can write a bot that exactly does what you do.
i'd normally not write back and pass, like many others, but just for this post's sake, i'm keeping this conversation on. also you said my links were pointless, let's put some other links here, quick glance at your comment history:
http://d.pr/CChr http://d.pr/IUYL http://d.pr/Hk9d
just to clarify, despite of low quality content you produce (to be fair, i also saw neutral ones) i'd never ban you, wouldn't try to suppress anything you want to say. i respect your viewpoint as much as you disrespect me and others.
i'd just like this system to put some measures so you express them respectfully. that's all.
however you'd agree that calling people names, injecting malice is not ok. a comment like this, would add value to the argument, as i'd happily go ahead and say "i hear what you say, however ..." just like i did here.
but if you call me retarded, my idea stupid, there's no room left neither for me nor anybody else to take it any further. (thanks for kudos btw :))
"If this were going to work, Braille would be a lot more popular among sighted folk." dsr_
"Not to mention another big flaw. It's nearly impossible to differentiate between A, B, C, D, and E as individual letters since they are all represented by one dot." csytan
this seriously needs to be discouraged.
it's the 'new' stuff (idea/startup/concept, not funny/interesting links). just based on your links, you'd notice 'mainly negative' ones are 'new' stuff. positive ones are bash, excel spreadsheet, notepad++ etc.
if PG built and posted one of his 'ambitious ideas' here (http://d.pr/if1q), say he made his new email program, i bet the most upvoted comment would be like;
"... gmail does many of those things and already has X,Y,Z ... do you have any brains at all to understand email protocol is A,B,C ... you better spend your time doing research/study/..."
this is what i'm seeing over and over again.
problems of OOP is explained in Go Language video by Rob Pike*, however very intellectually stated arguments in this article are mainly false.