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frequenton A Simple Web Developer's Guide to Color

I usually have to start with some existing logos/material, this is my first stop: http://www.pictaculous.com/

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We maintain a group of trainees contributing to ongoing research projects and prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff have been former trainees and this is our preferred way of finding new colleagues. If you are passionate about open-source and like one of our current topics, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

   - Hack on our JavaScript Unhosted Social Network, key part of our officeJS suite

   - Contribute to Wendelin, our Python Big Data & Machine Learning platform

   - Hack in the Linux Kernel helping port the Babel protocol to Rina 

   - Tinker with a prototype of a Decentralized Web Cloud

   - Try prototyping a Web Version Control System

   - Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network

   - Continue building our Google-Free NayuOS

   - Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi: We are a small team from around the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open-source software since 2001. We spend time on client and research projects with ERP5 (enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting) and Wendelin (Big Data platform) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we mostly hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We try to keep a group of trainees contributing to ongoing research projects or prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff have been former trainees and this is our preferred way of finding new colleagues. If you are passionate about open-source and like one of our current topics, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

   - Prototype JavaScript Unhosted Social Network

   - Contribute to our Python Big Data Machine Learning platform Wendelin

   - Hack Linux Kernel to help port the Babel protocol to Rina 

   - Tinker with a prototype of a Decentralized Web Cloud

   - Try prototyping a Web Version Control System

   - Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network

   - Continue building our Google-Free NayuOS

   - Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi: We are a small team from all over the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open source software since 2001. Our work is split between client and research projects with ERP5 (enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting) and Wendelin (Big Data platform) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we mostly hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We keep a group of trainees contributing on research projects and prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff are former trainees and this is our preferred way to find people that fit our mindset. If you are passionate about open-source/free software and like one of our topics below, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

   - Prototype JavaScript Unhosted Social Network
   - Help on our Python Big Data, Machine Learning Platform
   - Help porting the Babel protocol to Rina
   - Extend our HTML5 Web Component Framework
   - Upgrade our Web App Store / Add Some JavaScript Apps
   - Explore Our Prototype of An Decentralized Web Cloud
   - Try prototyping a Web Version Control System
   - Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network
   - Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi: We are a small team from all over the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open source software since 2001. Our work is split between client and research projects with ERP5 (Enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting), Wendelin (Big Data platform) and OfficeJS (HTML5 offline applications) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We keep a group of trainees contributing on research projects and prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff are former trainees and this is our preferred way to find people that fit our mindset. If you are passionate about open-source aka free software and like one of our topics below, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

   - Prototype JavaScript Unhosted Social Network
   - Help on our Python Big Data, Machine Learning Platform
   - Help porting the Babel routing protocol to Rina
   - Extend our HTML5 Web Component Framework
   - Upgrade our Web App Store / Add Some JavaScript Apps
   - Explore Our Prototype of An Decentralized Web Cloud
   - Try prototyping a Web Version Control System
   - Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network
   - Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi: We are a small team from all over the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open source software since 2001. Our work is split between client and research projects with ERP5 (Enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting), Wendelin (Big Data platform) and OfficeJS (HTML5 offline applications) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We keep a group of trainees contributing on research projects and prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff are former trainees and this is our preferred way to find people that fit our mindset. If you are passionate about open-source aka free software and like one of our topics below, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

   - Prototype JavaScript Unhosted Social Network
   - Help on our Python Big Data, Machine Learning Platform
   - Help porting the Babel protocol to Rina
   - Extend our HTML5 Web Component Framework
   - Upgrade our Web App Store / Add Some JavaScript Apps
   - Explore Our Prototype of An Decentralized Web Cloud
   - Try prototyping a Web Version Control System
   - Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network
   - Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi: We are a small team from all over the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open source software since 2001. Our work is split between client and research projects with ERP5 (Enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting), Wendelin (Big Data platform) and OfficeJS (HTML5 offline applications) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services

nothing like having a short-movie done in 48hrs using only web services and then WeVideo goes stale just before I download... 2hrs before submission deadline :(

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | 3/6/12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS

We try to keep a group of trainees contributing to ongoing projects or prototyping things we are curious about. Most of our staff have been former trainees and this is our preferred way of finding out if someone likes to work with us long term. If you are passionate about open-source and like one of our current topics, get in touch.

Current topics (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs):

- Prototype JavaScript Unhosted Social Network

- Help on our Python Big Data Platform

- Help porting the Babel protocol to Rina

- Extend our HTML5 Web Component Framework

- Upgrade our Web App Store / Add Some JavaScript Apps

- Explore Our Prototype of An Decentralized Web Cloud

- Try prototyping a Web Version Control System

- Try to use WebRTC to create a Web Mesh Network

- Experiment with ERP5 and WebAssembly

About Nexedi:

We are a small team from all over the world (headquarters in Lille, France) creating open source software since 2001. Our work is split between client and research projects with ERP5 (enterprise software), SlapOS (Cloud Hosting) and Wendelin (Big Data platform) being our main solutions around which we provide services. We all work with Chromebooks, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings = we mostly hack.

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Commuting Kills

I started to walk to work more than a year ago (5km one way, about 45mins). Makes a world of a difference, as it gives me more or less two hours of exercise per day, time to get my mind on/off of work, call family/friends and other stuff. Bottom line for me - it's less the time spent commuting, than whether you can spend it in a useful way.

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | multiple 6-12 months TRAINEE/INTERNS positions

We try to maintain our group of 6-8 trainees contributing to ongoing projects or prototyping things we are curious about.

Current topics:

- Unhosted Social Network

- Python Big Data Platform

- Babel Rina Port

- HTML5 Web Component Framework

- Convergent App

- HTML5 Productivity App Store

- Decentralized Web Cloud

- Binary Version Control System

- Web Version Control System

- Web Blockchain Storage

- Mesh OS

- Web Mesh Network

- ERP5 WebAssembly

We:

- are developing strictly open-source since 2001

- do a lot of research, mostly via EU-funded projects

- are a small team (headquarters in Lille, France)

- are fun to work with

Topic Details: http://www.nexedi.com/jobs

Apply To: jobs(at)nexedi.com

frequenton Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

I would want to object and say "There is IPv6 in the cloud!".

We have developed re6stnet in 2012. You can use it to create an ipv6 network on top of an existing ipv4 network. It's open source and we are using it ourselves internally and in client implementations since then.

I wrote a quick blogpost on it: http://www.nexedi.com/blog/blog-re6stnet.ipv6.since.2012

The repo is here in case anyone is interested: http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/re6stnet.git/tree/refs/heads/mast...

frequenton The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing

I can’t really share some of the sentiments – I'm using CS for a few months now, host plenty and so far have had no problem finding a couch in popular places (London, Berlin) with reasonable due diligence when picking guests and hosts.

I think a lot of the criticism is just life-cycle rooted. Sites grow, evolve and users of the "first hour" no longer see "their site" as what it once was and leave. I could say the same for... Ebay, for example – used to be fun to browse and sell. Now there are commercial sellers galore, millions of products and all the magic is gone. But that’s my personal perception. The site still works. Just not for me, so I have moved on. Doesn’t qualify calling Ebay "fallen" imo.

frequenton Responsive Tables in Pure CSS

Very similar to jQuery Mobile reflow table (uses some JS)

https://api.jquerymobile.com/table-reflow/

A while ago, I css-ed a table into a list for small displays, because lists seem "natural" to me on mobile than any crammed table. Not perfect but been using it ever since:

http://jsbin.com/wisaxawozaqa/1/watch?html,output

frequenton The time has come to stand up for the GPL

+10$

frequenton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

Nexedi (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs)

Looking FULL TIME: Big Data Engineer

Looking TRAINEE/INTERN (6 months+): Babel RINA Research Engineer

We are:

- developing strictly open source/Free Software since 2001

- doing a lot of research, mostly via EU-funded projects

- a small team from and all around the globe (headquarters in Lille, France)

- fun to work with