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gnocchi··on UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
Good point, but if we can't rely on the law to help us what will be left?

I wonder if one can make a request for information (Freedom of Information Act) about data personally held from the government?

gnocchi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
Kudos | Software Engineer | Oxford, UK | Full Time, ONSITE, https://www.growkudos.com

Kudos is a start-up innovating in the digital publishing space, focused on helping researchers demonstrate and increase the influence of their work.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team, someone who enjoys working collaboratively, are comfortable learning new things and who will be eager to learn about all aspects of our platform. Each team member works on every part of the system, from the front end, to the back, to managing our infrastructure. Some of the technologies we are using, or are about to use, include JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, MySQL and Elasticsearch, running on AWS and GCP.

Rather than looking for engineers with specific technology skills we'd much rather you can demonstrate the characteristics of a good Software Engineer, with the ability and enthusiasm to learn new things along the way.

Check out our Stackoverflow page for more details https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/kudos-innovations or email info@growkudos.com

gnocchi··on Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers
This link didn't generate the interest I thought it would get. A lot of interesting people are interviewed in this ebook like Peter Seibel.
gnocchi··on U.S. Dept of Defense GitHub
In particular see https://github.com/deptofdefense/code.mil#welcome-to-codemil...

> The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) faces unique challenges in open sourcing its code. Unlike most software projects, code written by U.S. Federal government employees typically doesn’t have copyright protections under U.S. and some international laws. This can make it hard to attach an open source license to our code, and our team here at Defense Digital Service wants to find a solution. Read about our journey so far here.

gnocchi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Kudos | Software Engineer | Oxford, UK | Full Time, ONSITE, http://www.growkudos.com

Kudos is a start-up innovating in the digital publishing space. Our vision is a new model of scholarly reputation that accelerates the positive impact of research on global health and happiness, and our part in that is to provide researchers with insights and tools to demonstrate and maximize the influence of their work.

We’re looking for Software Engineers to join our growing team that enjoy working collaboratively and are comfortable learning new things. We currently use Sass, JavaScript, Ruby and Amazon Aurora, running on AWS but are actively exploring other technologies, so any experience in equivalent stacks is still relevant.

We're a small, friendly team with plenty of scope for individuals to make a real impact on the way we work and how we do it.

We've got a lot of ideas about where we want to go, with plenty of scope for innovation in:

• Analysing our data sets

• Scaling our infrastructure

• Producing intelligent recommendations to our users

• Creating a beautiful end user experience

Check out our Stackoverflow page for more details http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/kudos-innovations or email info@growkudos.com

gnocchi··on Ask HN: What would make you want to work for a non-profit as an engineer?
I'd be happy to discuss, feel free to contact me. My contact detail is on my profile.

Other than that I think as phaus just said, the fact to contribute positively to society is a big argument. If your company can't deliver on cash advantage, maybe remote work and social event shoudl be push forward.

gnocchi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
I've heard about you a few times in Oxford. Happy to still see you around. Which level are you looking for?
gnocchi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
It looks interesting, would it requires doing some math or to display data?

I would like to know a little bit more. I'm from Oxford and heard about you.

gnocchi··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)
Full stack senior developer (with emphasis on backend)

  Location: Oxford, UK
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, JS, Ruby, Java and Postgres.
  Résumé/CV: On request, my github is on my profile.
  Email: kevin (at) 42boxes.com
I'm interested about taking new challenges and love debugging. I'm getting more and more interested to Clojure.
gnocchi··on Startup School 2016 applications are open
I would like to have a live stream or videos available for the event. It would allow people who can't travel to gain knowledge.
gnocchi··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
Hi Alan,

I'm part of a generation who didn't grew up with the PDP but had LOGO and basic available in computers and calculators. With the Amstrad CPC it was possible to interupt a program and to change a few lines of code to make it do something else which was a great way to keep interested. And with calculator it was possible to code formulas to resolve/check problems.

But how would you teach programming today to a kid? Would you choose a particular medium such as a computer, a raspberry pi or even a tablet?

And if I may, do you recommend any reading for bedtime stories?

Thanks you, Kevin

gnocchi··on A music programming language for musicians
If you click on the red bar under the repository description you can see what is the main programming language for the repository which is clojure.
gnocchi··on A music programming language for musicians
It looks like they are planning on adding a MusicXML export from this issue https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/issues/44. Is there any tool which convert from MusicXML to MIDI?
gnocchi··on Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
Thank you, this is perfect to get started, I've been programming for a long time and I couldn't extract enough meaning.

I've heard about the BNF notation with the recent news about Peter Naur death and before but never took to time to get my head around.

I think your description of Datafun and the references you gave me are good and enough to make me learn something new and to understand your project.

gnocchi··on Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
Thanks for Datafun where can I start to learn more about the syntax you are using on the README.md?
gnocchi··on Surfraw – CLI to a variety of search engines
Surfraw was originally created by Julian Assange. I've found it while playing with stumpwm - a Common LISP window manager (see https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib/blob/master/util/...)
gnocchi··on OpenGenera 2.0 Virtual Machine Environment
You're right it should have an introduction where it does mention what it is. This project might be in need of some love.

Open Genera is the Genera OS[1][2] which used to be run on Symbolics Machine. Open Genera[3] is the Genera OS running in a virtual machine.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GeneraOs

[2] http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/symbolics/ (mentioned on the wiki)

[3] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenGenera

gnocchi··on A simple Minecraft written in Rust
Lots of other examples here too https://github.com/PistonDevelopers and website available here http://www.piston.rs/ for those who want to get started with piston
gnocchi··on Are programmers in the Bay Area the new working class?
Why only the SF area? It could be very interesting to see if it's any different in London or Bangkok? I've heard some very interesting experiences about some hackerspaces in Germany too.
gnocchi··on [dead]
I think there's no proper to learn something, but I find useful to have several resources available. For example it could be interesting to read the source code of jQuery (or something smaller such as http://zeptojs.com/ or https://lodash.com/) and to read a book at the same time (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) and why not trying to make parallel between them. Also don't hesitate to google stackoverflow for javascript question as it is likely that you'll found any answer to your questions. To finish I think having friends or a mentor will help you a lot.
gnocchi··on Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server
Looks like solarized https://github.com/altercation/solarized
gnocchi··on Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography
Was just investigating the source code and noticed it's a fork from daformat, would it be better to open issues here?
gnocchi··on Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography
Just finished the game, it was really good.

It would help if you can open the issue tracker on this project, like this we can discuss new features such as translations. For that go to settings and tick the checkbox for issues.

gnocchi··on Wenger Swiss Army Giant Knife
If you can read French so here as well http://amzn.to/v5PHru

What attracted my attention was the comment which said:

""" But what have I discovered along the time!? I only use, mainly 7 to 10 functions and these ones covering about 99% of my needs.But you can do the experience too and ask youself the question: The last year did I use this function? How many times? You'll see, in average, only 9 are frequently used:the blade, the scissor, corksrew, the reamer sometimes, the tweezer if gardening and the other 4 functions remaining, please, choose at your own taste.You'll see... """

it reminds me of some softwares/libraries/framework we are using in programming.

gnocchi··on YC NYC, September 26
Definitely a good idea
gnocchi··on [dead]
Hey very good idea, I've always thought to do that by myself, ie posting several ads to teach how to program. But I was actually thinking of giving course for some specific programming languages. Early bird price should go to the first page?
gnocchi··on Dear HN, how do I hire a good coder?
Hi,

I'm working currently for a small startup as a developer. My personal opinion would be to find someone who can write and deploy code and can build a relationship with you. Ask for references, live website, repository and so on. But be careful with people who quote a lot of technology without using them. Student or 'real world' experience are good options.

This person would do all the major coding task for you. On top of that if you can create a good relationship, this person would be able to find you other tech people for tasks he/she can't handle and can give you nice advice.

The programming language at this stage is not very important IMO. But focusing on a popular programming language with a big community is something to have. Imagine if you need to recruit 2 others coders to do the job. Or if you main developers can't work for you anymore.

Something which may help for recruting someone is to write a draft of your needs (setting-up servers, level of front-end/backend programming...)

Hope that help

gnocchi··on Show HN: pyhn search engine with tags for hn
Hi,

This is my first post on HN. I've been a regular reader for quit a while. Is it possible to have any feedback?

This site was submitted with the hn contest (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793)

Thanks